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Oh God, Once a 90s Kid...
Jan. 27th, 2012 09:00 pmBefore I launch into the nostalgia-fest:
Oh my God, you guys. Oh my God. Guess what we're getting? ( Click! )
So I spent a big chunk of the night at my parent's house hanging out; we watched Ellen and Family Guy and I spent way too long on Wikipedia. I got distracted looking at entries for old shows on Nickelodeon. I read up on UPick with Stick Stickley, TeenNICK, SNICK - oh God, apparently the SNICK line-up I remember most vividly was apparently the very first one, and one that only existed for the first two years of the block's run, but it totally defined my Saturday nights for me between the ages of ten and twelve - Clarissa Explains it All, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ren & Stimpy is one of those shows that I've since seen, and while a lot of it sort of makes me go, "Seriously, was I fucking on crack?," there are bits that still make me laugh, or episodes I can still quote verbatim (i.e., the ENTIRE "Space Madness" episode - "They think I'm crazy, but I know better. It is not I who am crazy, it is I who am mad!... Oh my beloved ice cream bar! How I love to lick your creamy center!!") More so than that, though, I recall it most clearly as the background noise for basically every night I spent with my sister, brother, and our cousins Jeff and Nikki, who came to the house almost every Saturday night, and whose visits were often the highlight of the week. We've since grown apart from both of them (for various reasons, though we still occassionally communicate with Nikki), but for years, that was our routine - they'd come over and either my dad would make pizza or we'd order out, and then we'd watch SNICK (Nikki at the time was between six and eight and would always book it to play something else with Joce and Rob when Are You Afraid of the Dark? came on, because it scared her, so for that show it was usually just Jeff and I) and stay up to ungoldy hours (or so it seemed... looking back it was probably like, 1 am or something) goofing off and playing games -- for some reason, vague recollections of Mall Madness and Dream Phone feature heavily in my memories (Dream Phone - the guy my sister and I thought was the cutest was named Steve - 555-9999. Oh my God, the fact that I remember that kind of makes me hate myself).
Of course, everyone remembers Clarissa (who grew up as a young girl in the early 90s), but I almost never hear people talk about Roundhouse, which was a musical/sketch show the Nick had... it was a lot more cohesive and less goofy (cheesy, but not as "goofy") as All That would be, and it was a lot less cynical and less about gross-out humor than You Can't Do That on Television was. I loved that show. In my travels, I found a website dedicated to it - like, a bizarrely comprehensive website, actually, called Easychair Expressway. I'm looking back at the song section - sadly, no media, but all the lyrics, and oh my Godddddd, so cheesy. But it was deliciously cheesy.
Apparently a bunch of these shows have been showcased at various time on something called The 90s Were All That, which I guess airs/aired on Nick at like, midnight or one am?? I of course don't get Nick (hell, I don't get any television), so I haven't been able to verify this, but uuuugh, I want to see these shows again. I'm kind of a nostalgia whore.
There were so many other shows that they listed that I completely forgot about until I saw them on the schedule - The Secret World of Alex Mac, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (which I remember my sister liking, like, a lot?), The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Someone needs to get this stuff on DVD, um, now.
Oh my God, you guys. Oh my God. Guess what we're getting? ( Click! )
So I spent a big chunk of the night at my parent's house hanging out; we watched Ellen and Family Guy and I spent way too long on Wikipedia. I got distracted looking at entries for old shows on Nickelodeon. I read up on UPick with Stick Stickley, TeenNICK, SNICK - oh God, apparently the SNICK line-up I remember most vividly was apparently the very first one, and one that only existed for the first two years of the block's run, but it totally defined my Saturday nights for me between the ages of ten and twelve - Clarissa Explains it All, Roundhouse, Ren & Stimpy, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Ren & Stimpy is one of those shows that I've since seen, and while a lot of it sort of makes me go, "Seriously, was I fucking on crack?," there are bits that still make me laugh, or episodes I can still quote verbatim (i.e., the ENTIRE "Space Madness" episode - "They think I'm crazy, but I know better. It is not I who am crazy, it is I who am mad!... Oh my beloved ice cream bar! How I love to lick your creamy center!!") More so than that, though, I recall it most clearly as the background noise for basically every night I spent with my sister, brother, and our cousins Jeff and Nikki, who came to the house almost every Saturday night, and whose visits were often the highlight of the week. We've since grown apart from both of them (for various reasons, though we still occassionally communicate with Nikki), but for years, that was our routine - they'd come over and either my dad would make pizza or we'd order out, and then we'd watch SNICK (Nikki at the time was between six and eight and would always book it to play something else with Joce and Rob when Are You Afraid of the Dark? came on, because it scared her, so for that show it was usually just Jeff and I) and stay up to ungoldy hours (or so it seemed... looking back it was probably like, 1 am or something) goofing off and playing games -- for some reason, vague recollections of Mall Madness and Dream Phone feature heavily in my memories (Dream Phone - the guy my sister and I thought was the cutest was named Steve - 555-9999. Oh my God, the fact that I remember that kind of makes me hate myself).
Of course, everyone remembers Clarissa (who grew up as a young girl in the early 90s), but I almost never hear people talk about Roundhouse, which was a musical/sketch show the Nick had... it was a lot more cohesive and less goofy (cheesy, but not as "goofy") as All That would be, and it was a lot less cynical and less about gross-out humor than You Can't Do That on Television was. I loved that show. In my travels, I found a website dedicated to it - like, a bizarrely comprehensive website, actually, called Easychair Expressway. I'm looking back at the song section - sadly, no media, but all the lyrics, and oh my Godddddd, so cheesy. But it was deliciously cheesy.
Apparently a bunch of these shows have been showcased at various time on something called The 90s Were All That, which I guess airs/aired on Nick at like, midnight or one am?? I of course don't get Nick (hell, I don't get any television), so I haven't been able to verify this, but uuuugh, I want to see these shows again. I'm kind of a nostalgia whore.
There were so many other shows that they listed that I completely forgot about until I saw them on the schedule - The Secret World of Alex Mac, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (which I remember my sister liking, like, a lot?), The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Someone needs to get this stuff on DVD, um, now.
