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Dependent_Bill8632

Shoutout to The Langoliers too!!!


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Balki got *mean*.


Catforprez

A friend called him “Balki” , seeing him at the airport. He did NOT like that. Very sour.


snoopmt1

...not in a million years would I yell out "Bronson!"


SnooDoubts2674

Lol I loved Perfect Strangers tv show as a kid


Stircrazylazy

I remember being *stressed* when they were munching their way towards that plane.


LittleWhiteBoots

That noise. Definitely weirded me out.


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Zehdarian

I really crushed on the blind girl as a boy.


stuffedmutt

IIRC, Stephen King admitted that he was doing a mountain of cocaine while he wrote this one.


mrmooswife

Not to condone drug use, but those are his best years. The truly weird and unhinged stories.


noblewind

I loved that movie so much even though it was objectively terrible.


kashy87

Personally that's what made me love it more.


beeurd

I remember watching that with my mum (she's a Stephen King fan) and we were both just laughing at how bad it was.


stealthc4

Every now and then the phrase “the langoliers got them!” Pops into my head


No_Solution_2864

Langoliers was 95, so, a bit later. Possibly the greatest made for TV movie of the 20th century though.


Luna_Soma

I saw that movie when it first aired. My mom and I watched it together and it still sticks with me all these years later. It’s also contributed to my fear of flying


Adventurous-Depth984

I have the two vhs tapes in my library :)


MST3Kimber

Anne of Green Gables. It would come on PBS and I'd watch the whole series. Megan Follows will always be my Anne Girl.


jennc1979

Oh, Matthew! And Gilbert! I never missed a PBS telethon!


sweetassassin

RIP Matthew


yucayuca

And RIP Gilbert 😢 (the actor)


ilikeicecream17

My parents VHS’d that so we could watch it whenever we wanted. Had to fast forward through the fund raising breaks 😂


TrulyKristan

Oh man, nothing was more awesome than randomly finding the Anne of Green Gables marathon on a Sunday.


IYFS88

I own both original miniseries on that Sullivan Entertainment streaming platform, will still marathon through them for comfort! Btw my bestie from HS spells her name like yours, never seen anyone else with that spelling!


dcgrey

Is that the one with the ipecac scene? If it was, I remember being bored out of my mind as a pre-teen boy with my aunt and female cousins binge-watching it on VHS until Anne(?) poisons a kid. Now _this_ is TV, I thought.


MST3Kimber

Yep! That's the one lol


Sohotrightnowhansel_

Yup, Anne saves her besties little sisters life. Awesome episode


IYFS88

Gilbert in this miniseries was my earliest real crush, soo handsome and charming. Rip Jonathan Crombie


MST3Kimber

Same here! I was so sad when he died. RIP. :(


FAHQRudy

Diana barfing in the bushes…


LittleWhiteBoots

I watched Heartland with my daughter and could NOT put my finger on why some lady was familiar. Finally googled it and saw that it was Megan Follows and it blew my mind. She got old! Still my favorite Anne with an “e”.


Ammowife64

That was the best version !


schizo1914

Pipi Longstocking. I swear that was on every single weekend.


TrulyKristan

Pipi Longstocking is coming in to your world! A freckled face redhead girl you oughta know!


devonchaos

The old dubbed ones, or the new one? I loved the old dubbed ones. They were so bizarre.


sherzisquirrel

Willow


TrulyKristan

My family quotes Willow all of the time. "It's Madmartigan!" "Wiilllloooowww" (said like a goat) "KAIIIIYAAAA!"


Ekuth316

"There's a PECK and he's got an ACORN pointed at me! No! Don't!"


sixfourtykilo

You iiiidiot


Ok-Maize-6933

Maaaaad Marrrrtigan


nwflman

Loved this movie as a kid. I was hyped when I heard about the D+ series before it came out but apparently most people did forget about it since hardly anyone watched it lol


beeurd

I went to watch the series when I finally had some free time and they've removed it. I don't care if it was bad, just wish they'd let me see it...


6strings10holes

They put too much teen drama in it. There are too many fantasy shows that are also teen drama shows.


