TV memories.

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Oh, I just remembered. Around 1992, I got pretty sick and had to be hospitalized. It was only for a few days, but I was just a little guy in the fourth grade and it was the scariest thing that had ever happened to me until that point. The hospial had a VHS library of kid's cartoons, though, and I got my fill of old Transformers shows, Rescue Rangers, and . . .

. . . motherfucking VOLTRON.

When Voltron statred airing on Toonami in the late '90s, I'd literally run home from school to watch it (my high school was only a mile from my house.) And I was 15. *yawn*
 
As far as TV memories go back, I loved watching Power Rangers as a kid. I liked watching the antics from Tom & jerry, Rugrats, and Rocko's Modern Life. Even liked watching Sailor Moon and Outlaw Star. Back when G4 was all about gaming, I liked watching Cinematech and Cheat. Wonder if G4 is still terrible.
 
I used to watch a lot of Lifetime movies with my mother. Willingly because they were hilarious. I'd sit around cracking wise and I actually made a drinking game out of it in my later years. Take a shot of liquor every time something bad happens to a woman or her children in Lifetime movies, two shots if it involves a boyfriend/husband, three shots in a row if the abuse leads to her trying to overdose/cut herself/kill her own children. Trust me, this game might give you alcohol poisoning.
 
I'm not an American, so some things that I'll mention here will probably be unfamiliar to you.
My earliest television-related memories date back to 1999-2000, when I was 4-5 years old. Channel One Russia (it was named ORT back then) broadcasted the Pokemon anime series back then, and I used to watch it, along with other kids of my age that I knew. I liked it, but I didn't understand the story at all besides the fact that the main heroes are some kids who have some weird looking pets and who fight a gang of villains called Team R, or something like that.
A few years later I've accidentally stumbled on Sailor Moon being broadcasted on some other Russian channel. My overall reaction was along the lines of "What the hell is this girly magical shit?"
I also used to watch some other stuff back then, like reruns of Ukrainian comedy shows from the late 1990s (Kalambur, Maski Show) that used to be quite popular in my country and in Russia, but they were never shown anywhere outside the former Soviet Union so I won't describe them in detail.

Later on, in 2003, my dad bought a satellite dish and a cheap Pioneer satellite television tuner. We could receive transmissions from satellites covering Western and Central Europe (Hot Bird 13, Astra 19.2 and later on Sirius 4), however, the absolute majority of channels belonged to foreign satellite television providers and were encrypted. Western satellite TV providers were not (and still are not) present in Belarus, so in order to watch their channels, we had to use special customized hardware and software that could bypass the signal encryption system. We watched Polish television, some French channels from Canal+ and whatever Russian and Ukrainian free-to-air channels we could receive.

I used to watch Cartoon Network and Boomerang (with audio track set from French/Polish to English). On Cartoon Network I watched Dexter's Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls (it was a weird cartoon), Codename Kids Next Door (I also found it to be rather weird), Samurai Jack (the scenario writers and the animators were really high), Courage the Cowardly Dog and some other cartoons that I can't remember or that quickly faded into obscurity (like Sheep in the Big City). My favourites were Genndy Tartakovsky's Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Ed Edd n Eddy.

Out of stuff broadcasted on Boomerang, I used to watch Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, various Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Scooby-Doo, Thunderbirds (bloody hell, it was awesome) and a lot of other stuff.

I also liked to watch Discovery Channel (local cable TV providers had it), with Mythbusters, Scrapheap Challenge and a lot of other shows that I can't recall.
 
I remember the first episode of South Park I ever watched was 1998's "Summer Sucks" during the summer of 1998 with my niece who is my age when we were 15. I was only able to watch SP when my mom stayed up late so I could stay up late and watch tv too.
 
Dork Of Ages dijo:
You guys heard of Jetix? That was my favorite cartoon channel.
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I remember UK Jetix, I used to watch Spiderman: TAS on it :D

The downside was that I was first exposed to the many 4Kids dubbed shows on there as well :lol:
 
I remember watching Dilbert and not understanding the jokes.

Recently I realized "holy shit I actually remember this show so bloody well" and the jokes start making sense.
 
One other TV memory I had was watching King of the Hill as a kid. I remember first seeing it from an episode where Bobby saw Luanne and screamed while Boomhauer unknowingly went into a sewer drain pipe near a lake .One other episode I saw that kinda turned me away from the show was an episode where Luanne gotten admiration from a guy with schizophrenia. Didn't help that it was creepy and the guy died at the end, even if it was off-screen.
 
Back when I was a wee lit'll butcher, my mom used to make handmade quilts. She always worked on them in the afternoon while watching the PBS show, Nature.

The quilt rack was a large cumbersome thing that took up most of the room, but is suspended the quilt horizontally at about waist height. I'd be playing under it, watching the animals on TV & pretending it was a tent, and I was camping out watching them.
 
I'm a late 80s baby and grew up watching 90s TV shows. I watched almost everything the 90s had to offer from movies to television shows. I stuck to Cartoon Network, a little bit of Nick and Disney with a hint of Kids WB and Fox 5 cartoons. My favorites from Cartoon Network were Dexter's Lab, Cow & Chicken, Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo. I liked the old school Hanna Barbera shows that were on Cartoon Network for an half hour or whole hour before the conception of what's now a joke, Boomerang(fuck you so hard Cartoon Network).

