1.The Muppet Babies Happy Meal toys that were truly the greatest Happy Meal toys ever made:
2.And the fanciful Muppet Babies softcover books that were part of another Happy Meal promotion:
3.Pricey 1-900 numbers that let you talk to your favorite cartoon characters (like He-Man and She-Ra):
4.The "We Are the World" 45 record that everyone's family owned:
5.Smurf Chef Boyardee pasta, which, of course, tasted like regular Chef Boyardee:
6.Judy Blume books that had these covers:
7.The Dennis the Menace cartoon that had a catchy AF theme song:
8.And the Snorks, which also had a catchy theme song but felt like a rip-off of The Smurfs:
9.Disney Pops, which tasted like pure sugar and fruit concentrate:
10.Old cars from the '70s that had huge and heavy doors that took all your strength to open and close:
11.McDonald's that had the red-ish brown pitched roofs and brick exteriors:
12.And the metal slide inside the McDonald's PlayPlace that you literally could barely slide down on and that burned you on hot days:
13.Vacuum cleaners that weighed 75 pounds and had bags on them that would not only get hot, but would also spew out a little dust every time someone turned it on:
14.Trading cards for almost every TV show:
15.The Max Headroom TV series that was less cool looking and more absolute nightmare fuel:
16.And The Peanut Butter Solution, which for a kids movie was also just nightmare fuel:
17.The King Kong's Underwear joke book, which actually had a lot of funny jokes:
18.The most epic board game ever created: Fireball Island (which was actually a lot of fun just to play with the board game by itself too):
19.The L'Oreal Studio Line commercial that made the products look like the chicest and coolest products anybody could put in their hair:
20.Ugly pastel artwork that everyone hung in their homes — especially in bathrooms:
21.And also deco style swan decorations — and, again, especially in bathrooms:
22.Out of This World and it feeling like a fever dream of a show:
23.The commercials for Time Life's Mysteries of the Unknown book series, which were just creepy AF:
24.This exact Pyrex casserole dish that every '80s mom owned:
25.Those heavy glass and ornate photo frames that were meant to look fancy but were really gaudy and one accidental drop away from breaking:
26.Halogen floor lamps that would give you a serious burn if you even dared to try to touch just the top part of it:
27.The highway patrol toy that lit up and made noises that every kid seemed to own at some point:
28.Making juice from frozen Minute Maid concentrate that came with aluminum tops and bottoms:
29.Air popcorn poppers that looked just like this:
30.Picking up cheap souvenir books from places you and your family would visit:
31.USA Network's USA Cartoon Express programming block, which always just showed a bunch of Hanna-Barbera cartoons from the '70s:
32.Being curious about what film they were going to show during the NBC Monday Night Movie:
33.Those cartoon erasers that were cool to collect but didn't do anything other than smudge and rip your papers apart when you tried to use them:
34.The random McKids clothing line that McDonald's put out with Sears:
35.Those oh-so-cool clock backpacks that made absolutely no sense:
36.TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, which was hosted by Dick Clark and Ed McMahon:
37.The Fisher-Price camera that actually worked and came with an external flash that you needed to attach:
38.Those teddy bear pencil toppers that did nothing but make it hard to write and collect dust and gunk all over the fur:
39.And finally, Perfect Strangers — which had an epic sitcom theme song — being part of TGIF:
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