1.How you can't think of My Buddy and Kid Sister without hearing the jingle for them in your head:
2.How every toy took like seven D batteries just to work:
3.How every family owned these Return of the Jedi glasses from Burger King:
4.How even though they were brother and sister, everyone assumed He-Man and She-Ra were together:
5.How every single cartoon had a PSA at the end of it:
6.How this Hands Across America T-shirt showed up in your dresser one day and you have no idea how:
7.How dressing up as a character for Halloween meant having to wear a plastic smock and a mask that you could barely see out of:
8.How the illustrations from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark were actually more frightening than the stories:
9.How you watched Gremlins thinking it was going to be a cute movie about a little teddy bear–type creature, but instead were terrified by all the gremlins terrorizing everyone:
10.How obsessed people were with wheat germ and putting it on breakfast foods:
11.And how General Foods International Coffee seemed like the fanciest coffee you could drink:
12.How you knew you were in for a treat whenever you saw this logo:
13.How you thought big-screen TVs were the coolest thing ever, even though they were blurry messes that were hard to watch:
14.How when you think about Pizza Hut, you still think of it as a sit-down restaurant with dark interiors...
15....and these cups (which you can feel by just looking at them):
16.How normal it was for kids to ride in the trunk of a station wagon without any seatbelts or seats:
17.How you had an at least 80% chance of getting burned whenever you slid down an aluminum slide...
18....or putting on your metal seat buckle on a hot day:
19.How McDonald's used to have that terrifying tree person inside of its restaurants or in its playgrounds...
20....and also their terrifying (in retrospect) commercials that featured come-to-life singing Chicken McNuggets:
21.How you only thought of Jane Fonda as the "workout lady":
22.How you thought you could beat Double Dare:
23.How the "Barth's Burgers" sketches from You Can't Do That on Television were almost nauseatingly gross:
24.How going to a birthday party meant there would be at least one Hawaiian pizza...
25....and at least one Ziggy card among the birthday cards:
26.How Time Life Books ran nonstop commercials for its creepy AF Mysteries of the Unknown series:
27.How every kid owned at least one Garfield book...
28....and the Snoopy Sno-Cones maker:
29.How you thought Madonna was the coolest person in the world, but your parents would only tell you she was a bad influence:
30.And lastly, how over 30 years later, you're still traumatized by that episode of Punky Brewster where Cherie almost died after being locked in the abandoned fridge: