Anime/Cartoons

Gummi Bears – Forgotten Childhood

March 10, 2016 Mairead

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Not only is Gummi Beasrs one of the best cartoons to ever come out of the 90s but that theme tune is easily one of the front-runners for the best cartoon theme tune in the history of theme tunes. If you don’t believe me let it be known that it lasted six seasons and over 90 episodes. As a child […]

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Cartoons

Forgotten Childhood: The Real Ghostbusters – Ragnarok and Roll

February 11, 2016 Mairead

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I loved The Ghostbusters as a child.. and still do. I remember crashing out in the sitting room as soon as playschool was over and I was set for the afternoon. There are a lot of moments that have stuck with me from both The Real Ghostbusters and the movie franchise. The music, the acting, the […]

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Forgotten Childhood: Rush Hour

February 4, 2016 David Savage

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Ah Rush Hour, how many laughs have you given me over the years? My first memory of Rush Hour is Christmas Eve when I was eight or nine years old. I had started watching it with no idea what it was, because it was the only thing on any of the five channels that we […]

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Cartoons

Forgotten Childhood: South Park

January 28, 2016 Laura Kelly

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Anyone who knows me now could probably tell you that I barely get out two sentences without saying something offensive or laden with expletives, but you probably wouldn’t guess that I didn’t discover the true majesty that is cursing until I was about 15 years old. In fact, my mother was (and still is, in […]

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Forgotten Childhood: Labyrinth

January 21, 2016 Mairead

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Given the recent loss of David Bowie it only seemed fair to sit down on Sunday, duvet in hand and throw on Labyrinth. Released in 1986 this fantasy musical directed by Jim Henson and George Lucas, starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly is exactly what you would expect when these minds, along with Brian Froud as the conceptual designer, come […]

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Movies

Forgotten Christmas: Trading Places (1983)

December 24, 2015 Danny Kelly

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The Initial Release (1983)  Trading Places is directed by John Landis and features an all-star cast of Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Denholm Elliott and Don Ameche, among others. The setting of the film takes places around the holiday season, but was curiously released in the month of June in 1983. The film […]

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Forgotten Childhood: Street Sharks

December 10, 2015 Lauren Murphy

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As a kid I had a weird obsession with sharks and dinosaurs, mostly due to the films Jaws and Jurassic Park. I had everything to do with both. I had books about sharks, and I had magazines, wallpaper and bed sheets with dinosaurs plastered all over them. I would have much rather picked up something about […]

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Forgotten Childhood: The Santa Clause

December 3, 2015 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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There is always a film tradition in every home during the Christmas season whether it be a family favourite, that one film that is on every year you cannot help but watch and then there is the festive favourites that just give off those festive feels you need. There is an abundance of festive themed […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Forgotten Childhood: Codename: Kids Next Door

November 26, 2015 Ian Lynam

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Like all children my age, I hoped to someday get my letter of acceptance to Hogwarts. Failing that, I wanted to join the Kids Next Door before I turned thirteen. Created by Tom Warburton (Doug, Pepper Ann) for Cartoon Network Codename: Kids Next Door ran from 2002-2008 and its concept is as memorable as it was […]

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Forgotten Childhood: Swamp Thing (1990)

November 19, 2015 Danny Kelly

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THE INITIAL RELEASE (1990) Airing in 1990, the cartoon series of Swamp Thing was a product created for a generation who were “coo coo for coco puffs” and loved to jam to the almighty funky fresh beat of Turtle Power. This period sometimes referred to as “the reckoning” by penniless parents, was a time that saw […]

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