Old School Television [Archive]

jelliepair

07-19-2006, 07:01 AM

I am currently on babysitting duty watching my neices five (yes FIVE) daughters ages 2-11 while they are whooping it up in Vegas. I am with them every morning and every evening (with work in between, which is, by the way, easier than watching 5 children).

I have been subjected to Nick at Night for hours on end - I think I have now seen every episode of "Full House" that I avoided growing up. The 80's were TRULY an ugly time!! They also watch a bunch of crap on Disney that doesnt even qualify as tv. So I started thinking about the shows of our youths - ones that I havent even seen in Reruns or on UPN or TVland...

What were your favorite shows growing up - the ones you NEVER missed? Did you like the obscure game shows? Grandma ever make you watch Soap Operas? Did your parents ever ban a show in your house? (We werent allowed to watch The Three Stooges - too violent!). Did you parents force you to watch Public TV? Remember when TV only had 7 channels?

Ever watch an old favorite NOW and realize "What the hell was I thinking as a kid"?

Some of the oldies I remember fondly (and wish there was a TVgasm to recap):
Soap
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman/Fernwood Tonight
Dynasty
Land of the Lost
Little House on the Prarie
Hill Street Blues
Knots Landing
Moonlighting
Waltons

Your turn...

tati

07-19-2006, 08:31 AM

Some good ones in there, Jellie! I fondly watched 'Little House on the Prairie' and later on, I remember watching & loving 'Moonlighting'---I can hear the opening theme song playing in my head right now ('some fly by night, some fly by day....)

My list of others:

Three's Company---it was on around 5 PM or so, so aftr homework, this was what we watched. I recently caught a few mins. of an episode---so dorky! Jack was loveable tho.

These are mostly sitcoms, not v recappable:

Growing Pains
Family Ties
Facts of Life
Silver Spoons
Cheers
Charles in Charge
Who's the Boss?

I've caught snippets of some of these shows & some of them, esp. Facts of Life, were really corny, causing a 'what was I thinking?' moment like u mentioned.

Clair

07-19-2006, 09:02 AM

I remember watching Little House on the Prairie too. It was my favorite for a long, long time. My family also watched Walt Disney Presents (or something like that), Bonanza and The Waltons.

My parents are Catholic and were very strict about what movies we could watch. There was some Catholic newspaper they subscribed to and if that paper said a movie was unfit for Catholics, we were not allowed to see it.

LOL - Jellipair, I remember Land of the Lost. Definite 'what was I thinking' show.

jenny10girl

07-19-2006, 09:12 AM

I watched alot of those mentioned, plus The Great Space Coaster, Jem, and I remember a show called the New Zoo Revue...

Pekmboyd

07-19-2006, 09:49 AM

I didn't watch much TV when I was younger (my grandmother had this rule, for every half hour of "crap" I wanted to watch, I had to watch an hour of Discovery Channel type stuff), but I do remember Who's the Boss being a big one, and Hey Dude! on Nickelodeon.

derder

07-19-2006, 10:00 AM

HR Pufnstuf was my very favorite Saturday morning show. And up until like two years ago, from midnight - 2:00 am they showed reruns of it on TVLand on Friday nights. It was so awesome. And then, one Friday, nothing. They just stopped out of the blue. I was so bummed. (My personal favorties were Kling and Klang and SneezyHouse).

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ObstinantGirl

07-19-2006, 01:28 PM

Well, when I was real small: Electric Company and Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

And throughout my whole childhood, we sat as a family and watched The Waltons...with me and dad sobbing and laughing our way through each episode! Oh...and the Muppet Show! And we also sat together and watched the Sonny & Cher show! And Donny & Marie's show.

The Brady Bunch, HR Pufnstuf, The Partridge Family, The Lost World, The Bob Newhart Show (both of them), Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith, Leave it to Beaver, Welcome Back Kotter, Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie, Hogan's Heroes...

Oh, gosh, I could go on & on!!! I just googled shows from the 60s-80s, and it's no wonder I'm such a TV addict! I watched ALL of them :o I could just copy & past the lists here!

derder

07-19-2006, 01:35 PM

Obstinant Girl-
I loved all of those shows! Especially the variety hours- Sonny and Cher; Donny and Marie; Captain and Tennille... And now when you watch the reruns if TVLand or someone happens to air them, THEY ARE SO STUPID! I mean the humor is so frickin dumb and sappy- I guess they were going for the ten and under audience.
I have been watching I love the 70's II- on and off (vh1)... You should watch this- it is like a timewarp back through the 70's.
Also LOVED the Friday night lineup- Partridge Fam; Brady Bunch; Room 222; and what was the other one?
I also loved Family and wanted to be Buddy Lawrence.

Clair

07-19-2006, 02:40 PM

derder, it was Nanny and the Professor.

Apple Blossom

07-19-2006, 02:55 PM

At the beginning and end of fourth grade (which was 92-93), we had to fill out these "About Ourselves" sheets, including our favorite shows and color, food, what we want to be when we grow up, etc. Full House was far and away my favorite show. Now I can't get through five minutes of it without changing the channel to see what else is on.

I loved the Wonder Years. Several years ago they showed it on Nick at Night's Block Party Summer, but I haven't seen it since. I also really miss China Beach, though I think I got into that a little more in reruns on the History Channel, which they also don't show anymore.

Whenever Fresh Prince was on, I had to dance to it in the beginning. I was a chubby white girl, so it was particularly funny for my sister in high school to watch.

I really liked Small Wonder and Out of This World. Little House on the Prairie was one of my favorites when I was under 6.

Those are all the ones I remember right now.

jennilicious

07-19-2006, 05:25 PM

I love this thread guys :)
I was a diehard Carol Burnett fan from as far back as I can remember. It seems like I watched it in the afternoon's at the babysitter's house, but my memory sucks. I'd watch it every day if it still came on somewhere. I think it'd hold up well.
I also loved so many of the ones you guys mentioned-Donny and Marie especially (when I was really little, I had a little wooden hammer that I tapped against the screen while that was on, hoping it'd break and Donny and/or Marie would come out of the tv into my living room).
I also loved that Mandrell Sister show, Hee Haw, and Solid Gold!! All my friends and I wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer and have Andy Gibb (or Rex Smith :)) for a boyfriend.
derder, I had no idea TVLand repeats Donny and Marie! I am going to be looking out for that.

angiemarie

07-19-2006, 07:01 PM

Some of my favorites were:

You Can't Do That On Television
Barney Miller
Taxi
Charlie's Angels
The Electric Company (so much hipper than Sesame Street)
The Addams family (reruns every day after school)
The Love Boat and Fantasy Island on Sat nights
The Guiding Light (my grandmother and my mom's soap, now nobody has time to watch it)

zoobabe

07-19-2006, 07:26 PM

I watched alot of those mentioned, plus The Great Space Coaster, Jem, and I remember a show called the New Zoo Revue...

I loved the New Zoo Revue (go figure). I even remember the theme song:

It's the New Zoo Revue coming right at you
it's the New Zoo Revue coming right at you
It's quite an unusual thing
the animals talk and sing
with Doug and Emmy Jo
everyday's a different show...
It's the New Zoo revue coming right at you
It's the New Zoo Revue coming right at YOU! :)

I also loved a lot of shows that you all have mentioned, especially The Facts Of Life and H.R. Puffenstuff. Did anyone mention the Hudson Brothers variety show? I think that it was part of the Kroft Superstars. I also liked watching the Mike Douglas show with my mom, and I LOVED and always will love the Muppets.

jenny10girl

07-20-2006, 04:47 AM

zoobabe - did it ever creep you out though that the frog never wore pants?

Lizardqueen

07-20-2006, 06:44 AM

I woke up at 5:30 in the morning to watch this when I was a 4 year old. The frog not wearing pants didn't bother me. But Doug having that creepy child molester vibe did.

jenny10girl

07-20-2006, 07:19 AM

HA! Perhaps that was it...LOL...

Mulv

07-20-2006, 01:54 PM

whawha

07-20-2006, 06:07 PM

Zoom. It was always about Zoom.

But I also remember watching Batman...that was an obsession for all the kids on the block. It was on twice a week: the first episode set up the "impossible" trap for Batman and his young ward, with the second episode solving the crime.

And there was the Courtship of Eddie's Father, Green Acres, Lidsville, Land of the Lost...wow. I am dating myself!

HoneyBunny

07-20-2006, 06:53 PM

Batman...that was an obsession for all the kids on the block. It was on twice a week: the first episode set up the "impossible" trap for Batman and his young ward, with the second episode solving the crime.

The Dynamic Duo! No one did the Catwoman like Julie Newmar.
I also loved The Green Hornet - and the Flight of the Bumblebee music always made me hyper.
Thanks for the reminder whawha ~

hb

whawha

07-21-2006, 08:05 AM

The Dynamic Duo! No one did the Catwoman like Julie Newmar.
I also loved The Green Hornet - and the Flight of the Bumblebee music always made me hyper.
Thanks for the reminder whawha ~

hb

Man! The Green Hornet! And we didn't even know the greatest martial arts star was the driver, Kato! So Bruce Lee is now immortal...um, what was the name of the guy that played the Green Hornet? Goes to show...stars are born, not made.

And I'll loved that crazy 60s hornet logo!

Thanks for the flashback!

Lyndsay

07-21-2006, 09:31 AM

I can't believe no one has mentioned Saved By the Bell yet! It was all about Zach Morris and Kelly Kapowski when I was a tween. Other shows included Charles In Charge, Who's the Boss?, 90210, Melrose Place, Wings, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Cosby Show, Different World, Anamaniacs, Tiny Toons, Hey Dude!, Salute Your Shorts, Doug (I loved that theme song. My friend and I used to do a pretty kick ass version of it, if I do say so myself), California Dreams, Quantum Leap (random, I know), The Price Is Right (in the summer) and ABC's TGIF line-up.

God, so much of that was absolute crap, but, at the time, I ate it up.

Yes! I watched all of these growing up. Except Melrose Place (I wasn't allowed).

Also watched:
Perfect Strangers
Full House (I swear, I have seen every episode!)
Step by Step
Dinosaurs
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper

Love the theme song!
It's Friday night

and the mood is right

Come have some fun

show you how it's done

T-G-I-F

Great thread! Thanks for the memories!

brutal youth

07-21-2006, 09:41 AM

yes, we represent the true CRAP tv generation. Shows I have seen every episode of more than once:
Saved By the Bell
90210
Full House

I would have retained many brain cells if these shows had not been put into syndication...

Dinosaurs- I remember!
Nickalodeon was my fave- Family Double Dare, What Would You Do, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Wild and Crazy Kids- which is funny, to any Deadwood watchers out there because I think the new character is Omar Gooding

jelliepair

07-21-2006, 09:52 AM

What a walk down memory lane this is! Some of the shows posted, I havent thought about in years. Glad to know I wasnt the only one who wasted my youth watching the boob tube!! (hmm - I am wasting my adulthood too so it seems) :rolleyes:

EdHill

07-21-2006, 11:29 AM

I miss Thundercats.

Clair

07-21-2006, 11:39 AM

I miss Bosom Buddies.

HoneyBunny

07-21-2006, 12:03 PM

Man! The Green Hornet! And we didn't even know the greatest martial arts star was the driver, Kato! So Bruce Lee is now immortal...um, what was the name of the guy that played the Green Hornet? Goes to show...stars are born, not made.

And I'll loved that crazy 60s hornet logo!

Thanks for the flashback!

Van Williams -- he was hot!
And do you remember the car? A 1966 Imperial called Black Beauty.
(shit, I can't remember where I left my cell phone but I remember the name of the car Kato drove....go figure)
I love muscle cars...

hb

Mulv

07-21-2006, 04:36 PM

Thundercats was the shizznits. I had two of the action figures - the green one and the yellow one. They were so badass.

Thundercats, ho!

jenny10girl

07-21-2006, 05:02 PM

I miss Thundercats.

You fantisized about Cheetara, didn't you? ;)

whawha

07-22-2006, 08:12 AM

Van Williams -- he was hot!
And do you remember the car? A 1966 Imperial called Black Beauty.
(shit, I can't remember where I left my cell phone but I remember the name of the car Kato drove....go figure)
I love muscle cars...

hb

Gaaaaaah! Van Williams! How'd you remember that?

And the Black Beauty! There was this whole period when every show had to have a George Barris Kustom Kar (His K's, not mine). The MonkeeMobile, the Munsters Coffin Car, the Batmobile...every little boy would drool...

HoneyBunny

07-22-2006, 08:25 AM

Gaaaaaah! Van Williams! How'd you remember that?

And the Black Beauty! There was this whole period when every show had to have a George Barris Kustom Kar (His K's, not mine). The MonkeeMobile, the Munsters Coffin Car, the Batmobile...every little boy would drool...

Van was my little girl crush...I thought he was sooooo dreamy. (now I realize it was the mask)

George Barris -- OMG. I LOVED his Kars. He was The Man back in the day. Went to this Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (bless his soul) event about mufflemutter years ago and there was the Munsters Coffin Car...I plutzed!

"every little boy would drool" --- Ahem, and every little GIRL, thank you very much!

hb

monkeypeanut

07-25-2006, 11:27 AM

I was a tween in the very early 80s.

The kids shows I liked were Electric Company, 321 Contact, and the Smurfs. I used to get up at the crack of dawn and catch some show called "That's Cat". It came on after the farm report. Anyone? Anyone? *crickets*

My prime time lineup consisted of shows like Little House on the Prairie and Happy Days. The best was summertime, when you could catch all sorts of crazy reruns and gameshows on during the day. I loved Super Password, Scrabble, Wheel of Fortune and crap like that. And I'd watch reruns of the Brady Bunch, Gidget, Gilligan's Island, the Munsters.

chick110

07-26-2006, 02:36 PM

I remember in 1st grade, I would come home every day and take a nap and then wake up and watch Gilligan's Island and then Batman. It was okay if I slept through GI, but NEVER Batman. Batman was the coolest. I would have married Adam West in an instant, LOL! I was also very into cartoons--Bugs Bunny, Scooby Doo (the classic ones, NOT with Scrappy Doo...), Groovy Ghoulies, and many more but I can't remember the names.

zoobabe

07-26-2006, 09:16 PM

do you remember when Scooby Doo had the Schmoo on it? I loved the Schmoo.:)

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 10:37 AM

The Schmoo reminded of mini-Gleep and Gloops from The Herculoids.

Ness

07-27-2006, 10:56 AM

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:10 AM

Ness - Herculoids were one of my favs...loved the stone gorilla and the dragon thing-y...

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:23 AM

Yea it was cool, but does anyone remember the Centurions?
My brother kept annoying me trying to get me to remember it.

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:25 AM

I think so...didn't one of them have a porn-star mustache...and there was a red head chic too, right?

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:27 AM

I think so...didn't one of them have a porn-star mustache...and there was a red head chic too, right?
lol, yea

Oh I amost forgot about the snorks. I watch too many cartoon.

whawha

07-27-2006, 11:28 AM

Oh I loved The Herculoids, but I don't remember the schmoo.
The shows I used to love were the X-Men, Spiderman, Batman, Smurfs Snorks. Does anyone know Legends of the Hidden Temple? Loved that show. Ghostwriter was also a fave.

Herculoids! I had this action figure playset of the Herculoids and the gleep was actually glow-in the dark silly putty in a plastic case that resembled its figure. Coolness!

Almost as sweet as my Major Matt Mason and my Sea-Devils!

Clair

07-27-2006, 11:31 AM

Herculoids! I had this action figure playset of the Herculoids and the gleep was actually glow-in the dark silly putty in a plastic case that resembled its figure. Coolness!

Almost as sweet as my Major Matt Mason and my Sea-Devils!

My mother refused to buy me Barbie dolls, so instead I played with Dawn dolls AND my Big Jim Sports Camper.

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:32 AM

My mother refused to buy me Barbie dolls, so instead I played with Dawn dolls AND my Big Jim Sports Camper.

My Mom wouldn't buy me Barbie either, so I was stuck with STAR...anyone remember her?

whawha

07-27-2006, 11:35 AM

My mother refused to buy me Barbie dolls, so instead I played with Dawn dolls AND my Big Jim Sports Camper.

Oh my god! Big Jim! You just unlocked memories that were waaaay back in the recesses of my brain! Good god!

My sister useta have these little dolls that looked like flowers (were in a case of flower petals that opened up) and smelled like the flowers they were supposed to represent. Any ideas?

And while we're at it: ROLL CALL! Name your favorite toy from your youth...

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:37 AM

I had a few Barbie dolls, but i hardly play with them because as soon as i brought them out my brother would undress them and make them hump his ninja turtle "action figures". That douchebag

derder

07-27-2006, 11:38 AM

And while we're at it: ROLL CALL! Name your favorite toy from your youth...

Lite Brite!!

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:41 AM

Does my super nintendo count as a toy?

whawha

07-27-2006, 11:42 AM

Lite Brite!!

Ah, the days when you could actaully burn yourself playing. The original version was a metal box that would get really hot from the light bulb. Not smart.

And I had a friend that actually bought Jarts...the lawn darts that some kid got impaled with. And there was Creepy Crawlers. You'd fill these metal molds with goop that was then superheated to form rubbery critters. I remember a kid getting sever burns with that.

Ahhhhh. The good old days <wipes a nostalgic tear from his eye>

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:43 AM

How about Shrinky Dinks?

derder

07-27-2006, 11:46 AM

I made Shrinky Dinks with my nieces like two years ago.

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:47 AM

I made Shrinky Dinks with my nieces like two years ago.

HA! I didn't know they were still around...!

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:49 AM

I had one of those dolls that could close their eyes when you lay it down. I also liked to dress up and make new outfits for my my barbies (after getting my mom to make my brother leave me alone). This old woman that live next door had 3 grandaughters who she made clothes for, so I would alway get material from her.

samynoodle

07-27-2006, 11:50 AM

Lite Brite!!

Far and away the best toy ever... and Mall Madness and the Babysitters Club games...

Are You Afraid of the Dark was what I lived for when SNICK was on. The episode with the kid being stuck in the mall but it was really a pinball game still freaks me out. Any time I'm in a larger mall (one with 3 stories or more like in Georgetown) I still cringe at the escalator and await a giant pinball to come crush me... Ohh and Welcome Freshman, SYS, I'm Telling, Finders Keepers, Animaniacs among others.

Clair

07-27-2006, 11:51 AM

And there was Creepy Crawlers. You'd fill these metal molds with goop that was then superheated to form rubbery critters. I remember a kid getting sever burns with that.

Ahhhhh. The good old days <wipes a nostalgic tear from his eye>

I still have my girl version - Fun Flowers. :)

derder

07-27-2006, 11:51 AM

And while we're at it: ROLL CALL! Name your favorite toy from your youth...

EasyBake Oven!!

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:53 AM

EasyBake Oven!!

OHH I loved my EasyBake Oven!!!

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:54 AM

EasyBake Oven!!
Ahh yes, the EBO. I still remeber the stomach aches I used to get from that one. Oh the joys of youth.

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:55 AM

My sister and I always played Ghost in the Graveyard in the basement. My Dad was an antique collector and everything was stored down there. Talk about creepy...

