Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. Sometimes my parents let me stay up to watch it, but they stopped after some dumb gag scared me and I started crying.
Not always bedtime but the stopwatch to start 60 Minutes was a weekly reminder that the party is over and school is imminent.
Damn, I felt that. 😩
That ominous stopwatch ticking every morning meant that it was time to get on the school bus and that the party was over.
Wait what? You watched 60 Minutes everyday? It was always Sunday evenings from my memories, during winter usually right after a Football game, don’t remember the exact timing tho.
M.A.S.H
For me that meant that dinner was half an hour away. That tune always makes me hungry now.
My bed was in view of the living room TV, as long as I kept my head under the covers and pretended to be asleep I could watch MASH.
Context: A German show which plays after all other shows, and the song is about the children falling asleep.
Also, if you then heard Bernd, you obviously stayed up too long (but that was kinda the point, I love Bernd)
Local news ending or TNG opening
Cheers. Every weeknight, walking down the hallway to the sound of “Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got…”
Xfiles theme song.
As soon as that shit came on I ran to bed. Fuuuck that, terrifying.
George Lopez
“Come and knock on our door…”
The closing credits for ALF.
Hey Willie!
When I was really young (6 or 7) on weekdays it was the credits music for Dexters Laboratory, which I think ended at 8? On weekends it was The Soprano’s theme. My parents would check out the season VHSs and later DVDs from the library.
When Cartoon Network went off and changed to Adult Swim, and this theme song started playing, you knew that it was time to go get some rest. Especially if it was on a weekend. On Sunday, it meant the fun was up, it was time to sleep and get ready for school the next day. And it was always the first show to air on the block every single night.
Memories.
The end of The Waltons.
“Goodnight John Boy.”
The Simpsons
64 Zoo Lane! It’s from the late ‘90s but it has this weird timelessness about it I think.
