TOS s1e17 “Shore Leave”

  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      3 days ago

      I just figured a pissant kid would refer to any male adult as gramps. Also smoking and lead poisoning aged people horribly back then.

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        3 days ago

        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.”