Typical: A Gen X Microcast

Typical 4

Episode Summary

In which Jaime burnishes his eighth grade popularity, is named class valedictorian, and wonders over the summer if his popularity will translate to high school

Episode Notes

new coke debuts and even though the soda delivers everything it promises there’s such a stink about it that they bring back the old coke and there’s a rumor that the guy who came up with the idea was fired the summer of repeated viewings of back to the future and miami vice reruns if only to stay out of the crushing heat waiting for the sun to set to walk the neighborhood with your boom box playing van halen’s 1984 crashing party lines for however many cents a minute at night that summer all the girls dressed like Madonna phil collins playing the london Live Aid show and then flying to america on the concorde for the other show the same day jack nicholson everywhere that day too everyone cooing over a band called u2

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