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gp2k posted:As a high schooler in 1995 or so I had a web page that had a picture of Bart and Homer on it, and I got a legal cease and desist letter sent to my ISP from Fox. They threatened to sue a 15 year old over a 320x280 GIF file from the Simpsons.
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Jul 12, 2020 14:16
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See also: Daria, The Wonder Years, Northern Exposure. I remember in Daria's case it was some sweetheart deal with being on MTV, so they could just slap on Radiohead's "No Surprises" for broadcast and it was cool as long as it was being aired on MTV. That deal obviously did not anticipate where the market was going. A pity too because that late 90s soundtracks adds a lot to the show's verisimilitude.
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Jul 13, 2020 13:53
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dialhforhero posted:Fortunately, the best X-Files episode ever, Season 3, Episode 3: D.P.O., still has all its originally aired music. I love how before I read the final sentence of your post I was immediately thinking "Is that the one with James' 'Ring the Bells' that plays while a car explodes? That's the only one I'd want to keep."
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Jul 13, 2020 16:24
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Jul 23, 2020 23:25
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I love how many people go to bat for that awful cartoon and it always always turns out they're just nostalgic for the intro and haven't seen an episode in a quarter century. It is a really good intro
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Jul 29, 2020 05:18
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dialhforhero posted:Batman the Animated Series holds up extremely well. It was more an adult drama packaged in a kids cartoon.  It's really good, but "adult drama" is some Ernest Cline horseshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5vNY_FJeE Here's some of the most affecting, artsy, arresting moments they ever did and it's good. It's really good. But adult? I mean it's aesthetically way more adult than anything else you'd see on Kid's TV both then and now, but it's still Batman-- a fundamentally childish/adolescent franchise. And these are the best moments. Most of it was way closer to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJm-N2rbENs And there's nothing wrong with that. Just like, own where it actually is and not where the marketing department from Wizard Magazine in 1994 told you it was when you were a literal child. Here's the DCAU near the end, where a much more ludicrous Batman still deals with some really adult stuff, but the best I can say about it is "This is really good... for a children's program." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOooJW5SSDA This has been me being a grumpy old man. Tune in for the 00s kid thread where I take the piss out of Avatar: The Last Airbender and then call a puppy a mean name.
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Jul 29, 2020 15:11
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It's borderline apocryphal, the most authoritative source I could find quickly on Wikipedia cites " Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski, audio commentary for "On Leather Wings", Batman: The Animated Series, Warner Bros, Volume One box set DVD" which means it's probably true but there's nothing really documented in-depth about it.
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Jul 29, 2020 16:08
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Ok yeah that's pretty top-tier I'll give that to you
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Jul 29, 2020 17:14
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It's all a take on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_people which must have hit some kind of pop culture swell in the 80s given Morlocks and CHUDs popping up around the same time (83 and 84, respectively). Makes sense from a pulp angle.
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Jul 29, 2020 18:31
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Mu Zeta posted:'90s nostalgia is more 90s than the actual 90s I mean, it's trying and it's doing a really good job but I don't know, something about it instantly reads as "approximating the 90s" in the same way that all the retrowave is approximating the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oZizivLk70 This is pretty great if you take it as 1990-92. Like I can very easily picture this song blasting out of a tinny AM/FM in the back of a Palmer Video in winter after reheated pizza, gazing longingly at TNG on VHS which is just too damned expensive. But it's still more of an approximation.
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Aug 1, 2020 13:28
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There are no kinds of ugly shirts like 90s ugly shirts. 
