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The 10 Best ‘90s Sitcom Theme Songs – Ranked

Now this is a story all about how we’re counting down the top 10 sitcom theme songs from the ’90s.

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The Top 10 Christmas Commercials of the ‘80s and ‘90s

Gather ’round, grab yourself a hot cocoa, and take a look at our (very subjective) ranking of the top 10 best Christmas commercials that first debuted in the ’80s and ’90s.

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The Lost Art of the Mixtape

Mixtapes were a labor of love, from picking the songs, to decorating the tape, to writing out handwritten liner notes, if you wanted to show your crush that you cared (but not be TOO obvious about it), then the mixtape was the way to go.

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Oh! I remember that!

Tetris: The Global Addictive Video Game From the ’80s

Billboard’s “The Hot 100” #1 Singles of 1980 – RANKED

Billboard Hot 100 Top #1 Singles of 1990 – RANKED

Movies

Meg Ryan’s Romantic Comedies – Ranked

Take a look back at Meg Ryan’s iconic romantic comedies and see where your favorites ranked!

Jen Brown January 26, 2021 No Comments

The Fast & The Furious is just Point Break with Cars (and far inferior)

If you’ve seen both The Fast and The Furious and Point Break, it’s near impossible not to notice how Fast & Furious is basically just a complete rip off. Don’t believe us? Read on.

Bianca Paris February 23, 2021 No Comments

Julia Roberts’ 5 Best Romantic Comedies – Ranked

A ranked look at Julia Roberts’ five best romantic comedies from 1990-2001.

Jen Brown February 2, 2021 No Comments

The Renaissance of Animated Disney Movies (1989-1999) – Ranked

If you grew up in the ‘90s, you may not have known it, but you were living in a golden age of Walt Disney Animation Studios movies. And now it’s time to rank those movies!

Jen Brown January 19, 2021 No Comments

TELEVISION

The Top 10 ‘90s Teen TV Dramas – Ranked

If you were a teen growing up in the ’90s, you witnessed an explosion of TV dramas. But what were the best ones? We’re ranking the top 10 ’90s teen TV dramas!

Jen Brown May 3, 2021 No Comments

The 10 Best ‘80s Sitcom Theme Songs – Ranked

It’s time to celebrate sitcom theme songs by counting down the top 10 from the 1980s.

Jen Brown January 11, 2021 No Comments

The 8 Best ‘80s Animated TV Show Theme Songs – Ranked

Life is like a hurricane, here where we rank the best ’80s animated TV show theme songs. Who made it to the top spot?

Jen Brown December 28, 2020 No Comments

The 10 Best ‘90s Commercial Jingles To Get Stuck In Your Head – Ranked

Singing slogans have been around for a long time, but the ’90s served up some of the most memorable commercial jingles that we had to rank the top 10!

Jen Brown May 12, 2021 No Comments

Music

Billboard Hot 100 Top #1 Singles of 1992 – RANKED

We will always love these singles from 1992 — check out our ranking of the top songs that made it to the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 list.

Bianca Paris April 1, 2021 No Comments

Billboard’s “The Hot 100” #1 Singles of 1986 – RANKED

Did you Walk Like an Egyptian in 1986? In today’s countdown, we’re ranking Billboard’s The Hot 100 #1 Singles from the year 1986.

Bianca Paris February 18, 2021 No Comments

Billboard Hot 100 Top #1 Singles of 1999 – RANKED

We believe that things were so smooth in 1999 unless you were a scrub — we’ve ranked Billboard’s Hot 100 singles of 1999!

Bianca Paris May 20, 2021 No Comments

Billboard Hot 100 Top #1 Singles of 1997 – RANKED

We wannabe back in in the ’90s having mo money and mo problems while we rank these Billboard hot 100 singles of 1997!

Bianca Paris May 6, 2021 No Comments

Technology

Barbie: Game Girl – A ’90s Attempt to Make a Game Boy Game for Girls

A look back at Barbie: Game Girl, a ’90s attempt to market a Game Boy game specifically to girls, since they made up 46% of Game Boy players.

Jen Brown January 13, 2021 No Comments

Laser Tag: The Best ‘80s and ‘90s Birthday Party Extravaganza

If you were a cool kid in the ’80s or ’90s, then you most definitely had a birthday party at a laser tag arena.

Jen Brown July 12, 2021 No Comments

The Zip Drive: Or, An Article to Read If You Want to Fill Your Head With Numbers

Do you want to know all about Zip drives and disks? Sure you do! It’s SUPER fascinating.

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The Everlasting Easy-Bake Oven

As a child wanting to bake up mini masterpieces of delicious delight, the Easy-Bake Oven was a stepping stone to the real thing. Let’s take a look at the history of this enduring toy oven.

Jen Brown January 29, 2021 No Comments

Food

’90s Lunchbox Staple: Gushers

Your lunchtime bartering power rose to the top when you had a packet of Gushers in your lunchbox. What made them so special?

Jen Brown December 29, 2020 No Comments

‘90s Lunchbox Staple: Clearly Canadian

If you wanted to be, like, ultra cool in the school cafeteria, there was nothing more impressive you could pull out of your lunchbox than the carbonated classic Clearly Canadian.

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’90s Lunchbox Staple: Capri-Sun

No packed lunch was complete without a drink to accompany your food, and no drink was more ubiquitous in the ’90s than the Capri-Sun.

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’90s Lunchbox Staple: Dunkaroos

It’s time to talk about one of the most coveted of school lunchbox snacks: Dunkaroos!

Jen Brown December 8, 2020 No Comments

Beauty / Fashion

15 Tubular ‘80s Fashion Trends

From mullets to music, the ’80s were iconic. But it wasn’t just the hair and the tunes — oh no — it was also the FASHION!

Jen Brown June 16, 2021 No Comments

15 Key ’90s Fashion Accessories in Every Girl’s Mini Backpack

To be in the cool girl crowd in the ’90s, you had to have a mini backpack — today we’re taking a look at 15 of the ’90s fashion accessories you carried in your coveted backpack.

Jen Brown January 8, 2021 No Comments