Disco and the aftermath - A brief look back at the era.

Disco and the aftermath - A brief look back at the era.
By Dolph Rudager
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO, IL - Back in the day, in the 1970s and 80s, when various things took over, like Disco music and their drug scene. I was too young to remember the Disco craze, but it did take over some popular culture like Peanuts and Sesame Street.

A scene from the Peanuts special "Flashbeagle":

Linus: "Hey Charlie Brown, isn't that your dog doing cocaine in Studio 54?"
Charlie Brown: "Good fucking grief!"
Snoopy: **dancing around** "Flashbeagle says, "show me the lines!""

Even the Muppets & Sesame Street got into the scene with "Sesame Street Fever":

Kermit the Frog: "Wow, look at Grover tear up the Disco floor! Come, Miss Piggy! Our lines await us!"
Miss Piggy: "Hold up, frog! I'm not done tying-up yet!"

Even the First Lady got into the thick of things, tho on the other side. Nancy Reagan went on to appear in Sesame Street, alerting the other muppets to "Just say NO.". Sesame Street creator & townsfolk Bob took the news particularly hard."

Nancy Reagan: "You know Sesame Street has a huge drug problem."

Bob: "um, no it doesn't. We don't have drugs in Sesame Street, Heck, we don't even have a letter for "drugs" in Sesame Street."

Nancy Reagan: "Then what's that smoking coming out of that trash can??"

Oscar the Grouch: **pops out of trash can with bloodshot eyes** "Hey kids, today's letters are M.J. for "Mary Jane!""

Bob: **getting nervous** "C'mon, c'mon, Oscar. He's just talking about his cousin Mary Jane Grouch."

Oscar the Grouch: "I tend to get pretty pissed when my dope runs out after smokin' dooooooooooooooobiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiies!"

Nancy Reagan: "I saw a skit the other day where Count was counting off the number of times he needed to use opium!"

Bob: "oh man! This can't happening! Oh man!"

And of course, being in Elementary school during the recent post-Disco craze, we were all dealing and wheeling on the merry-go-round. Passing that dope on the 'wheel. And then there was the "cocaine slide" where we'd put down our little cartons of milk, and climb up the stairs, and then snort the cocaine right off the slide as we rode down. And it's not like there were few of us. It was the early 80s, man. Everybody on the playground did coke. We were so strung out we couldn't sleep during nap time. All hocked up on the coke! Sometimes we'd sprinkle some cocaine on top of our cookies during cookies & milk time. Or we'd go toke it up in the playhouse in class. Since the teachers could still smoke in the school in those days, they could never sense our weed. Oh! And the most fun, we used to sprinkle cocaine on the erasers and fucking pound those fuckers together and made a cloud so big! Then eventually the 80s ended and we had to mature and finally pick up our crayons again to face the challenges of the 1990s. But oh, the 1980s, back when the cocaine fell freely from the sky on the playground like snowflakes in a blizzard.