money People Are Sharing The TV Shows They're Convinced Nobody Remembers But Them
I LOVE TV, and watch more than any one person probably should.
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And in my TV-watching career, I've discovered a lot of shows, some of which I feel like I'm the only one who remembers them.
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And I knew I wasn't alone in this feeling, so I asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell me which shows they loved and felt like they were the only ones on planet Earth who remembered. Get ready for a flood of memories to be unlocked.
1."State of Grace with Alia Shawkat and Mae Whitman before Arrested Development, with voice-over by Frances McDormand as a grown-up Alia."
"Alia plays a Jewish girl from New York in the 1960s, who moves to the South and becomes BFFs with Mae Whitman because of how accepting she is compared to a lot of the other kids. They basically billed it as a woman version of The Wonder Years on Fox Family (before they were on ABC Family)."
Author's note: I LOVED this show and demand a reboot ASAP!!! So if you're someone who can make that happen, do it, plz.
2."Bug Juice!"
3."Tru Calling! It was kind of like a mix of Groundhog Day and Ghost Whisperer."
"It was about a woman who works in a morgue. The dead bodies come to life and ask her to help them, then she has to relive the day and try to prevent their deaths."
4."My FAVORITE show growing up was Zoobilee Zoo!! Apparently not many people seem to remember."
5."So Weird. I loved the supernatural elements of this show. Watching it as a kid and now as an adult, it truly is a show everyone can watch. Would love to see a reboot. ;)"
—Anonymous
Author's note: This show was SO formative for me, and it had me and my friends convinced we were being haunted by ghosts and could communicate with aliens. I co-sign on this being rebooted.
6."There were two that come to mind, both on Nickelodeon: Taina and The Brothers Garcia."
"Taina had an awesome banger of an opening song. It was only on for two years but I loved that it featured people of color and Latinos which I hadn't seen a lot on television in the late '90s and early 2000s unless it was a stereotype. The Brother's Garcia also featured a big Latino family, but didn't rely on stereotypes and instead, it was literally just a family and the wildness that can happen."
— Anonymous
7."Living Single! I never see it mentioned but it was so good!"
"It's mentioned occasionally when people need reminding that it was the first and better version of Friends, lol."
8."Undressed on MTV. It was on pretty late at night and was a kind of risqué drama. I remember turning the volume super low because I knew my parents wouldn't let me watch it."
Author's note: This was the first time I saw Gay™ on TV and let's just say, IT CHANGED SOME THINGS.
9."Greg the Bunny. It had Seth Green and Eugene Levy. Didn't last long, but I loved that show!"
10."Joan of Arcadia, starring Amber Tamblyn as a teenage girl who sees God. I am not religious at all and even I liked it."
11."Xuxa!"
Author's note: In all my years on planet earth, I have NEVER met anyone besides my siblings who also remembers this show. This submission had me GAGGED. Xuxa was the definition of a fever dream. A sincere thank you to this user.
12."Grounded for Life! It was an early 2000s sitcom about a working-class family on Staten Island, but it did really unique things with story-telling before that was popular."
"Stories would start in the middle of the action, with someone skewing a retelling of events in their own favor, while the truth of what actually happened eventually came via the rest of the plot. Every episode involved someone's lies or manipulations falling apart, which was exactly as hilarious as it sounds. The first season episode 'Mrs. Finnerty, You've Got a Lovely Daughter' is a great example."
13."Space Precinct. It only lasted one season but that show made my life complete when I was 7."
"It was made by Gerry Anderson (the same guy who created Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, and Stingray). It was a glorious mess of mid '90s nonsense with a mildly decent theme song. And Idris Elba pops up in it as a space pizza delivery boy or something."
14."Wings!!!"
"It was on in the 1990s, and is about two brothers who ran a single-airplane airline on Nantucket, and all the other people who worked in the airport. I have the theme song as my ringtone, and when there’s nothing good on TV, it’s my go-to streaming series."
15."For me, it’s Roc. It was like a sitcom and a drama at the same time, kinda like most single-camera sitcoms today but it had the benefit of having acclaimed stage actors in the lead roles."
"It was an anomaly for both Fox and network TV at the time because it was a black sitcom but it was nothing like Cosby, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or Martin. It had more pathos and drama in between the comedy, and handled hot topics with honesty and class. It’s a shame that it’s not talked about more."
16."The Disney cartoon, The Weekenders. It was one of my favorites growing up, but it didn't last long (only 39 episodes)."
"The premise was that you started each episode on a Friday when the kids got out of school and followed their friend group as they enjoyed the weekend together."
17."Early Edition — a great show starring Kyle Chandler. I never hear or see anything about this show but I watched it when it originally aired on TV and loved it."
"A guy always gets tomorrow's newspaper delivered to his door, and he goes out and tries to fix things and do what he can to change the headlines for the better. Quite an original premise. And there's a cat that was always up to some kind of mischief."
—Anonymous
18."The Torkelsons. Dorothy would talk to the man in the moon. I always remember the episode where they trade their washer and dryer in!"
19."Anyone else have to Wikipedia Angela Anaconda periodically to make sure it wasn’t just a fever dream?"
"Yeah, what the hell was that!?"
"I sing the theme song all the time. 'My name is Angela, hey hello. Welcome to my very own show...'"
20."The Pretender. One of the greatest shows ever. Tried looking it up on different streaming services, but no luck."
—Anonymous
Author's note: My family had a near-unhealthy-level obsession with this show. Like, we owned every season on DVD and would rewatch it A LOT. It was kind of like Catch Me If You Can if it had an action movie twist.
21."Aliens in America. A 16-year-old Pakistani exchange student moves to Wisconsin post 9/11, and hilarity ensues. A great mix of funny, heartfelt, & thought-provoking."
22."As Told By Ginger on Nickelodeon. I still get cravings to watch that show and I’m now a 31-year-old mother."
—Anonymous
Author's note: Anybody remember when they go to the summer camp, Camp Caprice, and part of their camp song is, "At Camp Caprice-price-price we, don't say mooses, we say meece?" Because I still sing this more than anyone probably should.
23."Out of This World. It was about a girl who was half alien and had powers. I can still remember the theme song."
24."Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. Hilarious show, it’s the show that made me fall in love with Ryan Reynolds."
25."Kyle XY!!! Whenever I bring it up and try to explain it to someone I sound insane!"
"It's this show about a 16-year-old boy with grown in a test tube until he escaped (butt-ass-naked, and also has no belly button). He has the mind of an actual infant and a family just took him in!!"
26."The Secret Life of Toys (which had the idea of toys with their own lives years before Toy Story)."
27."The TV show on the WB, Popular. I loved that show but it only had a few seasons."
28."The Kids in the Hall, a Canadian sketch-comedy show from the '90s. It was subversive, dark, ahead of its time, and completely hilarious. They recently got back together and did a revival on Amazon Prime Video and it was just as great as the original."
Author's note: If anybody remembers the "Chicken Lady" character, please DM me immediately.
29."My Two Dads. It was a cute show about two guys who both thought they were the father of this young girl, but neither wanted to know the truth."
"They had two very different personalities, but they just made it work. Paul Reiser and Greg Evigan were the fathers, and Staci Keanan from Step by Step played the daughter."
—Anonymous
Thank you to everyone who submitted! It was so much fun to read through all of these submissions. What a nostalgic ride!
Note: submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
