That food dehydrator was classic. Look, dehydrated banana slices! And beef jerky!! He makes it for the grandkids! Let's drag them out.

I also used to watch the one over and over about the kitchen device that made whipped cream. And Psychic Friends Network, and Kenny Kingston with poor Denise Nicholas...

They even changed the Attacking Anxiety infomercial, which I used to watch sometimes and find unintentionally hilarious (I think it was the uber-serious specialists, and the "inspirational" music).

They take the fun out of everything on TV. At least we have our memories.

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Oh gahhhd, Kenny Kingston and that HAIR. Wait, no, I'm thinking of someone else, Kenny's the old guy, who was the psychic who looked kinda like Kenny Rogers and had that sprayed to death mauvish-blond cascading afro? Do you know who I'm talking about?

My dad and I seriously watched infomercials like shows, and were not shy about watching the same ones over and over again, we were genuinely excited by many of the products, the food dehydrator ("Daddy, he made turkey jerky!") and juicers in particular. I am ashamed to admit that I have bought no less than four ab contraptions, and anyone wanna guess how often they've been used? Here's a hint, look at your left hand.

I'm going to take you back to when you were probably a little tyke and throw out one word: Leeza. Awesome trash! Lerza used to put on her make-up with a trowel. And she fronted a Days-pimping show, too. I think Patrika Darbo was on there sometimes for the makeover episodes.

Leeza was so good. She tried hard to be very topical. There's actually an episode on YouTube I dug up of her having guests on talking about Gulf War Syndrome. You'd never see that on a talkshow today unless it was discussed by the women of The View or Oprah's smug self.

Her crappy piano theme.

Ricki Lake was awesome. I loved the Lie Detector episodes with the Lie Detector dude who spoke in a monotone ("...and da Lie Detector says... YOU LIED"). Oh, and the ones were somebody who cheated on an old boyfriend would come on the show wanting him back five years later. Ricki would bring him on and ask him "Who do you think asked that you come on the show today?" He'd list about 20 women's names (none of which were the person in question) before she'd get bored and foghorn "OK SHANAYNAY. C'MON OUT HERE!"

Man, I totally forgot. Ricki Lake did the Lie Detector before Maury?! Man, I forgot all about that.

LOL, did nobody like Oprah and Dr. Phil? The high-brow talk show hosts?

YUCK! NO!

And Dr. Phil stopped being High-Brow after season one. He's a bigger budgeted Maury or Jerry Springer.

I loved Sally Jesse's show. It was fun without ever being too nasty, and it also produced that hilarious parody on SNL with Ana Gasteyer as Sally Jesse and Christina Ricci as the boot camp teen gone very wild.

Sally Jesse quit before it got to that level. Good for her. She went out on a halfway decent note.

Nothing ever beat Jenny Jones for me. Plus, she reminded me of Melissa Reeves.

"You're Too Fat to Wear That" and Rude Jude.

And awful infomercials (infomercials used to be fun, now they just seem to be more and more with fake news reporters sitting on a fake set), awful reruns of stuff I didn't want to see in the first place...I even miss staying up to see the National Anthem/see the plane flying around and then hear the test pattern.

My local NBC station used to play this gorgeous version of the National Anthem by men in the airforce or something. Skips theatrics and sings the anthem the way it's supposed to be. I wish I could find it on YouTube.

I wonder how she got that job!!!

I'm going to take you back to when you were probably a little tyke and throw out one word: Leeza. Awesome trash! Lerza used to put on her make-up with a trowel. And she fronted a Days-pimping show, too. I think Patrika Darbo was on there sometimes for the makeover episodes.

Ricki Lake was awesome. I loved the Lie Detector episodes with the Lie Detector dude who spoke in a monotone ("...and da Lie Detector says... YOU LIED"). Oh, and the ones were somebody who cheated on an old boyfriend would come on the show wanting him back five years later. Ricki would bring him on and ask him "Who do you think asked that you come on the show today?" He'd list about 20 women's names (none of which were the person in question) before she'd get bored and foghorn "OK SHANAYNAY. C'MON OUT HERE!"

But those Ricki Lake drag queen makeovers were SO cheap-ass bad.

I also loved Jenny Jones and Sally Jessy Raphael (can you tell I was a college student in the 90s?). Sally was awesome because no matter how crazy the subject matter, she seemed to really care about the people that came on and had a lot of follow-up episodes to check up on how they were doing.

LOL, did nobody like Oprah and Dr. Phil? The high-brow talk show hosts?

Oh Cat, we would have had the best time in the 90s.

Leeza was faaaaaaaaabulously tacky. But what I loved about her, probably above all others, is how comfortable she was/is with lampooning herself. She did an episode of Tracey Ullman's sketch show on HBO that killed.

Ricki Lake I loved because she was somebody who had a helluva comeback in an arena that suited her to a T. "OK SHANAYNAY C'MON OUT HERE!"

Jenny Jones I liked because she knew it was just so ludicrous and she was still glam and fun. Simply because her guests were slumming it never stopped Jenny from looking like she was off to tea at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Sally Jesse Raphael is one of my favourites. The glasses, the hair, the suits, the sincerity. LORD did I ever love her show. Remember her show therapist, Dr Pat Ferrare? Why the hell didn't that woman get her own show?!

