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We've talked about Boomers, we've talked about Gen X, and now we're going to talk about Millennials. Specifically, we're talking about slime.

In the pantheon of quotable lines from '80s movies, "He slimed me," as spoken by Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) in 1984's Ghostbusters is about as famous as it gets. By the time Ghostbusters II came along in 1989, there was a successful Ghostbusters animated series, The Real Ghostbusters, and a massively successful line of toys also dedicated to the property.

And if there is one thing at the center of all that stuff, it's not busting ghosts — it's slime. Ghost mascot Slimer became a fixture of the Ghostbusters franchise, often "sliming" everything around him. In Ghostbusters II, one of the weapons our heroes use is, essentially, a slime gun. Kids were even able to buy jars of Ghostbusters brand slime to coat their toys with.

Concurrently, burgeoning children's network Nickelodeon began airing the Canadian TV series You Can't Do That On Television, which featured, among other gross-out jokes, the child stars of the program being "slimed" whenever they said the phrase, "I don't know." In 1986, that slime was brought into Nickelodeon's popular game show, Double Dare, where in lieu of answering trivia, teams could take part in physical challenges, often involving said slime.

In short: slime was ubiquitous in the '80s and '90s.