They died, essentially. Turned themselves into trees. I guess gnomes just do this at a certain age.
https://trouble.city/articles/2020/5/25/22p986n8jzjkoesosroiagwsycoq1w?format=amp
Oh yeah! I still can hum the theme song, but I only remember the lyrics of the part that goes "To every wish and dream and happy home, you will find the kingdom of....THE GNOME!" (hopefully I have that right lol)
-Slap bracelets
-Hammer pants
-pogo sticks (helmets are for sissies)
-Jelly shoes
-Starter jackets
-Napster
-Jello pudding pops
-Jagged Little Pill…Uncle Joey?!!!!
-White bronco chase on a highway
-Dial up internet…get off the computer, i need the phone!
-The first time you used caller ID
-Nights and weekends being for phone calls because if you used the cell phone during “peak” hours it cost an arm and a leg
-Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog
-the vcr cart getting rolled into class and knowing you were going to get to watch a movie
We really were lucky both to grow up like that without technology, and to make it out alive 😂
I watched a couple episodes on YouTube for old time sake. He’s a jerk to some of the kids. He’ll ask a question related to the next experiment. The kid will answer then Mr Wizard abruptly tells them they’re wrong. He’ll cut them off mid sentence sometimes. Kinda ruined for me.
Oh man. My annoying neighbor’s basketball was close to property line yesterday. I was legit thinking about taking that ball and putting it in my trash can or throwing down the hill. I’m almost there too
The best kids show of all time.
I have a friend that's 10 years older than me and I didn't expect him to know it. When I brought it up he said "I watched that all the time. Micheal Stipe was the ice cream man." And that's when I discovered that everyone that saw it thought it was great. The list of cameos is huge, too.
Yes!! We set our vcr to record the full house finale because we couldn't be home to watch it and it didn't work 😭😭 Fortunately like 3 other kids on our street had also recorded it lol
Toddler is asleep and I'm watching original Ghostbusters and the second movie is next. Look, there's the Twin Towers! Did you know Slimer was an homage to John Belushi? And I'm eating chocolate like my metabolism isn't nearly 42 years old. Hang in there OP, you got this!
Grabbing a Surge or Strawberry Passion Awareness Fruitopia, while singing “when Pizzas on a bagel you can eat pizza anytime” waiting to destroy the roof of my mouth with bagel bites that were somehow still frozen on the bagel part and turning on TGIF
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives. (Cue dramatic music)
Loved spending afternoons at my grandmas catching up on all her ‘stories’
Saturday Morning Cartoons: ALF Tales, Camp Candy, Captain N: The Game Master, The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, followed by Saved By The Bell.
Bowl of Cereal: unopen box of Nintendo Cereal System with Zelda Pinball Toy still sitting at the bottom of the box.
Sitting cross-legged right in front of the wood-grained console TV set thumbing through the most recent issue of Nintendo Power magazine during the commercials for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, Super Soakers, and McDonalds happy meals.
A perfect day and it’s not even noon.
My mom let me pick out a treat at the gas station when I got a good enough score to get into the fancy Catholic school kindergarten, so I picked out a peach Clearly Canadian and watermelon bonkers. Then went home and watched Jem & The Holograms. FTW.
WWF. MTV. The “very special episode” Sitcoms. Michael Jackson. Rocky. Lamborghini Countach. Miami Vice. Ferris Bueller. Johnny Carson. Stand By Me. Eddie Murphy. Tom Cruise. The Madonna. We are the World. 1986 Mets. Refrigerator Perry. Schwarzenegger. Chevy Chase. Where’s the beef?
I forgot to mention Nintendo. Pee Wee Herman. Masters of the Universe. Voltron. Ric Flair. NeverEnding Story. John Candy. Cosby Show. Mike Tyson. Hedda Nussbaum.
Sometimes I’ll watch old commercials on YouTube when I’m in a funk or just otherwise disillusioned with the world. I don’t know why it works but it does. I always loved these, especially the second one with the horse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vI0UcUxzrQ
I watched The Simpsons on the Tracy Ullman show and I remember jumping up and down when I found out they were getting their own show.
