A Little Bit Of Nostalgia (37 pics)
The delightful lady from the Honey Bunches of Oats commercials:
The comfy — super well-worn — chairs that Barnes & Nobles used to have:
The three- or five-disc DVD changer that was the ultimate luxe — being able to put several of your favorite movies in at once truly felt like the peak of technology:
DVDs that were basically screensavers and played several hours of a reef or aquarium scene:
The coupons that came inside DVDs, which sometimes were legit great coupons:
The 1-800-COLLECT commercials that were part of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer contest:
The Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV! VHS tape that they would show commercials for late at night:
Old-school arcade change machines that had the giant metal fronts and the big red button:
Emeril Live and his "bam!" catchphrase:
And the original Japanese Iron Chef series, which was the most dramatic cooking show ever:
The Michael Graves section at Target, which was full of home accessories that were just so chic:
And the clothing sections of Target having red carpet:
Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" single, which everyone owned a copy of:
TLC's Clean Sweep (which was like a hoarders version of Trading Spaces)...
...and Discovery Channel's The Christopher Lowell Show, which were daytime TV shows you'd always watch reruns of if you stayed home sick:
McDonald's gift certificates that you would get from relatives who had no idea what to get you as a gift:
And the N64 players inside McDonald's that were just germ collectors:
VH1's Divas Live, which was truly an EVENT and MOMENT:
The giant stuffed animal pile (that you just wanted to jump into) in the back of Disney Stores:
The old Comedy Central logo:
MTV's 10 Spot programming block:
Fox's criminally underrated stop-motion TV series, The PJs, which starred Eddie Murphy:
The old logo for Boomerang — and also all the old pre-1990 cartoons that they used to show:
The yellow video game tickets you'd give the cashier at Toys "R" Us in order to buy an item:
Restoration Hardware stores that were light and bright (painted with mint green walls) and sold kitschy throwback stuff:
Rebecca Romijn as the host of MTV's House of Style:
Dolly the sheep (the world's first cloned mammal):
The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, which were a legit awards show:
Real California Cheese commercials (that featured this logo):
The games Rosie O'Donnell would play with the audience on The Rosie O'Donnell Show:
Rosie's house band, John McD and the McDLT's:
When record stores would arrange their singles and albums based on chart placement:
Sam Goody with its so-late-'80s store designs:
Chuck E. Cheese's late '90s/early '00s makeover (where he was supposed to be some sort of skater):
The green carpet inside Chuck E. Cheese that you would crawl all over and was definitely much grosser than you realized:
