children of the 90s, rise up

[gyzym]

This is a drive-by post; I will be back later to answer comments (oh my god I love you guys have I mentioned that recently) and probably to make a fjdsfjdshf post about last night's ep.

BUT IN THE MEANTIME:

Me: Do you remember the Gator Golf commercial from when we were kids?
Burro: What the fuck is Gator Golf?
Me: *Sings the Gator Golf jingle*
Waiters in the Restaurant: *Side-eye me so hard I'm surprised nobody hurt themselves*
Burro: Nope, not ringing a bell.
Me: Seriously? This song's been stuck in my head for 17 years and you've got nothing?
Burro: Hahahahaha 17 years, your life blows.
Me: You're not helping.
Burro: You're beyond help.

THE GATOR GOLF COMMERCIAL, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

Guys. I ask you. I plead with you. Leave the scraps of terrible 90s commercials you remember in the comments. Link me to YouTube vids, embed shit, tell me how to access the mp3 files. THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS: I CANNOT TORTURE BURRO BY MYSELF, AND HE NEEDS TO BE TORTURED. For the sake of nostalgia. For the sake of my pride. For the sake of long-suffering older sisters everywhere.

ETA from the car on our way to spring Burrito from school:

Burro: Dude, I'm such a fucking bum right now, this hoodie isn't even clean.
Me: Yeah, man. My sweatshirt's clean, but my shoes totally don't match right now.
Burro: YOUR SHOES DON'T MATCH?!
Me: Yeah, what's the--oh my god, you asshole, I meant they don't match my outfit, they match EACH OTHER, what is wrong with you?
Burro: Don't look at me like that. You think I forgot how you used to dress in high school?

IF I DIDN'T LOVE HIM SO MUCH I'D HATE HIM, YOU GUYS. He must paaaaaaay.

Comments

[csi-vixen.livejournal.com]

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE HELL the things people gave their children to keep them entertained! Like, better than TV sure but... !! This is ten years and a switch to money away from being a game show proposal :P Which I kind of love.

[sionnach-ayame.livejournal.com]

OMG! I REMEMBER THAT COMMERCIAL!!

I ALSO REMEMBER THIS ONE:




OH AND ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE GAMES:


<3 <3 <3 I LOVED THE 90s!
Except for this commercial. I HATED this commercial so much.



OKAY I'M DONE. Ah the 90s. <3

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

*laughs* oh god, I actually played that Guess Who game, and looking back it actually strikes me as a surprisingly smart game given market it was coming out of :P Like, you had to use logic and shit.

[oaktree89.livejournal.com]

Lol what did I just watch XD

To be honest, I was one of those kids whose parents didn't let them watch tv (movies only, sob) so I don't remember too much about 90's kids commercials... I do, however, remember going to my best friend's house and watching Jem and the Holograms :D Good times.

[ilovetakahana.livejournal.com]

Truly outrageous!

[siehn.livejournal.com]

Ohgawd.

I hate this one, because THAT SONG, OHMYGAWD. IT IS TERRIBLE AND GETS STUCK IN MY HEAD ALL THE TIME.
also I hate this game.

[maga-nw.livejournal.com]

God, I'm sure this game caused a lot of kids to have anxiety attacks. I know it made me want to throw stuff at walls -____-

[onthecount.livejournal.com]

I REMEMBER THIS. I REMEMBER SO MANY, HOLD ON.

And you can always get mp3s off of youtube with this.

I remember specifically ALL THE CEREAL COMMERCIALS, and Creepy Crawlers, and, um. Go-gurt. Which I guess wasn't even in the 90s anymore D: God, there were so many terrible commercials.

[onthecount.livejournal.com]

and this gem.

[tipitina.livejournal.com]

Well know this. it's actually the same game and ad in France(though it's called Croco'Golf) and it tortured me all my childhood. (I though the gator was creepy)
Link to the french version (http://www.ina.fr/pub/culture-et-loisirs/video/PUB232175093/croco-golf-le-golf.fr.html)

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

The fact that this exists in multiple languages is fkjdsfldhfdjsfhdsjkfhsdjkfsdf WHAT, COULD THE GOOD PEOPLE OF FRANCE NOT HAVE BEEN SPARED THIS HORROR

[ebilgatoloco.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to embed shit -- but these are my favorite 90s commercials:

Kool Aid Man (http://www.youtube.com/embed/3Z4uIGZ5l-w)

Battle Tanx (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXpmE2jx1_0)

Sunny Delight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1yL_k3nWh0)

[ebilgatoloco.livejournal.com]

I think comedian sums up the 90s for most of us -- Original Nintendo & Sunny D (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJ8fiOcHOU)

[gelbwax.livejournal.com]

DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER THIS ONE? My homeroom in 7th grade had a TV in it that would always play CNN before class started; this commercial came on at 7:48 every morning like clockwork.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

Fuck, I still have the damn song memorized. D:

[elrhiarhodan]

I remember that one all too well - it was my nephew's favorite toy - and he was obsessed with the commercial. G-d forbid anyone try to mute it or change the channel. Many unpleasant things would happen.

I offer up for your delectation (and potential ear worm), the almost psychedelically bizarre Australiam import, Bananas In Pyjamas

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs
Bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs
Bananas in pajamas are chasing teddy bears
Cos on Tuesdays they all try to catch them unawares
Boom boom pow boom boom pow

I can't get an embed link on the iPad, but here's the share link to the insanity: Theme to Bananas in Pyjamas

I would also like to note that the first time I saw this, it was playing at 4 am (?) and I had come home a little stoned (contact high) and a little drunk (Moet) and as I watched big yellow bananas running around in blue and white striped pajamas and little white hats, speaking very politely in their Australian accents, I decided no amount of alcohol was worth the hallucinations.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God, I used to watch that show all the time! Well, my sister used to watch it and made me watch it with her, but oh, nostalgia.

