Totally Rad Like, For Sure 90s Week: Day Five - Television

Yes indeedy, it's Day Five of

and it's all about the television. 

The 90s were a great time in TV land.  There were feel-good family shows, dance shows, aliens, beach babes running in slow motion and teen dramas.  Reality television was introduced to the world, and people tuned in to see if they could help solve mysteries, see the craziest 911 calls and watch five strangers forced to live together on MTV.  You know, back when it was cool to stay home and watch TGIF. 

The 90s were a great decade to be a kid, because the entertainment bigwigs decided kids were a profitable target audience for fashion and trends.  Shows about kids and teens ran amok, molding our young impressionable minds.  There was My So-Called Life, Blossom, Clarissa Explains It All, Boy Meets World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Sister, Sister and Daria, just to name a few.  A few shows lingered from the late 80s like Saved By The Bell, Family Matters and Full House. 

Nickelodeon made bank on SNICK at night and shows like Legends of the Hidden Temple, Secret Life of Alex Mack, All That, Hey Dude, Pete and Pete, Rocko's Modern Life, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Double Dare and GUTS. 

There were some really great adult shows, and I often watched prime time TV with my mom when I was younger because I thought it made me cool.  We watched Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, ER, Walker, Texas Ranger, Seinfield, Home Improvement and Frasier.  There was one short-lived prime-time soap we watched called "Savannah" that only ran for two seasons, but my mom, sister and I loved it.  This was a WB show, and speaking of which, the WB was THE channel to watch in the 90s. 

The WB brought us shows like 7th Heaven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson's Creek, Felicity and Charmed.

Finally NBC, ABC, FOX and CBS got the memo and started adapting their shows to reach younger audiences.  Shows like 3rd Rock from the Sun, Friends and Party of Five drew in both adults and teens. 

To discuss cartoons of the 90s would take days (and I do mean DAYS) to cover, simply because there were so many awesome cartoons that I loved.  Some of the cartoons I remember are Gummi Bears, Darkwing Duck, Pound Puppies, Gem, DuckTales, Doug, Tiny Toon Adventures, My Little Pony Tales, Captain Planet, Beetlejuice, Garfield and Friends and Rocko's Modern Life.

How I miss those awesome cartoons.  At least some of them still air in reruns....I love having my kids as an excuse to watch cartoons again!

Oh and no, I didn't forget Fraggle Rock.  I just hated that show.

What were your favorite cartoons/shows?

Fantabulous Friday

First, let me say that today is in and of itself FANTABULOUS for two specific reasons:

1.  I was featured on blogging pal Nicole's blog It's All Random today.  Yay! Thanks, Nicole.

2.  On another blog I follow, Girl About Business, I won a giveaway contest, and will soon be the happy owner of a new book!

So go check out my friends and give them some love, because, well, they're fantabulous!

For today's post, I decided to get all melancholy on y'all and talk about the past.  Our subject for today:

THE 90s

Yep, I'm going to give y'all the best (and worst) fads of the early 90s. 

THE MUSIC

We had MC Hammer telling us we couldn't touch this, Vanilla Ice bragging about how gangster he was, New Kids on the Block serenading us, the Spice Girls telling us what we want, what we really really want, and Hanson Mmmbopping us to death. 

As much as we all try to deny it, the music we danced around to was - for the most part - terrible.  But at the time, we loved it!

THE MOVIES

Buffy was a badass, Clueless started the "whatever" craze, Forrest Gump told us about his momma, Jurassic Park made us afraid of dinosaurs and Austin Powers made us want to ask, "Shall we shag now or shag later?" I don't care what anyone says, films from the 90s were some of the best there are.  Yeah, baby!

THE TELEVISION

I could go on for days about all of the shows I watched in the 90s that I still love to this day.  There was Saved by the Bell, Blossom, Boy Meets World, Family Matters, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Alex Mac, Hey Dude, Clarissa Explains it All, All That, Salute Your Shorts, TRL, Singled Out, My So-Called Life, Daria, Real World, just to name a few.  Loved 'em all!

Now for some of the biggest - and most annoying/awful fads there were:

POGS

When I was in fourth grade these things took over our school.  I'm not kidding, it was Pog-a-palooza at every lunch break, recess break, before and after school and sometimes during class.  Eventually our school banned them completely.


SPANDEX PANTS WITH NEON SOCKS
SCRUNCHED DOWN AND HIGH TOP SHOES

Seriously, I don't know who thought this looked good, but everyone was wearing it.  Kids, moms, teenagers, everybody.  We also wore oversized t-shirts and tied the ends in a knot or used one of those little circle things.  Thought we were so cool.                                                       

TROLL DOLLS

                                                                                 

My older sister had about fifty of these evil little dolls.  I hated them.  They creeped me out. 

SCRUNCHIES

Between me and my sister, we had about two hundred of these things.  Every color you could think of, polka dots, stripes, plaid, logos, some with characters on them, tye-dyed... 

I don't know where they all disappeared to.  I imagine Mom donated them to Goodwill.  So maybe someone, somewhere is still stylin' the scrunchy.

SURGE    

                                                                                                  

This drink hit our area seemingly overnight and it was what everyone was drinking.  Tasted like Mountain Dew with twice as much sugar and carbonation, but we drank it anyway.  So glad it fizzed out quickly.

That's all I've got for today.  Partly because my brain is tired, and partly because I got tired of googling pictures of this stuff!

Makes you want to dig through your attic and find your old clothes for a flashback fashion show, doesn't it?  And while you're at it, pull out the old pogs and have a tournament.

No?

Me neither.