Now Oprah...darling Oprah. I have to say, I love Oprah. I think she changed the face of the medium we know as television in a tremendously influential way. She is certainly pompous, very entitled and she's lost touch with the world she used to live in...but still, for who she was I love Oprah Winfrey.

Oprah was better when she was trashy. I hated when she got all Angel Network and spiritual on us, and I haven't liked her since.

Ricki and Jenny were my girls.

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Oh Cat, we would have had the best time in the 90s.

Leeza was faaaaaaaaabulously tacky. But what I loved about her, probably above all others, is how comfortable she was/is with lampooning herself. She did an episode of Tracey Ullman's sketch show on HBO that killed.

Ricki Lake I loved because she was somebody who had a helluva comeback in an arena that suited her to a T. "OK SHANAYNAY C'MON OUT HERE!"

Jenny Jones I liked because she knew it was just so ludicrous and she was still glam and fun. Simply because her guests were slumming it never stopped Jenny from looking like she was off to tea at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Sally Jesse Raphael is one of my favourites. The glasses, the hair, the suits, the sincerity. LORD did I ever love her show. Remember her show therapist, Dr Pat Ferrare? Why the hell didn't that woman get her own show?!

Now Oprah...darling Oprah. I have to say, I love Oprah. I think she changed the face of the medium we know as television in a tremendously influential way. She is certainly pompous, very entitled and she's lost touch with the world she used to live in...but still, for who she was I love Oprah Winfrey.

Can i join the 90's party?! LOL. Lets have a flashback to an alt timeline where Cat, DF & JP share a fashioable upscale loft in some amazing city and spent out afternoons watching daytime tv and sipping on cran & vodka. Yes, please. I like this alt timeline.

I love everything above.

And Oprah is fab. I cant wait for the OWN Network. her nightime talk show should be called OWN the night! lol.

My local NBC station used to play this gorgeous version of the National Anthem by men in the airforce or something. Skips theatrics and sings the anthem the way it's supposed to be. I wish I could find it on YouTube.

I don't know if they still do, but D.C.'s Howard University's WHUT used to end their broadcast day with this version of The Black National Anthem:

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Can i join the 90's party?! LOL. Lets have a flashback to an alt timeline where Cat, DF & JP share a fashioable upscale loft in some amazing city and spent out afternoons watching daytime tv and sipping on cran & vodka. Yes, please. I like this alt timeline.

I love everything above.

And Oprah is fab. I cant wait for the OWN Network. her nightime talk show should be called OWN the night! lol.

That would be amazing, what say you Cat? I wonder which city we should plan this alternate time in?

And just in case anyone was wondering whatever happened to Jenny Jones (I was!), she has a HUGE website www.jennyjones.com and the woman is insanely cool. She's set up a foundation where she's dedicating $2 million of her own money to people who send her requests up to $25,000 for things that would benefit their local community. She lives in LA and seems to be having a fantastic time.

And the SNL sketch of her show is on her site too.

Brains, generosity and a sense of humor = a truly fabulous lady.

Can i join the 90's party?! LOL. Lets have a flashback to an alt timeline where Cat, DF & JP share a fashioable upscale loft in some amazing city and spent out afternoons watching daytime tv and sipping on cran & vodka. Yes, please. I like this alt timeline.

And I can be your b!tchy building owner!

And Oprah is fab. I cant wait for the OWN Network. her nightime talk show should be called OWN the night! lol.

Really? I kind of did, then she just lost me.

And I can be your b!tchy building owner!

Really? I kind of did, then she just lost me.

YES!

I understand why some people dont dig Oprah but i love her. i love her show. i love her story. i love it all.

I adored Oprah before she became so self-important. She doesn't even bother to let her guests talk any more. She is always interrupting. That being said, I know tons of white and black women who still absolutely love Oprah.

I adored Oprah before she became so self-important. She doesn't even bother to let her guests talk any more. She is always interrupting. That being said, I know tons of white and black women who still absolutely love Oprah.

I LOVE IT! LOL. I feel these bitches on her show should be happy she even is in the same room with them. Joking... sort of...

Im a bisexual white boy from the burbs who has loved her from the time i was like 12. She has a very universal appeal.

Oprah... Turned into a cliché, a simplistic formula (a really bad one), there's just nothing there...

Leeza came on too early around these parts for me to ever watch her. I think she was on at like 10am-ish, when I was being a good little boy in elementary school. Ricki, Jerry, Sally, etc. were all so accessible, though. I got home, had a little time to fight with long division, and then some of the neighbors would come over and we'd all partake in the trash. Yes, we lived in a trailer park.

One of the best memories I have of Ricki Lake was how at the end when the credits would roll, Ricki, the entire audience, some of the guests, and even some of the production people would be dancing their asses off and screaming "Go Ricki! Go Ricki! Go Ricki! Go Ricki!" in time with the theme music. And also, the hilarious episode titles..."You're Too Fat to Be a Drag Queen!!" and "You Give Gays a Bad Name!!" Good times, man. Good flipping times.

I have never, ever, ever been really that big into Oprah. We like Oprah the actress more than Oprah the mogul. Give us "You tol' Harpo to beat me?" any day of the week. Dr. Phil, I used to like, but like it has already been said, he's just a pretentious Maury clone. One of my high school teachers LOVED him and we'd watch episodes of his show in class.

Remember the shorter-lived shows? Me and my brother watched Tempestt Bledsoe's show every single day it was on. I also loved Queen Latifah's show.