It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?

[@daniels7907]

It was a necessary reminder to our Boomer parents, who generally devoted little or no effort to worrying about things like this.

[@des_elise]

But like to complain about parenting today 😶 gang....yall literally needed reminders

[@daniels7907]

@@des_elise - No, we were feral. In the absence of parents willing to enforce discipline, why would *children* bother to be disciplined? What was most broken about Boomer parenting was their assumption that we were born adults and were merely misbehaving by acting like children, for the sole purpose of inconveniencing our parents. They couldn't understand why we weren't little adults taking responsibility for ourselves and already knowing how to live as adults. It was actually very hard, because even asking to be taught essential life lessons was treated as an unreasonable infringement on our parents' right to live their own lives. That *they* were the ones who *chose* to have us was still our fault, not theirs.

[@des_elise]

@@daniels7907 yeah that's what I'm talking about

[@m888-w5q]

My mom always says that parents just cared less back then. But I don’t understand why? Did parents not think leaving kids out till late was unsafe back then? Was it not kinda obvious?

[@daniels7907]

@@m888-w5q - They were a very self-absorbed generation that regarded having children as an unfair burden forced upon them by society. So the attitude was that children *owed* it to our parents to stay out of their way and require as little parenting as possible. A constantly repeated assertion was that so long as they paid the bills, they had fulfilled their duties as parents and it was our duty to handle the rest of our own lives and upbringing.

[@threepea1151]

A wise man once said, “Do you know where your children are? Because it’s now 12 O’Clock. If they’re somewhere out on the street, just imagine how scared they are”

[@devilously]

hee hee

[@ghostkid252]

MJ

[@wronkstudios]

Nobody was scared. We was having fun and didn’t know when to stop.

[@threepea1151]

@@wronkstudios the police come ‘round the corner and somebody there they told, she’s arresting this little girl, she’s only 12 years old

[@Lilbitpurp]

Im so glad to find my people here.

[@rally2444]

That was a reminder to let parents know they have kids

[@briana_patrick]

Why does this phrase chill me to the bone? I guess i watch too much true crime.

[@ddelarosa96]

When I first heard about this, I had to look it up because I would have imagined the phrase being said in a much lower, slower voice to emphasize how scary it is. But the phrase just sounds so ominous, like the announcer knows where your children are and it’s not somewhere good.

[@LElayneSousaFHorn]

Same here. Sounds very scary to me. It sounds like the children have been kidnapped or something.

[@NeyamRye]

Yes

[@MrSamer83]

"I TOLD YOU LAST NIGHT, NO!!!!"

[@howdoipickaname9815]

Where is Bart, anyway? His dinner’s getting all cold and eaten.

[@AndrewsMagicandMore]

​@@howdoipickaname9815*proceeds to eat Bart's dinner*

[@lizettewanzer8650]

😆😆

[@sugarplum7620]

I loved this question for some reason. It’s remained in my head

[@johnnyutah1720]

Me too. Sometimes when I look at clock I say it to myself. My 30 year old gf doesn't know wtf I'm talking about lmao! I'm 36 btw.

[@NJtoTX]

I hated, hated, hated it. I knew my parents were hearing it when I was out. They would always wait up for me. If I came in at 1 am, the floors creaked and they'd come out of their bedroom and confront me, not that I had a definite curfew.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@johnnyutah1720 I'm 32 and remember hearing this tons of times in the 90's after the Simpons and other shows were over on Fox.

[@kennethhaggerty153]

It's Ten o' clock, Ho. Where the fuck your seed at? - Wu Tang

[@jasonbuffington5304]

LMAO 🤣😹

[@jasonbuffington5304]

It's 10 pm have you any damn idea what your little crotch monkeys have done THIS time ? lol

[@johnnyutah1720]

🤣

[@TSwany]

Wu Tang is for the children

[@josephclegg3562]

😆😆😆😆

[@morgana.1]

Is nobody gonna talk about how eerie and creepy this stuff would pop out, cause in the 80's children were getting snatched so bad they gotta put this on the TV?

[@scottcordero]

☑️

[@Ratgodx]

Children never stopped getting snatched

[@mostlypeacefulguntraining]

theyre being snatched by the people you think are keeping you safe. look up the finders cult and micheal aquino

[@raymarshall7779]

it was no worse then than it is now, it was on tv cause we were out in the streets wild !!!! they tried snatching us they might lose a hand

[@dablaqueguy]

80’s was the decade of the serial killers.

[@agentprime2179]

"I told you last night NO! Where is Bart anyway? His dinner is getting all cold and eaten".

