I was like, "Isn't Indiana the setting for both P&R AND ST?"
J shrugs at me.
I look.
Yes.
Since I've been using my free Netflix month on both Discovery and Stranger Things I've become disenchanted with Netfix cuz 1. The scrolling is impossible and 2. Wish I had someone here with me to take a shot every time the kids on Stranger Things in the 80s say the word "SERIOUSLY?".
Seriously, did we say that word in the 80s? If so, schlag mit tot. And give me a shot.
Tonight I even heard "I just threw up a little in my mouth." Did we actually say that phrase in the 80s or 90s? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Anyway my man came home from his first day of school in our state of Germany and he wanted to play the piano.
Without provocation he started to play the theme from Parks & Recreation.
As the theme from Stranger Things hung on pause.
I said, "Wait, um, where is Indiana?
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Seriously?
You've never said "I think I just threw up in my mouth a little?"
Seriously??
Dude.
Pretty sure I said all that stuff. Possibly I still do. :-)
If it helps, ST was actually filmed in Georgia, in- and around- Atlanta. Unlike a lot of creepy shows and movies, which are often filmed, uhm, here in the Pacific Northwest!
BB, Do you remember the 80s? Dude, that is what we said, and Gen Xers still do. I think I heard gag me with a spoon on the show which is also legit.
Aarene, I remember when people started saying the word seriously because I was living in Germany and my sister emailed me to warn me, "Don't freak out but everyone is using this one word all the time now. Seriously."
One of the actors on Grimm said that Portland Oregon has these mossy trees that make everything spooky "like green snow" and that it's the only place on earth with such things. Um....!?!?!
I can take the prop/setting anachronisms because it has to be really hard to find all pre-85 cars/products. But the writing of a show takes very little effort to edit.
I don't remember ever using "Seriously", but I think we could make entire sentences and convey vast meaning with just the word "Dude". Maybe it was just a SoCal thing? "Whatever" was also super popular esp. by the wanna-be valley girls that were "like for-sure" and "gag me with a spoon" every other breath. :) Ah Memories :)
Dude, I've found that some slang terms are also regional. We seemed to say "b*tchen", "face", and my favorite "fricken" a lot. And of course Awesome. One time we were watching a projected film (yeah, I fondly remember the whirl of the projector) in class and they said something like "the awesome mountain range" and we all cracked up, not even really thinking it was a real word. Sigh.
I watched the first season of Stranger Things but it got too gory for me. I'll just sit here and watch my Goonies over and over…
Kelly's, it seems we're the same age: ) I still blurt out DUDE in Germany and literally no one catches what I just shouted. Funnily the show translated Dude into "Alter" which in German means young man. Which is pretty accurate.
Irish, FACE! I'd forgotten face. I think Seattle got a lot of its slang from Southern California.
My first trip away from home was to Rancho Santa Fe/Encinitas and it was a dream come true to ride my skateboard down there. There was a radio station called 91X....I was 16...At the time San Diego was the most exotic place I'd ever seen, there were flowers everywhere and it was so *wealthy*. Outdoor malls, shiny new cars everywhere, my little mind was blown.
That is so funny about the film and the word awesome!!!
I was spared the gore of ST by a smallish TV and the sun shining in onto it during very dark scenes *lol*
I'm born and raised in Indiana and still reside here. Yes, we said those things. Seriously.
Though I don't remember saying the "throw up" one. But I probably did.
My 3 year old may or may not say 'seriously?' in that sarcastic tone all the time. I totally did not teach him that. Not at all.
I also had no idea Stranger Things took place in Indiana. I might finally have to watch it.
Indiana, we're right here. Below Chicago and above Nashville. We've got corn, and cows, and... er, well... some other stuff.
If you've never had a hand breaded Indiana tenderloin sandwich I invite you to swing by next time you're in the states. It will be so good you'll almost forget about the corn, corn and more corn you had to look at to find us - :)
Also, I had no idea ST was set in Indiana. My adult daughter has been telling me I should watch it and now I have an extra reason to do so.
Kelly -
Like, you and I could, like, totally talk to each other in, like, code. I can, like, hear your valley girl accent, you know? Like, for sure. Totally.
Megan, thank you for commenting! ST isn't a show I'd recommend, outside of the non-stop 80s references which thrilled me. Like, totally old Tupperware products, I could feel them in my hands! If you're from IN, please watch Parks & Recreation!
PP, Corn is an American thing, did you know? I didn't. Germans consider corn animal food. And there are corn fields all around my house, but the Germans aren't into that. I've never heard of a Tenderloin Sandwich. I will definitely look you up next time we do a grand tour, which should be 2021. J really wants to see all 50 states. ST is hard to watch, IMO. But if you're in IN, please watch Parks & Recreation!
Becky, I was working at a nursing home and this resident complained to me, "Why do you talk this way: "I was like, 'no way' and then he was like 'indeed!'?" At that time I had no idea we way "was like" to mean "said."
I think you are right, that both sayings didn't come into favor until after the era depicted in the show. Where is their Continuity Manager? I hadn't noticed when we watched it, I wonder if your bilingual lens heightens your ability to notice such linguistic subtleties?
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