90's Kid TAG With Philip Wang! (from Wong Fu Productions)
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00:00 Hey guys, this is Jen and you might recognize my guest today.
00:03 Hi, I'm Philip from Wong Fu Productions.
00:05 Today we wanted to do a fun tag for you guys.
00:09 It's the 90s kid tag.
00:10 We're full-on 90s kids.
00:12 We're not like the pretend 90s kids that like were born in the 90s and say the 90s.
00:16 We were fully functional children, self-aware in the 90s.
00:20 Very special period of time.
00:21 I was very glad that you asked me to do this
00:23 because I have a very special place for that decade.
00:26 A lot of wonderful things happened during that time.
00:28 It's very nostalgic.
00:29 So let's get into the question.
00:31 What was your favorite 90s TV show?
00:34 Friends was pretty big.
00:35 Home Improvement.
00:36 I loved Home Improvement.
00:37 Oh, that was with Jonathan Taylor-Thomas.
00:39 With Heidi.
00:40 [laughter]
00:42 Heidi?
00:42 You guys, she doesn't even know.
00:45 She was focused on the teenage boy while I was focused on the tool time girl.
00:48 [laughter]
00:49 Oh.
00:50 My favorite, probably Full House.
00:52 Oh yeah.
00:53 I was a big fan of the Olsen twins.
00:55 So question number two.
00:57 What was your favorite toy?
00:59 Mmm.
00:59 My favorite toy and still today, continued on since childhood, is like Legos.
01:04 Legos.
01:04 I knew you were going to say that.
01:06 I save like every like, you know, birthday money, Chinese New Year money, everything,
01:11 just to get some Legos.
01:12 My grades were for the purpose of getting a Lego set.
01:15 What's your favorite toy?
01:17 I love My Little Pony.
01:18 Oh, okay.
01:19 They're like, now they-
01:20 I like the little baby ones.
01:22 They've had a resurgence now.
01:23 Like, they're like a lot more like adult now.
01:26 That sounds kind of creepy.
01:27 Talking horses that have eyelashes and eyeliner is already creepy.
01:31 You know, maybe they're just blessed with lashes and liner naturally.
01:35 Actually, yeah, horses do have very nice eyes.
01:37 They do.
01:38 They have beautiful lashes.
01:39 Number three.
01:40 What was your favorite commercial?
01:42 I think the one that sticks out to me a lot that we still sing a lot is the one that's like,
01:47 "My buddy."
01:48 My buddy.
01:49 Wherever you go.
01:51 He goes.
01:51 Sorry, you're yelling at me.
01:53 My buddy and me.
01:54 All the cereal ones really stick out to me.
01:56 Like, I remember like all the problems that they had.
01:59 Like, you know, like Toucan Sam, you know, like, and Trix, you know, he couldn't blend in to being one of the kids.
02:04 They have no idea what we're talking about.
02:05 Just follow your nose.
02:07 Follow your nose, yeah.
02:08 Lucky Charms.
02:09 Lucky Charms.
02:10 Dude, you know your cereal.
02:11 You ate a lot of these cereals.
02:13 I know all these.
02:14 No, I just watched a lot of TV.
02:15 You know what I never got?
02:17 Golden Grahams.
02:18 For some reason, those are the most expensive.
02:19 Those are so good.
02:20 They're really good, so I never got them.
02:21 I get them all the time.
02:22 Well, now.
02:23 Well, now we're older.
02:24 We can afford the Golden Grahams.
02:25 We can afford all the Golden Grahams.
02:26 Started from the bottom, now we're here.
02:28 Working our way up.
02:29 Yeah.
02:30 Grinding for the Golden Grahams.
02:32 I think I know the answer for this one.
02:34 I haven't seen any of these questions, by the way.
02:35 Number four.
02:36 NSYNC or Backstreet Boys.
02:39 I'm actually very well-versed on this answer because I had to give it many times.
02:42 Wait, why do you have to give this answer?
02:43 Well, because people ask it and I knew those bands rather well.
02:48 Understatement.
02:49 Backstreet Boys for the first two albums and then NSYNC for the third.
02:52 I think I have to agree.
02:53 Right?
02:54 Yeah.
02:54 I will take Millennium over No Strings Attached any day.
02:57 They had some good singles on there, but Millennium was great.
02:59 But I think as a complete package, Backstreet Boys is still better.
03:02 There was more vocal strength with Backstreet Boys.
03:04 Yeah, and I like more of the members, you know, in Backstreet Boys.
03:08 What was the weirdest fashion trend?
03:10 Slap bracelets, I always thought was a really weird thing.
03:13 They hurt.
03:14 I had them.
03:15 And they were really cheaply made.
03:16 It's basically like a strip of metal that you would hit on yourself.
03:21 And it was covered in like this really thin piece of like nylon and it would always rip and tear.
03:26 How hard were you slapping your slap bracelets?
03:29 Pretty hard.
03:30 It's a thing.
03:30 It was cool.
03:31 What do you think?
03:32 I feel like you would know better than I do.
03:33 I would have to say a really weird one was JNCOs.
03:36 Oh.
03:36 Like a really giant baggy.
03:39 I was not cool enough to own my own pair of JNCOs, but if you were cool and had the money.
03:44 I would go and look at how wide, you know.
03:46 You would compare.
03:46 Yeah, I'd be like if it doesn't cover like at least half of my shoe, these are too tight.
03:50 And now look at what we're wearing.
03:51 What I'm wearing is a onesie.
03:54 What were your favorite collectibles?
03:57 I feel like you're gonna have to go with Legos.
03:58 Yeah, Legos.
03:59 Yeah, I really, really love Legos.
04:01 I didn't get into like Pokemon really.
04:03 Sorry, I got into the show.
04:05 I didn't get into the carts.
04:06 So you didn't catch them all?
04:07 I did not.
04:08 I did not catch them all.
04:09 As far as collectibles go, it was kind of like the Beanie Babies thing.
04:12 Oh, that was bananas.
04:14 I did not get it.
04:15 I mean they were cute and they were little.
04:18 You know, yeah, but when there's awkward animals nowadays.
04:21 You can collect them all.
04:23 What was your favorite Beanie Baby?
04:24 I know you said you didn't.
04:25 How?
04:26 Weren't there like thousands?
04:27 I think I had a koala named Mel.
04:30 I really liked that one.
04:31 Did I have a koala?
04:32 Did you have a koala?
04:33 It was a great one.
04:34 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:35 I mean I'm sure they'd have the same koala.
04:36 It wasn't special.
04:37 They made thousands of them, okay.
04:38 My Mel was special.
04:40 Okay, well this one just says how many Tamagotchis did you go through?
04:43 This, these, these questions are obviously geared towards girls, right?
04:47 Like did guys have Tamagotchis?
04:48 No, guys had Tamagotchis, I thought, right?
04:51 I did not have it.
04:51 I never had a Tamagotchi.
04:52 Okay, what was your favorite game console and game?
04:55 Dude, this is tough.
04:56 Because you have like your childhood favorites like Super Family Tennis on Super Famicom.
05:01 You don't even know.
05:02 I have no idea.
05:03 It was basically the Japanese Super Nintendo.
05:06 My friend had the Japanese one.
05:07 It had like this emulator that you plugged in.
05:10 You could put floppy disks in.
05:11 Okay, I'm getting confused.
05:12 Oh, wow.
05:13 Do you even know what a floppy disk is?
05:14 We had a Sega Genesis and I really liked the Lion King game on it.
05:20 That was my favorite and I could beat it.
05:22 You have to, you have to take Scar and you have to flip him over your back over a cliff.
05:26 Sorry, Turtles in Time on Super Nintendo.
05:29 That's, that's, I'm going with that.
05:31 So this next one, I'm modifying the question a little because it says what's your favorite Disney Channel original movie?
05:36 But I think it's more fun to just say what's your favorite Disney movie?
05:39 Well, also I didn't have the Disney Channel growing up.
05:41 It wasn't a free channel when I was a kid.
05:42 No, not everybody had that.
05:43 I didn't have it either.
05:44 Yeah.
05:44 I really loved Lion King, of course.
05:47 And then I loved Aladdin because that was just ultimate.
05:51 And, you know, my...
05:52 Robin Williams as Genie was just amazing.
05:55 So amazing.
05:56 And then I love Beauty and the Beast.