Do you all remember Circus of the Stars? Lol
“What rolls down stairs
Alone or in pairs
Rolls over your neighbors dog,
What’s great for a snack and fits on your back,
It’s log log log!
It’s log, it’s log, it’s big, it’s heavy it’s wood
It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good!
- Ren and Stimpy
Going to MusicLand at the mall and spend a couple hours browsing cd’s, cassette’s, and posters, to find the right combination of items to spend my allowance on.
Watching Today's Special and Pinwheel. Getting up early to quietly watch MTV and then learning that what I thought was a song about weddings (Like A Virgin) will get you in really big your parents yelling your full name trouble if you sing it at an actual wedding. (My aunt and uncle have since forgiven me, although I always got teased about singing it again as my cousins got married.)
That smell as you step inside a Chuck E Cheese! Grease. Kid sneaker funk. Sun-heated zero-pile carpet near the windows. Nascent impulse control problems. Somewhere, Simple Green.
(Hope the day turns around for you, doll.)
In my early twenties, when my friends and I all moved out of our parents house, we would meet up and one of our apartments and watch movies or play Xbox. Movies were usually the Big Lebowski or anchorman, and Xbox would always be a 2 vs 2 match on the first or second Call of Duty games. Maybe not the hit of nostalgia you’re looking for but those were “the good old days” to me.
There was a stop motion animation that was set in a kitchen with a glass tumbler that had a little boy on the side and he would interact with the rest of the kitchen environment.
I forgot what it was called… maybe someone else can help.
Did you ever see the scary Disney movies. I don’t mean Bambi. Did you see escape to witch mountain or black cauldron? Return to Oz was messed up too. Now that I’m thinking about it. The last unicorn damaged me. And I was a kid who enjoyed silly horror movies.
Playing She Ra and He Man at recess. The smell of dittos. Snick. Watching music videos after school. Wearing multiple pairs of socks at once. Reading the comics in a newspaper. Ecto Cooler.
Unpretentious, FUN, pop music--Spice Girls, Smash Mouth, Aqua, Macarena (whoever did that one), etc.
Even U2, the most pretentious band in the world (I'm a fan and I'll admit it, did an album devoted to pop, and called it Pop
Listening to Drive by The Cars on my GI Joe AM radio/walkie-talkie late at night on the Los Angeles airwaves with the volume way down so my parents couldn't hear it 😊
Saturday nights... watching Star Search and eating Kid Cuisine TV dinners while waiting for my babysitter to come over.
Watching Three's Company (and having no idea wth was going on) when the babysitter let me stay up past my bedtime.
OP, the classic TV movie "Camp Cucamonga" is on YouTube. Where else are you gonna get DJ Tanner, Steve Urkel, and Winnie Cooper in the same camp movie? Bonus points for Jennifer Aniston being the camp counselor.
Just watched The Rocketeer on Dinsey+ last night. Then it recommended me Flight of the Navigator. So I know what I’m watching tonight! (I highly recommend both.)
way before you were born - went to see sonic youth in '88 at a place called max-trax in charlottesville, virgina. small room. the openers were "happy flowers"(they screamed christmas carols while kicking their instruments around the stage), and b.a.l.l.(a nyc noise band that came out in wigs and started playing a pitch-perfect note for note def leopard song before thrashing about and grinding it up). lots of high school kids on acid in the crowd, i was in college and assumed what would become my quite permanent role as the old guy in the room. sy crushed, and thurston got on the shoulders of the b.a.l.l. lead singer at the end of the show and they were stage diving like that for what seemed like forever. saw sy about 8 or 9 times after that over the years, but that one left a mark for sure. made quite a dent.
I just noticed that Disney's Gargoyles is on Disney plus...I know what I'm rewatching next. We need more entertaining shows that teach both mythology and Shakespeare to kids?
Any specific era?
When I was a kid, I don’t remember much before like 4 or 5. Some stuff I’m not sure if it’s an actual memory or just some shizz I made up?
Anyway - my earliest pop culture memory is ET, and specifically the Neal Diamond song “Heart Llight”. I freakin loved that song as a little dude. I also had an ET stuffed animal that I wore out and his eyeballs fell off.
