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Nostalgia

Does everyone know what the word nostalgia means? I do. If you don’t I’ll define it really quick-like. Webster defines it as “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition ;also : something that evokes nostalgia”. That’s a lot of words to simply say “a longing for the past” isn’t it? I love how dictionaries are so elaborate in their definitions. I guess they’d have to be right? I mean we have way over 250,000 words in the english language.. but I digress. 

Lately I’ve been feeling very nostalgic (what a fun word to say!) in the fact that I miss all the old TV shows I use to watch growing up. It’s also been making me feel very old that A LOT of the shows I watched growing up are now appearing on Nick at Night. A time slot on television that use to be reserved for the old black and white TV shows like “I Love Lucy” or “I Dream of Jeannie” or “Mr. Ed”. Nick at Night’s new lineup is now filled with TV shows I use to like as a child. Like “The Fresh Price of Bel-air” and “The George Lopez Show” along with a few others. I just don’t understand how and when these shows became old enough to be aired on Nick at Night.. I guess I should just be grateful that the shows I loved so much are still even being aired at all, right? Although, there are quite a few shows I love that I never see on television anymore. I’m going to give you the top five three shows I loved growing up.

NUMBER ONE - Rocco’s Modern Life

I think Rocco’s Modern Life was a favorite for every single 90’s kid out there. This is one of the shows that I love to watch now that I’m older and pick out all the dirty jokes and innuendoes made in the cartoon for the older crowd that I didn’t quite get when I was just a wee-lad. Anywho, if memory serves me correctly the show was about Rocco, a wallaby living with his cute little dog Spunky. The show was pretty much Rocco getting into funny antic’s and situations with his two best-friends Heffer - An over-eating and over-weight Steer, and Wilber a turtle who could probably stand to use a couple of Zanax as the poor clostro-agora-aracna-and-any-other-aphobic you could think of was always sprawled out on his back quoting “I’m nauseous, I’m nauseous”.

NUMBER TWO - AHH! REAL MONSTERS! 

I absolutely loved this show. The show was about a school of adolescent monsters enrolled in some sort of a “scare academy” in which they are being taught to scare humans. The show revolved around it’s three main characters Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm. The three are somewhat of “best-friends” and often end up in the human world either on scare missions from school or just accidently somehow. My favorite character was Ickis who was a magenta monster with long floppy ears. This caused him to often get mistaken for a rabbit in the human world. Next was Krumm who’s eyeballs were not attached to his body, he always carried them around in his hand, his way of scaring people was with his nasty under-arm odor. And Oblina was of course the smart know-it-all and always saving everyone’s ass character. I guess she’s cool. She looks kind of like a black and white candy cane if you’d ask me tho… that’s just creepy. 

NUMBER THREE - Invader Zim!

I’m not sure exactly how nostalgic you can call this show, but nonetheless it’s gone and I miss it! The show was amazing, although I do kind of agree with Nick’s decision to cancel it. It really didn’t have anything to do with popularity as the show was still immensely popular, but the show was so damn demented! I loved it! I just don’t think it should have been on Nickelodeon where little children would be watching the show. The show was created by Johen Vasquez, the same guy who writes the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comic books. Nick limited the dimension of Invader Zim I’m sure. I wish I could have seen it to it’s full potential. I think the show would have been better suited on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim rather than Nickelodeon.

Other shows I loved but won’t be writing a bio about were: Rugrats, Doug, Kenan and Kel, All That (the original), Power Rangers (the original) and some others I can’t think of.

Are there any shows or anything really that any one else feels nostalgic for? I wanna hear about it.