Kjell7 News Remembers The Wonder Years

Yet Knows We’re No Longer In Them

Wayne! (Yelled Kevin). Kjell7 News remembers The Wonder Years.
“The Wonder Years” was a hit television show in the 1990s that aired on ABC. It took place in the late 60s and early 70s, and provided life lessons for the young, the old, the joking, and the serious. As described by IMDB: “The series depicts the social and family life of a boy in a typical American suburban middle-class family from 1968 to 1973, covering the ages of 12 through 17” and “The show's plot centers on Kevin Arnold, son of Jack and Norma Arnold. Kevin's father holds a management job at NORCOM, a defense contractor, while his mother is a housewife.”

Really, the plot was no matter, it was the time period and the happenings to the Arnolds, especially Kevin Arnold, and their family and friends that, well, so many of us could just relate to. Their simple times became complex and simple again with a solution of familial undertones. Vietnam War? Complicated, but the Arnolds dealt with it in the best way. Daughter running away from home to become a child of the 70s? The Arnolds knew the best way yet again. Live and let live.

Sibling rivalry? Who could forget the episode where Kevin and Wayne taped a line down the middle of their room, with neither one then being allowed to cross the line to the other’s side. Yes, a necessary action to see how stupid they’d become. Simple, yet a true life lesson of love and values.

Jack Arnold was once told by Kevin’s friend Paul Pfeifer how to cook what at the time was a new product, frozen pizza. Ah yes, (one would realize when watching the show in the 90’s), frozen pizza was new in the 1960s. They kept us locked in with these woven musings of the past.

Some say it’s bad to get stuck in the past. Well, then why did most people love The Wonder Years so much? These days, we think a lot of us would like to go back. At Kjell7 News we agree, and as you know, we believe that anything is possible. Kjell7 News, reporting.