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Canadian actor Alan Thicke died suddenly of a heart attack last year. After learning the news, the circle of friends is brushing the screen for "Dad". The name was unfamiliar to Chinese audiences in the '80s and '90s, but when it comes to Growing Pains, you'll know Daddy Jason Seaver.
The summer vacation of that year was always "Journey to the West" and "Huan Zhu Gege". If there is a third part, it should be "Growing Pains". Many people define this as a TV series that belongs to the post-80s, and as a post-90s editor, I also raised my hand to show that this is my first real American drama.
I still remember that every time I secretly watched TV at home, I would always see a big family with laughter. Either Mike was mischievous or Ben was naughty and mischievous. Mom Margaret always cooks in the kitchen, while Dad Jason will play round the court.
At that time, we would always say that life in the United States and reality in China are very different. American children don't have to write homework, and American parents don't hit their children. Even after watching the TV series, he would say to his parents with a straight face: "You have to love me like the Seavers." ”
Now we all talk about other people's children, and we really recall that the beauty of the family that we expected from our childhood was the smile and tears of the Seaver family.
Unlike today's HBO or Netflix blockbusters, Growing Pains is an ABC family drama that began in 1985 and has accumulated 166 episodes in seven seasons.
Although the picture quality has a sense of age, do you remember the classic shot of the family sitting down for breakfast?
The world-famous Oscar film emperor Xiao Lizi was a supporting role that year. Played by Jason's righteous son Luke
Brad Pitt, who is now in full swing, starred with Seaver's daughter Carol in Growing Pains.
Also on the dragon set list are two-time Oscar-winning Hilary Swank and Matthew Perry, who played Chandler in "Friends.".
In 1990, Shanghai Television introduced "Growing Pains", a live broadcast to 1994, the dubbing lineup is also from a young people may not know, but the witnesses are extremely nostalgic name: Shangyi Factory.
Psychiatrist Jason moved the clinic back home to support his wife, Margaret, back to his press. And each of their children has distinct personality traits. For those of us who were only children at that time, we couldn't be like Mike, just saying the last sentence, there was a Ben to pick up the next sentence, or a Carol to fight back. Such brotherhood and sisterhood make us even more envious. Jason's heuristic education allows children to get along well with mom and dad. It is the occasional annoyance of life, but the laughter is continuous.
In addition to being the memory of our youth, it should be more of a dream. Remember when you watched this TV series, did you also dream of having such a home?
We also know through "Growing Pains" that Christmas needs to be decorated, Thanksgiving requires the family to sit together and eat turkey, resurrection energy saving to eat chocolate and prepare rabbits, and Halloween everyone has to prepare pumpkins and ghost stories. Because of cultural and geographical differences, it is very different from our lives. It makes us look forward to it even more.
Although our youth is also colorful. Delicious meals made by parents, after school, you can go home to watch two episodes of "Growing Pains", or the so-called "liberation" of three or five friends in the summer vacation from morning to night. If the adults are not at home, it is a "little devil"-style way of entertaining themselves at home. Eating popsicles and watching a replay of the TV series. Looking back now, it turns out that these are also good memories of our growth. The so-called youth, that's what it is.
As we grow up, so do our hearts. In the summer vacation of previous years, there will still be some TV stations to replay "Growing Pains". Whenever the familiar melody and laughter come, you will think of "Dad" is a psychologist who has worked at home; Mom is a beautiful and wise journalist; Brother Mike is very handsome, is not the first English name of many boys born after watching this play? There is also a smart sister and a lovely brother.
Growing Pains chronicles a story that finds millions of projections. Because of the troubles of growth, we can more truly perceive the joy and meaning of growth.
In 2000, ABC planned to shoot a film version of "Growing Pains", and all "family members" had concerns. But in the end, the 28-year-old father's "Mike" returned, and "Carol" also defeated anorexia and found the vibrancy in front of the camera.
Joanna Kerns, who plays Mom, directs a documentary about Growing Pains. A large group of children in the film sit around the lawn, singing the theme song "As long aswe got each other", about to sing the chorus, Alan Thicke reminds the whole family, "To become key". At that moment, all the happy memories of childhood reappeared.
Whenever the Camera family gets together, it feels like this is the best family. Many people remember the "show me that smile again" at the beginning of the theme song, but what impressed me most was the chorus:
As long as we got each other
We got the world spinning right in our hands
Baby, you and me
We gotta be
The luckiest dreamers who never quit dreaming
Alan Thicke said; "Loved Growing Pains, the family values in the show, and I was happy with my character, what I said, and the impact it had on me and my life, my family, and my career. So if I wrote it on my tombstone, I would feel very fitted. ”
"Daddy" Alan Thicke left us. But Jason Seaver, the Seaver family, and Growing Pains will live on in our memories for a long time. Because once upon a time, it was the home of our dreams.