What are the Top 3 TV Shows that define your (personal) youth?
What are the Top 3 TV Shows that define your (personal) youth?
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
Animaniacs
Gargoyles
Doctor Who (Classic)
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
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.
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.
- 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).
Batman the animated series
Captain Future
Home Improvement
Three's Company
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Beavis and Butt-head
- X-Men
- Alf
- the Simpsons
- Monty Python
- Doctor Who (reboot)
- Firefly
Buffy
Stargate SG1
Rugrats
Looks like the montages creator here is an early millennial.
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
Ed, Edd, n' Eddy
Spongebob
Power Rangers
- Dragonball Z
- Mythbusters
- The Simpsons
Man. Daria was so good! I still watch it occasionally.
star trek TOS. original twilight zone. doctor who.
- The Fresh Prince
- Saved by the Bell
- Dragon Ball
Hey Arnold
My So-Called Life
Captain Planet
Battlestar Galactica (original) Buck Rogers Dukes of Hazard
Honorable mentions McGuyver A-team
- Out of this world
- Gargoyles
- The Simpsons
Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, the Lone Ranger.
I'm not THAT old, but New Zealand didn't have television until late in the day, so we got cheap, years-old US kids' shows. I was ten before our region got TV and it was a few years after that when we got our own set. The first TV I ever watched was coverage of what must have been one of the early Saturn rocket launches. We went to my older sister's boyfriend's house to watch it. Very exciting!
I liked Lone Ranger best. "Hi ho Silver, and awaaaay!"
- Daria
- TNG
- South Park
Beverly Hillbillies, I Dream of Jeannie, Mission Impossible
The first three that come to mind are:
- Daria
- Hey Arnold
- Round the Twist (Australian kids show)
- Simpsons
- Pokémon
- Power Rangers
Beverly hills, X-Files, Friends
- Star Trek The Next Generation
- The Simpsons
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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How It's Made (with the witty British voice over)
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Myth Busters
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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!
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Thomas and Friends Spongebob Ed Edd n' Eddy
Batman: TAS
X-Men
WWF Monday Night Raw
Shows from my youth I’ve watched with my kid: The Muppets Full House Animaniacs
Dr. Who
HR Puffenstuff when I was tiny, I remember it freaking me out
Star Trek the Next Generation
Spongebob
DragonBall Z
Ed, Edd, n Eddy
Sailor Moon, Pokémon, Spongebob Squarepants.
Dragon ball z Ren n stimpy Beavis and butthead
The Simpsons Courage the Cowardly Dog What's with Andy
The Simpsons
Power Rangers
Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
These are from young child up to late teens/20s
Transformers
MacGyver
Star Trek TNG
SpongeBob, obviously
Star Trek
The A-Team
MacGyver
From the picture: only Ducktales and Scooby Doo
Overall: probably Scooby, Cosby Show, and Dukes of Hazzard
Star Trek: TNG
Batman: The Animated Series
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
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.)
The Simpsons
The Magic School Bus
Friends
Honorable mention to Sailor Moon
The Simpsons.
Stargate SG-1.
Star Trek Deep Space 9.
The Ren & Stimpy Show
Saved by the Bell
You Can't Do That on Television
(But really, so many more.)
Cyberchase
ZOOM!
ZoboomafooMacGyver
The Secret City
Mr. WizardGreat question. I could list dozens of shows that were favorites, or have special meaning to me, or that I watched the most, or ones that had a more longterm impact on who I am. But, specifically about impacting my world as a young person, I'll say these three.
Honorable mentions: Looney Tunes, Cheers, MASH, Family Ties, The Young Ones, Doctor Who, You Can't Do That on Television, Ren and Stimpy.
- Knightmare
- Bad Influence
- The Crystal Maze
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.
Avatar the last Airbender
Star Trek TNG
Lizzie McGuire Show
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Animaniacs Rugrats
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Spider-man: The Animated Series
Tom and Jerry, BAMZOOKi, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
Friends, Beverly Hills 90210, Seinfeld (and Big Bang Theory as young adult)
Buffy the vampire slayer
Friends
And Dinosaurs
Darkening Duck Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers And another one for Samurai Pizza Cats
Danger Mouse (Repeats of the Original)
Doctor Who (Pertwee and Baker)
Black Adder (all of it, remember being about 12 and my parents telling me to come and watch it with them)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Deep Space Nine
Nova
Club Dorothée Passe-Partout Les chevaliers du Zodiac
Pokemon Scooby-Doo Demon king daimao
While the first two are probably fairly generic choices. The last one is the first anime i watched ( i dont count pokemon as anime ) when i was a teeneager ( naturaly it is a crazy schol fantasy harem anime , they were kinda trending at that time and they mostly sucked , similar to iseaki today . This one is probably no exception but i kinda look at it with rose tinted glasses and i havent watched it for a long time . ). Mostly because crunchyroll was an app on ps4 and i installed it and at that time everything was for free after a week. And boy o boy that was a start of journey through a very very deep black hole that im still very deep in.
Transformers, GIJoe, He-Man
In order, Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Pokemon, Digimon
Marsupilami
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
Beakman's WorldSaved by the Bell, You Can't Do That on Television, and Nick Arcade. Honorable mention to SK8-TV.
Good Luck Charlie, Lab Rats, My Little Pony.
*somebody mentioned Duck Tales (80s version)... gah now I can't choose what to replace.
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.
Saved by The Bell, Friends, Naruto
- The Simpsons
- Seinfeld
- Friends
- South Park (honorary mention)
The Simpsons was sacred in my house, we watched every new episode as a family, and taped them all on VHS to re-watch. I can quote from the first 12 seasons endlessly.
Seinfeld was my introduction to stand-up comedy, which has become a life-long passion and a personally fulfilling hobby. I liked the show, but I loved watching his stand-up bits.
Friends was a show I would watch with my mom whenever I helped her in the kitchen. I was always hanging out in the kitchen, and Friends was a staple on TV at the time. I connected very much with Chandler.
South Park was the show my older brother watched, and I only ever got to catch once in a while, but the show was groundbreaking in its concept and execution. While being vulgar, it also succinctly expressed complicated ideas that resonate with me still to this day (When Randy talks to Stan about marijuana is one of them).