I wish I could claim I wasn't from the US because its embarrassing to live here right now, but I am. Never watched a single episode of blues clues, it was popular when I was in high school.
Still watched and liked MASH in my country in 90s as a kid (although not my choice) enough to introduce my wife to it a year ago and she enjoyed it too, having never heard of it.
No clue what the other 2 things even are.
MASH was the most popular sitcom of the 1970s in North America. Surgeons at an Army hospital in the Korean War in the 50s running schemes and banging nurses to distract themselves from the horror of war.
I‘m a millennial but too… old? Annoyed by it? to have watched blues clues other than by accident while playing Gameboy. According to Google it aired from 1996 to 2006 here, which means that I was ages 2 to 12. It was just too dumb for me. Matt Patt on the other hand, I watched it grow since its start in the golden era of YouTube, the. I stopped when the dark ages started at around 2017-ish. Now I‘m sad that I didn’t do anything good in my life until May of last year.
You're on the tail end of Millennial, and it definitely sounds like you were the target age for Blues Clues. I'm right in the middle of the Millennial years and I was 9 when that show came out, so I only know it as that thing my friend's little brother watched. I have more feelings about MatPat leaving, even if I stopped watching years ago. Point is, I don't think this meme is very accurate.
The only reason I knew it was M.A.S.H. was the font/color.
In this case, I don't feel too bad being missed. Keep your head down and stay out of the news :)
That said, I watched Theorists with my tween. Kinda sad seeing MP go, but not as sad as MP was.
I expect the channels will go tits up without his personality. The new hosts are pleasant but honestly unremarkable. The show was far less about the content and more of his performance. If you thought the idea was crap, you subliminally blamed it on him. There are plenty of other personalities out there doing what they're doing and almost all of them go on unknown because they don't have screen chemistry.
I had the same exact thought, but I suppose a lot of people born after 1990 would have witnessed it or the rerun and maybe felt something, but otherwise it was completely obscure. TBH I don't really recall any of the shows from my childhood ending with a goodbye, I wasn't all that fortunate to be worrying about those things.
I don't know if I came across as saying that this is how I discovered MatPat, but that is not the case. I meant that this post is how I found out about his stepping away (kinda) from the Theorist channels. I've known him for almost the full 13 years that he's been making videos, though I've kinda fallen out of love with his channel since FNAF.
Wait why is he stopping making YouTube videos? I didn't know he was leaving lol. The other 2 were sad but I wasn't super into blues clues. I was like a year or two too old for it once it was really popular. Seeing him come back recently was nice. My dad was super into mash though.
I'm an older millenial that identifies closer to Gen X. I think mine would be ... Will Smith crying to Uncle Phil about his dad on Fresh Prince? That was pretty iconic. Wasn't a good bye or finale one though.
Seinfeld finale was kinda bleh. I skipped Roseanne, Friends and Frazier's finales to be honest and the fact no one references them never made me catch up. The Simpsons seemingly won't die. I'd say Futurama but like, it keeps coming back with declining quality. I guess I can't choose?