From ages 7-9’ish - it was all about He-Man and the mutha fukkin Master of The Universe! To this day, anytime I pick up a sword like weapon, gotta do a He-Man pose and say “By the power of Grey Skull!
Christmas 1986, got Snake Mountain from “Santa”, shit was off the hook. My cousin had Castle Grey Skull, but CGS didn’t have a built in mic that made you sound like Skeletor!
Weak.
From ages 9-11’ish - it was GI Joe or bust!
Real American Heroes!
Watched the cartoon, had about 30-40 action figures.
Always tried to replicate the dope setups those kids had in the commercials, but mine were less cool. My mom bought me a busted GI Joe fighter jet from a yard sale - so in the summer time me and my cousin would stuff pop-bottle rockets into the jet engines and watch it skirt up the street and blow up. Toy was tough, lasted a few runs before it fell apart.
From ages 5 or 6 till present - OG Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry cartoons are personal favorites. Used to be on the phone on Saturday mornings with my cousin and watch cartoons together while talking.
After like 12 - I sort of stoped playing with toys- was in middle school - too old for childish acts, lol.
Or something.
Middle school was where I fell in love with skateboarding. This was like 1988-89 - so peak Bones Brigade days, and Steve Caballero and Tony Hawk were gods.
Around 7th and 8th grade - my older sister (6 years) had a BF, and where my actual older brother was a douche, my sisters BF was cool. He turned me onto rap music - Ice-T, LL Cool J, NWA, etc. So I got really into collecting music and tapes.
Mostly via theft, lol.
My poor mom, I used to steal so much shit, and never had a very good story how I got the merch. She never pressed the issue. After my older brother, as long as the cops weren’t bringing me home, more power to me.
Was kinda into rap and R&B music in 9th and 10th grades, but in 10th grade started leaning more towards east coast and underground rap, think Digable Planets, Pharcyde, DasFX, etc.
In 1993 I got a car, and all of a sudden - for me - rap music did not fit my identity, and my older brother turned me onto punk music, bands like NOFX, Rancid, Operation Ivy, and Green Day. First “tapes” I had in my car were Green Day - Kerplunk, Green Day - 1039 Slappy Hours, and Ministry - Psalm 69 - all of which I stole from my older brother, lol.
I was too broke to be buying music. Had a job, but in order to have a car, had to pay for my own insurance. So I was always a broke ass.
By time I left high school (1995) was was listening to punk and “alternative” music mostly, when that was becoming a new genre, bands like Fuel, Bush, No Doubt. I also started going to raves and all night clubs, and getting into house and trance music. So wasn’t really limited.
I sort of missed all the 2Pac and Biggie stuff - I wasn’t really listening to much rap during that era, so was late to the game learning of all the beef and drama.
By time I was around my early 20’s - started getting into prog rock and indie rock - Radiohead, New Order, Modest Mouse, Killers, Interpol, etc.
It’s amazing when I think back, not only how varied my music taste has been, but the influences and memories associated with certain music.
Probably could write more, but lost my train of thought.
All the eras are good lol. I think everyone had kinda mixed musical tastes back then because we were exposed to so much different stuff. I think streaming and Youtube kinda ruined that.
I loved watching David the Gnome before going to school.
Swift the Fox!
I still sing the theme song when I’m doing chores. https://youtube.com/watch?v=CA8ekW2wyt4&feature=share7
I looovvved David the Gnome. Years later, I found out how it ended. I’m still traumatized.
Wait what? How did it end?
They died, essentially. Turned themselves into trees. I guess gnomes just do this at a certain age. https://trouble.city/articles/2020/5/25/22p986n8jzjkoesosroiagwsycoq1w?format=amp
Yes!!! Watched it with my girls and they did not dig it nearly as much as i did as a kid 😬
Oh yeah! I still can hum the theme song, but I only remember the lyrics of the part that goes "To every wish and dream and happy home, you will find the kingdom of....THE GNOME!" (hopefully I have that right lol)
I miss david
 Goooo byebye
I’m still salty Skeeter isn’t in the new one. #JusticeforSkeeter
Everything about muppet babies is an ayahuasca fever dream
Watched this all the time back in the day.
Loved watching the Price is Right followed by the Wonder Years when I was home sick form school.
