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I used to mix Diet Crystal Pepsi with vodka. Along with the kids who did cough syrup, we were the druggie gang at our school. (It was a very conservative, middle-of-nowhere school. And to be fair, this was before meth.)

Who remembers OK Soda? Just me? All right then.

Holy shit, they predicted PayPal!

You want a Pepsi, you gotta pay for it, pal.

I just couldn't believe the freaky shit that was marketed to preteen/teen girls. I remember finally finishing the Flowers in the Attic series as an adult, and I was like "…damn, that's dark."

In no order:

I'm so thankful for this thread for bringing up episodes that I'd almost forgotten about. Last night we watched The Screaming Skull, and it was even better than I remembered. Little skull legs…

Roddy McDowall is the DM for a LARP. The jokes write themselves.

What are you looking at? Eat your ice cream!

He looks like a happy pig!

I am soooooo heterosexual!

You're a lousy butler!

Want to go to the Dells? We can ride the ducks.

My husband keeps threatening to get an evil cymbal monkey. If he does, he's getting thrown out of the house.

I guess it depends on what you like. As you maybe can tell, I lean toward the 1950s-60s teen crime stories, so I remember those fondly. The ones that I specifically remember having at least one laugh-out-loud-please-god-don't-let-me-piss-myself moments are:

One of my friends was a set dresser for Shakma, which needs to be a Rifftrax like last week. It's a movie about a killer monkey science experiment starring Roddy McDowall, Amanda Wyss from Better off Dead, Christopher Atkins from Blue Lagoon, and Ari Meyers from Kate and Allie. It was filmed in Orlando, and the creepy

I went to the 1996 con, when they'd just been picked up by SciFi. I have two vivid memories of that con:

Ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

I was really disappointed in the reunion panel, where Bridget said "I put on plays to teach kids about Jesus!" Perfectly sincerely. Nuveena, where have you gone?

WHO IS JULIA SAWALHA?