Also, nostalgia is nostalgia. It's easy to wipe out all the awful things in the process, or turn them into something you find charming.
One thing about the Attention K-Mart Shoppers tapes is the GOD-AWFUL new sitcoms they'd announce. They're so terrible! And partly because they're terrible but *distant*, they're kind of fun now.
But I would have groaned so hard suffering through them back when they originally came out, of course.