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:56 AM

My sister and I always played Ghost in the Graveyard in the basement. My Dad was an antique collector and everything was stored down there. Talk about creepy...
Never heard of that game

Clair

07-27-2006, 11:56 AM

My sister useta have these little dolls that looked like flowers (were in a case of flower petals that opened up) and smelled like the flowers they were supposed to represent. Any ideas?

I had one too! I can't remember what they were called though. Mine was purple and lived in a tulip. I just searched my closet and found her! Along with my Finger-Ding (sp?) Doll (where her outfit has a hole in the back and you put your fingers into her tights and your fingers are her legs).

jenny10girl

07-27-2006, 11:57 AM

Never heard of that game

It's basically hide and seek but with a flashlight.

Ness

07-27-2006, 11:59 AM

It's basically hide and seek but with a flashlight.
Oh, well then I played that, just without the flashlight. I still remember the time my cousin pissed on herself,lol. Good times

derder

07-27-2006, 12:14 PM

I had one too! I can't remember what they were called though. Mine was purple and lived in a tulip. I just searched my closet and found her! Along with my Finger-Ding (sp?) Doll (where her outfit has a hole in the back and you put your fingers into her tights and your fingers are her legs).

Clair, I am so jealous that you still have your kid toys. I only kept my "Baby Susie" (Drowsy Doll), and my Cookie Monsters.

Clair

07-27-2006, 12:29 PM

Clair, I am so jealous that you still have your kid toys. I only kept my "Baby Susie" (Drowsy Doll), and my Cookie Monsters.

LOL - I just kept a few things. I made the mistake of letting my oldest play with my Dawn dolls and she lost quite a few accessories.

For years Mattel stopped making the goop so my Fun Flowers set just collected dust, but then someone produced it again and I bought my sons insect molds and Power Ranger molds. Of course I had to supervise (and make some flowers) since the heating unit is so dangerous. I can't believe my parents bought this thing for me! Oh wait - there is something written on the heating unit "Caution Very Warm Surfaces".

derder

07-27-2006, 12:44 PM

Someone emailed me this a couple of months ago and even though it's a little corny, it's true. (and FYI: I was born in 1965 and when my mom went into labor with me, she was at the Hastings Country Club, sitting at the bar having a glass of wine and a cig (HA!- she would be arrested for that now).

Those Born 1960-1979!

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/
or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from
a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our
tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up or hanging out of a convertable on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank
koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chatrooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, built forts, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
There were no weapons in schools, no metal detectors to go through.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Congratulations to those who survived growing up in the 60's and 70's!

Clair

07-27-2006, 12:50 PM

Thanks derder - it gave me goosebumps. 1962 for me.

chick110

07-27-2006, 12:55 PM

My dad was in the navy so when my mom went into labor, he was on ship (or submarine--can't keep all his navy stories straight nor do I want to...) and my 14 yo sister had to drive my mom to the hospital. :)

Toys I remember well from when I was a kid:

Gnip-Gnop (ping pong but smaller and contained)
The Mystery Date game--I loved this game until mine broke and we always got stuck with the nerd...
Buck-a-roo (I actually saw this in the store the other day--too weird!)
And my personal favorite: the Playdoh Fun Factory

derder

07-27-2006, 01:04 PM

Wow- "Mystery Date"... "Open the door- to your mystery date". That was such a cool game. I forgot about that.
Does anyone remember that toy. It had two strings with glass balls at the end of them, and you clicked them together? What was that called?
And remember playing "spoons" (that little instrument toy- it was two spoons laying back to back and you would play them on your leg?)

Clair

07-27-2006, 01:06 PM

Does anyone remember that toy. It had two strings with glass balls at the end of them, and you clicked them together? What was that called?

Click-clacks!

derder

07-27-2006, 01:09 PM

Click-Clacks!!! God, this is fun... I haven't thought about these things in thirty years...
What was the frickin' point of those anyway? And talk about hazardous- my brother broke mine into a million little shards.

whawha

07-27-2006, 01:54 PM

I had one too! I can't remember what they were called though. Mine was purple and lived in a tulip. I just searched my closet and found her! Along with my Finger-Ding (sp?) Doll (where her outfit has a hole in the back and you put your fingers into her tights and your fingers are her legs).

Are you sure you're not my sister? She had one of those too. If I recall, it was pretty limited play. Basically, kick your "legs" out for a couple of time, take the thing off and go play with something else.

tati

07-27-2006, 02:07 PM

Games i liked: Connect Four, Operation, Concentration (not sure if that's the name---the one where there was a timer & u hadda complete some sort of puzzle b4 the timer went off, otherwise the whole thing would shatter?)

also not as exciting but i still used to luv Spirographics, i think it was called, were u used a 4 color pen to make different patterns using little plastic wheel things. (not a great description but i was thnkg abt ths thing just the other day)

I luv'd Barbie, but I wasnt allowed to have 1 til i was 10. I recently bought 1 for my fr'nd's baby, who just turned 3 (don't want her 2 miss out!)

derder

07-27-2006, 02:25 PM

I loved Spirograph!

tati

07-27-2006, 06:01 PM

thx, Derder, that's the name, Spirograph!

i also loved Play-doh & all the various contraptions u could use to make food shapes & stuff. I can still clearly smell it. Drove me crazy whn it would dry out tho. I also really liked Legos.

derder

07-27-2006, 07:58 PM

Play-doh was very salty (yes, I tried it).

Clair

07-27-2006, 08:52 PM

Are you sure you're not my sister? She had one of those too. If I recall, it was pretty limited play. Basically, kick your "legs" out for a couple of time, take the thing off and go play with something else.

LOL - I have four brothers, but none live in AZ.

Clair

07-27-2006, 08:54 PM

whawha, I just assumed you were a guy because of your avitar. I have no sisters in AZ either. :)

derder

07-27-2006, 10:52 PM

Does anyone remember Little Kiddles- I loved mine. And I still remember how they smelled... weird.

http://clubderder.com/images/sweetpea.jpg

whawha

07-28-2006, 07:40 AM

whawha, I just assumed you were a guy because of your avitar. I have no sisters in AZ either. :)

All man baby! Um...some of the time.

chick110

07-28-2006, 08:40 AM

And I still remember how they smelled... weird.

I can still remember how this chocolate lipstick or lipgloss from Avon tasted. I think I may have had some back in '71...

tati

07-28-2006, 09:32 AM

as a kiddie, i was also fond of Hungry Hungry Hippos & Etch-a-sketch. I think some of these might still b around? I know I liked Life & Candyland, too, those are def'ly still around.

Oh & those plastic things u put water in2 & thn hadda press a button that would shoot air into the water & move the things floating around inside---the object was to get the things 2 land in a particular spot. Not a great description but maybe u guys will know what i'm talking abt.

I also had a fabulous collection of Smurfs and Garbage Pail Kids cards, I really wish I still had those! oh & my fisher-price people! :) good times!

whawha

07-28-2006, 09:38 AM

derder

07-28-2006, 09:38 AM

Do you guys remember those bunny pins from Avon that had perfume inside of them? My mom hated Avon and wouldn't get me one, and I was so jealous of the girls that had them.

angiemarie

07-28-2006, 03:19 PM

Do you guys remember those bunny pins from Avon that had perfume inside of them? My mom hated Avon and wouldn't get me one, and I was so jealous of the girls that had them.

Oh, yeah I remember those! Do you remember the Avon sample size lipsticks? They were the perfect size for kids playing dress-up. I loved to play dress up.
Also, I loved to play "war" with the neighborhood boys. I guess I was a well-rounded kid!

The first toy I ever fell in the love with was the Atari. God, I still love to play Space Invaders. I was talking about the video game Pitfall the other day at work, and my coworker had no idea what I meant! I felt so sorry for her.

Also, I remember going through a very strong Uno phase. I played it with my friends, and everyone in my family loved it. My favorite board games were Boggle, Monopoly, and Sorry. Sorry had that crazy bubble thing you would push instead of rolling dice, that was so fun!

derder

07-28-2006, 03:23 PM

Oh, yeah I remember those! Do you remember the Avon sample size lipsticks? They were the perfect size for kids playing dress-up. I loved to play dress up.
Also, I loved to play "war" with the neighborhood boys. I guess I was a well-rounded kid!

The first toy I ever fell in the love with was the Atari. God, I still love to play Space Invaders. I was talking about the video game Pitfall the other day at work, and my coworker had no idea what I meant! I felt so sorry for her.

Also, I remember going through a very strong Uno phase. I played it with my friends, and everyone in my family loved it. My favorite board games were Boggle, Monopoly, and Sorry. Sorry had that crazy bubble thing you would push instead of rolling dice, that was so fun!

Actually, the game with the bubble was called "Trouble". And I loved those little lipsticks (my grandma had them)- I had forgotten. Good Times...

ObstinantGirl

07-31-2006, 11:09 AM

It's basically hide and seek but with a flashlight.
My kids play this & call it Manhunt. I remember playing it as a kid, but I think we just called it 'Hide and Seek'...even at night & with flashlights (or not). I guess we weren't very imaginative!

I loved my Easy Bake Oven. And my Lite Brite.
But...other than that, I think we mostly played outside. We used
'found' items to create houses & streets & villages in the woods near my house. We'd go inside to get meals, but other than that we'd be outside all day long. And we also walked uphill to school, both ways! In the snow! With cardboard soles on our shoes!

But, seriously? There were MAYBE 3-4 working (receiption) television stations, no such thing as VCR/DVD/gamesystems/etc. I remember knowing a girl whose family had their OWN pinball machine! And an air hockey table! Wow. I was pretty happy that we had a pingpong table. And almost noone had their own swimming pool!

TinkerbellAPixie

07-31-2006, 03:05 PM

Wow - I just had so much fun catching up on this thread. You have taken me up and down memory lane.

Along with my Finger-Ding (sp?) Doll (where her outfit has a hole in the back and you put your fingers into her tights and your fingers are her legs).

