Show up at your friends house without calling and hanging out in their yard if they weren't home = ACCURATE

This is quite possibly the best summary of my 80's childhood. Couldn't stop laughing. Our parents didn't know where we were, all day. We trespassed through peoples yards all the time to get to our friends houses. We roamed from friends house to friends house and piled our bikes in the yard (the piles of bikes were how you knew where everybody was).

This was so hilarious because honestly every generation Xer understands everything about this song. Yes I really truly wish we could have a Gen X Summer. 1978 in the House.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Here's a fun one to share on a Friday afternoon: Anyone who was BORN between 1965 & 1979, we are the last generation that played outside until dark. We are the FIRST to play video games & the LAST to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape, we loved roller skating on Friday and Saturday nights. We survived the 80’s with big hair and the era of extravagant everything. We took walks with friends without worry of being taken, we watched cartoons on Saturday mornings while eating a bowl of cereal... we programmed the VCR before anyone else... we remember learning how to use a computer for the first time, we played Atari & Nintendo. We are the generation of Soul Train, Gilligan’s Island, Dukes of Hazard, Scooby-Doo, Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, & Good Times... We traveled in cars w/o seat belts or airbags, rode in the backs of pick ups & lived without cell phones. We did not have flat screens, surround sound, I-Pads, Facebook and Twitter...But we had a GREAT time ALL 👏 THE 👏 TIME 👏 with each other! We are definitely a different breed. 😘 Copied & Pasted

Only thing that is missing is having one of those flavored ice things in the plastic that would cut the sides of your mouth when you tried to get the ice out 🙂

80’s kid, 90’s teen here. Oh, the memories this brought back. Well done!

As someone hitting 54 this year, I had a ton of Gen X summers. This is 💯 on point, I did all these things and so much more. Running on rooftops & jumping between them, Shooting off unsafe fireworks, jumping on sketchy ramps, Playing our parents stereo at max loudness when they where at work, opening up manhole covers, Sneaking out the window at 3 am to do even more dangerous random stuff. Ran wild in the streets. Rock on Gen X, Self-reliance for the win. ❤🤘

You had me at the "4 way retractable pen"!!!! 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️

Waiting on the radio to play a song, so you can record it before choreographing a dance for it🤗🥰.....the good ole days🤣🤣

Omg yes! Only thing y'all forgot was mom dropping us off at the city pool and telling us she'd be back in 5 hours.

That was my summer in the 60s. No cell phones. Ride our bikes all day, came home when the street lights came on. If you wanted to play with a friend, you biked over & knocked on the door.

I loved the 80's. I still play New Wave music when I'm cleaning. Remember roller rinks, and playing outside (and running back in when you got bullied). When all my girlfriends had a cabbage patch doll, and all the guys I knew had a Yoda or Gizmo. Everyone played paper football and the school champion of double -dutch and tetherball were held in high regard. Everyone wore jelly bracelets or braided friendship bracelets and you worried that if you kissed your crush you might get stuck together because you both had braces. Amazing memories. and good times.

You mentioned the checklist, but not the fact that it was in a TRAPPER KEEPER?! 😂 Amazing video as usual!

This was our summers in the 70s and 80s! We went to the park all day, played hide and seek in the museum. Stayed out after dark running up and down the alley with all the neighborhood kids playing games. Went to the library and read books outside under the trees. McDonalds Doritos Donuts. Life was joyful!!

70's & 80's man those were the days. Totally forgot about the note from mom saying when SHE would be home. Hahahaha. We would hurry to get home about 20 minutes before her and rush to get our chores done.

Wow. Definitely wasn’t ready for my emotional reaction to this-reminiscing and very much missing the simpler days! 😭 Funny as always, of course!

"Which Jennifer, we know 7 Jennifers" Oh that is so true. 😆 I'm an Xennial but most of this still applies. My mom used to give me a list of chores to do while she was at work, but I could do them whenever I wanted in the day. I still could bike down to the Subway for lunch (with no helmet of course) or to my friends house. And kick the can with the neighborhood kids in the evenings. Good times.

EXACTLY MY LIFE!! And I'm here to tell you.... IT WAS GREAT. I feel sorry for the kids today being raised by cell phones. We Rocked the GenX so much they're making re makes of all our stuff from the days past. THAT says it all. WE STILL ROCK. Great video.

OH man I miss those days! So much nostalgia...and we thought it would always be that way... amazing the emotions it brings back! Thanks y'all.

