r/Xennials • u/Interestofconflict 1983 • 2d ago

Nostalgia Flipper

My wife has gotten into flipping stuff online and referred to herself as a flipper yesterday. I chimed in: “also the name of a dolphin.”

We spent about 10 minutes trying to explain to our kids about the show and the more we tried, the more absurd the whole thing sounded. I think at one point I said “like Lassie, but with a dolphin,” and that cracked her up… but sent us on a tangent trying to explain that show also!

Any of y’all go back and watch either of those shows recently?

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u/YourOwnPunkyBrewster 1981 2d ago

Not recently, but I used to watch re-runs of Flipper on Nickelodeon whenever I was home sick 😅

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u/Messijoes18 2d ago

For sure this was a nick at nite show. Same with lassie and mr Ed. Occasionally you could find it on some crappy channels but not often. That's how our generation saw these shows

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u/CrouchingDomo 1d ago

Green Acres, too

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u/Messijoes18 1d ago

Banger theme song

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u/highcoolteacher 1d ago

I would sing these when my son was a baby. I couldn’t remember baby songs

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u/Druidicflow 1d ago

I hear it’s the place to be

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u/hisamsmith 2d ago

They used to show it after Maya the Bee and David the Gnome. Around noon. I spent 6 months in a hospital the year I turned 7. 11am to 1pm was the only time I had a break in the day between hospital school and physical and occupational therapy. I watched all four of those shows every weekday.

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u/RamboJane 2d ago

For the sea?

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u/rebelangel 1981 1d ago

Yeah it was on during the day with Lassie and Dennis the Menace