You know you're an 80s Kid (in the US) if..

[jayx8318x]

Most of you have probably seen this already, but I was reminded of it when cowboy mentioned 'Saved by the Bell' in the slang thread.

There are tons more, I just picked the ones that applied to me.


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[*:13634c57ff]you had any of the following toys:
(I highlighted the ones I had! :happy: )
my buddy, legos moon rider, lite brite, laser tag, atari 2600, teddy ruxspin, polly pockets, hit stix, speak and spell, cabbage patch kids, transformers, voltron, pound puppy, friendship bracelets, velcro dart board, garbage pail kids, sit and spin, choose your own adventure books, g.i. joe, rainbow bright, etch a sketch, my little pony, the original nintendo entertainment system (nes)

[*:13634c57ff]you carried everything in a trapper keeper

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when everything was radical, totally awesome, and bad

[*:13634c57ff]you wore 3 pairs of socks in the summer so you could be hip

[*:13634c57ff]you own any cassettes

[*:13634c57ff]you ever had a hair style with the words "jehri" and "curl" in it

[*:13634c57ff]you were afraid of gremlins

[*:13634c57ff]you owned a pair of l.a. gear, british knights, or converse tennis shoes...you know you had some chuck taylor's. don't trip

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when it stopped being fashionable to pull your socks up to your knees

[*:13634c57ff]your mom ever warned you about eating pop rocks and drinking coke together

[*:13634c57ff]mr. hooper's death on sesame street profoundly affected you

[*:13634c57ff]you couldn't wait for the school book fair to roll in so you could beg mom to buy you some new "Mad Libs"

[*:13634c57ff]you've ever owned a tandy or packard bell computer

[*:13634c57ff]you knew what willis was "talkin' 'bout"

[*:13634c57ff]you know all the words to "ice ice baby"

[*:13634c57ff]any of the following are your favorite movies: house party, weekend at bernie's, mannequin, coming to america, st. elmo's fire, clue, fame, back to the future 1,2, or 3, i'm gonna git you sucka, stand by me, the princess bride, drop dead fred, weird science, beetlejuice, little monsters, teen wolf, dirty dancing, class act, the breakfast club, howard the duck, e.t., flashdance, the goonies, karate kid

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when kfc came in a bucket

[*:13634c57ff]you ever got your arms caught under the slip-n-slide on a july afternoon

[*:13634c57ff]you hear the song "i heard it through the grapevine" and think of dancing raisins

[*:13634c57ff]you have ever played a game of MASH or made oragami fortune tellers

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when happy meals came in boxes

[*:13634c57ff]you did any of the following dances are your eighth-grade prom: the reebok, the guess, the mc hammer, the cabbage patch, the running man

[*:13634c57ff]you always wondered who in the hell was j.r.?

[*:13634c57ff]you used to expect green slime to fall on your head if you said "i don't know"

[*:13634c57ff]you have ever in your lifetime said "i pity the fool" or "you be illin"

[*:13634c57ff]you have watched star trek & said "hey that's the guy from reading rainbow"
[I LOVED reading rainbow! :excited: ]

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when michael jordan had hair, michael jackson was the king of pop, and arsenio was the king of late night

[*:13634c57ff]your bedtime started when dallas or dynasty came on

[*:13634c57ff]you wore shorts on top of your sweats in p.e. class

[*:13634c57ff]you lost your mind when a song on the radio started "it's electric!"

[*:13634c57ff]you had a jean jacket, jean purse or jean bookbag (acid-washed, of course)

[*:13634c57ff]you can hu
m the theme song of the first super mario brothers game

[*:13634c57ff]you remember when fried eggs and crime dogs told you to say no to drugs and ranger bears taught you the basics of forest fires
:laughing:

[*:13634c57ff]you recognize this song (http://www.jay-chou.org/downloads/m/song.mp3)
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[cowboy]

Ha, I can say yes to almost all of those. I was such an 80's baby. They don't make LEGO's like they used to you know. Poor kids tday, just don't have the quality toys we had growing up. It didn't get any better than Duck Hunt when I was a kid.

