Basket of Kisses | Trick-or-Treat Anachronism
Look, the moment when Carlton asks Don who he’s dressed as is beautiful. I get it. Symbolism. Woo. But it’s a total anachronism. Parents didn’t take kids as old as Sally and Bobby trick-or-treating in 1963. That’s very modern, that’s what you call “helicopter parenting.”
Believe me, as late as 1971, when I was 10 and Roberta was 6 (more or less the same ages as Sally and Bobby), I was taking her trick-or-treating without parental supervision. I was going door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies at that age. All by myself. A very protective parent might say “stay on the block” in those days. Or not. But accompany the kids? Are you kidding?
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