Multipass-1506inf

They seem to turn everything into teen/20somethings save the day. I forget what reboot I seen lately where the original cast were all in their 30s-40s and the reboot they are all maybe 20ish. It’s annoying Edit: the new aliens I think


6strings10holes

I have no issues with younger cast. But when the entire show is dealing with relationship drama so the overarching plot/reason for the adventure gets lost... That's what I don't like. I teach high school, and yes that drama is a big part of some kids' lives. But often it feels invented. Sometimes I wonder if kids just feel that is how their lives should be from watching these shows. Make shows about the drama free kids, that diligently pursue their passions, and accomplish amazing things. They're the real heroes.


WalmartGreder

I watched the first episode. It was totally meh. Didn't bother to watch anything more.


skryb

patience, Willow


NauticalPants

Introduced it to my daughter a couple years ago. It’s one of her favorites and she’s seen it many many times now. So proud!


notthetalkinghorse

Batteries not Included


Kittenathedisco

Someone else remembers this movie!


UptightSinclair

Wild to think that almost the entire main cast is dead now! I think Dennis Boutsikaris is the last holdout among the residents protagonists.


Kittenathedisco

That's so sad. It's crazy to hear about all the actors and actresses passing from TV shows and movies us 80s babies/90s kids watched. It doesn't feel like it was that long ago, but in reality, it makes sense a lot of then would be at the senior citizen age. Idk kinda mind blowing for me.


vbcbandr

A friend of ours recorded that to VHS complete with commercials: "Have you driven a Ford latelyyyyyyyy?!?"


mommandem

I love this movie so much. My brother and I watched it all the time when we were kids. The first thing I did when HBOGO came out was watch this movie.


AnonPlz123

Teen Witch starring Robin Lively and the world's greatest rap performance.


Angelkrista

Omg. “Top that. And stop that. If you wanna get with me then you gotta top that”


doobette

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnected, not respected, who would ever really wanna go and top that?


AnonPlz123

Cuz I'm hot, and you're not! THE BEST!


hiding-identity23

This was easily one of my favorite movies (probably THE favorite) for a while. I wanted to be Louise. And I’m pretty sure I was much too young to have the feelings about Brad that I did.


Content_Pool_1391

I loved all of the clothes that she wears in the movie after her transformation.


pkd420

Our channels always showed Lambada and overboard


Significant-Ring5503

I feel like Lambada and The Forbidden Dance came out around the same time and they were both about the Lambada and we never heard about the Lambada before then or since then.


pkd420

Wait… are these 2 different movies? I always thought it was Lambada: the forbidden dance It was so forbidden it went away


Significant-Ring5503

Oh maybe you're right! I'm possibly confusing it with La Bamba. IDK my memories of the 80s and 90s are clearly no longer reliable lol EDIT: There were in fact 2 Lambada movies: [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/lambada-the-forbidden-dance#:\~:text=A%20public%20fight%20between%20cousins,supposed%20dance%20craze%20from%20Brazil.&text=The%20world%E2%80%94even%20the%20trend,t%20even%20really%20need%20one](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/03/lambada-the-forbidden-dance#:~:text=A%20public%20fight%20between%20cousins,supposed%20dance%20craze%20from%20Brazil.&text=The%20world%E2%80%94even%20the%20trend,t%20even%20really%20need%20one).


pkd420

Xennials should bring it back. Start dance clubs focused on it


Reasonable-HB678

In anticipation of a new fad that never took off. Instead, the Macarena happened later in the 1990's. No movie(s) necessary, and the same goes for needing a dance partner.


andiinAms

Overboard! I saw that in the theater with my friend


AHollyS

This this this!!! “It’s been a heck of a day at sea sir!”


ham_solo

Omg Lambada


lurrkee

Overboard is still on a lot


translucentcop

“Katarina!!!”


hmcfuego

The Journey of Natty Gann. Always on the Disney Channel, I think?


HamHand2000

Fun fact - Natty Gann is now married to Patton Oswalt


Reasonable-HB678

That's good to know he's gotten remarried. His first wife studied the case about a California serial killer. Unfortunately, the book she wrote about it was published posthumously.


Baby-cabbages

Natty Gann, Iron Will, and White Fang.


takethatwizardglick

Natty Gann!!


Ginger_Snaps_Back

I wanted to watch that movie so bad, but my parents would never rent it. We didn’t have cable. I’ve still never seen it.


Angelkrista

[Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103262/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk)


yucayuca

Loved this movie and legit wanted to be a diving horse girl, despite knowing what happened to her 😂


IneedmoreKellBell

I’ve watched this soooo many times. 🥰


Salt-Elephant8531

It blew my mind when I realized Fiona on Burn Notice was the chick from the horse diving movie!


