# Huge successes then, completely forgotten now **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315 "2010-08-05T19:32:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/141 "2010-08-09T07:56:17Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > Has anyone mentioned Boyz II Men? They’re playing the auditorium at the Taipei World Trade Center this month, if you want to fly out and catch them here. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/142 "2010-08-09T13:08:53Z")
I just saw Peter Frampton at the casino. He played for 2-1/2 hours to an almost-packed audience of gray-haired baby boomers, and it was a wonderful show and a great pleasure to see that senior citizen still rockin’. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/143 "2010-08-09T13:22:59Z")
Coolio. He had a monster hit with Gangsta’s Paradise in 1995. Was at one time just as famous as Snoop Dogg. Last I heard of him, almost 10 years ago, he was playing a free show at my college. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/144 "2010-08-09T14:08:01Z")
Old joke: Gloria Gaynor and “I Will Survive.” Whatever happened to her? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/145 "2010-08-09T16:10:36Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Old joke: Gloria Gaynor and “I Will Survive.” Whatever happened to her? She found Jesus and changed the words, I think. Wasn’t _The Good Earth_ an Oprah book? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/146 "2010-08-09T16:18:32Z")
> [@SoulFrost](#): > > _Poltergeist_ is 30 years old and is still on almost every “Top 100 Horror Films” list. “Completely forgotten” wouldn’t be how I’d describe it. Lists compiled by 40-year-olds who were impressed by the movie when they were little kids. Ask anyone under 30 if they’ve seen the movie. Or if they have, whether they liked it. For most, it’s not even on the radar. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/147 "2010-08-09T16:39:21Z")
Limp Bizkit They went from hugely popular to nothing, seemingly overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/148 "2010-08-09T17:29:30Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’ve become familiar with lots of old radio shows through podcasts: Fibber McGee and Molly, Inner Sanctum, The Whistler, Lights Out, Crime Classics, Lux Radio Theater, Have Gun Will Travel, Frontier Gentleman, and Escape. Whoa, Have Gun was on the radio? That I didn’t know, and will look for. I’m working my way through the TV show now on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/149 "2010-08-09T17:31:49Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Wasn’t _The Good Earth_ an Oprah book? A major biography of Peal Buck just got published, so I’d hardly say she is forgotten. I never read this book, but my brother managed to get every writing assignment in junior high to be about The Good Earth - saved him reading time. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/150 "2010-08-09T20:09:16Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > I don’t know if I’d call them huge successes, but [est](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard) and [TM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation) were pretty big movements in the 70s, and in the dustbin of history now. The TMO is very much still alive and kickingTroll— I’ve had at least one major run-in with them. But in general, the new religious movements began to lose steam after the Jonestown Massacre, and lots of them have experienced pretty crazy shrinkage. (On the other hand, there certainly are lots still around! Not to mention that the ones that have shrunk mostly still exist, just with fewer adherents.) A propos to nothing, religions from the last century or so can be a great source of amusement. > [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > > [@salinqmind](#): > > > > I was going to say beanie babies, but I see it’s been mentioned. Never Mind! > > Before those, there were Cabbage Patch Kids! They were notorious for causing violence among groups of parents, as in this article from 1983- > [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921419,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921419,00.html) The world of toys is a haven for fads. Tickle-Me-Elmos and Bratz should go on the list. And children’s clothes… anybody remember high tops? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/151 "2010-08-09T20:16:38Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Ask anyone under 30 if they’ve seen [Poltergeist]. Or if they have, whether they liked it. For most, it’s not even on the radar. My 28-year old self and my 24-year old wife both love Poltergeist (and the sequels). They’re more remembered than you think, but less popular than they should be because they got overshadowed by slashers like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/152 "2010-08-09T20:30:47Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > Before those, there were Cabbage Patch Kids! They were notorious for causing violence among groups of parents, as in this article from 1983- > [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921419,00.html](http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921419,00.html)[/url Those suckers were hideous, and between the Christmas season of 1983 and the following summer, they seemed to completely disappear, erased from the cultural memory with an orbiting flashy light. I’ve long thought that they would make the perfect subject for a _Donnie Darko_-esque story existential materialistic horror of the 'Eighties, causing people to not only buy shit they don’t need or indeed, even want, but that is actually offensive to look or handle. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/153 "2010-08-09T20:42:18Z")
How about the most popular novel of the 1930s, bigger than Gone with the Wind? I’m talking about the immortal classic Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen! . . . yeah. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/154 "2010-08-09T21:10:53Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I just saw Peter Frampton at the casino. He played for 2-1/2 hours to an almost-packed audience of gray-haired baby boomers, and it was a wonderful show and a great pleasure to see that senior citizen still rockin’. By way of comparison, I saw Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp at a baseball stadium last night. Kinda puts it in perspective, doesn’t it? That said, I do still hear a lot of Frampton as I go past “classic rock” stations. He’s not forgotten in the way that, say, El DeBarge is. ---
**Author:** ![straight\_man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straight_man/32/3027_2.png) [@straight\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straight_man)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/155 "2010-08-09T21:17:47Z")
> [@straight\_man](#): > > The TMO is very much still alive and kickingTroll :eek: Before I get a warning, let me say that this little slip is from cutting and pasting carelessly. I’m not calling the person I responded to a troll (or TM, for that matter). ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/156 "2010-08-09T21:45:37Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Coolio. He had a monster hit with Gangsta’s Paradise in 1995. Was at one time just as famous as Snoop Dogg. > Last I heard of him, almost 10 years ago, he was playing a free show at my college. He appeared as a contestant in the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother a year or two back. Didn’t win - went back to obscurity. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/157 "2010-08-09T21:54:27Z")
Raise your hand if you used to play [You Don’t Know Jack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don't_Know_Jack_(game)). ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/158 "2010-08-09T21:56:50Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > > [@SoulFrost](#): > > > > _Poltergeist_ is 30 years old and is still on almost every “Top 100 Horror Films” list. “Completely forgotten” wouldn’t be how I’d describe it. > > Lists compiled by 40-year-olds who were impressed by the movie when they were little kids. > > Ask anyone under 30 if they’ve seen the movie. Or if they have, whether they liked it. For most, it’s not even on the radar. I disagree. Most of the teenagers I’ve known in the past 20 years went through a \*We’re-gonna-watch-\*Poltergeist phase at some point. Later, they go through a \*We’re-gonna-watch-\*The-Exorcist phase. God knows what they watch after that… _Saw_, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Bernieyeball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Bernieyeball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernieyeball)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/159 "2010-08-10T04:25:25Z")
Can anyone say Boom Box?! I didn’t think so. No one can hear it either with those little pods in yer ears. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/160 "2010-08-10T06:23:23Z")
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. My friends and I had the biggest mass crush on David McCallum. (Robert Vaughn was supposed to be the ‘suave’ playboy type, but we just laughed at him, and not in a good way.) Ilya Kuryakin = swooooon! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315.md?page=9)