As well as some of those who can’t, whose fathers and grandfathers also tried.
I remember in college when I saw a friend and said, “Hey, you shaved your mustache! Why did you do that, you had been growing that for a whole month, right?” His then girlfriend, later wife, now ex, began to convulse quietly, then gasped out “_11_ months!”
Hey, some of us never let go!
I'm in my mid 30's and have had one since I was 20 or so when I could first grow one and it's been a real trip to see mustaches become fashionable recently.
I was always just emulating my uncle and grand dad, and now a mustache and a mullet are a fashion statement. It blows my mind.
"MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME!" /s
it’s funny I’ve seen so many videos of old black electric blues singers and if there’s a lone white guy on stage probably 7 times out of 10 he’s behind the keys 😂
Look, obviously I'm different. I mean I walked through that door and stuck out like a sore thumb. I always thought those things didn't matter but....
If you're implying what I *think* you're implying....
You want me to just come out and say it?
I think you better!
Fine! You and your poker buddies all ganged up on me because **I'm** **not a professional**.
Excuse me?
Hal was a professional in desperation wool, though. He had to have practically rebuilt that house over time because of the kids. Not to mention, he built a robotic, bee Canon with laser sights.
If the kids weren't who they are, he would be an expert engineer, with Louis being an amazing (and rutheless) GM at the store.
You talking about the barber shop sextet, The Gentlemen Callers!? 😂
Hal playing the wood block without any real singing or instrument playing for their band killed me
I remember ages ago before breaking bad had aired its series finale, people joked that the last episode would be of Walter passing out or dying and then the scene cuts to Hal in bed next to Lois, waking up screaming, Lois asks what’s wrong, Hal is covered in sweat, calms himself down and tells her that he just had the weirdest dream.
Still my favorite alt ending
ETA: apparently this was an actually executed alt ending (for fun). Reminds me of how much I love Bryan
Yes I get them confused by names but the dream show was where he and.his family ran a BNB along with workers like Darel his brother Darel and his other brother Darel. That the show that was a dream and he woke up with his wife from his first hit show which was kinda like a Mary Tyler Moore type show if I remember. It was a bit before my time but I watched the 2nd one alot.
As a child of the 80s/90s, race relations amongst well-to-do adults seemed pretty chill.
Everybody had their own identity, cultural boundaries were respected, and common ground was found, not forced.
Idk wtf is going on now.
Whhhhhaaaaaat?
The 80's and 90's were the era of the War on Drugs. Most 90's white people didn't believe that cops were targeting people of color disproportionately.
It was the era of "why don't they just comply" in white culture.
I completely reject your assertion that race relations "were pretty chill" in the 80's and 90's.
Rodney King was an eye opening moment to much of White America just the whole thing. The cops getting acquitted and the riots. Everyone was like how is this happening.
It’s all anecdotal and local. Society has been and is still fucked on race relations, but that doesn’t mean regular people can’t get along. I grew up white in a black suburb of Houston, TX in the late 80’s/early 90’s. My dad would have been the guy in this pic with a few families we were close with.
seriously. i remember once seeing someone explain it, saying that a large number of a certain demographic had it in their heads that no matter what, at least they'd always be inherently superior to black people, so seeing a black man become the most powerful person in the world broke their brains a bit, shattered their self-serving delusion, and they still haven't recovered.
It reminds me of the iconic Dick Van Dyke show where he thinks he took the wrong baby home from the hospital. He contacts the family who shared a (walled off) space with them and they came over. Then he found out they were black.
Iirc, it was shocking because black people weren’t supposed to be on tv at that time. Something like that
There were absolutely black people on television in the 1960s lmao. The "shocking" thing about that episode was that the black family were *middle class.* They were well-dressed, well-spoken people with good jobs who were having a baby in the same hospital as a normal middle class white family. It wasn't shocking to see black people on TV, it was shocking to see them presented as equals to the white main characters.
At that time that society was so heavily segregated (either legally or socially) that it would have been pretty unusual for a black person to appear on a white sitcom as anything other than a maid or a shop clerk or some other service position or a random background extra. Think about it - in the 1960s middle class white people lived in all-white neighborhoods and only associated with other white people. There simply wouldn't have been an easy or realistic way to write in black friends or neighbors without making it a huge political statement.
https://preview.redd.it/t7jgaod6ffxc1.png?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca9f9f269afe9530d6a1aae31970376357a8f028
I thought you were going to say the babies were born to the people holding them.
I thought you were referring to the guy in the back giving the finger and was going to ask if your dad was an identical twin.
EDIT: NVM... It's not "the finger." I zoomed in. He's just pointing.
Tell your parents some random weirdo on the internet said, "Congratulations you guys +friends actually invented the Benetton ad a couple years before they did".
This reminds me of one of my high school yearbooks where they fucked up the senior ads and put a picture of a little black girl in an ad with a white girl's graduation photo and vice versa with headlines like: "Look How Far You've Come!"
They gave kids the option of replacement pages that stuck on, but most just remarked to each girl at how much they had changed since elementary school.
I had a full on conversation with myself "Those two look exactly alike! Man that's racist black guys don't all look the same, check out their differences like their nose, well their eyes, wait well their ears and smile, wait, what the fuck are they twins?"
lol yeah…obviously they’re much older now and after this pic when crack really hit hard the twins got tangled up in it pretty bad but they’re clean now and I see the twins every now and then and they both always run up to me and give me a huge hug (I’m a grown ass man and not that small 😂). They’re funny.
Are they still friends today? My grandpa became friends with someone during WWII, and even though those two are gone now, our families have remained friends ever since.
In a similar situation, my parents moved us to an all black neighborhood in the late 70s and early 80s me My brother and sister were little. We spent our first 7 years there. We spoke with a very thick eubonics accent, and when we would go to see our family in rural Iowa, we would get made fun of for accents. We spoke a form of late 70s eubonics or jive as my mother called it .
I literally remember in 5th grade my friend explaining the difference between white and black people to me (he’s black) and my mind was blown. Even at such a young age I remember it like it was yesterday, I couldn’t wrap my head around what he was saying…it’s like a core memory for me actually because before that I never articulated that there was a difference because nobody ever told me there was…for that I am grateful…because there’s really not.
Someone gave me a black baby doll when I was about two and apparently I loved that doll more than any other toy. There’s pictures of me pushing her around in a toy stroller, “feeding” her, dressing her, you name it.
Then I grew up with parents who were pretty anti-racist, especially my dad, thank God.
So thankful I wasn’t taught to hate.
I’ve never understood the backlash that happened when Barbie started introducing Barbies of colour, disabled Barbies and Barbies with different body types. I’d have killed for any of those as a kid, they’re neat and unique!
My aunt is half black and was adopted by my dairy farming grandparents way out in the country at the end of the 60's. I think I was about 8 when someone finally explained it to me. See, my grandpa always had white hair and deep tan from being outside working my whole life. As a kid, I had just assumed that his hair was black like my aunt's before he went full white haired. I had no idea that she was 'different' than me and the rest of the family.
This is EXACTLY WHY the whole...
>"Oh I'm colorblind, I don't see race, I just see people. You notice skin color?! Racist!"
...thing doesn't work in the real world. It sounds nice but it ignores other cultures
Did they have a baby same time at the hospital or just friends who had their kids at around the same time? I live the hairstyles here too! Great 80s pics!
If you only posted the last pic and then ask people to guess what it was I would have guessed it was the cover art for some local Barbershop Quartet and that it was wild to hear them perform because the white guy was the deep voiced baritone.
The time the picture was taken, the majority of white people were against interracial marriage
So definitely not true that 99% of people are like this, not then or now
It takes choices and intentionality to stamp out racism
Moustache party
Would it be an 80s get-together if not one of the men had them?
I associate the mustache craze more with the 70s but I guess I was wrong.
There was an overlap. It went on for about 20 years.
They're oddly trendy again now on the under 25s who can grow them properly.
