79 Photos That Will Make '80s Kids Nostalgic
by Brian GalindoBuzzFeedBuzzFeed StaffSenior Editor, Nostalgia Nerd
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The Muppet Babies Happy Meal toys that were truly the greatest Happy Meal toys ever made:
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That one Garfield telephone that you wanted oh-so-bad and thought was so cool — but, of course, your parents never bought because they didn't want a novelty phone just sitting in the living room:
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These rainbow flip flops, which had a nylon toe post strap that would rub the skin between your big toe and index toe raw:
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And the Fisher-Price skates that were nearly impossible to skate in:
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Making juice from frozen Minute Maid concentrate that came with aluminum tops and bottoms:
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Air popcorn poppers that looked just like this and made the entire house smell like a movie theater:
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Sitting up close to the TV whenever you played Nintendo because the cords weren't long enough:
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Getting up early on Saturday mornings to watch Pee-wee's Playhouse:
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Those oh-so-cool clock backpacks that made absolutely no sense:
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And those cartoon erasers that were cool to collect but didn't do anything other than smudge and rip your papers apart when you tried to use them:
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Teddy bear pencil toppers that did nothing but make it hard to write and collect dust and gunk all over the fur:
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The fever dream that was Kids Incorporated — which was also like the original Kidz Bop:
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And Out of This World, which was another fever dream of a TV show:
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These pitchers, which always left a plasticky taste to any lemonade, punch, or juice you poured out of it:
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And this exact Pyrex casserole dish that every '80s mom owned:
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Fiber optic flower lamps, which you thought were so chic:
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The dusty old bowl of nuts (complete with a heavy nutcracker) that you'd see on your grandma's coffee table every time you went over:
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And watching TV at your grandma's on a huge console set:
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Orville Redenbacher as the star of all of his popcorn commercials:
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And Morris the cat from the 9Lives cat food commercials:
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The Fisher-Price cassette player, which allowed you to tape yourself singing 🥴:
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Strawberry Shortcake chewable vitamins that tasted like candy, and which you'd eat a few of behind your parents' backs:
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Johnson & Johnson's No More Tangles spray, that did not, in fact, make you tangle-free:
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Big League Chew with the creepy and gruff-looking baseball player on it that looked like he came straight out of Mad Magazine:
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This Chuck E. Cheese carpet that you would crawl all over and was probably way, way dirtier than you realized:
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And the creepy Chuck E. Cheese animatronics that looked like they were ready to attack you when you weren't looking:
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Wheat germ that your parents made you add to your sugary cereal in order to make it healthier:
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Drinking Sunny Delight because it was "healthy":
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And eating fruit cocktail in syrup as a snack because it was fruit and therefore "healthy":
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Playing with either the brown or yellow-roofed Fisher-Price Little People Tudor house:
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And the Kenner's Tree Tots Family Tree House, which nobody could convince you wasn't part of the Fisher-Price's Little People collection:
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The infectious My Buddy and Kid Sister jingle that had you singing along every time they played the commercial:
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch having three bakers instead of just the one on the right:
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The terrifying (in retrospect) McDonald's commercials that featured come-to-life singing Chicken McNuggets:
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Always knowing there was going to be at least one Hawaiian pizza at a birthday party:
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The nightmare fuel that was Return to Oz:
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Having a bunch of uncompleted Panini sticker books, because yo