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Liquid Television was the Adult Swim of it's day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYyY0PTEEoI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vGJEJwIWE The MAXX was...I'm actually not sure what the hell it was about. And I've seen every episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGw0-gLZaMA
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This might be early 2000s, but goddamn these promos for The Box are 90s as gently caress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEs8LanCuKw e: "How great is Mariah?" "You know she's the only artist who's had a number one single for each year of the 90s?" "Hey check it out, Mariah's gonna be here next month." e2: Oh man, those celebrity talking heads are great. Mariah seems like she really wants to be there. QuickbreathFinisher has a new favorite as of 02:39 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Dirk Digglet posted:Liquid Television was the Adult Swim of it's day I have fond memories of watching The Head, but being too young to really "get" it, other than being all "heh, an alien in the guy's head, hilarious!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CL98mMqRqo DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 03:02 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Mar 23, 2013 02:54
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My dad used to watch Liquid Television but I was like, five and just remember it making me uncomfortable.
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Mar 23, 2013 03:53
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmAlgDL8dUQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player The way things work I remember spending hours on this in primary, its were I learned the difference between dusk and dawn :3
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Mar 23, 2013 17:33
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Dirk Digglet posted:The MAXX was...I'm actually not sure what the hell it was about. And I've seen every episode. I'm not sure what it was about either. I'm sure if I read all the comics it would make more sense. But as it is, I didn't get it.....but I loved it. I remember when MTV was running the promo, they were saying the final episode was the SEASON finale. Half a year goes by and I'm like "When the gently caress is The Maxx coming back?!"
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Mar 23, 2013 17:49
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This is only tangentially related to the topic of campy '90s poo poo, but I'm curious to see what people think; of all the major TV drama series which were popular in the '90s, which had the biggest influence on the largely serialised direction the medium has taken (especially if it's a genre show) in the previous decade? I've heard The X-Files and I've heard Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but what other likely candidates were there? I mean, I've heard people say that if Star Trek: The Next Generation had failed in its first season (as Patrick Stewart supposedly expected it to) it would have completely changed the landscape of TV drama today. Maybe that's hyperbolic (and I can't recall any of the reasons given) but it's interesting to think about.
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Mar 23, 2013 18:52
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Metal Loaf posted:This is only tangentially related to the topic of campy '90s poo poo, but I'm curious to see what people think; of all the major TV drama series which were popular in the '90s, which had the biggest influence on the largely serialised direction the medium has taken (especially if it's a genre show) in the previous decade? I've heard The X-Files and I've heard Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but what other likely candidates were there? This is more in terms of camera style and writing than serialization, but I'd say the Larry Sanders Show has had a pretty big influence on American and British TV comedy. Ricky Gervais was a big admirer of the show, and took a similar directorial approach (and in some ways a similar comedic approach) in the Office, which in turn helped pave the way for Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Community, of course the American version of the Office, etc. Curb Your Enthusiasm also came out around the same time as the original Office, and I'm sure the way it combined Seinfeld-type humor with that handheld, single-camera style must have inspired the creators of some of these later shows. I'm not sure how much Larry David was directly drawing from the Larry Sanders Show, though.
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Mar 23, 2013 19:45
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mactheknife posted:My dad used to watch Liquid Television but I was like, five and just remember it making me uncomfortable. All I remember about Liquid Television was a fly wriggling against somebody's eyeball because the eyelashes were trapping it. It made me feel really uncomfortable too 
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Wasn't that Aeon FLux? Was Liquid television an actual show or just a block of programming they gave a name to?
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Mar 23, 2013 21:36
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It was Aeon Flux. Liquid Television was a compilation show of animation shorts; Aeon Flux was a recurring segment that got spun off into its own show.
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Mar 23, 2013 21:53
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I couldn't find any of the original Aeon Flux episodes on youtube. They made I think 6 5-minute long episodes and then spun off into a full length show. The originals are fantastic though, and can be seen here http://liquidtelevision.com/videos/series/aeon-flux/ There is something about hand-drawn animation that just cant be carried over with flash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grTMBzOImGg
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Hey guys, help me out with this one. Do any of you remember a program/channel on TV where they would just show surgeries? I don't remember there being any production value to it, just a single camera pointed at the body with the doctors going at it? Do any of you know what I'm taking about? I'm thinking this was very early 90s at the latest.
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Mar 24, 2013 02:51
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I think that was the "health channel" or something. Those surgeries were disgusting.
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Hey guys, help me out with this one. Do any of you remember a program/channel on TV where they would just show surgeries? I don't remember there being any production value to it, just a single camera pointed at the body with the doctors going at it? Do any of you know what I'm taking about? I'm thinking this was very early 90s at the latest.
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Mar 24, 2013 03:51
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It debuted in 1997 but I remember the show Trauma: Life in the ER showing a ton of gross surgeries on TLC.
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Psimitry posted:I'm not sure what it was about either. I'm sure if I read all the comics it would make more sense. But as it is, I didn't get it.....but I loved it. I remember when MTV was running the promo, they were saying the final episode was the SEASON finale. Half a year goes by and I'm like "When the gently caress is The Maxx coming back?!" It's a show where the main characters are a homeless guy and a rape victim. I remember watching the first episode teaching my eleven year old self that it's not okay to judge a woman based on the clothes she wears. That type of subversion and focus on socially marginalized characters was very very 90s.
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 I know next to nothing about "Adam X the X-Treme" beyond the fact that he was meant to be either Wolverine's evil secret brother or Cyclops's (other) evil secret brother at one point, but he's one of the most '90s-looking comic book characters ever. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 17:46 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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Is he wearing armour with a bunch of spikes glued to it for no reason, and then a backwards baseball cap?
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Mar 24, 2013 18:14
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Fixed Expression posted:Is he wearing armour with a bunch of spikes glued to it for no reason, and then a backwards baseball cap? He's called Adam-X "The Extreme."
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Mar 24, 2013 18:50
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Yea, you're right. Stupid question really.
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oldpainless posted:He's called Adam-X "The Extreme." The only thing more extreme than being Extreme is being X-Treme.
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Had the full set of these, most of them "signature" versions. I was the coolest drat kid (who spent way too much allowance on shiny cardboard). Also loving Microprose Magic The Gathering. 
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When I was growing up in the early 90s, aunt showed my cousins and I this video, "Bicycle Safety Camp with Sam Sprocket", to help us learn how to ride our bikes. Naturally, we made fun of it to no end, and in the years since it's only become funnier because of all the late 80s/early 90s style/co-opting of hip hop. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qli_U6yyZs0 Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=Eb09CivC4HM Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRiv6kpxR6E
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Dirk Digglet posted:Liquid Television was the Adult Swim of it's day This show was usually scary to my child mind-- but I kept watching in facination anyway. It was arguably smarter than Adult Swim, since it often spent more time being arty than funny (or that's how I remember it). Dirk Digglet posted:The MAXX was...I'm actually not sure what the hell it was about. And I've seen every episode. Without my parents knowing I saw the entire series in a marathon on MTV in 1995, and I was 12. The next day I wrote down a summary of everything I'd seen in a journal. I thought it was amazing. Even then I knew I was too young for it-- a superhero parody with issues like feminism, rape, psychology, etc. I greatly identified with Sarah, a bullied, brooding girl with dark curly hair and glasses. That was my life.  So when I found out it was a comic series, I bought as many as I could find or afford. The only comic I've ever cared about. It goes on beyond the series. I won't say much more, since it wasn't campy 90s poo poo; probably the only Image Comics title worth a drat. Maxx was often exaggeratedly muscular and poorly proportioned, but it was also obviously a stylistic decision (get the difference Liefeld?) ( Fun fact: Same Keith, the guy who made The Maxx, is cousins with the guy who made Cow and Chicken. ) Ema Nymton has a new favorite as of 15:15 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Just found this: Was that a real website? I seem to remember it being a thing. Even if that specific website was never real, the rainbow Times New Roman was most definitely 90s as gently caress. Official font of the 90s contender? QuickbreathFinisher has a new favorite as of 01:41 on Mar 26, 2013 |
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Masonic Youth posted:Pretty sure it was on TLC back when it was still The Learning Channel. I seem to recall the show being called The Operation, but IMDb doesn't record a series by that name. I'm almost positive that was what it was called, though. That show WAS called The Operation. I used to watch it all the time in the 90's. Really weird that I too can't seem to find much information on it anywhere online, now. Just a handful of brief articles here and there. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/tv/benevolent-gore-a-test-for-the-squeamish.html like this one.
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 I remember buying this game out of one of those book order catalogs at school. It was half Twisted Metal style car battling, half time trial package delivery, and completely awesome. It had a bitchin funk/rock/jazz/bluegrass/house soundtrack (entire ST here), and you could even import your cities from Simcity 2000 and drive around in them. Truly a masterpiece.  The Nickelodeon Flash Screen. You were supposed to hang the photo-sensitive sheet it came with and use the flash doohicky to make "art" with shadows. After about a week of heavy use, the screen fizzled out and was useless. But it turns out the most fun use of the toy was sneaking up on your friends and using the flasher to blind them. Super fun! Hyte has a new favorite as of 05:04 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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NBA Jam The perfect basketball game full of 90's camp. Two players to a team that were often dressed in neon uniforms, extremely unrealistic; BOOMSHAKALAKA! If you had an SNES in the 90's you either owned this game or know someone who did. You also probably had a team you swore by (Knicks for life). This game stuck with me so much that me and my friends downloaded an emulator to play it in high school. EA remade it but it's not the same
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NBA Jam is also in the top 5 highest grossing arcade games of all time! Which is crazy because no one ever talks about it, despite every other game in that list (Pac Man, Street Fighter 2, etc) being cultural staples. Also it was totally haunted (I believed this as a kid)!
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Hyte posted:
I distinctly remember taking that loving flasher with me on vacation once because I was an annoying poo poo kid, and we were up in the mountains so the cloud ceiling was pretty low, and I fired it at the sky and it was so bright it lit up all the clouds and that was the coolest thing ever.
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When I wasn't watching Northern Exposure, I was up in my room listening to some sweet music like La Bouche or Hooverphonic on my sweet Sony Discman. Man, that thing was expensive and I don't even think it had Anti-Shock. Shame about the Northern Exposure DVD's. I heard a lot of the music got cut due to legal bullshit. 
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SouthLAnd posted:When I wasn't watching Northern Exposure, I was up in my room listening to some sweet music like La Bouche or Hooverphonic on my sweet Sony Discman. Man, that thing was expensive and I don't even think it had Anti-Shock. Yeah, same thing happened to another 90s as gently caress show, Daria.   What a great loving show. All the timely 90s grunge and college rock got changed to generic guitar parts when it started getting syndicated, which lessened the awesome campiness, but it's still a goddamn amazing show that you should love real hard.  e: whoops, hosting. QuickbreathFinisher has a new favorite as of 01:30 on Mar 30, 2013 |
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SouthLAnd posted:When I wasn't watching Northern Exposure, I was up in my room listening to some sweet music like La Bouche or Hooverphonic on my sweet Sony Discman. Man, that thing was expensive and I don't even think it had Anti-Shock. It's odd you should bring that up. For years, I was searching for a song that was featured in a commercial for "Tim & Eric" and the only lead I could possibly find was that it was also used in the DVDs for Northern Exposure because, as you said, there were legal issues. (As it turns out, it was "Time Stood Still" by 5 Alarm Music.)
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Dis posted:It's odd you should bring that up. For years, I was searching for a song that was featured in a commercial for "Tim & Eric" and the only lead I could possibly find was that it was also used in the DVDs for Northern Exposure because, as you said, there were legal issues. (As it turns out, it was "Time Stood Still" by 5 Alarm Music.) Same thing happened with "The State". The DVDs weren't released for years due to them having tons of 90's music in them. They finally did release them, but have generic sounding rock in the background.
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Must play embedded video while viewing images! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkW_k8FZMGY      
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Oh poo poo, drat near had some kind of memory seizure watching that intro again. So much campy scifi came flooding back to me I thought I was going to burst a blood vessel in my brain. I loved that show and was so sad when it died. Wikipedia tells me it was yet another case of US networks killing a show through loving with its timeslot.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Just found this:  http://oneterabyteofkilobyteage.tumblr.com/ Dig in to that. <edit> Speaking of 90's poo poo, but cool not campy:  http://suif.stanford.edu/~jeffop/WWW/swom/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa_%28art%29 NoneMoreNegative has a new favorite as of 15:49 on Mar 31, 2013 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The whole internet looked like this back in the day Twenty-one years ago, this was the only photograph on the internet: 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:<edit> Speaking of 90's poo poo, but cool not campy: which I ordered from the pages of the sadly defunct Fringeware Review...  I really used to enjoy reading those cyberpunk/proto-web magazines (Boing Boing, Mondo2000, etc...)
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