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BrigadierSensible posted:It's probably been posted, but if you want the best dinosaur related 90s cartoon you can't go much better than this: Except that show is from 1987.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1acEVmnVhI One of my favorite songs.
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You Are A Elf posted:Except that show is from 1987. I'll give you that, but the aesthetic that we think of as 90s actually began around 1988, just like the 90s ended in 2001. This commercial is from 1988 but is extremely 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZYRK6KAX4
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Pastry of the Year posted:I'll give you that, but the aesthetic that we think of as 90s actually began around 1988, just like the 90s ended in 2001. I always said from the fall of the wall to the fall of the towers, which almost kinda fits with your timeline.
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It's early 2000's, but it still feels pretty 90's to me (from the GIF thread)
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The Repo Man posted:It's early 2000's, but it still feels pretty 90's to me (from the GIF thread) Cultural Decades rarely line up with calendar ones. The "60s" didn't really get going until like 1964/65 and ended in 71 or so and so on. Also, remember record stores? Where you'd go to buy like CDs and things?
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Wacky Delly posted:Cultural Decades rarely line up with calendar ones. The "60s" didn't really get going until like 1964/65 and ended in 71 or so and so on. I drive by a record store/dvd thrift shop every day after work. There are still a few up and kickin' here and there.
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Record stores haven't quite kicked the bucket. Big chain music stores have. Things like Virgin Music or Sanity were places you go to browse $20 CD singles. They are still around and surprisingly keep afloat. But the vinyl resurgence has moved the market into secondhand shops which do also stock modern releases. It'll be interesting to see how long they last. BogDew has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Jul 29, 2017 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I'll give you that, but the aesthetic that we think of as 90s actually began around 1988, just like the 90s ended in 2001. I'll give you one year earlier from a commercial I saw many times during Saturday mornings and USA's Cartoon Express: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md_uz1dKMTM
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The original Whatcamacallits were nice, then they changed it, and it wasn't as good.
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Randaconda posted:The original Whatcamacallits were nice, then they changed it, and it wasn't as good. Doodad Skidmarink Whatchamacallit Also I owned a local, small record store until 2007, when I had a kid and got out of the business before the vinyl resurgence really took off. Just my luck.
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Gainesvill, FL had a really nice used cd shop for years, but it went out of business, sadly.
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For some reason, last week I got on a TV theme bender at work, and was reminded that there was a point in time when Paul Reiser was in a top-rated sitcom. I can't be the only one that forgot Mad About You existed, can I? That show was a thursday night staple that died on off-network syndication.
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The only thing I remember about Mad About You is the theme song. It was catchy.
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Helen Hunt won the Emmy for best lead comedy actress four years in a row for that show. It's like how Candice Bergen got the award five times in a row for Murphy Brown but basically the only thing I think anyone remembers about Murphy Brown is its feud with Dan Quayle.
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I think it was just the era; that show ended right before off-network syndication became a viable way for shows to make extra money, so I think it ended up doing a couple of circuits of Lifetime and TNT and ended up in the DVD bargain bin.
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Neito posted:I think it was just the era; that show ended right before off-network syndication became a viable way for shows to make extra money, so I think it ended up doing a couple of circuits of Lifetime and TNT and ended up in the DVD bargain bin. In the 80's and first half of the 90's I remember cable as a luxury. I was stuck with an antenna in the house until 1994 when we got cable for what my mom described as "a good deal." Getting TV over the air back then was different, I remember watching shows like The Addam's Family, Giligan's Island, and The Brady Bunch all the time when I was off from school. Saturday and Sunday afternoons there was usually a decent movie on (I saw John Carpenter's The Thing so many times). It's definitely a far cry now where it's mostly infomercials from 10 am until 3 pm. I think what happened is that in 1994, DirecTV went live and gave your cable providers a run for their money as now they all had competition that didn't require buying a massive dish. Which in turn made it much more lucrative for syndication to go to stations that were not OTA. I remember stations like TBS advertising hours of shows (I think Mad About You was one) every morning and evening. Hell, in the early 2000's I would watch Law and Order episodes all night on TNT (or was it A&E?). I currently use only an antenna for my TV viewing, so I get all those wonderful little sub-channels where I can watch all those old shows, as far as I know it's the only way I can watch Night Court, Roseanne, or The Drew Carey Show. Hell, Buzzer is a fun one where I can catch an episode of Family Feud from 1980.
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I was actually thinking about Mad About You a few months ago, and I'd always thought it was the most boring, bland television show ever made. Whenever I picture the show I just see them dressed in their yuppie clothes in their yuppie apartment, it's night time, having boring banter back and forth, and their immaculately groomed dog will occasionally wander into the scene. The whole thing was just so sterile.
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Duck_King posted:I was actually thinking about Mad About You a few months ago, and I'd always thought it was the most boring, bland television show ever made. Whenever I picture the show I just see them dressed in their yuppie clothes in their yuppie apartment, it's night time, having boring banter back and forth, and their immaculately groomed dog will occasionally wander into the scene. The whole thing was just so sterile. "Post the most 90s thing you can find"
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That's actually kind of interesting, how we seem to simultaneously remember the 90s as this neon-colored world of buzz clips and x-treme sports, and also as bland, inoffensive, and boring. edit: In conclusion, the nineties were a decade of contrasts.
