20 Truly Forgotten 1990s TV Shows

Nickelodeon’s Cousin Skeeter asked viewers to accept that one member of an otherwise ordinary family was a puppet and then wisely refused to explain it. Skeeter was loud, mischievous, and constantly dragging his cousin Bobby into elaborate trouble. Nobody treated his puppet status as unusual, which somehow made the premise even funnier. The show became part of Nickelodeon’s late-1990s live-action lineup. Today, seeing Skeeter again can trigger the immediate reaction: “Wait, everyone really just accepted this?”