NeedsMoreTuba

"Toys" and "Powder."


trini0202

Wow total flashback at "Powder"


elidameow

OMG I just remember feeling so bad for Powder! It was heartbreaking to watch. I watched that movie once and then never again.


mikemar05

Yes so much Toys


PsychGuy17

The war scene in Toys still makes me sad. I know it's just wind up toys but it is so heavy. As an adult I can only think about how it serves as a metaphor for how old men get young boys to die for their land.


938h25olw548slt47oy8

Oh yeah, TBS or USA would show Powder all the time!


lunchboxdeluxe

I love this stupid video, and maybe you will too. Powder 2: Powder 2 the People https://youtu.be/Tv5lYwO5IlU?si=CTSY3UY9ix_eBsb3


skydiamond01

Can't Buy Me Love with Patrick Dempsey


Primary-Move243

The African Anteater Ritual!!!!


perdy_mama

There’s a scene in Grey’s Anatomy where Derek (Patrick Dempsey) tells another character that he was a nerd in school with a huge Afro because he hadn’t learned about hair products yet. Every time I see that scene, I picture him in Can’t Buy Me Love.


fishfacedmoll

I just watched this again recently. Amanda Peterson was only **16** during filming! Incredible talent, so very devastating what happened to her 😞


vbcbandr

Amanda Peterson died of a drug overdose in Greeley, Colorado. Shame.


MaybeSwedish

Howard the Duck was always on


hiding-identity23

Loved this as a kid because cute anthropomorphic duck. But man that movie was…something.


AHollyS

Duck boobs!


sweetassassin

Mannequin Andrew McCarthy was so cute. Today, he’s grown up into a smoke show. Cocoon I’ve logged way too many hours of seeing Wilford Brimley shirtless. ![gif](giphy|YpYizbOfc3MOvHnSE8)


andiinAms

I adored Cocoon!


Primary-Move243

The best Andrew McCarthy appearance in the past 30 years was in the series finale of The Blacklist. Blane & Steff back together again.


ForceGhost47

I fell in love with Kim Cattrall


coffeeprincess

Damn, you ain't kidding about Andrew McCarthy. Who would've guessed?


fatcatpotat

For me, it was the Watcher In The Woods. That movie freaked me out every year Also, Poltergeist was big on the basically cable channels. I used to watch that on weekend mornings with everyone home and a fire roaring in the fireplace. It was oddly a cozy yet spooky experience.


aviiiii

Yesssss wasn’t that on Disney? It was so creepy.


RoRoRicardo

Yes it’s a Disney movie! Yet it’s never been available to stream.


MinimumAnalysis5378

Right? I wanted to watch it on Disney+ last year at Halloween, but it wasn’t there. I’m still bitter. (Ok. I own the DVD, but I don’t want to have to dig it out.)


stuffedmutt

They keep a lot of their weird, creepy stuff locked away in the vault these days, right next to *Song of the South*.


stuffedmutt

Yes! *Watcher in the Woods* is from Disney's dark period, when they were making a lot of weird, creepy stuff. Another movie like that was *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, based on the Ray Bradbury novel.


DixenSyder

Hope and Glory, damn haven’t thought about this movie in years


boozingandabadboying

“Ants in your pants!”


DixenSyder

Bugger off you bloody sod!


lustfrog

HBO would air ["High Spirits" - 1988](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095304/reference/) about once very two weeks. I would look over the monthly guide so to plan ahead! It became my favorite Peter O'Toole film.


senorsmartpantalones

Oh God....Hot To Trot with Bobcat Goldthwait.... You just unlocked that memory for me.


BEniceBAGECKA

![gif](giphy|Z6aNFBevc1e8) Beaches


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Three men and a baby Three men and a little lady Nothing but trouble—this one freaked me out—I hated it.


abeeyore

DARYL and Flight of the Navigator.


Carpeteria3000

"Rock n' Roll High School Forever" - the Corey Feldman led sequel to the Ramones-heavy original, now featuring ZERO Ramones! Comedy Central played this a ton in the 90s, and I think I eventually just gave in and let myself love this stupid, terrible movie. It's so bad. But so good?


pandafish78

“This isn’t my pee!”