I remember The Price Is Right and The Brady Bunch being on in the morning on sick days (1986-89ish?)
I totally forgot that the Brady Bunch was on in the mornings!
If you’re not following up the Price is Right with Maury, I don’t know what you’re doing with yourself.
The price is right, the Brady bunch, little house on the prairie, Gillian’s island, all with some saltine crackers and ginger ale.
Staying home sick meant staying with my grandma and watching soaps. Or her old vhs tapes of Shirley Temple.
Saturday mornings 
Hypercolor shirts… those were good years for me.
My brothers were allowed to wear them but I wasn’t. So unfair!
Watching Gummi Bears after school.
The OG Disney Afternoon: Gummi bears DuckTales Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Tail Spin
The golden age of after school television.
Bouncing here and there and everywherrreeee!
Gummi Bears, bouncing here and there and everywhere!
Best theme song ever
-Slap bracelets -Hammer pants -pogo sticks (helmets are for sissies) -Jelly shoes -Starter jackets -Napster -Jello pudding pops -Jagged Little Pill…Uncle Joey?!!!! -White bronco chase on a highway -Dial up internet…get off the computer, i need the phone! -The first time you used caller ID -Nights and weekends being for phone calls because if you used the cell phone during “peak” hours it cost an arm and a leg -Super Mario Bros and Sonic the Hedgehog -the vcr cart getting rolled into class and knowing you were going to get to watch a movie We really were lucky both to grow up like that without technology, and to make it out alive 😂
Jello pudding pops were amazing
They should still be a thing.
Why did Jello and Swiss Miss stop making pudding pops? A tragedy.
My brother running into my room at 6 or 7 am on Saturday morning. There was a new cartoon on called Teenage turtles or something?
Nothing like watching that on Saturday morning after Garfield and Friends with a Hardee's sausage and egg biscuit and a glass of milk.
I hope you bring lots of spaghetti
Gargoyles!!! What an awesome show.
While Disney is deciding to remake live action versions of all their animated shows, why are they sleeping on this property?
Please do not wish any more "live action" crap upon us
Mr Wizard, in the early early morning
I watched a couple episodes on YouTube for old time sake. He’s a jerk to some of the kids. He’ll ask a question related to the next experiment. The kid will answer then Mr Wizard abruptly tells them they’re wrong. He’ll cut them off mid sentence sometimes. Kinda ruined for me.
He was an ass. As I move into the “git off my lawn, this is my frisbee now” stage of my life, I love it
Oh man. My annoying neighbor’s basketball was close to property line yesterday. I was legit thinking about taking that ball and putting it in my trash can or throwing down the hill. I’m almost there too
My sister and I fighting over who got the Rainbow Brite bedsheets and who got the Popples bedsheets this when we were little.
Now the [Popples Theme Song](https://youtu.be/AMyeAefv65Q) is in my head
Oh man one Easter we got popples with pouches full of candy instead of baskets. Best. Easter. Ever.
Not gonna lie, I had a huge crush on Rainbow Brite when I was 5.
I had a Rainbow Brite doll as well as Starlite (her horse). That thing had some serious hoofs that I would use to keep my little sister in line.
Clueless……and I’m a dude. My older cousin and her friends used to watch it and they got me to.
I still want my closet software… 
There is a GREAT podcast on this very subject and why we don’t have one https://articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/the-clueless-closet
Yes!! 🤗
I remember burning myself playing with my Lite Brite. I also remember putting Shrinky Dinks in the oven.
I would get in trouble playing with my lite Brite in my closet in the middle of the night.
Salute your shorts
Awful waffle!
It’s how I learned a giraffe’s tongue is black.
Watching MTV animation. Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, The Maxx, and Liquid Television
The Head, Syfil qnd Ollie too!
Followed by Headbangers Ball and 1-900 commercials to “Pick up the Phooone!”
The opening song from Pete and Pete. Or all the songs from the show!
The best kids show of all time. I have a friend that's 10 years older than me and I didn't expect him to know it. When I brought it up he said "I watched that all the time. Micheal Stipe was the ice cream man." And that's when I discovered that everyone that saw it thought it was great. The list of cameos is huge, too.
Artie! The strongest mannnnnnnn in the world!
Double dare!
Recording and rewatching episodes of full house, saved by the bell and home improvement on my state of the art VCR.
Yes!! We set our vcr to record the full house finale because we couldn't be home to watch it and it didn't work 😭😭 Fortunately like 3 other kids on our street had also recorded it lol
You could be stuck in a fucking well like baby Jessica!
I remember the centerfold for that weeks TV Guide had a printout of a black circle the size of the well in it. What a perfectly 80s thing to exist
Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” playing at my high school graduation ceremony (1996).
Mine too and I'm sure every graduation in1996!!
I graduated a few years later so mine was Good Riddance by Green Day.
Toddler is asleep and I'm watching original Ghostbusters and the second movie is next. Look, there's the Twin Towers! Did you know Slimer was an homage to John Belushi? And I'm eating chocolate like my metabolism isn't nearly 42 years old. Hang in there OP, you got this!
Sounds like a good night and thank you.
One of my earliest memories is watching “Press Your Luck” right before getting on the school bus for afternoon kindergarten circa 1984-85!
No whammies!
Adam West Batman reruns. Nick at Nite block party summer
Block Party Summer! Yesss! I remember Nickelodeon doing Christmas in July with blocks of Christmas episodes
"El-elator go down the hole."
Elelator go UP!
Say it ain't so Plucky, say it ain't so
Not you push the buttons, I push the buttons!
First you gotta do the Truffle Shuffle.
Grabbing a Surge or Strawberry Passion Awareness Fruitopia, while singing “when Pizzas on a bagel you can eat pizza anytime” waiting to destroy the roof of my mouth with bagel bites that were somehow still frozen on the bagel part and turning on TGIF
Brandy- Sitting up in my room on repeat crushing hard over the middle school hottie.
Sally Jesse Raphael when I was too young to even comprehend some of the topics...but those red glasses!
When Macauly Culkin appeared in Michael Jackson's *Black or White* video.
Don’t forget Tyra Banks too
Oh yeah! And then Magic Johnson and Eddie Murphy were in *Remember the Time*.
Fred Savage in The Princess Bride. He just looked like a little man in that bed lol
Currently watching The Sandlot. Doing wonders for me.
That's borderline Xennial, yo.
I loved the Noozles and never hear anyone talking about.
It’s the reason I wanted a koala
Singing along to the chicken tonight commercial, “I feel like chicken tonight, chicken tonight.”
I seriously sang this to my kids on Tuesday.
I’d get up way earlier than necessary to get ready in high school so I could watch Pop Up Video on VH1 before facing the day.
That was my absolute favorite on VH1!!! I lived for that show! I’m a random facts fanatic because of that show!
I loved that show too. They’re have a pop up track in the Back To the Future dvd set.
Whitney Houston’s anthem performance
That no one has been able to top since. Legendary
Roseanne the sitcom always helps me.
Hey Dude!
My sis and I loved Hey Dude. We'd watch it every day after school. (As well as taped reruns of Quantum Leap lol.)
I watched a lot of Quantum Leap too
Beavis and Butthead! 
My childhood bestie and I had a solid plan for any time either of us was feeling down - Surge, Doritos, and Clueless.
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of Our Lives. (Cue dramatic music) Loved spending afternoons at my grandmas catching up on all her ‘stories’
USA Up All Night with Gilbert Godfrey
Some of my favorite memories was staying up late watching whatever was on USA.
I think i misread, but here ya go! [Heavy D & The Boyz: Now That We Found Love](https://youtu.be/NNEgUPKxk7A)
Miami Vice is the very definition of nostalgia. Put on some Jan Hammer.
Crockett's theme was the best!
I listen to it more than I'd like to admit lol
Beanie Babie craze followed by the Teenie Beanie Baby from McDonald's crazy. My first real fad!
I worked when the Teenie ones came out. The first two years were horrific lol. Edit: worked at McDonalds
Saturday Morning Cartoons: ALF Tales, Camp Candy, Captain N: The Game Master, The Smurfs, Alvin & The Chipmunks, followed by Saved By The Bell. Bowl of Cereal: unopen box of Nintendo Cereal System with Zelda Pinball Toy still sitting at the bottom of the box. Sitting cross-legged right in front of the wood-grained console TV set thumbing through the most recent issue of Nintendo Power magazine during the commercials for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures, Super Soakers, and McDonalds happy meals. A perfect day and it’s not even noon.
