I call it the "Al Bundy Syndrome". Alternatively: the "Bruce Springsteen Syndrome"
Al Bundy because that was the definition of a dude who reached their peak in Highschool (jesus). Married his High School sweetheart, had a bunch of kids, and talked incessantly about the time he scored 4 touchdowns in the regional championship because that's the best he could ever be. He never really grew up, and his whole family turned into degenerate failures.
Bruce Springsteen because that's basically what all his songs are about. The last desperate gasp of a misspent youth attempting to get away from home... but don't really know where they are going to go, and don't know where they are going, just hoping the road takes them somewhere good. In reality it never does.
There is a fetishization of youth by these people who only live life like they are still 16. What's worse is that they are regressing. They live forever like they are 13 year old girls (even the men). It's an inherently authoritarian nature where either you seek for someone to parent you because your family failed; or you seek to predate upon someone who wants that.
It's not really Peter Pan Syndrome, because Peter Pan seems like he just doesn't want to grow up just yet, but he's almost there. This is far worse. Peter Pan was a 16 year old still wanting to be 12. These are 35 year olds wanting to be 12. The disaster of this is far worse. Al Bundy is a better comparison for the damage... but it actually doesn't go far enough. I don't have a better compassion because JFC we are in uncharted waters for degeneracy, predation, and failed adults.
At least Al Bundy had a family that stayed together & was part of pretty based organizations (heh).
I think Married with Children was more of a social commentary that it wasn’t the 60s anymore but there was still time for Boomers “make it” in the world even while it was changing. Same with Uncle Buck.
One of the funniest things I read about it was that Married with Children was a social commentary on black families. Fox wouldn't broadcast it because it was too spicy for the Bundy's to have been all black, and that degenerate.
It would have been a total reversal of "The Cosby Show", "Family Matters", and "The Jeffersons" which had been on television for a long time. The man who originally proposed the show was also black, and was actually annoyed that all of these SitComs never actually represented what Black Families had actually been like.
I think it shows an interesting cultural class divide between middle-class and lower-class blacks that had emerged after the 60's.
I thought peter pan was an immortal? and tinkerbell was a kid who was sniffed by byeden so she decided to run away? regardless its been way too long since ive seen the movies, so...
It's far more common than you realize.
I call it the "Al Bundy Syndrome". Alternatively: the "Bruce Springsteen Syndrome"
Al Bundy because that was the definition of a dude who reached their peak in Highschool (jesus). Married his High School sweetheart, had a bunch of kids, and talked incessantly about the time he scored 4 touchdowns in the regional championship because that's the best he could ever be. He never really grew up, and his whole family turned into degenerate failures.
Bruce Springsteen because that's basically what all his songs are about. The last desperate gasp of a misspent youth attempting to get away from home... but don't really know where they are going to go, and don't know where they are going, just hoping the road takes them somewhere good. In reality it never does.
There is a fetishization of youth by these people who only live life like they are still 16. What's worse is that they are regressing. They live forever like they are 13 year old girls (even the men). It's an inherently authoritarian nature where either you seek for someone to parent you because your family failed; or you seek to predate upon someone who wants that.
It's not really Peter Pan Syndrome, because Peter Pan seems like he just doesn't want to grow up just yet, but he's almost there. This is far worse. Peter Pan was a 16 year old still wanting to be 12. These are 35 year olds wanting to be 12. The disaster of this is far worse. Al Bundy is a better comparison for the damage... but it actually doesn't go far enough. I don't have a better compassion because JFC we are in uncharted waters for degeneracy, predation, and failed adults.
At least Al Bundy had a family that stayed together & was part of pretty based organizations (heh).
I think Married with Children was more of a social commentary that it wasn’t the 60s anymore but there was still time for Boomers “make it” in the world even while it was changing. Same with Uncle Buck.
One of the funniest things I read about it was that Married with Children was a social commentary on black families. Fox wouldn't broadcast it because it was too spicy for the Bundy's to have been all black, and that degenerate.
It would have been a total reversal of "The Cosby Show", "Family Matters", and "The Jeffersons" which had been on television for a long time. The man who originally proposed the show was also black, and was actually annoyed that all of these SitComs never actually represented what Black Families had actually been like.
I think it shows an interesting cultural class divide between middle-class and lower-class blacks that had emerged after the 60's.
I thought peter pan was an immortal? and tinkerbell was a kid who was sniffed by byeden so she decided to run away? regardless its been way too long since ive seen the movies, so...