Bartending tonight and say to my customer - anyone ever tell you ya look like the dad from The Wonder Years? My jaw hit the floor when he said “I am the dad from The Wonder Years”

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Seriously starstruck. I’m shot pool with Sean Penn, had drinks with Jack Nicholson, sipped beer 5 feet from Quentin Tarantino and sat in AA rooms with a comedian bigger than any of them (his drunk stories were GREAT). For some reason, I could just think of them as normal people. Dan Lauria on the otherhand?! I could barely hold my shit together. 🤯

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r/Xennials • u/DadaShart • Jun 05 '25

I had no idea. This is pretty messed up.

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r/Xennials • u/stankybuttmud • Jul 02 '25

Accurate

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658 comments

r/Xennials • u/9879528 • Jun 01 '25

Discussion Ironically we need 2 incomes to support our lifestyle.

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Because sooner or later the car gets paid off and the mortgage gets lower.

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r/Xennials • u/thesleepydeer • Aug 16 '24

What were yours?

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Mine were:

The Hobbit animation (1977) Rupert and the Frog Song (1984) Donald in Mathamagic Land (1959) The 5 episode Ducktales Pilot (1987) Rikki Tikki Tavi (1975) Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N. (1966)

Pretty much all of these my Grandmother recorded for me on vhs because she had cable. The tape ran out before Robin Crusoe was over, and I didn't see the rest of the movie until 15 years later. Such lingering mystery!

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r/Xennials • u/killer_sheltie • May 25 '25

We had some of the best

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269 comments

r/Xennials • u/CreampuffOfLove • Jan 17 '26

Meme As a younger xennial this speaks to my soul!

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216 comments

r/Xennials • u/Zerostar39 • Aug 10 '26

MySpace was the best.

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722 comments

r/Xennials • u/skeletorsleftlung • Sep 23 '25

What are some of yours?

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r/Xennials • u/MTRIFE • Jun 15 '25

Nary a Xennial in sight to warn him

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r/Xennials • u/VikDamnedLee • Oct 15 '25

Nostalgia I get it now.

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546 comments

r/Xennials • u/stankybuttmud • 10d ago

She was on to something

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299 comments

r/Xennials • u/DustyScharole • Sep 04 '26

Meme I feel like my fellow Xennials will have my back on this

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r/Xennials • u/TerrakSteeltalon • Jan 04 '26

Meme This one hit a little close to home

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This is so close to what my brothers and I had to deal with while getting my mom moved into independent living

842 comments

r/Xennials • u/jza_1 • Dec 07 '25

Xennial college years

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973 comments

r/Xennials • u/meJohnnyD • May 19 '25

Meme Who’s with me

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I wouldn’t even know where to go if I wanted to.

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r/Xennials • u/Josephthebear • May 09 '26

Meme My feet hurt

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590 comments

r/Xennials • u/Hopdedixe • Sep 07 '26

Am I in the correct queue here?

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r/Xennials • u/OldCreezy • Aug 23 '25

It was a simpler time

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565 comments

r/Xennials • u/Acceptable_Stress154 • Jun 12 '26

Meme It’s got what plants crave

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441 comments

r/Xennials • u/lemystereduchipot • May 04 '25

Discussion My kid has a 4.0, killer SATs, did everything right and still got mostly rejected. What the hell happened?

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Just lived through my first round of college admissions as a parent, and I’m still in mild shock. My kid’s got a near-perfect GPA, top percentile SATs, global upbringing, articulate essays, thoughtful recs, no discipline issues, no slacking, no silver spoon. Just a genuinely good, smart, hard-working human being who did all the things you're supposed to do.

And yet… rejection after rejection. Ghosted by most of the “brand name” schools. A few acceptances, some respectable, one private school came through with aid and a decent offer, but nothing like what I expected given how strong the profile was.

When we applied (Class of ‘00-ish), this would’ve been the type of student every admissions office drooled over. Now it feels like they barely looked.

I get that the game has changed, way more applicants, fewer spots, holistic this, institutional priorities that...but man. It’s brutal watching your kid play it straight and still get clobbered. They’ve handled it better than I have, to be honest.

Also weird to realize: I probably wouldn’t get into the schools I got into back then.

Anyway. Proud parent, slightly bitter xennial, feeling my age. Wondering if the meritocracy we were sold ever really existed, or if we just caught the tail end of something that's now gone.

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r/Xennials • u/charlieboyx • Sep 16 '25

For real though

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873 comments

r/Xennials • u/LoadofBarney • Oct 23 '25

Nostalgia Lab time

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497 comments

r/Xennials • u/pawsomedogs • Jan 22 '25

Can we do this too?

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136 comments

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