Bela Bajaria

I can't.

I can't.

I can't do the eyebrow thing.

I can scrunch it.

I used to be able to do it.

Oh, see.

I used to try to do the twitchy thing.

Dallas and Dynasty, like, we'd actually watch, like, as a family.

I always say, like, it's like, you know, it feels very big Bollywood, a lot of melodrama, big multi-generational kind of story.

But I...

So I would watch it to learn American culture because it was very different than growing up in an Indian family.

And even though nobody looked like me on TV, it was sort of a really interesting way to kind of understand a little bit more about American culture.

You know, and ultimately like John Hughes movies, which were very defining to me about trying to really understand kind of high school kind of in the U.S.,

But the one thing, though, I was always struck by, and I remember it.

I don't even know what it meant to me, but I remember that I knew that we all watched the same TV shows and movies.

So when I went to school, right, we all watched B-Witch.

We all watched Brady Bunch.

And it was the one thing, it didn't matter what our background was, right?

We were connected by this thing.

And that definitely made me feel less weird, right, that we were connected by this.