30 Very Random ‘80s Kids Things You'll Only Know If You're Either A Gen Xer Or An Old Millennial
1.Hands Across America — which every kid owned the T-shirt for whether or not they participated in it:
2.Mr. Owl from the Tootsie Pop commercial, who, let's be honest, was a pompous asshole:
3.The waxy packaging that Garbage Pail Kids cards came in:
4.The Clapper, which you wanted because of the catchy commercial they played all the time (also, it was truly the smart-house appliance of its time):
5.The McDonald's coffee spoons that were OH SO TINY and CUTE:
6.McDonald's McKids clothing line, which was sold at Sears:
7.The Tupperware pitchers that came with the button you need to press on top:
8.Small Wonder, which, even for the time, was a really budget show and also had you questioning how nobody realized that Vicki was a robot:
9.And Not Quite Human, the Disney TV movie where Alan Thicke played a man who created a robot son for himself (also, why was creating robot kids a thing in the '80s?!):
10.Max Headroom — that, honestly, was just a creepy as shit TV show:
11.Your parents telling you to NEVER put your mouth near the receiver when using a pay phone 'cause it was dirty and full of germs (and, like, they were right):
12.Smurfs glasses that every family seemed to own:
13.That weird Coleco Couch Potato novelty toy, which you always wondered who it was for:
14.Time for Timer PSA and the hankering for some cheese you got every time you saw a commercial featuring him:
15.The California Raisins, which you never fully realized were trying to actually sell you raisins:
16.The Twister box cover that came with that very '70s meets '80s pic:
17.The DIC logo...
DIC
18....and the Kid Stuff logo:
19.Cut and sew dolls that your mom or grandma would make you (that would get all flat after a month or two):
20.Corning Ware glass pots and pans that looked so futuristic:
21.Hostess Ding Dongs that came wrapped in foil:
22.Nestle Quik that came in metal tins:
23.Portable TVs that were grainy AF and had the tiniest screen ever, but still had you thinking it was the coolest thing ever:
24.Novelty telephones, which (like the portable TVs) you thought were the coolest thing ever, even though they were super impractical:
25.Dustbusters that looked like this:
26.The terrifying Mr. Munch, who was part of Chuck E. Cheese's band:
27.These rainbow flip-flops that every kid owned in the '80s:
28.Disney Channel's free "sneak peek" weekends — aka back when it was premium channel and if your parents didn't pay for it, this was the only time you really got to watch it:
29.Beverly Clearly books that came with these covers:
