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hannapdx
03/30/09

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I wish Nick would play old classics of yesteryear!
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small-fox
03/29/09

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Is nobody as appalled as I am that the Pussycat Dolls played in their tarty outfits and sang a song about wanting to have groupies and be famous?

REALLY NOW?! THIS SHOW IS FOR 8-YEAR-OLDS.
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Red-headed bookworm
03/30/09

@small-fox: I am. I was quite confused by that...then I felt old.
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sequined
03/29/09

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Not on Nick, but I remember adoring Blossom for the fashions. I wished I dressed that cool.
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epiclady
03/29/09

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No matter what anyone says, nothing will ever compare to "The Electric Company." The seventies were the only time to be a kid stuck in front of the electronic babysitter.

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Kivrin
03/29/09

@epiclady: They played that cartoon on Sesame Street, too. It used to scare me for some reason...
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EsmereldaFitzmonster
03/29/09

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Today's Special was a big fav in our house. And, Canadian Jezzies, remember Under the Umbrella Tree? Even after it went off the air, my mom still made us Holly Hoppers (aka smoothies), and one time a few years ago I was in a mall in Ottawa, and my mom goes, "Oh hey, that's Holly from Under the Umbrella Tree." I almost fainted I was so excited.
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sweetnsassy2
03/29/09

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Seriously everytime I hear the song Kokomo I totally have the fantasy of being Elisabeth Shue in Cocktail and doing Tom Cruise in the waterfall.

I miss the non batshit crazy days of Tom Cruise.
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bangers
03/29/09

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ok this is slightly off topic, but miley cyrus' hair looks softer than a puppy in that picture!! i just want to play with it.

maybe that's why the kids like her?
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
03/29/09

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This was my elementary school jam:

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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
03/29/09

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I found seasons 2 and 3 of Alex Mack on Megavideo. I have been watching those episodes for the last two weeks. It makes me feel the same way I did when I was a kid: I need to wear more hats and want telekinesis. Plus Alex's situations are nothing but ordinary. There is no one interested in her life; her town is boring and there are no huge special guest stars. Clarissa was the same way. Shows aren't made that way anymore.
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Definer-not-defined
03/29/09

@Alys Brangwin is a Tar Heel bred: The Secret World of Alex Mack was my absolute favorite show. I wanted to BE her.

Gosh I miss old television. I guess we all grew up to like Arrested Development, Firefly, The Office, and 30 Rock. I fear for today's kids. It's all saccharine life lessons and bright pretty people with no substance.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
03/29/09

@Definer-not-defined: Then look at this if you want to watch it again:

[megavideo.com]
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tscheese
03/29/09

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But really, the nineties had this kind of manic "alternative/edgy" energy, where it seemed like a lot of entertainment for young people really tried to push the envelope as far as it would go. Remember Roundhouse and how freeform and fun it was? Remember how fucking scary it was to watch Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Remember how hip and cool it felt to watch Clarissa parade around in giant boots and colorful haphazard fashions?

Mass media and multimedia was new and untapped and vast and exciting. The Internet was just beginning to take off. Alternative, indie musicians were suddenly mainstream. The dot-com bubble was yet to burst, and it seemed that the geek would inherit the earth. It was a REALLY fun time to come of age - the fashion, the music, the no-holds-barred FUN of it all. Technology was brilliant and sparkly new. It was a fun time to wear battered silly clothes and act like a nerd.

The 00's have been...well, a lot more materialistic and insipid, I think. "Is our children learning". Conspicuous consumerism. Mass multimedia provides 24/7/365 availability of paparazzi shots. American Idol and America's Next Top Model: anyone can be a star, even those with no discernible talent! Then you had the bling, giant fucking logos on everything, aspirational lifestyles. A lot of the wild creativity of the nineties seemed to be kind of stifled because the mainstream had appropriated some of the more innovative, edgy aspects of alt-culture, and sanitized it and put skinny jeans on it and too much bronzer.

I wonder what the next decade will bring in mass media and multimedia and entertainment programming for youth. Probably we'll be too busy eating boiled rocks and living in cardboard shantytowns to care.
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Sandicomm
03/29/09

@tscheese: I think there'll be a huge backlash against the 00s. I mean, fashion has done a Magical Mystery Tour of the 20th century in the past two or three years. The 90s are starting to come back. I think we'll see a lot of 90s nostaligia in terms of aesthetic, but the shows will probably be a bit more sophisticated and less freeform. It won't be as fun, but hopefully it'll be intelligent.

At least, that's what I hope.
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Schm
03/29/09

@Sandicomm: God, I hope so. I can't wait for grunge and anti-fashion to be cool again, which it seems is happening.
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Red-headed bookworm
03/30/09

@tscheese: Roundhouse! I remember that show. I loved it.

@MagsCO: Yeah, I just turned 30 so I'm starting to think that may be the case. :(
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Kivrin
03/29/09

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All right, I'm gonna take it waaaaay back: Anybody else miss "Pinwheel"?

Gotcha last!
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elitza owns the last Enzo shirt
03/29/09

@Kivrin: OMG!

