Kids of the 90's

1. You were convinced your Furby would kill you while you slept

2. you think Mr. Feeney would be the best teacher ever

3. Are You Afraid of the Dark? still gives you nightmares

4. Teletubbies still creep you out

5. you think Pluto is a planet

6. you can successfully insert the Capri Sun straw on the first try

7. you learned how to use your computer before your parents did

8. you came close to administering a lethal dose of cootie shots

9. you were surprised when Lance Bass came out of the closet

10. you say Hakuna Matata to relieve stress

11. the graphics in Toy Story are still amazing

12. Harry Potter was the first book you enjoyed reading

13. you're still jealous of Matilda's powers

14. you wish Jumanji was a real game

15. you still think your way out of Yoshi Valley in Mario Kart 64 was the fastest

16. you refuse to believe yo-yos were popular when your parents went to school

17. Austin Powers is a better spy than James Bond

18. your parents thought South Park was a shitty influence

19. the only boxing worth watching involves the biting off of ears

20. you still hate Angelica Pickles

21. Free Willy still makes you cry

22. you learned how to spell from a VTech

23. you know every word to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song

24. your parents still won't buy you Lunchables

25. you use the Clinton definition of "sexual relations"

26. your scary story is a rip off of Goosebumps

27. the fact that the black Power Ranger was African-American and the yellow one was Chinese doesn't bother you

28. you still wonder why anybody would want to be called Scary Spice

29. your Tamagotchi is still alive

30. roller skates suck and roller blades are awesome

31. you still "rewind" movies instead of "fast-backward"

32. you still want to go to Jurassic Park even after seeing the movie

33. the end of Men In Black still makes you wonder

34. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? isn't just a rhetorical question

35. you wish the Magic School Bus was real

36. the ending to the Sixth Sense still surprises you

37. You remember when Kurt Cobain, Tu Pac, River Phoenix and Selena died.

38. You know that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"

39. You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.

40. Four Square

41. You remember reading "Goosebumps"

42. You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.

43. You danced to "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)

44. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...

45. You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.

46. You remember when super nintendo's became popular.

47. Two words... Trapper Keeper.

48. You never got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide

49. "Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS PHANTS PHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE
he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show show show

50. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players

51. You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere

52. You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles

53. NANCY DREW AND THE HARDY BOYS WERE THE BEST MYSTERY BOOKS

54. Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!

55. All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)

56. You remember a time before the WB.

57. You know the Macarena by heart.

58. "Talk to the hand" ... enough said

59. You thought Brain woud finally take over the world

60. You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"

61. You remember when everyone went slinky crazy.

62. You remember when razor scooters were cool.


When we were younger: Before the MySpace frenzy...Before the Internet & text messaging...Before Sidekicks & iPods...Before MIKE JONES...Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...... Way back.
1. When light up sneakers were cool.

2. When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.

3. When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.

4. When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.

5. When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.

6. Tag.

7. Hide-n-Go Seek at dusk.

8. Red Light, Green Light.

9. Heads Up 7 Up.

10. Playing Kickball & Dodgeball until your porch light came on.

11. Hopskotch.

12. Slip-n-Slides.

13. Tree Houses.

14. Hula Hoops.

15. HELLO....HOT WHEELS!!!!!

16. The annoying Giga Pets & Furbies.

17. Running through the sprinklers.

18. That "Little Mermaid"

19. Crying when Mufasa died in the Lion King.

20. Happy Meals where you chose a Barbie or a Hot Wheels car.

21. Getting the privelage to sit in the front seat of the car.

22. CAPRI SUN

23. Watching Saturday Morning Cartoons in your PJ's still wrapped up in your TMNT, Power Rangers, Barbie, Fairy Princess comforter.

24. The original Power Rangers

25. Hey Arnold.

26. Rugrats.

27. Rocco's Modern Life.

28. AAAHH!! REAL MONSTERS.

29. Are You Afraid of the Dark?

30. Kenan & Kel.

31. Doug.

32. Nick Arcade.

33. Dinosaurs.

34. Pinky and the Brain

35. Sailor Moon.

36. Beavis & Butt-Head

37. Wishbone.

38. Who could forget Snick? & Nick @ Nite with Bewitched, I Dream of Jenie, The Facts of Life, I Love Lucy and TGIF.

39. Nick Jr. with Face

40. Busy Town

41. PEE-WEE!!!

42. Kool-Aid was the drink of choice.

43. Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school.

44. Class field trips.

45. When Christmas was the most exciting time of year.

46. When $5 seemed like a million, & another dollar a miracle.

47. When you begged to go to McDonalds for dinner everyday.

48. When Toys R Us overruled the mall.

49. Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'.

50. Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming 'do over!'

51. Money issues were handled by whoever was banker in 'Monopoly.'

52. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.

53. Being old referred to anyone over 20.

54. Scrapes & bruises were kissed & made better.

55. It was a big deal to finally be tall enought to ride the 'big people' rides at the fair.

56. When playing Nintendo was the hardest thing ever.

57. When Ninja Turtles ruled the world.

58. When Aladdin was new, before the trilogy was complete.

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AND HERE ARE SOME MORE BY REQUEST...

