90s TV shows

The more trivia I learn, I realize how much of kids culture I missed growing up in the 90s. I came to the U.S. at the end of 1991, so I may have missed out on a couple years already, but I wish I was more in tune with some of the most popular shows back then, a time when we only had 7 channels to choose from, you had to sit through commercials, and if you weren't watching TV at the time your show came on, you missed it! No do-overs, no streaming, it was just gone. No wonder I didn't get into Jeopardy when I was a kid, I think it came on at 4PM in the Chicagoland area, a little too early for me to catch getting home from school. Instead my grandpa would allow me to watch a TV show in the morning after eating breakfast and doing sit-ups (I distinctly remember him holding my feet and me holding his feet so we would get leverage on our sit-ups) and allowed me one precious half-hour show when I got home from school. The problem was, he didn't know what was educational or not, so it was just cartoons and not great cartoons at that: Power Rangers, Spiderman, X-men, Looney Tunes.....normal shows as a kid, but not the sweet educational programming that would have instilled some long-term memories about history or educational facts. Instead I can quote lines from the Transformers spin-off series "Beast Wars" or name all of the Insidious Six villains from the Spiderman series. I didn't ever watch Sesame Street, a huge loss as that's a big chunk of Jeopardy canon, and then the Yan family didn't have cable so we didn't get those cool-sounding shows like "Legends of the Hidden Temple" on Nickolodeon or "Wishbone" on PBS, a Jack Russell Terrier who went over famous plots in literature in a kid-friendly way. Watching LeVar Burton on Trivial Pursuit now, I wonder how fun it would have been to watch Reading Rainbow, or catch the pure insanity of the Ren & Stimpy Show, or have indelible memories with Miss Frizzle on the Magic School Bus. I also miss my grandpa. In America nowadays we are spoiled: spoiled with too many conveniences, too much food in our portions, spoiled for too much choice in what we watch. I've struck up a good relationship with my neighborhood Subway "sandwichmakers" downstairs from our apartment complex: they are there all the time from 8AM in the morning until 9PM at night, same 3 guys rotating shifts, always friendly and ready for chitchat. They have kids, don't have big dreams but enjoy being in America for all the opportunities it affords.....still. When my parents came I think there was huge divergence between developing countries and the most powerful country in the world, and back then China was considered a "developing country." Now the gap has shrunk for sure especially with the internet and AI, but still there are thousands of people every year coming to America to enjoy what America has, even if it's just being a sandwichmaker at a local Subway store, it's a solid living that allows consistent work, at least 3 times a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner). I look at my goals that keep scaling up on the hedonic treadmill: have a job, buy a house, own cars.....be on Jeopardy, try to play Jeopardy again......all first world problems that I enjoy in the comfort of my home with AC on a hot summer day able to make my sparkling water as cold as possible when I drink it and travel to pretty much anywhere I want using my car or local airport. It's a great life, and sometimes I need to talk to those around me to realize me, whether it's the Subway guys, the barber I see all the time, everyone on the bus going home from work....there are tons of people just living life and not needing to be influencers or make it rich or ask too much of life.....sometimes it's just good to enjoy it. And put on some Reading Rainbow to learn some new facts.