# Let's Make Our Own I Love the 90's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705 "2003-08-21T16:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/1 "2003-08-21T16:08:46Z")
So VH-1 has all these specials and are going backwards by decade. Let’s try to compile events, fads, music, TV shows, and movies for every year in the 1990’s. 1990 - Music: Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation, Madonna’s Immaculate Collection, Cher’s version of “It’s in His Kiss” Movies: Home Alone, Godfather Part III, Dick Tracy, Goodfellas, Ghost, Edward Scissorhands, Fads: Slam books, Hyper color shirts TV: A Different World, Head of the Class, Growing Pains, Family Matters, Elmo on Sesame Street, Tiny Toons Events: U.S. recession and Nelson Mandela is freed 1991 - Music: Kylie Minogue’s “Locomotion”, Celine Dion invades America Movies: Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Hook Fads: stupid flammable hippie skirts TV: Events: Gulf War I, coup against Gorbachev 1991 - Music: Movies: Silence of the Lambs Fads: Events: 1992- Music: Movies: A Few Good Men, Bram Stoker’s Dracula Fads: TV: end of The Cosby Show Events: Bill Clinton becomes U.S. president, L.A. riots I’ll come back with more . Feel free to add on or fill in the blanks! ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/2 "2003-08-21T17:31:31Z")
Additions for 1992 movies: Malcolm X and music: I Will Always Love You 1993 - Music: Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s “Under the Bridge” Movies: Philadelphia, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List (fun year) Fads: TV: X Files and Deep Space Nine first air. Cheers ends. Events: WTC bombing and Waco 1994 - Music: Blind Melon, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana Movies: Reality Bites, Lion King, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, and Four Weddings and a Funeral Fads: “Life is like a box of chocolates.” TV: ER & Friends first air Events: LA earthquake and O.J. becomes a murderer 1995 - Music: Dave Matthews and Alanis Morrisette hit the mainstream Movies: Batman Forever and Toy Story Fads: overalls TV: Newsradio first airs Events: Oklahoma City bombing and O.J. verdict 1996 - Music: Movies: Evita Fads: overalls TV: Events: Clinton re-elected and mad cow disease first crops up 1997 - Music: My Heart Will Go On Movies: Titanic, As Good As it Gets, and Good Will Hunting Fads: glitter TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer first airs Events: Princess Diana dies and a sheep is cloned (no connection) 1998 - Music: Movies: Saving Private Ryan, City of Angels, Life is Beautiful and Shakespeare in Love Fads: TV: Events: email and internet popularity rises, beginning of dot com boom and Clinton impeached 1999 - Music: Movies: The Matrix, Austin Powers, and The Phantom Menace Fads: Jar Jar Binks bashing and stocking your Milennium bunker TV: Events: Columbine and Milennium paranoia ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/3 "2003-08-21T17:37:12Z")
Damn, I can’t even remember anything from the 90’s Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/4 "2003-08-21T18:26:15Z")
From the UK, mid 90’s there was the whole Britpop explosion thing. Oasis/Blur. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/5 "2003-08-21T18:26:43Z")
This took a lot of IMDB research and google history timeline research. And I forgot to list my favorite movie from when I was in high school (1991 - 1995). Last of the Mohicans in 1992! ---
**Author:** ![RNWebner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@RNWebner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RNWebner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/6 "2003-08-21T19:16:02Z")
What about crash dummies (1992), power rangers (1994), pogs (1995), magic cards(1996), star wars toys(1997), beanie babies(1997), and yoyos (1998) for fads? And for music, the Spice Girls (1997) and Hanson (1998). Also, Independence Day (1996), and the Sixth Sense (1999) are worth mentioning for movies, i think. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/7 "2003-08-21T21:38:56Z")
Can’t forget the tamagotchi and Fight Club for 1999. (Although I can’t remember when the tamagotchi craze was, exactly, but I think it was in 1999.) ---
**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:** [August 21, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/8 "2003-08-21T22:19:24Z")
Well, in no particular order, I’d say a retrospective on the 90s would have to include comments on: -Grunge rock -Lollapalooza -the O.J. Simpson trial -Carson’s retirement & the Leno/Letterman “war” -the deaths & attendent hysterical mourning of Kurt Cobain, Jerry Garcia, Princess Diana & Superman -the Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon “synchronicity” -Y2K & the Millenium -Seinfeld -Frasier -Pulp Fiction -Tanya Harding getting bashed in the knee -the Menendez Brothers -Milli Vanilli (or was that the 1980s? I can’t remember when that happened) -Raves -the Celestine Prophecy -Bridget Jones’s Diary -the Internet “revolution” -Retro -Lewinskygate -the standoff at Waco -the Oklahoma City bombing -Columbine -Titanic -Beverly Hills 90210 & Melrose Place -Buffy the Vampire Slayer -Fargo -Spice Girls -Ricky Martin -Cher’s (unfortunate) comeback -Virtual Reality -the Buffalo Bills losing four Super-Bowls in a row -pokemon -the Simpsons -South Park -the Macarea, Disco & Swing-dancing -tattoos & piercings -colored hair -the mainstreaming of gay culture -Lilith Fair -Hansen -Jane Roe becoming a born again christian -what else??? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/9 "2003-08-21T22:41:47Z")
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ---
**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:** [August 21, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/10 "2003-08-21T23:10:46Z")
Remembered some more: -the Halle-Boppe comet (& the self-castrating, suicidal UFO cult) -race riots in L.A. -Terminator 2 -Wayne’s World -ER -Law & Order -Darryl Strawberry getting arrested again, and again, and again… -Courtney Love crashing a Madonna interview on MTV -Madonna’s “Sex” book -S&M sex goes mainstream -Ecstasy -Richard Gere’s narcissistic “free Tibet” rant at the Oscars -“Soy Bomb” crashing a Bob Dylan set -Susan Lucci winning an emmy after 20-odd years of trying -Hilary Clinton’s health insurance fiasco -Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell -MTV Unplugged performances -Rent Okay, okay, I’ll shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Quack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e99b99/32.png) [@Quack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quack)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/11 "2003-08-22T00:25:50Z")
For 1994, I think the pop-punk thing is worth mentioning. Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, you know you love it… ---
**Author:** ![RealTronic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RealTronic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealTronic)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/12 "2003-08-22T01:11:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Art Vandelay, Architect \* > \*\*… > -Tanya Harding getting bashed in the knee > … > \*\* Whoa! You got it wrong there; it was actually Tanya Harding who hired a thug to bash her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, on the shins. Just wanted to nitpick that vital 90s event. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/13 "2003-08-22T07:39:19Z")
Cheers went off the air (1993) Woodstock 1994 and 1999 The Cosby Show ends (1992) 30th Anniversary of the Summer of Love (1997) Beatles Anthology, Beatles reunion (1995-96) Freddie Mercury dies (1991) ---
**Author:** ![teleute12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@teleute12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teleute12)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/14 "2003-08-22T08:01:42Z")
'96-'97 fashions were a return of the 60’s, with the platform shoes and bright flowers all over. Oh, and bell-bottoms. I was in 6th grade then, just starting to get into fashion, and I had these adorable bell-bottom jeans with a rose on the hip. That lasted well into '99, 'cause I was riding my bike to high school and I’d rip my bell-bottoms on the chain. I had a Tamogotchi in 8th grade, so that was '98. When did Pogs come out? I remember that everyone in elementry school was playing them, until they got banned. Did anyone mention Tickle Me Elmo yet? TV would have to include Clarissa Explains it All, and other Nick shows. I so wanted to be Clarissa. Didn’t rap and hip-hop move into mainstrean druing the 90’s? I really wasn’t paying attention to that. I’m sure I could sit here all night thinking stuff up. ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/15 "2003-08-22T10:00:02Z")
Rage Against the Machine pave the way for every rap-metal band around today. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/16 "2003-08-22T10:12:01Z")
Yeah, I had Pogs in second/third grade, that would make it 1995/1995 or so. Yeah, _Clarissa Explains it All_ and _Pete and Pete_. Another show yould have to be _Daria_. Then there are the _Addams Family_ and _The Brady Bunch_ movies. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/17 "2003-08-22T15:08:36Z")
Uhh, Beavis and Butthead, anyone? ---
**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:** [August 22, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/18 "2003-08-22T17:27:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RealTronic \* > \*\*Whoa! You got it wrong there; it was actually Tanya Harding who hired a thug to bash her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, on the shins. > > Just wanted to nitpick that vital 90s event. 😃 \*\* Whoops! Actually that slip was due to bad editing. I started to write “Tanya Harding getting thugs to bash Nancy Kerrigan in the knee”, then was goiing to shorten it to “Nancy Kerrigan getting bashed in the knee”, and then everything went awry! Any way, more 90s trivial moments: -Jolt cola -‘George’ magazine -Phil Hartman getting shot -River Phoenix overdosing -the “indie film” phenom -Goodfellas -Al Franken’s “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot” -Michael Jordan playing baseball -Beanie Babies -email (although maybe ‘internet revolution’ covers that?) ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/19 "2003-08-22T17:36:00Z")
There’s the whole violence in video games thing that really picks up in 1993 with Mortal Kombat and repeats itself post-Columbine. Playstation comes out in 1995, starting the mainstream-ification of video games. Everyone in 1999 was wearing tech vests, those brightly colored vests with black lining from Old Navy. Power Rangers in 1993, Pokemon in 1998/9. Definitely Pogs for 1995 and yoyos (which gets my vote for stupidest fad ever conceived by man) for 1996/7. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705/20 "2003-08-22T20:09:00Z")
Early 90s ‘Alternate Music’ (OK, most of these bands came up during the 80s but had decent albums in the early 90s - many are still around) seems to have been forgotten I thinking like Charlatans UK, The Shaman, Jesus Jones, Concrete Blonde, Inspiral Carpets, (KLF? nahhh) and many others that preceded Grunge and Brit Pop… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-our-own-i-love-the-90s/196705.md?page=2)