While looking through the basement of my parents’ house this Thanksgiving weekend, I came across a possession from my childhood that I had completely forgotten about, but which instantly made me proud to have once been a human existing in the early 90s –
This red and blue Steve Urkel backpack:
It was like opening a time capsule I had left myself from a Saturday night in 1993. The backpack was even filled with Topps baseball cards from the early 90s, but not, as I briefly hoped, with deconstructed pieces of Urkel-bot.
Still, the backpack’s meaningful, catchphrasey inscription hearkens back to a simpler time, and dare I say, the golden age of television and arguably human culture as a whole…
