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Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

David Lascher & Christine Taylor: Blossom, Brady Bunch, & 90’s Nostalgia

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

David Lascher (Blossom, Hey Dude) & Christine Taylor (Zoolander, Hey Dude) discuss David’s experience playing Mayim’s boyfriend on Blossom, how the pandemic brought Christine and husband Ben Stiller back together, and they help us break down the deeper psychological layers of nostalgia. They reflect on the cult following of their show Hey Dude on the early days of Nickelodeon, Christine’s comedy trajectory and her legendary role as Marcia Brady in the Brady Bunch movies, and what David thinks landed him the Blossom role. Mayim, Christine, and David explain why people are so nostalgic for the 90’s and why content from that era resonates with so many today, why the pandemic forced us to reexamine our interpersonal relationships, and why their kids are better prepared for the world than they were.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Shhh!

0:00.5

[♪ Music playing in background, sounds like a pop-up music playing in background. The game is a bittersweet emotion we experience. When we think back to a past experience, that was better than the life we're currently leading. That's from psychology today.

0:13.1

Oh, that's actually sad.

0:15.0

People our age are very nostalgic for the 90s decade, which was the last decade before all the distractions came in.

0:25.1

If you can capture two different demographics, right? People are age that want to reminisce and look back, and then younger people that want to know what it was like shooting blossom.

0:36.1

There are no blue-collar shows anymore, right? I mean, the Russo family was a very middle-class blue-collar family. No one was rich.

0:45.6

I mean, now it's like, you know, it's the OC and the housewives, and everyone's rich living in, you know, $50 million mansions. I feel like it might be time to,

0:59.8

depending on them to swing back the other way and represent the rest of the world. Everything's so safe, everyone's so scared.

1:07.3

I mean, you'll get canceled for saying anything. So isn't it time now for someone to come out with a show that just pushes the envelope a little bit?

1:18.3

I mean, the comedians are the last ones that are really like doing that.

1:22.3

Even they're scared.

1:24.3

The 90s was coming out of that very conservative time, and was like a fun, free expression before social media, before YouTube and whatever the kids are distracted with today.

1:40.3

You know, it led to the blossoms and friends and all the great entertainment, the great music that came out in the 90s, and I feel like everyone was happy in the 90s.

1:52.3

I think I was blissfully ignorant for that period of time.

1:57.3

It's my biolics breakdown. She's going to break it down for you, because you know she knows the thing or two.

2:05.3

I know she's going to break down. It's a breakdown. She's going to break it down.

2:10.3

Hi, I'm my biolic, and welcome to my breakdown. This is the place where we break things down, so you don't have to.

2:16.3

I'm going to break down a good one today, the entire decade of the 90s with the help of David Lashar and Christine Taylor.

2:25.3

Now, David Lashar played Vinny on blossom. So if you remember blossom, you remember David Lashar.

2:31.3

And he and Christine Taylor were in this little show called Hey Dude on Nickelodeon, literally at the same time that Blossom started.

2:40.3

But Christine, you also know from a ton of amazing things. She's had roles in films like Dodge Ball, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder, The Wedding Singer.

2:48.3

She also played Marsha in the Brady Bunch movie and its sequel.

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