1. 18:49 25th Oct 2009

    notes: 5904

    reblogged from: synecdoche

    tags: childhoodnickelodeon3a

    image: download

    synecdoche / memoriestokeep Didi: Stu, what are you doing? Stu: Making chocolate pudding. Didi: It’s four o’clock in the morning! Why on earth are you making chocolate pudding? Stu: Because I’ve lost control of my life. Reasons this episode is memorable: it features the cartoon version of Doogie Howser. Also: I am Stu Pickles.

    synecdoche / memoriestokeep

    Didi: Stu, what are you doing?
    Stu: Making chocolate pudding.
    Didi: It’s four o’clock in the morning! Why on earth are you making chocolate pudding?
    Stu: Because I’ve lost control of my life.

    Reasons this episode is memorable: it features the cartoon version of Doogie Howser. Also: I am Stu Pickles.

     

  2. 02:05 12th Oct 2009

    notes: 19

    reblogged from: ohlivyuhuxtable

    tags: nickelodeonchildhoodclothing

    (via ohlivyuhuxtable)

    (via ohlivyuhuxtable)

     

  3. 03:51 9th Oct 2009

    notes: 2

    tags: childhoodmiddle schoolsmart house

    Upon the revelation that Marit Larsen was one of the m’s in M2M, we start watching “Mirror Mirror” and talking about other old bands, like B*Witched, on Skype, which means we have to watch the “C’est La Vie” video.

    [3:36:03 AM] Robyn: they look about 35
    [3:36:52 AM] Alex: oh god, i know what i’ll be watching after this
    [3:37:26 AM] Robyn: heh
    [3:37:29 AM] Alex: oh my god they are OLD
    [3:37:39 AM] Alex: (i couldn’t even make it through m2m—i moved on)
    [3:37:48 AM] Robyn: (same)
    [3:38:14 AM] Alex: i will attribute to irish fashion, but they really didn’t need to dress like conservative moms for this video
    [3:38:28 AM] Robyn: it just makes them look even older
    [3:38:34 AM] Robyn: i really like the step-dancing part
    [3:38:35 AM] Alex: especially the one with the mom haircut
    [3:38:47 AM] Alex: oh i haven’t gotten there yet!!!!
    [3:38:52 AM] Alex: i’m excited for it now though
    [3:39:31 AM] Alex: OH MY GOD THEY ARE STEP DANCING
    [3:40:01 AM] Alex: this video is so definitive for the earlier part of this decade
    [3:40:06 AM] Alex: even if it was from the tail end of the last one
    [3:40:41 AM] Robyn: this video is so definitive for my middle school years
    [3:40:48 AM] Alex: and also, definitive—the first related videos i got were for mmmmbop and s club 7 and 5ive and dream
    [3:41:00 AM] Robyn: yes!
    [3:41:10 AM] Alex: i don’t know which to start with
    [3:41:29 AM] Alex: oh i chose s club 7—i’m that kind of girl

     

  4. 17:38 2nd Oct 2009

    notes: 44

    reblogged from: jessicat

    tags: 3achildhoodperfect strangers

    jessicat:

    soupsoup:hortenseg:

    Don’t worry, Chicago.  You’ll always be standing tall on the wings of our dreams.

    This was my favorite show until I was probably five or six. My parents had a bunch of episodes on VHS and when I was being a brat I would demand Balki and they had to put it on. I had a mug that looked like his stuffed sheep, Dimitri. I perfected the Dance of Joy. I don’t understand childhood me.

     

  5. 16:16 1st Oct 2009

    notes: 47

    reblogged from: circlegame

    tags: chip and dalechildhood

    circlegame: burntheworld: ewxslutface: tatooine: CH-CH-CH-CHIP AND DALE, RESCUE RANGERS.CH-CH-CH-CHIP AND DALE, WHEN THERE’S DANGER. Oh shit. Awesome show! You guys, this theme song is awesome. I once forced my friends to watch it on youtube with me. Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks. But these two gumshoes are picking up the slack! There’s no case too big, no case too small, when you need help just call—

    circlegame:

    burntheworld:

    ewxslutface:

    tatooine:

    CH-CH-CH-CHIP AND DALE, RESCUE RANGERS.
    CH-CH-CH-CHIP AND DALE, WHEN THERE’S DANGER.

    Oh shit. Awesome show!