The MGM short cartoons were my favorites as well. Not to mention Toonami. I wasn't a fan of DBZ for some odd reason but closetly I enjoyed the trailers but somehow couldn't bring myself to watch the show(glad I didn't because I hate fillers, Pokemon ruined that for already). MTV was enjoyable because it showed music videos. I was a big movie buff as a child and adult. I watched a few R rated movies(a child's dream for the most part). I never watched the Legend of Zelda TV series, but watched the Super Mario Bros show and the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Kids WB had the best lineup though Pokemon was my go to show in the mornings and afternoons.

Tech TV was the best before it turned to G4 and Esquire(good grief, why?). Nowadays TV is shit and I can't wait to ditch the cable box in my room. I careless about TV now than I did when I was 21.

exball dijo:
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I loved this as a kid. It molded me into a goddamned sexual tyrannosaur.
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2003 Clone Wars will forever be the best Clone Wars story ever.

Ification dijo:
I find it quite odd that this post got both an autistic and a dumb rating despite it being neither dumb nor autistic.
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I'm guessing most people on the farms don't like @NostalgiaJazzAdmirer
 
Even as a child I had insomnia and would often fall asleep to informercials because their voices were so droning.
Does anyone remember Super Blue Stuff? It was marketed in the late 90's/early 00's as a "cure all" ointment and it was literally blue, stuff, that you would wipe on your body and it would get rid of pain.

I also remember the first night that adult swim went on, ever. All kids out of the pool. 2001, I think?
I spent a lot of sleepless nights watching Lupin III, Harvey Birdman, Sealab, and Space Ghost as a kid/early teen, and the first time in watched it since probably 2006 was last year and it was just awful. Nothing but Macfarlane and anime that wasn't Lupin or Bebop (I'm not a big anime nerd outside of a select few so maybe there's some good stuff on there, I just haven't watched it) with trippy nature bumps and reminded me why I stick to streaming and torrents now.
 
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In spite of the fact that I mostly grew up in the early 2000s, I still consider myself a '90s kid. I wasn't around when they were current, but Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Angry Beavers, Hey Arnold!, The Adventures of Pete and Pete and KaBlam! were still in popular syndication during my time and they are just as much a part of my childhood memories as is Spongebob and Pizza Hut*. I also remember the Friday night Goosebumps movies, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, All That, Figure It Out (I had a crush on Summer Sanders), Slime Time Live (which I remember hating with a passion), Rugrats, Invader Zim, CatDog and The Amanda Show.

On my way out, Nick began airing crap like Pelswick, My Life As a Teenage Robot (which I now remember as A-Log's fap fodder), All Grown Up and Drake & Josh.

I was never a Disney kid, and I didn't watch Cartoon Network too much, although Courage the Cowardly Dog and Johnny Bravo remain favourites of mine. Power Puff Girls wasn't too bad either.

*And I list Pizza Hut here because - I don't know about anybody else - but I haven't seen one in a long time, haven't heard anyone talk about it, and the last time I ate it was over 10 years ago and it tasted like crap, so it's ancient to me.
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Man I used to really love Goosebumps. Last year I rewatched a few episodes drunk and stoned with my buddy for the lols. Definitely very corny but worth a watch for the nostalgia and unintentional humor.
 
Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Jetix, The WB, TechTV/G4, FOX, and USA, were all mentioned already, and I'll save those for another time, to allow this post not to circle the drain too much.

UPN, WGN, ABC, NBC, CBS, TBS, and TNT, I'd like to toss on the table:

UPN and WGN aired many animated reruns, decent movies, and in UPN's case WWF\WWE SmackDown. On Sundays, UPN aired Disney's One Saturday Morning (Recess, Pepper Ann, etc). WGN, while less cartoony, used to show all kinds of movies. I believe my first viewing of Predator 1 and Predator 2 was via WGN's late-night block. Star Trek reruns were heavily rotated on WGN.

ABC, NBC, CBS. These three used to have an amazingly competitive Saturday morning rivalry. Wikipedia these networks' Saturday mornings (which I have provided links to), you are bound to overdose on nostalgia.

TBS was the poor man's TNT. Decent sitcom reruns, great movies, WCW Thunder, and even sports, like NASCAR and baseball, for those fans. TBS also aired a lot of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, too, including Cartoon Planet with Space Ghost. Gilligan's Island and Good Times every morning, too.

TNT was the classier TBS. Very similar to TBS in the type of line up. But what cemented me to TNT was 3 things: WCW Monday Nitro, MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs, and the exclusive Star Wars movie airing rights. My first time experiencing Episodes IV, V, and VI, was during a summer day marathon, so TNT has a special place in my heart.
 
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Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Jetix, The WB, TechTV/G4, FOX, and USA, were all mentioned already, and I'll save those for another time, to allow this post not to circle the drain too much.

