r/nostalgia

Collection of scenes. Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay.

I’ve been revisiting Touched by an Angel and it reminded me why this show meant so much to me growing up. It’s one of those series that brings a quiet kind of comfort. The kind that finds you on a rough week and somehow makes you feel a little lighter.

There’s sadness in so many of the stories, but there’s always hope threaded through them. Psalm 151 with Wynonna Judd is the one that has always stayed with me.

If you watched it too, I’d love to hear what stayed with you. A moment, an episode, a feeling. What made you love it.

Everybody knows the feeling of getting bopped around the head with one of these at a birthday party back in the day, even on a summer holiday they would be selling them on the beach fronts.

This one is from the original run. I always wanted the witch and ghost selections that came out in the years following, but alas it never came to be.

It's that time of the year and I am nostalgic for them now. But back in the day, it felt more like a cheap way to dress your child for Halloween and send them on their way. Hardly any effort, other than purchasing it. No make up. Sometimes hardly even a costume to go with it.

A cheap soft or hard rubber mask, sometimes ordinary clothes, a basket or bag and that was it. I distinctly remember getting masks I didn't even want. I assume they were the left overs last minute and also having them over glasses did not work so well. They always pressed uncomfortably into your face.

That little mouth or breathing hole, we'd always try to stick our tongues through and practically paper cut it or scratch it. We'd sweat and again, if wearing glasses, it would fog them. Plus the rubber band would pinch your hair. Now though, I think they are pretty neat.

Edit: I forgot, the rubber bands would sometimes break or simply slip out of the staple (as I recall) that was attaching it to the mask. Trying to slide it back in, almost never worked. Being out Trick and Treating and it happened, you were just out of luck.

I know we’ve all seen the old colourful iMacs - but it’s the software page (image 2) that really caught my eye. Something about new software just made the whole thing feel so exciting back then.

I love how Scooby-Doo is just a compendium of villains. All the designs are classics & also a lot of fun in general.

My favorites are easily Space Kook in the first gif & Old Iron Face in the second gif.