# Let's predict VH1's "I Love the '90s" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517 "2004-07-04T18:18:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/1 "2004-07-04T18:18:21Z")
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 ---
**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:** [July 4, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/2 "2004-07-04T18:33:43Z")
Hopefully, they’ll give a nod to MST3K. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/3 "2004-07-04T23:13:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/4 "2004-07-04T23:21:18Z")
X-Files Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/5 "2004-07-04T23:25:30Z")
Snoop Dogg ‘Alternative’ music (maybe you’re including this in grunge) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/6 "2004-07-04T23:25:44Z")
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!?_” ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/7 "2004-07-04T23:30:02Z")
> [@Kid\_A](#): > > 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. 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/8 "2004-07-04T23:30:46Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I’m waiting for VH1’s “I Love Last Week.” Don’t look now Eve, “Best Week Ever”. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/9 "2004-07-04T23:30:54Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > 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!?_” Oh, _Eve_, they do have it–it’s called _Best Week Ever_, and you’ve nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/10 "2004-07-04T23:32:28Z")
Last post, I swear. The Macarena ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/11 "2004-07-05T00:19:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/12 "2004-07-05T00:40:53Z")
> [@Kallessa](#): > > Oh, _Eve_, they do have it–it’s called _Best Week Ever_, and you’ve nailed it. Crap. A day late and a dollar short, as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Hrd2hndl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@Hrd2hndl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrd2hndl)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/13 "2004-07-05T00:58:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > 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 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 ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/14 "2004-07-05T01:18:14Z")
Three little words: Ice, ice, baby. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2004, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/15 "2004-07-05T01:20:46Z")
> [@saramamalana](#): > > Three little words: > > Ice, ice, baby. > [@](#): > > I’m killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom. Word to your mother. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/16 "2004-07-05T01:59:11Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Crap. A day late and a dollar short, as usual. 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.” ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/17 "2004-07-05T02:01:04Z")
> [@SolGrundy](#): > > but really just make me want to smother them with pisses :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. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/18 "2004-07-05T02:38:51Z")
Actually, **SolGrundy** , I was about to compliment you on your brilliant turn of phrase. ZJ ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/19 "2004-07-05T03:27:24Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > 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 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 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517/20 "2004-07-05T03:47:36Z")
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.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-predict-vh1s-i-love-the-90s/253517.md?page=2)