JJS asked: Just because you were born in ‘97 doesn’t mean you’re a 90’s kid.
It’s not like you could remember the original Simpsons. I am sorry but three conscious years of the 90’s just wont cut it.
You’re a 90’s kid if:
You remember watching Doug, Ren & Stimpy, Pinky and the Brain , and Two Stupid Dogs.
AAAAAAAH real monsters.
You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word “PSYCHE!
You just cant resist finishing this… “Iiiiiiin west Philadelphia born and raised…”
You remember TGIF on ABC. Step by Step, Family Matters, Dinosaurs, and Boy Meets World.
You remember when, 2Pac and Selena died.
You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
You remember reading “Goosebumps”
You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
You still get the urge to say “NOT” after (almost) every sentence…Not…
You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record “Your FAVORITE song of ALL time”
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
You remember Squirt gun fights.
Captain Planet. He’s a Hero.
You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
You remember when super Nintendo’s and Sega Genesis became popular.
You always wanted to send in a tape to America’s Funniest Home Videos… but never taped anything funny.
You remember watching home alone 1, and 2……..and tried to pull the pranks on “intruders”
You remember watching The Magic School Bus, Wishbone, and Reading Rainbow on PBS.
You remember when Yomega Yo-Yos were cool.
when you were grown up when you turned 7, cuz you could watch are you afraid of the dark because it was tvY7!
You remember those Where’s Waldo books…..and found him
You remember when Mortal Kombat Was “Da Bomb”!
U remember eating Warheads.(those sour candy’s)
You remember watching the 1st Batman, Aladdin, Ninja Turtles, and 3 Ninjas movies.
U remember Ring Pops.
U remember drinkin’ Fruitopia and Surge.
if you member when every thing was “da BOMB”
when they made the new lunchables so that you could make tacos and pizza!!
You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
Writing M.A.S.H. notes. (and the twenty different versions of that)
Making those little paper fortune cookie things.. and then predicting your life with them.
You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell”
You played and/or collected “Pogs”
You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
…Furbies.
You haven’t always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
And Windows 95 was the best.
You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers,and Ninja Turtles.
You had a favorite New Kid on the block, and you knew all of there names
Michael Jordan was a king.
Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!
All your school supplies were “Lisa Frank” brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)
You remember when the new Beanie Babies and talking Elmo were always sold out.
You collected those Beanie Babies.
Growing Pains.
Carebears and The Gummy Bear show.
Gak was the coolest thing invented.
Lambchop’s song never ended.
The old dollar bills.
Silver dollars, were cool that have.
You remember a time before the WB.
You collected all the Troll dolls with the bright hair
You remember when Will Smith came out with Big Willie style!
You owned a portable tape player.
If you even know what an original Walkman is.
You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch.
You’ve gotten creeped out by “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”
You know the Macarena by heart.
“Talk to the hand” … enough said
You always said, “Then why don’t you marry it!”
You know the significance of the number 23.
You went to McD’s to play in the playplace.
You remember playing on merry go rounds…at the play ground.
Ducktailes, Chip & Dales Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Count Duckula
You can recall when Lucky Charms was just, Hearts, stars, horseshoes, and clovers
Nintendo……not Super NES, or 64…just Nintendo…with Mario Brothers/Duck hunt..and you always wished you could shoot that damn dog.
When Mark Summers was Nickelodeon’s host of almost every game show
You know where to find the Shrine of the Silver Monkey
I’m Boney, I’m Boney, leave me aloney.
Nickelodeon was King
Clarissa Explains it all, Pete and Pete, Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts……Camp Anawana, we hold you in our hearts
When we were younger:
Before the MySpace frenzy…
Before the Internet & text messaging…
Before Sidekicks & iPods…
Before MIKE JONES…
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX…
Before Sponge Bob
When light up sneakers were cool.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs .
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our Walkmans.
When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.
When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
Way back…
when it was all about Nintendo64.
when you had a wind breaker w/bright colored sleeves
when you collected Pokemon cards
Stick Stickley hosted Nick toons in the afternoon {in the summertime}
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear
Who would have thought you’d miss the 90’s so much!!!!!
to the guy who said…
“Wow, 2pac was so important deserved to be mentioned twice…lol. I never heard of him until he died.
And “Psyche” is an 80’s thing, people got beat up for saying it in the 90’s.
Saturday morning cartoons ended in the 90’s, thanks alot for that!
Everything else seems pretty accurate. ”
i’m not sure what you were tryin to say about cartoons, but i was born in 1990 and i watched Saturday morning cartoons all the time and the kids in ‘So Cal’ said ‘PYCHE’ a lot.. i don’t know where you were but “Whatever”
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