Why are we all so Nostalgic?

Cause these shows were amazing and accompany the best times of my life.

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In the 90's, there was better writing, more creativity, more originality...it was just a better time for creativity. Every show on Nick was DIFFERENT. Like the writers all did their own thing, and didn't conform just to have a hit show.

I look at kids shows now and they are completely different. In the 90's (I am a 90's kid), the writing came first and everything else came after. Now days, it seems the writing comes last. They're more concerned with hiring ridiculously attractive kids who can be perfect robots.....and they're also seemingly concerned with the sets since they send so much effing money on every kids show, making bright colorful flashy sets. It screams "look at the attractive kids, look at this flashy set and their flashy clothes...don't pay attention to the cheesy jokes and bad writing!"

Shows like Pete And Pete had a weird, warped sense of humor to it that no kid show has today. Salute Your Shorts is also a show that was great, because they hired REAL KIDS, who looked like normal kids, and focused more on the show than having the girls looking like Victoria Justice and the guys look like Drake Bell.

Bottom line, technology got more advanced, fried everyones brain and now it takes far less effort and stimulation to satisfy kids today.

Well it is true that nostalgia is a big factor in our (kids born in the 80s, watching Nickeldeon in the nineties) glowing memories of these shows, with the usual trying to go back to the positive moments of our childhood. And we always think shows from our generation is better than today's offerings, just like someone who grew up before the 80s who always say, with condescion and dissapointment, that they just don't make the movies (or music, tv, whatever) "like they used to". However, I do think the biggest difference between the suppossed Nickeldeon "Golden Age" of the early 90s and the shows on Nick and Disney today is that many of the current programs just seem to be trying way too hard to be the quirkiest, flashiest, funniest show on the air, perhaps due to increased competetion from other mediums (namely, the internet, higher budgets and just way too many pop-culture targets that make for easy jokes and quibs, making the shows strive too hard for hipness instead of substance. Again, that doesn't apply for all today's shows, but then again I don't watch many of these shows so perhaps someone from the next generation will come up with a good counter-argument. But "Salute Your Shorts", "Doug" and "Pete n Pete" we're 'effin brilliant no matter what generation you came from, and seriously what producer in today's buisness-first TV climate would have the guts to greenlight "Ren and Stimpy"?



You got ten seconds to go or Daddy's gonna nail it to the chair- The Loved Ones

I think because firstly, this WAS Nick in its glorious prime. there we SO many fun, funny, silly , crazy cool shows on with a lot of kids that were fun to watch, they didn't take themselves very seriously, it was ok to be alittle cheesy and they had an innocence to them that todays kid shows REALLY lack, and it was not super big budget stuff but fun small shows that were just done well. it puts "todays" nick of the last 10 years to shame. they jus don't make shows like this anymore. everything is so weird today, the kids are all so sarcastic and mean, and not in the funny budnick kinda way. disturbing and cold soulless CGI taking over everything. just not a good time for kids TV. when we have kids over I get out the DVDs or tapes of my favorite shows and we all just watch'em, and the kids love it! cant beat classic nick.


i do also have to agree that things have changed and personally, not for the better. kids today have cell phones, the internet, and so on and you couldn't have a show like slute your shorts cuz all the kids would ever do is be on there cell phones texting the entire show! who wants to watch that? but that's what kids today are like. its just sad. I do use the internet.....at home. i do NOT carry my laptop everhwhere I go. i think people that do are as obnoxious as the people who text all day. i also dodnt have a cell phone that has texting, I rarely use mine and ONLY as an emegergeny "car phone". I am totally anti-21st century. Ill just pretend I live in the 90's still lol. one good thing about the internet though is that I can see other people who feel the same way I do, like this thread. I am pretty nostalgic, I will say that. I see the garbage TV today and just makes me yearn for the simpler days of TV, when kids AND adults weren't that hard to please. you can even look at movies in the same way. in the 90's, the Batman movies, for example, were fun, a bit over the top, colorful, visually exciting, plenty of humour and just plain joy to watch. the batmans of today....are self important, extremely serious, tedious, boring and lack any visual or creative license that made the other ones so much fun. everything today is serious, and it HAS to be, or else its looked at as "silly" or "stupid". and the internet, so full of idiotic opinions, always have something to say and ruins a lot for the rest of us who are looking for something fun and just enjoyable.

Realism, Remakes and Unnecessary Sequels are ruining movies!

I think all generations are nostalgic to some extent. How old is that song "Today's music ain't got the same soul, as that old time Rock 'n Roll"? People were nostalgic then, too. I think the difference is we have a forum via the internet to revisit the things we remember from growing up. And they market nostalgia to us, too. For example, if you play video games, today's basketball games feature players that I grew up watching like Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. So every generation is nostalgic, but for us, it's a little more encouraged.