5 things that should not have been popular

1. Home Improvement

I used to love this show, but have no clue how or why.  A bad tool themed talk show host going “uh uh uh” - or however you would spell that guttural sound Tim Allen made - and his family just shouldn’t be the basis of a prime time television show.

2. Scatman John

Granted, scat is a form of music where you kinda babble nonsensical syllables strangely.  Not to be forgotten though, scat(derived from scatophagy, literally meaning eating shit) is probably not the word you want to have associated with yourself.  To top it off, this guy has horrible music and looks like a creeper.

3. Scooters

There were lots of stupid toys that kids had back in the day, but I just feel as though scooters were some of the worst things to spend your money on.  What can you do on a scooter?  A bunny hop?  I have never seen anyone pull off “cool” scooter tricks, whereas other toys like skateboards actually have tricks you can do.  You don’t even go very fast on a scooter.  Just ride a bike if you want to get somewhere.

4. Pogs

What a great marketing job.  Get kicks to want decorated cardboard circles for no apparent reason.  Then get them to buy plastic “slammers” that they could use to win these cardboard circles from their friends.  I collected pogs, but never played with them; what a waste of time and money.

5. Boy Scouts

One thing I was never a part of, but for some reason wanted to be.  A bunch of my friends were scouts for a good three or four years of their elementary school life, and I still have no clue what the hell they did.  Every once in a while, I would heard about car or boat races, but the older I got the more sketchy being a boy scout seemed. And what is a “boy scout” anyway? Are you a boy who is scouting for something? I like this video, called “We Do It” by the Boy Scouts of America – I wonder what they “do”

11 things i miss about childhood

#11. Don’t Wake Daddy
Remember this game? Oh man. I don’t think anything else got kids so close to having a heart attack as this game did. And when Daddy woke up, man oh man… you screamed.

#10. Nick Arcade!
Probably one of the best television game shows of all time. “Legends of the Hidden Temple” and “Double Dare” were also contenders, but for years I actually thought they could insert kids into video games somehow. When I finally figured out that this was not, in fact, possible, I died a little, but it’s okay, because I still think this show is bomb.

#9. The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
Computer Lab was the BEST day of elementary school every week. When you got to go to the computer lab and play this and Carmen San Diego, it was like the best day ever. Unfortunately I bought this game for home and then lost it, and to this day it’s one of the most tragic I-can’t-believe-I-lost-my… items of my life. So upsetting. Those little bitches were amazing.

#8. The TGIF Line-Up
Boy Meets World, Step By Step, Family Matters, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Full House… those were THE days. When people actually watched TV on Friday nights instead of hung out all sleazy-like at the mall.

#7. Hungry Hungry Hippos
I’ll be honest, I don’t even know if I owned this game. But damn… it’s so colorful.

#6. Garfield Fruit Snacks
Ok, NOBODY ever knows what these are, and so if you do, PLEASE let me know because I swear, I’m not crazy. These were by far the best fruit snacks that money could buy. Not only was each pouch completely packed with them, but they were huge, and they had long stringy bits that you could bite off and chew. And they tasted absolutely incredible. Easily my favorite fruit snack of all time.

#5. Pogs
And then there were those big Slammers that weighed, like, 10 pounds each? Ah, pogs. Pogs were the shit. And they came in those big plastic see-through (sometimes) tubes, and you carried them with you everywhere, just in case somebody wanted to challenge you, you know? Pogs were life… although one thing I still don’t remember is actually buying pogs. For some reason I just always had them, and they were random as hell… but I really never remembered actually purchasing any. Shoplifting? I don’t know. I really don’t remember.

#4. Dinosaurs
One of my favorite shows, and when I found it on DVD a year or two ago, I was amazed. I legit wanted to be a dinosaur because of this show. (No, for the record, I was not an idiot when I was a kid. I just really wanted to be a lot of things, including a dinosaur and inside a video game.)

#3. Mondo
Amazing juice drink, but nothing compared to…

#2. Squeez-It
The BEST juice drink ever. And they had this promotion where you could put little tablets in your drink and shake it up and it would change colors and flavors. I used to be able to down three, four Squeez-Its after a little league game or a basketball tournament. And you always got mad if you didn’t get the face or flavor you wanted. Ahhhh.

#1. One Saturday Morning
I don’t think there’s one person my age who didn’t wake up on Saturday mornings to watch this line-up. It was killer. Recess, Pepper Ann, Doug, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Sabrina the Animated Series (those last two were a little later). But man. Recess. Incredible. I wanted to be a Digger so bad…