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Hakkesshu posted:Our school used Muzzy to teach us English, it was p. cool. All I remember is the bad guy was called Corvax and he was very clever. He really wanted you to know how clever he was. And he had a com put er. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SNSPUWnTs
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So Muzzy was just like, mail order Sesame Street level cartoons to teach second language to kids, right?
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Choco1980 posted:So Muzzy was just like, mail order Sesame Street level cartoons to teach second language to kids, right? Yea, they worked pretty well though. I learned French just as well from those videos as from attending class.
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President Ark posted:re: commercialchat Not only are Zoobooks still around, they keep them updated and they are incredibly informative. I sincerely recommend them to anyone with children. e: Or if you don't know much about animals, buy it for yourself. If you don't know the number of species of porpoises in the world, you can learn.
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My parents used to get me zoobooks and a bunch of the time life series books since i used to read like a fiend as a kid, they were really fun and I actually did learn a lot I would still love to be able to read as much if i had the time these days
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Does anyone else remember these shorts Nickelodeon played during commercial breaks? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADgmaJ3nJQ
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Ehud posted:Does anyone else remember these shorts Nickelodeon played during commercial breaks? Not until you just posted it, no. I remember this "When you were a kid" short that they used to run. An old guy is telling a younger kid about how this woman used to steal the fruit wrapping paper at the store to use as TP, and he made sure one day that she got a whole bunch of paper that was used on prickly pears. As a kid, I thought that was messed up.
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Ha, good times, all those songs remind me of my first job at a Walgreens, I think that CD and the elevator music channel were all they played
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Ehud posted:Does anyone else remember these shorts Nickelodeon played during commercial breaks? Didn't Pete & Pete start out as those? I never had Nickelodeon nor saw Pete & Pete but goons have been talking about it since I joined, so i feel like I have.
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twistedmentat posted:Didn't Pete & Pete start out as those? I never had Nickelodeon nor saw Pete & Pete but goons have been talking about it since I joined, so i feel like I have. Yes, they were. My best friend's cousin directed a bunch of the actual episodes, Toby Huss is supposedly an incredibly cool dude
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As teenagers (in the 90s, heh) my brother and I became kinda obsessed with one of these short films, "Chicken Thing" about a chicken monster made out of stuff around the house. This is mostly because we found it at our local library and remembered it from eons past. Good luck finding a film with such a vague title on youtube.
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Speaking of short films from the 90s that aired on cable, I give you Nathaniel Drives the Hippie Bus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7r8ec2iIK8
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:My best friend's cousin directed a bunch of the actual episodes, Toby Huss is supposedly an incredibly cool dude Speaking of, anybody remember his segments during commercial breaks on MTV? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veAHvjRpFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrzYqO6_fk
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:Yes, they were. My aunt dated the shows creator will mcrobb for years, he was a very cool guy. I got him into space ghost. He lent me the original casting tapes for p&p and they're still at my parents house somewhere I assume
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God NWO stuff was as common as Tapout stuff was (still is in some places). It confused me because I'd see shirts with stuff like "Mean People Suck!" and other weird slogans and have no idea what its about.
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twistedmentat posted:God NWO stuff was as common as Tapout stuff was (still is in some places). It confused me because I'd see shirts with stuff like "Mean People Suck!" and other weird slogans and have no idea what its about. Mean people - well, you see, they suck. Categorically true. I recall everyone having this shirt.   Goes with your JNCOs.
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Aesop Poprock posted:What is he holding A 90s-era transformer, specifically Transmetal Beast Wars Megatron. Trap sprung and all that.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:A 90s-era transformer, specifically Transmetal Beast Wars Megatron. Transmetal Megatron was the best Megatron, yes.
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Nutsngum posted:What a bunch of loving nerds. Looks like a bunch of Cool Guys at the Beach! to me.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Transmetal Megatron was the best Megatron, yes. except that he's made of a specific plastic that is now known to always crumble to dust even if you do not ever touch it.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Transmetal Megatron was the best Megatron, yes. call me phobic or whatever but i prefer Cismetal Megatron
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so, all the kids are getting into this whole "industrial music" thing? it's the hot new sound of the early 90's hm. how can we capitalize on this with our tv show. .... I'VE GOT NOTHING BUT TOXIC LOVE FOR YOU, BABY!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckPPHtDUrm0
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Does anyone remember another Nickelodeon short that was animated? It had a guy that was like a stick figure, and he was in a box and there were all these contraptions on/around the box. He walked around in this box and all you could see were his legs and arms I think and maybe an eye. What the gently caress was that? This might have actually been an 80's thing that bled into the 90's now that I think about it. I seem to recall it with "You can't do that on Television".
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Gomi Day posted:so, all the kids are getting into this whole "industrial music" thing? it's the hot new sound of the early 90's hm. how can we capitalize on this with our tv show. It's so weird that such a strange, off beat guy like Mike Patton became a huge cultural icon that was imitated everywhere.
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Gomi Day posted:so, all the kids are getting into this whole "industrial music" thing? it's the hot new sound of the early 90's hm. how can we capitalize on this with our tv show. That show was so weird. It was on at like 1:30 in the morning and looking back I'm pretty sure I only liked it because I enjoyed ogling Neve Cambell.
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Jimmy the Cab Driver shorts on MTV. Donal Logue as Jimmy, who apparently has nothing better to do than watch MTV during his time off. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t9z9goCWgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdY4VwAE5g
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Just got a copy of this for a quarter from a used book store: I'll make sure to post the most hilariously dated parts once I finish looking through it.
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BobbyDrake posted:Jimmy the Cab Driver shorts on MTV. Donal Logue as Jimmy, who apparently has nothing better to do than watch MTV during his time off. Enjoy: The fact that this isn't somehow Donal Logue or Peter Sarsgaard makes me angry for some reason.
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SNL absolutely nailed 90s teen-aimed commercials when they made this one: https://screen.yahoo.com/kfc-shredders-000000013.html
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BrigadierSensible posted:Video Games. Not even once. 90% of John Romero's income was spent in maintaining that mane of hair. Speaking of hair, I saw a dude with a mullet (and an kaiser bill) the other day, and I though "drat, why do people keep trying to bring that thing back?" and also remembered how the mullet did get its start in the 80s, I always associate it with the 90s because it was everywhere. Movie starts would have them done in their latest roles, and they were all over tv. Pretty much every boy in family sitcoms had them, and they were artfully arranged for maximum business up front, party in the back. That just seems like a weird attempt to target a market that wouldn't be interested in pickups. Though its nice to see a truck ad that isn't "A MAN MANLY MAN HAS A TRUCK! GET ONE human being!". 90s SNL was probably its second golden age. Everyone watched it, everyone knew the players and the characters. Sketches were generally pretty strong, and often would create an catchphrase or character that everyone would be talking about on monday. I think the cast in the early 90s just knew what people wanted and were real zeitgeists of the day. Obviously it didn't remain as strong as many of them left to pursue movie careers to varying success. Mango was no Pat. Looking at the cast list, for some reason I thought Tina Fey was in the cast earlier than 2000. And Will Farrell was on a lot earlier than I remember.
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