Clarissa Explains It All is retro now?! Seriously?

I feel old.

la la lala la la la la laaaaaaaaa

Yep, it's in my brain now. Great.

/Liked Sabrina better though.

"By the time I get my books and I give myself a look, I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus drive by!"

One of my favourite retro shows from the 80s is Season 1 of the Greatest American Hero.

Punky Brewster of course!

Wow, I feel a little old now too! I would have to say for me - The Facts of Life. I wanted Miss Garrett to be my mother and I wanted to be Jo! Now the theme song is stuck in my head...

The Facts of Life was great! I also loved The Torkelsons and Blossom!

My favorite was Hey Dude. But that was partially because I was in love with Danny.

Boy Meets World and before that California Dreams...yeah...I be cool

OMG I loved Hey Dude.

I always went for Kyle though. Looooove those baby blues...

Er, not Kyle. Jake. Yeesh, see, my brain is old...

I actually liked the A-team. How embarrassing ;P

Nobody is going with You Can't Do That On Television?

"Hey Moose!"

"Yeah, Alistair?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F44bLc6t7-I

Yes!

I loved Clarissa Explains It All.

She used to wear two different colors of Converse high-tops, which was rad. She had a pet alligator, retro computer skills, and I loved that little guitar twang that sounded when ever Sam's latter smacked against her window. So awesome!

Plus late in the series she was a journalist, and now so am I.

I may have internalized my love for her steez so deep down that I picked the same profession.

Ha. Sweet.

I watched Nickelodeon all the time when I was a kid. You Can't do That on Television was one of my favorites. Some tv show I saw recently, I don't remember which one, had somebody get slimed when they said "I don't know" and I laughed and explained the reference to my husband.

There was a TV show that came on Sunday mornings, and I don't remember the name of it, but a distant cousin of mine was one of the hosts for a while. I've always thought there must have been some guests on that show who became famous later on, and this link through my very distant cousin connects me to all of them.

But back OT, my favorite retro show is Hogans Heroes. I'll still stop to watch it when I'm channel flipping.

Thought of another one: Kidd Video.
Anyone else remember that show? :D

it's interesting how melissa joan heart becomes a journalist later in the series in 'clarissa explains it all' and 'sabrina the teenage witch'.
(i'm more of a fan of sabrina.)

but my fav. retro show is saved by the bell. still watch it now.

however, i've noticed that nickelodeon has gone down hill since the year 2000. what ever happened to those great tv shows? now it's just stuff that will rot our brains.

Apsalar, that was Robot Chicken -- I saw that episode too and it brought back instant memories. Man, I loved You Can't Do That On Television too.

Halo, I don't remember Kidd Video, but your comment made me remember another show I watched religiously -- Kids Incorporated.

Also was a Punky Brewster addict, Double Dare, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Care Bears, The Smurfs...

Ohhhhh man, nostalgia.

Um, hello!!! Fresh Prince of Bel Air anyone? I still have a thing for Will Smith - somehow he just gets better and better looking the older he gets.

And I can still sing all of the words to the theme song. I was in Bel Air recently, and I couldn't help busting it out!

feministique: I was always more a fan of Carlton. Alfonso Ribeiro stole my dance moves.

Parker Lewis Can't Lose! I still remember my shock when Kubiac showed up on E.R.
--CC

The new Boy in the neighborhood/Lives downstairs and it's/Understood/He's there just to take good care of me/Like he's one of the fam-i-ly.

Oh, and Kidd Video, the Popples, Today's Special, Jem, Pinwheel, Mr. Belvedere, Punky, Reading Rainbow, Masters of the Universe, the Transformers, My Little Pony, Double Dare, The Bloodhound Gang...so many luscious 80s memories, so little time.

However, betcha dollars to donuts every last one of these are or will be on DVD soon so studios can cash in on those of us in the 28-33 age range now having enough "retro" distance between us and our childhoods to want to shell out $$ for our memories.

I'm a little older than most of y'all so it would be Kimba the White Lion or The Banana Splitz ( Sid and Marty Kroft!) Adam-12 and Dragnet....too many to list.

I loved Clarissa Explains It All too! I also miss Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World and Saved by the Bell.

"By the time I get my books and I give myself a look, I'm at the corner just in time to see the bus drive by!"

Thanks for the earworm. D:

As for me, you could not tear me from "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" on Saturday mornings when I was younger (as opposed to when I was older, I suppose).

Now i am singing the theme to Kids Incorporated (K-I-D-S)- remember Martika who sang Toy Soldiers (one hit wonder)? she was on that show.

I also had a crush on Alistair from You can't do that on television, AND Parker Lewis Can't Lose. And of course Jason Bateman on Silver Spoons. I still have that one, though.

Camp Onawanna, we hold you in our hearts..."
Budnick was the man, and Zeke the Plumber was terrifying. Also loved Hang Time, "....I'll always remember, me and my friends at Hang Time!" California Dreams was cool. And I remember watching TGIF on ABC, and as I got older thinking how unexciting or uncool it was to be doing this on a Friday night, but at the same time enjoying every minute if it.

*waves from the bowels of lurker-dom*

It's a tie between Breaker High and Due South. On one hand, we've got a bunch of kids (including a very young Ryan Gosling) going to school on a boat that frigging cruises around the world, learning important lessons about life, love, and cultural stereotypes. On the other hand: sexy Mountie-in-Chicago hijinks, featuring car chases set to Sarah McLaughlin, homoerotic tension between the leads, and enough Canadiana to subsist up to three lost mountaineers for several weeks.

Oh, the nineties.

Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, the Transformers, GI Joe, Robotech, Voltron, and just for the cheese factor, the Great Space Coaster. "No gnews, is good gnews, with Gary... Gnu."

