Gen X Bites

Gen X house parties started out innocently enough. Just a few friends hanging out while your parents were out of town. Until word got around. The outcome? Four kegs, a full band, 200 people you didn't know and Paulie Shore passed out on your front lawn the next morning.

Attending school social events in the Gen X days was supposed to be fun and help teach us social skills. In the end, we wound up with prom photos featuring pastel cummerbunds and super wave hair bangs.

Gen X spawned some of the most iconic horror franchises of all time. Michael Myers managed to move at a snails pace and still rack up a body count. Jason Voorhees taught us all to avoid the camp CIT. And Freddy Krueger made sure we didn't get a good night's sleep for most of our teenage years.

Long before streaming whatever-the-hell-you-want-to-watch we had a whopping 7 channels and we never had it so good. We'd all land on the couch after dinner and watch Fonzie, Laverne and Shirley, Hawkeye Pierce, JR Ewing and Bo and Luke Duke. Those were, without a doubt, "Good Times" (dy-no MITE!)

Game shows in the 70s and 80s were a cocktail of boozed up hosts and celebrities guiding contestants down the road to a brand new washer and dryer or cold, hard cash. We played the Feud, pressed our luck, made a deal and banged a gong from the comfort of our living rooms.