Remember your roots, play Nintendo.

[Smonkkey]

Wow, all of those are so true. I love muppet babies!!!!! it was like my favorite show! Thanks for the song, brought back lots of old memories.

[jayx8318x]

haha I remember when you could buy super mario brothers with duck hunt and that racing game, I can't remember what it's called.
but I remember it had the pad you could run on, my mom was always yelling when my friends would come over and we'd race, all the stuff in the house would start falling off the shelves.

[babyxv]

I think was born too late in the 80s to know most of this stuff. BUT OMG OMG OMG I LOVE MUPPET BABIES!!!!!! and yes, I had a trapper keeper haha. I loved Polly Pockets too :P

[cowboy]

haha I remember when you could buy super mario brothers with duck hunt and that racing game, I can't remember what it's called.

I think that was "Motocross". It was a motorcycle game right? My favorite Nintendo game was Tecmo Bowl (but if you don't like football, you probablly never played it.) It is the greatest football video game ever made. It came out in like 88 or 89. Ahh, the memories. :D

[Jess]

Hey cowboy is that you in your avatar?

I'm from the NINETIES, and sooo many of those things I remember.

For example, I still have my NES system inside of my closet with my one and only game, Mario. Of the following toys, I had my legos moon rider, polly pockets, cabbage patch kids, transformers, voltron, pound puppy, friendship bracelets, velcro dart board, choose your own adventure books, g.i. joe, my little pony, and the original nintendo entertainment system (nes).

I own cassettes, and I am SO SCARED OF GREMLINS. I can't even describe how freaked out I am about them. Ask any of my friends. I used to get nightly nightmares of gremlins pouncing on me.. *shudder* and I once had a nightmare a few years ago about them killing my dad and sister. I HATE that movie. (Was it supposed to be a comedy??!?!?! It's still number one on my scary movie list... yes, above The Ring.)

I used to own a pair of Converse tennis shoes, but they're way too small now.. I think they're somewhere at the bottom of my "shoe basket."

My dad still warns me about eating pop rocks and coke together and if you were to look at my shelf upstairs, I have like ten mad lib books.. all of which I got at my elementary school book fair. I've seen more than half of the movies in the list and I remember when making origami fortune tellers was SO in.. I've said I pity the fool before, from Mr. T...

(Is the green slime from Nickolodeon or something? :crazy:)

I can hum the theme to the first Super Mario Brothers song (the theme song, the underground song, the underwater song......) and I have a clear image of the Ranger bear visiting my school and telling us about forest fires.. I don't know about the fried eggs but I remember the crime dogs coming to my school and telling us to say no to drugs.

And who doesn't recognize the Muppet babies song?

...Either my parents passed everything down to my generation, or I'm really like 30 in disguise.

[jayx8318x]

Actually it was World Class Track Meet (I had to look it up, it was bugging me)

Where you do the long jump and jump hurdles, like in the Olympics. My favorite nintendo game was Kirby, and this one Ninja game I can't remember the name of...crap not again...it was like you had to rescue kidnapped kids.

Speaking of book fairs, did you guys have R.I.F? Reading is Fundamental?
And also D.A.R.E? Is that still going on?

[Jess]

D.A.R.E. was for anti-drugs!!! I had that in my elementary school!!!

[cowboy]

And also D.A.R.E? Is that still going on?

No, no, no,no Clinton stopped that in the 90's after the gov't admitted that DARE didn't keep kids off of drugs, and teen drug use was on the rise. That wasn't a big surprise to anyone. I had kids in my DARE class go off to smoke right after they got their DARE certificate. Hahaha.

Remember the "This is your brain on drugs." commercial?

[jayx8318x]

yeah I still have my red and black D.A.R.E t-shirt and RULER!

remember when cole haans and k-swiss shoes and dooney purses were SOOO cool! With the girls, you weren't cool unless you had a dooney purse (they were usually fake, this was big when I was in 5th grade)

[shouling]

OMG~!~!~!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!
ROTF.....LMFAO~!

i laughed thruout that whole thing. it is sooo true~! i remember all of it.
i live in Canada, but i still had all the things listed for toys. if i didnt own it myself.....i knew someome who did~!

