We all grew up in the late 80s/early 90s.. From 20 cents worth of mixed lollies to Cool Shark ice creams, life was never going to get better. Sure there was no Seinfeld, Simpsons or South Park, but there was a whole heap of others to keep us entertained. Thanks for the memories...
Actors & Comedians Jason Bateman, Kirk & Candace Cameron, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Susan Dey, Michael J. Fox, Benny Hill, Lori Laughlin, Lee Majors, Alyssa Milano, Corin Nemec, Bob Saget, Fred Savage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Selleck, Sylvester Stallone, Patrick Swayze, Twiggy.
Books, Comics & Authors Asterix, Baby Sitters Club, Baxter (the bear), Biggles, Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Nancy Drew, Robin Klein, Ralph S. Mouse, Ramona, Richard Scary, Dr Seuss, "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing", The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, Tin Tin.
Cartoons We Woke Up Early For Astroboy, Danger Mouse, G-Force, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, Muppet Babies, Rainbow Brite, Scooby & Scrappy Doo, Smurfs, Speed Racer "Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer. He's the demon on wheels...", Spider Man, The Gummi Bears, The Flinstones, The Incredible Hulk, The Jetsons, The Muppets, Thunder Cats, Transformers, Voltron.
Computers & Video Games 5-1/4 inch floppies, Amiga 500 and 1000, Apple IIe, Atari, C64, C128, Nintendo Game & Watch, Asteroids, Barbarian, California Games, Dig Dug, Dog Fight, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaga, Galaxian, Lesuire Suit Larry series (I never played these), Pac-Man, Pitstop, Pitfall, installing Windows and DOS from 50 floppies, those tape drives that only worked once every five goes.
Fads & Trends We Followed Acid wash jeans, Barbie, Break dancing, calculator cricket, Casio electronic diaries, Coca-Cola yoyos, Cricket stickers, Dr Martens, Footy cards, Friendship bands, Garbage Pail Kids cards, Hi tops, hooded tops, Lego, Stone wash jeans.
Movies We Watched Back To The Future series, Better Off Dead, Big Trouble In Little China, Cannon Ball Run, Commando, Crocodile Dundee, D.A.R.Y.L., Electric Dreams, ET, Explorers, Ferris Bueller, Flight Of The Navigator, Ghost, Ghost Busters, Indiana Jones series, Jumping Jack Flash, Nightmare series, Police Academy series, Rambo series, Rocky series, St Elmo's Fire, Star Wars trilogy, Superman series, Teen Wolf, The Blues Brothers, The Goonies, The Last Star Fighter, The Sound Of Music, The Poltergeist, They Call Me Bruce, They Still Call Me Bruce, Top Gun, Tron.
Music We Couldn't Stop Singing Bruce Stringsteen, Culture Club, Debbie Gibson, "Doe, a deer, a female deer...", one hit wonders Europe with "The Final Countdown", Eye Of The Tiger, Iva Davies & Icehouse (Electric Blue), Cyndi Lauper, Madonna the Material Girl, Mel & Kim, Michael Jackson and his one glove, Milli Vanilli, Morris Minor & The Majors, "Hangin' Tough" with New Kids On The Block, Salt 'n Pepa, Simon & Garfunkle, Stutter Rap, The Bangles, The Carpenters, "In the Navy" and the "YMCA" with The Village People.
On The Box American & Otherwise 21 Jump Street, Alf, Automan, Charles In Charge, Cheers, CHIPS, C'mon Kids, Degrassi Jnr High, Diffr'nt Strokes, Doogie Howser, Dukes Of Hazard, Fame, Family Ties, Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Full House, Grange Hill, Growing Pains, Happy Days, Herman's Head, Hey Dad, In Living Color, It's A Knockout with Billy J. Smith & Fiona McDonald, Knight Rider, Knots Landing, Live In, MacGyver, Magnum PI, M*A*S*H, Mission Impossible, Moonlighting, Mork & Mindy, Mr Ed, Mulligrubs, Out Of This World, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Perfect Match, Play School, Punky Brewster, Quantum Leap, Rumpus Room with Mr Doobee, Sesame Street, Small Wonder, Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman, The A-Team, The Comedy Company, The Cosby Show, The Curiosity Show, The Fall Guy, The Goodies, The Henderson Kids, The Last Electric Knight, The Wonder Years, Tonight Live with Steve Vizard, Valerie (The Hogan Family, Sandy), Webster, Who's the Boss?, Wonder Woman, You Can't Do That On Television.
