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32 Things That Will Take You Right Back To Your Mexican Childhood

Selena and telenovelas are just a few.

1. The ultimate people's champion:

2. One of your first cassettes:

3. Big Brother + American Idol + Mexico =

4. Gloria Trevi's trendsetting tights:

5. This song by Cri Cri:

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Also, the first time you heard English and Spanish being used in the same song.

6. This Televisa logo that appeared before every telenovela:

7. These fried thingies, usually covered in chile y limon:

8. These chicles:

9. This simple dish that your mom cooked when she was in a hurry:

10. The smell of leather when walking into a Mexican boot shop:

11. Your parents refused to take you to McDonald's because you had this waiting at home:

12. The glory that is the inside of a Gamesa Surtido box:

13. Piñata shops on the day of your birthday:

14. ALL THE HOMIES:

15. This telenovela that your mom liked crying to:

16. Having to rock one of these folklorico outfits:

17. The joy of seeing these on your kitchen table:

18. The traditional turn-and-look part of every telenovela intro:

19. LUCAS BAR:

20. The colorful and flamboyant style of Jorge Campos:

21. The telenovela that swept the world for a hot second:

22. Small print that scrolled really fast during telenovela intros:

23. Your mom asking you to peel a hundred of these:

24. Mexico's unbelievable adoration of this man:

25. The heartbreaking scene where Pedrito Fernandez sings "Amigo" for the Pope in this 1980 movie.

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The song was so memorable, it would be used as the anthem for all of the Pope's future visits to Mexico.

26. This telenovela about uniformed Mexican students and their parents issues:

27. Instead of Big Bird, you had Abelardo:

28. Watching the last Selena concert on Univision where she wore her famous purple outfit:

29. Cristina doing that thing with her thumb at the end of every single show:

30. The thin layer of film on a hot cup of Chocolate Abuelita.

31. This dance move for that awesome song that never really made any sense:

32. And finally, this intro to the most iconic children's show in Mexican history:

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"SUPER" comedian Roberto Gomez Bolaños managed to capture all the innocence of our childhoods, no matter what era we grew up in.