Nostalgia For the Weirdest Things....

Animutations... those were part of my internet childhood

Oh man I'd almost forgotten about those things.

I heard the Looney Tunes theme in a Vine compilation and suddenly I was seven years old watching them and Classic Disney Shorts on DVD.

Also "Crank Dat"; not for itself, but for this Edutainment parody of it. Anyone else's sixth grade social studies teacher play this for the class?

Edited by Katdo on Apr 12th 2019 at 8:49:08 AM

Space shuttle launches, 'nuff said.

Area 51 on the original X Box. And I played that game since I was in kindergarten.

Also, this Pokémon animation from Youtube's glory days of 2006-2007.

Hell, a bunch of other X Box games give me freaking nostalgia, like Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Spongebob Squarepants Battle For Bikini Bottom, both Mechassault games, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee, Jet Set Radio Future, and Panzer Dragoon Orta. Long live the original X Box!

Edited by KJsixteen on May 10th 2019 at 7:46:10 AM

Funky Monkey, by the Belgian group M-Kids. I am not Belgian. When I was in first grade, the teacher gave us all a CD with a bunch of random kids’ songs on them. A lot of them were obscure, including that one, by far the most obscure.

I always wondered as a kid why I couldn’t catch what the lyrics were. 😅

There were these things called "muffin bites" I used to eat all the time as a kid. The chocolate ones were the best, they were like chocolate brownies/muffins. They were SO GOOD and yesterday I tried to find them at my shops but they sold out.

I will buy some the next chance I get because to me they taste like nostalgia.

Port-a-Potties. I used one a few days ago, and the smell brought back so many memories of things like corn mazes and strawberry festivals.

The only things in this world which can make me nostalgic are Flim Flam Philosophy's videos and parodies. I think my whole character may have been molded after his work's underlying ideas, to be honest.

I miss cartoons played during the weekdays. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Western Animation/Animaniacs, reruns of The Smurfs, those made coming home from bad days at school bearable. How is it we've got all the retro channels and none of them will play retro cartoons. I mean, I think a number of them are owned by big broadcasting corporations. Also, there are only so many episode of Wagon Train and Welcome Back, Kotter a human can take.

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Of all things, what do I get nostalgia for?

Why, the Star of Life of course!

IIRC it's because of a game I played when I was really, really young and cannot find it for the life of me.

Edited by Routeferret on Jun 17th 2021 at 9:15:50 AM

For some reason I get nostalgic for the taste of almond butter chapstick while listening to Smooth Mc Groove.... but not separately...

I always get nostalgic seeing the "CN City" bumpers from Cartoon Network even though I'm too young to actually remember seeing them on TV. (I was a Nood baby).

Also (×4) MeTV has cartoons now. Not any of the ones you mentioned, but still better than nothing.

I get a wonderful feeling of nostalgia from the Level 1 theme from Space Harrier. Ignoring the fact that the game was made over a decade before I was even born.

Oh my god I just got this weird nostalgia for The Backyardigans. I specifically remember having four episodes on a DVD collection ("Mission To Mars", "Samurai Pie", "Scared Of You" and "Whodunit" specifically) that I used to watch when I was like, 6, maybe 7 or 8.

I just skimmed through them on the Treehouse Direct youtube channel and it had this strange feeling of quality I seriously can't explain. Maybe that's just the nostalgia, I'm not sure.

The Monty Python and the Holy Grail "intermission/ending" music. Even though I only saw the movie as a kid once and forgot about a lot of it prior to rewatching it in 2021, that music stuck out to me for ages.

I feel nostalgic about This Very Wiki, oddly enough. As it had sparked my interest in old internet content, looking at particularly old entries makes me feel a sense of nostalgia for things that I haven't even experienced. Yet another way this wiki ruined my life.

Recently I've been on a massive nostalgia kick for Discovery Family back when it was called The Hub. Such an underrated network, I miss it so much.
Unrelated, but apparently there's like two Twitter accounts trying to gaslight people into thinking the channel's still active even though it isn't? Just thought that was amusing.

Nintendo Power issue 100. It was almost twenty five years ago. The issue was an epilogue to the SNES era. It was a reminder that the Game Boy had outlived the Sega Game Gear, but there wasn't much software on the horizon. (Pokemon would get localized a year later.) Finally, it was the last issue of Nintendo Power that held my interest. At the time, I was adjusting to life in college, and wondering whether there was enough software on Sony Playstation to hold my interest. The PS1 became my next favorite console. I purchased new games on Sony consoles for more than twenty years.

Nostalgic for Velveeta shells and cheese.

My lactose intolerance had made me unable to eat it, but sometimes I still remember the taste as if I had it yesterday.

This one Kevedd fanfiction I read a few years ago... it was so cute and it was so well written I could of sworn it was a canon episode

Edited by Archsage on May 17th 2022 at 5:27:25 AM

Black Moon Chronicles strategy game. Brilliant soundtrack and hand-drawn character portraits create a great atmosphere. Besides, it was my first RTS with a turn-based strategy map and the ability to move units between missions or morale mechanics, which impressed me quite a bit. And why is this "weird" nostalgia? Because despite its advantages, the game was ruined by hopeless AI. In some missions it is virtually non-existent - you can set up archers two steps away from the enemy and knock him out at a distance, and he won't move.

Edited by Adeptus on Aug 7th 2022 at 3:30:05 AM

I love the smell of animal dung (typically hoofstock). It reminds me of visits to my local zoos and childhood trips to farms.

Maybe a coffee ad containing a jumpscare. You know, the one where the scene starts with a car driving through a mountainous area with peaceful music and you're then surprised by a zombie