[@wendym1234]

Always made me laugh. Really?! There were parents who didn’t know?!

[@josephclegg3562]

Parents were so concerned about their kids' whereabouts back then.

[@holey-stone]

it was the 70’s n 80’s. a lot of killings n kidnappings in those times if u werent aware

[@tami8458]

You'd be surprised.

[@daniels7907]

A lot of us latchkey kids didn't have parents that were at home. My mother got a bad divorce settlement when my father decided that he liked his secretary better. But he was spending a lot of money on said secretary and her kids, so my mother had to have a second job in the evenings. That meant that my sister and I had to feed ourselves and we came and went as we pleased because we were home alone. No home-cooked dinners (unless we made them) and nobody tucking us into bed. I got into the habit of staying up late because, being a young boy, I wanted to see my mother before bed and that meant staying up late. But she was of course tired when she got home, and had a day job the next morning, so I only got to see her briefly before she sent me off to bed (around 11:00pm). Once my sister hit her teens she would often disappear for days on end, sleeping over at various friends' houses. Without cellphones, there was no way to track us. We were not unusual.

[@HaywardEntertainment]

Back in the day kids used to play outside for fun

[@manuferguson6564]

This is from and for the generation of parents who call modern parents “lazy” for babyproofing their homes because “we simply watched our kids”

[@LordRuckus]

Gen X, we were on the loose!

[@Mxxjzz]

Out running the streets unhinged 😂

[@scratchesNcracks]

yeah… what a flex…

[@AnAbsurdExistence]

my left ear loved this

[@tdolz]

I'm still outside....from 1974!

[@Ya12377]

I remember this came on when I was little & my mom said yup right here 🤣💯

[@peaceearth2903]

Awwww😊 so sweet of Mom🤗

[@beverlyknowles8234]

I HATED hearing this when I was young because it meant I WAS at home to hear it😄 Parents/guardians made sure they knew where their kids were. However, more parents took charge back then. It's about time we use it again. Someone may listen and a life be saved.🙏

[@mamatemari6061]

Ya tellin me

[@KaraOfTheSea]

I thought they had to do that to remind parents they had children.

[@keonab.stanley6208]

We have a generation of helicopter parents now and kids who don't go outside. No need for this message

[@christopherwheetley6974]

​@KaraOfTheSea that is why. Boomers are incredibly selfish.

[@jordanwardle11]

These days, kids aren't allowed in their own backyard without supervision. So the kid will be sitting on the couch watching some weird video on KZbin when this comes on

[@corcon5]

“It’s 10 o’clock H0* where tf ya seed at?”

[@JayLa-ct7uk]

Just hearing that phrase alone is nightmare fuel

[@Saphthings]

Omg I found my people! Every time anyone ever says its __ O'clock, I always have to finish with, "Do you know where your children are?" and no one ever know what im talking about lol Anyone else go through this? lol

[@h3cz_]

I find it odd that parents cared less about their children back then. Very strange. Glad I didn't grow up in that era.

[@AlexCocktail]

You must be joking. Parents then did care about their children but they didn't do the helicopter parenting today that encourages extreme narcissism. Why don't you comment on stuff you actually know about instead of parroting stuff you have no experience with.

[@Havencheese]

Some of them may have been working late, concerned about having money to put food on the table, or perhaps their own ego wrapped up in career and status or just flat out pretending to and having affairs, out drinking, partying, while for others maybe cracked out during the crack epidemic. A lot of Boomers settled down like their parents suggested or raised them to, too early then they had kids they regretted having and the above happened as they felt they missed out on their youth. They may have settled down, then suddenly decided to explore who they really were doing the above, running away from problems, joining cults, leaving those kids behind or to the streets maybe for a single parent to carry the entire load. It’s always gone on and still happens but it happened a LOT back then, was normalised and not really that much of a focus for public discussion.

[@shariandrew2078]

It wasn’t that parents cared less about their children, it was that we stayed outside playing all day, on Goonies-style adventures, and sometimes wouldn’t even notice when it got late. We played outside. With friends. In Person. - such an interesting concept. 🙄

[@allye4228]

@@shariandrew2078Maybe for you, but a lot of Gen X people have said their parents were very hands off.

[@KMBA526]

@@shariandrew2078Believe it or not we did that too OUR parents remembered we existed

[@thomass5284]

My left ear enjoyed listening to this video

[@SteveM_420]

Bring the commercial back!!!!!

