Fifty years ago this year, Herbie The Love Bug first appeared on the big screen, being awesome, winning a demolition derby and placing both first AND third in the same road race. As a kid, I read my Herbie novelizations and comic books and caught the weekend showings on ‘The Wonderful World of Disney’ and even so, I can’t believe it’s been five decades. Of course, it’s been more than five decades since ‘Star Trek,’ since ‘The Monkees’, since the debut of Hawk & Dove, since that one excellent Doors album, since The Twilight Zone, et al. Heck, it’s been almost fifty years since I was born, which is pretty strange in itself, leading to today’s temporal query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) still doesn’t fully understand that Bugs Bunny has been around since 1940, either, since those cartoons were all being rerun into the 1990s, asking: What favorite bits of pop culture can you not believe happened as many years ago as they did?
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Final Fantasy 7 came out over 20 years ago.
That and the original Kingdom Hearts (which was about 15 years ago) are some of my choices. Last year when there were anniversary things for those trickling out, my younger brother and I were simply amazed to realize they were that old. Started to make the both of us feel a bit old, too.
It’s a little disturbing to realize we are farther from Marty and Doc Brown’s ‘present’ of 1985 than they were from 1955.
The Dirty Dozen came out over 50 years ago!