Hmmm...Richard Milhouse Stabone....yeah, I remember that Boner wasn't the brightest candle on the cake. I also remember that the nickname came out of nowhere...that Mike Seaver gave him the name while waiting for the bus on the first day of school. As an innocent kid, I just thought the name was funny, but now, I just laugh because of its other more common meaning....to commit a big, embarrassing error. Here's what Boner's been up to. I think it would be a lot cooler to have a friend named Milhouse.
You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales"
Yeah I can, or at least I could, but I hated this show. Huey, Dewey and Louie were all annoying and what was the deal with Donald? He was barely in the show and when he was, he was avoiding his apparent responsibility of raising the triplets....he left that to Uncle Scrooge. And who were Huey, Dewey and Louie's parents? Did Donald just have a brother or sister that we never heard of? And what was with Goofy having a kid in his own show? Who'd reproduce with Goofy? I once heard that the only Disney movies with both parents alive and well at the end of the movie are Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp...and maybe 101 Dalmations...but they're all stretches...Anyway...I sincerely hope that defining the generation in which you grew up does not hinge on the memorization of a cartoon theme song. There are better things to remember....like the time Starscream went behind Megatron's back to try to claim leadership of the Decepticons...that was sweet.
If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long!
This I did try, but thankfully my Mom couldn't stand this record...even once a year at Christmas. Sure we'd be disappointed, but I think she set us on the right path by not letting us hear Dave scream at Alvin or those chipmunk nerds Simon and Theodore...by the way, who comes up with the idea to write a cartoon about a grown man interacting with 3 talking (and scheming) chipmunks. There's 6 if you count those girl chipmunks...And who were their parents...some kind of super chipmunks? I just blew my own mind.
Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics
No, but I remember the Kool-Aid man was always breaking stuff...you know, surfing through a wall on a wave of Kool-Aid. Wouldn't that be scary if the Kool-Aid man were real and everytime you had a glass or called him for help he showed up? What is he, omnipresent? I have a feeling that would get old pretty fast. Here's some more information on the sugar water world's greatest superhero.
You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons
Yeah, kids today have it rough. They have the internet, good video games, mountain bikes with full suspension...and there's nothing worth watching on saturday morning! I'm surprised they're not all committing mass suicide. Look, kids today don't know what good cartoons are. The only way they'd know that is if they started to show reruns of the Muppet Babies (with the voice talents of Dave Coulier and Barbara Billingsley no less!) and Kissyfur....hey, what if they came up with a cartoon reality show?
You wore a pony tail to the side of your head
Nope.
You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen
I never saw the appeal of this show....sorry Kristen. I always thought there was something wrong with me the way I didn't buy into TMNT or even GI Joe....Don't get me wrong, I like pizza, which seemed to be the only thing the Turtles would eat. And I also liked the way they could talk smack...have you ever tried to feed a real turtle pizza? I think cartoons are nothing but fantasy.
You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day on the new Apple computers with the black screen & neon green type in computer class at school
Now here was a cool game. My uncle had it for his Commodore 64 in full colour! It was a text based game with really rudimentary graphics. My favourite part was shooting deer so your party could have food. I only finished it once and got the congratulatory letter from President James K. Polk. The thing that made me mad was that when the weather turned sour, you'd always lose a few canoes because you had incompetent people paddling, and when you lost canoes, there went a few bags of flour or your deer carcasses. Some people just can't survive in the outdoors. Quitters.
You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side
I remember this...I was the first one at my school to have it...wait a minute...
You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall
No, but I think my cousin Erin did...along with Michael J. Fox, the Coreys (Haim and Feldman) and Donnie Wahlberg...the coolest thing about Kirk Cameron is that his brother in law is Valeri Bure...and the Canucks totally shut him down last year against St. Louis. An interesting side note about Corey Haim...he filed for bankruptcy when he was 24...I guess movies like Snowboard Academy and Demolition High just don't bring in the bacon.
Well, that's it for now...soon you shall see the reason why I decided to undertake this noble endeavour. There is one item on this incredibly stupid and shallow list that makes me angry to the point that I have considered inventing a time machine and forcing the people who come up with these lists to sit through these TV shows that they reference so they'd actually know what they're talking about. I'd also go back further and warn everyone about Hitler. But that's later. I had a good 80s moment today...we watched Money Pit. I think it was funnier in 1986...we really rented it so I could remember what Yakov Smirnoff looked like.