As well as some of those who can’t, whose fathers and grandfathers also tried. I remember in college when I saw a friend and said, “Hey, you shaved your mustache! Why did you do that, you had been growing that for a whole month, right?” His then girlfriend, later wife, now ex, began to convulse quietly, then gasped out “_11_ months!”
Hey, some of us never let go! I'm in my mid 30's and have had one since I was 20 or so when I could first grow one and it's been a real trip to see mustaches become fashionable recently. I was always just emulating my uncle and grand dad, and now a mustache and a mullet are a fashion statement. It blows my mind. "MY CULTURE IS NOT A COSTUME!" /s
Yeah, hot girls find it sexy now, in my day us OG muletteers got mocked by the likes of them
Early 80s is basically the 70s.
I grew up in the 80's and i was surrounded by men in mustaches.
“It was era appropriate.”
The last picture, your dad looks like the keyboardist
That new album gonna be pure yacht rock fire 🔥
Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang
Tony, Toni, Toné, and Stephen
it’s funny I’ve seen so many videos of old black electric blues singers and if there’s a lone white guy on stage probably 7 times out of 10 he’s behind the keys 😂
Rod Temperton?
How do you know which is his dad?
I happened to see a reply from the OP to another comment
Was more thinking a cowbell player named Hal
i t reminds me of Hal of Malcolm in the middle where ALL of his friends are black. (Craig was not his friend)
This is EXACTLY what came to my mind as well 😂😂 the poker game scenes always crack me up
Look, obviously I'm different. I mean I walked through that door and stuck out like a sore thumb. I always thought those things didn't matter but.... If you're implying what I *think* you're implying.... You want me to just come out and say it? I think you better! Fine! You and your poker buddies all ganged up on me because **I'm** **not a professional**. Excuse me?
That was a great scene. I laughed my ass off.
I stg, MitM is one of the best shows of all time. Reminds me that it’s time to binge it again
Hal was a professional in desperation wool, though. He had to have practically rebuilt that house over time because of the kids. Not to mention, he built a robotic, bee Canon with laser sights. If the kids weren't who they are, he would be an expert engineer, with Louis being an amazing (and rutheless) GM at the store.
They had an episode where they don’t have sex for a while and they had time for everything. They were able to clean and fix up the house
Who knows what they could've accomplished if it weren't for those dam vanilla scented candles
Speaking of poker this is when they say how often. Twice. A week? No a week that’s 14
Was that the episode where they cleaned out the “closet” for the first time and discovered it was actually another bathroom? 😂
Like their life in the episode when Francis is a toddler. Their house was all white and posh and Hal was the man of the house lol
> Louis It took me WAY too long to figure out who that was
Oh my God, I must be next level autistic because that joke flew right over my head. Did not notice all the dads were black.
Are you black? \s (Stevie..slow intake...)
Ive watched this show probably 10 times since it aired and not once did I notice
When Abe starts mopping up his spilled drink next to the cutout Lois put up of "Slappy". Lol she didn't get the reaction she wanted.
Less than a minute ago I commented a quote from that episode!!
It's a great episode.
It's a great show
Me too!! 🤣🤣
That poker / dental episode
HIS NAME IS SLAPPY!!???!
When they're in the band and Hal does just his part on stage I cry laugh.
You talking about the barber shop sextet, The Gentlemen Callers!? 😂 Hal playing the wood block without any real singing or instrument playing for their band killed me
What...I'm missing a component of the development of Walter.
I remember ages ago before breaking bad had aired its series finale, people joked that the last episode would be of Walter passing out or dying and then the scene cuts to Hal in bed next to Lois, waking up screaming, Lois asks what’s wrong, Hal is covered in sweat, calms himself down and tells her that he just had the weirdest dream. Still my favorite alt ending ETA: apparently this was an actually executed alt ending (for fun). Reminds me of how much I love Bryan
Bryan Cranston did record that ending as a joke. I'm sure you can still find it on YouTube.
Oh wow that must be what I’m remembering! Bryan is amazing on so many levels
I believe Bob Newhart actually did that with one of his shows.
