Every night, my wife and I sleep to reruns of The Golden Girls. It has become our ritual.

I was in college when The Golden Girls was on television. I never watched it. The demographic they were looking for did not include me. I was too busy watching Star Trek: The Next Generation and MTV.

Watching The Golden Girls today is like time travel. Certain shows are products of their eras. Unsurprisingly, it feels nostalgic, but it also makes me feel old. I am the age now the leads were on the show. Of course, they are permanently fixed in the late 1980s as much as the cast of Friends is stuck in the 1990s.

What will be the equivalent for today’s viewers? I have no idea.