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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | People often call today's kids the '''MTV Generation''', like [[White Hat]] does in the strip, because the {{w|MTV Generation}} were accused of bad attention spans and concentration (caused by MTV). [[Megan]] explains that the term really originated about 25 years ago, so today's kids are actually one generation newer. | |
− | + | An alternative definition of "the MTV generation", is that they '''are''' the teenage 12-19 year olds of the early 2000's to mid 2010's, because they were born to parents who came of child-bearing age during the core popularity time period referenced by the comic. | |
− | {{w| | + | {{w|MTV}} is Music Television, it is a TV channel in the US and elsewhere that, when it started in the 1980s, used to show {{w|music video}}s. The focus has now shifted to {{w|reality shows}}. |
− | + | {{w|The Breakfast Club}} is an iconic movie from 1985 in which 5 very different teenagers spend a Saturday detention together at the school. Principal Vernon was the principal in the movie and was the overseer of the detention - the actor playing principal Vernon was around 45 years old at the time of filming. | |
− | + | [[Randall]] has covered making people feel old several times in [[647: Scary]], [[891: Movie Ages]] and [[1393: Timeghost]]. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | + | :[One of them damn kids that won't get OFF MY LAWN plays with some gadget-a-mabob while ignoring every damn thing around him off in the background. White Hat and Megan are in the foreground.] | |
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:White Hat: See, that's the problem with the MTV generation— No attention span. | :White Hat: See, that's the problem with the MTV generation— No attention span. | ||
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:Megan: You know, that phrase referred to the 12-19 demographic that formed the core MTV audience in the mid-1980s. | :Megan: You know, that phrase referred to the 12-19 demographic that formed the core MTV audience in the mid-1980s. | ||
− | : | + | :White Hat: Uh huh? So? |
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:Megan: That generation's now in their 40s. | :Megan: That generation's now in their 40s. | ||
− | :[ | + | :[White Hat scratches his head.] |
:White Hat: That can't be right. | :White Hat: That can't be right. | ||
:Megan: Face it: Your problem with the MTV generation is their ''kids''. | :Megan: Face it: Your problem with the MTV generation is their ''kids''. | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | ||
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