You're right; insurance paid off my previous car. The replacement I bought is the one I'm still driving, almost 16 years later. 240,000 miles later, it's getting a bit rusty, however.

I vaguely remember the Goosebumps TV show.

The bulk of Quantum Leap aired in the 90s. This show had a clever approach to time travel when Sam (Scott Bakula) would 'leap' into the lives of various people in the past to fix something that went wrong in the original history. Toward the end he began leaping into real historical people like Elvis. However, I wasn't terribly happy with how the series ended.

Remember watching Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, or Diagnosis Murder, which was a front runner to the CSI's and NCIS's? My family used to watch that all the time. I even remember William Shattner hosting Rescue 911, which I think began it run in the late 80's. And IMO one of the best sit-coms ever made had most of its runs in the 90's: Home Improvement.

My wife is a big Dr. Quinn fan. In fact she borrowed the whole first season from the library last week...not really my thing, but it makes her happy. I very much remember Rescue 911, with Shatner doing his..."strangely cadenced...will...thevictimbeable...to dial...911intime. You've.....got to, mister!" I still think Star Trek was his best, but he hit it pretty big with TJ Hooker too in the 80's, and Rescue 911 was his big 90's thing. Did that come before Cops?

Home Improvement is a really funny show and I watch it whenever it comes on. The best episodes were the ones when Tim is making "The Man's Bathroom", or "The Man's Kitchen", and disaster (and by extension hilarity) ensues. It was a good show with a long run and finished on a strong note. Most shows that age tend to fizzle out.

Ah the 90's!
I've been meaning to come into this thread for some time now and always forget to do so.

As a child of the 90s I loved them, born in 1984 so I am very well capable of remembering much of the 90s, though not much political stuff.

Jurassic Park was amazing, and still is.
Titanic-
I remember always hearing the My Heart Will Go On on the radio, and though I loved Celine Dion- I hated the song.
Then we went to the movies. My brother and I stopped at a comic store prior to it. I bought X-Men Age of Apocalypse comics: Generation Next, entirely. I was then ready to skip the movie and go home. My parents wouldn't have that of course. Up to this point we didn't know what were going to see, Spice World for us (pre)-teens or Titanic.
(yeah, unbelievable debate I know)

about 20min later we were at the store and my sister, just burst out crying saying "it's just not fair" in front of the cashier , who just looked at her oddly until my mom explained and all made sense.
But from that moment on I loved My Heart Will Go On!!!
(we later saw Spice World on dvd, and aside of the songs- hated the movie).

I'll post more later.

A few other things I remember about the 90's. We used to watch Walker: Texas Ranger, the short lived Martial Law (with Sammo Hung), Early Edition and JAG. We always made fun of Walker and Martial Law for the horrid acting. Early Edition had a good premise and actually did pretty well for a while. JAG was great for a few seasons as well but it soon went soap-opreay and the moment a TV show does that, it's over. This happened to ER as well.

Several stand-out movies to me in the 90's were Jurrasic Park, (which I saw on VHS for the first time), Braveheart (one of the first movies I really remember seeing in the theater), Apollo 13, The Mask of Zorro, and even the SW original trilogy Special Edition (released to up the hype for the prequels). I never did like Titanic and it wasn't just for those two scenes. Besides, did you know that the lake that Jack claims to have fallen into when he stopped Rose from jumping is a man-made lake created five years AFTER the Titanic sank?

"The Man's Kitchen" was a great comedy sketch from Home Improvement. Another fun bit was one in which Al could identify wood blindfolded, by its smell. It ends with Al trying to identify a piece of wood upon which Tim placed his sock. (Watch it here). A friend's kids loved acting this one out when we camped, using pieces of firewood.

The Canadian Red Green Show began its run in the 90s, and it was often aired on PBS stations in the US. A friend affectionately referred to it as "Home Improvement meets Hee Haw." A favorite sketch was the "Possum Lodge Word Game," in which the contestant would guess anything but the target word, only to 'unintentionally' use it in a sentence as time ran out. This is another one the kids loved acting out.

Duct tape is the handyman's secret weapon.

Jurassic Park, Braveheart, Apollo 13 and The Mask of Zorro were all 90s movies I enjoyed. I found Titanic most interesting in its explanation and treatment of how the great ship went down, rather than the romance part. In general the movie was more accurate in physical depiction of the ship's fate as opposed to its treatment of historical figures, notably regarding William Murdoch (shown in the movie accepting a bribe, shooting passengers, and committing suicide). After protests from surviving relatives and historians, the studio issued an apology and contributed to his memorial fund (more info comparing the movie to history can be found here).

Awesome opening post, Shadowlander! You've helped me remember quite a few things.

What is now sometimes called Gulf War I (the 1990 event mentioned above) began (in my time zone) the evening of a long-time friend's birthday. I recall that I was on my way to the birthday party when the radio announced the US-led response to the Kuwait invasion had begun (January 1991).

The King of Norway was an old man at the time (close to 87), he had been ill for a while, and his son had taken over all his duties temporarily.
On the first evening of the war, he was listening to the news from the Gulf - and he had a heart attack and died that night.