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We all know that pop culture in the '70s and '80s was a little less... supervised. Kind of like our time outside. I mean, "It's 11 o'clock... do you know where your children are?" So with little parental controls, no "technology" filters, and if you think about it, very little stuff made exclusively for kids, if it was on TV or playing at the movies, you probably saw it. And this is exactly what makes this aspect of nostalgia so fun, and even surprising. When you revisit the things we loved as kids, you start to realize just how eyebrow-raising...

A thread about a cooking oil explosion prompted me, for some unearthly reason, to remember a sticker satirising a household cooking product which I once affixed to my desk lamp, when (approximately) Richard Nixon was still the head of the White Household: Now, come on. You know you all (most of you all, anyway) had some berserk little collecting things going when you were kids, too...one of mine was the infamous Wacky Packages stickers (they were made by Topps, the baseball card people), when I was in around fifth through seventh grade...here was one of the original Wackies that was...