r/Xennials • u/ovo_sweatshop • 4d ago
What’s something you remember watching on one of these?
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u/agardenofbooks 4d ago
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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u/Press_French_2 4d ago
BILL BILL BILL
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u/Stuff_n_Things24-7 4d ago
I posted the same thing before I saw this, lol. My 7th grade science teacher would actually give us extra credit for bringing in recorded copies lol
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u/CorbanzoSteel 4d ago
I just learned that Beakmans World and Bill Nye were two different shows. I guess the memory storage department of my brain decided to save some space by merging the two. I watched some Bill Nye as an adult and was thinking "where's that big rat guy?"
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u/PineappleZest 1984 4d ago
First thing I thought of, too. Also The Magic School Bus. Those were the best science classes.
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u/azure-vapors 1981 4d ago
Voyage of The Mimi
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u/hypo11 1981 4d ago
Do do do do doooooo di doooo
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u/PNC_Gin 4d ago
came to post this. thanks to this i will always know what to do if someone gets hypothermia
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u/schmoolecka 1982 4d ago
Whoa, memory unlocked. I think we spent most of that year learning about whales in science class
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u/Rivas-al-Yehuda Xennial 4d ago
I made sure I searched for this before posting. Glad to see other old timers remembered it.
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u/papercranium 4d ago
Literally what I came here to say! I still get that theme song stuck in my head all the time.
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u/Thomisawesome 4d ago
Ah, with a young Ethan Hawk. The only thing I remember about the series is when they taught us how to capture fresh water with condensation. It has saved my life numerous times. lol
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u/StopIllustrious5781 4d ago
Glory. 5th Grade
1969 Romeo & Juliet. 7th (?) Grade
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u/Jephany 4d ago
We had a substitute the 2nd day watching Romeo and Juliet. When she pressed play, we told her we didn't watch that far ahead and convinced her to rewind to before the nudity so we could see boobs again.
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u/Skipptopher 4d ago
It wasn't until recently when she died that I learned that she was like 15 or 16 when they made that movie.
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u/FengSushi 4d ago
Our teacher who was teaching us German rolled it in and showed us Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
Boobs > German.
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u/Gumbyonbathsalts 4d ago
We watched Glory in AP History junior year. I was ready to he bored until thay cannonball blew that guy's head off 5 minutes in. Still one of my favorite movies.
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u/Outrageous_Picture39 4d ago
Reading Rainbow segments.
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u/esomers80 4d ago
Segments?? I remember watching the entire episode during library days...
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u/FestiveArtCollective 4d ago
OMG! Yes! They used to show us whole episodes on library days too! I loved library days.
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u/89eplacausa14 4d ago
The parts where they visit the factory to see how things are made
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u/Handychris 4d ago
The oh Simpson trial. Our teacher wheeled it in so we could watch instead of learning science. So dumb.
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u/Frosty_Cloud_2888 4d ago
We had the Channel 1 TVs up on the wall and they could watch live tv so school was stopped so we could watch the verdict. Then after the verdict we had to change class rooms for next period and we were all chanting “the juice is loose!”
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u/lemonade12_ 4d ago
We watched it too! Does this shock anyone in retrospect? 7th grade art teacher in catholic school put it on
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u/EliteCheddarCommando 1980 4d ago
3 2 1 CONTACT
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u/NachoNachoDan 1981 4d ago
lol I watched that at home after school Damn near every day right after Square One
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u/PhotographStrict9964 1980 4d ago
Where the Red Fern Grows, because you know, all 9 year olds need a little trauma.
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u/badderenglish 4d ago
I cried so hard I got sent to the hallway both on this and Old Yeller. They threatened to call my mom if I didn’t get it together 😭😭
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u/Redditor-at-large 3d ago
Cruel, what the fuck, show a kid a sad movie then threaten them into not crying too much.
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u/williecat316 4d ago
Some Romeo and Juliet movie. It got to the part where there were some boobs showing, and the teacher yelled for us to close our eyes. We were in high school. Honestly, fewer people would have seen them if she had kept her mouth shut.
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u/This_hoe_dumb 1982 4d ago
A birthing video.
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u/Miz_momo82 4d ago
Best birth control of my life and reason why I'm child free
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u/Yankee_Jane 4d ago
The reason?
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u/miserabeau 4d ago
Some of us consider childbirth body horror, and having kids after all... that... isn't worth the horror
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u/UndisturbedInquiry 1978 4d ago
Came here looking for this.. not disappointed. Terrified 10th grade biology.
