40 Random Bits of Nostalgia We’re Saving Like That Private Ryan Dude

Never leave a piece of nostalgia behind!
40 Random Bits of Nostalgia We’re Saving Like That Private Ryan Dude

Whether time is linear or not, it sure feels like it is, right? Especially when nostalgia is involved. We love “looking back” on anything that struck a chord with us in our formative years, and we sure as heck don’t want to leave them back there. 

Today we’re climbing back down time’s ladder to pick up a few awesome things that were left hanging on our lifetime’s lower rungs. We’ll be back up here in a flash!

DVD Collections

CRACKED The Ultimate Matrix Collection in the Nebuchadnezzar ship With only 400 ever made (and only released in Japan), they're extremely hard to find. The two-foot long ship contains the three movies, The Matrix Experience, The Animatrix, and a ton of bonus features. SPECIAL EDITIONS

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina The Teenage Witch CRACKED.COM Sabrina hails from the Archie universe. She had her own animated series in the 70's, but her first appearance was as the new kid at Riverdale in 1968's The Archie Show.

The Golden Girls

CRACKED.COM THE GOLDEN GIRLS was inspired by MIAMI VICE. In 1984, NBC shot a humorous skit titled Miami Nice, starring two older actresses, for a special advertising their new shows (like Miami Vice). Execs liked it, and the idea was developed into a full series about old ladies living in Miami.

Snake Eyes

In the 1980s, the struggling HASBRO toy company released a new action figure for its GIJOE line. The new character SNAKE EYES was clad completely in BLACK because Hasbro couldn't afford COLORED PAINT. CRACKED.COM

Saved by the Bell

140 141 HD The same high school set was used on Saved By The Bell, iCarly, and That's So Raven. This means that same set of lockers first aired in 1989 during Saved By The Bell's heyday, and stayed on the air until iCarly's final season in 2012. CRACKED.COM

The Office

ITunes basically saved The Office. Month College In the first week TV shows became available on iTunes, four of the five most popular NBC TV episodes were from The Office, which let NBC know how popular the show was among young, well-off, tech-savvy viewers s - a super-valuable audience. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Police Academy

GRACKED.COM The POLICE ACADEMY franchise had 77 movies 1 live action TV show 1 animated TV show Michael the man of 10,000 sound effects Winslow was the only original cast member to appear in everything (except, oddly, the cartoon.)

LOL

Saying lol GRAGKED.COM Don't even think about Imao, just stick with haha

Reaction GIFs

Using reaction gifs CRACKED.COM When you break out the GIPHY, your age is apparently showng.

Side Parts

Parting your hair on the side CRACKED.COM TikTok teens agree: everyone looks better with a middle part.

Yoga Pants

Calling them yoga pants GRAGKED.COM Teens on TikTok wear old-school yoga pants, but they call them flared leggings.

Escape From New York

The fancy 3D shot in Snake's glider's computer in Escape From New York isn't 3D. NOSEVIEW AIR.. 70 That would have been too expensive in 1981, so they just put some green tape over their model of New York, lit it with a blacklight, and shot that. CRACKED.COM

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CD Cases

CD cases Remember lugging around this party suitcase with 300 little slots for your CDs? Now, with apps like Apple Music and Spotify, we have every song we could ever want right there on our phones. @ CRACKED.COM

John Cena

John Cena was in a bunch of early 2000s movies just to promote WWE. © ME Every second I was on one of those movie sets, I wanted to be back in WWE, he says of movies like 12 Rounds, Fred: The Movie, and Legendary. CRACKED.COM

Limewire

SHERIFF HUNNY BUCKII... 1d ... These and Limewire had me working 40 hour weeks afterschool! Nostalgia @NostalgiaFoL... 2d multicolored blank CDs with matching cases LIVE FILM PUJIFIA CD-R FUJIFILM 700мв 80Min 700м I FUJIFILM 80Min 700мл CD-R 57 4,385 18.8K 853K

The Thing

John Carpenter's 1982 classic THE THING made keen use of practical effects to create a visceral, haunting alien menace... The 2011 uasi-prequel of the

Futurama

In Futurama, 70s retro is still in. 12B 13 STUDIO STUDIO Futurama's Studio 12 21 33, where Bender goes to dance so he can burn off the doomsday device

Rocko’s Modern Life

CRACKED.COM ROCKO'S MODERN LIFE This show surprisingly feels like an Adult Swim show from the 2010s instead of '90s kids show. In the 2019 movie, the gang supports a character who comes out as trans in what feels like a natural progression of the original series tackling mature, even somewhat mundane adult issues in a very uplifting way.

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Scream

The original title for Scream was Scary Movie. CRACKED.COM The 1996 horror film would be parodied in 2000s Scary Movie, starring Anna Faris and Marlon Wayans.

The Muppets

Muppets started the trend of post-credits scenes. 1979's The Muppets Movie kickstarted the trend in the '80s, which Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a part of f-- and Ferris inspired the post-credits scenes in the MCU. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

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40 Random Bits of Nostalgia We’re Saving Like That Private Ryan Dude

‘90s Kids

Identifying as a 90s kid CRACKEDCONT Teens (understandably) hate our '9Os nostalgia (since it's the early aughts that are now back in style)

Harry Potter

Talking about your Hogwarts House Fond memories associated Harry Potter died with JK Rowling's good opinions.

Jaws

The first-ever film to hit $100 million at the box office was a little horror movie called Jaws. The famous shark film is widely considered to be the

Tron

Remember how digital the original Tron looked? That was achieved with practical effects. It was 1982, and the CGI it would take to render the high-tec

Practical Effects

Star Wars (1977) ANGLED CAMERA RUNNING ON A TRACK The iconic opening crawl was created by filming a print placed under a glass PaNel. CRACKED.COM

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

CRACKED.COM Amazing effects made without CGI Close Encounters of the Third Kind Besides the insane model work, the alien ship was shot on 70 mm film, which has a greater resolution than the 35 mm film used for the rest of the movie. This allowed it to keep a good deal of sharpness and detail in the final composition.

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Digital Audio Tape

CRACKEDOON THE DAT (DIGITAL AUDIO TAPE] WAS DEVELOPED BY SONY IN THE '80S AS A DIGITAL REPLACEMENT FOR CASSETTE TAPES. IT COULD RECORD AND PLAY AUDIO

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