Thread by @seanmdav

A lot of people don’t know this, but in the 80’s if you were sick and had to stay home from school, you didn’t need medicine to get better. You just needed chicken noodle soup and the Price is Right, and boom you were good to go the next day.

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It didn’t matter that the Soviets might nuke us at any minute or that you had a fever of 104 and could barely swallow. When Bob Barker revealed that lovely dinette set and Sally from Buffalo bid $1, you knew everything was going to be alright.

Is there any joy more pure than the realization that they’re about to play Plinko, the greatest game show game in history? If you were lucky enough to have saltines, 7-Up, and Plinko at the same time, you were living better than most kings throughout all of human history.

And if that weren’t enough, if you hadn’t already reached the pinnacle of human existence watching Bob Barker’s barely contained disgust at the inability of Jim from Cedar Rapids to spin the wheel a full revolution after some rando granny chucked it around at least a dozen times—you got to settle in for a half hour of yelling NO WHAMMIES! followed by reruns of Simon & Simon and Magnum, P.I. The 80’s were about as good as it gets.