{"id":1847,"date":"2021-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2021-11-17T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T22:11:01","slug":"episode-94-sticking-with-the-stars-you-know-memory-bubbles-persistent-nostalgia-and-dead-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Episode 94: Sticking with the Stars You Know: Memory Bubbles, Persistent Nostalgia, and Dead Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1220\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1847-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/content.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/content.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/content.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/content.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1847-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/content.blubrry.com\/inside_the_box_the_tv_history\/Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Inside_the_Box_ep_94_Stars_You_Know.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week Jonathan works through some ideas relating to the potential for &#8220;time travel&#8221; through the ability to live within memory bubbles thanks to curated content, persistent nostalgia thanks to certain business strategies, and the unexpected staying power of dead celebrities thanks to new fan work and the use of CGI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1854\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1854\" class=\"wp-image-1854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there.jpeg 820w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there-768x447.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/being-there-240x140.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener tending to his Master&#8217;s house in the film Being There (1979).<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1858\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1858\" class=\"wp-image-1858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pariser_Filter_Bubbles.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Eli Pariser discusses his concept of Filter Bubbles.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1859\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1859\" class=\"wp-image-1859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/taxi_reunion-240x180.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">TV cast reunions are much more commonplace these days. Here, the cast of Taxi reunites in 2016 to celebrate TV director James Burrows.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1857\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1857\" class=\"wp-image-1857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/low-cost-nostalgia.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A wonderful phrase to describe how cheap and easy engaging with nostalgia has become.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1851\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1851\" class=\"wp-image-1851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/TCM-Remembers.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Turner Classic Movies specialized in cultivating a culture who enjoys inhabiting a very particular, long-ago era of U.S. film making. Though, in recent years, they&#8217;ve attempted to expand their offerings. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"666\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-666x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1853\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1853\" class=\"wp-image-1853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-768x1182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-998x1536.jpg 998w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover-156x240.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Batman-66-no-27-cover.jpg 1248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Professional fans continue the Batman TV show story lines with brand-new comic book adventures.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-1024x430.webp\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1852\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-scaled.webp\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1852\" class=\"wp-image-1852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-1024x430.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-300x126.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-768x323.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-1536x645.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-2048x861.webp 2048w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/afterlife-240x101.webp 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Ghostbusters: Afterlife, much like Star War: The Force Awakens, wears its nostalgic fan service on its sleeve. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1856\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1856\" class=\"wp-image-1856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/fred-astaire-vacuum-240x180.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Fred Astaire dances with a Dirt Devil vacuum from 1997. A controversial commercial, it now reads as rudimentary compared with how we revive the dead in films using CGI today.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors.webp\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1855\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors.webp\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=1855\" class=\"wp-image-1855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors.webp 755w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors-300x294.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CGI-actors-240x235.webp 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Star Wars Rogue One brought two actors back from the grave via CGI. Their careers didn&#8217;t have to end I guess.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Jonathan works through some ideas relating to the potential for &#8220;time travel&#8221; through the ability to live within memory bubbles thanks to curated content, persistent nostalgia thanks to certain business strategies, and the unexpected staying power of dead celebrities thanks to new fan work and the use of CGI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460,1],"tags":[480,482,478,481,479],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cropped-nostalgia-video-logo-machine-bold-1-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}