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Well, now I can instantly replay the entire Kidz Bop 2 commercial in my head. 🙃
1. The delightful lady from the Honey Bunches of Oats commercials:
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3. The comfy — super well-worn — chairs that Barnes & Nobles used to have:
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4. 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:
5. DVDs that were basically screensavers and played several hours of a reef or aquarium scene:
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The coupons that came inside DVDs, which sometimes were legit great coupons:
7. The whole Tickle Me Elmo mania:
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8. The 1-800-COLLECT commercials that were part of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer contest:
9. The Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV! VHS tape that they would show commercials for late at night:
10. Old-school arcade change machines that had the giant metal fronts and the big red button:
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12. Emeril Live and his "bam!" catchphrase:
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13. And the original Japanese Iron Chef series, which was the most dramatic cooking show ever:
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14. The Michael Graves section at Target, which was full of home accessories that were just so chic:
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15. And the clothing sections of Target having red carpet:
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16. Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" single, which everyone owned a copy of:
17. TLC's Clean Sweep (which was like a hoarders version of Trading Spaces)...
18. ...and Discovery Channel's The Christopher Lowell Show, which were daytime TV shows you'd always watch reruns of if you stayed home sick:
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McDonald's gift certificates that you would get from relatives who had no idea what to get you as a gift:
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And the N64 players inside McDonald's that were just germ collectors:
21. VH1's Divas Live, which was truly an EVENT and MOMENT:
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The giant stuffed animal pile (that you just wanted to jump into) in the back of Disney Stores:
23. The old Comedy Central logo:
24. MTV's 10 Spot programming block:
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25. Fox's criminally underrated stop-motion TV series, The PJs, which starred Eddie Murphy:
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27. The old logo for Boomerang — and also all the old pre-1990 cartoons that they used to show:
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28. The giant and heavy TVs they would put on display endcaps inside stores:
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29. The yellow video game tickets you'd give the cashier at Toys "R" Us in order to buy an item:
30. Restoration Hardware stores that were light and bright (painted with mint green walls) and sold kitschy throwback stuff:
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Columbia House, which everyone would order CDs from and then never pay for them:
34. Rebecca Romijn as the host of MTV's House of Style:
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35. Dolly the sheep (the world's first cloned mammal):
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36. Those :08 Min. workout videos:
37. The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, which were a legit awards show:
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38. Real California Cheese commercials (that featured this logo):
39. The games Rosie O'Donnell would play with the audience on The Rosie O'Donnell Show:
40. Rosie's house band, John McD and the McDLT's:
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41. When record stores would arrange their singles and albums based on chart placement:
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42. Sam Goody with its so-late-'80s store designs:
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