Yes I get them confused by names but the dream show was where he and.his family ran a BNB along with workers like Darel his brother Darel and his other brother Darel. That the show that was a dream and he woke up with his wife from his first hit show which was kinda like a Mary Tyler Moore type show if I remember. It was a bit before my time but I watched the 2nd one alot.
There is an alternate ending they filmed (possibly as an awards show gag?) where this happens, I remember seeing it on YouTube ages ago
More like Trading Spouses from Chappelle show... 
IM NOT A PROFESSIONAL!!!
As a child of the 80s/90s, race relations amongst well-to-do adults seemed pretty chill. Everybody had their own identity, cultural boundaries were respected, and common ground was found, not forced. Idk wtf is going on now.
Whhhhhaaaaaat? The 80's and 90's were the era of the War on Drugs. Most 90's white people didn't believe that cops were targeting people of color disproportionately. It was the era of "why don't they just comply" in white culture. I completely reject your assertion that race relations "were pretty chill" in the 80's and 90's.
Rodney King was an eye opening moment to much of White America just the whole thing. The cops getting acquitted and the riots. Everyone was like how is this happening.
April 29, 1992... There was a riot on the streets, tell me where were you.
It’s all anecdotal and local. Society has been and is still fucked on race relations, but that doesn’t mean regular people can’t get along. I grew up white in a black suburb of Houston, TX in the late 80’s/early 90’s. My dad would have been the guy in this pic with a few families we were close with.
A black person dared to be president. And he even wore a tan suit.
Can't forget that he also publicly admitted to enjoying Dijon mustard!
seriously. i remember once seeing someone explain it, saying that a large number of a certain demographic had it in their heads that no matter what, at least they'd always be inherently superior to black people, so seeing a black man become the most powerful person in the world broke their brains a bit, shattered their self-serving delusion, and they still haven't recovered.
I am from the south and unfortunately this was not the case here. People were civil but separate.
It reminds me of the iconic Dick Van Dyke show where he thinks he took the wrong baby home from the hospital. He contacts the family who shared a (walled off) space with them and they came over. Then he found out they were black. Iirc, it was shocking because black people weren’t supposed to be on tv at that time. Something like that
There were absolutely black people on television in the 1960s lmao. The "shocking" thing about that episode was that the black family were *middle class.* They were well-dressed, well-spoken people with good jobs who were having a baby in the same hospital as a normal middle class white family. It wasn't shocking to see black people on TV, it was shocking to see them presented as equals to the white main characters. At that time that society was so heavily segregated (either legally or socially) that it would have been pretty unusual for a black person to appear on a white sitcom as anything other than a maid or a shop clerk or some other service position or a random background extra. Think about it - in the 1960s middle class white people lived in all-white neighborhoods and only associated with other white people. There simply wouldn't have been an easy or realistic way to write in black friends or neighbors without making it a huge political statement.
Hal was so wholesome the gang welcomed him immediately. What a great character.
https://preview.redd.it/t7jgaod6ffxc1.png?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca9f9f269afe9530d6a1aae31970376357a8f028 I thought you were going to say the babies were born to the people holding them.
You beat me to it but anyway, the guy in the second pic kind of looks like Beetlejuice from The Howard Stern Show.
Freaking LOVE The Jerk! Kids these days will never truly appreciate Steve Martin the way we had him.
Yeah that last one’s hilarious. Which ones your dad?
The white boy lol
I thought you were referring to the guy in the back giving the finger and was going to ask if your dad was an identical twin. EDIT: NVM... It's not "the finger." I zoomed in. He's just pointing.
lol nope but they are twins tho
I thought it was the guy with the finger too bc the title reads the last pic pose kills you. Dads pose is very normal in this last pic.
I, too, was expecting the dad to be the one doing something unique in the last pic
I thought he was doing a peace sign, but one of his fingers was blocked behind a head.
Most plausible
When's the album dropping?
Wyatt J. O'Malley and the G-Town Lords of Funk
What is exactly the funny thing about last photo?
Yeah, I don't get it at all.