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My Twitter Account posted:That's actually kind of interesting, how we seem to simultaneously remember the 90s as this neon-colored world of buzz clips and x-treme sports, and also as bland, inoffensive, and boring. It depends on where in the 90's you look. '87 to about '92 were the neon-90's. '93 to about '98 were the "Grunge" 90's, and about '99 on is where the 2000's happened.
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The 2000s very definitively started on September 11th, 2001 and ended sometime in '08.
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Neito posted:I think it was just the era; that show ended right before off-network syndication became a viable way for shows to make extra money, so I think it ended up doing a couple of circuits of Lifetime and TNT and ended up in the DVD bargain bin. FXX had it a few years ago. I stumbled upon one episode out of boredom one day. It wasn't that bad. Iron Crowned posted:In the 80's and first half of the 90's I remember cable as a luxury. I was stuck with an antenna in the house until 1994 when we got cable for what my mom described as "a good deal." Getting TV over the air back then was different, I remember watching shows like The Addam's Family, Giligan's Island, and The Brady Bunch all the time when I was off from school. Saturday and Sunday afternoons there was usually a decent movie on (I saw John Carpenter's The Thing so many times). It's definitely a far cry now where it's mostly infomercials from 10 am until 3 pm. Mini-satellite dishes were rumored for a few years. That's the reason I was stuck with four channels for a few years in not just the rural south, but BFE rural south. Dad didn't want a honking big dish in his yard and it wasn't until Jan/Feb 1995 that we got a Primestar. During that era, Fox had the afternoon kids block, which lasted from 3-5. There was so much that aired during a 10-year period - Super Mario Brothers Super Show, Bonkers, The Tick, Tiny Toon Adventures, DuckTales (I think), Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, Eek, Animaniacs and Batman The Animated Series. TBS used to be a different animal in the 1980s. I was going through some old tapes and found a variety of nature documentaries with the TBS logo in the corner.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:During that era, Fox had the afternoon kids block, which lasted from 3-5. There was so much that aired during a 10-year period - Super Mario Brothers Super Show, Bonkers, The Tick, Tiny Toon Adventures, DuckTales (I think), Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, Eek, Animaniacs and Batman The Animated Series. Something I hadn't thought about was that Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons no longer exist on broadcast TV, which is weird. RC and Moon Pie posted:TBS used to be a different animal in the 1980s. I was going through some old tapes and found a variety of nature documentaries with the TBS logo in the corner. That does remind me, in the 90's TBS's schedule was shifted by 5 minutes.
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Neito posted:The 2000s very definitively started on September 11th, 2001 and ended sometime in '08. I agree. For me, the 2000s ended around the time of this album:  It's the climax of all the 80s nostalgia built up by then. After that Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Nicki MInaj dropped their 80s influences and started the art pop trend of the 20-teens. Pop culture has been much weirder this decade. You know what I miss about the 90s? Late-90s glam rap sitcom intros. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztL5XGvSXwg 
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The cultural 90's were between November 9th, 1989 to September 10th, 2001. All of a sudden the Cold War is no longer a thing, so in the US, there's no longer this easy bogeyman to blame poo poo on. Combine that with the easy victory of the Persian Gulf War and you've got a recipe for a cultural arrogance of "we know what's best."
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eminkey2003 posted:I agree. For me, the 2000s ended around the time of this album: https://youtu.be/FCSh48OlvMo seems like it would be insanely down your alley, going off of this post and this post alone.
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Neito posted:The 2000s very definitively started on September 11th, 2001 and ended sometime in '08. Yeah, this. I can't pin an exact date in 2008, but it was definitely the triple threat of the recession, Obama, and smartphones that kicked off the 2010s.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Yeah, this. I can't pin an exact date in 2008, but it was definitely the triple threat of the recession, Obama, and smartphones that kicked off the 2010s. The end of the 2000s for me was I think either Bear of Lehman going under or possibly Northen Rock as through my school days in 2000s there was a feeling there would be jobs when finished uni and suddenly everything was up in the air with no idea what will happen next.
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Is Trump winning the 2020s starting early? 
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Wheat Loaf posted:the 2020s 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is Trump winning the 2020s starting early? If the 2020s keep up the current trend, probably.
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Grassy Knowles posted:https://youtu.be/FCSh48OlvMo seems like it would be insanely down your alley, going off of this post and this post alone. Interesting. Nice to see Tiffany Haddish and Hannibal Burress in there. Y'know, visually, Friends is the least 90s sitcom. Besides the sweaters and the Rachel, Seinfeld looks way more 90s.
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eminkey2003 posted:Interesting. Nice to see Tiffany Haddish and Hannibal Burress in there. Go watch season 1 again and say that.
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I've been on a 90's wrestling kick while bored at work.
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Instant Sunrise posted:The cultural 90's were between November 9th, 1989 to September 10th, 2001. This plus the advent of computing as a serious home information source due to the internet. People remember the 90s much more fondly because it definitly was this era of information boom and awe. As you said, no more cold war, everyone is friends! It genuingly gave people (in the west) a time of positivity until Bush and 9-11 changed everything.
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Nutsngum posted:As you said, no more cold war, everyone is friends! It genuinely gave people (in the west) a time of positivity until Bush and 9-11 changed everything. All despite of your job being a joke, being broke, and your love life D-O-A.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:All despite of your job being a joke, being broke, and your love life D-O-A. Yeah, it was like I was always stuck in second gear
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