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Davfff posted:really? how did you remember that? I remember it because it was always half-way through when we had to leave our cousin's place for Sunday roast. But that would have been early/mid 90s so the early stuff could have been on much later - it seems pretty likely given that prime-time would have been McGuyver and Walker, Texas Ranger until late. You're probably right.
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Metal Loaf posted:I was born in 1991, so I need to ask, was there really a time when Bart Simpson was the edgiest character on the telly? The correct answer is that it depends on where you're from. Here's a sort of long introduction about how the Simpsons broke all sorts of ground on American TV in the early 90s, but the sort of stuff that the Simpsons revolutionised -- deadbeat parents, very soft anti-establishmentarianisms, corrupt public officials or other types of authority etc. -- were all very well trodden ground in other countries, with that sort of stuff having been done for decades before in UK media at least (despite your link being from some guy from the UK).
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At the time Southpark came out - I didn't have it available to watch on TV. We didn't get SBS so no monday night episodes. I remember getting the Chef Aid CD from an aunt and loved it - had no idea about the show. THen I saw a VHS of it at the local video store. It was my birthday, so I felt like a god presenting 3 tapes to all my friends who were staying for a sleepover party.
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Being a kid in the 90s was all about claiming how your mom was cool and let you watch south park all the time but really you didn't even have the cable channel for it. But it's not like the other kids could call you on your bullshit cause they hadn't seen it either.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Being a kid in the 90s was all about claiming how your mom was cool and let you watch south park all the time but really you didn't even have the cable channel for it. But it's not like the other kids could call you on your bullshit cause they hadn't seen it either. Or you could be like me and be too dumb/  to lie about it.
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Chocolate Teapot posted:The correct answer is that it depends on where you're from. Here's a sort of long introduction about how the Simpsons broke all sorts of ground on American TV in the early 90s, but the sort of stuff that the Simpsons revolutionised -- deadbeat parents, very soft anti-establishmentarianisms, corrupt public officials or other types of authority etc. -- were all very well trodden ground in other countries, with that sort of stuff having been done for decades before in UK media at least (despite your link being from some guy from the UK). I'm in the UK myself, but as I say I'm the wrong age to appreciate it. The biggest thing I remember from my childhood was Pokémon. It's pretty insane looking back at just how big that was for maybe a year and a half. Sure, it's still popular, but it can't hold a candle to how popular it was from around 1997 or so to 1999; it must have been a high water mark for anime's profile in the public consciousness or something. I remember when I went to see the movie in the cinema, the highlight was actually getting the exclusive trading cards on the way out. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 14:50 on Dec 22, 2014 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Being a kid in the 90s was all about claiming how your mom was cool and let you watch south park all the time but really you didn't even have the cable channel for it. But it's not like the other kids could call you on your bullshit cause they hadn't seen it either. All my friends were the Kenny of my childhood. They all saw it and their parents didn't give a poo poo. I was in the south for half the 90s.
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Butt Wizard posted:I remember it because it was always half-way through when we had to leave our cousin's place for Sunday roast. yeah, i'm talking first showing of the first season. it must've been saturday night because i watched it at my grandparents, not at my house (which would've only been on a saturday).
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I remember when South Park first came out my school actually sent home a flyer to all the parents explaining that while South Park is a cartoon, it is NOT for children 
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 Due to some stupid poo poo luck I just missed driving to Minneapolis to go to that.     
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cobalt impurity posted:Beavis & Butthead was apparently so vile and without merit in my mother's eyes that she banned my brother and I from watching it for years. My parents (or at least my mother) were so against Beavis & Butthead that we weren't allowed to have any TV in our bedroom unless it could be "permanently" disabled from watching channel 3, MTV. Better to eliminate the entire channel than to risk us watching it. Since I was the resident nerd I was the one tasked with performing said disabling. It usually meant lifting a wire off rotary switches or detuning channel three for sets where it was separate. I always claimed it was permanent but I'm sure at least my stepfather understood that if I could do it, I could undo it.
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Suzuran posted:My parents (or at least my mother) were so against Beavis & Butthead that we weren't allowed to have any TV in our bedroom unless it could be "permanently" disabled from watching channel 3, MTV. Better to eliminate the entire channel than to risk us watching it. Since I was the resident nerd I was the one tasked with performing said disabling. It usually meant lifting a wire off rotary switches or detuning channel three for sets where it was separate. I always claimed it was permanent but I'm sure at least my stepfather understood that if I could do it, I could undo it. Man, that's cold. That's like asking a man to dig his own grave. 
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I am not sure if this was just an Australian thing but enjoy: NSFW I guess to some http://i.imgur.com/W6NR29N.jpg
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Humphreys posted:I am not sure if this was just an Australian thing but enjoy: Now that takes me back. T shirts or stickers? I cant remember too well.
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Nutsngum posted:Now that takes me back. T shirts or stickers? I cant remember too well. I had it on a hat, shirt and many sitckers on my surf board.
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Humphreys posted:I am not sure if this was just an Australian thing but enjoy: Pfft, we didn't' go for such lowbrow crap here in America. We wore these high class items:    
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I don't care when this site was actually updated, this is extremely fuckin' 90s. http://www.bigjohnson.com/animain.html
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Hahahaaaaa Does anyone remember calling 1-800-I-FEEL-OK? All I can remember really was a phone tree system that just lead to random sounds, like a sprinkler and stuff.
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oh dope posted:Hahahaaaaa
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here's some Christmas cheer, from 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKj92352UAE If God wants to send me a message, why is he doing it via 'N*Sync? Why would an elf where what appears to be a duct tape suit? So many mysteries.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I don't care when this site was actually updated, this is extremely fuckin' 90s. I don't know what was more disturbing - that 10-year-olds were wearing Big Johnson shirts at school or that the school didn't ban them. This was very early 1990s, so it could possibly be that they were too naive about any potential meaning. Intelligence was never our forte.  Note: they did ban slap bracelets.
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Hey man, slap bracelets promote violence.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Note: they did ban slap bracelets. I think the funniest part (to the teachers) was the fact in my school, eventual slap bracelet policies came after the fact most kids who owned slap bracelets in my grade school bought them from the school in the first place along with their holographic pencils. Thanks for the lunch money spent on cheap knickknacks, kids.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Hey man, slap bracelets promote violence. I used to take the cloth like covers off and slap people with the bare metal. It sometimes left cuts.
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JEEVES420 posted:I used to take the cloth like covers off and slap people with the bare metal. It sometimes left cuts. It's all your fault that we couldn't have nice things.  Also count me in as another kid who wasn't allowed to watch MTV. I remember my parents got really pissed because they caught me watching Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video even though I was probably 4 years old at the time, had no idea what was going on in the video and just thought the music was catchy.
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If you've ever seen the documentary Hype, which was all about the rise and fall of Grunge, you'll remember a part where they talk about so called Grunge Speak. Basically, a NYT reporter called up Sub Pop and ask "what are all the grunge kids saying?" and the person on the phone at Sub Pop basically pulled a bunch of poo poo out of their rear end and it got published. http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/grunge_speak Gotta love that. As for bad 90s shirts there were two that haven't been mentioned that I remember Chip & Pepper http://i.imgur.com/nW135m5.jpg I took sailing courses one summer, at there was at least 4 kids in the class that wore nothing but these shirts for the 3 weeks. There was also these, Big Dogs http://i.imgur.com/ZMUj7nl.jpg They were "good shirts" to a lot of kids I knew in the 90s. They seem to still make shirts, but now they're all edgy and "'Murica gently caress ya!'. While I only just saw it, X-men Evolution was way more 90s than first X-men cartoon. If only because of Spyke http://i.imgur.com/e4XSyiZ.jpg Skateboarding mutant with Simon Phoenix hair! It was like they didn't need another girl, so they took Marrow and made it a black kid for Diversity's sake. They also felt the need to redo Rogue as an angsty goth kid http://i.imgur.com/rUI2VhR.png They did the same with Scarlett Witch but it was less goth teen and more vamperella costume.
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twistedmentat posted:
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DrBouvenstein posted:Pfft, we didn't' go for such lowbrow crap here in America. In 1994, my girlfriend was asked to leave Six Flags and change because she was wearing the Volleyball version of that ("On The Floor is Where We Score!").
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Ishamael posted:That wasn't from the 90s. I think they meant it was "90s in spirit," although the show started in 2000 so it was right on the borderline anyway.
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Ishamael posted:That wasn't from the 90s. You don't have to be from the 90s to be 90s as gently caress. How about mullet Superman http://i.imgur.com/a9JxWqy.jpg Mullets were popular enough in the 90s they were seen in media a lot.
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twistedmentat posted:You don't have to be from the 90s to be 90s as gently caress. Speaking of 90's and mullets... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc
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twistedmentat posted:You don't have to be from the 90s to be 90s as gently caress. Yeah when Superman came back in 93, most of the artists drew him like he had fairly uniformly long hair.  Then over time, for some reason, it became a mullet. Both styles were terrible.
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flowinprose posted:Speaking of 90's and mullets... And this gave us all the New Country white people could consume. Ishamael posted:Yeah when Superman came back in 93, most of the artists drew him like he had fairly uniformly long hair. The word balloon is perfect. There was also the weird energy Superman too. Did DC ever know what it was doing in its monthlies?
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flowinprose posted:Speaking of 90's and mullets... Oh god, I remember when this song came out it turned into some kind of weird craze at my elementary school for a while. 
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Bad Dog screensaver Corduroy jeans 
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Ishamael posted:Yeah when Superman came back in 93, most of the artists drew him like he had fairly uniformly long hair. We nearly had this oscar contender, too:  http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_Lives
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OctoberBlues posted:Bad Dog screensaver After Dark screen-saver:  Hell, screen-savers in general. For those who don't know why they existed: CRTs (especially older ones from computing's earlier days,) can be subject to "burn in" if the same image stays on the screen too long. If you've ever used an old terminal console, you can frequently see a "C:\>" permanently burned in the upper left corner. So screen-savers came about as a way to create a constantly moving image/text/whatever, so nothing was burned in. As for why they didn't just turn off the screens, well...have you ever turned on an old CRT? Takes too drat long! Not to mention that some terminal consoles didn't have any separate button for the screen, it was one single power button, and the hardware didn't have any kind of "low power mode" or a way to independently turn off the screen like it does now. All hard switches for power.
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twistedmentat posted:Chip & Pepper There was even an NBC Saturday morning show for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7I-zOK5kz0 I had a Chip and Pepper flannel jacket in middle school back in the early 90s. The zipper busted on it sometime thereafter, and that was that.
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