05:57 That's like the trifecta.
05:58 Yeah, that's like the, that's like the, the Holy Trinity right there.
06:03 What was your favorite?
06:03 Well, okay, you already named those.
06:05 I'm going to go off a little bit.
06:06 Toy Story 1, 1995.
06:09 That was a game changer.
06:11 That, that really changed animation in general.
06:13 I...
06:14 Really changed everything.
06:15 I literally went home and like I wrote in my journal that day.
06:17 I'm like, I watched the first computer animated movie.
06:21 Okay, what was your favorite music artist of the 90s?
06:25 I have a very, very important spot for like 90s hip-hop and R&B.
06:29 Like Boyz II Men, Blackstreet, Drew Hill.
06:32 I had the Boyz II Men album.
06:34 SWV, Tony Tony Tone.
06:37 I'm sounding really old right now.
06:38 So you liked in Pitch Perfect when they like busted out with the...
06:42 Yeah, yeah.
06:42 ...Holy Trinity.
06:43 That was, that was like really nostalgic.
06:45 I, I have to say I really loved Hanson.
06:48 I was like a huge, huge Hanson fan.
06:51 What?
06:51 Huge Hanson fan.
06:52 How? They had one song.
06:54 No.
06:54 What was your favorite Nick Jr. show?
06:57 Eureka's Castle.
06:59 Oh my gosh, Eureka's Castle.
07:00 You guys don't even know.
07:01 That was my favorite.
07:03 Oh, I was so obsessed with that show.
07:05 Do you remember Noozles?
07:06 With the koalas that could freeze time?
07:08 No, I don't think I watched that.
07:09 And the little sister had a lipstick that can, oh my god.
07:11 What was your favorite candy?
07:13 Dude, is it, can I say an Asian candy?
07:15 Super Koalas.
07:16 It was a hard candy.
07:17 I don't think I tried that.
07:18 And so they're super sour, like they had super melon, super apple.
07:21 You know why?
07:22 Because you didn't have Asian candy growing up.
07:24 No, I totally had Asian candy growing up.
07:26 You're in Kansas City.
07:27 No, we went to the Asian supermarket.
07:29 I had like Botan rice candy.
07:30 I don't even know what that is.
07:31 What?
07:32 It's the one that has a little lucky cat on the front with like the green and pink packaging.
07:36 If people are watching this, they're going to call you out for not having real Asian candy.
07:40 What was your favorite game?
07:41 And it can be a board game, a school game, etc.
07:44 Board games, I actually really like life.
07:46 I felt like life was kind of hard.
07:47 That's a very philosophical statement right there.
07:50 Life is so hard.
07:52 I really liked Sorry.
07:54 Sorry was fun.
07:54 Where if you were on the sliding parts, you could just knock everyone out.
07:57 I lost some friends from Sorry.
07:59 And schoolyard games.
08:00 I like Jump Rope.
08:01 Yeah, you just got to go with a kickball.
08:03 What was your favorite McDonald's Happy Meal toy?
08:06 I can't, what, do you have one?
08:07 Do you know any?
08:07 They have these for Tiny Toons and they also had this for Fraggle Rock,
08:11 but they had these little cars and the characters would sit in the cars and you pull it and then they'd like go.
08:16 But one I really liked, it had Hampton and Plucky and you would flip it one way and Hampton driving and then you'd flip it the other way.
08:23 Yes, I remember that one.
08:25 It was like a carrot car or something like that.
08:26 You know what, actually, it's not a Happy Meal.
08:28 It was Burger King Kids Meal.
08:30 They were doing a Pokemon promo.
08:33 This might be 1999.
08:34 You just said you didn't collect the Pokemon.
08:37 Not the cars, but the toys because they literally made a hundred fifty different kinds of this Kids Meal toy.
08:45 It was crazy.
08:46 You just admitted you were too cool for collecting cards, but you actually collected toys.
08:50 I could, yeah.
08:51 Dude, the cards are so lame.
08:53 I went to Burger King to get the toys.
08:56 What was your favorite book?
08:58 It's called The Phantom Tollbooth.
08:59 It was basically like Alice in Wonderland, but like a boy instead and it's like going to worlds of words and numbers.
09:08 It was, that would probably be the one that I would say, even though it's not that book.
