Let's predict VH1's "I Love the '90s"

Cafe Society
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I was watching the VH1 “I Love the '70s” marathon yesterday, and caught the promos for “I Love '90s”. Perhaps too soon, but this could be interesting-at least to me, as that’s pretty much MY era.

So, what are some of the things you think they’ll touch on?
*denotes what I hope they’ll mention

90210
Melrose Place
Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
Star Wars: Episode I
Beavis and Butthead
Daria*
Gulf War
fall of the Soviet Union/Boris Yeltsin
Titanic
boy bands
grunge/Seattle/Nivana/Kurt Cobain
Starbucks
SUVs
Viagra
ER*/George Clooney
Law & Order*
The Simpsons
Friends
Seinfeld

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Hopefully, they’ll give a nod to MST3K.

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As much as I depise them, the Spice Girls.

Also, Columbine and Oklahoma City. I don’t get VH1 so I don’t know how much time they spend on non-music related events. But I think both are more relevant then Clinton and Lewinsky in defining the 90’s.

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X-Files
Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson

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Snoop Dogg
‘Alternative’ music (maybe you’re including this in grunge)

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I’m waiting for VH1’s “I Love Last Week.”

Michael Ian Black: “What was UP with all the Marlon Brando obits? Ohh, I get it, he was, like, DEAD?”

Mo Rocca: “Saddam Hussein? At his trial? That suit was SO Kmart.”

Gilbert Gottfried: “Da Fourth of July?! AGAIN!?”

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They really don’t spend a lot of time on “current events” of the decades they’re showcasing. But they did talk about Son of Sam in the I Love the '70s, which was kind of surprising because they don’t really do a lot of depressing stuff like that. It’s mostly upbeat.

They usually do the year’s biggest movie at the end of each show. At the end of I Love 1991, it’ll be The Silence of the Lambs. And at the end of I Love 1993 will be Jurassic Park.

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Don’t look now Eve, “Best Week Ever”.

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Oh, Eve, they do have it–it’s called Best Week Ever, and you’ve nailed it.

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Last post, I swear.

The Macarena

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N’Sync and 98 Degrees and the rest of the exact same sounding boys band.

I’m going to guess they might throw in a Shania Twain as she is a crossover and the birth of the Supermodel to the UberSuperModel stuff.

Tiger Woods will probably get a nod in there somewhere. How can he not?

I love Hal Sparks and Mo Rocca.

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Crap. A day late and a dollar short, as usual.

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Aside of grunge music of the 90’s (kurt being posterboy)
Forgot gansta rap/ hip hop explosion in the 90’s
tupac
biggie smalls
puff daddy (now p diddy)

keanu reeves (speed; devil’s advocate, matrix)
Julia Roberts (pretty woman)
fight club
forrest gump

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Three little words:

Ice, ice, baby.

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Word to your mother.

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Nah, that just means that you’re eerily prescient and should go into television programming.

Actually, “Best Week Ever” isn’t quite like “I Love Last Week,” because it’s actually, you know, funny. They don’t have the usual commentators, but instead chose to bring in people who actually say funny things. Unlike Michael Ian Black and Mo Rocca, who earnestly believe that they’re saying funny things in an unfunny way, but really just make me want to smother them with pisses. And, I guess, Hal Sparks, who doesn’t really say much funny stuff, either, but gets away with it because he’s kinda hot. If you’re into that kind of thing.

Best line from “Best Week Ever:”
“Andre 3000 of OutKast announced last week that he’s going to be playing Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biographical movie. I would like to announce this week that I’m going to be masturbating to that movie.”

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:eek: How did that happen? I meant, of course, “smother them with pillows.”

If that were Freudian, I don’t even want to know what that means.

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Actually, SolGrundy, I was about to compliment you on your brilliant turn of phrase.

ZJ

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Sad to say, I’m almost certain they’ll totally ignore Daria except, at most, to comment in a condescending, dismissive way that Beavis and Butthead had a spinoff that was actually socially redeeming “ha, ha, how silly… don’t they know the MTV audience wants stupidity?” :mad:

other things they’ll bring up:
WACO
The rise of the WWW
The dotcom bubble
The death of Diana
H. Ross Perot
Big Pants

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Well, what’s referenced in the promos:

Beverly Hills 90210
Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky
That bee girl from that one music video that time
The Spice Girls
The grunge look
Wilson Phillips
“Talk to the hand.”
“I’m outie.”
“Major buzz-kill.”
And the other best line ever from “Best Week Ever,” about Jack Ryan’s forcing Jeri Ryan to go to sex clubs:
“That was just his revenge for her dragging him to all those Star Trek conventions.”