LOL~! its the guy from reading rainbow~!~! i d/l the theme to that like 3 weeks ago just for fun. i loved that show.

GET THIS~!~!~!~! i actually dressed up as a California rasin for halloween once~! HA HA~!

OMG~! thanx soo much Karen for posting it. if you dont mind i would love to email this to my brother......he's gonna laugh as much as i did for sure~!

*drifts to childhood......remembers*
*"Mommy....wheres Mr. Hooper?"*
*cries*

[jayx8318x]

shouling, there's a lot more here:
http://www.megsplace.com/TimeWarp/child.html

You know you're an 80s kid if:
you believed that "Knowing is Half the Battle."

:laughing:

[shouling]

thanx Karen~!

-You remember David Bowie as the Goblin King, not a singer
OMG~! Labrynth~! HA HA~!

that is the funniest thing i have ever read in my life~!

[Viv]

oh wow! im a nineties kid...but i've played with almost ALL those toys!!~~

and that guy from star trek and reading rainbow...omg i would always say that!(karen i loved reading rainbow too!)

when i was extremely bored at home, i would watch saved by the bell only because of the funny dork-genius...but i was like 7 so i only thought he was funny....

phewf..i gotta good laugh, THANKS KAREN!~

[sawmui13]

i had a polly pocket pencil case before! i loved the duckhunt game but hated that stupid dog who would laugh at me when i missed...grrr... :-x i played MASH and made cootie catchers/oragami fortune tellers too... my parents not only played cassettes but they had a record player too. and actually i went on reading rainbow once :blush: i wasn't one of the cool kids who got to talk about a book they read but i was in a group of kids listening to jazz while the star trek guy talked about it hehe

[GaryDAI]

I still have Nes and the original gameboy :oops: I used to play with the lite bright thing too. It was so much fun :D

And erm.......

Thunder.....Thunder.....Thunder......ThunderCats.. .... HO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :blush:

oh and I had the sword that glowed by the thundercats symbol! I was so cool :laughing:

[Smonkkey]

Wait i thought D.A.R.E. was still going on, cuz one guy went to my house, and my parents gave him money to go away... i mean donated money. Unless.... dirty scams... unless...

[cowboy]

Thunder.....Thunder.....Thunder......ThunderCats.. .... HO!!!!!!!!!!!!! :blush:

oh and I had the sword that glowed by the thundercats symbol! I was so cool :laughing:

ThunderCats rocked!!! They were the sh*t! I had like all of them. I played with them so much, I broke most of them too. Haha, I think that TV show is still on on some stations here.

[getsu_04]

This thread made so nostalgic,my best friend would get such a kick out of this,we always talk about tv shows from our childhood.Does anyone remember a tv show called "David the Gnome?"

[zhy378]

umm.. D.A.R.E is still going on, well, at least at my sister school, cuz i remember once she was doing her D.A.R.E workbook. anyway, even though born in the late eightes, i stil remember most of the stuff. omg, still have the old nintendo, though don't play anymore cuz is old and boring. and also had this my little pony which knda spelled like washed old puke, hehe. aw, the muppet babies rocks.hehe

[LiLxAmMiE]

you remember when happy meals came in boxes

that gave me a huge laugh! that's like, so long time ago, but i would rather prefer happy meals in boxes rather than the paper bags they use now.. lol.:happy:

[Seltsi]

lol, i was born in the late 80s, but I can relate to about half of these....hahah yeah I remember the Reading Rainbow guy...I loved that show, -_-;;

[crusty-applepie]

you remember when kfc came in a bucket


:? why? KFC doesnt come in buckets anymore in the US? i often come to the states to visit relatives but i ddnt know this. are they using cardboard boxes instead?

:? hmm... this was probably done for environmental reasons since i know a lot of big companies are getting some flak from using packaging materials that are not good for the environment such as styrofoam. :happy:

uhmm...adding to the list of 80s things...how bout being a fan of 'new kids on the block'? haha...i became one when i was on vacation in california in '89. hehe. got it from my cousins.

