were you a kid of the 80's?

[MackemX]

See if you remember some of these...

You're an 80's kid if:

1. You ever ended a sentence w/ the word "SIKE"

2. You watched Pound Puppies

3. You can sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

4. You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish.

5. You yearned to be a member of the babysitters club and tried to start one
of your own.

6. You owned those lil Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.

7. You know that "WOAH"comes from Joey on "Blossom"

8. Two words: M.C.Hammer

9. If you ever watched Fraggle Rock

10. You had plastic streamers on your handlebars. (HECK YEAH!!!)

11. You can sing the entire theme song to "DuckTales"

12. It was actually worth getting up on Sat morning to watch cartoons

13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head!!!

14. You saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen

15. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class.

16. You had a clip that held your shirt in a knot at the side

17. You played the game MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)

18. You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it

19. L.A. Gear... need I say more

20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten

21. You remember all of the Ramona books

22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"

23. You wanted to be a Goonie

24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing (some head to toe)

25. You can remember what Michael Jackson REALLY looked like

26. You ever wondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf

27. You took lunch pails to school

28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets

29. You still get the urge to say "NOT!" after every sentence

30. Barbie and the Rockers were your fav band

31. You thought She-Ra and He-Man should hook up

32. You thought your childhood friends would never leave you b/c you
exchanged friendship bracelets

33. You ever owned a pair of jelly shoes (and probably in neon colors)

34. After Pee-Wee's Big Adventures you kept saying "I know you are but what
am I"

35. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"

36. You remember skating before inline skates

37. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip-n-slide

38. You had a Skip-it

39. You had or attended a b-day party at Mc Donald's

40. You've gone thru this nodding your head in agreement

41. "Don't worry, Be happy!!"

42. You wore like 8 pair of socks over tights w/high top Reeboks

43. You wore socks scrunched down

44. "Miss MARY MACK MACK MACK all dressed in BLACK BLACK BLACK"

45. Boom boxes vs. Cd players

46. Both! Gremlin movies

47. "CARE BEAR STARE!!!"

48. You remember Rainbow Bright and My Lil Pony Tales

49. You thought Doogie Howser was hot!

50. Alf, the furry brown alien from Melmac

51. New Kids on the Block when they were cool

52. Knew all the characters and their life stories on the ORIGINAL Saved By
The Bell

53. Know all the words to Bon Jovi- SHOT THRU THE HEART

54. You just sang it to yourself

55. You remember when Mullets were cool

56. You tight rolled your pants

57. You owned a banana clip!

[Dv8ted2]

Yep

[yoda313]

You can sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"

Actually wasn't Fresh Prince early 90's?????

But yeah those were good years The best cartoon was TRANSFORMERS by far

[MackemX]

yeah, your right

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098800/releaseinfo

I used to enjoy watching that 8)

[thayne]

#8 should be "Hammer Time"

[yoda313]

14. You saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen

Actually I saw 1 and 2 in the theaters. I waited for the video tape for three

But that was also early 90's. Maybe you should revamp the list mackem

[MackemX]

I just grabbed it from elsewhere and posted it. I didn't actually read everything in the list as I normally don't bother reading full lists like this. I just skip read them

[yoda313]

Shortcut postwhoring - of course

[MackemX]

just filling in the gaps where the pages load I suppose. That's the beauty of tabbed viewing in Firefox 8)

I can have 50 pages open in one window, I bet Jim loves that

[Shadowmistress]

Guilty as charged!

Gawd I luved my jelly shoes! and my jean jacket is still packed away in the back of my closet somewhere. Gotta go now, I need to dig out my old Bon Jovi tunes or else I'll have that song stuck in my head all day.

[MackemX]

I'm still a kid of the 80's

I mean why do people laugh at me when I'm wearing my Wham T-Shirt while I breakdance on a BMX solving my Rubik's cube listening to 'Fame' songs?

[Noahtuck]

Puleeeease!!!

The 70's were the best!!
Punk 80's kids

[MackemX]

Puleeeease!!!

The 70's were the best!!
Punk 80's kids

I thought the Punks were from the 70's? :P

[lordsmurf]

Guilty:
1. You ever ended a sentence w/ the word "SIKE"
2. You watched Pound Puppies
3. You can sing the rap to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
8. Two words: M.C.Hammer
9. If you ever watched Fraggle Rock
10. You had plastic streamers on your handlebars. (HECK YEAH!!!)
12. It was actually worth getting up on Sat morning to watch cartoons
17. You played the game MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
22. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson REALLY looked like
26. You ever wondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf
27. You took lunch pails to school
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT!" after every sentence
31. You thought She-Ra and He-Man should hook up
34. After Pee-Wee's Big Adventures you kept saying "I know you are but what am I"
35. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip-n-slide
39. You had or attended a b-day party at Mc Donald's
40. You've gone thru this nodding your head in agreement
45. Boom boxes vs. Cd players
46. Both! Gremlin movies
47. "CARE BEAR STARE!!!"
48. You remember Rainbow Bright and My Lil Pony Tales
50. Alf, the furry brown alien from Melmac

Most of that 80s list is late 80s.
I don't really see anything aside from Smurfs and He-Man from early 80s.
It's also very obvious a female wrote this.

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I hate to bust a bubble, but most of this stuff started in like 1987-1989 at earliest and continued well into the early 1990s. Some are 1990s only, not part of the 80s (like slap bracelets).

