1) Shirt Tales

2) Gummi Bears

3) Dungeons & Dragons

I knew that the Saturday morning perfection was over when they introduced the Karate Kid animated series…horror.

5.CandyLand

4.Chutes & Ladders

3. Connect Four ( pretty sneaky sis)

2. Operation

1. Perfection ( You got to be a old head to remember that)

2. CHIPS (Ponch and John. Mmm.)

3. The Love Boat (“Exciting and new . . . Come aboard, we’re expecting you.”)

4. The Jeffersons.

5. Nightrider, Smurfs, Charlie’s Angels, WKRP in Cincinnati.

1. Street Frogs: “Who can do hip hop better than a frog can…?” (remember mtv was barely playing rap music at this time!). I think it maybe lasted one season. ?

2. Heathcliff, but only for Wordsworth (rhyming and on roller skates! my idol)

3. Chipmunks. Now, they had flavor. Okay….? Now, where would Kanye be without the Chipmunks? Still rollin in the Ford Escort, that’s where.

4. Jem, gotta find some ladies reppin. And the misfits were what I really couldn’t wait to catch. Wreckin Jem!

5. Inspector Gadget. No, he didn’t have the music edge, but where would not only we as a technological culture, but (more importantly) where would Inspectah Deck, in fact all of Wu Tang, be without the one and only?

5. Pinwheel

4. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3. Knight Rider – That fantastic music. A car with a snooty British accent. And David Hasselhoff in leather pants…I was too young to have full blown sexual fantasies about him, but I think this is when my appreciation for leather began. It’s a wonder that I don’t love cars more than I do now.

2. The Muppet Show

1. MacGyver – I had a serious crush on that man growing up. Okay, I still do. The mullet works for him! He was so cool — never panicked, always creative, and steadfastly against using guns. I really admired that. Plus, my sister and I used to re-enact with our Barbies the episode where his girlfriend dies in a rock-climbing accident. We’d string them up, make them climb the highest thing we could reach, and then drop one of them. Whoever said that girls are natural nurturers obviously never played with us.

Runners-up:
M*A*S*H
The Smurfs
Hill Street Blues – I never watched the actual show, but I loved the opening credits’ music. My parents let me stay up just to listen to it.
Kids, Incorporated

fyi conscious — wikipedia has links to a whole mess of letter people videos. a-z, kid. go crazy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letter_People

4. Voltron

3. Masterpiece Theatre

2. Highlander: The Series

1. Transformers

here’s are my top five favorite movies from my childhood:

5. Just One of the Guys (an underrated and often rerun in the early days of HBO flick where Terry, the protagonist, goes undercover as a male student in the next high school over to be taken as a “serious” journalist. s/he’s a TERRIBLE actor, but somehow passes and learns several key life lessons about gender, ambition and honesty)

4. Supergirl (Superman’s cousin tries college life)

3. Can’t Buy Me Love (Patrick Dempsy pre McDreamy)

2. The Never Ending Story (that heartbreaking scene where Artex, the horse, drowns in the swamps of sadness will stay with you forever)

1. Dirty Dancing (it’s still so true: nobody puts baby in the corner)

I’d like to dedicate this comment to my wonderful sister, Shari, with whom I watched every single one of these movies countless times.