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SpazmasterX posted:Elaborate. Wikipedia doesn't say anything about any nefarious deeds. He's one of those liberals who went crazy hard-right after 9/11 (like Frank Millar and Dave Mustaine), and I just happen to remember finding about this several years back on World of Stu forums when someone decided to find out a bit about him after enjoying the soundtrack to Skullmonkeys. He then locked access to his forum after a mini-invasion of lefties. A quote from him back then (probably deleted elsewhere): Doug TenNapel, 2003-odd posted:My nationalism is moderate not extreme. I'm just capable of seeing our positive traits as well as the negative that your veil of jealosy only allows you to see. What a lovely fellow. Chocolate Teapot has a new favorite as of 13:09 on Apr 8, 2012 |
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He's also extremely homophobic which I found out from reading the forums on his webcomic Ratfist. Sorry for the mini-derail, but yeah, it always sucks finding out that people whose creations you like are secretly bad people.
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Chocolate Teapot posted:He's one of those liberals who went crazy hard-right after 9/11 (like Frank Millar and Dave Mustaine), Frank Miller didn't go crazy -right- after 9/11. It took him a couple of years. The Dark Knight Strikes Back is incredibly subversive.
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So Kurt Cobain died on this date 18 years ago. Nirvana truly was the apex of 90s grunge. Not the first or even the best, but they really defined it and were marketed much more than anyone else.
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Rahonavis posted:I was just wondering the other night what modern kids who watch "A Goofy Movie" must think of the character voiced by and very much based on Pauly Shore? Here's one-- do modern kids even watch A Goofy Movie? I loved it when I was younger (and the show on which it was based), but I wasn't under the impression it had joined the Disney canon. A kid today watching A Goofy Movie would be like our generation watching Xanadu. Or The Warriors. Or anything with Michael Beck's feathered hair.
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korusan posted:So Kurt Cobain died on this date 18 years ago. One of the standout memories of my days in middle school is a talent show put on by faculty and students in my 8th grade year. A group of 8th grade boys covered "Polly Want a Cracker." It got a gym full of countrified, backwoods Georgia kids to headbang. Those men who spent the night, they really weren't your uncles. And there was no such team as the "Do-me Babies." My late night teenaged weekend TV viewing was devoted to reruns of Duckman.
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I've been piecing together vague memories of Welcome Freshmen together for nearly 20 years now, and then I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvU99P8TPoE it seems I still remember the words. Also if you want to waste a lot of time search for Kids Incorporated on youtube.
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WebDog posted:Collectable things in chip packets were a huge craze growing up. Oddbodz, Glo-caps, Goosebumps and so on depending on what was the rage. I remember those Batman promotional Tazos but I thought it was for Batman Forever not Batman and Robin And I did win at least one free packet of chips from the Star Wars promotion.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:
I always wanted to watch this during its original run, but we didn't have cable. A few years ago I made it through a dozen or so episodes, but it felt so incredibly '90s that I lost interest. The humor felt like it hadn't aged well at all.
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OfDeathandTaverns posted:Also if you want to waste a lot of time search for Kids Incorporated on youtube. This is still the best song Fergie has ever been involved with. I also like the idea that this is what some television writer thought heavy metal music was like.
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TGIF on Friday nights. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hanging with Mr. Cooper, Family Matters, and Boy Meets World. We would order pizza and eat in front of the tv. Also Chip and Pepper on Saturday mornings. Maybe more 80's but Today's Special. I still love watching it on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTlW0g_W4Eo
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eden_nova posted:TGIF on Friday nights. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hanging with Mr. Cooper, Family Matters, and Boy Meets World. We would order pizza and eat in front of the tv. I remember it when it was Family Matters, Step by Step, and Perfect Strangers. Looking up the old TGIF schedules, I just learned Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers.
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eden_nova posted:TGIF on Friday nights. Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Hanging with Mr. Cooper, Family Matters, and Boy Meets World. We would order pizza and eat in front of the tv. That was a tradition for us, too. The smell of some brands of pizza still brings me back to those days.
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Rahonavis posted:This is still the best song Fergie has ever been involved with. I also like the idea that this is what some television writer thought heavy metal music was like. It took me a minute to place it, but the music for that is pretty much straight out of Cafe Flesh. Which makes a good thing even better.
