A long time ago--when I was three, almost four years old--I used to watch the early '80s TV show Fame. That is, until one episode that traumatised me so badly I refused to watch the show ever again. That episode's title was lost to me over the years; but the one thing that stuck with me for over twenty years was the fact that the episode ( Read more... )

I think I was going to post this before, but never got around to it. So--here's another story from my childhood ( Read more... )

This was posted on my old blog back in 2003.

( Nostalgic kids' TV under the cut )

I was just on YouTube watching commercials I remember from when I was a kid. Coincidentallly enough, most of them are from 1991.

( I STILL want to punch this kid in the face. )

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I remember this so vividly from when I was a kid. Thought it was crazy then, and I still do.

But now I want a baked potato with gobs of butter and sour cream on it.

(Jeez, I didn't think I'd use the "holy crap it's a talking potato" tag more than once, although technically the potato doesn't actually talk. But it is alive... which is ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I had an electronic doohickey called the Talking Computron. I was thinking about it earlier, but couldn't remember the name, so I posted on whatwasthatone before thinking of googling 1980s electronic game "please choose an activity". I came across this webpage ( Read more... )

The reason? This morning at around 6:30, 6:45 or so, I was suddenly jarred half-awake by a loud, rapid, repeated knocking noise in my bedroom. For some weird reason, probably because I was still half-asleep, I thought it was my alarm clock, but I groggily wondered why it was going off at quarter to seven in the morning and furthermore, why was it ( Read more... )

Between the ages of eight and about thirteen, I filled a blank book with the story of a princess named Quiarilla who dreams that she's Queen. (Her name is pronounced Kwy-arilla, btw, not Kwee-arilla. I was very adamant about that when I was a kid.) Here are summaries of every chapter, along with annotations.

( Click for the weirdness )

This falls under the category of Video From My Childhood That I'd Completely Forgotten About, But Squealed "Holy Shit, I Totally Remember This!" When I Saw It Again:

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"Polly wants a cracker. Polly does not want to be a cracker."

While checking my Yahoo! mail I saw a news article about old-school Sesame Street DVDs (from 1969) and how they were actually being marketed towards adults (because of the sanitization of today's kids' programming), which made me want to go onto YouTube and view old SS clips from the '80s, when I was a kid. I came across this, which I totally ( Read more... )