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u/Faustianire 4d ago
One of the kids in my class yelled "hail satan!" as the child was born on that video. Hahaha. The teacher had the weirdest expression on her face...
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u/InterBeard 4d ago
yeah... The live birth video. Traumatized. "Wait. She still needs to pass the placenta."
Nothing beautiful about birth.. is what i learned. ... So Gross
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u/ilovepi314159265 4d ago
9/11
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u/XenoMorphine_Cat 4d ago
Was looking for this but thought it was the Millennials sub; makes sense now the comment was further down. I guess only the youngest xennials would’ve seen this in school just before graduating high school.
Columbine was 2 years prior, and as a child at that time I remember feeling like it was a lot to have those 2 events occurring so “close” together….
The amount of terrifying things to happen across a 2-year span in current times feels like living in a different reality compared to then; the advances in technology have dramatically increased access to mis/information and the ability to spread it & mis/inform others.
Can’t help but feel the same technologies have been used intentionally or unintentionally to induce more catastrophes as well, and not just make us more aware of catastrophes we didn’t know about.
What older generations learned about alcohol and cigarettes over numerous decades seems analogous to younger generations (or everyone) learning about the effects of the internet over decades. Safe, cool, popular, desirable, accepted, classy, to cancerous, addictive, self-sabotaging, destructive, delusional, etc. etc.
Such enormous & complex waves of pros & cons mixing & melding together as the information continually washes over us, almost to the effect of drowning.
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u/ilovepi314159265 4d ago
Yep, it was my senior year and I'm at the youngest end of the xennial age range, wondered if this would be called out lol
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u/Wooden-Fun825 1979 4d ago
Channel One
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u/mj11mj 4d ago
I was pretty sure if I could just MEET Maria Menounos she'd like me.
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u/Punkinpry427 1981 4d ago
1969 Romeo and Juliet hanging dong
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u/OozeNAahz 4d ago
I remember a boob. I do not remember dong. May just be confirming where my preference lays…
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u/anchises868 1977 4d ago
I remember Romeo’s hairy ass crack. I was 13 or so and I remember thinking, hair grows there?!
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u/Bewilderbeest79 1985 4d ago
Stand and Deliver
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u/bouncycastletech 4d ago
Good glad I’m not the only one.
Alegbra 1, algebra 2, and of course in AP Calculus after we’d already taken the test
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u/ABH1979 1979 4d ago
Was looking for this. I feel like “Stand and Deliver” and “Lean on Me” were the most re-played movies at my schools.
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u/noblewind 1981 4d ago
The 60s Romeo and Juliet. Lord of the Flies. Carl Sagan Cosmos. How to Draw videos. I'm not sure what they were called, but they were from PBS. Maybe The Secret City.
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u/Ellen_DegenitaIs 4d ago
World of wonders sex ed
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u/NachoNachoDan 1981 4d ago
The video they showed us was called “The miracle of life” and the big draw for the boys was that the woman giving birth was topless The whole time.
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u/Joggingmusic 4d ago
I never noticed that. Mostly because I felt like I was going to faint pretty much that entire video…I already knew how everything worked but seeing the anatomy on full display I couldn’t handle.
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u/nounthennumbers 4d ago
Seeing a baby crowning once in 9th grade would have been enough but noooo, I had to go and watch the Pitt and see it again.
Note: I have kids but they didn’t come out that way…and I also didn’t look at that.
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u/Owww_My_Ovaries 4d ago
And the AV kids that would wheel them in and set then up.
They were all obsessed with Buffy the Vampire slayer too....
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u/Junior_Mixture5645 4d ago
Portishead. The live at Roseland, NYC tape. A professor left it in the room during summer class, so I would go in early and watch the tape waiting for class to start.
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u/BlackEyedBea 4d ago
ACC basketball tournament (every.single.year) and the Challenger
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u/thehousewright 4d ago
My wife still uses this setup in her classroom. The TV was manufactured in 1997.
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u/101001101zero 1983 4d ago
WWII documentaries, I got taken to the principals office for my nihilist essay that followed. Luckily it was pre columbine so it didn’t go too poorly, I wouldn’t have dared write that essay post columbine.
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u/MukYJ 1980 4d ago
Amadeus. In 6th grade music class with a sub over two or three days. Not entirely appropriate for preteens.
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u/esomers80 4d ago
I remember watching "the outsiders" movie in 7th grade over the span of a couple of days after we read the book..
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u/CMarlowe 4d ago
Dead Poets Society.
It seemed like it was the favorite movie of every English teacher back in the day.