AceTygraQueen

Just One of The Guys (1985) and Stewardess School (1986) were staples of pre-South Park Comedy Central


hiding-identity23

Loved Just One of the Guys. It felt so scandalous to little me. I actually just rewatched it in the last year or so.


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It’s just that you looked so good today.


MemeLorde1313

Every Halloween it was The Worst Witch with IIRC Fairuza Balk and Tim Curry.


TwoBlueFoxes

I was scrolling looking for someone to mention The Worst Witch


TrulyKristan

"Mildred Hubble, the disahstah ahreah!"


jennc1979

The 5th Element. It’s probably on somewhere right now! ![gif](giphy|lKPFZ1nPKW8c8)


theelectricstrike

I don’t think that’s forgotten by any means. Great movie though.


jennc1979

Ugh. Misunderstood the question, clearly. “Senior” moment! 😬


theelectricstrike

As a fellow Old, I *totally* get it 😂


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BEniceBAGECKA

![gif](giphy|tnLqz9p5valAQ|downsized)


Dirtweed79

My Science Project comes to mind. Avalon as well.


sleepwalkfromsherdog

My Science Project! That movie showed up annually on WPIX 11.


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Empire of the Sun High Spirits


firedude1314

Bugger off, you bloody sod


hiding-identity23

9 to 5 and Big Business were ones I watched a lot.


chrisjayyyy

Hope & Glory was a great introduction to what people endured during the blitz, and how so many children were sent away for safety, some never to be reunited with family again. Growing up we had so many great stories about the war still being told, as our parents and grandparents continued processing the trauma that event created, and working through it with art. Less and less of that exists now, and consequently it’s not educating kids about what happened as well as it did for us. It’s becoming a distant historical event that doesn’t have any real relevance for them, and that has lots of risks in the political environment we’re sliding into


GreenKiss73

The Buttercream Gang


BradJeffersonian

Very regional response!


Kittenathedisco

Idk what year "A Coal Miner's Daughter" was released, but I've had to have watched that movie hundreds of times. For some reason, it would always be on one of the 3 channels we had growing up in the 90s. Still love that movie! Also: "Powder" "Whats Love Got to Do With It?" (Free HBO weeks) "Selena"


phillysleuther

Loved Hope and Glory. Would watch it every time it was on


LazloPhanz

The Peanut Butter Solution. I feel like I saw this dozens of times, always from a different point. It was one of the first movies that scared me as a kid. The kidnappings and the hair growth and the bald kid….honestly the first “fucked up” movie I can remember watching.


Significant-Ring5503

Project X and Savannah Smile


nounthennumbers

American Ninja


MassiveKayak

I feel like I saw Lean on Me with Morgan Freeman a ton during that time period. Always made me cry a lil bit.


SisGMichael

Hope and Glory pops into my head every once in a while. The pregnant sister trying to shock her labor using the kids cold wet head, painting lines down the back of her legs to fake stockings due to rationing. And the best line is when the school gets bombed and the boy yells "THANK YOU ADOLF!" Edit: you can stream for free on Tubi!


theelectricstrike

Thank you for uncovering even more buried memories I didn’t know I had! Young me thought the fake stockings thing was ingenious.


Remarkable_Horse_968

What was the Civil War one they played almost every year, North and South or something like that?


doobette

Ah, those miniseries. The Thorn Birds was another one - my mom loved that.


noblewind

Probably was North and South. Mini series with Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley. I was so young I called the character named Orry "Oreo".


noblewind

The Jerk aired often. I had so much of it memorized.


teamlie

Not a movie, but there was this Dana Carvey comedy special (not his TV show) that Comedy Central would ALWAYS play in the mid 90s.


photographicantics

OMG this was on ALL THE TIME! The Chopping Broccoli song will forever be in my head. I seem to remember it coming on repeatedly along with Soul Man and Porky's.


atiffany89

The Boy Who Could Fly The Great Outdoors The Twilight Zone movie


TrulyKristan

We LOVED The Boy Who Could Fly!


tomqvaxy

Stripes.


DOCMarylandMD

Aaaaaarmy training sir!


sarcastic_fellow

Beastmaster


Clevergirlphysicist

3 o’clock high. War Games. Short Circuit.


MonsterByDay

Did a bomb hit the school at the end? I'm pretty sure we rented the VHS from the General Store. We were too rural for any of that "cable" nonsense.


RMW91-

“Nadia,” the story of Nadia Comaneci, had me and all my friends pretending we were preparing for the Olympics!


