Monday, October 02, 2006

Childhood Nostalgia

There's one thing that unites the vast majority of people from my generation. We loved our TV. It doesn't matter what race, religion, and socioeconomic background we came from, we all had our quality shows. I almost feel bad for kids nowadays because I see very few shows that measure up. Most of them were funny, clean, and even educational at times.

As my roommate and I were reminiscing late the other night about our favorite shows, I realized that we all watched a lot of tv. So since I couldn't go to bed that night and didn't want to read (and I love making lists), I wrote down my favorite, and not so favorite shows. I seriously wonder how I also did piano, soccer, softball, 4-H, sewing lessons, the minimal school we had, etc, etc while watching this all. Maybe this is how I became such a multi-tasker.

Loved: Growing Pains, Hey Dude, Full House, Clarissa Explains It All, Alex Mack, Saved by the Bell, Magic School Bus, Doug, Captain Planet, Home Improvement, Wonder Years, Doogie Howser, Where on Earth is Carmen San Diego, Ghostwriter, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Square One TV, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo

Liked: Cosby Show, Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World, GUTS, Who’s the Boss, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare, What Would You Do?, Family Matters, Hang Time, City Guys, Duck Tales, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Muppet Babies, Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chip 'n' Dales Rescue Rangers, Step by Step, Small Wonder, Charles in Charge

Hated: Pete & Pete, Ren & Stimpy, Are you Afraid of the Dark?, Alf, Eureka’s Castle, Dinosaurs, Sister Sister, Beetlejuice, Pee-Wee’s playhouse, Tales of the Crypt

Shows I never heard of that people always talk about: Fraggle Rock, Thundercats, Transformers, Adventures of the Little Koala

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry, I had to comment - you mentioned you liked the TV show "Doug". That TV show followed me for years, people singing the theme song every single time they heard my name.
I thought I had left the past behind, and that the show "Doug" would never come back again to haunt me.
Seeing your recent blog brought back horrible, horrible flashbacks. This might take years of intense therapy to recover from. Thanks a lot, Kristina.

Lauren said...

Doug is just being ridiculous ;). I wish I had my own personal theme song. In middle school, this kid I knew (also named Doug) was cool enough to have his own phone line and so his answering machine played the Doug theme song when you called him. Now *that's* exciting. Many years later, I bought a betta fish, named it Arnold, and sang the "Hey Arnold!" theme song every time I fed him.

Anonymous said...

re: your post about lists

hey there, you should visit www.listography.com to archive and share your lists...seems like you might like it!