Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!
For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon
Buffy
Stargate SG1
Rugrats
Cheers
Doug
X-Men
Fuck yea for Doug!
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Animaniacs Rugrats
Cyberchase
ZOOM!
ZoboomafooScooby Doo Courage the Cowardly Dog Invader Zim
SpongeBob trumps all of these, but that’s like a free bingo spot for 90s kids
Rocko’s Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Spider-man: The Animated Series
Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard
Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team
- Monty Python
- Doctor Who (reboot)
- Firefly
Saved by The Bell, Friends, Naruto
Star Trek: TNG
Batman: The Animated Series
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Considering I forgot about it and got back into it, bringing back memories, first slot definitely goes to Franklin.
I’d definitely say second would have to go to a show like Ed Edd n Eddy since I used to watch way too much of it, I think…
And third would absolutely be a toss up since I watched way too many cartoons growing up. So I’d probably have to go with Death Note since it’s the first anime I recognized as anime instead of just a cartoon back when I was in freshman year highschool.
Edit:
Someone mentioned Invader Zim and that would definitely be a contender because that show made me start to like weird and sometimes disturbing things. Here’s looking at you, Dark Harvest. Also saw an Angry Beavers mention. Definitely a close 3rd since beavers are my favorite animal thanks to that show and Franklin.
Death Note was a great anime! And also one of the earlier anime I came across - but I was just older than “youth” when I saw it.
Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible
Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver
Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc
What a time to be a kid
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…maybe you can hire The A-Team.
Being the generation that grew up as kids of Vietnam vets was a trip. You had these dudes with BA Baracus looking like he was ready to fuck some fool up to pity them. After that, you had the privileged White middle-upper class family of the Brady Bunch being all corny af, saying shit like, “Gee whiz, Mom! That’s positively fantastic!” There were eight people living comfortably off of one wage with a housekeeper.
Imagine that today. The A-Team would be four Afghan and Iraq vets all tatted up working out of a desert-colored F150 Raptor hunting down pedos. One of them would be called Ricky Recon with the signature phrase, “It’s time for some group therapy!” They’d also have a lady with them that would be the reasonable one. Every episode would include one line where someone bitches about the VA. The next show would be Modern Family.
Saved by the Bell, You Can’t Do That on Television, and Nick Arcade. Honorable mention to SK8-TV.
Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends