Please try your best to narrow it down to THREE! Can you recall which shows on TV feel synonymous with your youth? Can be your childhood phase, your adolescent phase, etc. - whatever you define as your youth!

For me: Jackie Chan Adventures, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Pokemon

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Young:

    • Animaniacs
    • Sailor Moon
    • Bill Nye the Science Guy
    • Wishbone
    • Powerpuff Girls
    • Courage tve Cowwardly Dog

    Older:

    • Invader Zim
    • Inuyasha
    • Daria
    • Justice League & Batman the Animated Series
    • Still Courage the Cowardly Dog
    • I wanna say it was called “Kablam?”

    (I’d add ATLA, but I didn’t watch it until after it was completed and I was in college.)

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago
    • The Simpsons
    • Seinfeld
    • Friends
    • South Park (honorary mention)

    The Simpsons was sacred in my house, we watched every new episode as a family, and taped them all on VHS to re-watch. I can quote from the first 12 seasons endlessly.

    Seinfeld was my introduction to stand-up comedy, which has become a life-long passion and a personally fulfilling hobby. I liked the show, but I loved watching his stand-up bits.

    Friends was a show I would watch with my mom whenever I helped her in the kitchen. I was always hanging out in the kitchen, and Friends was a staple on TV at the time. I connected very much with Chandler.

    South Park was the show my older brother watched, and I only ever got to catch once in a while, but the show was groundbreaking in its concept and execution. While being vulgar, it also succinctly expressed complicated ideas that resonate with me still to this day (When Randy talks to Stan about marijuana is one of them).

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    Earlier:

    • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • The Simpsons
    • ReBoot

    Later on:

    • SpongeBob SquarePants
    • Invader Zim
    • Futurama
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    14·
    9 days ago

    Dragonball Z introduced me to anime which became a life long enjoyment.

    Clarissa explains it all exposed me (a guy) to more female lead content and I learned a bit more about other perspectives.

    Captain Planet introduced me to the idea that we’ll never really stop pollution because super heros aren’t real lol

  • marito@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 days ago

    As a kid.

    • Saved by the Bell.
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
    • Ducktales.

    As a teenager.

    • The Wonder Years.
    • Friends.
    • Party of Five.

    I didn’t include The Simpsons since growing up in the 90s, that’s a given.

  • Sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    8 days ago

    This is actually a pretty hard question. At first I couldn’t think of any show but the more I thought about it the more came to my mind.

    I narrowed it down to these three:

    • MAS*H
    • Hogan’s Heroes
    • Dinosaurs

    Not because I’m so old but because they where first aired in my home country in the early and mid nineties when I was at my granny’s place a lot of afternoons.

    Later I moved town, kinda lost touch to my grandma and wasn’t really there when she got very old and then died.

    Looking back it’s really sad that I wasn’t there for someone who spend a whole lot of my childhood with me and in fact was always there for me.

    • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 days ago

      Thanks for sharing your memory. I hope you are able to cherish the memories you had together.

  • kowcop@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    8 days ago

    Knight Rider, The A-Team, MacGyver

    Honorable mentions to Dukes of Hazzard, The Fall Guy, Magnum, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Automan etc

    What a time to be a kid

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…maybe you can hire The A-Team.

      Being the generation that grew up as kids of Vietnam vets was a trip. You had these dudes with BA Baracus looking like he was ready to fuck some fool up to pity them. After that, you had the privileged White middle-upper class family of the Brady Bunch being all corny af, saying shit like, “Gee whiz, Mom! That’s positively fantastic!” There were eight people living comfortably off of one wage with a housekeeper.

      Imagine that today. The A-Team would be four Afghan and Iraq vets all tatted up working out of a desert-colored F150 Raptor hunting down pedos. One of them would be called Ricky Recon with the signature phrase, “It’s time for some group therapy!” They’d also have a lady with them that would be the reasonable one. Every episode would include one line where someone bitches about the VA. The next show would be Modern Family.

  • HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    8 days ago
    • The Simpsons: From seeing Season 2 episodes someone had recorded from Sky TV on VHS before it was on terrestrial TV, through to Season 9 when it stopped being good many years later. It was on all the time and we never got bored of it.
    • Red Dwarf: The first TV show I was allowed to stay up “late” for, when it broadcast at 9pm. Felt like I’d entered a new stage in my life watching a late-night comedy show.
    • The X Files: Similar to the above, this was the first serious, “grown-up” TV show I watched, and I was hooked. I thought anything with a paranormal tinge was awesome at that younger age (I guess I still do, although through an admittedly far more sceptical scientific lens these days).
  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 days ago

    Sliders

    The Tomorrow People

    Family Ties

    Honestly, I read a lot more than I watched tv. There are tons of books that shaped me, but I had to struggle to remember the shows that helped me along.