“What do you want a color TV for?”

A widescreen review of The Wonder Years “Christmas Episode”.

In this episode from season 2, Kevin Arnold is trying to convince his dad of buying him a color TV for Christmas. The Wonder Years was set in the 60’s, so the story is set just around the time when color televisions had first come out.

But as his dad says, “TV’s cost money and money don’t grow on trees.” TV’s cost 400 bucks back then. Towards the middle of the episode they visit a supermarket and we see rows and rows of color tv’s. But the dad never caves in and acts like a scrooge not getting them the tv set for Christmas.

In a classic The Wonder Years voice over, we learn that they indeed get the color TV, two years later.

Grade: Widescreen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKlBVZs6rm4

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