Once you’ve been an active member of the workforce, the infamous Bill Lumbergh from Office Space doesn’t seem too far off from some of the corporate characters you’ve likely crossed paths with. Every office has at least one senior guy who rallies the team for casual Fridays and/or cheesy birthday celebrations. He’s also the one who passive aggressively dumps more work on you at the last minute. YEA, I’m talking about “that” guy. Conversations at the water cooler generally revolve around the utter ridiculousness of his persona slash how much you loathe each and every encounter.
After school TV was the best. It was your personal time to eat oreos, fruit snacks, and put off homework until after dinner. Depending on your age, you’d get a healthy dose of cartoons, Saved By The Bell, and/or Power Rangers.
There is a reason you probably don’t remember these… because they were terrible. Sure… we could do the Billy Mays and George Foreman thing here… but wouldn’t you rather check out the Aromatrim and never eat chocolate again?
The high quality graphics, the catchy jingles, the cheesy lines - all must-haves that make this list of awesomely bad toy commercials from the 90’s possible.
It’s hard to believe how well the advertising worked back in the day, never failing to strongly influence our birthday/holiday wish lists. With the internet not yet a major part of our lives, we relied on TV to tell us what was cool. If not TV, then it was a friend’s toy collection and begging our parents for whatever could give us a one-up on the playground. Let’s face it, life was super complicated back then.
