Skizzles
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(Originally posted on: 04-20-04 06:53:05 PM)
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I just had a huge nostalgia wave hit me today. I was in Barnes and Nobles, looking around for a C++ book, when I came across the bargain bin. In this little cardboard box were some of the relics of my childhood. We had the Animorphs series, which I read obsessively back in like 5th and 6th grade. We have The Secret World of Alex Mack, my favorite show that I used to watch every day after school. So I felt compelled to come home and write down somewhere all of my favorite TV shows and books or book series that I used to read from 2nd to 7th grade.
TV Shows:
Wild and Crazy Kids: This was perhaps the first reality TV show ever. It was on at 5:30, everyday on Nickelodeon. I thought this show was the absolute most kick ass thing to ever come on to my screen. Kids getting hit by cream pies, getting walloped with water balloons, trying to keep Kool Aid in a container while riding a roller coaster etc.
The Secret World of Alex Mack: Another favorite show of mine on Nickelodeon. This was the show where she was zapped by some weird nuclear rays by some nuclear plant that give her magic abilities, and the evil owners of the nuclear powerplant want to capture her and use her for testing and whatnot. The whole melting into a silver puddle thing, her ability for electricity to come out of her eyes, and the fact that she had a black friend named Raymond who played the saxophone. Yeah.
The World of Richard Scary: This probably predates my second grade era, I was probably watching this in kindergarten. It was that cartoon on Nick Jr. that had the little brown worm flying around in an apple helicopter. The only human in the entire show was the crossing guard, and that always struck me as odd. Anyway, that was simply such a great show, but it was too far back for me to remember much of it other than I used to watch it every morning while eating rice krispies.
Are you Afraid of the Dark?: This show used to scare me shitless back in the day. I spent many a sleepless night regretting that I ever watched that show. I remember a couple of the episodes being really cheesy and stupid, and a couple of them I remember rival Stephen King. I sometimes wonder if some of the stuff they had on that show was appropriate for the 3:30 PM time slot on Nickelodeon, especially that one episode about the Taxi Cab driver who every year would come back on this same road and pick up some un suspecting fool, and then precede to run into a tree on purpose, and I remember that being rather gory and scarring at the time. Also the one with the with the kid who was shoved in a hollow tree trunk and chopped up with an axe, and was missing his finger and would haunt the woods until someone found his finger and returned it to him. Damn those were scary back then, it sounds cheesy and stupid now, but when you're an 8 year old kid with a wild imagination who really was afraid of the dark, damn straight that show accomplished it's goal.
Books:
I read Animorphs obsessivley in 4th-6th grade. I still have stacks of Goosebumps books in my closet, and lots of the Choose Your Own Adventure ones. I read lots of Calvin and Hobbes in 3rd and 4th grade, each year I would re-read the C&H books I had and as my vocabulary and understanding of world issues and philosophies got stronger, they became funnier each year. My parents forced me to read Boxcar children and Hardy boys, good books now that I look back thinking about how I hated listening to someone else read.
So I guess post your own stuff.
Yeah...
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