Penn dumping into that stream is real commitment to his art. I respect that.

The stopping by without scheduling, I would circle the block for hours on my bike waiting for my friends to get home some days, and when the garage door was finally open, it felt like victory. That would never happen today. Also, way to commit on the rope swing Penn!

OMG prank calling friends' houses and choreographing dances. The best! I also loved rollerskating around the neighborhood.

Definitely nailed it. I wish my kids could experience summers the way I did.

This is so spot on. So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Great song remember the food and the crimped hair on the girls. You're right about the trampolines now I laugh when I see the safety nets. My next door neighbor had one and we bounced off onto tree roots, huge rocks, or whatever was in the yard.

YES! Went out when we woke up. Came home when street lights came on. I used look for soda bottles to return to the store so I could by freezies or Popsicles at the store. Spend way too much money on arcade games. LOVED Galaga. When Kim was playing it on this video, I laughed so hard because that was the stance you needed if you wanted to play well. And Lola was right, the opening credits in the movies were way too long. But it allowed us to be a few minutes late for the movies. 🤣 Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

Bologna is a hotdog that went through a flat iron.

How did you just nail every part of a 45-year-old's childhood in one song? 100% did ALL of these things (except that the trampoline was at Jay and Courtney's house, not Jennifer's).

I miss those days. It seemed like it was a kids world back then. All the marketing campaigns for restaurants were focused on kids, there were dozens and dozens of kids channels, and there were more toy aisles in the store sometimes than almost anything else. And then all those kids grew up and took over the business world and now, unsurprisingly, nostalgia is BIG business. 🙂

One of your best for those who grew up in the 80's.

You nailed a Gen X summer. The endless bike riding and baloney. Good times.

This was so much fun to watch! The 70's and 80's were the bomb... I mean those decades were totally awesome! I use to go rollerskating or walk around the nieghborhood in the summertime with my friends carrying a boombox :)

I love it when Kim crimps her hair. 😄 I'm going right away to show my son this perfect example of my childhood.

OMG I love this!!! I still remember a summer vacation where I stayed at different friends' houses for like 3 weeks before my parents realized they hadn't seen me at all, finally tracked me down and I still spent another week bumming around before heading home again lol. (I was 10 at the time and that was all my parents did was call around to my friends, got a hold of me, "alive" "yep" "okay")

Fried bologna for the win!!! Lol! All of it - so true! Long live Gen X!

As an Xr myself, that brought back so many memories. Your parents probably used rabbit ears before you got cable...or bribed the cable guy 😆

I can totally relate to this song as a Gen Xer. It was a different world back then. Hang out all day with your friends, be home by sunset.

I spent my teen years in the early 70's. You depicted my life! In the summer I would leave the house early in the morning and my mother would tell me to be home in time for supper. She had no clue where I was all day. I was out in the neighborhood riding bikes with my friends, getting into minor trouble and eating junk food. It was glorious! And yes, I had bologna sandwiches everyday too! I loved them. Now I can't stand them. LOL!

This was my summer exactly. Add in roller skating at the roller rink. My best friend and I choreographed a dance to A Horse with no Name. 😂😂

Omg u two are amazing brought back so many memories...does everyone remember having like 100 phone numbers on their head?

This took me back, for sure. We did have to be home each night....we had to come in when the street lights came on, LOL. But we could call home from a friend's and ask to stay over last minute and it was almost always OK. Now you practically need a police check before the other parent says yes, LOL. (Born in late 70's) Also, the bologna sandwich needs to have a square of fake cheese...and can we talk about how each bite would stick to the roof of your mouth? And we drank bucket loads of Kool Aid as well as from the hose.

80s were the best time…… I remember the slip and slide and drinking straight from the hose. If I got hungry, I would nuke a hotdog and place it on a piece of Wonder Bread. Fun times. Thanks for bringing back so many memories!

This brings back lots of fun 80s memories. You both are the greatest.

I was laughing the entire way through. You nailed it! My son actually had friends over the other day and I suggested they watch one of "our" movies. They were seriously talking and laughing about how long the credits were at the beginning of the movie 🤣

The "you are going right away into the shower" outed you... 😆😆 there is only so much endless summer one can take before one is ordered into the shower....

That last comment on the B roll is the reason why our kids have completely different summers than we did.

Omfg! I graduated high school in 1996 so I remember these summers. I was more of a city kid, so my uncle had that huge wrench to open the fire hydrant. Taking our bikes to the corner store for penny candies made you feel like a baller!

I love how Kim's dressed. I totally dressed same way when I was a teenager. I remember going to arcade, library, mall, beach, and I was the friend people would always show up to at my house unannounced (it was because I had a pool). Great job guys.

The credits before the movie I always thought was to go get the popcorn, drinks, snacks etc etc .... Due to how long it could take to choose a movie and wanting fresh hot popcorn to enjoy.

This is so true! We never came home till the street lights came on. The best time in our life!

Boomer here, I laughed so hard at the end bloopers where Penn was filmed getting out of the yucky river and was told he was going to take a shower asap. I used to come home so dirty, my family called me "pig pen" Of course I was also almost abducted a couple of times by a dark car with dark windows, but fortunately I was trained to know where all the Red M (safe houses which stood for safe houses) houses were and ran into those. And then I also have several dents and symptoms of brain damage from landing head first off of mini bikes and other bikes without a helmet. I grew up in the 60's and 70's - those were really fun days, says the queen of prank phone calls. I really loved doing those. I would still be doing them if not for caller I.D.

Water fights, freeze tag, hide-n-seek (late at night was the best!), making our own bike jumps, skateboarding down the longest, steepest hill we could find, the list goes on and on…we had the BEST childhoods!

Right after watering my garden, I will still get a drink from the hose. So cool and refreshing.

I like how the whole video is about living without concerns we have today, doing what you want and the last clip, don’t go in the water it looks dirty. Straight to the shower. Shows the difference best.

Just like summers in the 60"s. But instead of arcade games, we were out collecting pop bottles to get the money for returning them. Thanks for the memories.

I was a 90s baby and this was also my life. I couldn't go home because mom was at work. So had to play outside till the street lights came on at 9-10 pm. Lol! God I miss childhood

You nailed it. This brought it all back and gave me warm fuzzies. But made me sad for my own kids at the same time that they don’t have these experiences and only care about their phones.

Happy we 90s kids got a bit of it too 😄

I have to tell you, I haven’t watched one of your videos that I didn’t like. I don’t think anyone on earth deserved the million dollars more! You guys are awesome, funny, relatable, and what a lot of people need to get though their days.

AAALLLLLL of the Jennifers!! LOL!! This was superb. Thank you. Every other generation ignores us. We'll make our own fun.

Great job y'all that was awesome and those were the days. No cell phones, no real rules just be home before dark. When prank calls could be done easily, now you gotta be slick to call someone and them not know who you are. I would have jumped in the water as well, grew up in creeks and rivers in Missouri, I'd prefer a moving stream over a public pool anyday.

2020's summer.... " Oh my gosh! you're going right into a shower. " best line🌸

Your wife is a gem. She completes you

OMG. Literally hit the nail on the head with this one. Only missing pogo balls and Jams. And sooooo many Jennifer’s. And Kate/Katie’s

The CRIMPED hair! OMG Couldn't wait to get a crimping iron so I could crimp my hair. I loved it. Best look ever!

I laughed out loud through this whole thing. So many truths and good times. I wouldn’t wanna be a kid these days for nothing. We had so much more freedom. That was not always a good thing, but neither is being tracked all the time . . . . Sidenote: Galaga is the 💩!

Yes!! This was my life. Except my Mom let us eat hot dogs (no buns) with blue box Kraft most days, since I could make that for me and my brothers by myself. Lol!

I miss these days so much. I loved being a free range and people were so much more chill.

Just turned 52...damn i miss the 80s...arcades and much of what was in this song :)

This was one of your BEST! So relatable!! Loved the prank call to Steve!! Every part of this vid was spot on & you gotta wonder how anyone ever survived!!!! Love you two! Y’all are geniuses!!! ❤️😂

Lola commenting on the long credits. . .LOL! So glad she's joining you in these again. Loved her also in your recent video about parents trying (failing badly) to use their kids' slang. She has really grown up! Hope you all have an excellent summer! You bring us all such joy! Thank you very, very much!

Hilarious, as always! I loved the crimping in Kim’s hair and that determined look she got playing the video game. I’d worry about that brown, still water having brain destroying amoebas instead of the hose water having flesh eating bacteria. I figure you can get carcinogens from drinking hose water - especially if you don’t let it run until it cools down. Even though I’m a boomer I can relate to the freedom of summers back in the day. So much fun!

My memories: jumping off the bridge into the river, laying on the water raft. I had to work all day on the family farm to earn the time off to hang out with my friends.

Perfect ... except Kim should have been wearing either Reebok hi-tops with three layered pairs of scrunchy socks (even in the middle of summer), Keds without the laces, or jelly shoes with lots of blisters.

I hope y'all experienced the joy of putting an old school sprinkler under the trampoline so that the water came up through it as you jumped. Best. Summers. Ever.

"We are where we are, we'll be home when we feel like it" This is just the best.

Growing up in the 80s and 90 was awesome. I remember I lived out in the country roads, and my BFF lived in town. We walk and meet each other half way, every day in the summer. Took us forever to get to each other, and then we walk would walk around town and go to the arcade. Miss those days

Tomorrow is my 40th Birthday!! Does that make me a Millennial or Gen X Dunno… but this all screams my summers! Watched it twice already! Love you guys!

This is what my life is missing, I need to be singing throughout the day. Plus, I really need to revert to my youth. ;-) I was born in 1959, but the period that defines Gen X 1965-1980 is my youth, 6-21. This brought back so many memories, thank you so much. Last comment, the worry of Penn jumping into that pond (?) is spot on. In our youth we never thought anything about doing that. Nowadays I keep reading of brain-eating bacteria from lakes or ponds. I'd be scared to even dip my toes in that water. Good idea on sending him to the showers right afterwards. Stay healthy you two! :-)

“Oh, my gosh. You’re going right away into a shower.” We survived though! Kim, you are so cute. You put on those clothes, and you BECOME the 80s, yet here it is 2022. How you BE ALL DECADES??!? And talk about Penn and those gnarly jumping abilities - ! Radical, man! Totally tubular

You guys NAILED IT AS ALWAYS! I was born in 1965 and grew up in the 70's! Best summers of my life! Thank you for making me smile as always!

🤣😂🤣😂 This is Hardcore Parenting at its finest! I love y’all’s videos! They make me feel like I’m not failing as a parent! Lol! Thank y’all for pumping me up! Today you saved this Veterans Life! 🦅🦅🦅

Best Generation Ever!! Born in 77, Love that I am Gen X!

The family I grew up with across the street still lives there and we always say to our parents, "where were you" "what were you guys doing"? They had no idea, except for the times they were partying together! 😂 I think we are breakfast (maybe) and came home after dark- no lunch, no snacks, just taking popsicles out of the garage fridge- no one dared enter the house!

Ok, that was a-mazing! So true I almost cried... for the joyful nostalgia, but also from sadness over how different things are for our kids today.

Loved when Kim told Penn he needed a shower right away after he got out of the yucky-looking water. I guess if you were really acting as kids you would either have walked or ridden bikes there. As your adult selves though, I would have thought Kim would make you stand behind a huge beach towel or blanket to take off those yucky wet clothes before getting back into your car. 😁

You hit the nail on the head! I remember one summer day my friend and I were out wandering the neighborhood, and we found this injured Canada goose. So we caught it and put it in the garage, because what else are you going to do on a summer day? Lol. My parents were not thrilled when they got home 😆 I think the thought was we'd take it to a vet, but alas my parents wanted nothing to do with it.

Amen, Gen X peeps…those were the days! Leave at dawn on your bike and nobody gave a crap where you were until dark. 💪

My Diamondback Viper and I had a great childhood. I go out in the morning and not make it home until 5:30. Sometimes I can't believe that I'm still alive. The 80s were awesome

This was so much like the summers I used to have and still want to have!

That Penn trampoline flip though!

Neighbors didn’t care if you cut through yards to chase the ice cream truck down. 🤣

“We know 7 Jennifers” 😂 So true!

I love these Penn original songs! Bravo, dude.

OMG...you had me at fried baloney. I used to have that when I was a kid, even into high school. That is so comfort food. Now that actually sounds good.

Can't stop watching this. Great song on its own but also a perfect snapshot of my childhood.

I was born in 1966 The first year for gen x What good times Thanks for the memories

Y'all had way too much fun with this one.

I love how Kim is trying to describe what’s in bolonge. No one actually know’s. Now I feel old lol. I have a headlight and flashing tail light on my pedal bike now. No more riding around without a helmet.

An 80's themed Burger joint opened up down the road from our house and when I saw they had Galaga I literally screamed. Best arcade game ever!

You forgot the ice cream man coming down the road and all the kids chasing the ice cream truck with change from their houses. The candy "cigarettes" for sale 😂😂😂