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The Must List has only been around for two years, but in honor of EW's 15th anniversary, we've imagined what might have been. In the following pages, we boldly revisit the pop-culture miscellanea that thrilled us — for better (yes, we stand behind ''Baby Got Back'') or worse (in hindsight, Teletubbies were creepy) — during our lifetime.
'90
Twin Peaks Are we the only ones hoping for a Log Lady spin-off?
The ''I've fallen, and I can't get up'' lady Seeing brittle-boned elderly people get incapacitated is finally fun again!
The Arsenio Hall Show Where is the audience section called ''People who cheer for overexcited, obsequious hosts?'' Because we want to sit in it! Woof, woof!
M.C. Hammer's ''U Can't Touch This'' video Epileptic jiggling + I Dream of Jeannie pantaloons = the dance sensation of the year. Just imagine what would happen if someone mixed gout and Greg Brady's bell-bottoms!
'91
Thelma & Louise Hope and Crosby thought they were making road movies? Call us when you shoot someone, wusses!
Grunge Grinding guitar! Impassioned howling! Thank God that boy-band trend is dead forever. Count on it!
Urkel on Family Matters Or how network executives realized that the African-American community deserves a Screech of its own.
Naughty by Nature's ''O.P.P.'' Now that adultery's done, NBN have only nine more broken commandments to make catchy: ''You down with bearing false witness against your neighbuhs?/Yeah, you know us!''
Wilt Chamberlain's A View From Above The b-ball legend claims he bedded 20,000 ladies. Extra points for not naming his tome My Balls Always Score.
'92
Sir Mix-A-Lot's ''Baby Got Back'' Now that he mentions it, we can't deny that large rear ends are delightful. No wonder he was knighted.
The Real World Living with exhibitionist bickerers would be awful. . .and yet watching them bicker from a distance is pure schadenfreudian goodness.
American GladiatorsJust like The Real World, only the roommates live in a cage, and instead of bickering, they beat the crap out of each other.
Ralph Macchio in My Cousin Vinny Why are we endorsing this comeback by our favorite Outsider? We do it for Johnny!
'93
Sleepless in Seattle If you can't get action taking a date to this film, then you're better off not procreating.
The Bee Girl in Blind Melon's ''No Rain'' video You know how Alicia Silverstone gyrates sexily in those Aerosmith videos? It's the complete opposite of that.
Beavis & Butt-head For escapist male viewers, it has fart jokes and extensive use of the word dumbass. For intellectual male viewers. . .it has fart jokes and extensive use of the word dumbass. Everyone wins!
