But even the most successful comedy show like that aren’t getting the Friends/Frasier/Home Improvement/Seinfeld fame that they deserve.
Energy Drinks - didn’t really exist before 2000 and are now everywhere.
In another direction
Sex tapes, mainly celebrity sex tapes - started with Pam & Tommy, got taken to another level by Paris Hilton. Now it doesn’t even surprise people or impact them too negatively when a sex tape comes out.
Hell, Tom Sizemore ended up in a situation where he was doing them professionally!
Now THAT’S the modern equivalent of the old vaudeville proverb…“When you find yourself working burlesque, you’re washed up.”
Wow, you haven’t seen teens in the “Inland Empire” in California. That lame look is everywhere. Don’t forget to leave the stickers on your hat, boys!
It will remembered as the Girls Gone Wild decade. By comparison all else, including the wars and elections, fades to insignificance.
That flatbiller look also runs rampant in Texas, even at the country western bars.
I actually agree on Girls Gone Wild. I graduated high school in 98, and just missed the sluttening. My friends and I would NEVER have pics of us on the toilet, or making that stupid kissyface while cupping our boobs. Sure we do some slutty stuff, but we definitely don’t put it up on myspace. The girls in the grade two below me sure do, though!
I would mention Sarah Palin, but I think the pop culture landmark is actually going to be Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin much the way Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford is more of a touchstone than Ford himself.
On XM radio, they are calling it the 2Ks. Like, “Music from the 80’s, 90’s, 2K’s and today.” They even have a station called Pop 2K. Weird.
It probably doesn’t make an impression “pop culture-wise”, but I’ll always consider this to be the finest decade for film documentaries ever.
anyone mentioned “Harry Potter” yet?
Hey, I don’t read every thread I post in either, but at least read the OP, or barring that do a ctrl+F.
sorry Cisco, that was lazy of me.
I should have said “I think the phenomenal popularity of the Harry Potter series will be a pop culture landmark of this decade also.”
Definitely the return of the beard. I was looking at British comedian / male sex-symbol Russell Brand the other day. Hirsute is coming back.
Harry Potter was already a phenomenon in the mid-1990s. It’s not exclusive to this decade.
The first book wasn’t published until 1998 and the first movie wasn’t released until 2001. I’d call it a largely 00’s phenomenon.
Harry Potter aside, the rise of tween culture and Twilight, Hillary Duff and Miley Cyrus will probably be remembered.
I think of the decade as the “O’s”–from Oprah to Obama.
Jukebox musicals were big.
Will the The Passion Of The Christ be remembered?
Some other suggestions in this song by Kenny Rogers.
I would say the mobile phone really took off in the 1990s, here at least. By the 00s nearly every already had one. They got swankier ones but most people here had them by 1998 I reckon.
I graduated high school in 2000, and cell phones weren’t too terribly common amongst my peers. Lots of people had them, sure, but they weren’t a status symbol or as pervasive as they are now.