I had to look Alf up because I thought it didn't qualify--but you just snuck in It was on from 1986 to 1990. How it lasted more than 1 episode, I'll never know.
lol there was one floating around our house many many years ago... like maybe when i was 10... came home from school one day and one of the dogs got to it... alf no more. lol
Saved by the Bell
Beavis and Butthead
The Simpsons
My parents used to watch Seinfeld and Frasier and I thought both were sooo stupid... Now that I'm an adult, they were both genius!
Nickelodeon shows:
Hey Dude
Salute Your Shorts
Wild and Crazy Kids
Ren and Stimpy (NOT a kid's show!)
Rocko's Modern Life (even worse than Ren and Stimpy in the inappropriate department!)
Doug
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Video Games:
Mario Kart
Donkey Kong
Sonic the Hedgehog
Mortal Kombat
Doom
Quake
SimFarm
I remember when going to a video arcade was a legitimately cool thing to do...
Discovery Zone (way better than Chuck E. Cheese)
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Dumb and Dumber, Tommy Boy, Ninja Turtles I & II (pretend III never happened)...
Nerf guns, Super Soakers and water-balloon slingshots
When it was cool to have a "system" in your car... I see that's coming back now, as a lot of high-school kids have loud stereos in my area this summer...
When Abercrombie and Fitch first became a mainstream brand... Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Polo and Abercrombie all meant you were a "prep" when I was in middle school...
Listening to my CD Walkman all the time in junior high...