Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.
This Week’s Theme:
Characters Who Drank From
The Fountain of Youth
Initial Thoughts:
The original prompt considered revisiting favourite childhood characters when they’re older. But I can’t do that because if I imagine them any differently, the nostalgia is gone. SO THEY WILL FOREVER LIVE ON AS FOREVER YOUNG.
All of these will be from 90’s television (cartoons) and movies as I have zero books to pull answers from to apply to this prompt.
Pokemon
Pokemon was a pretty big part of my childhood. Huge, actually. I remember my brother beat me up (ish) because I caught a Pokemon he couldn’t way back in Red/Blue. Such is life. But seriously, through 21837289321 seasons, Ash has not aged a bit and that is how it shall remain in my mind.
Rugrats
I grew up watching the still-baby version (and that’s the one I will always remember) but I came across this grown up image one day and they’re all incredibly hipster and good looking — but I kinda dig it. (Artwork re Isaiah Stevens – deviantArt)
Hey Arnold!
Another childhood afterschool favourite! Seriously, can you imagine if his odd overgrown head also hit puberty? It’d be the size of a UFO or something. Isaiah, the artist of above, also crafted a Grown Up version of the cast in this show.
Big Comfy Couch
Imagine if the dust bunnies in this show kept accumulating…dust.
Magic School Bus
I loved the days when we watched MSB in elementary school. Can I just say that if I had a kid enrolled in Frizzles class and had to sign a “field trip” slip consenting their attendance, I’d constantly murmur to said child, “okay kiddo, where the fuck are you going this time?” Anyways, I digress, they’re forever children in my eyes.
Spongebob Squarepants
You know what a real sponge would look like with age and use? A brick of mold.
Are You Afraid of the Dark / Goosebumps
These shows explored my fascination with the eerie and spooky but I’ll let these tales sit in the past because checking up on them (e.g. reading the synopsis) would kill that nostalgia because they’d all seem so ridiculous.
Home Alone
The now Kevin McCallister (re Macaulay Culkin) is just…no. The youngster version of him will live on forever in the traditions of Winter movie marathons.
Jumanji
Am I the only one who actually wanted this game to exist IRL as a kid? Deadly, perhaps, but it look so fun!
The Little Rascals
The charm of “I have two pickles, I have two pickles, I have two pickles today hey hey!” exists only as a child.
Afterthoughts:
Any television shows or movies you cannot un-see the youthfulness of its characters?
Cheers,
Joey
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thoughts and afterthoughts. 
Hmm, definitely Rugrats. I loved that show ^_^ But also Mia from the Princess Diaries. I don’t want to see her past that awkward stage.
Where are they then? My TTT.
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I feel like I’ve seen all the Princess Diaries films but my mind is also drawing blanks to this awkwardness you speak of. Perhaps I’m due for a re-watch or something.
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Oh, c’mon, beginning of the film where she’s all frizzy haired, nearly uni-browed, and making eyebrow raises at herself in the mirror? lol.
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Aren’t the cast of Hey Arnold already highschool students? But hey, I miss that one.
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Unless their was a remake, I’m pretty sure they were elementary school kids? Maybe. My memory could be failing me haha.
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Kevin McCallister would be hilarious to see as an adult! I would want to see what the cast of Party of Five was up to, if I picked a 90’s TV show. 🙂
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Either McCallister aged terribly or Macaulay Culkin is a legit adult carbon copy of his younger self (well…I would hope so?). It’d be interesting to see him pull pranks since “pranking” is such a big thing on YouTube. Too bad drugs (or something?) got the best of him.
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Do you think he’d watch his ex-fiance’s husband’s prank show to get some ideas? Lol.
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I HAVE NEVER MET ANYONE ELSE WHO WATCHED THE BIG COMFY COUCH. Sorry for the caps lock rage, but this is a BIG MOMENT FOR ME. That show was my childhood.
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*Cues clock stretching music*
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Oh. My. Gosh. YES.
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This is perfect! Great take on the prompt. Nostalgia is definitely happening right now
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There can never be too much nostalgia.
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Spongebob still comes on with new episodes, He can’t grow old. Hahaha, I loved all these shows as a kid and now I’m pushing them on my kids.
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That’s awesome! There’s something special about 90s cartoons that I don’t get with a lot of newer shows now (to be fair, I don’t religiously follow cartoons now–only watch a few minutes of it in passing).
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Amazing take on the prompt. I’d love to see how the Rugrats were getting on! 😀
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They’d all be obsessed over Jurassic Park (Reptar), that’s for sure.
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Ahahaha, Magic School Bus! I put this on for the four-year-olds I teach sometimes. They’re always so riveted, though it did take them quite a few tries saying “Ms. Frizzle”.
Also, I’m pretty sure Ryan Gosling was in an AYAotD or Goosebumps episode. I kind of know this because my sister and I ended up putting it on Netflix one day and going: “…that looks like a kid version of Ryan Gosling. OMG IT IS.”
Oh childhood shows.
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I knew him before he got all buff and good looking and Notebook-y. I’M THE ORIGINAL FAN.
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Ah, Ash ketchum, the eternal 10-year-old and a pokemon trainer. A kid’s dream.
I would really want to see Caillou as an adult LOL idk why it would be pretty depressing
and I would like to see Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable as adults. That would be really nostalgic..But I also think they would make pretty good-looking adults haha
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Forever 10 year old? More like everyone’s dream. OH MY GOSH HOW COULD I FORGET CAILLOU AND AN AGED GILBERT. I never questioned why Caillou was bald though…
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maybe cause being a 10 year old wasn’t my favorite thing in the world LOL
OMG GILBERT. HE’D PROBABLY BE DEAD THOUGH. HA.
oh..now that you mention it..I can’t imagine as anything but bald lol.
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Oh the memories! I loved most of these growing up, and I would also love to see how everyone from Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Big Comfy Couch, and The Magic School Bus, turned out! Great Top Ten! 😀
My TTT.
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#Team90sCartoons, am I right?
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RIGHT! 😀
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I have always been baffled at the fact that Ash could just walk out of his home in his PJ’s at 10 years old to be a Pokemon trainer. Like, he could have at least changed before he left haha.
The Rugrats movie was on the other day and I had such a trip down memory lane. It was like my childhood coming back to me since The Wild Thornberry’s film was on after the Rugrats. 😀
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Is this where you admit to me that Eliza Thornberry is your spirit cartoon figure?
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Basically yes. Didn’t you know I could talk to animals?
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Rugrats and Hey Arnold!
I’d also add Ahh Real Monsters. 🙂
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I’m not familiar with Ahh Real Monsters but I’ll take your word for it!
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They did make a version of Rugrats where the characters were in high school.
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I’ve definitely seen some episodes of those on passing! I think I’m more interested in university+ Rugrats with modern Nick kids animations (if that makes sense).
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Oh my gosh, Rugrats and Magic School Bus!! The nostalgia. And I think I own one of the Pokemon movies but I was never really into it. I do remember watching Dragon Ball Z with the neighborhood Viets though. XD
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NOT INTO POKEMON??? I…my opinion of you has changed, Summer.
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There were way too many of them… and they evolved, too. Like how could a kid keep up with all that?
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