What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
TV shows when I was a kid is a great topic! I like this one today. For the most part, the movies I watched as a kid were definitely not something kids should have been watching. I was just barely over the GenX age limit and my parents definitely raised me as if I was GenX. They did not censor what I watched…except for one ghost movie, which, now that I know what it was about, I think they made a good call (It was “The Entity” if anyone is curious).
So while my favorite movies were not age appropriate, the tv shows I watched generally were.
I can summarize a large number of shows I watched with one image:
I watched every one of those shows every chance I got. I don’t remember if it was on Fridays, but one show that this makes me think of is “Blossom”. That was one of my favorites too. Which reminds me, I finally have a reason to share the picture from when I met Joey Lawrence!
Yes, it’s a Polaroid. Yes, that little hole at the top means I hung this picture on my wall until I went to college. This is around the time that his music album came out. As I recall, his hit single was called “Nothing My Love Can’t Fix”. You can see one of his little brothers in the background. My sister took me to meet him at a local Target when we lived in Georgia.
Here are a couple others:
No 90s kid can honestly say the 90s is their generation if they didn’t watch this show. I almost want to go back and rewatch it now that most adults agree, and I think even the actor who played him, that Zack Morris was an asshole. I didn’t think so back then, but now that I’m older, I think I might agree.
I had a crush on Mr. Neil Patrick Harris as a young Doogie Howser. When I got my first computer, I was disappointed that the screen was green and not blue like his was.
As an adult, I still have a crush on Mr. Neil Patrick Harris. The man aged very well.
Speaking of aging…as I grew up and morphed from a kid to a pre-teen to a teen, this show had a hold on me:
RIP Luke Perry (who my sister met) and Shannon Doherty.
As 90210 was winding down, Dawson’s Creek was ramping up. According to my journals from the time, Dawson’s Creek was on Monday nights and 90210 was on Wednesdays. I stopped watching both when I went off to college. I think I saw 90210 all the way through, but I know I stopped short with Dawson’s Creek (I was team Pacey by the way).
No post about shows I watched as a kid would be complete without mentioning the show I watched, then got banned from watching, then eventually was allowed to watch again. I’m talking about:
I was banned from it because apparently I told my dad to eat my shorts one time. I probably also told him to not have a cow. That pretty much sealed my fate with that show for a while.
Around the time I was watching Dawson’s Creek, I got into King of the Hill and South Park. Though my sister had to record South Park episodes on a vhs tape and mail it to me. Back then, Comedy Central was one of those premium paid channels and my parents didn’t pay for it. By then I was old enough to not quote lines from the show back at my parents.
Man! Such nostalgia thinking about these shows! Good topic today, WordPress, good topic.
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