1. The delightful lady from the Honey Bunches of Oats commercials:
2. The creepy Chips Ahoy! commercial where the singing chocolate chip cookies got eaten one by one:
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3. The comfy — super well-worn — chairs that Barnes & Nobles used to have:
4. The three- or five-disc DVD changer that was the ultimate luxe — being able to put several of your favorite movies in at once truly felt like the peak of technology:
5. DVDs that were basically screensavers and played several hours of a reef or aquarium scene:
7. The whole Tickle Me Elmo mania:
8. The 1-800-COLLECT commercials that were part of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer contest:
9. The Jerry Springer Too Hot for TV! VHS tape that they would show commercials for late at night:
10. Old-school arcade change machines that had the giant metal fronts and the big red button:
11. The Old Navy commercials that starred Tia and Tamera Mowry:
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12. Emeril Live and his "bam!" catchphrase:
13. And the original Japanese Iron Chef series, which was the most dramatic cooking show ever:
14. The Michael Graves section at Target, which was full of home accessories that were just so chic:
15. And the clothing sections of Target having red carpet:
16. Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" single, which everyone owned a copy of:
17. TLC's Clean Sweep (which was like a hoarders version of Trading Spaces)...
18. ...and Discovery Channel's The Christopher Lowell Show, which were daytime TV shows you'd always watch reruns of if you stayed home sick:
21. VH1's Divas Live, which was truly an EVENT and MOMENT:
23. The old Comedy Central logo:
24. MTV's 10 Spot programming block:
25. Fox's criminally underrated stop-motion TV series, The PJs, which starred Eddie Murphy:
26. Walmart's catchy rollback cowboy-themed commercial:
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27. The old logo for Boomerang — and also all the old pre-1990 cartoons that they used to show:
28. The giant and heavy TVs they would put on display endcaps inside stores:
29. The yellow video game tickets you'd give the cashier at Toys "R" Us in order to buy an item:
30. Restoration Hardware stores that were light and bright (painted with mint green walls) and sold kitschy throwback stuff:
31. TBS's delightful Dinner & A Movie:
Remember when TBS did Dinner & A Movie where the hosts would cook & chat during airings of romcoms? Someone hire me to reboot it.
32. Brandy's CoverGirl commercials:
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34. Rebecca Romijn as the host of MTV's House of Style:
35. Dolly the sheep (the world's first cloned mammal):
36. Those :08 Min. workout videos:
37. The Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, which were a legit awards show:
38. Real California Cheese commercials (that featured this logo):
39. The games Rosie O'Donnell would play with the audience on The Rosie O'Donnell Show:
40. Rosie's house band, John McD and the McDLT's:
41. When record stores would arrange their singles and albums based on chart placement:
42. Sam Goody with its so-late-'80s store designs:
43. Chuck E. Cheese's late '90s/early '00s makeover (where he was supposed to be some sort of skater):
44. The green carpet inside Chuck E. Cheese that you would crawl all over and was definitely much grosser than you realized:
45. And lastly, the Kidz Bop 2 commercial that played nonstop and ruined some of your favorite songs:
