and Spongebob came and ruined everything.

[enamoured]

I was going to go see Hamlet 2, but instead I went to Borders and bought the latest Kylie Minogue album (Dear Kylie: I cannot believe that once upon a time I loathed you. You are amazing and your music is sweet, sweet pop cracky candy. ILU!) and I went poking around at the Movie Trading Company. I was originally checking their music racks because for some reason I have this fierce urge to buy All 4 One's And the Music Speaks for some reason. I have it on tape, but, well, that's not doing me any good right now; I want the whole thing and not just "I Can Love You Like That". I couldn't find the album, so I looked around at the movies some. I debated on buying Mean Girls and decided that I wouldn't buy since I couldn't find Heathers (Lexa suggested having a movie marathon consisting of those two movies, plus 10 Things I Hate About You and Charlie Bartlett--which, by the way, is great, and kind of reminds me of Pump Up the Volume a little bit, only with prescription drugs and Robert Downey Jr. being a high school principal). I was going to leave when I found myself checking the TV box sets out when I saw something out of the corner of my eye that piqued my interest.

Clarissa Explains it All, season one, for $9.99. And then my brain went: BUUUUUUUY IIIIIIIT.

I used to idolize Clarissa Darling when I was all of... six. When the show was first on Nickelodeon (back when it didn't suck). I think that my wanting a room with a window seat came from watching that show. And my journalistic aspirations might've come from this too (because Clarissa eventually went to college as a journalism major, and she, along with Linda Ellerbee on Nick News, made me somewhat interested in current events--how's that for pop culture influencing your life?). And besides, Clarissa was awesome. I used to want to dress like her (oh God, the leggings and oversized shirts; she was almost like Claudia from the Baby-Sitter's Club's blonde doppleganger), and I wished I could pwn my brother with finesse and have a best friend who could climb into my room via ladder.

Hell, I'm pretty sure Clarissa could pwn half the girls on shows that are for girls who are the same age I was when I was into the show. I like to think that it's not just nostalgia talking, but that most of the things I liked as a kid were a little cooler than what kids have now. I know that some things that seemed brilliant when you were six or seven or eight are really lame in retrospect, but come on, do you really think that the average eight year old now would dig something like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego or The Adventures of Pete and Pete (if they updated it for the times, of course, since Those Damn Kids can't possibly fathom a world without the internet, cell phones with texting and internet capabilities, or the Jonas Brothers)? Just me, or were some of the characters on older kids shows more interesting and unique (or even weird) than some of the ones that are on now?

But yeah.

To conclude: even though it was on a completely different network, I still want Flash Forward DVDs, dammit.

Comments

[austen.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I loved Clarissa Explains it All and Pete & Pete and Carmen Sandiego and Legends of the Hidden Temple AND Flash Forward. SERIOUSLY.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I used to get pissed when people couldn't put together the monkey idol in that one room. And the temple guards used to scare me to death, man. If only Nick could go back to game shows and not showing Spongebob a squillion times a day!

If I can find the Pete and Pete DVDs, I might just die of glee.

[austen.livejournal.com]

Seriously. You can buy T-shirts that look like the ones they wore on the show. I'm so tempted to dress up like someone on Legends for Halloween.

[poofusgirl.livejournal.com]

Clarissa Explains it All was awesome. As was Flash Forward. And Are You Afraid of the Dark? I looooooooooved that show.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Are You Afraid of the Dark! They had some episodes that still creep me out when I think about them. Like the hotel one, or the one with the weird drawing on the rocks.

[poofusgirl.livejournal.com]

I can't really remember what happened in any of the episodes, just that I loved the show. lol

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

OMG, Clarissa! I loved her so much! And yeah, I totally agree: I don't see any of today's iCarlys or Hannah Montanas or whatever coming up with awesomely convoluted schemes on their old school computers or keeping pet alligators in their rooms.

Clarissa, and the Ghostwriter kids, and Alex Mack. Now they were the shiznit.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I went through a period where I was obsessed with black felt tip pens because of Ghostwriter, and that being the only pen that the team used. And then I got obsessed with hats because of Alex Mack. I watched way, way too much TV as a kid.

[demonqueen666.livejournal.com]

*guggles* Omg, do you remember that ad they used to run on Nick for Alex Mack? With the dorky, totally white faux-rapping about how Alex Mack always wears a hat?
I still get that jingle occasionally stuck in my head to this day.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

FLASH FORWARD!!! That show had a very young Ryan Gosling looking all smarmy and kinda high. I don't even remember who the hell he was on the show except that he always looked cute but like a sleazeball.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

I can't believe that I remember this, but: he was Becca's camp boyfriend who Tucker was jealous of, and he was in two episodes. He was a total jerkass to Tucker, and Becca said that he kissed horribly.

[library-of-sex.livejournal.com]

I knew he liked Becca or something! Man, he was such a little jerk!

[tigge03.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure our generation had the best TV shows ever.

Some of them are still on The-N. I remember watching Clarissa a couple of months ago, before The-N and Noggin split on Time Warner. I loved Carmen Sandiego, Bill Nye, and other cool *but educational* shows, haha. You're right though, it's all gone downhill since Spongebob.

[sassachusetts.livejournal.com]

Clarissa DVDs for ten bucks? Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I'm afraid they're never going to release the third season of Pete & Pete on DVD and I'm just going to live the rest of my life with this terrible longing. Also, I would kill a man for Roundhouse. KILL A MAN.

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

ROUNDHOUSE! I still remember the theme song.

[quidditchkiss.livejournal.com]

OMG CLARISSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cattikins.livejournal.com]

OMG, best shows ever. I only passed geography in high school because I was so obsessed with Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego?.