My mom always gave us presents when she'd head off to the hospital to have a new baby (she had 6 of us so there were lots of prezzies). Anyhow, when she had my brother my three sisters and I each got one of those finger dings - so we had a complete set of the Monkees.

Does anyone remember Little Kiddles- I loved mine. And I still remember how they smelled... weird.

I had TONS of those little kiddles - I even had a little kiddle tree house, oh the fun I had with those - and they did have a smell.

Do you guys remember those bunny pins from Avon that had perfume inside of them? My mom hated Avon and wouldn't get me one, and I was so jealous of the girls that had them.

We got those bunny, chick and santa pins for Easter and Christmas as stocking stuffers. We had the lip gloss ones too which I would apply, lick off and apply again.

Anyone remember the Sunshine Family dolls?

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 12:31 AM

I'm just catching up on this thread-it's been a little slice of heaven. I loved my easy bake oven, etch-a-sketch,and spirograph since I wasn't much of a Barbie girl.

The mystery date game sparked a little memory for me about the lunch pails my sister and I used to take to school. Did anyone have a Campus Queen lunch pail? It was made out of metal and had magnetic pieces so you could play a game when you were done eating lunch. Damn I wish I still had that thing, I bet it's worth a frickin' fortune now!

Oh, and when I was a kid, I loved Atom Ant, and Batman.

jelliepair

08-01-2006, 06:59 AM

Yes, I am a girl but one of my favorite toys growing up HAD to be Rockem-Sockem Robots. For some reason, I thought they were the fun-est toy ever (maybe because they were my older brothers' and I coveted everything he had?). My slinky was pretty popular because our house had so many stairs. I also enjoyed Silly Putty on Sundays when the Comics came in color. We played a lot of Ping Pong too which I lost horribly.

I also loved puppets and marionettes. Some freak who built our house put in a built-in puppet stage in our basement, complete with lights and a seating area. I cant tell you how many countless plays and stories I would make my family suffer through. I am SUCH a drama queen (even today).

Lastly, I played with my Pet Rock, Sly (as in family stone...) a lot - its sad but I loved that rock.

whawha

08-01-2006, 07:24 AM

Oh, and when I was a kid, I loved Atom Ant, and Batman.

You just reminded me of Secret Squirrel and his aide de camp, Morocco Mole!

And yes! I said aide de camp!

HoneyBunny

08-01-2006, 07:37 AM

Yes, I am a girl but one of my favorite toys growing up HAD to be Rockem-Sockem Robots. For some reason, I thought they were the fun-est toy ever (maybe because they were my older brothers' and I coveted everything he had?).

jellie - me too....except my tom-boy love was slot car racing. On the weekends my brother and his friends would go to this place that had a couple of tracks. I would tag-a-long and they would let me run a few races so they could make fun of me but I loved it and didn't care if they made fun.

I still love fast cars and a few years ago I went to this Racing School in Pomona (Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School) and got to drive a dragster for real. I was so Shirley Muldowney.
http://www.frankhawley.com/

hb

whawha

08-01-2006, 07:40 AM

jellie - me too....except my tom-boy love was slot car racing. On the weekends my brother and his friends would go to this place that had a couple of tracks. I would tag-a-long and they would let me run a few races so they could make fun of me but I loved it and didn't care if they made fun.

I still love fast cars and a few years ago I went to this Racing School in Pomona (Frank Hawley's Drag Racing School) and got to drive a dragster for real. I was so Shirley Muldowney.
http://www.frankhawley.com/

hb

your new name: Honey "Cha Cha" Bunny...

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 07:46 AM

your new name: Honey "Cha Cha" Bunny...

You beat me to it Whawha! :)

Loved Secret squirrel! But I have to say as far as squirrels go, Rocky rules!

HoneyBunny

08-01-2006, 07:53 AM

You just reminded me of Secret Squirrel and his aide de camp, Morocco Mole!

And yes! I said aide de camp!

I had a crush on Top Cat...

msccrn - Rocky was my fav too

love,
Cha Cha

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 08:00 AM

I had a crush on Top Cat...

msccrn - Rocky was my fav too

love,
Cha Cha

Tennessee Tuxedo anyone?

Lizardqueen

08-01-2006, 08:14 AM

Tennessee Tuxedo anyone?

Why, yes Chumley.

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 08:35 AM

Why, yes Chumley.

Thank goodness, I was afraid I might be the only one!

Does anyone remember the Fractured Fairy Tales? What was the name of the nerdy kid and the professor with the time machine?

Lizardqueen

08-01-2006, 08:38 AM

Thank goodness, I was afraid I might be the only one!

Does anyone remember the Fractured Fairy Tales? What was the name of the nerdy kid and the professor with the time machine?

Are we talking about the dog Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and the Wayback Machine?

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 08:39 AM

Are we talking about the dog Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and the Wayback Machine?

YES!! I always thought Sherman and Rocky the Squirrel had the same voice, hmmm...

ObstinantGirl

08-01-2006, 08:55 AM

I also loved puppets and marionettes. Some freak who built our house put in a built-in puppet stage in our basement, complete with lights and a seating area. I cant tell you how many countless plays and stories I would make my family suffer through.That is AWESOME! What a very cool thing to have in your home. I had friends growing up whose basement had all sorts of cubbies & nooks & crannies...we spent countless hours down there playing house, creating cities & stories. Great kid memories!

I also remember many hours spent building forts out of blankets, boxes, etc. And I love that my own kids have done the same thing (and my 9 year old still does)...completely on their own.

whawha

08-01-2006, 09:30 AM

Are we talking about the dog Mr. Peabody, Sherman, and the Wayback Machine?

Best part of Fractured Fairy Tales was the fairy getting caught under the heavy book, as a twisted nod to Walt Disney and Tinkerbell!

Anybody remember Tom Terrific? Mister Green Jeans? Dancing Bear? Um...now that I think about it, Capt. Kangaroo was really trippy!

msCCRN

08-01-2006, 09:39 AM

Best part of Fractured Fairy Tales was the fairy getting caught under the heavy book, as a twisted nod to Walt Disney and Tinkerbell!

Anybody remember Tom Terrific? Mister Green Jeans? Dancing Bear? Um...now that I think about it, Capt. Kangaroo was really trippy!

That was one of my favorite parts of FFT!
I loved Capt. Kangaroo, dancing bear, Mr. Green Jeans and the gang. I felt a little piece of my childhood died when Bob Keeshan (sp?) died.

derder

08-01-2006, 09:50 AM

I was a total girly girl- I love Barbies, Little Kiddles, My EasyBake oven (as previously mentioned), and apparently the artist in me emerged as a child because, as I stated, Lite Brite was my favorite toy.
I also LOVED playing with my friend Karen's fisher price people. (I had some... the barn, and the boat. OH remember the fisher price boat with the little diving board and the dingy???). But Karen was absolutely HOOKED UP with the Fisher Price people and toys. We would play for hours with them. We would make full houses, condo's, townhouses, and hotels out of shoeboxes, big boxes, milk crates- didn't matter. And she had a million little pieces (rugs, furniture, etc.) and of course these were for the Fisher Price people to live in. And now, appropriately enough, Karen is an Interior Designer.
Anyway, the one tom-boy thing I did love (if this is even Tomboy) was building forts! We had a very cool fort in our backyard by the river- We made it with railroad ties, my dad got us an actual midget sized door (sorry, not to offend little people- but, you know- those little half sized doors?) and the secret password was....
Dynamite! (oooohhhh-)

Also, Kick the Can was the big neighboorhood game. EVERY NIGHT!!

TinkerbellAPixie

08-01-2006, 01:26 PM

Best part of Fractured Fairy Tales was the fairy getting caught under the heavy book, as a twisted nod to Walt Disney and Tinkerbell!

OUCH!

I am jealous of all of you with your Easy Bake ovens - I never got one. I was at a toy store with my mom recently and pointed to one saying it was never too late for her to get it for me. She said why do I need an Easy Bake Oven when I have a full grown oven that I never use. I said - maybe if I had one as a child - I would actually cook now.

As for our games at night - we would chase lightning bugs and fill jars with them. I called them my tinkerbell jars. (see even then I was fascinated with the pixie)

OD-TV

08-01-2006, 01:30 PM

"As for our games at night - we would chase lightning bugs and fill jars with them."

WOW that brings back memories!

whawha

08-01-2006, 01:38 PM

As for our games at night - we would chase lightning bugs and fill jars with them. I called them my tinkerbell jars. (see even then I was fascinated with the pixie)

That's it! I'm calling PETI (People for the Ethical Treatment of Insects)!

TinkerbellAPixie

08-01-2006, 01:43 PM

That's it! I'm calling PETI (People for the Ethical Treatment of Insects)!

Than you should also tell them about my friend Marsha who would kill the lightning bugs and smoosh their butts all over her shirt to make herself glow.

derder

08-01-2006, 01:46 PM

we would put it on our fingernails like polish.

TinkerbellAPixie

08-01-2006, 01:47 PM

we would put it on our fingernails like polish.

How .. um....er...stylish of you. ... :eek:

derder

08-01-2006, 01:49 PM

I know...gross, right?

HoneyBunny

08-01-2006, 01:49 PM

Drizzle, drazzle
dradle, drone
Time for this one to come home.

hb

TinkerbellAPixie

08-01-2006, 01:50 PM

I know...gross, right?

Um... just a little.