11. You can sing the entire theme song to "DuckTales"
14. You saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen
15. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets
38. You had a Skip-it
51. New Kids on the Block when they were cool --- NEVER "cool"
52. Knew all the characters and their life stories on the ORIGINAL Saved By The Bell

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Never:
55. You remember when Mullets were cool


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If I wrote a list it would include things like:
- The first day MTV went on the air
- The first day FOX went on the air (Simpsons, Married With Children)
- New cartoons: Transformers, Thundercats, Voltron, Robotech, Foofur, Gummi Bears, Wuzzles, Pooh Corner, Mousterpiece Theatre, new The Jetsons, Superfriends, etc
- those mini-burgers from Burger King
- when Pizza Hut still had buffets, and Pizza Inn was their only competition
- when Blockbuster Video first opened their doors
- your very first VCR, it weighed a ton, looked like a tank
- when CD's came out
- when 80286 computers came out, also Apple IIe
- word processors: not quite computers, not quite typewriters
- die cast toys being recalled because of toxic Taiwanese paint
- Ollie North trials, Iran-Contra
- Reagan on tv
- the Challenger explosion
- kids magazines like Highlights, Scholastic Newsletter, Hot Dog and Ranger Rick
- Iranian terrorists and airplane hijackings
- Dukes of Hazzard craze
- thick glasses, colorful plastic sunglasses
- velcro wallets, usually neon colored
- installation of Astroturf in some large school stadiums

[Conquest10]

I hate to bust a bubble, but most of this stuff started in like 1987-1989 at earliest and continued well into the early 1990s. Some are 1990s only, not part of the 80s (like slap bracelets).

14. You saw "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the big screen
15. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class.
52. Knew all the characters and their life stories on the ORIGINAL Saved By The Bell

I'm sure TMNT movies came out in the 90s.

I started school in the 90s and I remember being excited about playing Oregon Trail.

Syndication was what introduced me to Saved By The Bell.

[yoda313]

when 80286 computers came out

Yep my family got one. Great computer - no windows until we bought our 386

The first day FOX went on the air

I don't remember the first day but I remember the early days of Xfiles and what a far out and neat show it was

your very first VCR, it weighed a ton, looked like a tank

Yep ours was a Sanyo Betamax. It was a top loading unit with a WIRED remote Worked great though

[MackemX]

yeah it is a strange list isn't it I didn't realise it had so much wrong stuff in it!

still brings back childhood memories 8) Ah, the innocence back in those days :P

are the A-Team and Knightrider in that lot? 8)

[lordsmurf]

X-Files did not come out until 1993. Early days of Fox was stuff like Tracy Ullman Show.

I'm also of the opinion that, if you were crapping diapers in one decade, you're really not a "child of" that same decade. You won't really remember a thing about the first 4-5 years of your life. You're a "child of" the next decade, as you'll think of everything from 5-15 as being your "childhood" most of the time.

Some people are also half of each decade. Somebody born in 1980 probably only recalls 1985-1995 as "childhood".

To fully be part of the 1980s, you had to be born in the late 1970s. Otherwise you missed some good stuff!

[MackemX]

Married With Children was Fox's first show wasn't it? One of my favourite shows and I've been watching a few recently and they are f'in funny 8)

I've been browsing this site reading the info

www.bundyology.com

I wish they would have done one last season but it's now 9 years since it ended so I don't think it will ever happen but who knows. Married with GrandChildren would be cool if the material was up to scratch

and it all ended because of greed

[lordsmurf]

The very first night of Fox was Married With Children and Tracy Ullman Show. I believe the station went live just minutes before primetime in September 1987. Just going off memory here. I'm sure wikipedia.org has a nice write-up on it.

The Simpsons came out 2 years later, a spin-off of the Ullman shorts.


edit: Actually, it was 4-5-1987 that Fox went on-air for the first time.

[MackemX]

I remember watching the Tracey Ullman Show with the Simpsons

jusr found this site if anyone wants a blast from the past

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/tv&films.htm

I tried the 1st link where you have to identify the lame midi tunes

[yoda313]

A-team great fun

[MackemX]

OK, Yoda which character would you be?

I'd be Face as he gets the chicks :P

[yoda313]

Hmm...... Maybe Mr T's character - take no guff and do whatever you want

I PITY THE FOOL

[yoda313]

Anyone remember that bear cartoon?? wasn't there one based on those gummi bears???

[MackemX]

Anyone remember that bear cartoon?? wasn't there one based on those gummi bears???

Hair Bear Bunch?

[lordsmurf]

Gummi Bears was a Disney cartoon from around 1985-1986 or so.

[MackemX]

Gummi Bears was a Disney cartoon from around 1985-1986 or so.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=294891

[yoda313]

Gummi Bears was a Disney cartoon from around 1985-1986 or so.

thanks lordsmurf I knew I wasn't imagining it

[Doramius]

Well, that cans it. I'm a kid of the 80's. Even moreso than that list shows.

What about:
E.T.
GI Joe
Transformers
Nintendo
Mario Brothers
Atari
PacMan
Donkey Kong
Return of the Jedi
MTV (when it was MTV)
Casey Casem on regular TV
Thundercats
SilverHawks
Chuck Taylor Converse (favorite drawing in art class)
Friday the 13th was scary
$25,000 Pyramid


Damn, so many more.