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Shows That Make You Appreciate People Considerably More When They Recognize a Reference

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (87)



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And your contest winner is SackmementoCalifornia , who came up with the brilliant title for this seriously random list. SackmementoCalifornia: Send me your details, and a copy of Can’t Hardly Wait will be yours.

Runners Up:

  • Shows That Seemed Harmless Enough When You Were A Kid But Actually Rotted Your Brain, Quashed Your Potential, Kept You From Earning That Scholarship, & Forever Altered The Course Of Your Life For The Worse (Darthcorleone)

  • Shows From the 1990s For Adolescents Who Weren’t Cool Enough to Smoke Dope, Drink Zima, and Get Laid (The Pink Hulk)

  • WHY GEN X HAS FAILED IN THE GLOBAL BUSINESS LANDSCAPE. (ChetLemon)

  • 8 Kids Shows That Should Have Been Sewn Ass to Mouth (admin)

  • 8 shows that Tootie would have loved, Natalie would have envied, Blair would have snubbed and Jo would have f*cked up the ass. (celery)

    And, finally, puppetdoug’s brilliant observation, which would’ve been almost perfect if they were actual modern stars:

    Nickelodeon Shows that Were the Beginning of a Modern Star’s career.

    1. You Can’t Do that on Television - Alanis Morissette
    2. KIDS Incorporated - Fergie
    3. Hey Dude - Christine Taylor
    4. Double Dare - Marc Summers
    5. Clarissa Explains It All - Melissa Joan Hart
    6. Kenan & Kel - Kenan Thompson
    7. California Dreams - Nikki Cox or Jamie Kennedy, take your pick (they had bit roles)
    8. Fifteen - Ryan Reynolds


    “You Can’t Do That On Television”


    “Kids Incorporated”


    “Hey Dude”


    “Double Dare”


    “Clarissa Explains It All”


    “Kenan and Kel”


    “California Dreams”


    “Fifteen”









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    Comments

    They're all Nickelodeon shows, right?

    Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2010 2:38 PM

  • Shows You Auditioned For Several Times, But Were Never Cast In

    Wait... was that just me?

    Posted by: Ceejeemcbeegee at July 7, 2010 2:40 PM

    And what is it with that movie?

    Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2010 2:41 PM

    "Shows That Created Life-long Crushes That Would Not Exist if Said Crushes Were First Introduced as Adults".

    "Shows That Make You Appreciate People Considerably More When They Recognize A Reference".

    Posted by: SackmementoCalifornia at July 7, 2010 2:43 PM

    8 Shows that Paved the Way for Hannah Montana

    but were a lot better. Especially Keenan and Kel. I loved that show.

    Posted by: esme at July 7, 2010 2:44 PM

    It's all the same, only the names are changed.

    Posted by: anikitty at July 7, 2010 2:45 PM

    Random Shows I May Have Pretended to Be on as a Kid and Made All the Characters My Friends (what, I have a good imagination and I had no friends) Except Kenan and Kel Because That Show Sucked.

    Posted by: TWoP_Fan at July 7, 2010 2:45 PM

    Shows that Kayanne recognizes from her overly saturated Nickelodeon Childhood so that she'll stop bitching about being too young to get any of the references!

    Yea, that'd be one long ass title. And now I must go find some videos of Hey Dude! and Salute Your Shorts. Ta!

    Posted by: Kayanne at July 7, 2010 2:47 PM

    A Seriously Random List In Which All That is Missing is Saved By The Bell.

    or

    Best Worst Shows Ever

    Posted by: Whorish Mouth at July 7, 2010 2:48 PM

    Shows That Spawned Nothing Important

    Posted by: Jackie C at July 7, 2010 2:51 PM

    8 Simple Shows For Defining The 90's

    Posted by: Nadine at July 7, 2010 2:51 PM

    A Seriously Random List Contest That Will Make You Feel Fucking OLD When You Realize That "Can't Hardly Wait" is TEN YEARS OLD

    Too long?

    Posted by: figgy at July 7, 2010 2:52 PM

    It's older than that-- it came out in 1998. Yikes.

