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The Flintstones’ lucky egg machine that they would have at the exit of the supermarket or at mom-and-pop pizza parlors:
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TGIF crossover episodes that made no sense but went hard:
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TVs with built-in VCRs that had like 13-inch wide screens and were the coolest thing you could have in your bedroom:
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These sand-filled, glittery, rainbow lizard toys that everyone seemed to own:
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These mechanical pencil sharpeners that would always give you a little bit of anxiety whenever you had to use one in a quiet classroom:
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Those nylon lunch sacks that always smelled like old sandwiches after a few months of use:
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The best snack you could have at recess:
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And what afternoon snacks looked like (or at least what you dreamed to have as afternoon snacks):
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Crest Kid’s Sparkle Fun toothpaste that tasted a bit too delicious and was almost tempting to eat:
10.
Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley playing their The Jeffersons characters in Old Navy commercials:
11.
The 60-second commercial for Pure Moods that really did take you away and leave you with a sense of bliss:
12.
The plastic tag protectors you’d get for your Beanie Babies to make sure you kept the tags perfect and not affect the value:
13.
Skip-It, which was really a torture device for your ankles (especially if you played with it with no socks):
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The dirty green carpet you sat on to read books and magazines at Barnes & Noble:
15.
And the carpet at Chuck E. Cheese’s that was always covered in old gum, dirt, and food bits — that you somehow, always, ended up touching irregardless:
16.
These glow-in-the-dark blocks that you never saw anyone have IRL:
17.
And this Rainbow Art set that — thanks to the commercials playing nonstop — you ended up begging your parents to order for you:
18.
Hair gel from L.A. Looks and Dep (which you would add globs and globs of to make your hair look stiff as a board):
19.
The rainbow-colored bags that Toys “R” Us used to have:
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And the overwhelming smell of tires whenever you walked through the bicycle aisle at Toys “R” Us:
21.
The “oh-so-cool for like a week” 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:
22.
No Fear T-shirts, which you thought were badass:
23.
Suzanne Somers’ ThighMaster and the infomercials for it that played all weekend:
24.
Tissue paper ghosts you’d make at school with Tootsie Pops, pipe cleaners, Sharpies, and the super rough tissues that the school provided year-round:
25.
Rosie O’Donnell playing different games with the audience in a segment that aired before the guests came out:
26.
These Disney read-along tapes and books that basically sliced your hand open when you tried to get them out of the packaging:
27.
Wilson from Home Improvement, and how they always managed to cover his face in every situation:
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And Mimi from The Drew Carey show who was the original Karen:
29.
All the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:
30.
Life Savers Holes that were essentially candy Tic Tacs:
31.
All the Looney Tunes home decor items that they sold at the Warner Bros. Studio Store that you swore one day you would decorate your house with:
32.
The awesome Disney Happy Meal toys that came in mini-VHS clamshells:
33.
The cheeseburger or French fries seats you’d always want to sit on whenever you went to McDonald’s:
34.
And the McDonald’s drink cups that looked like they had been drawn by colored pencils:
35.
Spacemaker pencil boxes, which were one of the ultimate accessories you could have at school:
36.
The Jack in the Box car antenna topper — also, just antenna toppers in general:
37.
These plastic swords, which would legit hurt someone if you struck them with it:
38.
Ultra-thin portable CD players that felt like the peak of technology:
39.
And multi-disc stereo systems with remote controls, which also felt like the peak of technology:
40.
And lastly, the scrambled adult cable channels that sometimes gave you a small glimpse of things, even though they looked like a Rorschach test:
