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Neddy Seagoon posted:All despite of your job being a joke, being broke, and your love life D-O-A. Titus Sardonicus posted:Yeah, it was like I was always stuck in second gear
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I actually remember when tv stations used to go off the air. For the record I am well under 40 years old. It's just a very early memory I had of waking up at 5 am and running in front of the TV and staring at the Fox logo waiting for them to go on the air. This was before Fox began airing original shows. I actually remember when Fox was going crazy promoting their first night showing original shows (which included Married With Children). I actually don't remember what the hell Fox used to show before then. I must have watched cartoons on it or something. Staring at the Fox logo with elevator music playing used to have a weird, creepy vibe for some reason. Maybe it's just because I was the only one awake. I can't believe even back then that stations would just go off the air. Why not just show commercials for dirt cheap or something other than a static station logo? Chumbawumba4ever97 has a new favorite as of 22:55 on Sep 1, 2017 |
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Sep 1, 2017 22:52
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Some peak 90s right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zkRfQupI5c
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Sep 1, 2017 23:17
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I remember Cartoon Network would stop at nine o'clock and become TNT.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I actually remember when tv stations used to go off the air. For the record I am well under 40 years old. It's just a very early memory I had of waking up at 5 am and running in front of the TV and staring at the Fox logo waiting for them to go on the air. This was before Fox began airing original shows. I actually remember when Fox was going crazy promoting their first night showing original shows (which included Married With Children). I actually don't remember what the hell Fox used to show before then. I must have watched cartoons on it or something. I remember when stations would play the National Anthem with jets and flags and poo poo when they first came on for the morning.
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Sep 1, 2017 23:18
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And now Fox News does that 24/7
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Randaconda posted:I remember when stations would play the National Anthem with jets and flags and poo poo when they first came on for the morning. "This concludes our broadcast day."
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Sep 1, 2017 23:49
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When I was a kid I'd flip thru the weekly channel guide booklet and wonder why Off The Air was the longest show on TV.
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[quote="“Wilford Cutlery”" post="“475984310”"] When I was a kid I’d flip thru the weekly channel guide booklet and wonder why Off The Air was the longest show on TV. [/quote] I used to fall asleep to it on weekends thinking that there would be some secret message to wake me up. This started before the 90s though so I apologize my comments are out of the scope of this thread
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Wheat Loaf posted:I remember Cartoon Network would stop at nine o'clock and become TNT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KASDUA7LUbg
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Sep 2, 2017 06:26
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oops, SBS is closing down for the evening.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIF5EEneWEU
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Speaking of end of broadcast... https://youtu.be/qzhPzHhnFl0
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Randaconda posted:I remember when stations would play the National Anthem with jets and flags and poo poo when they first came on for the morning. My local station had a slow flamenco guitar groove with flute set to pictures of desert wildlife. Then Wake, Rattle & Roll would start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5j03W2xuwA
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You Are A Elf posted:My local station had a slow flamenco guitar groove with flute set to pictures of desert wildlife. It's weird how one can completely forget about something until you see that very thing so many years later. I only remembered that that show was a thing after seeing that clip. The memory was just floating around in my gray matter, not accessed at all until now. So weird how memory works. I like to go on 90s music nostalgia trips every now and then and they always include this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30u9m-nEoo And it has to be the remix, the standard version sucks.
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Here's a neat collection of Halloween photos from the 90’s. I definitely wore that Sub-Zero costume one year.
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One 90's halloween I went as a mummy which was just myself in my underwear wrapped in some very thin grey cloth strips. It was loving freezing and miserable and what the hell were you thinking parents?? Edit: Also it started unravelling so I was wandering around the neighbourhood half naked too by the end of it Frankston has a new favorite as of 18:26 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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Frankston posted:One 90's halloween I went as a mummy which was just myself in my underwear wrapped in some very thin grey cloth strips. It was loving freezing and miserable and what the hell were you thinking parents?? I went as yahtzee once by strapping the game box to my rear end and the cup to my dilz in the 90s. It was also cold, but my parents were only indirectly involved by raising this idiot.
