NYC. They played pop. You know-- McAurther’s Park, Total Eclipse of the Heart----- baaaaaad pop. And I loved it!
Ahhh. The one in ATL plays grunge and alternative.
I recently re-read Heinlein’s “A Tunnel In The Sky.” It was the very first full-length book I read (I was in the 3rd grade) that I bought with my own money. I loved it. I do not now.
Ugh. shudder
I’d have to say Monty Python’s “Holy Grail.” It just lost something for me after seeing it ssssooooooooomanytimes. I’ll still quote it though when the proper occasion arises.
-Tcat
The Banana Splits. I saw this recently on one of the extra cartoon networks I get on my dish (maybe Noggin? or Boomerang?) as they were doing a Sid & Marty Croft evening. Man, I loved this show back when … but its so horrid! Its not even so bad its funny, its just bad.
I also used to love Piers Anthony, and have since found I can’t stand reading stuff like that. Then again, I didn’t like Prachett’s Discworld series either, so yeah, I know I’m a heretic.
Also, Twinkies. I have a friend who is from Russia and when we found out she had never had a Twinkie we ran out and got a box of them so she could experience what we all so fondly remember. She took one bite and put it down saying “that does not in any way resemble real food”. I tried one too as I hadn’t had one in years… yuck. She’s right, totally disgusting.
Some things I still love - Oreos, Lord of the Rings (first read it when I was about 9 or 10) and most of the classic rock bands I listened to because my older brother made me listen to that station instead of disco music (Styx, Journey, Rush, etc.).
Three’s Company.
Speed Racer.
And though it pains me to say it…David Eddings.
I was excited to get a Battle of the Planets DVD (AKA G-Force, AKA Gatchaman) for Christmas. I hadn’t seen that cartoon in over twenty years! And then I sat down to watch it . . .
“Total Eclipse of the Heart,” by Bonnie Tyler
The Smurfs
Poison (the band)
Many of my short stories
The Boxcar Children stories
Leonard Nimoy
The Herculoids.
I thought this cartoon was absolutely the bee’s testicles when I was about five. I thought it was great. I thought it was the absolute pinnacle of Western art and civilization, the epitome of what all television should strive to become.
As an adult, I found a videotape containing four episodes in a dump box for two bucks at a video store. Naturally, I bought it, and rushed home, fixing some chocolate milk so as to relive those impressionable days of my youth.
Y’know what? The Herculoids was one of the lamest, most formulaic cartoons ever to come down the pike… more so than anything Scooby Doo ever did, with or without Scrappy.
Every single episode was essentially identical.
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Zandor and his family are living in their treehouse on their weird planet with their weird pets.
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(optional) Zandor’s wife and/or kid are kidnapped by some alien conqueror.
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The alien conqueror’s horde attacks.
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Zandor does the bouncy-around thing with the vines, in order to reuse footage from previous episodes and save money while still looking cool.
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Zandor barks orders at the Herculoids.
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The Herculoids proceed to mop the landscape with the alien invaders. Robots are particularly popular here, as they can be blown up, smashed to hell, and otherwise gruesomely destroyed without offending anyone.
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The alien conqueror of the week and his hordes run like hell.
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Zandor and family are reunited, if anyone was kidnapped. Zandor makes some Peter Graveslike moral comment. Roll end credits.
Dialogue must have been incredibly easy to write. Easily half the dialogue of any given episode consists of dragon screams, rock ape grunts, weird triceratops noises, and whatever the hell noise it was that Gloop and Gleep made. In short, MOST of the dialogue of the show consisted of monsters howling at each other!
Admittedly, this sort of thing is utterly enchanting to a five-year-old.
…but the fully growed adult sitting there in shock with the empty glass of chocolate milk was kinda glad he only paid two bucks…
The Thundercats. I LOVED this cartoon as a kid.
I caught it last year on Cartoon Network…AWFUL!! 
<b>Welcome Back, Kotter</b>.
Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo, and the like.
Movies made from S.E. Hinton books.
Any breakfast cereal with rock hard “marshmellows.”
*One banana, two banana
Three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch
And so do many more…
Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la
Tra-la-la, la-la-la-la…*
Sigh. 
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think that sometimes it’s not too good to re-visit childhood favourites. There are many TV shows that I remember fondly, and several of these seen many years later failed to stand up to my memories as filtered through the years, nostalgia and the eyes of childhood.
(Blake’s 7 is coming out on DVD and I’m a bit scared to get it for this reason).
Yes - I loved my ex-husband but he really sucked! Literally - he was gay and didn’t tell me!
So sad!
Yeah, that and This is Spinal Tap don’t really hold up well. I remember watching that and screaming with laughter. Now if I’m flipping around and see some of it on TV I can’t believe how cheezy it is.
I will see you the “Bananna Splits” and raise you “New Zoo Revue”. Oh mercy! I caught this in the wee hours one night and was estatic because I loved it so much as a child…I could barely watch it it was so lousy. That Henrietta Hippo was just offensive on so many levels: To women, to southerners, to overweight people, etc.
Some old TV shows. I can’t remember which ones.
It’s been really a revalation to see my mom go through this. She’s getting up in years, and can recall seeing movies from the 50s and so on. She was quite the movie buff when she was young. There were a few movies that she raved about for ages (I remember her going on about them when I was a kid). These particular movies grew to almost legend status in her mind. Finally, thanks to Amazon.com and other outlets, we were able to find tapes of some of these “legendary” movies. And she was so disappointed. Nothing special about some of them, nothing special at all.
And to think—waiting 50 years only to find that some of your “favorite” movies sucked after all.
Eddie and the Cruisers. I still appreciate the movie, but I think now it’s mostly for the music. The acting is awful really, but I didn’t notice that as a child. And the story seems to have big holes in it.
Cold hot dogs, bologna, olive loaf, and McDonald’s food. Also, Sonic brought back their pickle-O’s for the month and I was thrilled. I loved these things as a child. My tastes must’ve changed, because they’re nowhere near as good as I remember them.
Gilligan’s Island, The Dukes of Hazard, Dif’rent Strokes, My Two Dads, and Who’s The Boss
Found out Jason Lee is a scientologist :(.
When I was very young, one of my favourite albums was Rumours by Fleetwood Mac.
As I got older, I started listening to pre-Nicks/Buckingham Fleetwood Mac, which clearly illustrated to me what a load of overproduced, insubstantial tripe Rumours was. I came to regard that pair with the sort of unreasoning hatred that some Beatles fans reserve for Yoko Ono.
Not to say that that those tunes don’t get stuck in my head for days at a time all these years later. They have a ‘hook’ that would give William Wallace pause.
When I was a kid I loved the Last Unicorn, cause I was really into fantasy and mythology and stuff. I caught it on TV a couple months ago and was amazed at how bad it was. Although their were a lot of famous voices, the dialogue was painful and pointless and the story made no senseand jumped all over the place with no cohesiveness.
Okay, I just looked at IMDB and it has a 6.7 rating. How the hell could that be. I also found out that it was based on a book, so maybe the book was good and people are projecting that onto the movie. Besides knowing it was based based on a book destroys my original theory after I watched it a couple months ago. I was guessing that it was a Japanese movie that they had decided to translate into English without having a translation of the original script. I was guessing they were improvising dialogue based on the animation cause it was just so stupid.
Loverboy and Rick Springfield…I think I may be turning gay.
I even dragged my wife to see ‘EFX’ at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas because Rick Springfield was the star, and I felt like I had to hide my face walking into the show trying to pretend it was REALLY my wife who thought he was cool