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Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!

For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Young:

  • Animaniacs
  • Sailor Moon
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy
  • Wishbone
  • Powerpuff Girls
  • Courage tve Cowwardly Dog

Older:

  • Invader Zim
  • Inuyasha
  • Daria
  • Justice League & Batman the Animated Series
  • Still Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • I wanna say it was called "Kablam?"

(I'd add ATLA, but I didn't watch it until after it was completed and I was in college.)

[–] Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Transformers

MacGyver

Star Trek TNG

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver

Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc

What a time to be a kid

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago

Looks like the montages creator here is an early millennial.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Star Trek the Next Generation

Night Court

X-files

[–] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Star Trek: TNG

Reboot

X-files

For me personally

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 16 points 3 days ago

Animaniacs

Gargoyles

Doctor Who (Classic)

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 14 points 3 days ago

Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we'll never really stop pollution because super heros aren't real lol

[–] Jambone@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible

[–] cjriebe@lemmy.riebe.cloud 7 points 3 days ago
  • Dragonball Z
  • Mythbusters
  • The Simpsons
[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] criitz@reddthat.com 6 points 3 days ago
  • Star Trek The Next Generation
  • The Simpsons
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien
[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The Simpsons

The Magic School Bus

Friends

Honorable mention to Sailor Moon

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cyberchase
ZOOM!
Zoboomafoo

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

Rocko's Modern Life

Ren and Stimpy

Spider-man: The Animated Series

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago
  • How It's Made (with the witty British voice over)

  • Myth Busters

  • Big Bigger Biggest

I would lay in front of the Discovery Channel for hours while playing with Lego. Wouldn't you know it, I grew up to be an engineer!

[–] just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Star Trek

The Waltons

Happy Days

Yes, I’m old!

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[–] theredbit@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Angry Beavers

Family Guy

SpongeBob SquarePants

Me and my brother would watch the first two for hours. I don’t know how many times we went through all of the seasons of Family Guy he had on dvd

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Considering I forgot about it and got back into it, bringing back memories, first slot definitely goes to Franklin.

I'd definitely say second would have to go to a show like Ed Edd n Eddy since I used to watch way too much of it, I think...

And third would absolutely be a toss up since I watched way too many cartoons growing up. So I'd probably have to go with Death Note since it's the first anime I recognized as anime instead of just a cartoon back when I was in freshman year highschool.

Edit:

Someone mentioned Invader Zim and that would definitely be a contender because that show made me start to like weird and sometimes disturbing things. Here's looking at you, Dark Harvest. Also saw an Angry Beavers mention. Definitely a close 3rd since beavers are my favorite animal thanks to that show and Franklin.

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[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago
  • Daria
  • TNG
  • South Park
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hey Arnold

My So-Called Life

Captain Planet

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Samurai Pizza Cats

Star Wars The Clone Wars

Power Rangers

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[–] ChaosCoati@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

Shows from my youth I’ve watched with my kid: The Muppets Full House Animaniacs

[–] badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hilarious, because it appears as though none of you were alive in my youth... My parents were too damned smart to let me watch the "Boob Tube". Turns out they had wicked foresightedness - now you have hundreds of streams and almost all of it $hit.

So this is what I did see: Howdy Doody, only at my friend's house Captain Kangaroo which I could watch when I was sick That Was The Week That Was (TW3) which I could watch because it was intelligent, political satire.

I'm no worse for the deprivation, and probably better.

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[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Only three is hard, probably:

  • Scooby Doo
  • SpongeBob
  • One of those local sitcoms that have raised about 3 generations on reruns and "would never be produced now" yet are still played on TV
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[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Deep Space Nine

Nova

[–] perslue@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Darkening Duck Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers And another one for Samurai Pizza Cats

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, Seinfeld (and Big Bang Theory as young adult)

[–] Toes@ani.social 3 points 3 days ago

Avatar the last Airbender

Star Trek TNG

Lizzie McGuire Show

[–] clark@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Good Luck Charlie, Lab Rats, My Little Pony.

*somebody mentioned Duck Tales (80s version)... gah now I can't choose what to replace.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Earlier:

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • The Simpsons
  • ReBoot

Later on:

  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Invader Zim
  • Futurama
[–] juliorapido@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago

ReBoot! That brings back memories!

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn't think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.

I narrowed it down to these three:

  • MAS*H
  • Hogan's Heroes
  • Dinosaurs

Not because I'm so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny's place a lot of afternoons.

Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn't really there when she got very old and then died.

Looking back it's really sad that I wasn't there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)
  1. Thundercats
  2. Voltron
  3. Transformers
[–] mephiska@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

tell me you're mid 40's without telling me.

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[–] marito@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

As a kid.

  • Saved by the Bell.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  • Ducktales.

As a teenager.

  • The Wonder Years.
  • Friends.
  • Party of Five.

I didn't include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that's a given.

[–] HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)
  • The Simpsons: From seeing Season 2 episodes someone had recorded from Sky TV on VHS before it was on terrestrial TV, through to Season 9 when it stopped being good many years later. It was on all the time and we never got bored of it.
  • Red Dwarf: The first TV show I was allowed to stay up “late” for, when it broadcast at 9pm. Felt like I’d entered a new stage in my life watching a late-night comedy show.
  • The X Files: Similar to the above, this was the first serious, “grown-up” TV show I watched, and I was hooked. I thought anything with a paranormal tinge was awesome at that younger age (I guess I still do, although through an admittedly far more sceptical scientific lens these days).
[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I felt the exact same way about the X Files while I watched it too! It was on my personal honorable mentions ✅

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[–] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Three's Company

Pee-Wee's Playhouse

Beavis and Butt-head

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sliders

The Tomorrow People

Family Ties

Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There has to be a way to watch it now, right? Goddamn that's some nostalgia.

Edit: Sweet Lord... https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8vAvnjHeJNtA1zwSGVzv13XxBrdfefBL&si=VUFgCXX3Wp1WkArq

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[–] TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Batman the animated series

Captain Future

Home Improvement

[–] Banichan@dormi.zone 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tales from the Crypt

Monsters

Tales from the Darkside

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago
  • Monty Python
  • Doctor Who (reboot)
  • Firefly
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Avatar the Last Airbender

Power rangers

Scooby doo

All from different eras of my childhood I think, some existing in more than one but I obsessed over all of them

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago
  • X-Men
  • Alf
  • the Simpsons
[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard

Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team

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