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Battle Rockers posted:It's weird how one can completely forget about something until you see that very thing so many years later. I only remembered that that show was a thing after seeing that clip. The memory was just floating around in my gray matter, not accessed at all until now. So weird how memory works. A big one for me was remembering a giant jukebox dancing to Martha & The Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street." I don't know why in the hell I remembered something outlandish like that since I was around the age of 6, but absolutely no one I ever asked knew what the hell I was talking about or why I wasn't committed. For thirty years that sliver of weird memory lingered in my noggin until last year when an odd playlist came up on YouTube that had a Kidd Video episode called "Having a Ball." There it loving was at 1:47. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzo-ER76bE The brain and memory are a strange thing, indeed, and so was Kidd Video.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I can't believe even back then that stations would just go off the air. Why not just show commercials for dirt cheap or something other than a static station logo? Up until 1982, there were limits on how long and how often commercials could play, and there wasn't the bastion of First-Run and Off-Network syndication we have today, so there wasn't enough to fill the schedule. Really, the '82 decision robbed us of a lot of weird and interesting programming by being cheaper than the syndicated shows or original content. If you want to know what the restrictions were, pre-82: "The agreement eliminates rules that restricted advertising to one product in each 30-second spot, limited the stations to broadcasting no more than five consecutive advertisements and limited advertising to no more than 8 1/2 minutes an hour." Neito has a new favorite as of 19:51 on Sep 5, 2017 |
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Slugnoid posted:oops, SBS is closing down for the evening.. Or later on it got the reputation of "softcore porn films after 9:30" as stuff like Weather Woman or Killer Condom would routinely get screened.
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Instant Sunrise posted:The cultural 90's were between November 9th, 1989 to September 10th, 2001. 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 arrogance continued well after 9/11 imo. Sure, people felt uneasy but terrorism wasnt going to bring down the west. America still felt like the hyperpower with Chinese power on its way but yet to come. The EU and NATO were expanding into the former Soviet union right up to the Russian border. In February 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, who had been something of an anchor for Russian interests in the Balkans. Then bam, 6 months later, Russia recognized south Ossetia's independence from Georgia. The west didn't seem to give much of a poo poo but it should have because it was almost like a training exercise for Putin carving up Ukraine Oh and 2008 also had the Beijing Olympics.
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You Are A Elf posted:
Kidd Video aired in 1984-85. My elementary school had one episode that we saw the first half of repeatedly. So here's a 1990s music video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0wfu3tOrtQ
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Its probably been mentioned, but the attitude era in WWF (Its still the loving WWF goddammit!!) wrestling, and the Monday night wars between WWF and WCW. Even though WCW had the great 80's WWF stars, that I grew up watching, I still liked WWF better.
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From the guy who made Verrit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_FThlNAa-Y
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I was always a NWA/WCA guy until Hogan came in and brought all his hanger ons.  Ric Flair was the true world champion in the 80s. 
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Holy poo poo, I had this on VHS when I was a kid! It looks flat now, but at the time, that poo poo was mindblowing.
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It was just such a weird fad. I remember being super into Crash Dummies at the height of it, but I feel like it lasted maybe a summer and part of the winter.
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OutOfPrint posted:Holy poo poo, I had this on VHS when I was a kid! It looks flat now, but at the time, that poo poo was mindblowing. Kids are dumb as hell
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OutOfPrint posted:Holy poo poo, I had this on VHS when I was a kid! It looks flat now, but at the time, that poo poo was mindblowing. I remember when Nintendo Power started hyping up the Nintendo 64 that cartoon was the the example they gave of it's power. 14 year old me was amazed.
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I don't know what the most 90s of all the big 90s summer blockbusters are, but I think Twister is up there. I was five when Twister came out and I saw it on video at a friend's house, and for so many years afterwards I was convinced that the tornado they're chasing was supposed to be the same one that killed Helen Hunt's characters father in the prologue back to finish the job.
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Neito posted:It was just such a weird fad. I remember being super into Crash Dummies at the height of it, but I feel like it lasted maybe a summer and part of the winter. I had the boardgame. Wtf, 90s?!
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't know what the most 90s of all the big 90s summer blockbusters are, but I think Twister is up there. I was five when Twister came out and I saw it on video at a friend's house, and for so many years afterwards I was convinced that the tornado they're chasing was supposed to be the same one that killed Helen Hunt's characters father in the prologue back to finish the job. Yeah I remember there being a big cut-out stand for it at the movie theater and everything. Such a small little weird film in retrospect. With the Hollywood trend lately we're about due for a Twister reboot starring somebody like Channing Tatum.
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Zaphod42 posted:With the Hollywood trend lately we're about due for a Twister reboot starring somebody like Channing Tatum. They're aiming for more diverse casting so the tornado will be played by a woman in this version.
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Zaphod42 posted:Yeah I remember there being a big cut-out stand for it at the movie theater and everything. I feel as though big standalone action or disaster movies like Twister were the big box office blockbusters of the 90s or at least the second half of the decade - e.g. Independence Day, The Rock, Deep Impact, Armageddon, Air Force One etc. - but I don't feel like you really get movies like that now unless they're part of a franchise or are intended to start a franchise. Only big movie franchises in the 90s that occur to me are Batman and Disney animated movies (inasmuch as those are a franchise). I guess Jurassic Park as well, but it only had two movies.
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I watched the 1998 Godzilla film the other day because it was on TV, and kid me loved the poo poo out of the film. Adult me realised it's total loving garbage though and now I understand all the criticism it got.
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