1. This Candies ad featuring Jenny McCarthy sitting on a toilet:
2. The not-so-great Saved by the Bell: The College Years:
3. The Simpsons' official magazine, Simpsons Illustrated:
4. And the Simpsons debut album, The Simpsons Sing the Blues:
5. Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson's sex tape — which was the first mega-big celeb sex tape:
6. RuPaul's talk show on VH1:
7. The urban legend that Tori Spelling and Janet Jackson had two of their ribs removed to make their waists smaller:
8. The weird urban legend that Entertainment Tonight host John Tesh was an alien:
9. The very creepy Calvin Klein Jeans ad campaign that looked like it was shot in a basement:
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10. Wendy the Snapple Lady and her "Hello, from Snapple" greeting:
11. Blockbuster Music stores:
12. The Bridges of Madison County, which every mom read in the '90s:
13. And Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, which was another book everybody's mom read in the '90s:
14. Bootleg Bart Simpson T-shirts:
15. Hip-hop Looney Tunes T-shirts (which were very regrettable in retrospect):
16. Lay's WOW chips that were made with Olestra and gave people diarrhea:
17. Structure clothing stores — which had faux Ionic columns façade in the front of its stores and chic Barcelona chairs inside:
18. SilverTab, which was Levi's upscale jeans brand:
19. Clueless the TV show (which lets be honest, was a totally full-on Monet version of the movie):
20. Hush Puppies shoes, which had a huge comeback in the '90s:
21. MTV's Pager Network (which I don't think anybody even knew what the hell it was):
22. Demi Moore's ~controversial~ Vanity Fair covers:
23. MTV's Rock 'n Jock specials:
24. The birthday party staple that was Pizza Hut's Bigfoot Pizza:
25. Life Savers Holes that were essentially candy Tic Tacs:
26. Susan Powter's "Stop the Insanity" informercials which played non-stop on the weekends:
27. Hot Topic stores that had a neon green sign outside and were bright inside (before they became dark dungeons):
28. Celestial patterns, which adorned many bathrooms and bedrooms:
29. Goose decorations, which moms loved to have all over their kitchen stuff:
30. Ordering VHS tapes through Columbia House:
31. Snaps books:
32. These sketch pads that anyone who had an art class had to have:
33. The Herbal Essences commercials that featured women having orgasms while shampooing their hair:
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34. McDonald's food that came in this packaging:
35. McDonald's Orange Drink (served at school functions) that used to come in this beverage cooler:
36. Magic the Old Navy dog and Carrie Donovan:
37. AA Duracell batteries that you would (painfully) squeeze to see how much life was still in them:
38. Mentadent, which, at the time, was America's bougiest toothpaste:
39. This Nissan commercial featuring toys that seemed to play non-stop for like three years straight:
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40. Watching a movie on a flight like this or watching it on small TV placed on the ceiling of the aisle:
41. Apple's "Think Different" ad campaign:
42. Candice Bergen as the spokesperson for Sprint's long distance ads:
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43. Cinn-A-Burst cinnamon gum — and how, for some reason, everyone thought that the wrapping for it was edible too:
44. Win Ben Stein's Money, which featured Jimmy Kimmel as host:
45. CDs that came in packaged in large cardboard boxes:
46. Jewel's poetry book:
47. Craig Kilborn as host of The Daily Show:
48. Cherry Coke that came in these cans:
49. The Encyclopedia Britannica Kid:
50. And finally, Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" ad campaign, whose jingle you can probably hear in your head right now:
