Lie, Lie, Lie, Nostalgia.

[Ieyke]

Uh.....nothing at all springs to mind.
I watched and played stuff I didn't necessarily love, just because I had it and it was a change of pace. I tended to love certain things ABOUT dumb stuff without loving any dumb stuff.
For example, I used to love the implied challenge in SkiFree of getting past the yeti. I had no idea if it was possible, but I was damn interested in trying to find out. I also loved that SkiFree gave me a way to stay entertained at my grandparents house when I was stuck there and nothing was on TV. .....But I was never under any illusion that it was a good game or that I liked it itself.

There are numerous things people have listed in this thread that actually ARE good, though perhaps not ZOMG awesome, like X-men:Evolution and Beast Wars.
I have every Marvel and DC movie and show from the 90s onward. X-Men:Evolution was actually really solid, though not nearly the high point of Marvel animation.

Beast Wars was a clumsy, cutting-edge technology and a Saturday morning cartoon budget attempting to execute on a relatively complex sci-fi plot that demanded complicated visuals.
What they achieved for the limitations of the time was actually incredibly solid.

I'm reeeeal familiar with all my nostalgic childhood stuff, since I either still have it or recollected it, and it's all pretty much dead-on.
Rewatching everything has been a fascinating study in learning how I came to think the way I do, why I act the way I do, why I've done and not done certain things, etc.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Some things that have held up for me are:

The Muppets! I loved them as a kid, but didn't remember watching them much, apart from Muppets Christmas Carol (Michael Caine > Sir Patrick Stewart as Scrooge... ) but I apparently watched The Muppet Show and the Muppets' Tonight all the time! Fast forward 15 years and I bought the first series DVD... I was hooked! Now I own all Muppets DVDs that have been released! I can't get enough!

 

[Someone Depressing]

There's a little obscure game called ObsCure. I know, coincidence, right?

It's a cheesy B-movie tongue-in-cheek affair that basically plays like Silent Hill but you are a cliche, each of which have different abilities that you need to use to navigate around a school full of well designed monsters, items and puzzles.

But I'm pretty sure the reason why I liked the game most was when you were confronted by a locked door...

a) You could trek halfway around the school, going through hordes of supplies that you'll need later, to get a key then trek all the way back
b) Smash the glass and open it from the other side.

Found it on Steam, so I bought it. It was... not bad at all, but it wasn't as good as I remembered. It's still a solid game, but I remember it not being so clunky, unresponsive - even for a survival horror game - and the humour is a lot more hit-and-miss than I remember.