Darkwing Duck, Doug, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Rocko’s Modern Life, X-Men, Pepper Ann. The ’90s were the best time for animated children’s programming, right? But, of course, I was a kid in the ’90s, so I’m biased. If I’d grown up in the ’80s I’d probably cite Thundercats, Jem, and He-Man as examples of how that decade was killing it and think the crap that all of the little jerks in the ’90s were watching lacked soul or guts or whatever. Until recently, my 20-somethingness had caused me to be totally dismissive of contemporary cartoons. I know, it’s a really odd thing to be pretentious about but in a lot of cases—in fact, most cases—it was warranted. But then I watched Regular Show and Adventure Time, two Cartoon Network animated series that have been getting a lot of love from kids and adults alike, and now I’m begrudgingly starting to think that I’ve been completely wrong about the ’90s.

Nickelodeon… It’s a name that has become synonymous with children’s programming. From the wacky to the heartfelt, what started as a subsidiary of MTV has slowly become a beast of its own. A beast that was spawned in that now distant memory of a decade known as the nineties. From 1990-1999, Nickelodeon OWNED the eyeballs of every child between the ages of 3 and 12, and a few beyond that. Arguably the golden age of the network, many classic shows were spawned that, to this day, still hold a place in many people’s hearts. One of the sub-networks of the station, TeenNick this past week started airing all that classic nineties programming in a block that is being dubbed “Nick 90s Are All That.” The block has become so popular that it’s begun setting ratings records for basic cable late night programming. This got me thinking, I’m surely not the only one with a soft spot for the classic Nickelodeon programming of the nineties, so I reached out to some of the FSR staff and asked them which show from the era is their favorite and how they feel about it now, check it out: