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Replying to @della_morte_
My weird thing about Family Ties is that the show looks and feels much older than Growing Pains despite the shows being pretty much the same age, and also that the central gimmick of the show is completely lost on you if you only know it from watching reruns and it feels generic
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Growing Pains was three years ahead of Family Ties -- Family Ties ran 1982-89, Growing Pains was 1985-92
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_
Growing Pains has, imo, a more dynamic/frenetic energy (and louder theme song) that makes it feel more modern than Family Ties, like I knew as a kid that the latter was a "finished" show but I wasn't at all sure about the former
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Yeah I think Growing Pains was a show where you could watch the evolution from '80s to '90s TV sensibilities happening in real time
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The energy you're talking about is definitely why Growing Pains is the one the Disney Channel picked up to rerun all the time in the '90s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_
It's ironic because Kirk Cameron was IRL the exact kind of little shit Michael J Fox was pretending to be
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @della_morte_
Well, not exactly, Alex P Keaton never got born again
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There was this puff piece that came out in 2008 where the creator of Family Ties, Gary David Goldberg, said he thought that Alex P. Keaton would be an Obama crossover voter (an "Obamican") Arguing that Alex was misguided not evil and would've felt out of place in the modern GOP
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Did those even exist?
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Well they had a whole viral article about them coining a cutesy portmanteau name for them in the NYT's election coverage So, to answer your question, probably not really
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