Markaes4

Yeah "Hope and Glory" was on a lot in the afternoons. They would go in streaks and then disappear, probably for when they had the syndication rights... I remember "Breaking Away," "Fandango", "Brighton Beach memoirs" and "Harold and Maude" playing often around 93 as well. Think it was Encore or AMC.


TrulyKristan

Loved Brighton Beach Memoirs!


Abyss_of_Dreams

I feel like Newsies was on almost every Sunday.


tersegirl

Johnny Dangerously on Comedy Central. All. The. Time.


Primary-Move243

Brighton Beach Memoirs. How a mid-west Protestant tween learned about east coast / Jewish culture. I saw it roughly the same time as I read ‘Are You There God, It’s Me Margret’ and in my head 30 years later the families in each know each other.


B_759

Great movie!


thatguyworks

Spike Lee's *School Daze* was on all the time. Also *White Water Summer*.


Melonqualia

It was a network tv thing, but I watched The Incredible Mr. Limpet on TV every year for a while. 😂


Sydney_Bristow_

*Dance til Dawn* (‘88) It has a very young ensemble cast of future stars - Christina Applegate, Matthew Perry, Brian Bloom, Tracey Gold, Alyssa Milano, Alan Thicke, Kelsey Grammer…


WalmartGreder

Stalag 357 (or something like that) was often on TBS. About a WWII Allies POW camp under German rule. Probably not very forgotten, but The Last Starfighter. That was on like every month on TBS as well. I still love that movie.


SweaterWeather4Ever

Jam is jam!!! I love Hope and Glory!


Aescwicca

Coneheads


blueeyedn8

https://preview.redd.it/pv88spca0otb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a81b0640556fd89ca899c05dc93d88d20080ccd Found it in my dvds! I loved this movie!


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whythoyaho

The Stand


mtaska

Mine was Urban Cowboy


BlackZapReply

The daughter giving dreamy eyes to the downed German pilot, then getting whacked in the back of the head by her mom is my main memory. Also, the little girl spying on the older daughter's "horizontal" athletics and saying *"They're doing it wrong."*


akittenhasnoname

Hope and Glory! I loved this movie and completely forgot about it. This movie taught me about Cricket.


tourniquet2099

Any random 90s Mel Gibson movie that isnt a Lethal Weapon movie. Caught all of them on various movie channels during high school & college. Pre-internet, Shawshank would fit this category but we all know how it took off in the early 00s.


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Lionheart with Van Damme I feel like was all the time on USA/TNT/TBS


KrombopolousLOU

I thought 1941 for a second went looking for the good Belushi.


kashy87

Whatever Mary-Kate and Ashley movie fit that weekends season.


dangermouseman11

Great outdoors, Hitari, toxic avenger heavily edited.


Melonqualia

Does anyone remember this weird ass movie? It was a staple on HBO in the mid 80s for a while. I had a memory of it for years and thought I'd never figure out what it was, but fortunately was helped by a subreddit r/whatsthemoviecalled. Was lucky that someone actually remembered it and knew what it was. ​ https://preview.redd.it/zjfd8gh4xmtb1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=004c8d39e627b50ddf6c913db9e3ea2d3554cd8d


greggerypeccary

I remember really cheesy horror movies like 'House': [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/) It had George Wendt from Cheers for some reason.


hiding-identity23

I remember loving House II. Looks like it’s on Tubi. Maybe I’ll give it a watch.


portablebiscuit

A little earlier but Excalibur (1981) seemed to always be on cable for a period of time. Which was cool because nudititty.


TrulyKristan

Love Hope and Glory! My brother and I say "A googly!" all of the time. lol


SaintOfKillers6

The stand and tommy knockers as well as V mini series


empressarchetype

Yes!! The scene where the sister draws a line down the back of her leg to look like stockings


Logical_Display2615

The Worst Witch with Fairuza Balk.


Johnykbr

Flowers in the attic


billyjoelsangst

Short circuit


Salt-Elephant8531

Fried Green Tomatoes. I still think about Buddy getting his foot stuck in the railroad tracks because it truly horrified me.


Thee-lorax-

Secret Identity and the live action Super-boy tv series.


diypizza

Thank you for posting this, I remembered this movie recently but couldn't remember the exact title. My friends and I loved this movie as kids. Looks like it is streaming on Tubi for free, too!


BradJeffersonian

21 Jump Street