You go on, .38 Special

So MTV turned 25 today. We know this because we watched the "Hold on Loosely" video on VH1 Classics last week as part of the network's first hour of MTV coverage.

Oh my how times have changed.

We won't bore you with a huge Top 25 list or anything. No fear, we narrowed it down several "we remember" moments that will surely bore you to tears and make us nostalgically happy.

We remember the fight between Julie and Kevin in Real World I -- you know, the only real real one. Kevin was all BLACK POWER and Julie was all I'M CUTE AND INNOCENT AND FROM ALABAMA AND GOD ERIC IS HOT AND I'M NOT RACIST I'M JUST A LITTLE BIT SCARED OF YOU and then they made up.

It was, in a word, real.

Sure, we have other memories, like Tammy in Season 2 yelling, "It wasn't not funny!" when David stripped her blanket off her. Anything Puck and Pedro ("Pedro does not live in this house as long as Puck is around") is good sh*t, too. But the first Real World, long before the Veronicas and the Irenes and the Coras and the Walla Wallas, made us happy.

We remember recording the TLC Creep video because we were sure we saw T-Boz T-aht and we wanted to see that hip hop goodness over and over again.

We remember falling off our couch when Britney stripped to "I Can't Get No Satisfaction." We kind of remember recording that, too.

We remember staring at the screen hoping to see breasts during "Welcome to the Jungle," and we remember wondering what the big deal was when Madonna came with "Like a Prayer."

We do remember the first time we saw "Hit Me Baby (One More Time)" and we especially remember the Spice Girls (for the record, "Say You'll Be There" was *so* much better than "Wannabe").

So there you have it. To recap: breasts, some music, and a small lesson about racism. Yup. That just about sums it up.