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Aug 2, 2020 16:49
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Been watching https://windowsmoviehouse.com/ today and they have some 90s-rear end 90s selections. Currently "Rumble in the Bronx" is on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vg8uGzLts Kind of in-love even more than I was before. Everyone is styled like a Capcom/SNK character, only real. There's a legit argument it's the best Street Fighter/Final Fight/Art of Fighting/Fatal Fury movie we'll ever get: 
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Aug 2, 2020 16:53
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I miss the off-the-wall poo poo the local affiliates would show late nights. Like, really obscure crap from the ‘70s with guys with bad haircuts chasing each other through a canyon in helicopters. Iron Crowned posted:
Yeah there is something to be said for back when the only way to get a/v media was aqueduct style. You just turn on the valve and whatever comes through is what you've got. https://www.windowsmoviehouse.com might scratch that itch a bit. It definitely has that "oh wow never would have seen this otherwise" aqueduct vibe, as much as one reasonably can in 2020. I'm not affiliated with it in any way, just sharing because it's worth a drat.
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Aug 5, 2020 01:48
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gently caress me 90s optimism was tight.
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Aug 15, 2020 05:39
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It started to get better around 2004-8 when the HD-DVD/Blu Ray format wars started and lots of cult shows normalized the "season release" DVD.
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Aug 21, 2020 23:50
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I remember some motherfuckers monopolizing this thing to play KC and Jojo's "All my Life" for like 3 months straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXvMT_mVbqw
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Aug 24, 2020 01:07
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The Moon Monster posted:Pictured: the kid's favorite mutant Quoting so you know someone appreciated this.
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Sep 9, 2020 00:42
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twistedmentat posted:Nothing says 90s douche who think's he's cool like goatee, sunglasses in doors and spiked and geled hair. I was legit running into dudes like that as late as 2013. That look died a deceptively hard death.
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Sep 29, 2020 01:09
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Heath posted:What the hell episode is this? His voice sounds weird too
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Oct 7, 2020 02:03
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RagnarokAngel posted:Pretty sure its been pitch adjusted and sped up to avoid youtubes copyright bot as well.  definitely. It's an extremely Conan O'Brien joke too and that dude only actually wrote like 3-4 episodes of the show.
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Oct 7, 2020 04:19
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16-bit RDRAM posted:I've always wanted to see a game jam based on making the nonexistent games whose art was on the box of 2000s graphics card packaging Even in a field as warped as GPU boxes... "Dobby, but he's a Latin Lover and he fucks" is an especially precious gem
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Oct 16, 2020 03:42
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Thank you for reminding me of one of my favorite all-time Twitter burns:
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Nov 13, 2020 04:08
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I mean, this is the 90s thread on SomethingAwful; it's safe to say most of us were.
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Nov 21, 2020 08:26
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Ambitious Spider posted:Ant-man should still be Paul Rudd. Iron Crowned posted:I had nearly forgotten just how the late 80's and early 90's were toward pearl clutching about media. There was a major push against violence at the time, as if these Boomers never went to a violent movie when they were 11.
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Nov 27, 2020 04:24
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah. That plus the rumors of her sister's pregnancy/weird foot Nickshow guy make her wigging out a lot more serious and dark than the media treated it as.
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Dec 7, 2020 14:45
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If I recall that whole thing hit around the time Bryan Singer's poo poo was dropping-- someone else who is very plausibly involved in shady, shady poo poo with literal children and who was quietly minimized and exited from the front of the industry-- and the start of #metoo so without getting too speculative the whole thing smells of slowly smothering an oil fire in the kitchen before anyone noticed.
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Dec 8, 2020 03:57
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I never had one but I recognized it immediately. That is some powerful residual consumer memory.
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Dec 27, 2020 14:29
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Be careful, that new Viennetta image has "Frozen Dairy Dessert Cake" clearly visible on it. That means it's not legally considered ice cream by FDA standards, which is what a lot of Breyer's ice cream does.   "Frozen Dairy Dessert" tends to taste like poo poo.
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Jan 7, 2021 18:11
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Is it anything like the “ice milk” I used to endure as a kid whose family was on welfare in the late ‘80s? If it is, I beseech all of you, turn away from this abomination.
