And it's finally the weekend. - Yay!

- [Woman] That's right.

(dreamy music)

♪ Ah ♪

- [Narrator] Movie tickets only cost

four dollars and 14 cents.

Frasier-- - I'm listening.

- [Narrator] Just premiered on NBC,

and women were finally allowed to wear pantsuits

on the Senate floor. (bell dings)

It's Saturday morning, and that means one thing.

♪ And they're zany ♪ - Cartoons.

♪ The show ♪

- [Narrator] So at eight a.m., "Animaniacs" was on Fox Kids,

and we scheduled a meeting with Rob Paulsen,

the guy who voiced Yakko.

- Oh, sure. (clears throat)

Okay, well let's see, I'm Yakko Warner; hello, nurse.

- [Narrator] We wanna know about

the "Nations of the World" song.

- [Rob] Well, the interesting thing is that it only took me

one take to record it.

- [Narrator] What?

♪ United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama ♪

♪ Haiti, Jamaica, Peru ♪

♪ Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean ♪

♪ Greenland, El Salvador too ♪

♪ The art project ♪

- [Narrator] For most of us, Perler beads got left

in the 1990s alongside HitClips and Oakley Minutes.

- [Man] Cool.

(phone beeping)

- [Narrator] Hello, can you hear me?

- Loud and clear. - Perfect.

Kyle is an artist, but rather than paint or pen,

he uses Perler beads, even today.

- [Kyle] I am all-Perler, all the time.

Perler beads were invented by a Swedish man in the 1960s.

It was originally a therapy material for older folks.

- [Narrator] Kyle sees your '90s Perler bead posters

and raises you this.

- [Kyle] I would say, without a doubt,

my most ambitious project has got to be Project Springfield,

which is 40-square-foot mural of the Simpsons' hometown.

It's over 140,000 individually placed beads.

And it took me about two years.

- [Narrator] It's your nostalgia, only elevated.

♪ The birthday parties ♪

- [Kids] Happy birthday!

- [Narrator] The holy trinity

of the '90s kids' birthday party was simple.

Pizza, cake, and laser tag. (noisemaker toots)

- [Kids] Pew pew, pew pew!

- [Narrator] Amen; so we talked

to the man responsible for all of that.

- Hi, I'm George Carter, I invented laser tag

about 30 years ago.

- [Narrator] The game was inspired by a pretty famous movie.

- [George] The movie "Star Wars."

I had watched them going up and down the halls of the ship

shooting lasers at one another.

And I thought I'd put it in some sort of context

and make rules, and we got a great game then.

It was more competitive back in the early days.

Well, laser tag today has moved

into family entertainment centers,

with actually more people playing than ever before.

- [Narrator] And there it is, your weekend,

and some of the people behind it, 1993.

♪ All the cats ♪

- [Kids] Yay!

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