Random things that were big in the '90s.

[StanleyTheCrane]

I'm trying to make up a quiz for a friend's birthday based on things that were popular in the '90s, plus I was just having fun reminiscing with another friend. So I wondered, what random and lesser known things do you remember being popular back then?

Riverdance is one I remember. That was so huge back then and I was obsessed with it and Michael Flatley. I remember watching Eurovision live when they had Michael Flatley and Jean Butler perform and being blown away by it.

Fun House

😂😂😂

These are fabulous 👍👌

Ah I miss the 90s! Great times!

Think I had most of the things on this thread!

Also loved Goosebumps and Point Horror books

Reef alcopop's

Yes Mystic Meg on the lottery I remember
Peter Andre from that era, used to fancy him (not now)
Loved Ronan Keating back then!

London's Burning on TV

Body shop bath pearls in all the animal shapes, I particularly liked the dolphins.
Also bang on the door characters and Live and Kicking!

Sweet valley high?
First matrix movie?

Loving this thread totally.
Yes to long jeans that soaked puddle water up. I remember some of them had embroidered flowers or patterns on and stuck on jewels.

The curtain hairstyle all the lads at school seemed to have.

I also remember scraping my hair back in a very high ponytail with gel and loads of hairspray and leaving two strands down at the front. Hideous but I thought I looked great

@StanleyTheCrane

Also does anyone remember these?

I know them as telephone bugs. I'm not sure what their actual name is but I felt like they were everywhere in the late '80s/early '90s.

I had completely forgotten these existed but they definitely were! I had one stuck to my bed. The name telephone bugs is familiar but I wonder why they were called that.

Oooh, also remember big glittery hair scrunches and 'All that she wants' by Ace of Base that I would play on repeat.

mad dog 20:20, probably the worst alcoholic drink ever

I was totally convinced by Mystic Meg.

Also Enya? Or was that just my hippy mother? :)

Tamagotchi pets
All things IKEA
First mobiles
Dado rails

Recording songs from the radio because buying albums was so expensive
Also learning the words to every song on every album you owned off by heart
And making mix tapes if you liked someone 😍

Hooch drinks
Sun in hair lightener
Kellogg's bike reflectors
Pyramint minty chocolate
Secret chocolate bar
911 and Backstreet Boys
Mr Motivator

@WellBrewedNoSugar

Bamboozle - the quiz on teletext Pound puppy teddies Reverse charge phone calls to your mum/dad when you needed picking up because you’d spent all your money so didn’t have change for the phone box

Lol at bamboozle!

Also there was a teen angst page and joke pages on teletext, and a few others I would check regularly.

Trevor and Simon swinging their pants.

Sock Shop.

Body Shop.

Snakebite and black.

Waistcoats, bodies, chokers, cargo trousers, cropped tops (I had a Little Miss Naughty one. Showed off my belly button piercing a treat).

Hugh Grant, Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, Keanu Reeves.

Boy bands, girl groups.

Allocation on arrival holidays off Teletext - a week for about a hundred quid.

National Lottery was introduced.
Council Tax was introduced.
MP3 players.
Polly Pocket.
GAP adverts.
Claire's Accessories was always crowded.

@StanleyTheCrane

Does anyone remember the adverts with Papa and Nicole? Apologies if anyone has already mentioned them.

Yes...a lifetime of this reference being brought up when telling people my name 🤣

Enya.

Lighthouse Family.

Savage Garden.

Simply Red.

DVD players on the hip belt with wired earphones.

Wrap around sunglasses and slap bands. Spectacular nail varnish in lurid colours. See through telephones. Yoyos.

I also remember scraping my hair back in a very high ponytail with gel and loads of hairspray and leaving two strands down at the front. Hideous but I thought I looked great

Ah yes, I remember sporting this look in the 90s, along with my dummy necklace, shag bangs, kickers shoes and silver bomber jacket 😂

I also seem to remember having lots of pendants on black strings with things like the yin yang sign and the yellow acid face on them

Panda Pops fizzy drinks
Push Pops
Inflatable small rucksacks
Head bags with detachable end
Strappy summer dress with t shirts underneath
Going to the newsagents to get a 10p mix
Always getting a cup with an Easter egg

Haven't RTFT but...

Tamagotchis
Cargo trousers with tassels that had reflective bits on the end
Crimped hair
Hair mascara
Them twizzly hair clip things with butterflies on
So... body spray
Mr Blobby
Spice Girls
Teletubby-mania
Dial up internet
Terrifying safety films at school eg Francis the Firefly
Push pop lollies
Furbies