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Deacon of Delicious posted:I remember it when it was Family Matters, Step by Step, and Perfect Strangers. Looking up the old TGIF schedules, I just learned Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers. Also interestingly, Urkel didn't exist in season 1, which I always found interesting since he was pretty much the face of the show. They also had a young daughter who disappeared after season 1.
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RagnarokAngel posted:They also had a young daughter who disappeared after season 1. And went on to do three porn movies.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Also interestingly, Urkel didn't exist in season 1, which I always found interesting since he was pretty much the face of the show. This loving phantom character dominates the box yet never shows up.
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korusan posted:So Kurt Cobain died on this date 18 years ago. Actually, he was found dead on the 8th, but he actually killed himself on the 5th RC and Moon Pie posted:One of the standout memories of my days in middle school is a talent show put on by faculty and students in my 8th grade year. A group of 8th grade boys covered "Polly Want a Cracker." It got a gym full of countrified, backwoods Georgia kids to headbang. Ewwww.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Also interestingly, Urkel didn't exist in season 1, which I always found interesting since he was pretty much the face of the show. They also had a young daughter who disappeared after season 1. Wrong. Urkel first appears in season 1 episode 12 "Laura's First Date" and appears in several of the episodes that follow.
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ServoMST3K posted:For some reason, this song was everywhere in the early 90s even though it was released in '88 (I think). Behold, She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals! And on that note, the first time I ever heard that song Kermit Unpigged I have no doubt my parents hated this CD within a week of me getting it from Mother loving Columbia House!
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:Speaking of Power Rangers toys Three years in a row I put that fucker on my birthday/Christmas lists. Never got it.
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Antioch posted:And on that note, the first time I ever heard that song related to that, the video has all the 90's poo poo in it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3OAwwbzuUA
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Anyone else remember that one time Garth Brooks wanted to write some songs in a different genre and so he created a fictional dead alternative musician, like you do, and recorded all the songs in-character as him, and even planned on making a biographical film before the project bombed spectacularly?
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I can't be the only one who vaguely remembers this awfulness, although it's slightly pre-90's: http://youtu.be/v37spLnZmuY
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OfDeathandTaverns posted:related to that, the video has all the 90's poo poo in it This is exactly what I was thinking of when I posted the song originally. This is like the anti-version of "Put Down the Duckie" from Sesame Street, even though Conan and Leslie Nielsen have cameos in the vid.
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I was watching some Iron Maiden concert videos on Youtube earlier, and came across this gem -- a clip from the 1993 "Raising Hell" TV special that was Bruce Dickinson's last performance with Iron Maiden until his return in 1999. Due to some horror magician providing extra theatrics for this show, it was also utterly ridiculous even by Maiden concert standards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77MKMlEGtLE Wikipedia has a pretty good summary: "The band played on stage in conjunction with horror magician Simon Drake, who ended up "killing" Dickinson in an Iron Maiden torture device, "amputated" Dave Murray's hands on a table saw and "killed" members of the crew and audience." For the sake of everyone involved, I hope they didn't expect people to think this show was anything other than hilarious campy poo poo.
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GonzoRonin posted:I can't be the only one who vaguely remembers this awfulness, although it's slightly pre-90's: http://youtu.be/v37spLnZmuY No, don't worry, I've been trying to forget for close to a quarter of a century. Rude Dog was sort of a clothing line before it was a terrible cartoon show (thank christ that Big Dog never got that far, ugh). Seems like there was a brand called Rad Dog too, but without any kind of tubular jiggly-lined neon pink logo. I could be wrong though, I can't find any evidence on page one of my Google search, and I don't give enough of a flip to go beyond that. the dude with the 'tude, in the mood to be rude (guess I'll kill myself now) e: The cartoon came out in '89, which is goddamn close enough in my book. The '90s ran from 1987 to 2000 root beer has a new favorite as of 01:46 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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Rahonavis posted:Anyone else remember that one time Garth Brooks wanted to write some songs in a different genre and so he created a fictional dead alternative musician, like you do, and recorded all the songs in-character as him, and even planned on making a biographical film before the project bombed spectacularly? Now I do. Holy poo poo, memory is a weird thing.
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I came here with an impressive list of awesome toys, TV shows, games and characters to post from my youth, but after searching for images, videos and general information on them it turns out they are all from the 80s. It would appear I'm more of an old man than I thought...
