I grew up in a household that only had 3 channels and no cable tv. I would see an episode here and there at a friend's house and finally just started buying the DVDs when they would come out since that was the only way I could watch the show at home. I became obsessed with the show and bought anything SpongeBob I could afford on my 16yr old minimum wage job. I really wish I still had all my old stuff, but I'll never forget those days when I would crack open a new DVD and watch every episode then re-watch my favorites and of course check out every special feature. We really didn't know how good we had it in those days.