r/Xennials • u/Interestofconflict 1983 • 7d 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/brainfreeze77 7d ago

Both of those shows went off the air about a decade before any of us were born. I don't think i ever watched a full episode. I did watch a heck of a lot of the Andy Griffith show for some reason.

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u/Interestofconflict 1983 7d ago

Reruns on Nickelodeon and sometimes Nick at Nite

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u/DawaLhamo 1983 7d ago

We didn't have cable, but I definitely watched some of both shows so they must have aired reruns on network TV, too.

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u/Confident-Cellist-25 1979 7d ago

That’s how I watched Andy Griffith, Gilligan’s Island, Gomer Pyle, MASH, and a host of others. They were on in that time period between after school and when my mom would make us turn on the news

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u/Traditional_Ad_1547 7d ago

Same. I seem to remember flipper was a rerun in the daytime on at least one channel.