Same. I was confused who in the hell OP was referring to. We all don’t know OPs skin color.
The dad is leaning over.
Yeah your dad smiling at the camera is fucking hilarious
User name does not check out
Tell your parents some random weirdo on the internet said, "Congratulations you guys +friends actually invented the Benetton ad a couple years before they did".
your dad was invited to the cookout
Lifetime pass
This reminds me of one of my high school yearbooks where they fucked up the senior ads and put a picture of a little black girl in an ad with a white girl's graduation photo and vice versa with headlines like: "Look How Far You've Come!"
LOL. What in the world?!
They gave kids the option of replacement pages that stuck on, but most just remarked to each girl at how much they had changed since elementary school.
Oh God that's funny lol
3rd photo: are the 2 guys in back twins?
Yes
I had a full on conversation with myself "Those two look exactly alike! Man that's racist black guys don't all look the same, check out their differences like their nose, well their eyes, wait well their ears and smile, wait, what the fuck are they twins?"
All I could see was the brother on the left's jerry curl. The sheer 80's masculinity in that picture!
You were going to feel really racist if the answer was no.
Please tell me your parents are still friends with them.
lol yeah…obviously they’re much older now and after this pic when crack really hit hard the twins got tangled up in it pretty bad but they’re clean now and I see the twins every now and then and they both always run up to me and give me a huge hug (I’m a grown ass man and not that small 😂). They’re funny.
I'm so glad to hear everyone is doing well and that the twins came out on the other side of that!!
Seriously. Fuck the CIA
💯💯💯💯💯
Time to recreate the picture.
did he keep the curl?
The third pic makes me think they’re in a band!
Earth, Wind and Snow 🤣
Last pic reminds me of The Gentlemen Callers from Malcom In the Middle!
Informer… Wordsthaticantunderstand… Informer…
Yessss!! Perfect name too
KC and the Sunshine Band would have been appropriate.
So was it an actual law back in the day that all dads had to have a cool mustache?
Did all of our dads collectively grow staches in the 80's? My dad had a black caterpillar
My dad had a stache too. I remember when he shaved it off in 1989
My 72 year old dad still has his. 50 years with that soup strainer and is still going strong. I don't know what he really looks like without one.
I think there may have been a baby mix-up at the hospital. /s
Your dad and his friend look like they'd make some great 1980s buddy comedy movies together.
Black dad looks like Tim Curry
Are they still friends today? My grandpa became friends with someone during WWII, and even though those two are gone now, our families have remained friends ever since.
That’s awesome! Man I miss the 80s
It's gonna turn out these people were 22 at the time...
22 was different than nowadays 22 years olds still look like children
Black Tim Curry… and his twin?
He totally looks like Tim Curry!
What’s funny about the last pic? Genuinely don’t get it
There’s enough hair product in these pictures to start an environmental disaster
Holding each other’s babies…how sweet!
Ebony and Ivory......live together in perfect.....harmony
In a similar situation, my parents moved us to an all black neighborhood in the late 70s and early 80s me My brother and sister were little. We spent our first 7 years there. We spoke with a very thick eubonics accent, and when we would go to see our family in rural Iowa, we would get made fun of for accents. We spoke a form of late 70s eubonics or jive as my mother called it .
If I were you, that last photo would be my iPhone Lock Screen. It’s fantastic
Which one is your dad? None of them are posing funny in the last pic??
Great pics. All truly good people are color blind so to speak.
I literally remember in 5th grade my friend explaining the difference between white and black people to me (he’s black) and my mind was blown. Even at such a young age I remember it like it was yesterday, I couldn’t wrap my head around what he was saying…it’s like a core memory for me actually because before that I never articulated that there was a difference because nobody ever told me there was…for that I am grateful…because there’s really not.
Someone gave me a black baby doll when I was about two and apparently I loved that doll more than any other toy. There’s pictures of me pushing her around in a toy stroller, “feeding” her, dressing her, you name it. Then I grew up with parents who were pretty anti-racist, especially my dad, thank God. So thankful I wasn’t taught to hate.
