You fixed the Skip-it at your ankle with a plastic hoop and you made it turn around your leg and tried to avoid the “ball” with the other leg… very simple to explain, not that easy for me when I was a kid. It was a very popular toy in the 80s and as a boy I have to admit now that I loved playing my sister’s one when she wasn’t around 
There was a digital screen to count how many turns you did without falling miserably with the skip-it around your neck…
The show is about the Sinclair family: Earl, Fran, Robbie, Charlene and Baby (and his most memorable catchphrase ”Not the mama!”), a family of dinosaurs. But not regular dinosaurs, they are living just like us… they wear sneakers, shirts and they have TV and fridges. There’s also cavemens who are the pets of the dinosaurs.
The show was aired from 1991 to 1994 on ABC… 20 years ago !
Here’s the opening theme :
Boglins were rubbery hand puppets that looked like small monsters.
They were sold in a kind of cardboard jail, I loved the packaging, and I guess every kids loved it too because it was impossible to find a non damaged one in the supermarket…
You could find a boglin easily 22 years ago… in 1989.
Here is the commercial :
“If you take us home, we’ll kiss your Aunt Martha, we’ll eat your peas, and we hope you know lots of girls.”
Everybody without exceptions had one… and everybody agrees that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to draw something good with the “magic screen” or you have to spend a lot of time training, and you don’t have time when you’re a kid but still, I loved it and I bought one recently. Even 20 years after it’s seem impossible to me but I keep trying !
Of course you’ll still find these annoying (I’m jealous) people able to do artwork with it… for example this Etch-a-Sketch artist
And because everybody wants to know : how does the Etch a sketch work ???
For the more nostalgics, you can still buy this Etch a sketch iPhone case
The Rugrats is a cartoon by Nickolodeon, it’s the everyday life of four babies Thomas “Tommy” Pickles, Charles “Chuckie” Finster and the twins Phillip “Phil” and Lillian “Lil” DeVille. The toddlers live all kind of new experiences with a lot of imagination oftenly fed by Angelica, Tommy’s mean cousin.
The show was aired for the first time in 1991, 20 years ago…
Here’s the opening :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phIg2lhIsuQ
Neil Patrick Harris started his actor carriere as Doogie Howser. Awesome !
The show was about a 16 years old doctor who has some troubles to be a normal teenager. To be honnest, I only remember that at the end of each episode he types a few words onto his very blue computer screen :
Here’s the opening :
The show was aired by ABC from 1989 to 1993… 22 years ago ! Neil Patrick Harris is now 37
So, here’s the AWESOME CONTEST
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