Put on your Reebok Pumps for a walk down [ forgotten ] memory lane .
1.These square radio alarm clocks that would flash red or green light in your face in the middle of the night:
2.Hypercolor T-shirts, which would, sadly, start losing its color-changing abilities after a few washes (probably ‘cause of the dryer):
3.The Simpsonsbeing acontroversial TV showbecause it satirized the nuclear family and becauseBartwas considered a bad influence on kids:
4.BootlegSimpsonsT-shirts that you’d see in every souvenir shop and always looked janky and had themes that never made sense:
5.Magic Eyebooks — which would be really frustrating if you couldn’t see the hidden image:
6.Mead’s Académie Sketch Pads which made you feel like a legit artist:
7.Those T-shirts that featured theLooney Tunescharacters dressed in hip-hop clothes:
8.SNL’s “Coffee Talk with Linda Richman” — whose voice you can probably hear in your head right now:
9.AndSNL’s “Gap Girls” skit, whichChris Farleywould steal every moment of:
10.Cordless home phones that were giant with big antennas that stuck out and, weirdly, did not have much range. They also had zero battery life:
11.And Sony Sports Walkmans that were bright yellow and came with hard plastic headphones that went directly into your ear — which was always slightly uncomfortable to wear:
12.Eek! The Cat, the cartoon series that really put poor Eek through so, so much each episode. He was just trying to be a nice cat!
13.Suncoast Motion Picture Company, which was a must-stop-in store whenever you went to the mall:
14.And the cool display figurines that decorated the upper parts of theDisneystores:
15.Tony Little’s Ab Isolator infomercials. As soon as they came on on Saturday mornings, you knew cartoon time was over:
16.And Susan Powter’s “Stop the Insanity!” informercials — which was a lot of yelling and played right after Saturday morning cartoons ended:
17.CDs that came packaged in wasteful long boxes. And in case you were wondering, this was done becauseCDswere too small for store shelves created for vinyl, so by packaging them in long boxes, retailers could just reuse the shelves they already had. It also helped make them harder to steal:
18.The blurry AF White Diamonds commercial where Elizabeth Taylor says, “These have always brought me luck”:
19.TGIF’sStep by Step, which was really just a modern-dayBrady Bunch…
20….andHangin’ with Mr. Cooper, which never made much sense. In the show, Mark Cooper was a former NBA player, but worked as a substitute teacher and also had roommates to help make ends meet. What did he do with his money?
21.How HUGE Steve Urkel-mania was that there was even a talking doll and cereal based off of him:
22.The black-and-white ads inside TV Guide that would give you a little synopsis about what that week’s episodes would be about:
23.The dating showStuds, which was full of double-entendres that would gowayover your head:
24.The Club steering wheel lock and the commercials they would play nonstop for them (especiallyif you stayed home sick and watched daytime TV):
25.And the Blublockers commercial that featured a guy rapping about it:
26.Kinko’s stores, which always smelled like printer ink and running computers. It was also a lifesaver because it was open 24 hours a day, so you could get something printed at the last minute:
27.Madonna’sSexbook and the huge backlash she got after releasing it:
28.And her infamous interview with David Letterman where she smoked a cigar and said “fuck” more than a few times:
29.Mark Wahlberg being known as Marky Mark and for pulling his pants down and dancing around in his underwear:
30.That basically EVERY SINGLE FAMILY owned a minivan:
31.Thinking Grey Poupon was the fanciest thing you could eat because of the commercials for it:
32.Laughing at Mr. Furley’s panic attacks onThree’s Company— which was also a sorta inappropriate show to have run in reruns after afternoon cartoons:
33.Lassie, Dennis the Menace,andMister Edbeing on for HOURS during the day on Nickelodeon taking precious cartoon time:
34.Richard SimmonsSweatin' to the OldiesVHS aerobics series, which the infomercials for played nonstop on the weekends:
35.The Crocodile Mile slip-and-slide toy that had the infectious “You run, you slide, you hit the bump, and take a dive” jingle in the commercial:
36.And Wrigley’s Doublemint Chewing Gum commercials that also had an infectiousjingle:
37.This Jessica Rabbit poster that you would always find in the poster racks at Spencer’s:
38.The big reusable plastic water bottles with the thick-ass straws that gave everything a plasticky flavor. These were also the bottles you would freeze and then wrap in aluminum foil (to keep cold) on field trips:
39.McDonald’s burgers that came in Styrofoam containers:
40.And lastly, theurban legendthat there was a penis on the cover ofThe Little MermaidVHS ‘cause it was drawn by a disgruntled ex-Disney employee:
