
- If you were a guy you wanted to be Zack Morris and date Kelly Kapowski. If you were a girl you wanted to be Kelly Kapowski and date Zack Morris.
- You can still recite the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme, and you remember when the show moved to CBS and went downhill.
- You can relate to Doug Funny is so many ways.
- You remember when Polly Pocket actually could fit in your pocket
- You owned a Walkman
- At point you were sure Laserdisc would be the next big thing
- You know how to get to world 8 from world 4…and you know what game I’m referring to
- You knew Michael Jackson as the guy who did the song on Free Willy
- You ate a Flintstones Push-Up Pop
- You wore your pants backwards to be just like Kriss Kross (“The Daddy Mac will make you…”)
- You remember when MTV actually played music videos
- You remember when the worst show on TV was Beavis and Butthead
- Vanilla Ice…striped sideburns…enough said
- You drank “Surge”
- You’ve corrected someone by stating that Tommy was in fact the Green Ranger and the White Ranger
- You’ve owned a pair of shoes that you have to “pump” up
- “Clap on…clap off”
- You remember when you actually wanted to stay home on Friday nights to watch TGIF
- You can recite the Saved By the Bell graduation song word for word and it still makes you cry
- You considered naming your first daughter Topanga
- You know Cuba Gooding Jr. as the guy whose brother Omar was on Wild and Crazy Kids
- You can Skip-It
- You’re still mourning from the loss of Mr. Hooper
- Your LA Gear shoes lit up while you walked
- You remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger was an actor
- When someone says, “Who should we call?” your first instinct is to yell “Ghostbusters!”
- You can name all of the New Kids on the Block
- Your teacher showed you the OJ verdict during school
- At one point, you really wanted a MiniDisc player
- You thought one of the girls in Hanson was cute
- You know what a “busy signal” sounds like
- You needed to use Microsoft Encarta for research
- You bought a slap bracelet…only to find out a few days later they weren’t allowed at school
- Your family’s first cell phone looked like an Army walkie-talkie
- You owned the board game Mousetrap, set up all the pieces, but never played the actual game
Tags: Doug, Free Will, Laserdisc, Mario Brothers, Michael Jackson, New Kids on the Block, Ninja Turles, Power Rangers, Saved By the Bell, Signs You Were Born in the 1980s, Walkman
November 4th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
i love this blog David. It makes me miss stuff from when i was younger. Is doug even on anymore? And whatever happened to TGIF theres nothing good on anymore on friday nights…definelty nothing for kids. For that matter what happened to saturday morning cartoons???
November 4th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I used to spend hours on Encarta…that thing was awesome…
November 4th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
This is awesome! It makes me miss my childhood.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Awww good times!
Slap bracelets make me think of pogs.
November 6th, 2009 at 12:23 am
I used to have the biggest crush on Topanga…after she became “normal”
November 9th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Wow, I totally forgot about Surge and Encarta! And man, TGIF used to be the BEST!