TV Side-kicks Buddy, Gator, Homey da Clown "I don't play dat", Nudge, Steve Urkel.
Sportsmen Allan Border, Simon Davis, Graham Dilley, Bruce Edgar & John Wright, Joel Garner, Desmond Haynes & Gordon Greenidge, Bob Holland, Dean Jones, Clive Lloyd, Gus Logie, Wayne Phillips, Bruce Reid, Laxman Shivaramachrishnan, Craig Bellamy, Glen Burgess, Sandy Campbell, Craig Diamond, Wally Fullerton-Smith, Russell Gartner, Eric Grothe, Perry Haddock, Brad & Craig Izzard, Brian Johnston, Stan Jurd, Brett Kenny, Steve Linnane, Bruce Longbottom, Steve "Slippery" Morris, the Mortimer brothers, Chris O' Sullivan, Peter Sterling, Peter Tunks, Bjorn Borg, Pat Cash, Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert Lloyd, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Mats Wilander, Michaele Albaretto, Nelson Piquet.
Toys We Wanted to Have Action Man, Barbie, Cabbage patch dolls, He-Man and She-Ra, Hot Wheels, Lego, My Little Pony, Rubik's Cube, that Snake thingy, Slinkys, Tonka trucks, Transformers.
Some Famous Quotes "That's not a knife, this is a knife!"; "I feel the need, the need for speed."; "By the power of Grayskull...I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!!!!"; "Autobots, transform and roll out"; "Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to....as usual, if any of your IM members are caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds."; "d'IIIIIIIIIIIII HHH-eeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrddddddd ttttthhhhhhaaaatttttt!!!!!"; "Why does it mix with the ice? Well I'm glad you asked."; "A glass and a half of full cream dairy milk chocolate in EVERY 200g block."; "Like this liquid gets into chalk." "To make teeth really tough. Ggggrrrrrrr."; Mr Wong, Mr Wong, I've lost all my travellers' cheques." "Oooohhh, what kind were they?" "American Express."; "What's your dental health secret, crododile?"; "Bend and stretch, reach for the stars. There goes Jupiter, here comes Mars"; "I can see Julie, John, Catherine, Mark and Steven, and oh look, there's Philip. I can also see James, Peter, Michael, Jenny...and I..CAN..SEE..YOU!"; "They're here...."; "Go go Gadget-copter"
The Wrestlers We Wanted To Be Andre the Giant, British Bulldogs, Elizabeth (the manager), George "The Animal" Steele, Honkey Tonk Man, Hulk Hogan, Jimmy "The Superfly" Snuka, Killer Bees, King Kong Bundy, Leaping Larry something, Macho Man, Mr Fuji, Mr T., Randy Savage, Ravishing Rick Rude, The Junk Yard Dog, The Shiek, The Ultimate Warrior.
Young Talent Time Bevan, Joey, Joey Dee, Natalie Miller, Mark Stevens, Tina Arena, Danii Minogue, Courtney, Johnny Young. "Close your eyes, and I'll kiss you. Tomorrow I'll miss you. And I'll send all my loving to you..."Good night Joey" "good night John..."
Other Buses where you had to pull the cord to tell the bus driver to stop, Cool Shark ice creams, losing bus passes, Dexter the Perfect match robot, meat pies for 90 cents, 70 cent hot chips wrapped in butcher paper, the erie "Twilight Zone" tune