One of the shows I LOVED was Dexter's Laboratory but whew, talk about gender stereotypes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CybozuChzNw

The Adventures of Pete and Pete! Lots of imagination and magical kid stuff...

I too have super fond memories of Clarissa Explains it all, thanks for putting up the video, after a shitty day it's awesome.

My Nick favorites were Clarissa, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Eerie ID (I think that's what it was called) and... The Tomorrow People.

Yeah. Good times.

Ok, steph in action, I also loved Dexter's Laboratory, but I watched it and the Power Puff Girls in college! So I'm hoping you also watched it in college and I am not really that old. But it is dawning on me that I am really that old.

Halo,
I loved Kidd Video, so now I have no way around the fact that I am as old as I feared. That only showed for two years starting in 1984!

Yeah, Clarissa was my idol. She had a giant Flood logo cutout over her bed, she did all sorts of cool stuff with her computer, and she had a conservative free-market loving brownnose brother as her arch nemesis. What's not to love about her?

So long as we're talking about Clarissa-era nick shows; am I the only one who remembers Roundhouse? I joined middle school choir because of that show!

Captain Planet and the Planeteers!!

Ok, maybe it's not that old, but I watched it as a kid.

Awesome show.

Almost everything on Nickelodeon was just fantastic. When I was a wee one, my mom always put on "Pinwheel" and "Paddington" for me. As I got older Clarissa was one of my favorite shows, but I also liked "You Can't Do That On Television", "David the Gnome", and "Count Duckula." When Nickelodeon became Nick at Nite, I kept watching. I always liked the SNL's from the 70's more than the ones from the 90's.

youtube hasn't been working for me so i can't watch the video and hear what the theme song sounded like so i am racking my brain trying to remember it. i may have been obsessed with it at one point (why can't i remember???), but either way i'm sure i've seen it at least once.

fresh prince of bel air is probably my favourite, and i still watch it during the summer when i'm not working. i also loved boy meets world, which played on family channel up until this year. the same channel also played re-runs of the sinbad show last year, which was the first time i saw it and was in love. mm and brotherly love. and sabrina the teenage witch. the family channel used to play re-runs of so many great retro shows, but are now completely being replaced with new shows that i really dislike.

i'm feeling pretty nostalgic right now, which is silly because some of these shows aired for the first time when i was 2 or 3. oh, well.

oh and ZacRfron, i loved TGIF on ABC. my parents were strict about eating together at the kitchen table when me and my sister were younger, but on friday's my parents would get some sort of take-out/fast-food and position the table so we could watch t.v. from there. i remember we also did that with the disney movies on sundays.

I don't know this "Clarissa" show as I don't live in the US, but an American show I loooved was "Happy Days" with the Fonz. Living in Australia, we get a lot of British programmes, and their comedies are hard to beat. "Yes, Minister" and later "Yes, Prime Minister" would have to be among the best, and take off British politics and the role of powerful public servants. Who could forget the snaky Sir Humphrey? I am a little bit ashamed of this, but I loved "Are You Being Served?". At the time it was very, very funny, but I've seen a couple of episodes of it lately, and really, it was so corny. Now I've totally dated myself... Are there any other Brits or Aussies out there?

I loved Clarissa. My childhood best friend and I used to pretend to be her I think! It was always a treat to watch it, though- my Nana had an American satellite dish so I could only watch it at her house. I was so envious of Nickelodeon programming during that television era, we wouldn't get YTV in my village on cable until I was going into grade 7 and YTV just isn't the same (and, like current Nickelodeon programming, is now crap)!

My Mother the Car, featuring 11-time Oscar winner Jerry Van Dyke. But seriously, Just the Ten of Us. No, really, Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

I used to love Clarissa. I loved her bedroom and really identified with her little brother issues!
I also loved Hey Dude, Pete & Pete and Salute Your Shorts, as far as Nickelodeon went. I also had a sick obsession with Ren & Stimpy.
I also loved Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Show when I was little, hehe. I remember my friend and I used to pretend to be Sharon and Lois in preschool. That and Today's Special were fantastic.

I am still in love with The Dick Van Dyke Show. And I'm only 27.

Also, Alice (!!! one of my favorites, especially since I live in Phoenix and am an Arizona native), Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda.

Huh. I honestly didn't realize that some of my all-time favorite shows had very feminist slants! (Also, I was a Nick @ Nite and then, later, TV Land ADDICT in my late teens and early 20s.)

Okra--OMG, no one else I know remembers Pinwheel! I loved that show (remember Plus and Minus?) and I loved today's special too.

I was a HUGE She-Ra fan as a kid (maybe a precursor to my feminist beliefs...) and not only did I get the Crystal Castle for Christmas one year, I also had the costume with the mask and the sword. According to my mother, I would dress up in all that stuff to go to like the grocery store or something, and then go up to strangers with the plastic sword and say, "The power!"

I also liked Doug (OOhh eee ooo/ Killer Tofu!) and Hey Dude. Mr. Ernst looks just like my grandfather. And Legends of the Hidden Temple. Purple Parrots! Silver Snakes! etc. I was thought those kids going through the Temple were wicked stupid--I had my plan all set in case I ever got to go on the show...

Pinwheel isn't so obscure as MY all-time favorite... does anyone else remember The Edison Twins? I saw it on the Disney Channel (reruns) - but it is Canadian, which makes it even cooler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CMAK0N3U8k

Although all the mentions of You Can't Do That on Television brought back some fond memories (I loved that show too!), my all time favourite retro show is (and I am seriously dating myself here):
Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Hands down.

Billy Van was a friggen genius!