Let's Backpedal

Let's briefly cover the insanity that was ALF. From 1986-1990, ALF was everywhere. And you couldn't escape the madness.

Dug out my Old GPK - Garbage Pail Kid Cards to sit and talk to you about them. Take a brief trip down memory lane with these fantastically gross stickers.

Pogo Bal (Pogo ball) became a fad in the mid-1980s. It consists of a seamless figure-8 rubber ball locked into a structurally supported, sturdy plastic platform. To play with it, one stands on the plastic platform, balancing one's weight on the bottom portion of the rubber ball, and jumps or hops around in the same manner as one would use a pogo stick.

We all remember Mr. T - but do you remember what from? Mr. T was so HUGE during the 80s, it could be for several reasons. Let's backpedal about Mr. T.

The McNugget Buddies were a line of Nightmare Fueled Happy Meal Toys of Chicken McNuggets (characters) featuring them in various costumes. Living, breathing chicken nuggets that you made friends with, then ate. McDonald McNugget Toys were strange.

Remember when Cereal Came with Cool Prizes Inside?! You would immediately jam your hand into a full box of cereal and dig out some exciting little prize made of cheap plastic. Those were the days!

Stickers & Sticker Albums were all the craze in the 80s and 90s. Let's take another look at them all.

Max Headroom is a fictional artificial intelligence character, known for his wit and stuttering, electronically altered voice. He was introduced in early 1985. Max Was the perfect 80s mascot.

It's fair to say PacMan was the most important video game of all time. It changed games and culture. It put gaming on the map during a time when most people looked down on games. PacMan was... is a legend.

Remember When the most important thing you owned was a boombox? You would record songs off the radio, or blast it all over town. Good Times. Let's backpedal about it.

Spuds MacKenzie is a fictional dog character created for use in an extensive advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s.

1-900 Number Hotlines were like a plague in the 80s and 90s. Everywhere you looked they were on. You couldn't escape them.

Do you remember Double Dare, and all the amazing insanity that went with it? The wonderful controlled chaos of Double Dare will never be duplicated. How everyone survived is beyond me. Come backpedal with me about Double Dare!

I Miss my Saturday Morning Cartoons! Let's go back and relive it, shall we?!

In the 80s and 90s, it was almost impossible to Avoid The Noid, a crazy bunny eared mascot for Dominos Pizza. Let's backpedal and check out the marketing of The Noid.

Remember Unsolved Mysteries?! Covering crimes, tales of lost love, unexplained history and paranormal events, viewers are encouraged to provide information that might solve the mystery. The intro used to scare the crap out of me!

HBO was a rather big influence on me growing up. I got to see so many movies, watch original programs, enjoy my favorite comedians, and even learn about the birds and the bees. (def should not have watched some of this stuff)

It was my favorite book growing up. I brought it everywhere, and one day it was gone. I've spent 30 years trying to find another... and I finally found it!

During the 90s A YoYo Craze swept the world. Traveling yoyo gangs would pop up in your town and perform at your school, igniting a whirlwind of yoyo madness!

Do you remember how big gum was growing up?! Did you have a favorite brand or flavor? Come Backpedal with me and let's look back on Bubble Gum!

You Can't Do That On Television was a Canadian Sketch Comedy specifically marketed toward American Kids. It was Crude, vulgar, and one of my favorite shows growing up,

Everyday American heroes - men and women- pit themselves against the show's American Gladiators, which often lead to some fights, arguing, or broken eye sockets.

Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. He loves to sit around, eat, drink coffee, and pick on his dog friend Odie. He also has more marketing than any other character. Let's take a look shall we?

Let's go back and remember what it was like to roam around Toys-R-Us!

There was a time when the only chance of catching your favorite Halloween Specials were that one night a year when they came on television. And if you missed it, you'd have to wait a full year to see them again.

I miss my old Lego Sets, some of those sets were pretty amazing. Let's briefly look back at all those cool sets and memories!

In the 80s, 3-D made a resurgence, and it was amazingly awful! Come take a quick trip down memory lane and look back at the 80s 3-D fad.

Beetlejuice (less known as Betelgeuse) is a trickster and mischievous ghost. He is the main antagonist of his own live-action movie

Christmas Specials were a marvelous thing, mostly because the villains were always so bad! Let's hang out and talk about all the baddies from Chrsitmas past.