The sixties weren't good to you, were they?
Hello!

In Disney Pixar Cars, Fillmore, a Volkswagen, is watching the intersection traffic light, whose yellow light is blinking. He says this to Sarge, an Army jeep.

Fillmore: I'm telling you, man, every third blink is slower.
Sarge: The sixties weren't good to you, were they?

GIF: https://twitter.com/disneypixar/status/765955103614468096
Audio: https://instaud.io/3bYb

Could you, please, explain to me what Sarge means? And why it is not "The sixties weren't good FOR you, were they?"

Thank you!

Question

The sixties weren't good to you, were they?
Hello!

In Disney Pixar Cars, Fillmore, a Volkswagen, is watching the intersection traffic light, whose yellow light is blinking. He says this to Sarge, an Army jeep.

Fillmore: I'm telling you, man, every third blink is slower.
Sarge: The sixties weren't good to you, were they?

GIF: https://twitter.com/disneypixar/status/765955103614468096
Audio: https://instaud.io/3bYb

Could you, please, explain to me what Sarge means? And why it is not "The sixties weren't good FOR you, were they?"

Thank you!

Answer

He's suggesting that Fillmore is not right in the head; that he is imagining it.
The sixties, would have been a time when Fillmore was younger and perhaps indulged in things that may have altered his brain chemistry.

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Yep.  Hippies did lots of drugs. :)

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Thank you, Gray! Your 2) wasn't obvious to me at all. I didn't know that 60s were associated with drug use. Though, I was pretty sure it had something to do with the hippies.

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Both Kate's and Nanren's answers are good.  I just thought I'd add, for context, although you may already know it, that 1) Volkswagen cars and buses were extremely popular among young people in 1960's America, and 2) mind-altering drugs were extremely popular among young people in 1960's America.  Americans would automatically know that the line refers to drug use, because drugs are one of the first things we all think of when we picture what the '60s were like.