[jiajia]

you remember when kfc came in a bucket


:? why? KFC doesnt come in buckets anymore in the US? i often come to the states to visit relatives but i ddnt know this. are they using cardboard boxes instead?

cardboard boxes? :laughing: when i read that i thought of those big boxes u would use to move with. actually..they do use cardboard boxes..these little boxes that's probably cheaper. but i thought they still use buckets when u buy the family meal or something like that?

thundercats is still being shown on the cartoon network! i remember the song! and what about the teenage mutant ninja turtles and heman!?! i remember watching it on a small tv in the play room with my sister and brother and we would play with those figurines while we watched. :happy:

[KaiLien]

getsu_04, I remember watching David the Gnome on Nickelodeon! I loved that show! I also liked the Grimm Brother fairy tales. My favorite episode was the 12 dancing princesses. Anyways, omg, I just love this thread. I relate to almost all of them! lol. I'm still obsessed with Saved By the Bell! THe 80s was the greatest time ever!

[mouse]

OMG i remember so many fo those things did any of you watch the show "you cant do that on television"? that show was the sh*t OMG i was sad when they stopped playing it!!! :) oh well my little pony and rainbow bright were cool too. what about glow worms? hahaha oh wow can we say memorieeees!!!! hehe ok im having too much fun with the flashbacks!!! :laughing: the coolest movies from that time were the breakfast club and dirty dancing!!! oh geez... hehehe :flowers: :harhar: anyone remember mc hammer and his parachute pants!!! hehe those were sooo cool!! hehe

the reading rainbow guy... i used to watch him all the time on star trek!! ok ok i know im a nerd but thats ok my dad was kind of a trekie my parents even named me after a lady on that show!!!

i remember david the gnome also and little bits! hehe do any of you remember a show about the koala bears who came from this strange place and could fly? no im not crazy it was really there
alright i think im done :realcool: laters!

[wh00shwh00sh]

Lol, i know just about ALL of these things and i'm a nineties kid!

[KaiLien]

OMG!!! Mouse I remember the koala bear show on Nickelodeon. Memories...lol. I loved that show. I also liked that elephant show. I forgot the name but I used to see reruns on tv a couple of years ago. Eureka's Castle was another favorite of mine on Nickelodeon. Man, nick used to be so good. When I try to watch it now, I think it totally sucks. All the shows aren't as good as the ones when I was young.

Oh I also was a huge fan of Lamb Chops!!! (heathcliff, dennis the menace, carebears...the list goes on) When I was young I didn't know that the lady was the voice of lamb chop or something. :laughing: I heard that she passed away though. Speaking of, it's pretty sad that Mr. Rogers died too. I didn't really watch that show but I mean like everybody grew up with him.

[myau]

Hey guys I'm an 80s child too (older than most here on the forum) so I recall all of those things on the list. Yeah the NES was a big part of our lives then and I remember that game world class track meet where you would use the power pad and run (or take fast baby steps) like crazy before it would slip (if on carpet) and how you could cheat by jumping off the pad on the long jump etc (you needed to in order to beat the tough ones like cheetah) Fun times.

There was another game for the power pad as well - an obstacle course game that was even more fun.

[hobielover]

I remember saying that the guy on "Star Trek" (Jordy) was the guy from "Reading Rainbow," LOL! Happy meals still come in boxes sometimes, and I have a bunch of LEGOs, including a Millennium Falcon, which I need to put back together. I dropped it while cleaning. I remember "Muppet Babies." I was born really late in the 80s, though, so I don't remember most of this stuff. I remember when they actually used to have Saturday morning cartoons--"Garfield" and "Peanuts" were my favorites! I still have a denim jacket, but it's dark blue. I also had one of those denim hats, and it had a big denim flower on it!

Does anyone else remember that phase in the 90s where everyone had to have the metallic rainbow-colored shirts? I only threw mine away a few years ago when the seams came apart.