UPN, WGN, ABC, NBC, CBS, TBS, and TNT, I'd like to toss on the table:

UPN and WGN aired many animated reruns, decent movies, and in UPN's case WWF\WWE SmackDown. On Sundays, UPN aired Disney's One Saturday Morning (Recess, Pepper Ann, etc). WGN, while less cartoony, used to show all kinds of movies. I believe my first viewing of Predator 1 and Predator 2 was via WGN's late-night block. Star Trek reruns were heavily rotated on WGN.

ABC, NBC, CBS. These three used to have an amazingly competitive Saturday morning rivalry. Wikipedia these networks' Saturday mornings (which I have provided links to), you are bound to overdose on nostalgia.

TBS was the poor man's TNT. Decent sitcom reruns, great movies, WCW Thunder, and even sports, like NASCAR and baseball, for those fans. TBS also aired a lot of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, too, including Cartoon Planet with Space Ghost. Gilligan's Island and Good Times every morning, too.

TNT was the classier TBS. Very similar to TBS in the type of line up. But what cemented me to TNT was 3 things: WCW Monday Nitro, MonsterVision with Joe Bob Briggs, and the exclusive Star Wars movie airing rights. My first time experiencing Episodes IV, V, and VI, was during a summer day marathon, so TNT has a special place in my heart.
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I don't even know what I would have done as a kid without TNT and TBS since my parents only had basic cable.

I have those channels to thank for helping to shape my taste in movies due to their airings of Spielberg movies like Jaws and Raiders of The Lost Ark, Spielberg adjacent movies like Back To The Future, horror classics like Alien and The Shining and 80s classics like The Lost Boys and Wargames.

I remember Christmas eve 1995 when they aired Close Encounters of the Third Kind, one of the oddest movies I remember seeing on there, although I can't be sure it wasn't Comedy Central, but I think it was either TNT or TBS was Cool World.
 
The Knife dijo:
When I was a kid, there was a public access show where they would read sections of children's books like Half-Magic and The TV Kid and The Toothpaste Millionaire (books which I'm not even sure kids read anymore because this was the early/mid-80s) while an illustrator drew the scene in either in either conte crayon or oil pastel. It's incredibly tame, but I loved that show and I always begged to go to the library and check out whatever book he was drawing, which was probably the whole point of the show existing. I can't remember either the name of the show or the artist, but I wish I could find some video.
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I think every local TV station had a show like that. I remember in the Midwest we had a show where a guy dressed up like an astronaut (space jumpsuit) and drew a large mural of an alien planet with alien creatures over several episodes. The guy tried to teach kids art, and had a catchphrase: "Practice, practice, practice!" I have no idea what the guy or his show was called, but I do remember it coming on TV after the Great Space Coaster, so it must've been on in the early/mid 1980s or so.

I remember when TV stations actually aired a lot of vintage shorts and movies on Sunday, which was a kind of programming Dead Zone. We'd watch stuff like Laurel and Hardy, the Three Stooges, and Charlie Chaplin. Before that though, we'd watch Grizzly Adams, which came on right after we got home from Church. We'd build a fort out of a card table, chairs and some blankets, and sit under it and watch our family's 13 inch black and white TV. Then we'd churn some butter and skin some racoon hides to make school clothes. (I may have made that last part up.) I'm really fucking old, is what I'm trying to say....
 
Nicktoons Network was my fucking jam back in the day. Anybody remember The Secret Show, or The X's, or Pucca? Nobody talks about those shows and I remember really liking them back in the day. They had on animator festivals every now and then, which I never sat around and watched, but looking back I appreciate them giving a spotlight to indie animators on their channel. I don't know if they still do that nowadays with their rebrand to nicktoons sinced I've lost interest in cartoons before then.

I remember watching both Kids WB for Xiaolan Showdown and Jetix for Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go, but can't remember which one I watched more and which one had older and more slower paced cartoons late at night that seemed interesting but put me to sleep.

I remember my sister waking me up at 6 am to get me ready for school and she would always have MTV on that had music videos back to back with someone yelling "WAKE UP" in-between them. I would be so groggy that I felt like the TV was mocking me.

I remember when Spike TV was a thing and had shows like Manswers and 1000 Ways to Die. They did not give a fuck about being too graphic or oversexualized in the 00's and those two shows were definite proof of that. I learned some cool bar tricks off of Manswers like taking a business card, folding it in half, and cutting it into one big circle you can fit yourself through to complete a dare, or the blowing a bottle cap into a bottle trick with a straw. For as vapid as a lot of TV shows were back in the day, they were at least entertaining to some degree. The shit they air on primetime NBC nowadays just irritates me to the point that I can't stand them, and the shit on most other channels is all fake """reality TV""" bullshit. I just can't get into hours of reruns of Pawn Stars or Storage Wars.

I remember this one time that it was the night before I had a TAKS test at school and I peeked into my dad's room to watch his TV. How It's Made was on and they were showing how pencils were made, which I thought was so cool. It's like they aired it just for me :). Same thing happened when I was staying home because I got sick, and they aired an episode of the Magic School Bus where they talked about the common cold. Pretty weird.

I have a lot more, but this is getting long enough.
 
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