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The Lawrence brothers are recounting their mid-to-late ’90s hit, Brotherly Love
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Speaking about the show on their podcast, the brothers noted that it was a “great time”
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The hit sitcom, which premiered on Sept. 16, 1995, followed Joey Lawrence as Joe Roman, the oldest brother of his family, who reunites with his younger half-brothers
Brothers Joey, Matthew and Andrew Lawrence are waxing nostalgic about the late ’90s, when they starred together on Brotherly Love.
On an episode of their podcast, aptly named after the sitcom, the three spoke fondly about the time period while filming the show.
“We did Brotherly Love for three years,” 49-year-old Joey said, to which Matthew, 45, responded, “Great times.”
“That was a fun time,” Andrew, 37, echoed in last month’s podcast episode.
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Joey Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence and Matthew Lawrence in ‘Brotherly Love.’
The hit sitcom, which premiered on Sept. 16, 1995, followed Joey as Joe Roman, the oldest brother of his family, who reunites with his younger half-brothers, played by Matthew and Andrew, after their father dies.
Joey explained that he didn’t fully realize how special the time period was until years later.
“You know, our grandfather would always say, ‘You don’t realize what the halcyon days will be like until you can look back on them.’ Because when you’re in them, you don’t realize,” the Melissa and Joey star said. “Like, you know, it’s good, things are great, but you don’t realize those are some of the best days, you know? Once you’ve lived them, the irony is that’s when you realize it. You wish you could realize it when you’re living them, right?”
He continued, “But you don’t. And man, I gotta tell you, the ’90s were wow. Like, the last decade of this amazing period of time where, like, technology was great, we had enough of it, but we still got to live real life, and we got to have real experiences, like going to the movies and still could rent our videos, and, you know, you had to do real things, right?”
Joey said he’s hopeful there might be a swing back toward the lifestyle of the 1990s, before technology changed behaviors.
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“I’m praying that there might be a little bit of a pendulum shift … or at least an awareness of how great it was, you know, because the young kids are going, like, ‘We love being able to Snap[chat] and Insta do all this stuff instantly or in five seconds,’ but there is something cool about the old school stuff,” he said.
Matthew added that, while the 21st century is “all about the quick swiping,” he’s seen a shift in young people seeking out other old-school forms of entertainment, noting that kids nowadays “will actually go and binge these old shows the way we used to watch them,” giving him hope for a balance between the two.
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