Popular Nostalgia

Popular Nostalgia from the 1990s. Memories of events and items from popular culture recorded in words and pictures on the internet. Share, remember and get wonderfully sentimental…

Count Duckula was another cartoon that I grew up watching in the late 1980s and early 1990s – enjoy the episode above – I hadn’t remembered the intro was quite so long! This was one of my favourites, probably because it was pretty dark and macabre. Count Duckula was made for four series and there […]

The Muppets were the biggest sewn people for a decade or so in the 1980s and early 90s – and there isn’t a much more nostalgic show than “A Christmas Carol” when it comes to feeling christmassy, so it isn’t really that amazing that the “Muppet Christmas Carol” evokes in me all kinds of twinkly, […]

This track, Coco Jamboo, came out in 1996 courtesy of the German reggae style outfit known as “Mr President” – this was an instant summer classic which spun us round and round the waltzers in the summer of ’96. Another treasured memory.

Saturday (or was it Sunday??) mornings never were the same once we lost the Orange Organics front-man Pugwall (Peter Unwin George Wall) and his epic series of the same name. In the UK, we used to watch these glorious moments of Aussie stardom on Channel 4. Pugwall was played by a chap called Jason Torrens. […]

This song will probably place you in a certain period of your life, at the dawn of a new Millennium, when things like the “Bomfunk MCs” were just a new group of people who you hadn’t really heard of. The latter part is still true, but this track, “Freestyler” is one of those pieces of […]

Hands up who remembers the Really Wild show that used to be on BBC TV during (I think) the early 90s and possibly the late 80s too. This show features Michaela Strachan, who was the first woman most young boys fancied, and Terry Nutkins, who certainly was  not her male counterpart in the fanciability respect, […]

Look at these old fashioned sweets online. Nipits were around after the war. Now their is an old classic. The choice of sweets is great and some great memories to be had. From kola cubes to buttered brazils. This post was submitted by Glen Neilson.

Reboot was a Saturday morning cartoon in the mid-nineties, when the internet was still very new. It was based on internet features and was drawn in futuristic block-style 3D. The series used loads of words from computing to name the characters. The humanoid characters were “sprites” living in “Mainframe”. They faced a threat from the […]

Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? was a Saturday morning cartoon series that was shown in the early nineties. It featured the adventures of Zack and Ivy, two teenage siblings who worked as ACME agents and, aided by the Chief, had to stop Carmen and her gang from stealing artifacts. Most children of the nineties […]

The 90′s cartoon series was shown on Saturday morning TV and was very similar to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. It included lots of movie in-jokes and B-movie skits. The evil Dr Putrid T. Gangreen has created an army of mutant killer tomatoes to help him take over the world. During the mutation process he throws […]

A group of adventurers go on a quest to collect the Thirteen Treasures of Rule, which possess the power to stop  “Dark Water” from consuming the alien world of Mer. The Darkwater is like a sticky oil with a mind of its own – attacking good things and choking them. Because of problems in production, […]

The Yogi Bear cartoons were on in the early 90′s and whilst I remember them, I don’t remember much. Yogi, and his best friend Boo Boo, lived in Jellystone National Park stealing “pic-a-nic baskets” off holiday makers. The original cartoons were around in the 1950′s and every decade thereafter. Park Ranger Smith would occassionally arrive […]

Ricki Lake was a hugely popular talk show in the nineties. The titles were by far the funniest part. Contentious from the off, guests were never given much chance to be reasonable. The Ricki Lake show gave British viewers an insight into American attitudes different from their own. Things such as “I’m proud to be […]

Cheese.com. This film is full of those moments that make you proud to be American. Even if you’re from Bradford. Or France. You wonder whether the writers had to keep a pen in one hand and a bucket in the other for some of these lines: Colonel William Sharp: Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United […]

The Peace Sign was really popular in the 90′s in fashion, art and politics. Swampy was cool for stopping roadworks and he had dreadlocks and lived in a tree. Tie-dyed clothing was also cool. Waistcoats and Take That went hand in hand with having a peace sign on your T-shirt, around your neck or on […]