General Mayhem

[Dracus]

In light of the Max Headroom post, I had been reminiscing with an old elementary school buddy of mine and my brother over the weekend of some of the things we used to enjoy.  I'm trying to compile a list of some of the  more obscure  things on TV, toys, etc. that were around at that time. 

TV show "Misfits of Science"
TV show "V"
TV show "Facts of Life"
TV show "Diff'rent Strokes"
Silver Spoons
Punky Brewster
Small Wonder
Darkwing Duck
Tale Spin
Voltron
Gobots
Gummy Bears (the tv show)
Smurfs
Snorks
Thundercats
when GI Joe was actually cool
toy guns that actually looked like guns and shot actual projectiles
Lazer Tag
Nintendo Power Glove
Max Headroom
Inhumanoids
Robotix
Big Foot and the Muscle Machines
Centurions

Can you please add to the list?

Message Edited by Dracus on 09-18-2007 08:26 AM

[Rhox]

Orbots
WWF (Hulkamania)
Robotech (how can you ferget this one?)
Ducktales
Miami Vice

Cherry 7-Up (Isn't it cool in pink?  Isn't it cool to drink?)

[Dracus]

7-Up Gold
Crystal Pepsi
Pepsi Clear (same damn thing)
Dr. Pepper's other flavor

[Lautakwah]

Growing Pains
Mr. Belvedere
3's Companies
The shitty spin off of 3's Companies (forgot the name)
The Littles
The A-Team
Conan the Barbarian Cartoon Show
She-Ra
Tranzor Z

[Dracus]

Battle of the Planets
Astroboy
Land of the Lost
Great Space Coaster (I loved Gary Gnu)
The Buggaloos

[Rhox]

Alf
The Six Million Dollar Man
Bionic Woman
Old school spiderman, and batman
The Greatest American Hero

Shasta (When I wanna pop~ i wanna.. Shasta~!)

[soymilk]

mc hammer cartoon show

[Lex]

AirWolf
McGuyver
Mr Wizard

[onions]

apple slice soda, let alone slice soda
M.A.S.K.
astro boy
entertech, water pistols that looked like actual military weapons. i wanted the m-16 so badly.
knight rider, an icon of the 80's
a little after knight rider there were three shows that launched around the same time: Manimal, Masquerade, and Automan
michael jackson actually being black
starblazers (american name)
g-force (american name)
garbage pail kids
montgomery moose and the get along gang

[onions]

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Lautakwah wrote:
Growing Pains
Mr. Belvedere
3's Companies
The shitty spin off of 3's Companies (forgot the name)
The Littles
The A-Team
Conan the Barbarian Cartoon Show
She-Ra
Tranzor Z

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three's a crowd

[Dracus]

KITT vs KARR (Knight Rider)
Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat (another WWF reference)
Andre the Giant (damn I used to love that guy)
New Coke
When Oprah ran a show that was closer to Jerry Springer than what it is now.
Smoking was banned on airlines and also there were now smoking and non-smoking sections implemented in restaraunts
Walkman/Discman
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus (I actually shed a tear when I saw those)
Chernobyl
Being on the brink of nuclear war against Russia.  It's still hard for me to realize how close to nuclear war we actually were.
AIDS
Cabbage Patch Kids
"Baby on Board" stickers
Back to the Future
My Little Pony
Hotwheels
Rainbow Bright
Playdough Fun Factory
Strawberry Shortcake
Litebright
The Cosby Show
Charles In Charge
Dino-Riders
ET
Bladerunner

[Dracus]

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onions wrote:

M.A.S.K.
entertech, water pistols that looked like actual military weapons. i wanted the m-16 so badly.
garbage pail kids

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that's some Win right there.  I had the M-16 and the AK-47 Centerfire guns.  The AK's broke after 3 days of use but the M16 was awesome.

[Lex]

Swamp Thing

[Rhox]

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Lex wrote:
Swamp Thing

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/no
/youfail
/tryagain

[onions]

Tron

[Lex]

When the Disney channel actually played classic Disney cartoons?

[Krendal]

You Can't Do That on Television

[Dracus]

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Lex wrote:
When the Disney channel actually played classic Disney cartoons?

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when MTV actually played music videos?

[Kevorkian]

Tiny Toon Adventures
Animaniacs
US Acres
The Real Ghostbusters
That Batman cartoon that was all dark and brooding
Super Soakers
Big League Chew (gum)
Those little disc-shooting guns
Nerf Turbo footballs
Aerobie frisbee things (the discs you could throw like 300 yards)
Passing notes in class (no texting!)
Pagers and pager-speak (the origins of 1337!)
When talking to chicks on the phone (not AIM/Myspace/Facebook) was cool

[Rhox]

quantum leap
doctor who
Voyagers!