Megan Reed, Campus Carrier Editor-in-chief

Nostalgia has become the latest entertainment craze. Buzzfeed features articles such as “Would you survive a day in the life of a ‘90s kid?” that bring back memories of brightly colored school supplies and watching shows like “Arthur” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” It doesn’t matter that most of the people reading these articles were toddlers in the 1990s and don’t really remember that decade much.

This is also a new trend in TV shows. “Girl Meets World” premiered on the Disney Channel in 2014, and “Fuller House” was released on Netflix on Friday. Next up is a “Gilmore Girls” reboot, which began filming earlier this year and will also be streamed on Netflix.

Everyone wants to see their favorite show come back on the air — or go online. People want to catch up with their favorite characters and find out what happened after the series finale. Viewers have memories associated with their favorite TV shows and want to relive their childhood or their teenage years with brand new episodes to enjoy.

For example, look at “Fuller House.” The show reunites the cast of “Full House,” which aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995. D.J. Tanner, who was graduating high school as “Full House” ended, is now a recently widowed single mother raising her three sons with the help of her best friend Kimmy Gibbler and her younger sister Stephanie. This plot should sound familiar — her father Danny Tanner was in the same situation in the “Full House” pilot almost 30 years ago.

The show acknowledges this familiarity and uses it to its advantage. There is even a scene where the screen is split, showing a scene from the first season of “Full House” on the left with the grown-up actors recreating the scene on the right. It’s a little corny, of course, but so was the original show.

Some viewers may struggle to reconcile the old show with the new. “Fuller House” has all the same gimmicks as the original show, including Stephanie’s catchphrase “how rude” and Joey’s beloved woodchuck puppet. Some of the characters have not changed at all — D.J.’s high school boyfriend reappears and steals just as much food as he did 20 years ago — but some characters seem like entirely different people with no explanation, such as the suddenly rebellious Stephanie.

It is hard not to compare “Fuller House” to the original show, which was a favorite for many families and is considered by many to be a staple of 1990s entertainment. “Fuller House” is heartwarming and funny, but it still seems like a 1987 sitcom with some iPhones added in an attempt to make it current.

The New York Times’ review for the show published Friday makes a good point – who is this show (and shows like it) even targeting?

“It’s not entirely clear who the audience is meant to be for the new ‘Fuller House.’ Are grown-up fans watching with their kids? Or binge-watching after they’ve tucked them in, exhausted and mourning their spent youth?” James Poniewozik said in the review.

The same goes for “Girl Meets World,” the revival of “Boy Meets World,” which aired from 1993 to 2000. Most current college students did not watch “Boy Meets World” when it was actually airing on ABC. We watched the reruns in the afternoon, long after the show ended. “Girl Meets World” follows Riley, Cory and Topanga’s daughter, and while the show might not be as popular with older viewers, it still reflects the trend of rebooting nostalgic 90s sitcoms.

“Gilmore Girls” came a little bit after “Full House” and “Boy Meets World.” The show aired on The WB and The CW from 2000 to 2007. It features Rory, a teenager and later a college student, and her mother, Lorelai, who grew up wealthy but has a contentious relationship with her parents largely because Rory was born when Lorelai was still in high school. The show has gained some new fans since it started streaming on Netflix in October 2014, and it was announced in January that it would be revived on Netflix for four 90-minute episodes.

The announcement of the revival immediately generated online buzz about the show, which has a following of young women and their mothers who can relate to Rory and Lorelai. There is already speculation about what the revival will be like — how will the death of Edward Herrmann, who played family patriarch Richard, be addressed? Will Rory still be working as a journalist? Will Lorelai still be running the Dragonfly Inn?

One thing is for sure, though. The “Gilmore Girls” revival and shows like it, while they may not quite live up to the original, will still draw in fans looking to relive their favorites.