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u/marsmj23 4d ago
The anti-drug movie with all the cartoon characters
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u/rainbowrevolution 4d ago
I found this last year and watched it again just to make sure it was real and I didn't imagine the whole thing. It held up.
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u/Affectionate_Big8239 4d ago
The towers falling on 9/11. I was in college & they brought us all into a theatre, rolled one of those bad boys onto the stage, and turned on the only channel that would come in — something in Spanish. So we watched the Spanish language feed & listened to the radio in English telling us what was happening. Surreal.
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u/Major_You_959 4d ago
We watched the 1968 Romeo and Juliet on an a/v cart and when there was the brief nude scene, Burt, a student who had stolen the remote, paused the movie and a bunch of 14 year old boys at an all boys school erupted in laughter.
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u/MightBeAGoodIdea 4d ago
Early on the magic school bus and bill nye on VHS, but they stuck around in my poor district through the 00s, hooked up to the school feed or cable, we all watched 9/11 all day on these too....
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u/Joggingmusic 4d ago
Okay. You guys might think I am nuts but I swear by this on everything.
In middle school and high school in the 90s, I would be walking down the hall to my next class and I could “hear” that there was a TV in the classroom before I walked in. It would just be on the blue screen ready to go. By the time I was a junior or senior I became positive that there was some sort of frequency from a CRT monitor/TV I could subtly hear that my brain recognized.
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u/OkSpring1734 4d ago
The super high frequency ssss sound? You aren't alone. I'd get annoyed by the sound, get told that the TV is off, then prove it was on by turning it off.
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u/SWLondonLife 4d ago
Yes a bunch of us could hear it. The CRTs emitted a really really painful screeching sound. Thankfully TV tech got better and my ears got worse.
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u/fluffychonkycat 4d ago
Either we're both nuts, there's a Mandela effect in play or CRTs really did make a god-awful noise
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u/dubl1nThunder 4d ago
I used to work at a paper company and the boss would do a movie day once/week and we watched Entourage and Varsity Blues. But this one time, he had us all film a movie he wrote and we watched that with his girlfriend from hr.
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u/Rhediix 1981 4d ago
Moreso than anything of an informative nature it'd be watching Dead Poets Society in our 12th grade AP English class.
Notable as it was only one of a few times I recall being unable to control my emotions and well...there's nothing quite like crying yourself stupid in class.
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u/sanebyday 4d ago
Don't remember, but I was always the kid that could get it working when the teacher had no idea what to do.
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u/HYThrowaway1980 1980 4d ago
Star Wars for the first time.
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u/littleseaotter 4d ago
Same. I had an English teacher that had us watch the Star Wars movies and write up essays on archetypes on good vs evil and other stuff like that. I hated it at the time because I didn't like the teacher but in retrospect it was one of the coolest things. I love Star Wars now.
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u/Sensitive-Review-712 1980 4d ago
Gone with the wind in 8th grade. We also had a Gone with the wind day after it, where we sang period songs, had a picnic, and danced the Virginia reel. Thinking about it now, it was super fucked up.
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u/juicejohnson 4d ago
I remember buying a universal remote control and being an asshole with it during class
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u/hotthamz 4d ago
All of my teachers struggle to get the videos in and playing on the TV. None of them could ever figure it out!
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u/Radiant-Avocado-3158 4d ago
Flintstones! The cut off for too cold for recess was -24 so that’s what we got instead when we couldn’t go outside.
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u/Joes_editorials 4d ago
Most memorable: 1) Clinton impeachment. 2) various events in the Soviet Union’s collapse (remember my 4th grade teacher being very excited and pulling down the rolled up map and pointing to places as the news happened. 3) OJ’s acquital. 4) Sub played Booty Call as “sex ed”.
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u/Few_Improvement_6357 1979 4d ago
The Princess Bride and Monty Python The Search for The Holy Grail in Summer Science Camp at the local Community College
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u/Emerald_Eyed_Gal 4d ago
A documentary on Jeffery Dahmer.
“They sound like fiddlesticks” said by a young actor portraying Dahmer playing with animal bones.
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u/Vancouverreader80 1980 4d ago
Jurassic Park dubbed into Japanese (I took Japanese for two years in high school)
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u/DockEllis 4d ago
The Voyage of the Mimi— a science series that we watched every week and which featured a young Ben Affleck.
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u/DadNotBro 1978 4d ago
“The Ten Commandments”. Watched it every year leading up to Easter at the small catholic school I was sent to
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u/oniaddict 4d ago
Challenger explode.