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minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days ago gramps FYI, DeForest Kelly was 46 when this episode was filmed. I guess back when people married and had babies at the age of 18, he could have been a grandfather.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI just figured a pissant kid would refer to any male adult as gramps. Also smoking and lead poisoning aged people horribly back then.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoTrue and true. He went the Steve Martin/Christopher Lloyd route of looking old long before he was old. I remember the 90s sitcom trope of a 10-year-old kid asking someone in their thirties if they still had dinosaurs “back then.”
FYI, DeForest Kelly was 46 when this episode was filmed.
I guess back when people married and had babies at the age of 18, he could have been a grandfather.
I just figured a pissant kid would refer to any male adult as gramps. Also smoking and lead poisoning aged people horribly back then.
True and true.
He went the Steve Martin/Christopher Lloyd route of looking old long before he was old.
I remember the 90s sitcom trope of a 10-year-old kid asking someone in their thirties if they still had dinosaurs “back then.”