# How have the 90s been parodied? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031 "2009-05-20T01:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/41 "2009-05-21T01:02:05Z")
Sheesh. Couple more amends- let’s be honest, I always have and always will love 'em , but the M’s have (almost) always been open for mocking. Also electronica was the wrong term, I suppose techno would be more apt, you know where every song is the same song? Ravers still remain- candy necklaces, pacifiers, that weird hand “dance”, ecstasy, and all. Sorry for the triple post, but I just had to add this to the thread… [Set Adrift On Memory Bliss](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AOVf9p9ht4) ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/42 "2009-05-21T01:50:23Z")
It’s Hammer Time DVD vs Laserdisc Radiohead Blur vs Oasis Fleece jackets Skateboards Cargo pants The Pulp Fiction effect Generation X ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/43 "2009-05-21T02:40:38Z")
Swing music revival Garth Brooks Ice, Ice, Baby Everything being EXTREME! Rodney King riots (ooh! ooh!) [Magic Eye images](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=magic+eye+images&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=m74USr2bDszJtgel9vmUBA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/44 "2009-05-21T03:19:04Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Ravers still remain- candy necklaces, pacifiers, that weird hand “dance”, ecstasy, and all. **Do** they remain?! I haven’t even heard of a rave party in a long time. And there used to be a lot of rave clubs in Tampa. ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/45 "2009-05-21T05:32:32Z")
The thing about 90s cell phones is they were HUGE. As a fan, I agree that grunge (and most 90s music) is eminently parodiable. OJ trial? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/46 "2009-05-21T08:51:14Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > **Do** they remain?! I haven’t even heard of a rave party in a long time. And there used to be a lot of rave clubs in Tampa. [Electric Daisy Carnival](http://electricdaisycarnival.com/la/index.html) drew 50,000+ last year. It’s so big, it’s now 2 days. Together As One had 35,000 people watching Armin Van Buuren’s “Armin Only” in L.A. on New Years Eve. Tiësto fills arenas. Daft Punk too. It’s bigger than ever. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/47 "2009-05-21T14:22:08Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > …are all pretty much exactly how the characters in [Not another Teen Movie](http://shaunmusco.com/images/Printed/N/Not_Another_Teen_Movie-front.jpg) were presented. There was a decent amount of 80s parody, but a good chunk of the 90s in there, too. (Personally, I think that movie is highly underrated, but everyone I tell that to informs me that I am wrong.) I agree with you that it’s horribly underrated. I find that movie funnier than it has any right to be. ---
**Author:** ![EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@EvilHamsterOnCrack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilHamsterOnCrack)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/48 "2009-05-21T15:15:31Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > Aside from all that’s been mentioned, I believe it was a time where people were all trying to be ‘Politically-Correct’ with everything. Were Pokeman the 90’s? Nah, I’d say that was the 80s. The 80s had poltically correct rap, the 90s had gangster rap. Every 80s cartoon ended in a PSA. Every 80s sitcom had some kind of message, the 90s moved sitcoms into the bullshit category. It seems like looking back also, the 80s made a big push for diversity in everything. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/49 "2009-05-21T15:32:37Z")
New Jack Swing - That brief period of rap / hip hop / r&b that took place right before gangsta rap became popular. Characterized by a bunch of guys (white or black) with fade haircuts, baggy jeans, gold medalions and turtlenecks, girls with big hoop earings, giant permed hair, equally baggy jeans and tight tops doing the Running Man in a basement somewhere to [Bell Biv Davoe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8dTOGMSv8). Parodied by Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg&feature=related)and [here](http://www.hulu.com/watch/72434/saturday-night-live-digital-short-motherlover-censored). > [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > Blur vs Oasis And the winner is…Coldplay. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/50 "2009-05-21T16:09:42Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > **Do** they remain?! I haven’t even heard of a rave party in a long time. And there used to be a lot of rave clubs in Tampa. My HS friends and I used to go to a club that had “alternative night” whenever I was home from college. Around 92-95. One side of the club was mostly grunge and alt rock music but the other side was all techno and industrial. The first time we went we were like “what the fuck are all these dudes in Dr Seuss hats blowing whistles and waving glow sticks?”. [And could you go into a club in the late 90s without hearing this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYxT9GM0fQ)? It seemed like there was this brief period from 1998 to 2001 where everyone was into all this Euro trance rave Run Lola Run Go! Trainspotting scene. [Tell me these clowns aren’t mockable.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KUmAphvThQ) ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/51 "2009-05-21T19:23:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > **Do** they remain?! I haven’t even heard of a rave party in a long time. And there used to be a lot of rave clubs in Tampa. Oh that I don’t know, I meant they remain on the list ripe for parody. OTOH, the '95 Mariners and Avs/Redwings playoff series, while significant highlights of the 90’s, they were just _too_ awesome to justify being on there. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/52 "2009-05-21T19:28:04Z")
How about the Buffalo Bills losing three (or was it four) straight Superbowls in a row? ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/53 "2009-05-21T20:38:56Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > New Jack Swing - That brief period of rap / hip hop / r&b that took place right before gangsta rap became popular. Characterized by a bunch of guys (white or black) with fade haircuts, baggy jeans, gold medalions and turtlenecks, girls with big hoop earings, giant permed hair, equally baggy jeans and tight tops doing the Running Man in a basement somewhere to [Bell Biv Davoe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8dTOGMSv8). . “Boys 2 Men, ABC, BBD…mmm hmm..the East Coast Family…” Thanks, now I’m going to be walking around all day going with that looped in my head. I still love all that old school R&B. It was followed by another big wave of R&B in the late 90’s/early 2K’s with groups like Dru Hill, Next, 112, etc. Don’t forget the paisley and silk button up shirts(I was even rocking those in 4th/5th grade!(yikes, ive said too much)) and the crazy technicolor suits. JT’s and AS’s were perfect, I wonder if that had to call up Keenen Ivory Wayans and have him pull those out of storage to get them? Samberg is spot on with his 90’s hiphop parody, look for his ‘Blizzard Man’ skits too. Then there was MC Hammer and parachute pants; I think that’s what they were called, we always just called them ‘hammer pants’. Of course, Kris Kross and the “totally krossed out” backwards pants and jerseys. [QUOTE=spoke-] (ooh! ooh!) Magic Eye images [/QUOTE] Oh look, a sailboat! \*Mallrats \* is another movie that captured the 90’s perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/54 "2009-05-21T20:49:22Z")
Oh yeah, and you can thank Puff Daddy and Master P for leading the way into the “bling-bling” era of rap music. Makes me say ugh. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/55 "2009-05-21T21:24:30Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I agree with you that it’s horribly underrated. I find that movie funnier than it has any right to be. Thirded. I feel the same way about _Josie and the Pussycats_. Which, come to think of it, isn’t a bad parody of the pop consumerism of late 90s culture. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031/56 "2009-05-21T22:54:13Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > …are all pretty much exactly how the characters in [Not another Teen Movie](http://shaunmusco.com/images/Printed/N/Not_Another_Teen_Movie-front.jpg) were presented. There was a decent amount of 80s parody, but a good chunk of the 90s in there, too. (Personally, I think that movie is highly underrated, but everyone I tell that to informs me that I am wrong.) I don’t know. I respect your oppinion, but to me it seemed like a lot of the movie was just gross for the sake of being gross. I wouldn’t have a problem with it if I found it funny. Poop and incest alone don’t do it for me. There were some good parodies though. Lucas and Varsity Blues, (with the kid getting all the concussions), were great. Oh, AND what about; **The X-Files**. too bad the series got embarrassingly bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-have-the-90s-been-parodied/497031.md?page=2)