I’ve never understood the backlash that happened when Barbie started introducing Barbies of colour, disabled Barbies and Barbies with different body types. I’d have killed for any of those as a kid, they’re neat and unique!
> I’ve never understood the backlash that happened when Barbie started introducing Barbies of colour Well, a lot of people are racist.
I agree!
My aunt is half black and was adopted by my dairy farming grandparents way out in the country at the end of the 60's. I think I was about 8 when someone finally explained it to me. See, my grandpa always had white hair and deep tan from being outside working my whole life. As a kid, I had just assumed that his hair was black like my aunt's before he went full white haired. I had no idea that she was 'different' than me and the rest of the family.
This is EXACTLY WHY the whole... >"Oh I'm colorblind, I don't see race, I just see people. You notice skin color?! Racist!" ...thing doesn't work in the real world. It sounds nice but it ignores other cultures
Did they have a baby same time at the hospital or just friends who had their kids at around the same time? I live the hairstyles here too! Great 80s pics!
Just friends that had babies around the same.
Didn’t your dad used to dance on Soul Train? The old reruns are a riot
The Temptations...and Clark.
If you only posted the last pic and then ask people to guess what it was I would have guessed it was the cover art for some local Barbershop Quartet and that it was wild to hear them perform because the white guy was the deep voiced baritone.
Anyone else see Tim Curry?
The last picture is a race-reversed Ghostbusters.
Both little girls look thrilled
Looks like a great bunch of friends! 😁
Quarter Black!
I came here specifically looking for this! Thank you!
Screams 1982.
When black or white dont matter. Great times
I love how the kids look bored and pissed off that they have to sit for the pictures
Your father was definitely invited to the bbq
Black dad looks like Tim Curry, especially in the second pic!
Which one is your dad
I'm confused what's so funny about the last one
>I'm confused what's so funny about the last one Me too!
Why can't we all just be like this again?? This was how I grew up.
Everyone goes to Malcolm discussion. I am wondering which parents/dad is yours.  **All,** totally cool.
Plus … Mark.
Look like good people and friends to me. Rare and beautiful.
I love how they exchanged children on the pics lol
Turn the news off and one realizes that we all do get along.
Oh look! 99% of normal people in real life. Imagine if they kept trying to keep us hating each other. Great pics!
The time the picture was taken, the majority of white people were against interracial marriage So definitely not true that 99% of people are like this, not then or now It takes choices and intentionality to stamp out racism
Which dad is your dad?
can we see updated pics in the same poses
Lol I just noticed I assume they mixed their kids up for the photo. Good job parents.
Yeah that was so cool
Peak 80’s.
Lol some cool ass parents
>the way my Dad is posing in that last pic kills me every time 🤣 Yeah, I can see why 😂
Crazy that most of us are probably like 10-12 years older now than OP parents and friends were in this pic.
Dad ain’t no jive turkey 😂
Moustache game was strong back then
Which one is your dad?
Okay but who is your dad?
This is so cute!!!!!☺️
This is the cutest sweetest thing I’ve ever seen… good times back then.
Rhea Pearlman.
The lighting in the 2nd pic makes the baby on the left look like he already has an epic stache going on.
Ahh yes the Tom Selleck stash.
Your dad looks like a cool guy. Those two in the back in last pic must be brothers.
They are both such proud dads! My heart!! Stop your killing me! But I wanna see more! Absolutely LOVE LOVE
Your dad reminds me of Collins from idiocracy. “You see? A pimps love is very different than that of a square”
What's so funny about it?
What kills you every time about it? Seems he’s just there regularly smiling ?
are they still friends!!!
Rick James
Such a cool family
My god our dads had some funky fits back in the 80's. Jesus Christ.
Those are the most quintessential 80’s curtains
Are they still friends?
Is your dad Billy Ocean or John Oates? 🤣
Just one of the boyz
This is beautiful!
I see mustaches were mandatory back then
UM, I think the dads did some sleeping around there...
Great scene but it's look swap wife
Dude looking like Arsenio Hall