09:11 Or Indian in the Cupboard.
09:12 Oh, I remember.
09:13 I was just thinking back to like yesterday.
09:15 There was a word in there that I had never seen before when I read it because obviously I was really young and it was grotesque.
09:21 I knew gross, but when I saw that word, I was like grotesque.
09:24 Grotesque.
09:27 But then I learned grotesque from Indian in the Cupboard.
09:30 One specific author in the series of all of her books that really kind of changed my whole perspective when I was younger was Madeline L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time.
09:40 Yeah.
09:41 The whole.
09:41 I don't remember anything about it.
09:43 But it was amazing, right?
09:44 You remember?
09:45 I remember it was very like.
09:46 It was like life changing.
09:48 What was your favorite clothing store?
09:50 I did not go shopping like by myself until sophomore year of high school.
09:56 Yeah, so I didn't have one.
09:58 Yeah, I went to Mervyn's with my parents.
10:01 Have you heard of Mervyn's?
10:02 I don't know of Mervyn's.
10:03 Where did you shop?
10:05 I went to Kohl's.
10:06 Kohl's?
10:07 We didn't have Kohl's where I lived.
10:08 Really?
10:09 Yeah, we didn't have Kohl's where I lived.
10:10 But I know what it is, I just, we didn't have it.
10:12 I think I went to like Target too.
10:13 It wasn't in Kansas.
10:14 No, we didn't have Target.
10:15 We had Walmart, but.
10:17 We didn't have Walmart.
10:17 I didn't have Walmart growing up, but we had Target.
10:19 Real class here where I grew up.
10:21 You had Target all the way when you were a kid.
10:22 Mm-hmm.
10:23 What would you watch when you would get home from school?
10:26 My routine was this.
10:27 I would come home like in middle school, pop a bag of popcorn, and I would eat the whole thing.
10:31 And I would watch two hours.
10:32 You had an amazing record as a child.
10:35 Kids WB, Animaniacs.
10:37 Around six o'clock, Baywatch would come on.
10:39 Baywatch?
10:40 Watch a little bit of that.
10:41 I would hear my parents come home, the garage door would open, and I would run to my bed, and I would pretend like I was napping.
10:47 And they would come in, and I would be like, "Oh, hey, Mom. How's it going?"
10:50 But I just watched so much TV.
10:51 I watched a lot of Full House after school.
10:54 A lot of Full House.
10:55 A lot of like Family Matters.
10:57 Step by step.
10:57 Step by step.
10:58 Day by day.
11:00 Fresh start over a different hand to play.
11:03 So I guess that's the end of the video.
11:05 That's all the questions.
11:06 That was a nice stroll down memory lane.
11:08 I know. It's very nostalgic, isn't it?
11:09 Yeah. That was a lot of fun.
11:10 I'm really, I feel very honored that I made it on this channel.
11:13 Tell us in the comments below what you did not know.
11:16 Also, let us know down in the comments what you used to watch when you would come home from school.
11:20 Because, you know, it's a little bit different for everybody.
11:23 Some of us were Animaniacs people, and some of us were apparently Baywatch people.
11:27 I was a boy. That was growing up.
11:31 So thank you guys so much for watching.
11:33 And you can check Phil out at youtube.com/wongfuproductions or wongfu.
11:39 Wow. Thanks, Jen.
11:41 Actually, you know what?
11:42 Every time I have to type her URL.
11:44 I just type it and hold it in.
11:45 I'm like, I always do it wrong.
11:48 I'm like, is it Jen from head to toe?
11:49 From head to toe?
11:51 From head to toe?
11:52 So it's okay.
11:53 Wong Fu Productions.
11:54 We'll put a link here somewhere and on his face.
11:57 If you want to go see all of his amazing videos.
12:00 I guess that is about it.
12:02 Thanks for having me.
12:03 Thanks for coming.
12:04 And I guess we will see you guys later.
12:08 Bye.
12:08 See ya.
12:09 My fit babies, we make our dreams come true.
12:13 We'll always have.
12:14 We're tiny, we're toony.
12:15 We're all a little loony.
12:17 And when we are toony, we're creating your TV.
12:20 Oh my gosh.
12:22 It's all coming back to me now.