Growing up in the 90's meme
You watched the ABC more than any other station.
Definately. It had all the best cartoons.
You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers together.
Yes! And they tried to escape, but NO! I ate them all!
The best parties always had fairy bread.
The best parties had video games. But fairy bread rocked too.
The Waugh twins. Go! Aussie! Go!
Um, who?
Super League almost ruining rugby league in Australia.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I know or knew anything about sports.
Getting the Easter Show guide from the paper and circling all the show bags you wanted.
We have the royal melbourne show down here, But I didn't start going to that until three years ago. Never went as a kid.
You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted to go there because you were were scared you'd get shot.
I still do. No, that's not true.
Blinky Bill, Mr Squiggle and Gumby.
I didn't like Blinky Bill, he bored me. But Mr Squiggle and Gumby rocked!
You always used to see that dried out, white dog poo on the footpath. You never see that anymore.
Yeah, whatever happened to that stuff? That's going to bug me now.
SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.
SuperTed! Widget! World Watcher? Samurai Pizza Cats!!!!! Widget was the first show I was old enough to realise that it had run for too long and gotten old.
Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school once you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.
Went with a small group of friends, by which I mean... one. And I was well out of school by that stage.
Doing research for school projects by going to the library or looking up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.
Ah yes, looking up things in encyclopedias. When the world was young and plagarism was not penalized. I mean...
Brian Henderson and Richard Morecroft reading the news.
I probably do, but don't ask me to recognize the names.
Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard became the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young to care before that.
Pretty much sums it up, but we were worried about Jeff Kennet long before I started noticing the FEDERAL election.
Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.
Bangers and Mash was another show when I grew old enough to feel "Hang on, this is a bit crap, isn't it.". Banana Man always felt a bit odd to me. Far too young to fully remember the Raggy Dolls, so nolstalgia remains fully intact.
Game Boy.
My brother got one. I got a Nintendo. And I loved it.
Waking up early everyday to watch Agro’s Cartoon Connection or Cheez TV.
Yes, except at the time it wasn't early, it was just the time one got up.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
I miss the fact that I was too young to enjoy it while it was there, and too old now that it's gone.
Everyone got the Coke bag at the Easter Show and it was only $10.
Nope.
Buying those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different one each day and then opening the packets really carefully and removing the cereal so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. You also most probably just let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.
I didn't do the mini wardrobe thing, I was just excited about the cocoa pops.
Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.
Yeah, that was tough. Stupid rainbow road.
Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, eye-less doll named EC).
Never really liked any of these shows, but they were certainly around.
Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether Oddjob was allowed to be used in multiplayer.
Played Goldeneye once. Didn't really like it all that much, the controls were annoying.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Well, I'd have to point out that the original was in fact the comic books, but if by original you mean the first cartoon show, then yes, watched it devotedly for a while.
Super International Cricket on the SNES.
Played it incessantly, but got bored of it long before my brother's did. It was only a cricket game, after all.
Arguing over which was better - Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.
YES! This was a massive argument for ages and ages and ages. Stupid one too, the Nintendo 64 was WAY better. Hello, 64 bit versus 32 bit? End of Story. Also, it had Mario 64, Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Blast Corps, Lylat Wars, and F-Zero X. Beat that. What's that? Final Fantasy? Yeah, well... um... shut up!
Don’t push me, push a push pop!
That was lame even when I was a kid.
Nobody made "not" jokes... NOT!!
So... what, does that mean people DID make not jokes? Be careful with double negatives. :P
Bathurst stopped being Holden vs. Ford and all those European cars came in until they came to their senses.
Was that sentence in english?
Who shot Mr Burns?
Maggie Simpson! The End.
Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always singing the song.
Ah another show we watched, ignoring the moral message altogether!
That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.
Never heard that one until a few years ago.
WWE was WWF and they actually had cool wrestlers like The Rock, Mankind and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Wrestling? Please. Just go away.
Playing Gran Turismo and MGS on PlayStation.
Only recent discoveries I'm afraid. Nintendo all the way.
