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These poster displays you’d find in the back of the store, and the satisfying “cluck-cluck” sound they would make whenever you’d flip to the next one:
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These weird squishy tubes that felt more than a bit creepy when you’d squeeze them:
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These colorful balls that were always painted super-bright colors and had such a weird texture to them:
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Fruit juice made from frozen concentrate that everyone just assumed was healthy because it was “juice”:
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The little manuals that came with video games and that offered very little help in how to actually do well while playing the game:
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This exact alarm clock that everyone’s parents had on their nightstand:
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Those Muzzy commercials that played at least a dozen times during weekday cartoons:
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The “lucky” rabbit’s foot keychain you’d get at fairs and random souvenir shops while on vacation:
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The oh-so-cool-for-like-a-week 3D posters that you could hang on your bedroom wall like artwork:
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The Duracell PowerCheck Batteries that really tested the dexterity of your thumb and index finger:
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These giant projection TVs that had the most blurry AF resolution:
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And these tiny TVs with the built-in VCR that every kid wanted for their bedroom:
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The annoyance of having to adjust the tracking on your VCR:
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Yikes! pencils that made you feel a little cool whenever you pulled one out of your pencil box:
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And the Spacemaker pencil box, which would always explode open (causing your Yikes! pencils to go flying everywhere) if you accidentally dropped it:
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These mini-maze puzzles you’d get in every birthday party goody bag:
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The old-school Chuck E. Cheese coins that smelled like trash and metal:
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The turtle sandbox, which would turn into a cat toilet if you forgot to put the shell back on it:
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Pierre Escargot sitting in his bathtub and saying,”hon-hon-hon”:
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These celestial sun holographic necklaces that def gave Y2K aesthetic:
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All the extra labels that came with blank VHS tapes that no one would ever use:
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The 75 folders you’d have to open up in Windows just so you could play Solitaire:
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The red stick that came with Handi-Snacks that would slice your tongue if you weren’t careful while licking it:
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The giant stuffed animal display in the back of the Disney Store:
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Butterfinger BB’s candy, which was the perfect Butterfinger candy:
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TI-108 calculators, which also required some kid to be in charge of distributing them to the class:
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The pink Talkgirl recorder, which I guess they made for kids who didn’t want to play with the Talkboy (?):
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Having to set your TV to Channel 3 whenever you played video games or wanted to watch a VHS tape:
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The scrambled adult channels, which would sometimes come into focus for a split second and you could also definitely hear:
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These Welch’s jelly jar glasses that every family seemed to own:
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And these Kellogg’s “The Best To You Each Morning” cereal bowls that every family seemed to own:
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The wicker paper plate holders, which had an 80% chance of pricking you whenever you used one:
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The ball that came inside the mouse that you just knew would bounce really high and far if you threw it:
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LA Looks hair gel, which REALLY held your hair in place — and made a big white flakey mess if you started touching it:
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The fishing game that sounded like it was grinding ice whenever you played with it:
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The dramatic Battleship commercial:
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Tiger handheld games, which really made you strain your eyes anytime you played with one:
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The tan colored Dustbuster that had about 3 minutes of battery life:
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KitKats when they came wrapped in foil:
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Cherry Coke, when the cans came with this oh-so-early-’90s pop art-inspired design:
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Target cafes, when the way they were decorated was 100% inspired by Memphis Design:
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The Clear Eyes commercials that featured Ben Stein as the spokesperson:
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Mentadent toothpaste, which was the bougiest and sloppiest toothpaste you could get:
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These chocolates that you would sell for school fundraisers:
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The McDonald’s Halloween buckets that actually held very little candy:
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Car stereos that had the removal faceplate (which everyone would usually just put under the seat):
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Flintstone Push Up bars, which were the best after school or after dinner desert:
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Viennetta ice cream cakes, which had commercials that made it seem like it was the fanciest dessert you could ever eat:
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The Bailey School Kids series that always had the weirdest book titles:
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And the Incredible Cross-Sections books that you would 90% of the time never read and just flip through the pages to look at the elaborate illustrations:
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These PC speakers that were surprisingly loud:
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The Cartoon Network commercials that featured various classic cartoon characters interacting with each other:
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The feel of the Blockbuster Video membership cards, which felt like a slightly thicker school ID:
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And Blockbuster microwave popcorn, which you and your family would always grab a pack of when renting movies:
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Finally, this yearly flexibility test that was part of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test and was truly the most painful thing ever:
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