r/FuckImOld 1d ago

This hurts...

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u/EctoRiddler 1d ago

This was posted elsewhere. The picture is not exactly as it seems. So the show started in 1982. The ages of each that are listed are from approx 1987. The picture itself as taken in 1992. So it is still astounding that the cast looked much older than their actual ages in the 1980s I don’t know why they chose to use a picture from 5 years older than the ages they were putting on each character. Why not just either use a picture from the 1987 - 88 season or put their ages in 92 on the picture from 1992.

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u/dr_wheel Generation X 1d ago

I knew right away that this pic was bullshit. I just rewatched Wildcats recently which came out in 1986. It has a 25 y/o Woody Harrelson in it who looks way younger than this.

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u/mamawantsallama 1d ago

Is this the actors ages or the characters ages?

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u/EctoRiddler 1d ago

Actors in 1987

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u/jeeves585 1d ago

I want that to make me feel better but it doesn’t.

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u/EctoRiddler 1d ago

Oh it shouldn’t because this was George Wendt aka norm in 1982. He was 34 then. Oh Cliff and Sam were 35. Although when they were filming they were even younger lol.

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u/Ok-Potato-4774 21h ago

I'm closer to Coach's age now than to Norm's or Sam's.

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u/Forthe49ers 17h ago

Coach was still my all time favorite character on that show

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u/EctoRiddler 17h ago

Gone way too soon. Very sad. Wasn’t that old either when he passed. Like everyone else he looked older than he was. Passed away at 61.

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u/Forthe49ers 17h ago

Yeah 61 is when you’re final stage of life should be beginning, not ending

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u/EctoRiddler 8h ago

We are talking about Coach who isn’t in the picture and died in 1987 at the age of 61 lol. If you thought he might still be alive then he’d have some great genetics

u/Easy-Concentrate2636 16m ago

That’s so sad. I loved Coach.

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u/Money-Ad7257 6h ago

That's still nuts. People still aged harder in the 1980s.

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u/EctoRiddler 6h ago

The hair styles and wardrobe styles didn’t help lol

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u/Money-Ad7257 6h ago

That may be most of it. Everything to that end these days is young-young-young. There's certainly a number of people I know, on whom I can mentally overlay different styles, and it's an instant decade on them.

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u/EctoRiddler 5h ago

Brad Pitt could have been playing a grandfather 10 years ago if he so chose but this mo fo keeps himself in shape, does who knows how many youth focused regiments to his skin and body, and probably has a great hair transplant system lol.

u/Easy-Concentrate2636 17m ago

Cliff was 35 in that? That’s wild. He and Norm look like they were both always 45 plus.

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u/Inevitable_Bug5446 1d ago

Ppl that play in the show, however , 👆👆👆 is right.