People Are Sharing The Childhood TV Shows They Kind Of Remember, But Mostly Feel Like A Fever Dream

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"The theme song still pops into my head at the most random moments."

Recently, I asked the wonderful people of the BuzzFeed Community to share a childhood TV show they KNOW they watched as a kid, but it feels like a fever dream. Some core memories were unlocked in the process:

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1. "Salute Your Shorts. Camp Anawanma was awesome!"

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2. "Do do do do you have it? GUTS!!!!"

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3. "What was the show, back in the '70s, with the part about conjunctions? Their song was, 'Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.'"

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4. "The Big Comfy Couch."

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5. "Does anyone remember a cartoon called Street Frogs? Yeah…frogs…dressed in hip-hop gear…rapping. Someone greenlit that."

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6. "Bananas in Pyjamas. The theme song still pops into my head at the most random moments. I found myself humming it the other day and was so perplexed."

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7. "Braceface. All I really remember is sometimes the main character's braces could pick up radio signals/phone calls? But sometimes random snippets of the theme song will come into my head."

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8. "I remember some animated show about rats living in the White House."

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9. "There was a science show with a bunch of kids in the '80s called 3-2-1 Contact. They did experiments and had fun learning things. I remember really enjoying that show."

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10. "Almost Naked Animals. I think it was an animated show about animals in their underwear working at a hotel. But I can't remember exactly."

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11. "Kids' Writes. An improv show on Nickelodeon where the cast acted out ideas that kids sent them in the mail (this was before the internet)."

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12. "The Head. It was on MTV. A guy has a ridiculously large head, and an alien lives inside of it? I have no idea what any of the episodes were about. I don’t remember if I liked it, but I definitely watched it."

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13. "Dave the Barbarian."

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14. "Captain Kangaroo."

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15. "The Girl From Tomorrow must have been in the early ‘90s — pretty scant memories, but it was set in space; I remember a girl (Alana/Lana?) as the main character, and I am pretty sure time travel was involved."

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16. "Weinerville. It was a variety show that aired on Nickelodeon in the '90s, and I seem to be the only person I know who remembers it. I loved this show and how they 'shrunk' kids to become puppets and play games on the show. It was weird, funny, and full of adult jokes. As a kid, this show was as good as it got. You can still find old episodes on YouTube."

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17. "ReBoot was an amazing childhood show! One of my first introductions to computer animation TV."

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18. "I barely remember an '80s show about a family with a live-in maid that was a robot and looked like a little girl; she had a battery pack and everything. Oh...it's called Small Wonder!"

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19. "Liberty’s Kids on PBS walked so Hamilton could run. Sorry, Lin Manuel Miranda, you weren’t the first to rap about the American Revolution."

20. "Maggie and the Ferocious Beast."

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21. "It has bugged me for years that I can't remember the name of this show, but it was a game show where kids had to complete tasks, and one was swimming in a giant filthy sink to collect items from it. I remember the huge taps and toothbrushes!"

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22. "Lamb Chop's Play Along! I know I didn't dream it up."

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23. "Rolie Polie Ollie...I loved it! His little sister was the cutest."

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24. "The New Adventures of Madeline. About an orphanage in France with many little girls, the leader of which was Madeline. It used to end with a scene of the Eifel Tower in every episode."

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25. "There was a kid show my family used to watch reruns of in the late '90s about a dinosaur family. I think the name of it was Dinosaurs. It was live-action and creepy but also kind of funny."

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26. And lastly, so long, farewell, to you, my friends: "Out Of The Box! It was a show on Disney Channel, and I loved it."

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What about you? Is there a show you remember watching but can't pinpoint exactly what it was? Comment below!

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