Skateboarding on TV (Part I): The Ballad of David L. Lumpkins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2024
- Over a decade before Tom Hanks appeared as David S. Pumpkins on SNL, an enigmatic fan with the moniker "David L. Lumpkins" launched a worldwide search for recorded tapes of NBC's short-lived teen drama SK8. I brushed it off as a joke until I noticed his unforgettable handle intermittently show up in almost every internet forum I visited for the next 5 years.
Television occasionally dabbles in youth subcultures as a last-ditch effort to boost ratings. The results are usually humorous, if not embarrassing. And as I lifelong skateboarder, I've purposefully avoided watching shows about us. So I decided to put myself in the shoes of David L. Lumpkins to find out what exactly TV studios got right or wrong.
While programs with skateboarding are far less numerous than I imagined, I still feel like I've only discovered a small tip of the iceberg. Please write a comment if there are any noteworthy episodes or shows that I've missed.
Notice of Errata: Dan Wolfe's Eastern Exposure 3: Underacheivers video was released in 1996, not 1991 as incorrectly stated in the caption.
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If you grew up skating in 70's,80's,90's you where part of a very special time.
It will never be replicated or duplicated, the era has passed.
We were having the time of our lives and didn't even know it!
Cool back story, back in the late 80's the boys in the neighborhood built a huge halfpipe out in the street.
The cops said it couldn't remain there and instead of destroying it they all worked together to tear it down and rebuild it in the back yard!
Ah the good old days😎👍
Let’s not forget Spicoli falling out of the vdub with smoke everywhere skating off to ridgemont high
Not forgotten.
EFFFF SPICOLI ...
@@beavercleaver4381 that’s what she said
I remember seeing that CHiPs episode as a kid and that park has forever been my idea of skateboard paradise.
So that’s where I saw those Peralta Gslides😂
I’m a middle aged skater who started in 87 and to be honest it wasn’t a false assessment that most of us were losers and kids from broken homes in the 90s. It wasn’t the rule but it was the norm.
we went to different schools together man . 50 started in 85 AND AINT NEVER GOING TO STOP! we were the bad kids back then. if we didnt come to the party it wasnt a party. there was us then everyone else. it was exclusive hard to get in with us
Stated in 87 the year my dad died. I was 12. You nailed it🤣
This was an incredible experience, a life long skateboarder, I learned a lot today, thanks for doing this
Wow! Remember those days it like you were invisible even though you could fly! thankyou for sharing
Wow amazing job with linda carter plus Farrah faucet is 2 of the reasons why i feel in love with skateboarding
Lights Camera Revolution . 1990, track 1.
(play loud)
🖤
if you are not now, then you never were -ST!
i hear voices
As an actor, you never want a "mongo pushing stand-in"
I'm here right after the sk8 section, one thing I remember about the time is when Saturday mornings switched to educational only programs and that was one that disappeared. I do recall they made it to "Valhalla" a skate park mecca. Then one morning every lineup was a 100% different :(
Great Doc. I was there.
This is so great. And I have to go back and watch that Chips episode.
Fantastic, absolutely needed this
thanks for this
I’m digging the ‘68 Cougar in the opening sequence. Not nearly as much as I dig Lynda but it’s still cool.
This was an incredible video, can't wait for part 2
Nobody marked their boards under the trucks. Kooks. I grew up skating since the 70's and managed a skate shop for years in the 1980's. TV and movies have never gotten it right. Most of the guys who I skated, snowboarded, and surfed with, and went to punk shows with, went on to get graduate degrees and work as professionals.
Ha, like any stolen skateboard would ever be taken seriously to end up in property recovery for an i.d. check 😂
Bionic woman was sleepin on those 6 million dollar curbs
this is pretty great. thank you for this.
Nice research and compilation. We used to learn on a magazine and beta max or vhs about skateboarding. And riding on a flat nose skateboard.
I'm a long time Slap modmin, and I'd forgotten all about Lumpkins. That whole period was insane.
Excellent work.
damn you should do something better with your life
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol - No doubt, pookie! Please send my apologies to your mom.
Slap is a cesspool of PC gatekeeping. you're in toxic company shame on you
speaking of your mommie she'll be home soon to administer your diaper change.
yes slap is a piss pool
incredible. thank you
incredible video.
excellent job!!
Great job
Hey the kid lighting firecrackers in urinals plays Yabbo in Gleaming the Cube
Max perlich
fantastic!
i skated in the 90s with a 70s board, wasnt uncommon, you go to a junk shop as if they had any boards, and sometimes they had an old beat up 70s or 80s board in the back
18:58 Oh !!! A Hookups board !!!
End hate, go skate! 🛹🛹🛹🌏🌎🌍
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Thanks Bread for all the time and thought that obviously went into your essay. Please keep up the good work. Can't wait for part 2.
JUANSHOUS
70's skater. Enjoying this much more with the sound muted :)
hi there good work... you might benefit from watching the canada made NFB film called THE DEVIL'S TOY from 1966.. similar to skaterdater and exposes the social disdain trend of skaters as outlaws.
I concentrated on television, though I'd like to incorporate The Devil's Toy somehow in a future review. Almost as quickly as Claude Jutra was rediscovered, his acclaim was quickly withdrawn after allegations from his illicit behavior came to light.
@@breadandcinemas6996 Claude the scumbag isn't the focus it's the skaters and the historical context - Yes many in film production and in the entertainment industry unfortunately have this evil problem !! (makes it prevalant , but not right).. To be fair the short was seen on TV many times growing up here in Canada - maybe not in context of wedged into a popular sitcom or drama . Thanks for your kindly reply ! Can you believe in Canada they are softening the laws now for Pedophiles? It's insane !
26:40
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re re upload
All pending copyright claims have been released after filing appeals. This is one is finally here to stay, for now.
I'm gonna thumbs down if I don't find out if part 2 exists, or it's yet to be made? I hate it when it says part 1, if there's no part 2 it's not a part!
I chopped 20 minutes out of this, hence the "Part 1" designation. Technically, Part 2 doesn't exist yet so it looks like I'll have to take another thumbs down hit.
I’m confused. Is skateboarding in an act of war or something. The writer and the voice over makes it feel like there’s something serious about portrayal of image. Is it not a privilege to roll on anything and just turn to be free. Skateboarding is an escape, a joy to ride. A free ride. Expression of body and mind in motion. Nothing more or nothing less than a simple privilege to be free.
Mounting trucks on backwards is nothing less than a provocation of war.
If anything, this is a reminder of just how stupid Hollywood is. The whole concept is moronic. Glad i stepped away from television.
The narration is so weird.
Good god what a stupid show.
Wo bro, your elocution, beyond queen's English.