TV Shows Night Owl '90s Kids Watched

Were you a television-watching kid/tween/teen in the late ‘90s/early ’00s? If your answer is “YES,” then I have a followup question for you: As a television-watching kid/tween/teen in the late '90s/early '00s, did you ever stay up past your bedtime? If your answer is “YES,” then I have yet another followup question for you: When you stayed up past your bedtime, did you ever watch not-for-kids TV shows? If your answer is “YES,” then I have one final Q for you: Do you want to revisit some of the late night shows (and no, I don’t mean talk shows) you probably watched around the turn of the New Millennium?

If your answer is “YES,” then have I got a list for you! (And hey, if you replied “UH, NO” to any of those questions, don’t feel left out. I encourage you to peruse the list, too.) I've rounded up some of the television programs that ruled the wee hours in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s. And though some of these shows were not exactly intended for younger viewers, that didn't stop some young night owls from tuning in. Here are some of the late night TV shows '90s kids/tweens/teens watched when we stayed up too late:

ElimiDate

ElimiDate is what would happen if an entire season of The Bachelor was crammed into one 30-minute episode of TV. In other words, it was a terrific dating game show.

Howard Stern

The King of All Media brought his iconic, envelope-pushing brand of comedy to E! from 1994 to 2005.

Insomniac With Dave Attell

Insomniacs who watched Insomniaccould live vicariously through comedian Dave Attell as he explored the various late night goings on of different cities.

Blind Date

If you didn’t watch Blind Date, then you only missed out on the greatest reality dating show of all time. No big, no big.

The Tom Green Show

Remember when "Lonely Swedish (The Bum Bum Song)" debuted on The Tom Green Show in 1999 only to climb to the top of the Total Request Live chart? Truly MTV's heyday.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

The animated talk show was a reboot of ‘60s cartoon Space Ghost. Space Ghost, Zorak, and Brak kept it weird on Cartoon Network from 1994 to 2001, and then called the Adult Swim programming block its home until 2004.

The 5th Wheel

The oddest dating show around! (And yup, I just nailed that math pun.)

MADtv

The Mad magazine-inspired sketch comedy show that introduced the world to Stuart, Ms. Swan, and the UBS Guy ran from 1995 to 2009.

Wild On!

Who could forget the E! show that followed its host around while she explored different cities around the world? What was your favorite Wild On! era? The Jules Asner years? The Brooke Burke years? Or the Cindy Taylor years? There's no wrong answer!

Undressed

This star-studded sex-positive series aired on MTV from 1999 to 2002.

Cheers

When I conducted the official What Did You Watch Late At Night In the '90s/'00s survey (read: I polled the two people I live with), one of my roommates replied, “I watched a lot of Cheers reruns.” I couldn't not include that answer. So here it is.

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