The Daily Swell
@daily · 2:00
As a kid, which worlds did you escape to?
Because I lived in the halls of that high school for probably too many hours of my childhood. To be honest, it also wasn't totally my fault. To be fair, TBS constantly was playing reruns, especially in the morning before I had to go to school. So as a kid, that was one of the world's that you escape to the other one, the Jetsons, because I mean, flying is cool. Which world did you escape to as a kid?
phil spade
@Phil · 2:48
And I think Seinfeld is a show that you can pretty much watch 24 hours if you want as well. But those types of shows I think can transcend generations, and those are the ones that I really am just enamored with when you're actually able to transcend generations like that and have the demand. And I think the office and friends are a little bit like that. Friends I watched when it first came out, and it's not something that I really care to watch again
And if you haven't seen it, it's probably still as great today as it was then. Hey Arnold. And then at one point it was like a combination of the fairly odd parents and a little bit of rocket power at the same time. But it was a bit before that. And then for the live action shows. And these were just I have to do the chef's kiss there, obviously saved by the swell is on there. I mean, come on
Chantelle Wight
@Aesthetic_19 · 2:06
I feel like that really helped me a lot. I feel like that gave me a lot of different perspectives, and it just made me think about the world in a lighter way, I guess. And it also helped me get through a lot of hard times. Believe it or not, I remember this one documentary I was watching. It was about adoption. I don't know if it was like foster care or international adoption or maybe both. But I remember watching it
Lilith Luv
@Lilith-Luv · 0:31
I also love Save of the Bell when I was a little girl and I wanted to be a teenager in their world. I remember escaping to Alice in Wonderland. I love that story and I always wanted to be Alice. And I remember playing that movie outside over and over again because she was living in an imaginary world which I could escape to and I wanted to live in I bye
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 1:28
It's interesting to me that the list of shows that Phil mentioned I watched every single one of them, except for Saved by the Bell that skipped my generation or skipped me when it was on on originally aired. I was just out of College, and I was obsessed with Star Trek The Next Generation and Twin Peaks. I certainly knew about Saved by the Swell eventually, but only because I was working with kids, but I had no interest in following it myself. But all those other shows
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:09
Oh, my gosh, Taylor. You named like every show from my childhood that I sort of forgot about, and I actually had a screen name growing up. One of my AOL screen names was placed Plays with Squirrels because of an episode from Boy Meets World where Eric turns into, like, a Sage or something that's named Plays with Squirrels. It's absurd. Boy meat definitely impacted my psyche in some way. I'm still not over the first time that Corey and Topanga broke up heartbroken
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:17
Phil, you named so many good ones here. And it really made me wonder if Seinfeld is like the Switzerland of comedies. He
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:35
I loved your response so much because I think it really hit on how much TV and the things we watch as kids just really impacts us and can provide us with a much, much larger sense of the world and also our growing sense of swell and can really make us feel less alone in some way that not all of the relationships lived life can at certain moment. So thank you for sharing that I loved it
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:23
I was also such a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland. And I'm curious if you ever watched the Disney Television Show version of it that had, like, just the real, really wild costumes. And I remember the Cat smile was so intense. And I loved that show growing up
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:05
And when you were talking about books, I hadn't thought about Narnia in quite a while, and it immediately took me back to the first time I encountered that world through the line, The Witch and the Wardrobe. And I actually still have a drawing I made as a kid of the wardrobe. I drew it in Crayon, and I wanted so badly to have a wardrobe like that in my life, I really wanted it to exist. So thank you for mentioning