[@997tone]

"I already told you yesterday, NO!" -Homer Simpson

[@moistplinth930]

Where is Bart, his dinner is getting all cold and eaten

[@saltminer9120]

The question really is DO PARENTS CARE???

[@scratchesNcracks]

I FUCKING HOPE SO

[@stevemcelmy9354]

I was the flip side of this phrase. It was 10pm and I had no clue where my dad was 😂

[@PierreJamerson]

They need to bring this back frfr

[@Creative_YT]

My right ear enjoyed this (my headphones are on backwards)

[@rochelleb973]

It always scared me as a kid. I was home honey

[@RebeccaFuji]

Omg I’ll never forget the phrase. Always been said in the 90s.

[@michaelmyers2949]

To quote homer simpson " I told you last night, no! " lol

[@AyyuBX7]

I think this still needs to be a thing. Same as " walk on the green not in between " and " this is your brain this is your brain on drugs ...any questions!? " People still need these reminders

[@christinamowatt8855]

We were locked out of the house and if we were in the house we had to do ridiculous chores like wiping down the wood paneling with murphy's oil soap!

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

Umm.. How many times does wood need to be oil soaped?? Lol. Last I checked, Murphy's is suppose to retain it's oiliness for a long time.

[@josephclegg3562]

They use to say this every night right before the 10pm news.

[@themanwiththeplan728]

I told you last night no!

[@otturs]

nostalgia!!(i was born in 2010)

[@MrRezRising]

We were all outside in a Goonies adventure.

[@duglife2230]

O shi. No, I don't. Come to think of it, I don't have any children...

[@jeffreyschwarz3699]

Its 10 PM, do you know where the criminals are?

[@jayharris3877]

This is pure nostalgia. I remember being a kid in the summer in the city, coming in 5 mins before they aired this commercial every day.

[@breakingtwitting]

also wtf that house arrest for bad behavior ..

[@valeriegoddard8693]

Miss that commercial

[@NekoNekoQuatorze]

It was still in use some months ago at a NYC Fox station, is it still the case? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIa2gGeDapiLjdk

[@Rockstarmade224]

Same

[@ErikZarins]

I told you last night *NO!*

[@strangeclouds7724]

i remember this 😂 it aired every night cuz back in the good old days parents forgot they had kids altogether and we were left with our own will to survive. gen z dont kno shit 😂

[@h3cz_]

That explains why Gen x is the way it is.

[@luisadell4421]

Hallelujah it kept kids off the streets in the Bronx during the 70’s

[@TerryBogard-ez6fq]

I wish we could go back to this.

[@Charlie_Loves]

I feel like this is what a serial killer would write to a family looking for their missing kids. Im aware it’s done out of pure concern for the wellbeing of children but it sounds so disturbing.

[@Magic_beans_]

Maybe it was meant to be. The phrase is most identified with two dangerous times and places: Baltimore 1967 where discontent would soon erupt into riots, and New York 1970 when the Bronx was swarming with street gangs.

[@tyrant_shaunty4543]

They're in my basement.

[@rayedrama]

😂😂😂

[@cobracultist6188]

Being ground up into pepperoni.

[@byjim4130]

Haha RKelly!

[@MikeLutton]

its 10:00pm Do you know Where Your Spouse Is ?

[@CarmenLouis-ui4fp]

Is 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are you picking the 🤣👻👻👻🗣️🦮🦮

[@redmustangredmustang]

Had to remind the Boomers to actually care about their kids.

[@happypandaface710]

why are all these people talking into my left ear?

[@GenXDoll1972]

Ahhhh, being a Gen X kid. 😂😂

[@thebigchopvideomemoriescol8060]

My kids are where they’ve been all day…In the house on their phones 😔

[@robinhardman7527]

Look she was making fun, but the commercial was real! We’re talking in the summertime and when the street lights went out. If they started to dim, we knew it was time to go home soon. If your kids were not home by 10pm then it was probably the 70’s when tennagers started getting trouble and you need to go look for them. It was a commercial that we ALL remember! Look it up! It ran for a long time.

[@d.levichestnutwoodboillot8022]

No wonder everyone was raised by their grandparents

[@Pipkiablo]

Homer Simpson: "I told you last night, no!"

[@Mxxjzz]

Boomers They didn’t give a shit about us GenX!!!

[@katrinamillings3651]

Times were different back then. We were at a Motley Crue concert, or smoking pot in the park, lol.

[@spydaman5684]

Lol we were in when the street lights came on so 10 o'clock was far too late to come home lol

[@skyler127]

That’s mad! Why would you not know where your children are? I’m 28 and I’m from the UK, and I’ve just found out about this from something I read on Facebook! This totally shocks me X

[@allye4228]

Because not everyone watches their kids. Also in 70s and 80s was when serial killers and kidnapping became extremely common. On NYC news stations, they post photos of missing children and ask viewers if they have seen them.

[@MeatballSandwich]

Yes I know where my children are they are at The Club getting high and taking shots. They are perfectly fine! Thanks for asking! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@EddyeSpaghetti56]

I remember that!

[@Empress1492]

I am 56 and my mom did not allow us to leave the block and had to be in front of the house and upstairs by 7. So no , not all parents were the same. My mom was a single parent and strict as hell!

[@seagie382]

My right ear hated this video

[@kellyfromdabx8293]

Meanwhile, as a GenXer parent, I went the other extreme of "helicopter mom" with my kids!

[@patsfreak]

“Why are millennials so messed up?”

[@Kaizushiya]

my left ear loved that

[@xlnuniex]

I remember this

[@Johnny.G7]

That’s old school

[@JessicaKeeth]

One commercial that we need to bring back 😅

[@wonderglory]

I strongly agree. I hope back home in the San Francisco Bay Area, KTVU FOX 2 still runs these PSAs before the 10 o'clock News.

[@dreadmez]

Homer : I told you Last night No!!!

[@luv2shop279]

Bring this commercial back!

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

I keep telling you NO!

[@g.andrea9352]

That’s very weird to ask! What if a family with an abducted child is crying in there living room and you hear this??? 🤨

[@thewarhogclan171]

Bro it saves more family’s from having that happen

[@tychopanda]

It'll make the parents realize "oh fuck, I don't know where they are" and then they'll feel tremendous guilt for being pos failures :)

[@booish1846]

@@tychopanda It's not the parents faults their child is abducted/goes missing, yes there are often ways it could've been prevented but a child can be abducted on their way to school, at work, at the park, running an errand. Even being left alone with a family friend, blame never solves anything.

[@BoozyBeggar]

Boomers literally had to be reminded that they even had children, and that it was THEIR RESPONSIBILITY to make sure they didn't die. That's what those commercials were about.

[@vinteb7987]

Or in a horror film where this audio plays while showcasing the kidnapped or dead children on their tv

[@quietrainydays]

First there was this, then there was “Got milk?”, then there was “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls”.…

[@skullnbones206]

Remember well

[@sirbruce70]

And that woman's name? Albert Einstein.

[@THELORDOFTHEHOLLOW]

8 year old watching this realizing they had a kid

[@Incandesent]

GEN X

[@butterflydead4502]

Boycott Rupaul's Drag Race. I love you Amanda. BrothaCousin.

[@cyberdelicxp9125]

The tag line for the movie poster of Gen X kids like me.

[@Jeshthesavage]

My mum remembers this me as a 2000s kid doesnt

[@edgyblackkid]

i need any gen x to answer this because i think about this a lot… why did your parents need reminders like this? i cant imagine my parents needing to be asked if they know where i am…

[@lisinne]

Because we kids roamed free back then and our parents didn’t care ;). Most of my generation has now gone to the other extreme and become helicopter parents. It’s weird.

[@PerroLoco66]

Like si llegaste acá por culpa del Cesarito xDD

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

After HeeHaw on kttv it's now 10oclock do you know where you're children are at always gave me chills

[@waynecampbell8531]

Audio only in the left ear, and gradually gets quieter lmao

[@kevinbueno5175]

If you are hispanic, these words mean nothing. I have to be home before the sunsets or my ass is getting the belt.

[@elizabethcaraballo3012]

Facts

[@wonderglory]

That's abuse.

[@memk4749]

Lovely culture

[@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz]

I remember the creepy one Grace Jones did

[@aprillove9947]

I hope someone brings this again???

[@noqueq9003]

The people raised in that time: "Our times were good times. The young kids now will never understand. This generation is going downhill" 😂

[@TheMightyThor83]

For the last time NO!

[@millaraypainemal6264]

Estoy acá por el libro del cesarito

[@colonelgraff9198]

It’s 4:20. Do you know where your weed is?

[@AllYay]

THE ORIGINAL was Don Pardo!

[@pandaeyes42]

I told you last night, NO!!!

[@Petathehorseisnthere]

There in my basement 💀

[@zackfunnyman33]

I TOLD YOU LAST NIGHT, NO!

[@judgemagister]

Even I know the saying up here in Canada.

[@Nohlkan]

I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY NO