50 Things That You Did Because of '90s TV Shows

Raise your hand if you broke an arm climbing through your best friend's window like Sam on "Clarissa."

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Raise your hand if you broke an arm climbing through your best friend's window like Sam on Nickelodeon's Clarissas Explains It All. Or maybe you weren't that adventurous, and instead just decorated your bedroom with Keith Haring posters, like the kids show heroine. If you or a friend had these ideas, congratulations, you were born in the late '80s (or early '90s).

Raised by '90s television (instead of, um, parents), you likely had a variety of colorful ideas about how to live and have fun growing up. Hopefully you weren't raised exclusively by D-Generation X, and were exposed to activities that didn't result in injuries/detention/ass-kickings.

You probably drew on sources as wide-ranging as Salute Your Shorts and Charmed. You probably did all of the following because '90s TV shows told you to.

 

Smoke a cigarette because Gia was cooler than Stephanie Tanner

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Track down your aunt's caffeine pills.

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Get the Cool Dr. Money haircut.

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Wear a plastic headband over your eyes like Geordi La Forge

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Sneak downstairs for some quality late-night time with the TV.

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Give someone an Awful Waffle.

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Tell all your friends to "suck it" like D-Generation X.

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Sit in your bedroom at night and listen smooth jazz.

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Get missions from Zordon.

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Drink nothing but orange soda.

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Accidentally electrocute yourself giving the TV a really tight hug.

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Build your own obstacle course.

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Raise a pet rollie-pollie.

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Pretend to be crazy to get out of a fight.

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Only talk to your neighbors over the fence.

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Throw a bunch of No. 2 pencils at the ceiling.

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Convince your parents to let you live above the garage.

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Make fun of music videos with your friends.

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Free a turtle.

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Walk around with your hands in your pants.

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Add a cell phone to your Christmas list.

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Work on your Nerf gun marksmanship

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Said "Kowabunga" while eating pizza.

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Eat a chili dog.

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Pound cans of soda like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

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Organize your own Midnight Society.

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Cut down a tree in an effort to befriend a log.

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Make your own Mr. Socko like Mankind.

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See if you can speed-read.

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Create your own superheroes.

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Try to spend the night in your school.

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Try to make friends with the ice cream man.

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Flip a cafeteria chair around and sit in it backwards.

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Concoct a love potion.

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Fit yourself through a hanger.

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Beg your family to buy an RV.

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Do the clock stretch.

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Emulate Will and Jazz's handshake.

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Speak in a snarky monotone.

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Say, "How you doin'?"

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Do the 10-second tidy.

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Cut your hair (and buy a blow dryer).

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Exclaim, "Maha!"

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Find some stairs and pretend to be Stoop Kid.

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Say, "Woogidy!"

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Copy Uncle Joey's "cut it out" gesture.

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Build a shrine for your secret crush.

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Practice the Carlton Banks dance.

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Do the Wolf Pack hand gesture with your friends at recess.

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2. Climb into a friend's window.

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