Of course, it's going to be a week before that earworm leaves my head.

[snowdarkred.livejournal.com]

It's not really a commercial but: Does anyone remember this?

[maga-nw.livejournal.com]

Franklin! I still watch this with my kid brothers, and I didn't even like it when I was younger D:

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

Commercials in the '90s were the bane of my existence. Here are the ones I hated the most:








For older sisters everywhere! My brother's just lucky he lives in Toronto and can only torment me over my Blackberry Messenger.

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

I remember being desperately jealous of one of my friends as a kid because she had freaking Polly Pocket. NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.

[siehn.livejournal.com]

This one, too.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

JDHGJKSDHGKD OH MY GOD THIS GAME WAS A NIGHTMARE

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

SKIP-IT



Aw yeah, and its mother f'ing Lite Brite time;

[winslow-arizona.livejournal.com]

Lite Brite! I miss that.

[winslow-arizona.livejournal.com]

I don't think this one is as awful as the others, but it's still...the 90s were not a good decade for commercials, were they? - Nerf Ballzooka (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibNDzaErws)

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

hjdhsjkfhdsjkf ALL OF THE NERF COMMERCIALS ARE TERRIBLE

[maga-nw.livejournal.com]

It's fun to listen to them in English, I used to watch most of these in Spanish >.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Eeeee, I'd love to hear them in Spanish sometimes; someone linked the French version of Gator Golf up there and it's so cool to hear something familiar in another language! Even if it is, you, know, upsetting that more people were subjected to these horrors D:

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

AHHHH THE NOSTALGIA! I had several of these games and I totally wanted Gator Golf!

[bibliokat.livejournal.com]

And I fail at embedding. (seriously, how do you do it?)

Mousetrap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lIS939_2o

Connect Four! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyfvj5rkteE

[regicidaldwarf.livejournal.com]

THIS POST IS SO TIMELY, I've spent the past few days doing things like watching old Backstreet Boys videos and Clarissa Explains It All. YEAH. I WENT THERE.

Also, yeah. Moon Sand. I wanted this shit SO BADLY.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB9Sv-l7sRY

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

jlgdfhgjdkf MY BROTHER HAD IT. If it's any comfort it is not that fun :D :D :D

[chaoticallyclev.livejournal.com]

I HAD THAT GOLF GAME. I REMEMBER THAT.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

KFDJSFDSHFSD WE DID NOT HAVE IT, BUT IT HAS BEEN STUCK IN MY HEAD FOREVERRRR

Oh, nostalgia!

[arineat.livejournal.com]

I PINED for a skip-it when I was little. Now I'm like "...it's a ball that you swing around in an endless cycle...what was I thinking?" Behold the power of marketing!

And remember these:

Re: Oh, nostalgia!

[fic-kitty.livejournal.com]

But you forgot! The very best thing of all! THE COUNTER ON THE BALL!!!

[fae-boleyn.livejournal.com]

Your brother is too young to remember Gator Golf? Wow, that... is unnerving. And does that man all of us who can are getting old? Scary thought, that. O_O

Anyway. So, trip down memory lane, very fun, always did like time travel. This isn't a commercial, and it's kinda long because it's a compilation, but hey, it's still the 90s!

Remembering the 90s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJCQ-uKyQuE&feature=channel_video_title)

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

NO, NO HE IS NOT. Burrito is too young to remember the 90s--he was born in 99, dshfjsdkfhj so weird to think about--BUT BURRO SHOULD FUCKING REMEMBER GATOR GOLF. He just doesn't, because he's a lucky little fuck.

[maga-nw.livejournal.com]

I CAN'T FIND THE COMMERCIALS IN SPANISH WHYYYY

But I have this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4yhPGMb0k

And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qzk04m689Q

And this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDxoHUif3U

And so much mooooreee.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING JKDSFHDSFGHSDFGSD

EXCUSE ME WHILE I DIG MORE OF THESE UP

[onthecount.livejournal.com]

Re: EXCUSE ME WHILE I DIG MORE OF THESE UP

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

ARTHUR IS STILL MY FAVORITE KID SHOW OF ALL FUCKING TIME EXCEPT MAYBE SPONGEBOB :'D

[maga-nw.livejournal.com]

Also Doug, Animaniacs, Bobby's World, Tiny Tooooonsss! All of of those are great in Spanish :p

And what was that one called...Ghost Writer? Writer Ghost? I loved that one.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

AND RUGRATS, DO NOT FORGET RUGRATS. WAS THERE SPANISH RUGRATS???

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

Oh man oh god, I don't remember the Gator Golf song but I definitely remember the commercial WHO INVENTS THAT KIND OF TOY

I'm trying to find a commercial for Lucky Ducks but Youtube doesn't seem to have it.

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

FUCK EVERYTHING I HAD BLOCKED THIS OUT GDI GDI GDI DJFHDSJKFHSDJKF

[onthecount.livejournal.com]

as;lfkadf I am trying to remember all of the things I blocked with great effort from my memory. WHY. I had both of these things. THEY ARE PROBABLY SOMEWHERE IN MY PARENTS' YARD STILL

[seeingrightly.livejournal.com]

LODSFJDSGDDDDDDDD

SKY DANCERS WERE SO FUCKING DANGEROUS OH GOD I ALWAYS GOT HIT IN THE FACE

AND MY BROTHER CHEWED UP ALL MY BETTY SPAGHETTIES

SHE WAS TOTALLY THE PREDECESSOR TO BRATZ DOLLS