The Good Ol' Lawrence Welk Show

Ran into this rather amusing meme on Facebook recently. Just thought that it seemed worth sharing here, as an amusing little post for Sunday. Yes, I still try and make an effort to keep blog entries on Sunday a bit more lighthearted than most other days.

This one is about the Lawrence Welk Show. It still regularly aired during my childhood. My grandparents enjoyed the show, so we ended up watching it more often than I admittedly would have liked at the time. As a little kid with a ton of energy (possibly too much) at the time, I often eagerly waited for the show to end. In fact, I cannot say for sure that I actually watched the show from beginning to end often, or perhaps just came down to the basement (which is where the television at my grandparent's home was located) towards the end, in hopes of being able to watch something more to my liking.

In any case, I admittedly felt that the show was intolerably boring at the time. of course, I was a little kid, and this was clearly music and entertainment generally geared for people of an older generation.

What I learned in recent years is that other people roughly my age also remember this show. Apparently, they also had to suffer through it. In fact, it has become kind of a running joke among some, which always makes me laugh. At the time, and really until recently, I had believed - mistakenly, obviously - that my grandparents must have been one of the few to actually watch the Lawrence Welk Show. As it turns out, a lot of people watched it, including a lot of people roughly my age.

Now, I cannot say that I have watched an episode of the show recently. It might be interesting to see how my reaction to watching it would surely be different nowadays. Evidently, however, my brother and I were hardly the only ones to suffer through watching this show, as the obviously joking meme below clearly suggests.

Here is the link to the Facebook page where I originally found this meme:

The Ultimate Eighties Page 9 December (2024):  

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=996607515842120&set=a.552852366884306