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A couple things I never owned but my friends did because their parents weren't totally mean: BK Ratch Techs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWTBo3TIWk KAWASAKI NINJAS RULE KAWASAKI NINJA'S COOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGIq-rZ4Ak Cut 'N Style Barbie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRUcju54nw To be fair, everyone agreed this one turned out to be lame: after you cut her hair off you replaced it with some terrible velcro mullet weave. It was more fun to just visit that one girl with a million regular Barbies and chop up those instead, which isn't exactly exclusive to 90's kids. Also, did anyone else's schools ban TrapperKeepers? They were always strictly forbidden throughout elementary and middle school. In fact, I seem to remember a supply list in high school that also said they weren't allowed and that was a while after the fad ended. Never did find out why exactly we weren't allowed to use them.
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Frankston posted:Three years in a row I put that fucker on my birthday/Christmas lists. Never got it. loving tell me about it. That poo poo haunted me. For YEARS I obsessed over that loving thing. I bought the one from the 2010 re-release of the show just for some goddamned closure, but it's much shittier quality than the original and doesn't have a matching Dragonzord to combine with. Still, it sits in a place of honor on my shelf because the originals are expensive as hell if you want one with all the pieces.
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Sarah Barracuda posted:Also, did anyone else's schools ban TrapperKeepers? They were always strictly forbidden throughout elementary and middle school. In fact, I seem to remember a supply list in high school that also said they weren't allowed and that was a while after the fad ended. Never did find out why exactly we weren't allowed to use them. I read somewhere not too long ago, schools banned TrapperKeepers because kids would keep opening and closing the Velcro closures they had, and it was really distracting. Teachers got pissed, TrapperKeepers got banned. I never experienced this myself because I graduated in 1980. We had binders with the 'pinch-proof' plastic rings that opened and closed with a slider thing.
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Zonekeeper posted:loving tell me about it. That poo poo haunted me. For YEARS I obsessed over that loving thing. I bought the one from the 2010 re-release of the show just for some goddamned closure, but it's much shittier quality than the original and doesn't have a matching Dragonzord to combine with. Still, it sits in a place of honor on my shelf because the originals are expensive as hell if you want one with all the pieces. I got lucky and picked mine up years ago right before the price spiked (megazord for 40, dragonzord for 25), though to my everlasting shame I've lost some of the pieces and the boxes in a move. If only I'd been more careful; I can't believe how much they go for now.
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Here is some campy '90s poo poo that I am watching:
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Christmas Jones posted:Here's one-- do modern kids even watch A Goofy Movie? I loved it when I was younger (and the show on which it was based), but I wasn't under the impression it had joined the Disney canon. It is apparently part of the "Walt Disney Gold Collection" and they've released it on DVD and all that poo poo so I assume they do. It's really crazy how long lived Disney movies in general are. I bet kids still watch Mary Poppins, not that The Goofy Movie is Mary Poppins level material or anything.
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CLOSING TIME... I saw American Reunion on the weekend and totally expected this song would play in the movie. It's like the go-to song if you want to remind people of the late 90s.
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Lauren posted:Here is some campy '90s poo poo that I am watching: I have never seen this show until a couple years ago, so as someone without nostalgia goggles I can say that Twin Peaks has one of the most dated intros I've ever seen. It always feels like I'm in middle school chemistry class about to watch slides from the '60s.
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mrkillboy posted:CLOSING TIME... Friends with Benefits with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis used that song as a major theme (trying to figure out who sung it) so it's sort of spoiled for all other movies now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34xfcoRceeU That movie also featured this scene, which made me laugh because I can recite Jump by Kriss Kross word for word too - along with every other male in their early 30s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km2F2seBjII UnfortunateSexFart has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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mrkillboy posted:CLOSING TIME... From 1997 - 2001, every senior class awards ceremony, or "banquet", or whatever you call it, ended with a slide show or PowerPoint presentation filled with pictures of the graduating seniors (a mix of candid shots, yearbook photos, and kid/baby photos) set to "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Greenday. Every. Single. One.
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mrkillboy posted:CLOSING TIME... That, and All Star by Smashmouth. For the early 90s, there's I've Got the Power by Snap!. Turns out, Snap! was from Germany. I never knew.
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