1. You teach me I'll teach you. Pokemon...Gotta catch 'em all!

2. You know who Otto, Reggie, Tito and Twister are!

3. Girls, two words... Benie Babies!

4. Playing with the holographic Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon cards

5. Sound Familiar? Woogie, Woogie, Woogie, Woogie.

6. Lizzie and Gordo!

7. "Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?"

8. Game Boy Color kicks PSP Go's ass!

9. BIG RED BUTTON. Dee Dee: Oooh! What does THAT button do?

10. Can whistle to the Recess theme song

11. Backstreet Boys vs NSync... Britney vs Christina PICK A TEAM!

12. Alfalfa from Little Rascals

13. POGS

14. Always ending up with empty Poly Pocket houses because the dolls always got lost

15. You Recognize Goku's hair ANYWHERE!

We'll never forget shows like:

1. CATDOG catdog...alone in the world was a little catdog!

2. The Angry Beavers

3. TAZMANIA

4. Tiny Tunes

5. The real CARTOONnetwork with Dexter's Lab, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Mike, Lu & Og

6. Art Attack

7. Tina's doing her dance
Jon's looking for romance
Paul's getting down on the floor
While Hannah's screaming out for more (ooh hoo!)
Wanna see Bradley swing
Wanna see Rachel do her thing
Then we got Jo, she's got the flow
Get ready everybody 'cos here we go!
S CLUB! There aint no party like S Club Party... enough said

8. bubble gum bubble gum, in a dish, how many peices do you wish?

14, 15, 23, 24, 25 HAHA.

Almost all of them ring bells.

Some of those are a lot older than the 90's...

I know, some I didn't know, but most were either true or I knew about them.


I actually, I feel bad for kids today. I was watching a home video of me when I was 10. We had set up a whole TV channel, my sister and I, with a cooking show, a gardening show complete with commercials and I think about my ten year old cousin, and all she has is a Wii and a computer. And I got to thinking if all kids are raised this way, then there isn't going to be much creativity left. I mean, we didn;t have much as kids, so we made our own fun. Now, kids have millions of things to do, which is ashame in a way.

They were worried about kids with tvs losing their creativity, too. (Although they might have had a point with that, considering that the first generation of kids who grew up in front of the TV is now in charge of making new tv shows and movies... so we seem to keep getting remakes of old tv shows, movies, and comic books! )

I'm beginning to wonder how old Miss Mary Mack really is.. We had that when I was a kid, too

OMG! You made me remember a lot of things!! It seems that the US isn't that different from Spain xD

That was the point, to remember how awesome eveything was and to be depressed about what crap we have today...wait......* shifty eyes*

I talk about that with a friend everyday.. that new generation's kids don't have childhood.. They are replacing cartoons by crap as Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers... They don't play and imagine anymore...

From when I was a kid:

Pluto was a planet

I also refused to believe yo-yos were popular when my parents were kids. And my grandparents.

I remember Saturday morning cartoons. I thought it had started going downhill a bit by the 90s when they stopped running the 3-way competition between the "big 3" networks and having the promotional specials every fall, though.

Miss Mary Mack...that's been around a very long time. My 80 year old mom remembers it

I remember boom boxes vs 8 track tapes... (And VHS vs BETA. VHS plays longer, BETA has higher picture quality. I liked the BETA better. I was actually about 20 at that point, though.)

I read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books too, although I fell in love with Sherlock Holmes to the point of knitting a bookmark for the book.

I remember a time before the WB. LOOONG before the WB.

(I actually never learned the Macarena, but I was an adult by that point anyway.)

We went slinky-crazy briefly in the 60's too

We would call radio stations to hear songs off our walkmans too

Tag, Hide & seek, Mother may I, Red Light Green Light, Hopscotch, Simon Says, running through the sprinklers etc. are kids games that have been around forever.

We had a slip and slide. I remember a few times where I went sailing off the end of it and scraped my belly on the grass.

hula hoops were also popular in the 60s for a while

My mom made Kool Aid for us too!

5 dollars is always a lot of money to a kid who doesn't have any money... and the front seat where the adults sit is always a privilege the first time you sit there. And yes, anybody over 20 is grown up, and must be old. Life is always simpler for a kid. Adults protect them from the more complicated stuff until they are older and a bit more ready for it.

I miss the old cartoons. :\ They don't play them at ALL anymore.

I was really young in the 90's; But so many bring back memories!

Wow... almost everything I can remember.

When I was 2, I used to stick stuff in my diaper because Tommy Pickles did it.


EDIT: Oh! And does anyone remember the Rugrats video game? It was the reptar one, I believe. I remember playing that game NONSTOP on my dad's Playstation (1)

I really wish they would switch back to the old Cartoon Network. Now they show boring real life stuff.

Another note: All of the Nicktoons from 1991 to 2005 I like, even some were before I was born. After 2005 the nick toons are a little.... ehhh.

Yeah, why do they call it "Cartoon Network" if they never show cartoons anymore?

(I suppose none of you were even aware that Disney once promised that they would never make a sequel to any of their movies?)