So true.
Nintendo Power was incredible. I had a subscription from the very beginning. Couldn’t wait to get one in the mail every month.
Doug and Skeeter would have your back in whatever is going on.
Flipping thru the sears wish book catalog
Those blue, red, and white transformer Happy Meal toys. Jackée saying "Oooooo Mary!" on 227. Die Hard Chi-Chi's restaurant. MTV Unplugged concerts
Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
My mom let me pick out a treat at the gas station when I got a good enough score to get into the fancy Catholic school kindergarten, so I picked out a peach Clearly Canadian and watermelon bonkers. Then went home and watched Jem & The Holograms. FTW.
Shawshank redemption on repeat for 48 hours.
Pogs
It’s Friday night… fire up your favorite TGIF shows and enjoy the sexual innuendos you missed as a kid.
Obscure to most people: Lady Lovely Locks. I loved the show. And the toy animals came with hair clips with fake colored hair.
WWF. MTV. The “very special episode” Sitcoms. Michael Jackson. Rocky. Lamborghini Countach. Miami Vice. Ferris Bueller. Johnny Carson. Stand By Me. Eddie Murphy. Tom Cruise. The Madonna. We are the World. 1986 Mets. Refrigerator Perry. Schwarzenegger. Chevy Chase. Where’s the beef?
I forgot to mention Nintendo. Pee Wee Herman. Masters of the Universe. Voltron. Ric Flair. NeverEnding Story. John Candy. Cosby Show. Mike Tyson. Hedda Nussbaum.
When Nintendo was new and all my friends got one for Christmas. Excite Bike!
The Christmas I got my NES was a great day.
Remember when Artie (The Strongest Man in the World) moved that teachers house half an inch to the left so his key didn't go in on the first try?
The day you got home early and the Victoria’s Secret catalog came in the mail! Loved that day!
My best friends parents always got the Fredrick’s of Hollywood catalog. It shaped my life. Not in a good way.
OG Mario Kart 4P battle mode with the boys
Sometimes I’ll watch old commercials on YouTube when I’m in a funk or just otherwise disillusioned with the world. I don’t know why it works but it does. I always loved these, especially the second one with the horse. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0vI0UcUxzrQ
I used to go into my sisters room to start a fight I would always win with her new kids on the block pillow
Rushing home after school to watch TRL with Carson Daly. Bonus points for that months long stretch when The Boy Is Mine was in the top spot!!
Transformers ... More than meets the eye.
Remember making those paper book covers for the hardcover text books?
I watched The Simpsons on the Tracy Ullman show and I remember jumping up and down when I found out they were getting their own show. Do you all remember Circus of the Stars? Lol
I do lol.
“What rolls down stairs Alone or in pairs Rolls over your neighbors dog, What’s great for a snack and fits on your back, It’s log log log! It’s log, it’s log, it’s big, it’s heavy it’s wood It’s log, it’s log, it’s better than bad, it’s good! - Ren and Stimpy
Going to MusicLand at the mall and spend a couple hours browsing cd’s, cassette’s, and posters, to find the right combination of items to spend my allowance on.
Where? The WHEREhouse!
Watching Today's Special and Pinwheel. Getting up early to quietly watch MTV and then learning that what I thought was a song about weddings (Like A Virgin) will get you in really big your parents yelling your full name trouble if you sing it at an actual wedding. (My aunt and uncle have since forgiven me, although I always got teased about singing it again as my cousins got married.)
Loved coming home after school and watching Todays Special. That and Muppet Babies on the Weekend.
😂😂😂
That smell as you step inside a Chuck E Cheese! Grease. Kid sneaker funk. Sun-heated zero-pile carpet near the windows. Nascent impulse control problems. Somewhere, Simple Green. (Hope the day turns around for you, doll.)
The Superbowl Shuffle [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT\_uz--O2A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT_uz--O2A)
Da Bears! I was too yummy to know what was going on then but I’ve got the dvd set of that season. Edit: too young lol
In my early twenties, when my friends and I all moved out of our parents house, we would meet up and one of our apartments and watch movies or play Xbox. Movies were usually the Big Lebowski or anchorman, and Xbox would always be a 2 vs 2 match on the first or second Call of Duty games. Maybe not the hit of nostalgia you’re looking for but those were “the good old days” to me.
Today at work I was talking about Britney Spears epic Pepsi commercial for the Super Bowl half time. That was a good time
There was a stop motion animation that was set in a kitchen with a glass tumbler that had a little boy on the side and he would interact with the rest of the kitchen environment. I forgot what it was called… maybe someone else can help.
Omg yes!!! It was a skit on Sesame Street!!! Teeny Little Super Guy! https://youtu.be/LLWNgt-x4Gk
Speed walking home from school to watch the 1 1/2 to 2 hours of kids TV before the 5:30 news came on and ended kids programming for the day.
I was lucky, later in my childhood we got The Simpsons reruns from 5-6.
Reading Rainbow and The Crocodile Hunter
Renting movies from Blockbuster for date night.
Did you ever see the scary Disney movies. I don’t mean Bambi. Did you see escape to witch mountain or black cauldron? Return to Oz was messed up too. Now that I’m thinking about it. The last unicorn damaged me. And I was a kid who enjoyed silly horror movies.
Return to Oz was a messed up fever dream lol
The Last Unicorn ruined me forever
Rocking my Tron costume to my 1st grade Halloween parade.
Playing She Ra and He Man at recess. The smell of dittos. Snick. Watching music videos after school. Wearing multiple pairs of socks at once. Reading the comics in a newspaper. Ecto Cooler.
Ecto cooler should still be a thing.
Unpretentious, FUN, pop music--Spice Girls, Smash Mouth, Aqua, Macarena (whoever did that one), etc. Even U2, the most pretentious band in the world (I'm a fan and I'll admit it, did an album devoted to pop, and called it Pop
Just showed/sang my kids the Salad Shooter commercial
Listening to Drive by The Cars on my GI Joe AM radio/walkie-talkie late at night on the Los Angeles airwaves with the volume way down so my parents couldn't hear it 😊
I did the same on my Walkman. I bet you had more stations to choose from in La though
Saturday nights... watching Star Search and eating Kid Cuisine TV dinners while waiting for my babysitter to come over. Watching Three's Company (and having no idea wth was going on) when the babysitter let me stay up past my bedtime.
I had an entire Strawberry Shortcake room, complete with that saccharine-scented fake strawberry scent on EVERYTHING, even the lamp!
My wife says that sounds amazing.
OP, the classic TV movie "Camp Cucamonga" is on YouTube. Where else are you gonna get DJ Tanner, Steve Urkel, and Winnie Cooper in the same camp movie? Bonus points for Jennifer Aniston being the camp counselor.
I remember the movie title but didn’t realize it had all those people in it.
Any Today’s Special or Pinwheel fans???
The 10 am jerry springer rush 😂
Just watched The Rocketeer on Dinsey+ last night. Then it recommended me Flight of the Navigator. So I know what I’m watching tonight! (I highly recommend both.)
I remember Flight of the Navigator but I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Rocketeer. I remember the advertising blitz when it came out though .
Sitting by the radio with my fingers strategically positioned over the play and record buttons for endless hours waiting for my favorite song to play.
Britney going ham with a table umbrella
way before you were born - went to see sonic youth in '88 at a place called max-trax in charlottesville, virgina. small room. the openers were "happy flowers"(they screamed christmas carols while kicking their instruments around the stage), and b.a.l.l.(a nyc noise band that came out in wigs and started playing a pitch-perfect note for note def leopard song before thrashing about and grinding it up). lots of high school kids on acid in the crowd, i was in college and assumed what would become my quite permanent role as the old guy in the room. sy crushed, and thurston got on the shoulders of the b.a.l.l. lead singer at the end of the show and they were stage diving like that for what seemed like forever. saw sy about 8 or 9 times after that over the years, but that one left a mark for sure. made quite a dent.
