Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!
For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon
SpongeBob, obviously
Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends
Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver
Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc
What a time to be a kid
Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible
Considering I forgot about it and got back into it, bringing back memories, first slot definitely goes to Franklin.
I'd definitely say second would have to go to a show like Ed Edd n Eddy since I used to watch way too much of it, I think...
And third would absolutely be a toss up since I watched way too many cartoons growing up. So I'd probably have to go with Death Note since it's the first anime I recognized as anime instead of just a cartoon back when I was in freshman year highschool.
Edit:
Someone mentioned Invader Zim and that would definitely be a contender because that show made me start to like weird and sometimes disturbing things. Here's looking at you, Dark Harvest. Also saw an Angry Beavers mention. Definitely a close 3rd since beavers are my favorite animal thanks to that show and Franklin.
Star Trek: TNG
Batman: The Animated Series
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Cyberchase
ZOOM!
Zoboomafoo
Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard
Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team
Scooby Doo Courage the Cowardly Dog Invader Zim
SpongeBob trumps all of these, but that's like a free bingo spot for 90s kids
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Spider-man: The Animated Series
Saved by The Bell, Friends, Naruto
Angry Beavers
Family Guy
SpongeBob SquarePants
Me and my brother would watch the first two for hours. I don’t know how many times we went through all of the seasons of Family Guy he had on dvd
I once got made to write "I will not say 'Reeeeee!' anymore" 50 times on a sheet of paper by my mother.
Dragon ball z Ren n stimpy Beavis and butthead
star trek TOS. original twilight zone. doctor who.
The Simpsons
The Magic School Bus
Friends
Honorable mention to Sailor Moon
As a kid.
As a teenager.
I didn't include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that's a given.
This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn't think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.
I narrowed it down to these three:
Not because I'm so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny's place a lot of afternoons.
Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn't really there when she got very old and then died.
Looking back it's really sad that I wasn't there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.
Batman: TAS
X-Men
WWF Monday Night Raw
Animaniacs
Gargoyles
Doctor Who (Classic)
Star Trek
The A-Team
MacGyver
Thomas and Friends Spongebob Ed Edd n' Eddy
How It's Made (with the witty British voice over)
Myth Busters
Big Bigger Biggest
I would lay in front of the Discovery Channel for hours while playing with Lego. Wouldn't you know it, I grew up to be an engineer!
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Animaniacs Rugrats
Club Dorothée Passe-Partout Les chevaliers du Zodiac
Star Trek
The Waltons
Happy Days
Yes, I’m old!
Well these are the answers I'm hoping for! Thanks for sharing a window into an essential part of you and your youth!
Earlier:
Later on:
Thundercats HOOooo!!!
tell me you're mid 40's without telling me.
Yessir
Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.
Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.
Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we'll never really stop pollution because super heros aren't real lol
Buffy
Stargate SG1
Rugrats
Sliders
The Tomorrow People
Family Ties
Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.
I imagine I'll ask about books in another post soon then, but it looks like it will be a tough one for you! In the meantime, you can think on it 😉
Thanks for sharing!
Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth... My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the "Boob Tube". Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.
So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend's house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.
I'm no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.
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