I'm Remembering!

To celebrate, Mental Floss will be posting quizzes all day about — you guessed it — stuff that was popular when various writers were kids. Which is kind of what we do here all day errday.

Check back and let me know how well you remember the original 9 Beanie Babies.

Huge Wooden TV Sets
[Pinterest]

Huge Wooden TV Sets

[Pinterest]

Muppets Lunch Box
[Pinterest]

Muppets Lunch Box

[Pinterest]

Do you remember?

“What is the brown cartoon bed time story bear from the ’80s or ’90s that carries a blanket and wears a night cap and looks stoned all the time? Not a Care Bear.”

-Submitted by a reader

Sock’em Boppers
via eversonpoe (Taken with Instagram at Mom & Dad’s)

Sock’em Boppers

via eversonpoe (Taken with Instagram at Mom & Dad’s)

Raw Toonage
When Tom Hanks Invented the eBook Reader in 1988
via scrapsity

When Tom Hanks Invented the eBook Reader in 1988

via scrapsity

Beanie Babies, 1996
via hillarybuckholtz:
Source

Beanie Babies, 1996

via hillarybuckholtz:

Source

Kay Bee Toys Ad, 1992
[Flickr]
Kay Bee Toys Ad, 1992
[Flickr]
Best Buy, 1996
[Buzzfeed]

Best Buy, 1996

[Buzzfeed]

The Leggs Egg
Cherry Merry Muffins
Source: Flickr

Cherry Merry Muffins

Source: Flickr

Hang Time Gum
Source: collectingcandy

Hang Time Gum

Source: collectingcandy