We all love to remember our favorite
Nickelodeon shows from the 1990s. It's something currently being discussed in roughly 15,786 dorm rooms around the country. So, today I bring you a list of the very best 10 plus honorable mentions and shows you probably forgot about.
Purposely Excluded: Rugrats and Hey Arnold! Why? Because I'm the one writing this article that's why! Now stop complaining or I will turn this article right around!
Honorable Mention:The Angry Beavers hngh ..... hngh .... buh .... ha ... HAHAHAHA .... Angry ... BEAVERS .... heeheehee.
Clarissa Explains it AllThe precursor to Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Even I barely remember this one, but I remember liking it and despising the dude in it because the
actor's name was Sean something, spelled the lame cracker way: S-e-a-n.
Great show. Probably the one I would watch the most now. Definitely holds up the best. But it loses points because I didn't really watch it much at the time. It was always meant for an older crowd. Like me, now. But not then. So there.
THE TOP 10:10) Salute Your Shorts/Hey DudeThese two got paired together because I've always linked them together in my head. This is bad news for Salute You Shorts which probably would have been ranked higher if Hey Dude didn't suck so much. I don't even remember what it was about. Something with horses right? I think it had something to do with horses. I'm going with horses. All I really know is that I changed the channel whenever it came on.
Salute Your Shorts, on the other hand, was totally awesome. I bet like 90% of the people reading this already burst out with a certain line of the
theme song right now. To this day, I have always remembered that a Giraffe's tongue is black thanks to this show. See? Not just fun, but also educational!
Did the horses talk? Maybe it would have been better if the horses talked. Mr. Ed was awesome. Screw you, Hey Dude, Mr. Ed could kick your ass any day of the week.
9) GutsThe show where they'd strap kids to bungee chords and try to get them to shoot basketballs.
Oh,
Mike O'Malley, where did the dream go askew?
Mo, was hot though. It was a fun show and you got way too into the competition, even if the purple kid always sucked. Sorry, former purple kids, it's true. Y'all sucked hard.
But, honestly, this show was all about the Aggro Crag. The giant mountain of metal that sprayed confetti all over the kids trying to climb up it. That was always the best part of the show and it ALWAYS decided who won. The winner got to keep a piece of the rock. I'm still convinced that owning a piece of that rock could get you laid like a star of the football team in college.
8) The Secret World of Alex Mack
This is one of those shows that re-watching it now, it takes a big hit in quality. Despite my love for the girl who got covered in toxic waste and gained the power to turn into a puddle, watching the show now ... well, it just doesn't hold up. So it gets penalized for that.
But it makes the points up for the fact that when I was a kid watching the show I had a major crush on Alex Mack (
Larisa Oleynik). So much so that I even saw
10 Thing I Hate About You. I feel like I was tricked. She owes me $8.
And where were the Jackass copycats when this show was out? I think we would have saved ourselves a whole lot of time if a bunch of stupid kids decided to roll around in toxic waste for a little while hoping for superpowers. Hey, don't feel bad for them, I'm sure they would have won a Darwin Award after the fact.
7) Double Dare
The show really started in the 80s, but I'm counting it because it was a major part of the viewing habits of any 90s child. Not to mention I'm pretty sure they came out with a new family version, so deal with it.
This was really the home of slime. This is where
gak came from. Gak being the best Hannukkah present one could hope for, while your Christian friends were busy getting an entire sliming apparatus, a slip n' slide, and N64. I'm not bitter.
And poor
Marc Summers. He kinda looked like he had some sort of embolism, didn't he?
If you would like to see numbers 6 to 1 please check out part 2: HERE
Comments (66)
Dude! I totally watched...
none of those.
isn't marc summers the guy on food network that does the show "unwrapped"?
@Dare2BDiferentt@xanga - Same here haha.
I watched almost all of those.
How is angry beavers only an honorable mention?!
Anyways.... I hated GUTS! That show sucked balls.
@kmiahali@healthkicker - Yeah that's what he does now, but before he was the man on Double Dare!
To the original post: I love those shows! And I too had a crush on Larisa Oleynik. She was so cute! And could turn into a puddle, what more could a kid want!
LOL about the giraffe tongue. I'll never forget that episode.
Great shows.
Ren and Stimpy was way before it's time I think. All the horrifically wonderful violence.
Are you Afraid of The Dark, another one I loved. All of Snick for that matter. Original Snick, not the later downhill version of it.
I loved Salute Your Shorts.
i love love loved ren and stimpy. and also 'are you afraid of the dark?' that was on constantly. along with kenan & kel.
only familiar with angry beavers.
Don't forget about Pete and Pete! The intro song brings back memories!
@madcrazydesire@xanga - @Runs_With_A_Mango@xanga - There is a Part 2 on it's way featuring #6 - 1
and Rocko's Modern Life, and Are You Afraid of the Dark... and and...
you're missing a lot!
This is a really great top ten list, Marc Summers is the man!!! I'm glad that Double Dare made the list, but pretty upset it's not closer to the top, I can't think of a better show from the 90s period. Anyone can post their own list to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.
Double Dare 2000 is the family version, used to watch it all the time. Never seen any of those listed here though.
Ahhh! Real Monster, Are you Afraid of The Dark , The Angry Beavers, Ren and Stimpy and Double Dare were/are freaking awesome to this day (:
All That and Kenan and Kel should be on here
@dragon_king@xanga - YES.
I am definitely a child of the nineties. All of these shows were held near and dear to my heart. What's missing? Are You Afraid of the Dark and LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE. That show dominated. How could you not love it. Olmec's temple was intense.
I know there's still part two to come. Sorry if I'm jumping the gun. Some friends and I were recently discussing this and I just HAD to throw in my two cents. :)
What was that show with the talking tiki man? Was that double dare? Anyway, I loved that game show with the the giant talking tiki man - it freaked me out, but I also thought it was cool.
And the show where they threw pies at people. That was the whole point of the show - throwing pies at people.
And real monsters and are you afraid of the dark.. . .fun shows.
I never used to like catdog, but then I watched it once and it was okay. . . interesting concept lol
are you afraid of the dark, kenan and kel (watched recently and still funny), roundhouse, rocko's modern life (watched recently and still funny), original ALL THAT, uh... what else am i missing lol
Oh....wow I dont remember any one of those. Except for the honorable mentions.
Fuck yes for the angry beavers! My personal fav
Legends of the Hidden Temple > Guts. It better be in part 2 at the very least.
I think Pete & Pete was grossly underrated.
I watched Guts and Double Dare lol :)
And I vaguely remember Clarissa Explains it All. I loved All That, The Amanda Show, Doug, Rugrats, and Hey Arnold. I didn't like the Angry Beavers.
And I really hated catdog. hahha
I used to watch all of them, except for Salute Your Shorts. Probably too far back for me.
ALL THAT. [:
And some that were already mentioned: Are You Afraid of the Dark. Legend of the Hidden Temple. ^__^'