Lizardqueen

08-01-2006, 03:52 PM

Holy crap! Mr. Wizard was one of my favorite shows ever! The best was when he had a child assistant named Christian. It convinced me that Mr. Wizard was truly a sadist. Christian was a bespectacled geek of a raw nerve. He was so jumpy and scared of everything. So, of course, Mr. Wizard had him work on EVERY experimetn that exploded, or made smoke, or shot something off into the air. I would see Christian at the beginning of a show and just know that it would be a good one.

jelliepair

08-02-2006, 07:09 AM

I loved my easy bake oven and use to make all sorts of disgusting things that my brother would eat. I do not eat sweets therefore I have no idea how things should have tasted but I am certain it wasnt anything like they ended up tasting!! Anyone ever cook a mud pie in ther easy bake? Then frost it and give it to their brother who beat the living shit out of them with dirt and grass stuck in his teeth (I thought that was hysterical but i am a sick girl :)

I also loved weebles. cause they wobble and they dont fall down! I played with them for hours and they got to live in a shoe box they shared with my neon haired trolls and my hand me down Skipper dolls.

Here's a few more of my youthful memories - Silly Sand, Hula Hoops, Mexican Jumping Beans, playing: jacks, pickup sticks, barrell of monkeys.

God I feel old now!

ObstinantGirl

08-02-2006, 07:25 AM

I am jealous of all of you with your Easy Bake ovens - I never got one. I was at a toy store with my mom recently and pointed to one saying it was never too late for her to get it for me. She said why do I need an Easy Bake Oven when I have a full grown oven that I never use. I said - maybe if I had one as a child - I would actually cook now.
I dunno...didn't work that way for me! :rolleyes:

I'm trying to remember the name of the show that I watched as a little one, where the woman looked into a mirror and said Happy Birthday to specific people...she NEVER said my name, which devastated me. I realize now that it's because my parents never sent in my name! But at the time, I was practically in tears over it!

TinkerbellAPixie

08-02-2006, 07:30 AM

Anyone ever cook a mud pie in ther easy bake? Then frost it and give it to their brother who beat the living shit out of them with dirt and grass stuck in his teeth (I thought that was hysterical but i am a sick girl :)

I love it! Nothing like creative chicanery.

I also loved weebles. cause they wobble and they dont fall down! I played with them for hours and they got to live in a shoe box they shared with my neon haired trolls and my hand me down Skipper dolls.

Here's a few more of my youthful memories - Silly Sand, Hula Hoops, Mexican Jumping Beans, playing: jacks, pickup sticks, barrell of monkeys.

I loved Weebles and would have them be the neighbors to my Little People.

Hula hoops were fun too and I still think pick up sticks is an all time great.

TinkerbellAPixie

08-02-2006, 07:33 AM

I'm trying to remember the name of the show that I watched as a little one, where the woman looked into a mirror and said Happy Birthday to specific people...she NEVER said my name, which devastated me. I realize now that it's because my parents never sent in my name! But at the time, I was practically in tears over it!

OOH I watched that too ROMPER ROOM- I know she always said my sister's name (Amy) but never mine. I was so jealous. I know she called it her magic mirror and she would sing:

Romper Stomper Bomper Boo
Tell me tell me tell me true.....

Ok I don't remember it all - but I did have the Romper Stompers like she had. I just wanted the cardboard trucks to pull up and walk around beeping.

whawha

08-02-2006, 07:48 AM

OOH I watched that too ROMPER ROOM- I know she always said my sister's name (Amy) but never mine. I was so jealous. I know she called it her magic mirror and she would sing:

Romper Stomper Bomper Boo
Tell me tell me tell me true.....

Ok I don't remember it all - but I did have the Romper Stompers like she had. I just wanted the cardboard trucks to pull up and walk around beeping.

"Don't be a don't bee...do be a do bee."

(Which became "don't be a don't bee. Do a doobie!" in high school.

And who says TV's good fer nuthin'?

ObstinantGirl

08-02-2006, 07:53 AM

ROMPER ROOM! THAT WAS IT! Thank you. My aging brain can't take the stress I put on it when I'm trying hard to remember things from 30-40 years ago :p

chick110

08-02-2006, 08:07 AM

She never said my name either, so I hated her. My mom would always try to get me to watch the show and I refused.

ScotyUtah

08-02-2006, 08:26 AM

TV I was watching with my parents in the 80's (as a tweener) were shows like the Greatest American Hero, The A-Team and Air Wolf. One of my favorite kids shows was Land of the Lost. This thread is bringing back some good memories of my youff...

Clair

08-02-2006, 09:09 AM

I used to LOVE "Land of the Lost"!! The Sleestak were so scary!

msCCRN

08-02-2006, 09:34 AM

I dunno...didn't work that way for me! :rolleyes:

I'm trying to remember the name of the show that I watched as a little one, where the woman looked into a mirror and said Happy Birthday to specific people...she NEVER said my name, which devastated me. I realize now that it's because my parents never sent in my name! But at the time, I was practically in tears over it!

I forgot about Romper Room. I was thinking it was Hobo Kelly, but I'm not sure if she was just a local show. Does anyone remember her with her giant oversized sunglasses? Oh, that reminds me of Sheriff John. Maybe he was just a local phenom here too. He used to sing the birthday song: "Put another candle on my birthday cake...."

chick110

08-03-2006, 06:51 AM

Does anyone else remember the Bozo show? For some reason, that guy used to scare me. I found out years later that one of my co-workers had been on the show, LOL.

And I do remember the oversized sunglasses on Romper Room. Still not over her not saying my name, though. ;)

ajerseyromance

08-24-2007, 08:05 AM

I've searched the boards in general and didn't see any threads along these lines, but I apologize if there is a thread already like this.

What were everyone's favorite shows back in the day? When I was little, I was OBSESSED with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... I had EVERYTHING-- action figures, pajamas, bedding, tents, costumes-- it was insane. I've seen the new TMNT and it just doesn't do the original justice. They aren't friendly looking anymore. :(

I also loved Are you Afraid of the Dark? on Nickelodeon's Snick. I remember actually being scared of it.

Anyone else have any others?

LonnaSaur

08-24-2007, 08:51 AM

Hey, Jersey. This is a neat idea!

I loved the Tom and Jerry cartoons. They were so fun, especially the ones where they were friends or united against a common enemy (I'm talking to you, Spike the bulldog!) There was one where they flooded the kitchen and then opened the freezer to freeze all the water and they ice skated on it. I thought that was the coolest thing.

I also used to watch a show called The Monster Squad, with Fred Grandy (yes, Gopher!) as the night watchman at a wax museum. The statues of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolf Man would come alive at night to go out and fight crime. It was the best and I had a little four- or five-year old crush on Walt.

I also loved to watch Kroft's Superstars with H.R. Puff 'N' Stuff, Land of the Lost and Kids are People, Too, or whatever it was called.

Ah, memories!

ajerseyromance

08-24-2007, 09:32 AM

Krizzatch

08-24-2007, 10:04 AM

OOOooh Land of the Lost was a good one! I watched the remake though in the 90's on Nickelodeon I think. I was definitely a Nickelodeon kid... I remember loving summertime with Stick Stickly I still remember his song:

Write to me Stick Stickly
PO BOX 963, New York City, New York State 10108!

LOL I guess you have to know the tune to appreciate it. I loved marathons of Salute your Shorts, Hey Dude, and Pete and Pete.

:thumbup:

ajerseyromance!!!! Seriously, we have to be best friends now because I remember watching every single show you've listed after school. every day. I own the Pete and Pete DVD's and watch them religiously. Salute Your Shorts was my fave and Hey Dude a close second. Do you remember "Welcome, Freshman".... that was a more obscure one, but seriously... Stick freakin' Stickley was an ICON.

ajerseyromance

08-24-2007, 11:14 AM

ajerseyromance!!!! Seriously, we have to be best friends now because I remember watching every single show you've listed after school. every day. I own the Pete and Pete DVD's and watch them religiously. Salute Your Shorts was my fave and Hey Dude a close second. Do you remember "Welcome, Freshman".... that was a more obscure one, but seriously... Stick freakin' Stickley was an ICON.

How many DVD's do Pete and Pete have? I only remember there being a handful of re-runs that they ran over and over and over. They were so worth it though-- I watched them constantly. It was really a pretty smart show for it's time. One of my favorite episodes was the one when little Pete and his friends tried to stay up for a whole week straight I think. And how can you forget Artie... The Strongest Man In the World (Imagine that I just did that in his voice, because I totally just did it-- at my desk-- at work-- haha)

Salute your Shorts was also my favorite followed by Hey Dude-- they should so come out with a Channel for old school Nickelodeon shows, because if you remember those then you must remember Snick and Are you Afraid of the Dark.

I LOVED Are you Afraid of the Dark... I still remember almost all the episodes... like the one where the girls got stuck in the dollhouse and they started turning into dolls. The one with the little boy ghost standing outside everyone's window saying "I'm cold" all creepy like. The Watcher in the Woods. The Phone Police. The one where the boys got stuck in a pinball arcade game. OMG I could go on and on... They were very much like the Goosebumps series by RL Stine that I read as a kid... loved those books too.

Pekmboyd

08-24-2007, 11:27 AM

My Two Dads was my FAVORITE.

minda07

08-24-2007, 11:45 AM

Blossom was a favorite of mine - I even went out and bought the dorky hats!

Krizzatch

08-24-2007, 12:06 PM

How many DVD's do Pete and Pete have? I only remember there being a handful of re-runs that they ran over and over and over. They were so worth it though-- I watched them constantly. It was really a pretty smart show for it's time. One of my favorite episodes was the one when little Pete and his friends tried to stay up for a whole week straight I think. And how can you forget Artie... The Strongest Man In the World (Imagine that I just did that in his voice, because I totally just did it-- at my desk-- at work-- haha)

Salute your Shorts was also my favorite followed by Hey Dude-- they should so come out with a Channel for old school Nickelodeon shows, because if you remember those then you must remember Snick and Are you Afraid of the Dark.

I LOVED Are you Afraid of the Dark... I still remember almost all the episodes... like the one where the girls got stuck in the dollhouse and they started turning into dolls. The one with the little boy ghost standing outside everyone's window saying "I'm cold" all creepy like. The Watcher in the Woods. The Phone Police. The one where the boys got stuck in a pinball arcade game. OMG I could go on and on... They were very much like the Goosebumps series by RL Stine that I read as a kid... loved those books too.

I own 2 of the DVD's so far, and I think there may be more coming out - I heard Artie's voice through your post - - THE STRONGEST MAN...IN THE WORLD!!! My fave character was Ellen, and to this day I still call people blowholes, just like little Pete did.

Are You Afraid of the Dark? was the best, they have a DVD box set out of that one - I remember the doll house one and the scariest was the dead mans float where the spirit comes out of the pool... Oh yeah, I remember that creepy show! I loved watching that during Snick on Saturday nights, do you remember AGH! Real Monsters! and Kablam! were both animated and AWESOME....

Instead of RL Stine, I read Christopher Pike.... HA this is too funny....

ajerseyromance

08-24-2007, 12:24 PM

do you remember AGH! Real Monsters! and Kablam! were both animated and AWESOME....

Yes of course I remember Ickis Krum and Oblina! (sp?) It was so cute how they could never scare anyone lol. I think I vaguely remember Kablam! Was that the one that had action league now? All can remember from that is the body builder (The Flesh? I think) and Thundergirl.

And of course there were the other Nicktoons-- Rug Rats, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, and my personal favorite, Doug. **Chickapata Chicka Chicka Patata** If you understand that reference, then we really should be best friends haha.

Krizzatch

08-24-2007, 12:44 PM

**Chickapata Chicka Chicka Patata**

Theme song, right? I'm trying to recall the whole song....

Another good one: Where is the World is Carmen Sandiego? With Rockapella singing the theme.

jampony

08-24-2007, 04:52 PM

Slightly off topic but I'm posting it anyway...

I downloaded this game called The 80s game the other day. And just so you know, I did really well on the song category, so-so on the TV category and horribly at the movie category (I didn't even bother with sports).

What I found really interesting, though, is that I was pretty spot on with the dates of songs, but WAY off on tv shows. Things that I thought I watched in grade school was actually on the air my junior and senior year in high school. I'm not sure what that means, but I DO know that I'm trying to guess everyone's age by what you all watched and I'm pretty sure you're all a bunch of 14-year-olds. Except pek and minda... you guys are 18 or so. How'd I do?

Pekmboyd

08-24-2007, 05:09 PM

lennonwhore

08-24-2007, 05:21 PM

I.m 10

ajerseyromance

08-25-2007, 07:45 AM

I DO know that I'm trying to guess everyone's age by what you all watched and I'm pretty sure you're all a bunch of 14-year-olds. Except pek and minda... you guys are 18 or so. How'd I do?

I'm 22. Salute your shorts ran from 1991-1992 and had reruns until 1998. Thats my first grade through 8th grade years. Hey Dude ran from 89-91... I was in first grade in 1991. Pete and Pete was 93-96-- 3rd to 6th grades.

Pek mentioned My Two Dads... that aired when I was in kindergarten.

Minda mentioned Blossom, which aired 91-95-- my 1st through 5th grade years.

So I would say that they aren't all that much older than me.

;)

ajerseyromance

08-25-2007, 07:47 AM

Theme song, right? I'm trying to recall the whole song....

Another good one: Where is the World is Carmen Sandiego? With Rockapella singing the theme.

HAHA now we really are best friends!

And I LOVED Carmen San Diego... I got the workbooks in the mail and I took them VERY seriously. I still remember their smell. haha :p

dr.birdie

08-25-2007, 12:22 PM

If I held the rabbit ears just right, I could watch The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family as original episodes

TinkerbellAPixie

08-25-2007, 12:39 PM

We actually used to have a thread like this - so I'm gonna merge that one with this one and keep this thread's title. So when it gets a lot longer - you'll understand why.

ajerseyromance

08-27-2007, 06:05 AM

I remember Lassie and Flipper came on back to back around lunch time when I was little.... I would watch and eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches-- sans crust, of course.

minda07

08-27-2007, 06:07 AM

I'm not sure what that means, but I DO know that I'm trying to guess everyone's age by what you all watched and I'm pretty sure you're all a bunch of 14-year-olds. Except pek and minda... you guys are 18 or so. How'd I do?

Well considering I just got carded for lotto tickets on saturday - you are pretty close, just add 11 years!:w00t:

LonnaSaur

08-28-2007, 07:11 AM

I used to love watching The Love Boat. It's how I know who Milton Berle and Martha Rae are (were). My sister and I made a love boat for our Barbie dolls out of a book shelf. The bottom shelf was the engine room, next shelf was a stateroom, next shelf was the bar/restaurant and the top was the pool deck. We put Barbie furniture on all the floors and the Barbie infltable pool up top and our Barbies got to cruise to Acapulco all the time. Of course, they all had to date our one, scraggly G.I. Joe Doll but they didn't seem to mind!

Has anyone ever seen Danger Mouse??

ajerseyromance

08-28-2007, 09:04 AM

I remember Danger Mouse... he had an eyepatch didn't he? Apparently there was a Mouse trend b/c I watched Mighty Mouse religiously.

RachWho?

08-28-2007, 09:09 AM

Does anyone remember the old teen soaps? There was one on Nick called Fifteen (I think I've discussed it on another thread somewhere) and it ROCKED (it had Daisy Adair from Dead Like Me when she was a little bopper and Ryan Reynolds back in the day!) and then there was Swan's Crossing, featuring a very young, pre-cigaretted, Sarah Michelle Gellar. Both of these shows were fantastic, and as I was pre-pubescent at the time, they seemed the pinnacle of coolness.

ajerseyromance

08-28-2007, 10:54 AM

I don't remember those :( I did a google search to see if I could job my memory but no luck. The only teen "soap" I watched regularly was My So Called Life. Love it! I want to get them on dvd... I'm sure they are just as good now.

RachWho?

08-28-2007, 11:24 AM

OMG, I wanted to swim in Jordan Catalano's angst.

But you were really missing out on those other soaps I mentioned. They were both terrible. Terribe acting, terrible plotlines, characters were complete stereotypes (jock, troublemaker, rich bitch, nerd, foreign exchange student, protesting hippie...)

animalcrackers

08-28-2007, 11:54 AM

ajerseyromance

08-28-2007, 12:55 PM

OMG, I wanted to swim in Jordan Catalano's angst.

:lol: How true.

i guess you could this a teen soap - i used to watch Hey Dude on Nick all the freaking time! my sister and i would pick characters to be - she always was melody and i was always the brown haired girl. and we both wanted to date the same boy on the show. we would fight over him all the time!

the other one i watched was Salute Your Shorts!

I started this thread b/c I wanted to post about those shows... then I got merged and my post got lost somewhere in the middle... lol... Anyway, I LOVE Hey Dude (the brown haired girl you are refering to is probably brad-- the one that looked like xena, right?) and Salute your shorts... and I loved summertime with Stick Stickley because he would play marathons all day long. Loved it. :D

LonnaSaur

08-28-2007, 01:43 PM

I remember Danger Mouse... he had an eyepatch didn't he? Apparently there was a Mouse trend b/c I watched Mighty Mouse religiously.

YES! He did have an eyepatch. And a British accent. I wasn't into Mighty Mouse, though.

RachWho?

08-28-2007, 02:39 PM

i guess you could this a teen soap - i used to watch Hey Dude on Nick all the freaking time! my sister and i would pick characters to be - she always was melody and i was always the brown haired girl. and we both wanted to date the same boy on the show. we would fight over him all the time!

the other one i watched was Salute Your Shorts!

Well, Melody did okay for herself--she's married to Ben Stiller!

I never got the appeal of the Brad character. She was supposed to be the sexy one, but she just seemed manly to me. LOL @ AJR for saying she looked like Xena--so true! I always thought Melody was hotter, and I always thought she should hook up with Ted. I think Ted has been on a lot of shows as a recurring character. I remember him being on 90210 as a character Kelly had the hots for, he was a volleyball player, then he "came out" and she realized it wasn't because she was losing her irresistability that he hadn't slept with her. My head is filled with just this kind of useless trivia.

LonnaSaur

08-29-2007, 06:31 AM

Does anyone remember a cartoon that might have been called "Petey the Puppy?" It was about a group of dogs who go around solving crimes or something. I liked it but I don't remember much about it. The thing that always got to me was, when they were following a bad guy, one of them would always say, "All right, guys, come on. And be very quiet!" And then they would all run off after the bad guy and bark the whole time they were running. Why didn't those bad guys ever hear them coming?! :p

I also loved a cartoon show called "Fred Flintstone and Friends." It was a compilation of several different cartoons-they would show one cartoon, maybe the Flintstones, and then another cartoon, maybe Yogi Bear or something. In this version of the Flintstones, Pebbles and Bam-Bam were teenagers and they were dating and they had a band. They used to sing really cute songs, I seem to remember one being about "a hop, skip and a juh-ump, that's the way my love goes, the way my love goes," or something like that. Some of the cartoons included Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, toons like that. I loved it. Anyone? Anyone?

ajerseyromance

08-29-2007, 07:08 AM

I also loved a cartoon show called "Fred Flintstone and Friends." It was a compilation of several different cartoons-they would show one cartoon, maybe the Flintstones, and then another cartoon, maybe Yogi Bear or something. In this version of the Flintstones, Pebbles and Bam-Bam were teenagers and they were dating and they had a band. They used to sing really cute songs, I seem to remember one being about "a hop, skip and a juh-ump, that's the way my love goes, the way my love goes," or something like that. Some of the cartoons included Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, toons like that. I loved it. Anyone? Anyone?

Awh I do remember this! I remember Pebbles and Bam Bam dating and the band but I don't remember any of the songs... and I LOVE snagglepuss! I loved the way he talked... "I'm hungry... starving, even!" And I loved Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. My first (and only :( ) dog's name was Augie!

RachWho?

08-29-2007, 07:13 AM

ajerseyromance

08-29-2007, 08:06 AM

When I think of Old School Television I really mostly think of how great Nickelodeon used to be. Here's my list:

You Can't Do That on Television
Out of Control (Dave Coulier when he was actually funny and weird)
Today's Special
Pinwheel
Picture Pages
Don't Just Sit There
Fifteen
Salute Your Shorts
Clarissa Explains it All
Hey Dude
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Pete & Pete
Welcome Freshman

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO NICKELODEON? Why can't we get these shows on a Classic Nick station?!? I would never leave my house!

I so think we should write a letter! I've been saying that for years! They have a NickToon channel why not an old school nick channel? I love Pete and Pete, as I mentioned in a few posts before and I absolutely LOVED Are You Afrad of the Dark! I still remember most of the episodes! And was actually scared of them back in the day. And if you remember Snick, do you remember The Roundhouse? It came on right before Are you Afraid of the Dark. It was like an SNL kind of for kids. It had skits and lots of dancing in between. No one I know seems to remember this show, but I loved it!

ajerseyromance

08-29-2007, 08:09 AM

Oh and do you remember how high tech Clarissa was (at least I thought so) When she was making all those games on her computer? It was straight up DOS mode.. lol.

minda07

08-29-2007, 09:01 AM

Ok Rach - Now I have the Pinwheel theme song stuck in my head!

My favorite cartoon was Alvin and the Chipmunks - I hope the new live action movie doesn't blow!

ajerseyromance

08-29-2007, 09:07 AM

My favorite cartoon was Alvin and the Chipmunks - I hope the new live action movie doesn't blow!

Awh I LOVE Alivin and the Chipmunks! I agree about the movie-- the voices sound exactly the same so I can't be upset about that. (I was very upset about them changing the TMNT voices).. but the movie is in CGI and I'm not completely sold on CGI stuff.

angiemarie

08-29-2007, 10:16 AM

When I think of Old School Television I really mostly think of how great Nickelodeon used to be. Here's my list:

You Can't Do That on Television
Out of Control (Dave Coulier when he was actually funny and weird)
Today's Special
Pinwheel
Picture Pages
Don't Just Sit There
Fifteen
Salute Your Shorts
Clarissa Explains it All
Hey Dude
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Pete & Pete
Welcome Freshman

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO NICKELODEON? Why can't we get these shows on a Classic Nick station?!? I would never leave my house!

Rach, my sister and I are still talk about Fifteen! It was the first time I noticed Canadians said a-boat, instead of about. I wonder if you can get this on dvd?

One of my fav cartoons is Daria. I just loved her and all the high school characters were so funny. And Trent was really hot for a cartoon character. :blushing:

LonnaSaur

08-29-2007, 11:05 AM

Awh I do remember this! I remember Pebbles and Bam Bam dating and the band but I don't remember any of the songs... and I LOVE snagglepuss! I loved the way he talked... "I'm hungry... starving, even!" And I loved Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. My first (and only :( ) dog's name was Augie!

My dad could talk just like Snagglepuss. "Exit . . . stage left!" He was really good at doing voice impersonations.

animalcrackers

08-29-2007, 11:07 AM

angie - i loved daria! i used to watch all the marathons no matter how many times i had already seen that episode. i loved her parents. and i loved quinn! and i totally wanted to date trent (if he was a real person that is.... or if i was made into a cartoon)

RachWho?

08-29-2007, 11:25 AM

Rach, my sister and I are still talk about Fifteen! It was the first time I noticed Canadians said a-boat, instead of about. I wonder if you can get this on dvd?

I don't think Fifteen is on DVD, unfortunately :( I would definitely get my hands on it if it were. Do you remember when Ashley (Laura Harris' character) became an alcoholic? That was hilarious!

ajerseyromance

08-29-2007, 11:39 AM

angie-- good call on daria! She was soo friggin sarcastic I loved it!

LonnaSaur

08-29-2007, 11:55 AM

I don't think Fifteen is on DVD, unfortunately :( I would definitely get my hands on it if it were. Do you remember when Ashley (Laura Harris' character) became an alcoholic? That was hilarious!

I used to watch my Mom's soap opera, Guiding Light, with her when I was little. I can still remember a very young Kevin Bacon playing an alcoholic. He was a mean and jerky drunk, and I have never liked Kevin Bacon since, even though he's a really good actor.

derder

08-29-2007, 01:24 PM

My favorite show was Family. I wanted to be Buddy Lawrence.
I would kill for reruns of this.

649 650

angiemarie

08-29-2007, 08:10 PM

I don't think Fifteen is on DVD, unfortunately :( I would definitely get my hands on it if it were. Do you remember when Ashley (Laura Harris' character) became an alcoholic? That was hilarious!

YES!!!! That was absolutely the best.

Back to my girl, Daria. I guess they will have a really hard time releasing this series on dvd, because of the whole music clearance issues. They used tons of different songs for every episode. And is just loved the way her mom would say Daria's name. DAAAR-Reee-aaaa!

giffordsaz

08-29-2007, 09:02 PM

chooch850

08-29-2007, 09:45 PM

RachWho?

08-30-2007, 04:51 AM

I used to watch my Mom's soap opera, Guiding Light, with her when I was little. I can still remember a very young Kevin Bacon playing an alcoholic. He was a mean and jerky drunk, and I have never liked Kevin Bacon since, even though he's a really good actor.

I remember back in the early 80's when I watched Guiding Light and Reva was a major alcoholic. I HATED her! That was also in the heyday of Rick, Mindy, Phillip and Beth, when they were teenagers/college students and I thought that was as cool as it could get. I watched all the CBS soaps with my mom when I was a little one. That was back when Capitol was on!

LonnaSaur

08-30-2007, 06:35 AM

I remember back in the early 80's when I watched Guiding Light and Reva was a major alcoholic. I HATED her! That was also in the heyday of Rick, Mindy, Phillip and Beth, when they were teenagers/college students and I thought that was as cool as it could get. I watched all the CBS soaps with my mom when I was a little one. That was back when Capitol was on!

Rach, I remember Capitol! I watched Guiding Light from about the time I was three or four through high school if you can believe it. I hated Reva, too. I never understood why so many fans just loved that character, I thought she was obnoxious.

minda07

08-30-2007, 06:46 AM

I watched with my mom Another World, Guiding Light and Days of Our Lives.

derder

08-30-2007, 10:52 AM

I used to watch "Guiding Light" and "Search for Tomorrow" when they were 15min. long....from noon till 12:15 was GL and 12:15 till 12:30 was SFT. They were sponsored by Cheer laundry soap...thus "soap opera". That shows just how old I am.

Wow! I don't even remember the fifteen minute soaps- that must be even before my day...

My Mom use to watch Days of Our Lives and Dark Shadows- and when ever I hear this,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=98T3PVaRrHU

it reminds me of being home from school sick, when I was a kid.

ajerseyromance

08-30-2007, 12:08 PM

derder

08-30-2007, 12:22 PM

I never got into any soaps... but when I was little (before school age) my grandmom would babysit me during the day while my parents were at work. I had to be quiet and couldn't interrupt her during her "shows."

"My shows are on, take a nap." lol:p

My gay male friends call them their "stories"-

"Whatcha doin'?"

"Watching my stories, call me later..."

ajerseyromance

08-30-2007, 12:25 PM

My gay male friends call them their "stories"-

"Whatcha doin'?"

"Watching my stories, call me later..."

Yesss... stories too.. haha... too funny.

Ellsbells

08-30-2007, 01:16 PM

OMG I watched almost all of these!

Out of Control - Cut it out! HAHA!
Pinwheel! Plus & Minus! And the snails! "Pinwheel pinwheel, spinning around. Look at this pinwheel and see what I've found."

Isn't it funny how some celebs started out on these shows?
Alanis Morrisette - You Can't Do that On Televison
Melissa Joan Hart - Clarissa Explains It All
Ryan Reynolds - Fifteen. He was 13 when he did that show!

When I think of Old School Television I really mostly think of how great Nickelodeon used to be. Here's my list:

You Can't Do That on Television
Out of Control (Dave Coulier when he was actually funny and weird)
Today's Special
Pinwheel
Picture Pages
Don't Just Sit There
Fifteen
Salute Your Shorts
Clarissa Explains it All
Hey Dude
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Pete & Pete
Welcome Freshman

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO NICKELODEON? Why can't we get these shows on a Classic Nick station?!? I would never leave my house!

Ellsbells

08-30-2007, 01:23 PM

And did you know that Hayden Panettiere (cheerleader from Heroes) played Josh and Reva's daughter Lizzie when she was little?

I remember back in the early 80's when I watched Guiding Light and Reva was a major alcoholic. I HATED her! That was also in the heyday of Rick, Mindy, Phillip and Beth, when they were teenagers/college students and I thought that was as cool as it could get. I watched all the CBS soaps with my mom when I was a little one. That was back when Capitol was on!

RachWho?

08-30-2007, 02:22 PM

And did you know that Hayden Panettiere (cheerleader from Heroes) played Josh and Reva's daughter Lizzie when she was little?

ABSOLUTELY! I think I have raved elsewhere about how I think she was one of the finest child actresses ever. I remember Hayden as Lizzie and Brittany Snow as Susan were a powerhouse child actress team. I loved it then!

LonnaSaur

08-31-2007, 07:13 AM

ABSOLUTELY! I think I have raved elsewhere about how I think she was one of the finest child actresses ever. I remember Hayden as Lizzie and Brittany Snow as Susan were a powerhouse child actress team. I loved it then!

