Remember when pre-teens were actually mini grown-ups?

I came across the first episode of Girl Talk on Youtube the other day. If you grew up between the late '80s to the early '90s (or mid '90s to those in Indonesia), you must remember a series of books chronicling the everyday life of four 13-year-olds from the fictional city of Acorn Falls, Girl Talk. Well this show Girl Talk wasn't an adaptation of the series into the small screen. Instead the show, which aired in 1989, was a talk show where three host, the then very young Soleil Moon Frye, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Russell Koplin, discussed girly matters like sleepovers, clothes, boys, school, music, and boys.

Anyway, here's the only surviving episode (on YouTube) of Girl Talk. It's comprised of three parts, but we need only the first and last bits...





Take a look at their school clothes and the going out clothes that they wear to see the Knight brothers. Don't you think Soleil's yellow shirt looks two sizes too big? Russel's school clothes too heavy? How about their party clothes - TUXEDO!? On a girl? The black blazer and mini dress on Soleil scream a 13-year-old trying to pretend she's 25. Which sets me thinking. There must have been no pre-teen fashion back in the day. The likes of Urban Angel and Jay Jays must have been non-existent. You were either a kid or an adult, and adulthood started at 16.

Heya!

Hey hey Blogger :) Finally I jumped on the tagcloud bandwagon! What a refreshing feeling! Ok, first thing first. I'd like to wish someone a belated 33rd birthday, and look what I've found for you, you huge Burger King fan!



That's four-year-old Sarah Michelle Gellar, in a 1981 Burger King commercial. It's said to be one of the first commercials that blatantly named their competitors, and obviously McDonald's sued Burger King, the advertising agency that released the commercial, and the then four-year-old Sarah! The charges were dropped a year later, but I wonder if she was (or still is) ever banned from McDonald's...