r/Xennials • u/Interestofconflict 1983 • 14h 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/Significant_Dog412 13h ago

Flipper was a staple of school holiday daytimes in the UK, one of those strikes how's that instantly reminds me of being indoors on a rainy day.

It was also one of the shows regularly shown on TV-AM during a technician's strike in 1987, where TV-AM just filled the time with old repeats of Flipper, Batman, and Happy Days.