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Sydian October 15th, 2016 8:47 AM

i was going to say wonderballs but y'all i was at the store the other day and you know what i saw??? got damn wonderball. now just bring back asteroids, shock tarts, and green ketchup, and we set.

blue October 15th, 2016 4:45 PM

That's So Raven finished almost ten years ago I think. One of the greats before Disney Channel went downhill.

Guest123_x1 October 15th, 2016 5:26 PM

There's many things I fondly remember from the 1990s as a kid. Among them were:

*Most of the major over-the-air broadcast networks showed cartoons on Saturday mornings, complete with commercials for fast food establishments, sugary cereals, and toy lines. Over the past decade and a half, kids cartoons have virtually been eliminated from commercial broadcast television, due to not only federal E/I requirements, but also advertising restrictions due to the federal war on obesity and "cable competition" (the latter two always being the excuses why networks no longer show cartoons on Saturday mornings). Fox and WB even had cartoon blocks during weekday afternoons as well, with those blocks being eliminated for pretty much the same reasons I just mentioned. (I would much rather have childrens' cartoon blocks on minor network affiliates and independents, complete with age-targeted advertising, than hours of trashy "talk shows" such as Jerry Springer and Maury, and the glut of courtroom shows that dominate weekday afternoon syndicated television these days, along with the countless ads telling us to "call if you've been injured by Xarelto or Pradaxa", to "get cash now for your structured settlement", and "train now to become a medical assistant".

*ABC's "TGIF" (Thank Goodness It's Funny) Friday night primetime block, known for hits such as Full House, Family Matters, Step By Step (the latter two of which moved to CBS for their final season), among various others. Also when Saturday night primetime at the major networks was entirely regularly scheduled original programming (such as NBC's The Golden Girls and Empty Nest), instead of those timeslots being dedicated exclusively for sports or reruns as it is these days.

*When Vanna White turned the letters on Wheel of Fortune, as opposed to touching them as she has done since 1997. In the spoiler is a video clip of the last use of the "turn the letters" trilon puzzleboard, followed by the introduction of the electronic "touch the letters" board.
Spoiler:

(The change to electronic was neccesitated by producer Harry Friedman's desire to get the puzzleboard electronic, as he did not like that it took an hour to tape a half-hour game show with the manual board.)


*When most video game consoles available used ROM cartridges, and the first PlayStation being lauded for using optical discs.

*Listening to music on cassette tapes.

*When schools had Apple IIe computers in widespread use, complete with having to use 5¼" floppy disks to load programs, as well as printing to dot-matrix printers, connected to a port switch (that had a knob for A/B/C/D which was turned to the letter of the computer that wanted to print to that printer). IBM PC compatibles in use at the time had DOS (with custom shell programs), Windows 3.1 and later Windows 95.

smithy78 October 15th, 2016 6:30 PM

I miss a world where Trump and Clinton weren't running for president. That's what I miss.

Florges October 15th, 2016 6:46 PM

Not having responsibilities. :2:

Some of the shows I watched as a kid didn't age well, but I do miss the old Toonami lineup that would air on Kid's WB.


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