TV shows you watch in the '90s....

[The Borgified Corpse]

The 90s took me from 7 to 17, so big range of tastes in the full decade.

Same here. So much of my early tastes fell into 2 categories:

Kids shows
Animaniacs
Batman: The Animated Series
Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Darkwing Duck
Duck Tales
Garfield & Friends
Gargoyles
Goof Troop
Gummi Bears
Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
Pinky & the Brain
Tale Spin
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego?
Power Rangers during the 1st 6 seasons from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers through Power Rangers in Space. (I tried Power Rangers Lost Galaxy but gave up after the 1st episode.)

I also have fond memories of some kids shows that I rarely got to see because I didn't have cable but would catch at my grandma's house like Hey Dude & What Would You Do?

Early 1990s ABC sitcoms
Baby Talk
Billy
Boy Meets World
Dinosaurs
Family Matters
Full House
Hi Honey, I'm Home
Home Improvement
Perfect Strangers
Step by Step

By middle school, I had graduated to NBC sitcoms. Mostly 3rd Rock from the Sun, Frasier, Mad About You, NewsRadio, & Seinfeld. I never felt like I was cool enough to be watching Friends.

Other shows from the 1990s
The Critic
The People's Court
The Price Is Right
The Simpsons
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Star Trek: Voyager

Shows that started in the 1990s but I didn't catch until later
7 Days
Angel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Homicide: Life on the Street
Law & Order
Roswell

Watching the pilot of Hi Honey, I'm Home! on Youtube.

I'm glad that someone else remembers this show. It had such a weird, meta premise. It's like the kinda show that Abed Nadir would come up with.

Sonic the Hedgehog (AOSTH. I didn't knew SatAM at that time)

What does this sentence mean?

When I was a kid I enjoyed shows like Home Improvement, but shows like that warped my mind at a very impressionable age. I went into my high school years expecting that these represent how men and women actually interact with each other, and that women would be offended by male assertiveness.

These shows, all men who act macho are phony, all maleness is a cause symptom of stupidity, all men are emotionally braindead, and all women are infinitely forgiving beings of sagelike wisdom. This is not what young boys should be watching at their most impressionable age.

If I ever have kids, I won't worry about the action films they want to watch and ban them from watching shows like that.

I think that might be the most accurate, succinct summary of a very real, very under-reported phenomenon.

 

[svenden]

Y'all are forgetting that the 90s were also the glory days of David E. Kelley's television shows: Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, Boston Public. But most notably Ally McBeal and The Practice -- which shares the number 1 spot with DS9 for my all time favorite TV shows, and which also gave birth to Shatner's emmy-winning turn as Denny Crane on Boston Legal in the mid 2000s.

 

[David Strickhouser]

Began watching TWIN PEAKS on DVD. Hadn't seen it in over twenty years. Started with the pilot (actually the European version, which resolves the Laura Palmer murder at the end, with much the same players).
I'd forgotten how slow paced the show was. Today's series jump right in; while TP moved "stately" through its storyline.
David Lynch's "quirkiness" came right back to me; the long shot of the Palmer house ceiling fan; Agent Cooper's obsession with the seemingly mundane (the trees, the coffee); Audrey Horne and those saddle shoes; good-hearted Norma and the Double R Diner and ol' easygoing Big Ed Hurley with crazy wife Nadine and those "drape runners". Easygoing if slightly goofy Peter Martell and his Hillary-esque wife Catherine.

And, of course, the Laura/Donna/James love triangle with one dead.

Anyone else have any feelings on this series, now that Showtime is bringing it back next year?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

The first season of Twin Peaks is some of the greatest television of all time. Second season after they forced the killer reveal went downhill.

New series I hear they made sure David Lynch was in full creative control, so I'm super excited.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I don't know what's wrong with me, but somehow I find most of David Lynch's work to be absolutely incomprehensible (except for Dune, which I enjoyed quite a bit). Twin Peaks, for example, went so far over my head that it snagged low flying aircraft.

 

[J.T.B.]

Anyone else have any feelings on this series, now that Showtime is bringing it back next year?

There have been a handful of times in my life when I've watched a show and thought "This is a whole new thing." SCTV, Late Night with David Letterman, Hill Street Blues, The Larry Sanders Show. And definitely Twin Peaks. But it should have been a limited-run series all along, trying to keep it going like a standard US network series was not going to work.

 

[David Strickhouser]

The first season of Twin Peaks is some of the greatest television of all time. Second season after they forced the killer reveal went downhill.

New series I hear they made sure David Lynch was in full creative control, so I'm super excited.

Yes. After the reveal in episode 14, it took another four more episodes for the characters to catch up to the audience.
Then the Windom Earle plot began, and silliness replace Lynch-ian weirdness.
In the DVDs, I jumped from ep. 18 to watch the finale.

Never saw FIRE WALK WITH ME so I don't know what happened to "good" Cooper; is he still trapped in the red room, and BOB is loose in his body, or did he eventually drive BOB out?
And since the actor who played BOB is no longer with us, who will become BOB?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Fire Walk With Me is about the events leading to Laura's murder, not the fallout of the finale.

I might spoiler mark your comment about the finale. My theory about the new series is

Spoiler: Twin Peaks

Cooperbob has a baby with Annie who is Laura's age now. Bob has a plan to transfer into the girl as the new host. There is a murder that's similar to Bob's murders of a high school girl. Cooper investigates the murder not knowing on a conscious level that he's the murderer.

I haven't heard if Sherilyn Fenn is in the cast but it'd be nice for the show to officially prove Audrey survived the vault.

 

[David Strickhouser]

Fire Walk With Me is about the events leading to Laura's murder, not the fallout of the finale.

I might spoiler mark your comment about the finale. My theory about the new series is

Spoiler: Twin Peaks

Cooperbob has a baby with Annie who is Laura's age now. Bob has a plan to transfer into the girl as the new host. There is a murder that's similar to Bob's murders of a high school girl. Cooper investigates the murder not knowing on a conscious level that he's the murderer.

I haven't heard if Sherilyn Fenn is in the cast but it'd be nice for the show to officially prove Audrey survived the vault.

For crying out loud! Forgot about Audrey!

I know MacLachlan is involved in the continuation series, but whether he's Cooper or Cooper/BOB I hadn't heard. Frost and Lynch must be tight-lipped.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Also for TP I once had a theory that

Spoiler

The guy on the ground with the bloody nose when Eckhart's assistant tried to kill Harry was Cooper having escaped from the lodge four days earlier than he was trapped there. But I was watching on VHS and better resolution may prove that not Cooper. But if fear is the key to the black lodge, and that screeching noise you hear is an indication of the door being open?

 

[David Strickhouser]

Also for TP I once had a theory that

Spoiler

The guy on the ground with the bloody nose when Eckhart's assistant tried to kill Harry was Cooper having escaped from the lodge four days earlier than he was trapped there. But I was watching on VHS and better resolution may prove that not Cooper. But if fear is the key to the black lodge, and that screeching noise you hear is an indication of the door being open?

Interesting. Since I've mentally "skipped" those episodes, I'd forgotten about Eckhart and the attack on Harry. But if that's Cooper, that would explain a few things.

Fear is the key to the Black Lodge, and "garmanboza" (pain and sorrow/creamed corn) feed BOB, and to a lesser extent , Mike.

Starting to come back to me.

 

[Kor]

The Disney Afternoon and the various shows that were included therein.

Kor