Today's TL;DR is a very special TL;DR
We are doing the 90's Kid Tag
in which we are going to answer some questions about our lives in the 90s
Are we from the 90s?
Yeah.
We lived through the 90s, so we're from the 90s
We're 90s kids
We were still kids in the 90s
I suppose we were kids in the 90s
Yes.
You cannot talk about the 80s when you are like "I was 3 years old"
Or something like that, right? I guess you could..
My favourite diaper brand was...
Question #1: What was our favourite TV show?
I know mine.
Favourite TV show?
I was a huge Sailor Moon fan.
That's for sure.
And I liked "Gargoyles"
I don't think I can choose which was my favourite.
My answer for #1, my favourite TV show was "Inside Stuff"
Did you ever watch "Inside Stuff"?
I don't even know the name of that show
Yeah, it was a basketball program and it showed you like highlights throughout the week
Of like the best dunks and they had interviews of NBA players
Whoa, you were a fun kid to hang out with
And it'd be like "And my name is Ahmad Rashad..
Ahmad Rashad I want the inside stuff"
I freakin loved that show!
I would watch it again as an adult.
It was so well done.
Was that a kid's show?
Yes. Well I'm not sure
if it was for kids, but I played a lot of basketball growing up, so...
I was like "Sailor Moon" and "Gargoyles"!
Ahmad Rashad I want the inside stuff.
You didn't watch "X-Men"?
[Martina singing the "X-Men" op]
"X-Men". Easily.
Well ok, that's not to match basketball and
Marvel
Question #2: What was your favourite toy?
Simon's going to be like, "My favourite toy's a basketball!"
Probably..
I didn't have toys.
My-- when I was 7 years old, my brother said,
"Here is a basketball, this is all you are going to do from now on."
And I hero-worshipped my brother when I was a kid
So I did everything he told me to do
I played nothing but basketball from then on out
I don't remember having toys as a kid
Seriously.
Ok, I remember a toy that wasn't necessarily my favourite toy
But it was really fun
Do you remember the "Skip-It"?
Skiiiip it, skiiiip it
Oh wait. Oh my God! Was that thing that went around...
And the very best thing of all, is there's a counter on this ball.
Yeah I know, I remember the neighbours...
I never owned one, but exactly, my neighbour has had one
The rich neighbours had one and I just looked at it like,
"I am just going to play with my ball that doesn't have a counter on it."
Well you did kind of grow up kind of poor, so...
That explains it all.
"Skip-It" wasn't really my favourite toy.
I was very much an imagination kid though
So I didn't really...
"My favorite toy as a kid was my imagination..
Ahahahahaha aha,
Imagination land,
O ho, ho.. I'm the princess today
Oh speak to me, my friends!"
I was usually a unicorn
My name was Uni
I liked playing with the garden
and the plants
You're so.. endearing
And the insects.
Ok, question #3: What was your favourite TV commercial?
Martina just ruined it. It was "Skip-It"
Hm... I spent a lot of time outdoors to be honest...
Me too.
Don't we sound like outdoors-y children? We're like
"I played basketball in imagination land"
The only commercial I can remember as a kid is "They think I eat too many chocolate bars"
"People think that I eat too many chocolate bars,
Or that I don't wash my face"
Oh it's a Canadian one.
It was a Canadian one
For acne, that's right.
And I had terrible acne as a kid also, so it really.. spoke to me.
That's sad.
Ok...
I REMEMBER MY FAVORITE TV COMMERCIAL!
Ok, let's hear it.
"I can put my arm back on"
"You can't"
I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe
You lived the life of terror
It was a robot. It was flying around in like a factory.
And then she jumps through and there's a buzz saw and it chops off her arm
And you're like "Oh my God!"
Because we say that for Martina
Every time she dislocates her shoulder, she wakes up like [M]And she relocates it and I'm like-
What do you mean 'she'? Stop speaking about yourself in 3rd person.
I was talking about the robot in the commercial
Oh, I was talking about you about how you always like pop your joints back in in the morning.
Was it for the... It was a War Amp commercial, wasn't it?
It was about 'play safe'
What's with all of the 'play safe' commercials? I just remembered them all
"Don't put it in your mouth. Play safe." I was very scared apparently.
"Don't you put it in your mouth"
"Uh uh."
This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.
"This is your brain on drugs."
AAAHAHHAGVAAHAAHHAHA
"This is is what your family goes through,
And your friends,
And your money!"
And now there is a commercial:
This is your brain on drugs, you could be the mayor of Toronto.
OOOOOOooohhh
Next question is: *NSYNC or Backstreet Boys?
Pass. [M]Really?
A Tribe Called Quest or De La Soul was the question I had when growing up as a kid.
And definitely A Tribe Called Quest
I know some people are going to say De La Soul had a better discography overall
But nothing beats "Midnight Marauders" or "The Low End Theory"
What about Hanson?
Oh God. The magazines.
Oh God.
I liked Hanson.
White people music. I don't know.
I went to the concerts at Canada's Wonderland
Even though I liked heavy metal
Secret shame
But seriously. [S]Not secret anymore.
