60 Things That Every Single '90s Kid Will Recognize Just Looking At Them But Will Have A Harder Time Remembering The Last Time They Thought About It
1.The rainbow-colored bags that Toys "R" Us used to have:
2.The awesome Disney Happy Meal toys that came in mini-VHS clamshells:
3.The Disney Store's version of Beanie Babies that were called Bean Bag Plush:
4.The Cabbage Patch Dolls that ate food but had to be discontinued because they also ate kids' hair if they weren't careful:
5.Pizza Hut's "The Pizza Head Show" commercials:
6.7-Up's mascot, Cool Spot — which I never realized was supposed to be the dot from the 7-Up logo:
7.And Michigan J. Frog as the mascot for The WB:
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8.The "oh-so-cool for like a week" 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:
9.Universal remotes your family would buy at Radio Shack if you guys lost or broke the remote that came with the TV:
10.And Radio Shacks inside the mall that had the name in the big red font:
11.No Fear T-shirts, which you thought were badass:
12.Suzanne Somers' ThighMaster infomercials:
13.Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley playing their The Jeffersons characters in Old Navy commercials:
14.Rosie O'Donnell playing different games with the audience in a segment that aired before the guests came out:
15.And the Kmart commercials that Rosie O'Donnell did with Penny Marshall during Christmas time:
16.The Sam Goody at the mall that looked oh-so-late-'80s:
17.The fake product commercials that were actually for Energizer Bunny:
18.The way too short-lived cartoon Freakazoid!:
19.These Disney read-along tapes and books that basically sliced your hand open when you tried to get them out of the packaging:
20.The dirty green carpet you sat on to read books and magazines at Barnes & Noble:
21.Wilson from Home Improvement:
22.All the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:
23.Life Savers Holes that were essentially candy Tic Tacs:
24.The green volume bar that would display across the bottom quarter of your TV whenever you raised or lowered the volume:
25.All the Looney Tunes home decor items that they sold at the Warner Bros. Studio Store that you swore one day you would decorate your house with:
26.JCPenney catalogs that were the size of the yellow pages — and could also give you a wicked paper cut:
27.TGIF's Teen Angel that was really WTF TV. (Honestly, who greenlit a show about a dead teenager who becomes the guardian angel of his BFF?!)
28.And the Clueless TV series that was part of TGIF but then got moved over to UPN:
29.Marvin's Magic Drawing Board and the commercials for it that played nonstop on Nick:
30.These weird squishy tubes that felt more than a bit creepy when you'd squeeze them:
31.McDonald's drink cups that looked like they had been drawn by colored pencils:
32.VR Troopers and its catchy as hell theme song:
33.These plastic swords, which would legit hurt someone if you struck them with it:
34.The creepy AF Puttermans from the Duracell commercials:
35.AA Duracell batteries that you would (painfully) squeeze to see how much life was still in them:
36.The instruction manual booklets that came with SNES games:
37.And this SNES TV adaptor that came with a coax cable that you had to carefully twist into place:
38.The Free Money guy that was always dressed like the Riddler in his commercials:
39.These elementary school chairs that were always staticky and sometimes had cracks in them:
40.The THX logo that would play before some movies. (And that you can still hear in your head!):
41.Those giant armoires that were meant to hide the TV:
42.Troll doll pencil toppers, which you never used as actual pencil toppers:
43.The Jack in the Box car antenna topper — also, just antenna toppers in general:
44.Gateway computers that came in cow print boxes:
45.VH1's Storytellers series:
46.Vac-Man that, yes, did have a limit to how far you could actually stretch him:
47.Thirteen Dead End Drive, which was more fun to set up than actually play:
48.All the various virtual pet toys that came out that were imitations of Tamagotchi:
49.Yoyo Ball, which was basically a cheater's way of playing yo-yo:
50.That Parker Brothers Ouija board commercial that, um, really said, "Kids, go ahead and play with the supernatural!":
51.The giant wall-to-wall white shelves that surrounded the side and back walls of Blockbuster:
52.Disney's Sing Along Songs VHS tape series, which was like the original YouTube:
53.These clothing racks, which were the perfect place to hide:
54.Those AOL commercials that aired like 65 times a day:
55.Best Buy having like 65% of its floor space dedicated to just CDs:
56.And straining your neck to play the video games on the TVs they would put on the endcaps:
57.Sound Bites lollipops, which low-key hurt your teeth when turned on:
58.Squiggle Wiggle pens, which were impractical to write with:
59.The giant sea of red packaging you would see in the Star Wars toys section when The Phantom Menace came out:
