You had to renegotiate with your parents at each commercial break. If only life transitioned that way, between the bikini scene and the car chase, without the duller, connective events. The Angels hunt for a roller-disco queen who is kidnapped for ransom. Rene Auberjonois, Ed Begley Jr. By the sixth grade, whatever jiggle TV inspired in children was wearing off.
Sixth grade brings angst.
There was the issue of actual breasts, on actual girls. Recent feminist thought has pinpointed the age of 11 as that time when girls become self-conscious of outward behavior, of not fitting in, of embarrassing themselves. They stop climbing trees. A coolness sets in, a social construct of femininity. After 50 the daring returns, there are radical surges.