80's on the 18th

I had really planned on having another blog post posted prior to today so I wouldn't have back-to-back retro reflection but life happened and I can't skip today so here goes.
One of the great things about kids; especially boys considering I was one though my wife would say I still am is that you get to share all these great things with them from when you were a kid that you thought were great and cool. I could have used "rad" here for a little slang from back in the day but I was never a user of the rad. Now the problem that arises is that after 20 years your memory is not always reality and it backfires and now your kids think you are a bigger dork than they already did. Or in the case of movies you forgot about certain questionable scenes and you cringe when they come on as you remember them and it's too late to hit the skip button. But also I've come to realize PG in the 80's is not the same as PG these days. I came to this realization watching Big. Did you know Tom Hanks was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance of a big goofy kid...hard to believe Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford were up for Tom Hanks part but thankfully Tom worked it out and made one of the greatest movies of all time. I know everyone's favorite scene and one of the most memorable ones of our generation is when "big" Josh (Tom Hanks) plays chopsticks on the roll out on the floor keyboard. But actually one of my favorites is the silly string out the nose gag....you know you've done it too. I did some reading and found out they filmed the entire movie using young Josh so that way Tom Hanks would know how a 13yr old would act in those situations. But now that I'm a parent the scene that pops into my head (after seeing it with my kids) is when Josh has "grown up" and is taking his job seriously and is under a deadline and tells his buddy Billy to go away and this is what ensues....
Josh: Will you please leave? I got a deadline to meet. God.
Billy: Who the f**k do you think you are?
Josh: HEY!
Billy: You're Josh Baskin, remember? You broke your arm on my roof! You hid in MY basement when Robert Dyson was about to rip your head off!
Josh: You don't get it, do you? This is important!
Billy: I'm your best friend. What's more important than that, huh?
[Turns to leave]
Billy: And I'm three months older than you are, A**HOLE!
I remember looking at my wife with that whoops didn't remember that part look on my face....which I think she had that same one too. But regardless it's one of those classic movies that everyone should see over and over again and if you time your sneeze just right and make it distracting enough your kids will never notice the F bomb that was dropped. My one last suggestion though is to make sure the Zoltar machine is plugged in before plunking in your quarter. Best to error on the side of caution other wise you may just get what's coming to you instead of what you wished for.....or just be really really specific.