Hurricane Sandy Makes Me Nostalgic for 90s Snow Days

10/30/2012 12:00 pm by

In the 90s, when a school day was declared a snow day, I would cheer at the news on TV and then beg my mom to prepare the biggest, bangin-est breakfast ever.

Just as a food coma would start to kick in, I’d stick a VHS tape in the VCR, silently curse whoever forgot to rewind it (probably me), rewind it, and then spend the morning watching a my favorite movies. 1990s movies reached a level that no other decade has been able to surpass. I fell in love with the characters and committed their dialogue to memory.

Now, with Hurricane Sandy in full effect and many people without power, I may have to resort to mentally replaying these movies in my mind. Thankfully, I’ve burned them into my brain and can share them with you, should you be reading this on your phone in a super dark room, save for an almost-discarded Yankee Candle from your mother-in-law.

Home Alone

Hurricane Sandy Makes Me Nostalgic for 90s Snow Days

An 8-year-old is accidentally left at home while his entire family flies to Paris for Christmas vaca.  They live in a pretty affluent neighborhood in Chicago, and surprise, surprise, burglars have cased their house.  Kevin puts up a fight, and I almost gave myself a concussion trying to hang an iron from my ceiling.

Fave line: “Buzz.  Your girlfriend.  Woof.”

I would have gladly married Macauley Culkin.  Well, let me clarify that statement. I would have gladly married Macauley Culkin back then, not…um, not now. Because here’s Macauley Culkin now.

3 Ninjas
Hurricane Sandy Makes Me Nostalgic for 90s Snow Days
Three brothers spend the summer with their ninja grandfather and hone their ninja skills.  Turns out Grandpa used to be buds with a good guy turned bad, who is now on FBI’s L.I.S.T.
The boys’ dad?  An FBI agent, of course.  Bad guys try to kidnap the little dudes for leverage, and fighting ensues.  In the end, all is well, and everyone eats pizza.
Fave characters: The three surfer/kidnapper hybrids with all of their dude-radical speak.
The Sandlot
Hurricane Sandy Makes Me Nostalgic for 90s Snow Days
What a movie.  Seriously.  Kids these days go around saying “FOR-EV-ERRRRR” and they have no idea that it’s because of THIS MOVIE.  However, I disliked the baseball/dog element of this movie, because it’s like, “Yo…just knock on his door.  I’m sure he’s a reasonable guy.  Tell him to tie up his animal and then go find the ball.”  I mean…it was just too much.  All in all, great story, and here’s Wendy Pfeffercorn now.  Pushing 40, looks just as you’d expect Wendy Pfeffercorn to look.
Fave line: “You’re killing me, Smalls.”  (Could there be any other?)
What were your fave sick day/snow day movies, and which child star made you draw puffy hearts all over the inside of your Lisa Frank notebook?
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About Roo Ciambriello

Don't be fooled by Roo Ciambriello's last name.  0% Italian, she's half white girl, half Pacific Islander, living in the mean streets of suburban Connecticut.  Roo spends her time listening to hip hop and Tweeting about her 90s nostalgia at @roociambriello.  She puts the 'girl' in NiceGirlNotes, a fun storytelling blog where she starts fights with cat lovers and Cheetos haters.  WE RIDE AT DAWN.

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  • http://twitter.com/highlyirritable Jeni M

    I am now paralyzed with nostalgia.

    It’s only rain here, and school is in. But while I’m home and should be working, something tells me the afternoon holds nothing but 1989′s “The Burbs” on Netflix and a butter-flavour popcorn stained t-shirt.

    Nothing beats angry Tom Hanks in a bathrobe for getting through an afternoon of crap weather.

    • Roo Ciambriello

      Something about rainy weather, too, I tell ya.

  • KellyBDelaney

    Home Alone is so perfect for days like today. Especially since if you’re prone to napping (*raises hand*) you don’t really miss anything if you drop off for a few minutes.

    • Roo Ciambriello

      *slaps hands on face* AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

  • JiveTurkeyJones

    I used to watch Home Alone every Sunday afternoon in the fall/winter, and even had the tape of the soundtrack in my totally rad walkman. I was pretty hardcore about Home Alone (which translates into “pretty fucking lame,” as I understand it).

    • Roo Ciambriello

      HA2 didn’t hold a candle to HA1. Oh, can I join your club?

      • Rapids444

        I probably wore out my copy of Home Alone…. Did either of you even bother with Home Alone 3? I just couldn’t do it w/out Macauley. lol

        • DianaCLT

          There was a 3? Really?

          *Crickets*

          • Rapids444

            Yes, there was a 3. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119303/ It’s even available on Netflix streaming if you wish to find out how good (read bad) it is…… And apparently a 4 & 5 as well that I found when I tried to get the link from imdb.

          • DianaCLT

            Uhhh…so Home Alone became the Police Academy for kids?

          • Rapids444

            rofl…. ummm…. i guess so?

          • DianaCLT

            Ah. You are clearly a young soul. Police Academy 1 was funny. 2 was okay. 3-infinity SUCKED. ASS. I’m pretty sure that somewhere, in the umpteenth level of hell, they’re still making them.

          • Roo Ciambriello

            Poor Macauley…

  • die Frau

    We watched Footloose and The Parent Trap incessantly, partly because they were two of the only videos we owned…but we would’ve watched them anyway. My sister’s first real tape cassette was the Footloose soundtrack.