    Posted by: SackmementoCalifornia at July 7, 2010 2:54 PM

    Heinous Youth-Oriented Shows that are Still Hundreds of Times Better than Anything on the Disney Channel

    Posted by: Three-nineteen at July 7, 2010 2:54 PM

    Shows that Would Have Been Way Funnier if They Co-Stared Steve Buscemi as a Child Molester.

    Posted by: Julie at July 7, 2010 2:56 PM

    "Television shows that I am (for once) thankfully too old to have watched and yet were on too long ago for my kids to have ever watched them either."

    Posted by: Mrs Smith at July 7, 2010 2:56 PM

    Veruca Salt, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Christine Taylor, Mark Summers?, Kenan, Melissa Joan Hart, Kelly Packard and Ryan Renolds.

    8 Shows from the 90's where stars have somehow still remained relevant? (Double Dare and CA Dreams might throw this one off).

    Posted by: Michael W. at July 7, 2010 2:56 PM

    Kid's Shows Featuring Actors That Ended Up in Can't Hardly Wait?

    Posted by: jM at July 7, 2010 2:57 PM

    I Don't Know *cue slime*

    Posted by: superasente at July 7, 2010 2:57 PM

    Sorry, I got my brunettes mixed up --

    Alanyis Morissette!, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Christine Taylor, Mark Summers?, Kenan, Melissa Joan Hart, Kelly Packard and Ryan Renolds.

    8 Shows from the 90's where stars have somehow still remained relevant? (Double Dare and CA Dreams might throw this one off).

    Posted by: Michael W at July 7, 2010 2:58 PM

    8 SHOWS NICKELODEON USED TO BRAINWASH GENERATION X

    Posted by: Kballs at July 7, 2010 2:58 PM

    8 Pedo-bear-approved Shows of the 90's

    Posted by: gp at July 7, 2010 3:03 PM

    Eight Shows That Define Life Before The Towers Fell
    Oh the Humanity / DR

    I wanted to go with "Eight Shows You Loved as a Kid That Are Now Completely Unwatchable; A Seriously Random List (1990s Edition)" but as you did this for your last list via 1980s it seemed a little uninspired.

    I imagine this to be the reason for the contest in the first place.

    Posted by: Dulli1419 at July 7, 2010 3:03 PM

    Shows That Seemed Harmless Enough When You Were A Kid But Actually Rotted Your Brain, Quashed Your Potential, Kept You From Earning That Scholarship, & Forever Altered The Course Of Your Life For The Worse


    Yes, I know Double Dare had trivia questions on it, but you no good kids should have been watching Jeopardy! instead.

    Posted by: DarthCorleone at July 7, 2010 3:04 PM

    Naw, I'm on the very edge of Generation X, as it were, and "Hey Dude" and "Keenan and Kel" are after my time.

    Oh but wait...Kids Incorporated wasn't Nickelodeon, was it?

    "Crappy Old Shows Dustin Wants To Remind You Of 'Cause That Shame-Inducing List The Other Day Didn't Slake His Thirst For Pain Infliction"

    Posted by: Jay at July 7, 2010 3:04 PM

    8 Shows That Make Already Irrelevant Celebrities' Careers That Much More Pathetic

    Posted by: ChristianH at July 7, 2010 3:04 PM

    Eric Balfour was in Kids Incorporated?!

    I was going to go with Canadian Children's Television Programming That Infiltrated My Brain Due To Having Younger Siblings, but then I got to Clarissa, and I don't think that's Canadian. Is it? Maybe it is....

    Also, I would like to "like" jM's and superasente's comments, please. Thank you.

    Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at July 7, 2010 3:05 PM

    You'd have to go a long way to characterize hosting Unwrapped as "somehow still relevant".

    How about '90s Kid's Shows That Launched Short D-List Careers

    Posted by: Three-nineteen at July 7, 2010 3:05 PM

    -Shows You Watched In the 80's and 90's But Don't Like Enough to Use as Pop Culture References

    -Television Shows That Lied About How Cool Being A Teen Is

    Posted by: scorzi at July 7, 2010 3:06 PM

    "Dustin's Extremely Uncomfortable List of the Best Adolescent TV Shows for Up-and-Coming Pedophiles"?

    Posted by: Concerned at July 7, 2010 3:06 PM

    Kids Shows You Loved As a Child That Spawned Pop Stars We Hate???

    Posted by: PissBoy at July 7, 2010 3:14 PM

    Kids' Shows That Starred Actors from Can't Hardly Wait

    Posted by: mswas at July 7, 2010 3:14 PM

    8 Shows Currently Slated For 3D Movie Reboots

    Posted by: whatBENwatches at July 7, 2010 3:14 PM

    Kids Shows You Loved As a Child That Spawned Pop Stars We Hate As Adults

    Posted by: PissBoy at July 7, 2010 3:14 PM

    Shows From the 1990s For Adolescents Who Weren't Cool Enough to Smoke Dope, Drink Zima, and Get Laid.

    (And yes, drinking Zima in the 90s WAS cool, and fuck you for suggesting otherwise.)

    Posted by: The Pink Hulk at July 7, 2010 3:18 PM

    Alternately:

    "What Aboot It, Kid? A Totally Random List"

    Posted by: The Pink Hulk at July 7, 2010 3:19 PM

    90s kids shows that weren't nearly as good as Pete and Pete or Roundhouse

    Posted by: ninetwenteetoo at July 7, 2010 3:20 PM

    FIFTEEN CALIFORNIA KIDS DARE KENAN AND CLARISSA TO DO THAT ON TELEVISION, DUDE.

    Posted by: Kballs at July 7, 2010 3:22 PM

    "Awesome 90s Kids Shows that Make Us Realize Why We Should Set Miley Cyrus and Her Like on Fire."

    Posted by: Rebecca at July 7, 2010 3:32 PM

    Nothing was as cool as "Roundhouse"..... except maybe "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" SNICK!

    Posted by: Finn at July 7, 2010 3:32 PM

    Shows That I Will Add to My Netflix Queue Because Nostalgia is Awesome

    Posted by: KatSings at July 7, 2010 3:32 PM

    Sidenote : I wish I could think of something clever, because I would pelt someone with a brownie for that DVD.

    Posted by: KatSings at July 7, 2010 3:33 PM

    8 TV shows promoting delinquency.

    Posted by: greg at July 7, 2010 3:34 PM

    "The Top TV Shows That Probably Would Totally Suck If You Actually Saw An Episode Now"

    Posted by: Adam F. at July 7, 2010 3:36 PM

    One Day, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody & That's So Raven Will Inspire the Same Amount of Nostalgia As These Shows Do and That Scares Me.

    Posted by: MTGColorPie at July 7, 2010 3:38 PM

    8 shows Dustin can sing the theme songs to?

    Posted by: mswas at July 7, 2010 3:43 PM

    You people are filled with hate.

    Posted by: superasente at July 7, 2010 3:43 PM

    WHY GEN X HAS FAILED IN THE GLOBAL BUSINESS LANDSCAPE.

    Posted by: ChetLemon at July 7, 2010 3:46 PM

    Ultimate 90's Time Capsule Shows

    Posted by: val at July 7, 2010 3:46 PM

    You people are filled with hate.

    superasente , you're just figuring this out NOW?

    Posted by: mswas at July 7, 2010 3:47 PM

    The 8 Examples of My Terrible Taste in 90s Television

    Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at July 7, 2010 3:48 PM

    Canadian Wholesome Teenager Show You Wont Admit You Seceretly Dream About...

    Posted by: El L Cool J at July 7, 2010 3:51 PM

    SRL of...A Bunch of TV Shows Featuring Actors You Wanted to Fuck When You Were A Teenager, And REALLY Want To Fuck As An Adult - 90's Addition

    Posted by: PissBoy at July 7, 2010 3:51 PM

    SRL of...TV Shows With Theme Songs That You Find Yourself Randomly Humming - 90's Edition (Hey Look! Ryan Reynolds is in that last one on the list! Dustin is seeing him as a teenager and STILL thinking about him naked and 15)

    Posted by: PissBoy at July 7, 2010 3:55 PM

    8 Kids Shows That Should Have Been Sewn Ass to Mouth

    Posted by: admin at July 7, 2010 3:56 PM

    How about "all shows that I can immediately recognize and quote a bit that have labeled me a pop culture nerd amongst my friends such that no one will play SceneIt! with me anymore"?

    Yeah? Close?

    Posted by: jesstastic! at July 7, 2010 4:01 PM

    Shows that the child actors and participants won't admit to being on now that they can sign there own contracts.

    Posted by: Baramos at July 7, 2010 4:02 PM

    Oooooh, no title, but the shark kid at 5:08 in the Double Dare clip used to be a really good friend of mine. He and his family went all the way and won the finals that year. We used to torment him in high school by popping the tape in the VCR whenever he left the room. I would imagine he's burned them since then; he never could manage the pool challenges...

    Posted by: elizabeth at July 7, 2010 4:02 PM

    8 Totally Awesome Shows That I Loved as a Kid But Are Apparently Now Slightly Embarrassing to Admit To Loving. But Whatever.

    Posted by: Katers at July 7, 2010 4:17 PM

    8 Nickelodeon Shows that Were the Beginning of a Modern Star's career.

    1. You Can't Do that on Television - Alanis Morissette

    2. KIDS Incorporated - Fergie

    3. Hey Dude - Christine Taylor

    4. Double Dare - Marc Summers

    5. Clarissa Explains It All - Melissa Joan Hart

    6. Kenan & Kel - Kenan Thompson

    7. California Dreams - Nikki Cox or Jamie Kennedy, take your pick (they had bit roles)

    8. Fifteen - Ryan Reynolds

    Posted by: puppetDoug at July 7, 2010 4:20 PM

    8 Shows That I Rubbed One Out To (Not on the original air dates mind you, but right now, sitting in front of my computer at work. Yes. It is pathetic.)

    So, what'd I win now? Sorry - I couldn't find the time to actually read the intro thingie - I was too engrossed in removing the specially-laced, key-coded, underbritches that the sexual addiction counselor insisted I wear between the hours of eight a.m. and midnight.

    Anyhow...

    ...

    Anyone know where I can buy gauze in bulk?

    Posted by: Skitz at July 7, 2010 4:22 PM

    Screw anyone btw who says it's not Marc Summers who's the star. He tells me how food is made, which makes him a GOD.

    Posted by: puppetDoug at July 7, 2010 4:23 PM

    um, was that COOLIO?

    Posted by: tracey at July 7, 2010 4:26 PM

    Wow, with everyone talking about having crushes on the kids in these shows, I realize I am really weird - I have always been attracted to older men. My first major crush was on Han Solo. I liked guys my own age in real life when I was young, but in the world of celebrity crushes I'm only in lust with guys over thirty, preferably 35-50. Now that I'm in that age range I'm seriously considering upping that lower limit.

    And before you ask, my father is a loving, kind man and my parents are still together. I don't know where it comes from.

    Posted by: Three-nineteen at July 7, 2010 4:26 PM

    @Three-nineteen

    Same here! My major celeb crushes are all at least 15 years older than I am, and I have no Daddy issues to speak of. They're just so much sexier than those Twilight kids or whoever I'm supposed to want to bone.

    Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at July 7, 2010 4:30 PM

    Jeffery Jones' DVR contents OR Exhibit A

    Posted by: Mrcreosote at July 7, 2010 4:34 PM

    One Show I've Heard Of And Seven I Haven't, Thus Making Me Confused, A Little Angry, But Mostly Sleepy

    Posted by: sansho1 at July 7, 2010 4:50 PM

    8 Shows My Cool Older Cousins Watched While I Crashed Their High School Slumber Parties
    or
    8 Shows That I Vaguely Remember That Can't Be Seen on TV Anymore and That's A Shame.

    PS- Where's All That?

    Posted by: futuredirect at July 7, 2010 4:53 PM

    8 Shows That I Rubbed One Out To (Not on the original air dates mind you, but right now, sitting in front of my computer at work. Yes. It is pathetic.)

    So, what'd I win now?

    Well, Skitz, you get to be on a list. It's a super special list and you get to tell all of your neighbors in person that you're on it. Then you never have to go to (or within a hundred feet of) a school, or park, or any of the lame places that kids gather because everyone knows that they're jealous little devils that hate winners or getting in winners' vans.

    Posted by: jM at July 7, 2010 4:58 PM

    Yet another sloppily thrown together list that allows Dustin to get around that pesky court order issued under Megan's Law that forbids him from viewing content containing an under-aged Ryan Reynolds: a Seriously Random List.

    Posted by: ZoBla at July 7, 2010 5:15 PM

    I totally forgot that Ryan Reynolds was in Fifteen. I remember when he first started to hit it big thinking to myself "Where have I seen this guy before?" Mother-effing FIFTEEN!

    Posted by: Tanner at July 7, 2010 5:23 PM

    8 children's television shows that (thankfully) never left North America

    Posted by: foaly at July 7, 2010 5:36 PM

    Dear Millenials: Our shows were always better than yours. A seriously random list.

    Posted by: lubeg at July 7, 2010 5:38 PM

    Eight Shows that were considered "Must See TV" for Every Kid before Disney decided to not be a premium channel and create a horrid monoculture of gee whizzery...

    I can't believe YCDTOT made it all the way to 1990. 10 Sesaons. TEN. My parents banned me from watching it because I started pouring water on my sister whenever, well, you know.

    Posted by: TK the Other (delurking) at July 7, 2010 5:52 PM

    8 shows that Tootie would have loved, Natalie would have envied, Blair would have snubbed and Jo would have f*cked up the ass.

    Posted by: celery at July 7, 2010 6:34 PM

    or poor natalie would have *resented*... take your pick.

    Posted by: celery at July 7, 2010 6:40 PM

    2 Shows You Saw and 6 You Didn't.

    /only had Double Dare and You Can't Do That. That was enough.

    Posted by: Fredo at July 7, 2010 8:03 PM

    10 Things that Happened in Real Life and Not on Freaking Television

    Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at July 7, 2010 9:15 PM

    Seasons of Homeboys in Outer Space That Are Better Than Can't Hardly Wait:

    All of it.

    Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at July 7, 2010 9:20 PM

    kids incorporated was disney not nickelodeon

    Posted by: courtney at July 7, 2010 9:57 PM

    back when disney was a pay channel and my mom chose hbo instead. (a choice i appreciated when the real sex series started while i was in middle school)

    Posted by: courtney at July 7, 2010 9:58 PM

    Wow, so Eric Balfour looked like a creepy drug dealer even when he was 12.

    Posted by: Laura at July 7, 2010 10:43 PM

    I miss Salute Your Shorts.

    We run, we jump, we swim and play.
    We row and go on trips.
    But the things that last forever
    Are our dear friendships.

    Camp Anawanna,
    We hold you in our hearts.
    And when we think about you,
    It makes me wanna fart.
    It's I hope we never part! Now get it right or pay the price.

    Now we will share a lifetime of the fondest memories
    By the lake of Anawanna
    Set in the old pine trees.

    Camp Anawanna,
    We hold you in our hearts.
    And when we think about you,
    This thing came apart.

    Think Anawannawanna, Speak Anawannawanna, Live Anawannawanna, Ugh!

    Posted by: Lucas at July 8, 2010 2:02 AM

    My father used to watch Clarissa Explains it All with me in the evening. A few years ago he revealed to me that he watched it because "Clarissa's mom was a total fox." Thanks Dad. I so love having my beloved childhood memories warped by the knowledge of the existence of your middle-aged sexuality.

    Posted by: sheshakes at July 8, 2010 2:13 AM

    8 Shows that I know nothing about, and am so much more thankful for, due to the fact that my parents were uberconservative and only allowed me to watch PBS, because they were worried I'd end up dead, in prison, or in Juvie.

    That being said, my dad is now the family bastard, and has been arsekicked out to fend for himself.

    Posted by: LordNinja at July 8, 2010 3:09 AM

    weren't most Gen X'ers all growed up before most of these shows were on tv? What were they doing watching kids shows?

    Posted by: idleprimate at July 8, 2010 5:13 AM

    Wiki: "You Can't Do That on Television debuted in 1979 on CJOH-TV in Ottawa as a low-budget variety program with some segments performed live."

    Yup. That show was so in my backyard, two of my brother's friends (the redheaded twins, Kyle and Korbett) were regulars on the show. It still amazes me that Nickelodeon picked it up years later and made Bart famous. No complaints, though.

    Posted by: Ranylt at July 8, 2010 10:14 AM