dazzledbeans 
Pr0v3nI mean to be fair, usually these were tucked away in the back of a heavy, wooden TV cabinet where it was dark and difficult to reach into to match the colours, even with a torch; and you couldn’t just feel your way around the back to plugging them in because they all felt the same.
No mirrors back then, too /s
Kids be like wtf you didn’t have flashlights yet?
Peter1986CTorches in this context are flashlights.
… Yes… That’s the joke.
You gotta remember that in the Old World, 100 years is not a long time. It’s only like 30 years. So in the 90s, they were 100 years ago and hadn’t invented flashlights yet so they used torches instead.