Nostalgia Mondays...

I'm not sure how I feel about GET IN SHAPE GIRL after watching the commercials as an adult.


Part of me thinks, what ridiculous "exercise just like Mommy/be pretty/oooh pink/it's fun being a girl/it's cool to hate your body" messages this holds.
The jingle says "showin' the world what you can do!" apparently what you can do is exercise and don't worry about serious stuff, cause you're a girl.
There's a part of me that remembers being really susceptible to commercials like this and wanting the complete set---I think I only had the Ribbon kit as a kid.
Ribbon dancing?? Really, Mom and Dad?
(side note: ribbon dancing in the Olympics is about as hilarious as CURLING (the sport with the brooms on ice that my sister and I call: Sweepy)
And then there's a part of me that thinks that maybe Hasbro had the foresight to see that childhood obesity in America was only 20 years away and they were going to do everything they could to try and stop it by making exercise cool.
Oh who am I kidding, weighted bracelets?
Adjustable "Pump and Run" arm weights??
Give me a break.

PS. I would KILL to get my hands on the cassette tape those kits came with, those have got to be amazing.