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> Case in point, there's a scene in a supermarket with a bunch of breakfast cereals from various pop franchises

Yep, Season 3 Episode 1. Also seems like everyone went to the mall to hangout :-)

The mall hangout thing was pretty spot on though in the 1980s (I was born in 1970). So much so that eventually a lot of mall security started making a point of harassing teens that weren't actually actively shopping though.

I think mall culture came down to two things: fewer ways to communicate, so the mall was an obvious central gathering location, and secondly fewer things to do, so the mall was where bored teens hung out.

I grew up in the UK and moved to the US in my early 20s.

In UK cities people hung out at different places, not a lot of malls.

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