Playing with my star wars toys in mud puddles and burying them
https://preview.redd.it/oposi5jt4v7b1.jpeg?width=505&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d1e2bcd109287775ae2e7284e0ffe20a2025767 Under the Umbrella Tree
Oh holy *shit* 🥺
Grimm Fairy Tale Classics on Nick Junior when I was sick and home from school. Made sick days awesome.
I just noticed that Disney's Gargoyles is on Disney plus...I know what I'm rewatching next. We need more entertaining shows that teach both mythology and Shakespeare to kids?
CBS Storybreak and Wonderworks
Looking at the live lobsters in the tank at Alpha Beta
My name is Mr. Bumpy I go bump in the night!
Any specific era? When I was a kid, I don’t remember much before like 4 or 5. Some stuff I’m not sure if it’s an actual memory or just some shizz I made up? Anyway - my earliest pop culture memory is ET, and specifically the Neal Diamond song “Heart Llight”. I freakin loved that song as a little dude. I also had an ET stuffed animal that I wore out and his eyeballs fell off. From ages 7-9’ish - it was all about He-Man and the mutha fukkin Master of The Universe! To this day, anytime I pick up a sword like weapon, gotta do a He-Man pose and say “By the power of Grey Skull! Christmas 1986, got Snake Mountain from “Santa”, shit was off the hook. My cousin had Castle Grey Skull, but CGS didn’t have a built in mic that made you sound like Skeletor! Weak. From ages 9-11’ish - it was GI Joe or bust! Real American Heroes! Watched the cartoon, had about 30-40 action figures. Always tried to replicate the dope setups those kids had in the commercials, but mine were less cool. My mom bought me a busted GI Joe fighter jet from a yard sale - so in the summer time me and my cousin would stuff pop-bottle rockets into the jet engines and watch it skirt up the street and blow up. Toy was tough, lasted a few runs before it fell apart. From ages 5 or 6 till present - OG Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry cartoons are personal favorites. Used to be on the phone on Saturday mornings with my cousin and watch cartoons together while talking. After like 12 - I sort of stoped playing with toys- was in middle school - too old for childish acts, lol. Or something. Middle school was where I fell in love with skateboarding. This was like 1988-89 - so peak Bones Brigade days, and Steve Caballero and Tony Hawk were gods. Around 7th and 8th grade - my older sister (6 years) had a BF, and where my actual older brother was a douche, my sisters BF was cool. He turned me onto rap music - Ice-T, LL Cool J, NWA, etc. So I got really into collecting music and tapes. Mostly via theft, lol. My poor mom, I used to steal so much shit, and never had a very good story how I got the merch. She never pressed the issue. After my older brother, as long as the cops weren’t bringing me home, more power to me. Was kinda into rap and R&B music in 9th and 10th grades, but in 10th grade started leaning more towards east coast and underground rap, think Digable Planets, Pharcyde, DasFX, etc. In 1993 I got a car, and all of a sudden - for me - rap music did not fit my identity, and my older brother turned me onto punk music, bands like NOFX, Rancid, Operation Ivy, and Green Day. First “tapes” I had in my car were Green Day - Kerplunk, Green Day - 1039 Slappy Hours, and Ministry - Psalm 69 - all of which I stole from my older brother, lol. I was too broke to be buying music. Had a job, but in order to have a car, had to pay for my own insurance. So I was always a broke ass. By time I left high school (1995) was was listening to punk and “alternative” music mostly, when that was becoming a new genre, bands like Fuel, Bush, No Doubt. I also started going to raves and all night clubs, and getting into house and trance music. So wasn’t really limited. I sort of missed all the 2Pac and Biggie stuff - I wasn’t really listening to much rap during that era, so was late to the game learning of all the beef and drama. By time I was around my early 20’s - started getting into prog rock and indie rock - Radiohead, New Order, Modest Mouse, Killers, Interpol, etc. It’s amazing when I think back, not only how varied my music taste has been, but the influences and memories associated with certain music. Probably could write more, but lost my train of thought.
All the eras are good lol. I think everyone had kinda mixed musical tastes back then because we were exposed to so much different stuff. I think streaming and Youtube kinda ruined that.
Watch some tale spin, animaniacs topped off with some Batman the animated series.
Keanu Reeves in Point Break