My Early 90s Nostalgia Is More Authentic Than Your Early 90s Nostalgia: The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda
guys I know it’s cool these days to hate on nonsensical pop culture mash-ups but I feel I would not be the man I am today without my childhood exposure to the animated exploits of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda. As a kid I would repeatedly crack open my copy of Cervantes and just be like “don’t really see what the big deal is” and ask my parents to put the book on the highest shelf so it would be out of my line of sight and in turn my life. But then one morning while I was waiting for the home edition of the Newsday to arrive I came across this program on my bedroom black-and-white and I was like “I get it. I really get it now” and the rest, as they say, is history. Or, as the white actor who voiced Don Coyote might put it, “historio.” Also, I get why Everyone Loves Everyone Loves Raymond but the Real Brad Garrett fans were with him in his early Rosinante days. In conclusion, I wish I could go back to 1990 but as a grown-up so I could truly appreciate all of these amazing pop culture artifacts that I blindly consumed in those dark pre-Internet days because we all need to step up our nostalgia blogging game. How else would we fill the gaping holes of our 20s and 30s. I mean my life pretty much ended when Dapple brayed his last bit of cynical wisdom and I have had many a sleepless night with my ear pressed to the window, waiting for the voice of a talking donkey to tell me everything’s going to be OK.