Roller coasters at Wonderland, Sydney.
That would require actually going to Sydney.
You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.
I certainly WANTED to...
SBS didn’t have any ads. Not that you ever watched it anyway, except maybe for softcore porn.
SBS was that boring channel we didn't want to watch.
You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played anyone for your god marble.
I have owned one marble in my life, it was a gift so I could join in a game. I lost it in two minutes.
Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.
Never did, I'm proud to say, unless throwing it in the bin after finally finishing with it counts as it dying.
Singing "a ram sam sam, a ram sam sam, guli guli guli guli guli, ram sam sam, a rafi, a rafi, guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam".
You're scaring me now.
Seeing a small rack of DVDs in the video store and wondering if anyone ever rented them.
I was excited about DVDs, jumped on the bandwagon reasonably early.
Dolly the sheep.
That takes me back. Wonder whatever happened to old Dolly. Chops, most likely.
Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.
Ugh, no.
Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't Phoebe and Joey get together?
I remember that.
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yay for Sonic! His glory shall never return, since the development team all seemed to catch viral brain damage once 3D arrived.
Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on Channel 10.
I remember when I finally realised the Simpsons were no longer funny. It was a sad day.
Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though the Turtles will always be cooler.
TMNT are cooler than power rangers, but I watched them a lot. Amazingly I still consider the movie to be vaguly passable.
Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by all the swearing.
Yeah I was a little excited by that the first time. Poor Parker and Stone. They would be so funny if they didn't get carried away by bad taste. It's a distraction guys, it's not funny.
Watching Hercules and then being disappointed when Xena Warrior Princess replaced it. Nobody was cooler than Herc.
Never watched either.
Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to make sure it worked properly.
Don't forget giving the cartridge a good thwack before putting it back in too.
Smell the cheese.
Smell the cheese? I'd love to. Ow! I'd prefer it if you didn't punch me in the face. Now, where's that cheese?
Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators. (And Man O Man!!)
I'm a bit ashamed to say I watched this quite a bit.
Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending up punching accidentally.
YES! Stupid fatalities.
Pokemon! Gotta catch ‘em all!
Just missed out on the pokemon craze. A casual vaguely interested observer, nothing more.
Watching Hey Dad! and then seeing little Arthur McArthur go on to star in that famous Sorbent First part yes, second part no.
Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.
Comedy Inc is awful. Please stop it. Full Frontal had Shaun Micallef.
Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.
All of them! Played them forever.
Downloading music from Napster.
Never saw the point. Now into iTunes in a big way.
Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.
MSN all the way.
Going to see Titanic.
Yes. It was long. But hey, a ship sank in it.
The winner is… Sydney.
I was never that excited. But good on 'em.
Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because they were so< bloody small.
What are these?
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Another family ritual.
Waiting for Tony “Plugger” Lockett to break that record.
My dad was a big supporter, but went back to Sydney (Or South Melbourne as they originally were).
Australia didn’t always win the cricket.
Didn't they? Fair enough.
The Socceroos couldn’t qualify for the World Cup.
That's still mostly true isn't it?
John Eales captained the Wallabies and we won the World Cup.
Who did the what now?
Ray Martin hosted A Current Affair.
Scary man.
Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn’t afford it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a friend.
Did they have a name?
Listening to boy bands like Human Nature and girl bands like Girlfriend.
Neither.
Barbie, not Bratz.
Brats are just pathetic. Barbie's are too, but less so.
The Spice Girls.
Oh yeah. Them. They were big for a bit.
Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually good.
My dad collected happy meal toys. Then the dog ate them.
Person 1: Who farted!?
Person 2: Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
Person 1: Whoever made the rhyme, commited the crime!
The second line was said in a book once, but never heard it said in person.
Brad Fittler was the best in the world.
Who?
Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn’t so gay.
He still does and he never was.
Opposite day.
More of an urban myth than a memory.
We all loved Pat Rafter and almost cried when he lost to Goran Ivanisevic because our Pat deserved that title more than anyone. Definitely more than Hewitt ever did.
You're beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel with all these sports qns.
Playing tackle Bullrush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.
Was banned before I got there.
Giving a friend a backage in the canteen line. If it was your best friend, you gave them a frontage.
Didn't have a canteen until high school. Lines weren't big enough to bother with all that.
Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.
I remember everyone ELSE being nuts about them.
Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.
There's got to be a rule against that, surely?
You laughed at the fat kid on the Cottees cordial ad and changed the song to "My Dad picks his nose..."
He was fat? We certainly did the last bit.
You ate Smarties instead of M&M’s.
I ate whatever was going.
You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.
YES! UGH! YUCK! BLEEEEUUUURRGH!
Service stations didn’t need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices signs.
I wasn't paying attention to the petrol prices then, and I'm not paying attention now.
Girl germs! Boy germs!
My my, how things change...
Goosebumps.
Yeah I was cold a fair bit. Once again, a brief childhood fad, my brother loved 'em though.
You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.
And it was SO inconvenient. Many's the day when I said "Oh, if only I could just send a brief message via some mobile communication device instead of actually talking to people."
Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap. Wearing the cap backwards.
No. Where are you from?
Arguing over who got to be Warnie in backyard cricket. Six and out!
Six and out, yes. Why would you pretend to be someone else?
Paul Jennings’ Gizmo books.
Didn't like Gizmo that much, his earlier work was better.
Matchbox cars.
Much bigger than a matchbox.
The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see the image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.
Yeah! They were always really easy after that, too.
The Secret World of Alex Mack.
I really enjoyed this show. It was good fun, though I doubt I'd like it these days.
Talk to the hand!
Only when we made fun of daytime talk shows.
Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.
Humphry was dull. Noddy was dull. Johnson and friends had a walking hot water battle. Art.
You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they displayed in the brochures.
Yes! And I always wanted an electric lego monorail.
Collecting Yowie toys. Aussie wildlife was way cooler than any stupid Kinder Surprise toy.
Yeah! Our dad collected them, so he bought lots for us. CHOCOLATE!
Playing truth or dare with your secret crush.
Truth or dare was a high school thing, didn't actually play it that often.
Mark Taylor equalling Don Bradman's record.
Did he? Good for him.
Slap bracelets.
The cool kids had these. I always wanted one.
Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece of the skin out to see its insides.
My, that was big for a while, wasn't it.
Roger Ramjet, he’s our man, hero of our nation.
Love Roger Ramjet. It's great fun.
We had paper money.
Well, it existed, yes, but I never had any. Coins yes, notes no.
Telling those Dobbers where to stick it by singing, "Dibba dobba dibba dobba number nine, wearing nappies all the time" and, "Dibba dobba Cindy went to kindy, stepped on a bindy wa wa wa."
No, that one slipped me by.
Good on ya Mum! Tip Top’s the one!
Whatever happened to Tip Top?
You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for only $2.
Not $2. But close.
Begging your parents to go to McDonald’s for dinner.
All the time, I'm ashamed to say.
Rocko’s Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!
I remember when nickelodian was good.
Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.
I never could stand play school. I wanted a story, not boring grown ups pretending they were interesting. Oh, we've built a pig out of a drink bottle. Oh, yes, why not, sing a song about him. You enjoy that. Through the window? Damn that's dull. I wonder what's on a different channel.
Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.
It was always Toys R US for us.
Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba’s pain when Mufasa died. Disney just doesn’t make them like that anymore.
Pain? No. It was a good movie. And Lion King was the beginning of the new wave of disney movies with more slapstick, more actiony, and less actual plot. What the HELL do you mean they don't make them like that anymore, THEY'RE ALL LIKE THAT NOW!!!!
Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a Flake because they didn’t have it.
I miss those.
Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.
I wanted a yo-yo. Then lost all interest when i couldn't make it work.
Nesquik without the Nes.
Was it?
Troll Dolls.
Once again,a "this is a bit of a fad isn't it? Shame i'm not that interested" thing.
The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You made an ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows and could never finish it.
YES! and I always ate too much and was sick.
Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.
YES! YES! LOVE THEM! STILL DO!
Ba-na-na-na-na! Ba-na-na-na-na! Make those bodies sing!
They're just bananas. I mean really. Why all the fuss?
You had to get your photos developed.
That still applies if you want them done properly.
Your family didn’t own a 4WD unless it was a real one like a Land Cruiser or Patrol. Range Rovers were tough and nobody thought BMW would make a 4WD, let alone Porsche.
You're right, we didn't own one.
Street Sharks and Biker Mice From Mars.
They were there, but they were kind of boring.
Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour Warheads in one go.
Never really got in to warheads.
The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn’t a folded piece of paper.
And damn well should still be that way.
No Hat, no play.
That was the deal.
Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that because its not healthy enough. We didn't give a shit about our health in the 90's.
My brother got one. It was kind of crap really.
High five! Up high, down low, too slow!
That never got old.
Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors kept on changing. You still loved it though.
Never liked the show until now.
Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.
Afraid so.
Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have to be educational back then, like That's Academic... that show sucks.
Yeah, they were fun.
Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.
Nope.
You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super Soaker for Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more water, the better.
Never ever got one.
Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could trade them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from Woolies for ten bucks.
A few times, yes.
Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.
I liked Harold. I felt for a giraffe with a hand stuck up him he was an ok sort.
Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up stupid rules as you went along.
Yeah that was good fun.
Skipping ropes and Jump Rope for Heart Day.
Never really got into that.
Chewing the crappy gum in Bubble-O-Bill's nose and wishing they could just use Hubba Bubba instead.
I hated bubble-o-bill, but my brother's couldnt' get enough of them.
A*mazing.
HA! That was so sad it was fun.
The Ferals. Rattus, Modigliana, Derryn and Mixy were cool until they started that five minute piece of crap, Feral TV.
The Ferals were great.
Hypercolour T-shirts.
They were fun.
Who Dares! Who Dares! Who Dares Wins!
The start of the people doing really stupid thigns for fame and attention. (Hello Big Brother)
Having your very own Dollarmites account and getting really excited when you earned a tiny bit of interest.
My dad took all the money from my dollarmites account and bought us a super nintendo. I love him.
Growing up in Australia in the 90’s was rad.
I enjoyed it, certainly.
Definately. It had all the best cartoons.
You made worms by squeezing your Vegemite or peanut butter crackers together.
Yes! And they tried to escape, but NO! I ate them all!
The best parties always had fairy bread.
The best parties had video games. But fairy bread rocked too.
The Waugh twins. Go! Aussie! Go!
Um, who?
Super League almost ruining rugby league in Australia.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I know or knew anything about sports.
Getting the Easter Show guide from the paper and circling all the show bags you wanted.
We have the royal melbourne show down here, But I didn't start going to that until three years ago. Never went as a kid.
You thought everyone in America carried a gun and you never wanted to go there because you were were scared you'd get shot.
I still do. No, that's not true.
Blinky Bill, Mr Squiggle and Gumby.
I didn't like Blinky Bill, he bored me. But Mr Squiggle and Gumby rocked!
You always used to see that dried out, white dog poo on the footpath. You never see that anymore.
Yeah, whatever happened to that stuff? That's going to bug me now.
SuperTed, Widget The World Watcher and Samurai Pizza Cats.
SuperTed! Widget! World Watcher? Samurai Pizza Cats!!!!! Widget was the first show I was old enough to realise that it had run for too long and gotten old.
Going to the Easter Show with a big group of friends from school once you were old enough to go without Mum and Dad.
Went with a small group of friends, by which I mean... one. And I was well out of school by that stage.
Doing research for school projects by going to the library or looking up an encyclopaedia rather than using the internet.
Ah yes, looking up things in encyclopedias. When the world was young and plagarism was not penalized. I mean...
Brian Henderson and Richard Morecroft reading the news.
I probably do, but don't ask me to recognize the names.
Paul Keating was some guy that ran the country and John Howard became the only PM you really ever knew because you were too young to care before that.
Pretty much sums it up, but we were worried about Jeff Kennet long before I started noticing the FEDERAL election.
Banana Man, Bangers and Mash and The Raggy Dolls.
Bangers and Mash was another show when I grew old enough to feel "Hang on, this is a bit crap, isn't it.". Banana Man always felt a bit odd to me. Far too young to fully remember the Raggy Dolls, so nolstalgia remains fully intact.
Game Boy.
My brother got one. I got a Nintendo. And I loved it.
Waking up early everyday to watch Agro’s Cartoon Connection or Cheez TV.
Yes, except at the time it wasn't early, it was just the time one got up.
Hey Hey It’s Saturday.
I miss the fact that I was too young to enjoy it while it was there, and too old now that it's gone.
Everyone got the Coke bag at the Easter Show and it was only $10.
Nope.
Buying those 6 packs of Coco Pops, Fruit Loops, Frosties, Rice Bubbles, Nutri-Grain and Corn Flakes so you could have a different one each day and then opening the packets really carefully and removing the cereal so you'd have a mini wardrobe afterwards. You also most probably just let your parents eat the Corn Flakes.
I didn't do the mini wardrobe thing, I was just excited about the cocoa pops.
Trying to make the Rainbow Road shortcut on Mario Kart 64.
Yeah, that was tough. Stupid rainbow road.
Postman Pat, Fireman Sam and Lift Off (that show with the dirty, eye-less doll named EC).
Never really liked any of these shows, but they were certainly around.
Playing GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 and arguing over whether Oddjob was allowed to be used in multiplayer.
Played Goldeneye once. Didn't really like it all that much, the controls were annoying.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Well, I'd have to point out that the original was in fact the comic books, but if by original you mean the first cartoon show, then yes, watched it devotedly for a while.
Super International Cricket on the SNES.
Played it incessantly, but got bored of it long before my brother's did. It was only a cricket game, after all.
Arguing over which was better - Nintendo 64 or PlayStation.
YES! This was a massive argument for ages and ages and ages. Stupid one too, the Nintendo 64 was WAY better. Hello, 64 bit versus 32 bit? End of Story. Also, it had Mario 64, Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Blast Corps, Lylat Wars, and F-Zero X. Beat that. What's that? Final Fantasy? Yeah, well... um... shut up!
Don’t push me, push a push pop!
That was lame even when I was a kid.
Nobody made "not" jokes... NOT!!
So... what, does that mean people DID make not jokes? Be careful with double negatives. :P
Bathurst stopped being Holden vs. Ford and all those European cars came in until they came to their senses.
Was that sentence in english?
Who shot Mr Burns?
Maggie Simpson! The End.
Watching Captain Planet and then driving your parents mad by always singing the song.
Ah another show we watched, ignoring the moral message altogether!
That's so funny, I forgot to laugh.
Never heard that one until a few years ago.
WWE was WWF and they actually had cool wrestlers like The Rock, Mankind and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Wrestling? Please. Just go away.
Playing Gran Turismo and MGS on PlayStation.
Only recent discoveries I'm afraid. Nintendo all the way.
Roller coasters at Wonderland, Sydney.
That would require actually going to Sydney.
You decorated your room with glow-in-the-dark stickers.
I certainly WANTED to...
SBS didn’t have any ads. Not that you ever watched it anyway, except maybe for softcore porn.
SBS was that boring channel we didn't want to watch.
You played marbles and could name all the different types like blue moon, oily, candy, red wine, galaxy and red devil. You never played anyone for your god marble.
I have owned one marble in my life, it was a gift so I could join in a game. I lost it in two minutes.
Feeling sad when your Tamagotchi died.
Never did, I'm proud to say, unless throwing it in the bin after finally finishing with it counts as it dying.
Singing "a ram sam sam, a ram sam sam, guli guli guli guli guli, ram sam sam, a rafi, a rafi, guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam".
You're scaring me now.
Seeing a small rack of DVDs in the video store and wondering if anyone ever rented them.
I was excited about DVDs, jumped on the bandwagon reasonably early.
Dolly the sheep.
That takes me back. Wonder whatever happened to old Dolly. Chops, most likely.
Getting up early to watch the Rage Top 50.
Ugh, no.
Friends when they were all actually just friends. Why didn't Phoebe and Joey get together?
I remember that.
Sonic the Hedgehog.
Yay for Sonic! His glory shall never return, since the development team all seemed to catch viral brain damage once 3D arrived.
Watching The Simpsons back when it was funny, every night on Channel 10.
I remember when I finally realised the Simpsons were no longer funny. It was a sad day.
Power Rangers becoming cooler than the Ninja Turtles, even though the Turtles will always be cooler.
TMNT are cooler than power rangers, but I watched them a lot. Amazingly I still consider the movie to be vaguly passable.
Watching South Park for the first time and being really excited by all the swearing.
Yeah I was a little excited by that the first time. Poor Parker and Stone. They would be so funny if they didn't get carried away by bad taste. It's a distraction guys, it's not funny.
Watching Hercules and then being disappointed when Xena Warrior Princess replaced it. Nobody was cooler than Herc.
Never watched either.
Blowing on the Nintendo cartridge before putting it in the console to make sure it worked properly.
Don't forget giving the cartridge a good thwack before putting it back in too.
Smell the cheese.
Smell the cheese? I'd love to. Ow! I'd prefer it if you didn't punch me in the face. Now, where's that cheese?
Vulcan, Tower, Flame... Australian Gladiators. (And Man O Man!!)
I'm a bit ashamed to say I watched this quite a bit.
Playing Mortal Kombat and trying to do a fatality but just ending up punching accidentally.
YES! Stupid fatalities.
Pokemon! Gotta catch ‘em all!
Just missed out on the pokemon craze. A casual vaguely interested observer, nothing more.
Watching Hey Dad! and then seeing little Arthur McArthur go on to star in that famous Sorbent First part yes, second part no.
Full Frontal, not Comedy Inc.
Comedy Inc is awful. Please stop it. Full Frontal had Shaun Micallef.
Wolfenstein, Doom and Duke Nukem.
All of them! Played them forever.
Downloading music from Napster.
Never saw the point. Now into iTunes in a big way.
Chatting with your buddies on ICQ.
MSN all the way.
Going to see Titanic.
Yes. It was long. But hey, a ship sank in it.
The winner is… Sydney.
I was never that excited. But good on 'em.
Mighty Max and Polly Pocket. Max and Polly always got lost because they were so< bloody small.
What are these?
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
Another family ritual.
Waiting for Tony “Plugger” Lockett to break that record.
My dad was a big supporter, but went back to Sydney (Or South Melbourne as they originally were).
Australia didn’t always win the cricket.
Didn't they? Fair enough.
The Socceroos couldn’t qualify for the World Cup.
That's still mostly true isn't it?
John Eales captained the Wallabies and we won the World Cup.
Who did the what now?
Ray Martin hosted A Current Affair.
Scary man.
Zoopa Doopa ice blocks were only 20c and if you couldn’t afford it, you asked the canteen lady to cut it in half so you could split it with a friend.
Did they have a name?
Listening to boy bands like Human Nature and girl bands like Girlfriend.
Neither.
Barbie, not Bratz.
Brats are just pathetic. Barbie's are too, but less so.
The Spice Girls.
Oh yeah. Them. They were big for a bit.
Happy Meals were only $2.95 and the toys were simple but actually good.
My dad collected happy meal toys. Then the dog ate them.
Person 1: Who farted!?
Person 2: Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
Person 1: Whoever made the rhyme, commited the crime!
The second line was said in a book once, but never heard it said in person.
Brad Fittler was the best in the world.
Who?
Thorpe won lots of gold medals and wasn’t so gay.
He still does and he never was.
Opposite day.
More of an urban myth than a memory.
We all loved Pat Rafter and almost cried when he lost to Goran Ivanisevic because our Pat deserved that title more than anyone. Definitely more than Hewitt ever did.
