Boswell: Sentimental about 90s culture

When I got home late Friday night, I was ready to collapse into bed, but I decided I wanted to lay down to a show, so I immediately turned to Netflix.

When I spotted “Full House” on Netflix, I was excited, because I never realized it was on there.

One of my childhood favorites seemed like the perfect choice for a bedtime TV show to possibly fall asleep to. Imagine my surprise when I started the show and realized Danny, Jesse and Joey had all aged 20 years.

Alisa Boswell

I continued watching for a few minutes and realized I was watching the first episode of “Fuller House,” the new sequel in which Stephanie moves in with DJ to help her raise her children. Come to find out from the Internet, I was watching the show on its premiere day.

With this realization, I definitely wasn’t going to fall asleep to the show. Now I was going to watch it.

It had all of the cheesy, wonderful glory of the original series with a few modern day flares to it and a lot of reminiscing. As cheesy as I’m sure the new series is likely to be, there is no doubt ‘90s children will eat up every minute of it.

It’s always funny to realize how sentimental you are about pop culture you grew up with. Naturally, we all feel sentimental about mom’s apple pies or playing catch with dad, but I’ve realized over the years that most get sentimental about pop culture from their childhood era, as well.

My fiance reverts back to a 16-year-old, head banging and dreaming of starting his own band every time a Van Halen or Quiet Riot song comes on.

I am just as guilty of the childhood era pop culture sentiments. When I was a teen and preteen, I hated boy bands and the Spice Girls, but now, every time a song by NSYNC or Backstreet Boys comes on, I get just flat out excited, because it’s a blast from the past that makes me feel 12 years old again.

I think it’s only human nature that if you grew up in that particular decade, whether it was something you were into at the time or not, anything from that era is immediately going to send you back in time and give you that warm, fuzzy feeling like you’re 13 again and jamming with your friends in their garage.

I highly recommend all of you take occasions here and there to either relax to some Van Halen in your garage or take the time to throw around a baseball with your son — whatever brings back those “good ol’ days.”

And don't forget, "Everybody — yeeeaaah — rock your body — yeah — rock your body right ..."

Alisa Boswell is the managing editor at the Portales News-Tribune. Contact her at [email protected].