Me too! I really miss American Dreams. That was such a good show.

Does anyone remember the ABC Saturday Afternoon Weekend Special? There was a different movie every week. I remember one called "Mayday, Mayday" where a dad and his two kids went down in a plane somewhere and the kids had to go off and try to get help. I think wolves tried to attack them. There was also "The Gold Bug" with the strange guy who later played Punjab in the movie "Annie," I remember that one scared me. And "Zack and the Magic Factory." I remember I liked it and I thought Zack was cute, but I can't remember the story.

Oh, and Schoolhouse Rock was the BEST! I still sing the "Interjections" song. Love it.

RachWho?

08-31-2007, 09:28 AM

LonnaSaur

08-31-2007, 11:09 AM

Schoolhouse Rock makes me think of another Old School TV show I LOVED--"Square One Television" on PBS. Remember it? It taught about math...it was awesome! It had Mathman (like Pacman) and Mathnet (like Dragnet) and really funny skits. I don't know, maybe I was a gigantic nerd...I would love to have that show on DVD.

I have never heard of that one. Maybe that's why I'm so bad at math.

Pekmboyd

08-31-2007, 11:42 AM

Schoolhouse Rock makes me think of another Old School TV show I LOVED--"Square One Television" on PBS. Remember it? It taught about math...it was awesome! It had Mathman (like Pacman) and Mathnet (like Dragnet) and really funny skits. I don't know, maybe I was a gigantic nerd...I would love to have that show on DVD.

Oh my GOD - I am the number-loving-math-geek I am today BECAUSE of Square One! If you ever trip across it on DVD, I DEMAND you tell me!

Ellsbells

08-31-2007, 04:06 PM

OMG Square One! I totally forgot about that one! Of course I had to search it on You Tube and find the ONE song that I remember!
Nine Nine Nine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM

derder

08-31-2007, 04:31 PM

I have a question, I hope someone knows the answer.
There was this show on in the early eighties (?) - I could have sworn it was called "James at Fifteen" but I can't find anything with that title (even on IMDB). It was like a weekly teenage drama. Does anyone remember this? Am I going insane?? What was the name of this show?

Clair

08-31-2007, 04:46 PM

derder

08-31-2007, 04:48 PM

I remember that show. The following season they called it James at 16.

So it was originally called James at 15?

derder

08-31-2007, 04:48 PM

Unreal- I found it... It's written as "James at 15" rather than "James at fifteen"

Thanks Clair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Clair

08-31-2007, 04:51 PM

you're welcome. I added a wikipedia link to my original post. :)

RachWho?

08-31-2007, 05:03 PM

OMG Square One! I totally forgot about that one! Of course I had to search it on You Tube and find the ONE song that I remember!
Nine Nine Nine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM

This is the song that I remember SO well, although I actually have a really strong memory of a lot of the show. I, like Pek, was a math nerd. Calculus was one of my favorite classes in high school, and I thank much of my math obsession to Square One. Please to enjoy, "Tesselations":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFwSpw7Bv3s

Pekmboyd

09-01-2007, 03:25 AM

Ooooo, I always forget to find fun things on YouTube!

My contribution, my favorite: Mathman!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMAVTi29jLs&mode=related&search=

Ellsbells

09-01-2007, 08:47 AM

OMG I totally forgot about mathman until I watched that clip! I have to show these to my brother - he will flip LOL!

Ooooo, I always forget to find fun things on YouTube!

My contribution, my favorite: Mathman!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMAVTi29jLs&mode=related&search=

LonnaSaur

09-01-2007, 07:05 PM

I used to love MTV. My grandmother had cable so I always got to watch MTV on weekends. My brother is four years older than I am and he was into music before I was, but his constant watching of MTV and listening to American Top 40 totally got me hooked, too. Videos seemed so strange and new to me-I was about 10 when MTV was launched, and I had so many favorites. I especially loved these:

"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring
"She's a Beauty" by The Tubes
"Down Under" by Men at Work
"Come Dancing" by The Kinks
"Don't Cry" by Asia
"Legs" by ZZ Top, or is it ZZ Topp?
Almost anything by Duran Duran

The videos actually told a story. I thought MTV was SO cool. I am very behind the times, but I recently discovered you can Google most any video and find it on You Tube. I have been watching videos like crazy for a few weeks now-while I'm watching one I'll think of another and I can't watch them fast enough. It's so nostalgic and best of all it's like being back at my grandmother's. That's the best part!

chooch850

09-01-2007, 07:11 PM

I used to watch "Lawrence Welk" at my grandma's house. ..."and a one and a two..."

derder

09-01-2007, 07:32 PM

derder

09-01-2007, 07:34 PM

"Legs" by ZZ Top, or is it ZZ Topp?

I LOVED this video! I so wanted to be that girl, and I had an outfit exactly like hers!!

Ha!! Just found it...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yNvOPN1LoQ4

jampony

09-01-2007, 08:00 PM

I used to watch "Lawrence Welk" at my grandma's house. ..."and a one and a two..."

My dad use to watch it- wasn't it on Saturday nights?
And I thought he use to go

"And a oney, and a twoey..."

(yes, or am I thinking of something else?)
I used to watch it with my grandpa and I remember him saying "and a one-uh and a two-uh" in his little German accent.

derder

09-01-2007, 08:01 PM

I just watched The Sound of Music on the Family Channel. I haven't seen it in over ten years even though I have the movie.
It makes me frickin' bawl- my husband thinks I'm retarded.

jampony

09-01-2007, 09:15 PM

I just came across a cd of theme songs from cartoons. I remember watching these when I was growing up and I still hum them sometimes. Know what they are?

TV Show 1 (Okay, I don't actually hum this song, but the first two words make me laugh.) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00005MLXE001015/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_015/104-1753834-4315142)
TV Show 2 (I sing this ALL the TIME!) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00005MLXE001023/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_023/104-1753834-4315142)
TV Show 3 (Oh, I miss being a kid!) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00005MLXE001020/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_020/104-1753834-4315142)

Clair

09-01-2007, 09:42 PM

I just watched The Sound of Music on the Family Channel. I haven't seen it in over ten years even though I have the movie.
It makes me frickin' bawl- my husband thinks I'm retarded.

I watched part of it too - and I turned it on just as the baroness was saying this:

"I thought a trip around the world would be lovely. Yet I said, 'Oh Elsa, there must be someplace better to go.'"

I don't remember that from the 147 other times I've watched the movie - cracked me up. :D

derder

09-01-2007, 09:50 PM

We went on a cruise in January and The Sound of Music was on the television in spanish- it was awesome! (although, I only caught the last 1/2 hour or so...)

ajerseyromance

09-04-2007, 09:02 AM

I've never seen The Sound of Music... seems like one of those movies that should go on the list, though. I think I missed the classic film memo, because there is an ever growing list of movies I've never seen that makes people gasp and say "I can't believe you've never seen... !!" Apparently I'm sheltered.

LonnaSaur

09-04-2007, 10:21 AM

I just watched The Sound of Music on the Family Channel. I haven't seen it in over ten years even though I have the movie.
It makes me frickin' bawl- my husband thinks I'm retarded.

Me too! I took my Mom to see it (the play) on Broadway for her 50th birthday and we both bawled through Climb Every Mountain and Edelweiss. I love that movie!

LonnaSaur

09-04-2007, 10:22 AM

dr.birdie

09-04-2007, 01:36 PM

Gasp! I can't believe you've never seen The Sound of Music. Seriously!

We used to watch this at my great aunt's house every Thanksgiving. Whenever I see it on now I always think of how my Grandmother hated that we had to be quiet for the 2 hours it was on. I think it was a ploy of my great aunt's . . lol.

angiemarie

09-04-2007, 07:35 PM

Gasp! I can't believe you've never seen The Sound of Music. Seriously!

I've never seen The Sound Of Music either. And even stranger, I've never seen Casablanca. :blushing:

jampony

09-04-2007, 08:01 PM

I've never seen The Sound Of Music either. And even stranger, I've never seen Casablanca. :blushing:

Ditto and ditto. Also, E.T.

ajerseyromance

09-05-2007, 05:03 AM

I've never seen Casablanca either. :( ET is one of my all time favorite movies. Has anyone seen Singin in the Rain?

RachWho?

09-05-2007, 05:03 AM

I've never seen Casablanca. Or Top Gun. Being from the generation I am, I get a lot of flack for that. Now that Tom Cruise is bat shit crazy, I am pretty sure it will never happen.

ajerseyromance

09-05-2007, 05:35 AM

I've never seen Casablanca. Or Top Gun. Being from the generation I am, I get a lot of flack for that. Now that Tom Cruise is bat shit crazy, I am pretty sure it will never happen.

I've never seen Top Gun, either. While I've never been head over heels in love with Tom like so many have been, I've at least considered him a talented actor. Now he's just crazy and I don't even like him as a person. I know you can never know what REALLY goes on behind closed doors, but there is always a little truth to every rumor.... AND Katie Holmes looks horrible these days-- she looks so old. He's aged her. I hate him... she took my Joey Potter away. :( She belongs with Pacey.

LonnaSaur

09-05-2007, 06:44 AM

RachWho?

09-05-2007, 06:58 AM

I saw Casablanca just once, and didn't like it. I've never seen Top Gun. Never seen The Matrix or any Star Wars movie besides the original first one and Attack of the Clones, never seen any Friday the 13th's, never seen all of Dirty Dancing from start to finish in one sitting (ditto Pretty Woman). There's a lot of really popular movies I've never seen. I don't know why. I'm picky.

I don't watch a lot of popular movies either, maybe because people hype them so much that I know there's no way they will live up to the hype. I've never seen any Jurassic Parks, never seen most of the Star Wars, never seen any James Bonds, never seen so many "must-see's".