1. Garfield pencil huggers that were actually really impractical:
2. Shiny Sandylion stickers:
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3. And Mrs. Grossman's stickers, which always had a cute minimal design:
4. This Hanna-Barbera logo:
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5. Serendipity books, which had oh-so-'70s-looking covers:
6. Bruce Coville books with their very late-'80s-looking covers:
7. Garbage Pail Kids cards, which came wrapped in waxy packaging:
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8. Puffy fabric paints that you would use to decorate T-shirts:
9. Play tents that would easily fall apart if you moved wrong:
10. This exact casserole dish that every '80s mom owned:
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11. The F.H.E. logo that appeared before a whole bunch of your favorite VHS tapes:
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12. Wildlife Treasury and the box that you always pinched your fingers on:
13. The ALF puppets you could get at Burger King:
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14. Nerds cereal that tasted like pure sugar:
15. The "Right to Say No!" commercial that played all the time during cartoons:
16. Trace and color coloring books (which were kinda lame):
17. Chef Boyardee Tic Tac Toe's pasta:
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18. Tupperware sippy cups that gave a little bit of a plastic flavor to anything you drank out of them:
19. The Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog:
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20. Bracelet pens, which dried out super quickly:
21. These change purses that fell apart super quickly:
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22. Animalia, which featured some AMAZING illustrations:
23. These McDonald's glasses that randomly appeared in your family's kitchen and were faded as heck:
24. And McDonald's disposable cups that looked like this:
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25. The Fraggle Rock Happy Meal toys that were all sorts of amazing:
26. Pictionary Junior, which you really never ended up playing right:
27. The oh-so-cool Fisher-Price Little People Zoo play set:
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28. Nickelodeon's Noozles cartoon series (which was an afternoon staple):
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29. Wacky Winders kite spool that tried to make kite spools cool:
30. Jerry O'Connell as a kid with superpowers on My Secret Identity:
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31. The Munsters Today, which was a very random reboot of the original The Munsters TV series from the '60s:
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32. The bitchy Tootsie Roll Pop owl:
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33. The bendable hand keychain that would start falling apart within a month:
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34. These weird flashes that you would need to put on the camera:
35. And real cameras that were made just for kids:
36. Halogen pendant lights that looked so chic but got so hot that you could cook a pizza under them:
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37. Kitchen glassware...
38. ...and ceramic containers that came in that country (?) goose design:
39. Chuck E. Cheese, when he looked like this:
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40. General Foods International Coffee, which you thought was the fanciest coffee ever:
41. Novelty telephones in the shape of high-heeled pumps, which you also thought were fancy:
42. The utterly delightful Ralph S. Mouse adaptations that aired on ABC Weekend Specials:
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43. The Muzzy commercial that ran all the time:
45. Pencil grips that supposedly made it easier to write:
46. Giggles cookies, which had faces that creeped you out a little:
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47. Pencil sharpeners that looked like this:
48. Spirograph sets that came in this packaging:
49. Morris the Cat from the 9Lives cat food commercials:
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50. The Ewoks cartoon series:
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51. Cassette tape storage drawers, which were so much fun to organize:
52. Metal lunch boxes that would also start rusting kinda quick:
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53. Triangle highlighters that looked so futuristic:
55. The pop artsy and catchy Whatchamacallit commercial:
56. Sports bloopers VHS tapes that — for some reason — every family owned:
57. The Nerf Air Hockey table set, which was never like a real air hockey table:
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58. Puffy stickers that never stuck right to ANYTHING:
59. Herself the Elf books and toys:
60. Giant Swatch Watches wall clocks, which were design goals:
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61. Toothpaste toppers:
62. Metal 3D pin art toys, which always smelled like a bag of nickels:
63. Ice Capades that featured your favorite cartoon characters:
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