The Wonder Years

Hollywood no longer makes stuff about normal people with ordinary lives. Wonder Years remains a cult TV series todate only because it showcased lives of people, anyone can relate too from a 20% to a stunning 100%. Stumbled across a documentary on the movie tonight on TV and realised I could relate to it....only it dawned on me after 15 years or so. Incredible isn't it.


Excerpts from the final season's last episode of The Wonder Years (1988).

"Things never turn out exactly the way you planned. I know they didn't with me. Still, like my father used to say, 'Traffic's traffic, you go where life takes you' and growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next you're gone, but the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a time a place, a particular fourth of July, the things that happened in that decade of war and change. I remember a house like a lot of houses, a yard like a lot of yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. I remember how hard it was growing up among people and places I loved. Most of all, I remember how hard it was to leave. And the thing is, after all these years I still look back in wonder."

Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)

"All of our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone that makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope. All the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect who might be searching for us."

Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)

"I learned that sometimes growing apart means growing together" -

Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)

"When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time. "

Kevin Arnold (The Narrator)