I had totally forgotten about Pinwheel.

However, until this thread I really thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered Roundhouse. And the dad in the motorized La-Z-Boy.
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anibundel
03/29/09

@Kivrin: 1! 1! 1!
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tscheese
03/29/09

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I got four words for you guys:

Clarissa. Explains. It. All.
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captainhaddock
03/29/09

@tscheese: Yeah. Man the credits for all these shows are so totally seared into my brain. How she writes the title backward and then spins it around...

Remembering any thing that actually happened on the show is a different story.
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bangers
03/29/09

@captainhaddock: i remember the plot of exactly ONE episode. clarissa faked being sick to get out of something (a pta conference?) and then she faked so well that she ACTUALLY got sick.

i think about it a lot when i'm sick.
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EsmereldaFitzmonster
03/29/09

@tscheese: LOVE. I think I'll go look up Clarissa episodes and then copy her outfits for this week. I adored everything about that show, but especially her clothes. No one I know ever watched it though, besides my sister.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
03/29/09

@tscheese: Four more for you:

Now available on DVD!
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CordeliaShirley
03/29/09

@tscheese: also known as: Who I Wanted To Be.
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Santos L Halper
03/29/09

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I'm sort of glad for the kids who love really horrible things like Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers. It speaks to the fact that they're still kids and kids have kind of crappy tastes sometimes. My pet peeve is parents who unload their own musical and pop culture tastes onto their children, so you're left debating the merits of the new Department of Eagles album with an 8-year-old in tight pants.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/29/09

@Santos L Halper: oh, dear god! i've yet to see an eight-year-old in tight pants... poor thing!
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LaComtesse
03/29/09

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CAN'T BELIEVE no one has mentioned this...

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hortense
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: YES. We did a Midnight Society sketch in my college comedy troupe. I loved this show.
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lookethatmyface
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: I knew it. I never watched Are You Afraid of the Dark. Because at 7, that scared the crap out of me. At 22, the theme still does.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: OH GOD. That still creeps me out a little. My little brother and I had to watch it together because we were too afraid to watch it alone.
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LaComtesse
03/29/09

@hortense: Check your board.

@lookethatmyface: I've still never seen the clown episode.

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Funnily enough, my mom would watch it with me every night (when my brother was old enough, he did too). She said it was to make sure it wasn't too scary, but, in retrospect, it was clearly because she LOVED the show.
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NowhereGirl
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: My dad was really strict about what I was allowed to watch and my little brother and I would watch this and if my dad would come in, we'd have to change really fast to the news or something. Other shows I loved because they where taboo in our house where Tales from the Crypt and Unsolved Mysteries. The intros to these shows seriously creep me out still.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
03/29/09

@NowhereGirl: OMG UNSOLVED MYSTERIES!! I used to watch it every afternoon during the summer when they played it on Lifetime, along with Golden Girls, and Mad About You. I think it was a segment on Unsolved Mysteries about the Romanovs that started my lifelong fascination with Anastasia.
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LaComtesse
03/29/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: @NowhereGirl: I watched Unsolved Mysteries every morning of winter and summer breaks in college.
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MarissaExplainsItAll
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: HAAHHAHHAHA, I freaking love that show. My mom would never let me watch it so I snuck it while my brother would babysit me. Scared the shit out of me. Good times.
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girlnamedblue
03/29/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: @penguins268: You guys! I'm so happy that I wasn't the only one obsessed with the Romanovs. I even recall finding some site years ago that had scanned and posted letters and diary entries written by the girls. A lot of it was in russian, but I spent hours trying to make out the writing when it was english. I was a weird kid.
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scandalouskiki
03/29/09

@LaComtesse: That show was so good and creepy for being on a children's network. I still shiver thinking about certain episodes (notably the one where this kid stole the nose off a clown statue and the clown comes after it).
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CordeliaShirley
03/29/09

@scandalouskiki: gahhh. immediate shivers all up and down me at the recollection of that one. jeez.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
03/29/09

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Remember when they used to do Nick at Night and play I Love Lucy and The Brady Bunch? I freaking loved I Love Lucy when I was little, probably more than anything else on Nickelodeon or Disney.
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small-fox
03/29/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Other than the big shows (Pete & Pete, Salute Your Shorts, Clarissa), Nick at Night had the single greatest pop-culture effect on my formative years. I remember seeing it several years later and they'd swapped out I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart, etc, for stuff like Taxi. And the magic was over. I think I Love Lucy and Get Smart were my two favorite shows as a kid, other than that flirtation with Night Court in 3rd grade.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
03/29/09

@small-fox: I loved Bewitched and twitched my nose all the time.
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scandalouskiki
03/29/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: That was back when Nick at Nite was good. I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Dick Van Dyke, Get Smart, even Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Their lineups since then really haven't impressed me much, although there are a few exceptions (Night Court and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air leap to mind). Ah, the good ol' days.
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sequined
03/29/09

@small-fox: I adored Night Court!
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Red-headed bookworm
03/30/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: I was always excited for Laugh In. Yeah...I'm odd.
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