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HighOnGoofballs t1_iwyxcur wrote

When the teacher would roll out that TV/VCR stand thing

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sleepyj910 t1_iwz6rfj wrote

That Mimi theme song still plays in the background of my mind.

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ryanleebmw t1_iwz7rf4 wrote

I could listen to absolutely anything else other than the intro to this show. I’m afraid to look it up and play it on YouTube because it’s been so many years now it’s been out of my head, but I don’t want to take the chance.

Aaaand I scrolled down to someone basically typing out how it sounds, and now I’m humming it in my head again, fuck!

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Dr_D-R-E t1_iwzl8zb wrote

You know, it hadn’t for about 25 years…until now

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Cantgoavay t1_iwzefww wrote

And be perplexed that the 'channel up' button wouldn't put it from channel 2 to channel 3, and the kids would be yelling to program the channels, to push 'step up' or push 0 3 Then to press 0 3 faster

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TazeredAngel t1_iwz9enu wrote

That thing would break all the time and I would fix it. Probably why I became a technician later in life and Voyage of the Mimi was definitely one of those videos that got thrown in the laser disk.

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nomadofwaves t1_iwzplbf wrote

I remember this series and having to plot the course of the ship on a map.

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Ummando t1_iwz8cij wrote

Your teacher as well? Must've been a popular educational series in the 80s and early 90s. We had to watch it in middle school.

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zoobrix t1_iwzl7qf wrote

You must have been in a rich school district, in 84 around where I grew up you'd still be using 16 mm film projectors for the most part. The VCR/TV cart set up only mostly replaced film by 1990 and even then I can still remember watching a few films in the early 90's. The film of a woman giving birth we watched in health class was infamous as it did not shy away from showing what having a baby really looked like.

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HighOnGoofballs t1_iwzqwio wrote

Nope, standard public school. Maybe had two or three of these for the whole school so they got wheeled from classroom to classroom. We watched the challenger explode live on TV in the library too

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lhp220 t1_iwzpm83 wrote

Right!? This just unlocked a third grade memory I had no idea I had

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