    You guys, this theme song is awesome. I once forced my friends to watch it on youtube with me.

    Sometimes, some crimes go slipping through the cracks.

    But these two gumshoes are picking up the slack! There’s no case too big, no case too small, when you need help just call—

     

  6. 20:03 30th Sep 2009

    notes: 14

    reblogged from: heartbeatcity

    tags: childhoodbook

    (via heartbeatcity) Fact: this is still a favorite of mine even though, further fact: I have since come to love The View from Saturday more for encouraging my love of cursive, quiz bowls, and constructing sentences to start with “fact:”.

    (via heartbeatcity)

    Fact: this is still a favorite of mine even though, further fact: I have since come to love The View from Saturday more for encouraging my love of cursive, quiz bowls, and constructing sentences to start with “fact:”.

     

  7. 16:38 24th Sep 2009

    tags: childhoodthe onion

    My Living Nightmare of Encouraging Kids to Read is Over--Levar Burton | The Onion

    Fact is, I couldn’t care less whether kids learn to read. There, I said it.

    Look, Reading Rainbow was a television program. That should tell you something right there. What I should have done is hosted a show that taught children how to watch more television. I bet they would have come up with the funding to renew that show.

     

  8. 05:09 22nd Sep 2009

    notes: 5

    tags: childhood3a

    Something I actually did as a child

    When I was very, very little, I watched a silent movie with my parents where, in pre-talkie fashion, a woman conveyed bursting into tears by throwing herself to the floor dramatically, with her face in the crook of her arm and her back rising in exaggerated, theatrical sobs.

    The next time I was angry with my parents for not indulging me, I did what the silent movie actress did, instead of pretending to cry and throwing a temper tantrum, because I thought my parents would find it more believable.

    They laughed at me, and still bring this up.

     

  9. 14:21 10th Sep 2009

    notes: 15

    reblogged from: synecdoche

    tags: nickelodeonchildhood

    synecdoche: THE N PLAYS CAITLIN’S WAY?! Remember that time she was from Philadephia and she was a rebel and she rode her horse Bandit and beat up her cousin and took photographs and had feelings? Oh wait that was EVERY EPISODE.

    synecdoche:

    THE N PLAYS CAITLIN’S WAY?!

    Remember that time she was from Philadephia and she was a rebel and she rode her horse Bandit and beat up her cousin and took photographs and had feelings? Oh wait that was EVERY EPISODE.

     

  10. 02:05 5th Sep 2009

    notes: 3

    reblogged from: booksarebetterthanboys

    tags: childhood

    booksarebetterthanboys: Yes, so I did work at an amusement park all through high school. Dutch Wonderland. You heard me right, Dutch. Wonderland. I ran games or the arcade.  But one day they were short on employees that were sixteen and over (who they needed to run the rides) and I was recruited to run the Flying Trapeze (pictured above).  I was trained for about two minutes before they left me alone running the ride for a whole day.  No one got hurt, but one kid did puke. Seriously.  One of the best jobs I ever had.  If you’re in high school, you should consider summer work at a small, family run, amusement park.  You won’t regret it.  Though you will get horrible tan lines from the uniforms. (Kate refers to this as my time as a carny.) (image via via) Discounted tickets to Dutch Wonderland were always offered at my elementary school’s spring carnival, and I always wanted to go, but my parents thought it sounded tacky and never took me. I always thought it looked cute though. I don’t think things need to be Disney to be perfect.

    booksarebetterthanboys:

    Yes, so I did work at an amusement park all through high school. Dutch Wonderland. You heard me right, Dutch. Wonderland.

    I ran games or the arcade.  But one day they were short on employees that were sixteen and over (who they needed to run the rides) and I was recruited to run the Flying Trapeze (pictured above).  I was trained for about two minutes before they left me alone running the ride for a whole day.  No one got hurt, but one kid did puke.

    Seriously.  One of the best jobs I ever had.  If you’re in high school, you should consider summer work at a small, family run, amusement park.  You won’t regret it.  Though you will get horrible tan lines from the uniforms.

    (Kate refers to this as my time as a carny.)

    (image via via)

    Discounted tickets to Dutch Wonderland were always offered at my elementary school’s spring carnival, and I always wanted to go, but my parents thought it sounded tacky and never took me. I always thought it looked cute though. I don’t think things need to be Disney to be perfect.