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Jan 7, 2021 19:17
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It's more a select few flavors-- Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip and Vanilla are still Ice Cream and are still honestly banger af, but like... Cookies n' Cream? Nah miss me with that poo poo now and forever.
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Jan 8, 2021 19:57
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Just buy generic lactase pills and chug 'em. I'm lactose-intolerant and I can still drink milkshakes if I eat enough of those bad boys along with it.
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Jan 9, 2021 04:31
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You're thinking of PB Crisps, one of the deepest sacraments for US 90s kids:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTam9BJJq9w https://pbcrisps.com/ https://the-foods-we-loved.fandom.com/wiki/Planters_P.B._Crisps This poo poo was only out for three goddamn years. I'm pretty sure they got discontinued because Planters had to invest in special factory infrastructure to make them and some managerial changes of hands was like "gently caress this cookie poo poo we're loving PLANTERS we do nuts and only nuts!" and never got back to it. Like when a bunch of studio heads at FOX TV invested in Firefly in 2001 all "We're gonna do sci-fi!" and then all of the staff changed and the new people were like "gently caress this sci-fi poo poo!" I have zero basis for that, but when you consider that nothing else in Planters' entire line was like PB Crisps it makes a certain sense.
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Jan 10, 2021 15:55
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Ok Comboomer posted:(yeah Patrick Willems just dropped a 35 minute video about hit early 00’s TV show The O.C, what of it?) On a completely different track, I love that rich YouTube hobbyists can show off all sorts of retro PC builds. I was way too poor and uneducated in the 90s to check this stuff out in-depth, and still too poor to afford a workshop now, so it's nice to get an up-close look at all this toy tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxtfWmpTcs
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Jan 24, 2021 16:13
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Trabant posted:Todd reminded me that a while ago I crammed together a couple of 90s classics: You are a good person for doing this.
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Feb 6, 2021 21:45
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Just a head's up that the Disney+ show Wandavision has been doing a tour of sitcoms from various decades in each episode-- 50s, 60s, 70s, and this week was the 80s. That means next week could be very relevant to this thread. Fair warning though: it's also a superhero show starring Marvel characters and it's not playing light with the continuity or metatextual flavor this time, so if that poo poo makes you break out in hives you should sit it out.
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Iron Crowned posted:Does Wandavision get good, I watched the first two episodes and it was just meh to me It's got a lot of repeated beats for the people in the audience who don't know the 5-6 comic stories and 8 or so movies across three decades they're hybridizing for the show. I feel they're doing enough variety and moving things forward enough each time that it doesn't get old, but I was into the conceit from the start and do know the stories they're pulling from so meh. It's also filled with continuity porn and brand management, so if it distracts you to see a supporting character from Ant-Man or Thor show up or guess where they're setting things up for the wider MCU brands, you'll hate it.
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Feb 7, 2021 02:42
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FilthyImp posted:The MCU forward from Black Widow is basically going to be Marvel Team-Up (Thor+Quill, Strange +Wanda, etc). Everyone can bitch about the magic candy rocks and Purple guy who did nothing for 6 straight years, but he was a really useful focal point to tie together franchises as disparate as Thor, Captain America, and Ant-Man. They need to find a Dr. Doom or Galactus or Phoenix Force and go ham with it. twistedmentat posted:One thing its great at is replicating the way sitcoms of that era are shot and acted. mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 07:34 on Feb 7, 2021 |
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Feb 7, 2021 07:31
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FilthyImp posted:It'd be interesting if they went with Married with Children instead of, say, Friends, for the 90s episodes since each subsequent era introduces more complexity/conflict.
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Well, Wandavision completely skipped over the 90s and went straight for a Malcolm in the Middle pastiche. They did a great job with filming/editing but the song kind of blows. I would still qualify it as very 90s because 90s culture didn't truly die until 9/11 in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxt3QFyZtNw Complete with a really "what the gently caress was that?" X-Treme Food commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqfw3grFZYs
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