You're beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel with all these sports qns.
Playing tackle Bullrush at lunchtime and having tackling banned. You had to resort to grab 1-2-3 or tip. Same goes for footy.
Was banned before I got there.
Giving a friend a backage in the canteen line. If it was your best friend, you gave them a frontage.
Didn't have a canteen until high school. Lines weren't big enough to bother with all that.
Pogs and Looney Tunes Tazos.
I remember everyone ELSE being nuts about them.
Nobody won Wimbledon unless their name was Pete Sampras.
There's got to be a rule against that, surely?
You laughed at the fat kid on the Cottees cordial ad and changed the song to "My Dad picks his nose..."
He was fat? We certainly did the last bit.
You ate Smarties instead of M&M’s.
I ate whatever was going.
You tried Dr. Pepper and hated it.
YES! UGH! YUCK! BLEEEEUUUURRGH!
Service stations didn’t need space for 4 digits on their petrol prices signs.
I wasn't paying attention to the petrol prices then, and I'm not paying attention now.
Girl germs! Boy germs!
My my, how things change...
Goosebumps.
Yeah I was cold a fair bit. Once again, a brief childhood fad, my brother loved 'em though.
You had to actually call your friends rather than send them an SMS.
And it was SO inconvenient. Many's the day when I said "Oh, if only I could just send a brief message via some mobile communication device instead of actually talking to people."
Wearing a Chicago Bulls T-shirt or cap. Wearing the cap backwards.
No. Where are you from?
Arguing over who got to be Warnie in backyard cricket. Six and out!
Six and out, yes. Why would you pretend to be someone else?
Paul Jennings’ Gizmo books.
Didn't like Gizmo that much, his earlier work was better.
Matchbox cars.
Much bigger than a matchbox.
The feeling of wonder you got, the first time you were able to see the image in one of those Magic Eye 3D pictures.
Yeah! They were always really easy after that, too.
The Secret World of Alex Mack.
I really enjoyed this show. It was good fun, though I doubt I'd like it these days.
Talk to the hand!
Only when we made fun of daytime talk shows.
Johnson and Friends, Noddy and Humphrey B. Bear.
Humphry was dull. Noddy was dull. Johnson and friends had a walking hot water battle. Art.
You wished you had enough Lego to build those amazing cities they displayed in the brochures.
Yes! And I always wanted an electric lego monorail.
Collecting Yowie toys. Aussie wildlife was way cooler than any stupid Kinder Surprise toy.
Yeah! Our dad collected them, so he bought lots for us. CHOCOLATE!
Playing truth or dare with your secret crush.
Truth or dare was a high school thing, didn't actually play it that often.
Mark Taylor equalling Don Bradman's record.
Did he? Good for him.
Slap bracelets.
The cool kids had these. I always wanted one.
Jurassic Park and those toy dinosaurs where you could pull a piece of the skin out to see its insides.
My, that was big for a while, wasn't it.
Roger Ramjet, he’s our man, hero of our nation.
Love Roger Ramjet. It's great fun.
We had paper money.
Well, it existed, yes, but I never had any. Coins yes, notes no.
Telling those Dobbers where to stick it by singing, "Dibba dobba dibba dobba number nine, wearing nappies all the time" and, "Dibba dobba Cindy went to kindy, stepped on a bindy wa wa wa."
No, that one slipped me by.
Good on ya Mum! Tip Top’s the one!
Whatever happened to Tip Top?
You could buy more than enough food from the school canteen for only $2.
Not $2. But close.
Begging your parents to go to McDonald’s for dinner.
All the time, I'm ashamed to say.
Rocko’s Modern Life, Rugrats and Hey Arnold!
I remember when nickelodian was good.
Noni, Monica and that bald guy named George on Play School.
I never could stand play school. I wanted a story, not boring grown ups pretending they were interesting. Oh, we've built a pig out of a drink bottle. Oh, yes, why not, sing a song about him. You enjoy that. Through the window? Damn that's dull. I wonder what's on a different channel.
