Somebody at the time made the observation that while all the Spice Girls are attractive, they weren't impossibly attractive. They were the level of attractiveness that wouldn't be out of place in a popular middle-class club — the level of attractiveness where you could say "Wow, it's crowded tonight" and one of them…

I wish we could have gotten a picture of Transformers for the top image instead of, as is credited, the quickie knockoff Tansformers.

Per the Associated Press, 1996:

Heck, I still haven’t forgiven Matt Lauer for his wrong-century commentary during the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, when he said how exciting it must be for athletes from small countries to walk into that giant stadium and see all those flash cubes going off.

Or, if you want to bring back the 1990s:

And I read it yet ANOTHER way, which was "These channels would be a paid option that could be a part of the $40/month Fox-Disney live-streaming bundle, bringing that up to 15 or more high-definition channels."

Yeah, now that you mention it, Blackjack Snoopy, world-famous riverboat gambler, would be a Trump supporter, as would Joe Preppy and the world-famous big-rig operator (putting him at odds with the world-famous highway flagman, who doesn't like Clinton's social policies but appreciates her support of infrastructure).…

We can guess whom Snoopy would support by studying what he knows about the candidates:

"Data, listen to me. Just because you say you're a robit doesn't make you a robit. Look at me. I call myself a bartender, but that doesn't make me a bartender. These fancy hats do."

has an epiphany, looks up "instant shawarma," sees there's already a band with that name, smiles because the world is a wonderful place

The Gingrich sketch I always remembered is "Connie Chung Gets the Best of the Gingriches," which would have fit right in on Fox News' short-lived satire show: http://www.hulu.com/watch/8…

Bumper stickers and talk radio in the South remind us that if we limit the Second Amendment, then the First Amendment will be destroyed and we won't HAVE to repeal it. Apparently the Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible!

One of my favorite Al TV memories is actually of my mom in the 1980s:

Ah, yes, 1949’s Academy Award-winning For Scent-imental Reasons. It ends with the cat falling into a rain bucket and emerging matted-down, frazzled and sickly, while Pepe falls into a vat of blue paint that hides his stripe and accentuates his rippling back muscles. The cat then gives chase as Pepe urges her to…

In that Happy Days reunion special in 2005, Garry Marshall keeps teasing a discussion of "the scene that became an urban legend." Which…I mean, that's not even CLOSE to what "urban legend" means, but he's just so happy about it that it was adorable.

And this: Miss a target or objective, lose the ball, and Data's voice says, "Had you propelled the ball along the proper trajectory, you would have been rewarded." Which sets up my favorite Easter egg in all of pinballdom:

The humans had different names because (nerd alert) the characters in Filmation's Ghostbusters were the sons of the originals, so they went by their first names instead of their surnames: Eddie Spencer Jr. and Jake Kong Jr.

♫ He said, "Son, I've made a life, out of eatin' people's faces,
knowin' what their carbs were by the way I held their eyes…" ♫

It's exactly what you think. She was the first opponent of Young Justice, but it wasn't much of a fight; she collapsed under her own upper body weight shortly after gaining her powers, and she was taken into custody. Text balloons, mist and lights (her breasts are literally hypnotic) obscure the details.

Offscreen, a little girl sings, slowly:
What kind of Pokemon are you?
How do you do the things you do?
Share with me your secrets deep inside…