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'90s child stars that gave up acting

By Jesse Lennox | November 14, 2022

I will never forgive my parents for not forcing me into a child acting career. I mean, if they had, I wouldn’t just be a depressed manchild with childhood trauma and no sense of responsibility — I’d be all those things and rich. Which, you know, kind of justifies the lifestyle. Some child actors get out of the game early for one reason or another, usually bad ones, but some because — get this — they want to be normal. These are 10 child actors from the 1990s that quit acting and their reasons

The best Halloween TV specials from the '90s

By Jesse Lennox | October 10, 2022

Halloween is the best holiday and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Halloween specials were some of the most exciting events as a kid leading into the spooky season. These specials were a chance for a show to really go off the rails and get nuts with concepts and stories. Sure, most of the time they either weren’t “canon” or ended up being just a wacky series of normal events, but that didn’t make them any less fun. Somewhere along the way, TV shows decided holiday specials were lame or di

The most valuable NES cartridges of all time

By Jesse Lennox | September 30, 2022

If Biff were actually smart, he wouldn’t have brought back a sports almanac from the future but just mugged his younger self of all his NES games before he had the chance to trade them in for 25 cents a pop. We’ve all been there — broke kids whose parents won’t buy us a brand new game outside of our birthdays or Christmas, forcing us to make the tough choices: to trade in our collection for one brand new cartridge, or suffer through another six months of nothing but Mario is Missing and The Un

The craziest TV fan theories from the 90s that could actually be true

By Jesse Lennox | August 29, 2022

Fan theories have been around forever, but once the internet let people actually spread their insane babble across the web instead of as mad crayon scribblings on their bedroom walls, they really took off. I’ve spent many an afternoon (OK, many a 3 a.m.) pouring through these theories just to see what madness people can string together from offhand comments and gags. In the end, while these are all still certifiable nonsense, I have to admit that they are actually super fun to think about. Not

The worst gaming mascots of the '90s

By Jesse Lennox | July 24, 2022

As soon as Mario jumped on his first Goomba, other companies began falling over themselves to create a mascot that could rival the ethnically-ambiguous plumber. It made sense — all the biggest companies in the ‘90s had a recognizable mascot they could weaponize to trick consumers into thinking they actually had a personality and didn’t just want to suck all our wallets dry. Animal mascots were a dime a dozen for gaming mascots in the 1990s, with Sonic leading the charge. While we all still rem

The 10 best cereals that only existed in the 90s

By Jesse Lennox | June 26, 2022

Let’s be real for a second: the ‘90s were peak-cereal era. No decade prior or since has even come close to the level of pure madness going on in that industry. Companies were basically throwing as many insane ideas at the wall as they could to see what stuck. Sure, most didn’t, but there were also plenty that should have. While they might be considered bowls of child abuse by today’s standards of what qualifies as food, it doesn’t change the fact that these 10 cereals that never made it ou

Ten '90s cartoon episodes that were way too dark for children

By Jesse Lennox | May 25, 2022

It’s easy to forget, but cartoons were originally targeting adult audiences. Even Bugs Bunny was originally aimed at adults, but soon began to appeal to youngsters on Saturday mornings. This eventually paved the way for the rise of iconic channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network producing cartoons specifically for this young crowd. It felt like the Wild West of cartoons then, with more than a handful of shows blatantly making episodes that, to this day, make me wonder who would allow them

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