Going to World 4 Kids to look at all the toys.
It was always Toys R US for us.
Watching The Lion King and feeling Simba’s pain when Mufasa died. Disney just doesn’t make them like that anymore.
Pain? No. It was a good movie. And Lion King was the beginning of the new wave of disney movies with more slapstick, more actiony, and less actual plot. What the HELL do you mean they don't make them like that anymore, THEY'RE ALL LIKE THAT NOW!!!!
Soft serve cones were only 30c and they never tried to up-sell a Flake because they didn’t have it.
I miss those.
Wanting a Brain or Silver Bullet during the yo-yo craze.
I wanted a yo-yo. Then lost all interest when i couldn't make it work.
Nesquik without the Nes.
Was it?
Troll Dolls.
Once again,a "this is a bit of a fad isn't it? Shame i'm not that interested" thing.
The Kids' Works at Pizza Hut with unlimited drink refills. You made an ice cream mountain covered in choc chips and marshmallows and could never finish it.
YES! and I always ate too much and was sick.
Thomas the Tank Engine and TUGS.
YES! YES! LOVE THEM! STILL DO!
Ba-na-na-na-na! Ba-na-na-na-na! Make those bodies sing!
They're just bananas. I mean really. Why all the fuss?
You had to get your photos developed.
That still applies if you want them done properly.
Your family didn’t own a 4WD unless it was a real one like a Land Cruiser or Patrol. Range Rovers were tough and nobody thought BMW would make a 4WD, let alone Porsche.
You're right, we didn't own one.
Street Sharks and Biker Mice From Mars.
They were there, but they were kind of boring.
Competing with your friends to see who could eat the most sour Warheads in one go.
Never really got in to warheads.
The Channel 9 logo had dots next to it and the Channel 7 logo wasn’t a folded piece of paper.
And damn well should still be that way.
No Hat, no play.
That was the deal.
Dr. Dreadful Food Labs. Kids these days wouldn't be allowed that because its not healthy enough. We didn't give a shit about our health in the 90's.
My brother got one. It was kind of crap really.
High five! Up high, down low, too slow!
That never got old.
Watching Round the Twist and getting pissed off that the actors kept on changing. You still loved it though.
Never liked the show until now.
Cheating in Heads Down, Thumbs Up.
Afraid so.
Watching that game show called Vidiot. Game shows didn't have to be educational back then, like That's Academic... that show sucks.
Yeah, they were fun.
Collecting basketball cards, whether you followed basketball or not.
Nope.
You always wished your parents had bought you a bigger Super Soaker for Christmas. Christmas is hot in Australia... the more water, the better.
Never ever got one.
Collecting hundreds of tickets from Timezone just so you could trade them for some crappy prize that you could have bought from Woolies for ten bucks.
A few times, yes.
Healthy Harold day was the best because you got to miss class to sit in a tiny caravan and listen to a talking giraffe.
I liked Harold. I felt for a giraffe with a hand stuck up him he was an ok sort.
Playing handball with Ace, King, Queen and Dunce and making up stupid rules as you went along.
Yeah that was good fun.
Skipping ropes and Jump Rope for Heart Day.
Never really got into that.
Chewing the crappy gum in Bubble-O-Bill's nose and wishing they could just use Hubba Bubba instead.
I hated bubble-o-bill, but my brother's couldnt' get enough of them.
A*mazing.
HA! That was so sad it was fun.
The Ferals. Rattus, Modigliana, Derryn and Mixy were cool until they started that five minute piece of crap, Feral TV.
The Ferals were great.
Hypercolour T-shirts.
They were fun.
Who Dares! Who Dares! Who Dares Wins!
The start of the people doing really stupid thigns for fame and attention. (Hello Big Brother)
Having your very own Dollarmites account and getting really excited when you earned a tiny bit of interest.
My dad took all the money from my dollarmites account and bought us a super nintendo. I love him.
Growing up in Australia in the 90’s was rad.
I enjoyed it, certainly.