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SALT LAKE CITY — For many of us, TV was a big part of our childhood. Even if we didn't watch that much TV, we still had our favorite shows we'd catch when we could. So, hopefully you spent a majority of your time outdoors, but odds are you still spent a fair amount of time in front of the tube and today we're reminiscing a bit.
The hashtag #IGrewUpWatching has been trending on Twitter so we thought we'd take a look at what shows were mentioned the most. As we compiled the list it's clear that a majority of Twitter users were born sometime after 1980, which is cool with me, because many of these were the shows I grew up on too.
Again, these are the shows most mentioned on Twitter, but after reading the list hit us up on the comment boards, Facebook or send an email with the TV shows you grew up on.
The quirky cartoon "Dexter's Laboratory" ran from 1996 to 2003, with a break from1998 to 2001, and people all over Twitter fondly remember the misadventures of a boy genius.
Dexter is a child who also happens to be a brilliant scientist and inventor who, more often than not, has his plans thrown off by his annoying sister.
The humor is different and the animation is very 90s, but "Dexter's Laboratory" is still a fun cartoon.
The Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold!" introduced us to some of the ugliest kids we've ever seen, but it also kept us laughing and entertained.
The show ran from 1996 to 2004 and followed a fourth grader, Arnold, in a multi-racial neighborhood with his grandparents.
The show was bizarre and often had humor that would fly right over kids' heads, but for some reason we loved that. Watching it today will make you cringe at times, but it will also make you chuckle at the jokes you now understand.
"Boy Meets World" was on just about everyone's list on Twitter. The show about Cory Matthews and his family and friends made every kid in the country laugh.
The show was actually so popular that it ran seven seasons and has now inspired a spin-off show called "Girl Meets World."
While the show ran from 1993 to 2000 I think it's best we just remember those early years. While the later episodes had their moments they also got too serious.
I think we all knew this one was going to be on the list. "Saved by the Bell" is still relevant today because no matter how many reality shows Mario Lopez hosts you'll always say, "Hey! That's A.C. Slater." And even though Tiffani Thiessen is now a loving wife on "White Collar" we always think to ourselves, "I love Kelly Kapowski and she'll always be Tiffani Amber Thiessen to me."
"Saved by the Bell" was only on the air for four seasons, no we're not counting the college years, but we managed to fall in love with Bayside High in those four years.
While most of us watched that show as elementary school kids we were disappointed to find out that our high school didn't have a principal like Mr. Belding, we couldn't hit our locker and pop it open and we were most certainly not Zack Morris.
Watching old episodes of "Saved by the Bell" today should make us shake our heads in shame that we thought this was a quality TV show, but what we're doing instead is saying the punch line out loud before the characters have a chance.
I'm not sure I know anyone who can hear the words "Bel-Air" or "West Philadelphia" and not immediately start signing, probably out loud, "West Philadelphia born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days," and so on and so forth.
The 90s comedy "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" was mentioned more than anything else on Twitter, and why not? The show that launched Will Smith's career was funny, often poignant and usually had a strong family message.
Will Smith was hilarious and every kid that grew up on the show wanted to be him, guys and girls, and everyone also knew how to do the Carlton.
The Fresh Prince ran from 1990 to 1996 and people still watch the reruns religiously. Out of all these kickstarter campaigns around making TV shows into movies I think it's high time we saw a "Fresh Prince" kickstarter to get the old Bel-Air crew back together.