Hanson and the Backstreet Boys, that's who I would pick
Question #5: What was the weirdest fashion trend that we did?
I know for me it's definitely one pant leg rolled up
Oh... Oh no...
We had different upbringings, didn't we?
I in fact had like a fake pimp walk
That I used to do around the school [M] Did you? [S]Yes
I'm going to show you the fake pimp walk
How can you show them the fake pim-
This is how I used to walk.
Ok...
Your left knee has to bend a lot more when you walk
The pimp walk
I also recall seeing pictures of you wearing visors
Like upside down
Visors... ugh...
You did have cornrows as well at some point
Yep. That just came out there
Ugh...
Oooh
It burns with embarrassment.. Ahh
If only your friends knew that you were reviewing K-pop
The shame
None of them have seen my channel, I'm sure.
I know some of your old friends have emailed you
But nobody that I...
Or they saw it and were like "We'll never speak of this" and they just closed it
Ok, weirdest trend for me...
I did not like how guys used to take their bangs and they would part them off to the side.
Do you remember that? You would have like almost a shaved head
And then you would have just bangs
And then thy would just part them like this.
Right.
You don't remember that?
You look so terrible now
And they were like really long.
Please fix them again. It looks really really bad.
Question #6: Favourite collectibles
Um.. I used to collect a baseball book.
It was like when the Blue Jays were really, really big
Do you remember the Blue Jay songs?
Ok [M]Ok
Blue Jays [M]Blue Jays
Let's [M]Let's
Play [M]Play
Ball.
Even nerdier than that I actually collected Marvel cards
Where are they now?
I don't know but I bet you they are worth like a bajillion dollars
I had the full set
Inside my mall, the Pickering Town Center, they had a little island in the middle
In which you could buy sports cards and they also sold like little decks of Marvel cards
Really?
I had the Sabretooth and Wolverine
I remember I had a complete set and I would use that to draw
because I wanted to be "I know my name is Simon, I like to draw drawings"
Yes I drew drawings of X-Men, okay? Shut up
I did not know this stage of your life
Really?
How have you not shared this with me?
I used to draw because my brother's first wife
She used to draw and she taught me about the smudging
You would draw with a pencil and then smudge a bit to make shadows.
I was like, "Holy crap, this is cool"
I used to like draw and smudge everything
There you go. And I had a Marvel collection.
You didn't know about that part of my life. [M]No.
I had baseball cards, and I would go to the convenient store and I didn't get allowance
Everyone was like ".. with my allowance", I had a job
I had a job, too
Throwing newspapers at people's doors
I baby-sat and I cleared driveways
And then when I got to grade 8 I worked at the deli
at Dominions
Slicing meat. And then I sliced off my finger and had to go to the hospital
And have it reattached.
That's another story, though
Question #7: Favourite game console and game
This is going to be tough for me
Because there are some games that really defined my life
Like when it came to Playstation 1, the first game I got for that
Was Final Fantasy VII and that's what really got me into JRPGs
Was that with Sephiroth?
Sephiroth, yeah, Sephiroth and Cloud
Because I only got into that after I broke my ankle
And I wasn't allowed to play basketball for four weeks
I was like, "What am I going to do?
I might as well start playing this game."
And I played it like a hundred hours
I got a ranch full of gold Chocobo
I got every single materia mastered
I was totally into the game
And from then on that's how I got into RPGs
But also it was like NBA Live 98
It was a game I played with my friends
And Glen Rice, he had like 103 points
he could do fade away 3 points
I never lost
Um, I didn't have a game console growing up
I was a very outdoors-y child
I have my imagination~
My imagination land.
I played outside and I used the twigs as controllers~
But my neighbours, David Lee and Christine Lee, they had game systems
And I used to play Sonic the Hedgehog with David.
And we used to play Zelda.
And you never played Zelda.
But I played Zelda and I remember us getting on our bikes
And biking up the streets to try to get the game code
Because we heard that there was a cheat that our friend had in those magazines you could buy
Those like cheat codes
Why are you holding your heart like you're about to die
I actually just remembered one of the saddest memories of my life
When you were talking about this
Do you want to share it with the audience?
When I was young, my neighbour a few houses down from me
Her name was Michelle
And downstairs she had the Nintendo Power Pad
That you could run on
Like that.
"The Nintendo Power Pad puts you in total control"
And I remember going to her house
And we'd play all of the time and I was sure that at 7 years old I fell in love with her
And I was supposed to marry her or something along those lines
And then one day they just moved away
And I... there wasn't a good-bye.
She was just gone forever
And I just remembered that as a kid, and I was really devastated
And luckily my neighbour at the time, Rowman, was like
"Here, I will teach you how to play chess"
And he had accent like this
And that's what I just remembered
Because of the Power Pad
I don't know where you are but I'll kill you!
I'll find you when you sleep and I'll kill you!
Mine.
Can't have him back.
Well I also thought I was going to marry Paula Abdul when I was a kid, okay? So that doesn't-
Straight up now, tell me do you really want to love me forever?
Oh oh oh
Oh my God! "Duck Hunt!"
Pew pew pew pew, quack quack quack
Question #8: Favourite music artist?
I already mentioned it, A Tribe Called Quest for me was definitely canonical.
Or D'Angelo
Oh yes.
Yes. D'Ang.... Nononononono
Before D'Angelo. Jodeci
Is what really taught me about love making
Just been forced in... [S]Every time I close my eyes
I wake up feeling so horny
I can't believe that's a real song
I can't get you out of my mind
Sexy you be all I need
I would do anything
Ok, can you just be sexy off the chair? [S]Alright
I liked Smashing Pumpkins
I liked Smashing Pumpkins, saw them live in concert many times
And the very first tape that I ever bought
was No Doubt
The Spiderwebs album the, what's it called... Oh my God... Something garden?
It has a cover of her holding an orange like this
And that was when I was blown away by ska for the first time
And then I went into Goldfinger and then I went through that whole...
Next question is: Favourite Nick Jr. show
And I don't even know what that means
Because I think this is American bias
Must be 'Murican
So we are going to go for either YTV or Nickelodeon
The only show that I remember from YTV was... I think this was on YTV
"Reboot"
Oh, I loved "Reboot"
[M]Hexadecimal! [S]Which was freakin' amazing. Like the graphics
Even to this day they withstand the test of time
"To mend and defend"
Better computer animation that's ever been seen ever before
And the names were so nerdy.
Do you remember Hexadecimal and what was the really- the bad guy's name with the big jaw?
It's all based off of virus names,
Remember?
Uh... Virotron?
There was no Virotron
Um... Megabite?
Megabite! [S]Was that it?
I just made that up. [M]Yes it was Megabite
I liked... "So You're Afraid of the Dark?" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
They used to sit around a camp fire and be like
Dururururuduru. And they would tell stories
Ok. Favourite candy?
Easy for me: Skittles
I remember when my sister worked at a drug store
She had a discount of 50% off candy
So I went to there once with $18 and I bought 36 packs of Skittles
And I ate them all in one sitting
I opened up all of the bags
And dumped them on my bed
And I went like a vacuum like aaaaahhhh
And I took a bunch of Skittles. You take two skittles and you mush them together to make Skittle pancakes
So... That's how I almost got diabetes
I didn't eat candy
There was no candy in my house
"I ate fruit that I got from the trees outside with my imaginary friends
Nature's candy"
We didn't have any fruit trees
We only had a crab apple tree which I'm pretty sure is poisonous
Okay. Favourite game. It can be like a board game or a school game.
Or it could be a basketball... game...
I am going to go for basketball
Which I played for 3 hours a day
as a kid. So yes. Basketball
What did I play?
I had a lot of imaginative games that I played.
Like: stand on the line and see if you can run on it the longest
You can only turn on these certain points of area
And I used to be a unicorn.
And I played in the pool a lot
And I did a lot of things that were imaginative
I think that you've understood a lot more about Martina today than you ever had in any of our videos.
Next question is: Favourite book
And I'm going to say "Pass" because I didn't read at all, as a kid
And I remember my teachers being like,
"Why don't you read?" And I'm like, "I play basketball, I have no time for reading"
Yeah, Simon almost failed straight out of school
Noooo! I don't want to talk about this.
Um... I liked reading Michael Crichton. I read a lot of "Jurassic Park"
And "Sphere" and "Congo" and did a book reports on them.
Because I liked reading a lot.
I skipped English class by taking summer school
because it was too easy for me
So I skipped a grade
Even though I pretended to be a dummy I actually skipped a grade also
Well you skipped a grade. I didn't skip a grade. I just took English in summer school in high school
because I was too bored.
I skipped an entire grade because I was so smart
But then I realized I didn't have any friends, so I pretended to be dumb
And then just stopped reading
And then he just "pretended" to be dumb
You know what book I actually really liked?
I started reading the "Wheel of Time"
By Robert Jordan
I don't remember when the first one came out
but my baka (grandma) bought it for me for my birthday one year
Because I was really into fantasy novels at that time
I read like Terry Brooks and everything.
And then, I caught up to the novels
So she'd buy them for me and I'd catch up to it
And I'd have to wait
And I remember distinctly in like the end of high school or university
Another book being released
And me being like, "Holy sh*t, I'm so far behind"
And then Robert Jordan died...
That sucked.
So... [S]You should talk about this for another 5 minutes
Ok, I'm done.
So that's it for this week's TL;DR
We usually wind up looking over some of the comments from before
But I don't feel like this is really relevant to Korea itself, so
I think we are going to save the comment discussion for next TL;DR
We had some really good ones about the blood types last week
So what I want to know from you guys
In the comment section below is: Are you a 90s kid?
Are you an 80s kid?
Are you a 70s kid?
Or were you just born last year and have you just started watching our videos
In which case: googoo gaga
In which case, we are good, positive influential role models for you
Who teach you about Jodeci and the bad, bad words of the songs that they sing
What must I say?
What must I do?
To show how much I think about breakin' you.
Every freakin' night
And every freakin' day
I wanna freak you baby, in every freakin' way!