If you lay awake at night praying for new episodes of your favorite childhood TV shows, your prayers may soon be answered. Nickelodeon confirmed that it is considering reboots of its most beloved shows from the '80s and '90s.
Of course, if you are a child of the '80s, you've already watched basically everything you once loved become thinned out, glammed up, and re-marketed to your own children (see: My Little Pony, Care Bears, Rainbow Brite, Pound Puppies, etc). And, even though you've spent countless hours asking yourself what the hell happened to the sweet, round ponies of your youth, you've still found yourself in line at Target forking over an absurd amount of money for some lead-laden, big-eyed plastic ponies made in China. Because nostalgia.
Although Nickelodeon has declined to share the shows under consideration for a reboot, or even whether they could come back as single events or an entirely new series, they are still the network that brought us Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, Double Dare, and Doug. Soon, your children too may enjoy the antics of a tribe of toddlers left completely and entirely unsupervised. In the age of the helicopter parent, that alone may qualify as science fiction for today's kids.
It remains to be seen whether today's kids have any interest in the Nickelodeon shows of our youth, but certainly the popularity of '80s programming would indicate that the nostalgia market is thriving. So let's throw on our flannel and Docs, grab a cold Surge, and pretend that MTV still shows music videos while we wait for a brand new episode of Hey Arnold!.
