i love the 90s
 

you know how vh1 has their specials 'i love the 70s' and 'i love the 80s'
i am waiting for them to do 'i love the 90s'
lets have our own little show

lets remember the things that made the 90s great.

topics include:

-tv shows
-cartoons
-movies
-music
-toys
-trends (clothes, hairstyles, etc...)
-historic events

my absolute favorite part of the 90s was the early to mid part of the decade.
remember c&c music factory : 'everybody dance now' LOL!
color me badd, mc hammer, new kids on the block!!! anyone remember the nktob cartoon?

'fresh prince of bel-air', 'full house', 'perfect strangers', 'alf'....oh the memories

or how about when nintendo was insanely popular!!! anyone remember the nintendo cereal?!

the 90s was truly awesome....*sigh*

I'll play as long as I get to be Mo Rocca. That guy cracks me up. (him and Hal Sparks!) hahaha.

TV Shows:
-When the "Saved By The Bell" kids graduated high school in 1993. Talk about a momentous occasion!

-The onset of "SNICK" (Saturday Night Nickelodeon) with classics like "All That" (kids version of SNL) and "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (kids version of "Tales from the Crypt").

-Nick At Nite morphing into "TV Land."

-500+ channel cable.

Toys:
-Electronic "Pets" (Tamagotchi, etc.)

-Games geared at making young girls feel older (Mall Madness, Pretty Pretty Princess, etc.)

Trends:
-Big hair that bled over from the 80s...

-The fact that the 90s don't really have distinct fashion all their own because they picked up styles from previous decades (punk from the 80s, bell bottomed hip huggers from the 70s, short skirts and boots from the 60s, etc.)

-8 year olds with cell phones

-THE INTERNET

Movies:
-"Clueless" reviving, like, the valley-girl, like, status.

Music:
-Grunge...when every plaid-shirt wearing bumpkin suddenly found himself trendy...

-BOY BANDS...

-"Mayonaise and Peanut-Butter" combination of Rap/Rock.

Historical Events:
-Surge of High School violence

-Cloning

-various European and Asian revolts...

I'll admit it...I had a Tamagotchi :)

While the 90's is my generation...I'm not a big fan. There were some good times, but I think the 90's was a generation of copycats. Did we really have our own uniqe style like some eras did?

I think I should have been a teenager in the 70's.

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okay, not to be completely nit-picky..but all of these were from the 80s..

anyway..as for 90s fads

skirts or shorts with biker shorts or leggings
hypercolor shirts
pogs
magic the gathering cards(note, i was too old to get into these or pogs, but i remember them )
super nintendo
the "rachel" haircut
flannel shirts
frozen yogurt
90210
thigh highs
sundresses w/baby tees under them
doc martens with dresses

the macarena... c'mon... you know you were doing it too

the east coast/west coast rap wars grew to a new extreme.

raves were still on the underground.

Janet Jackson's 'Janet' album.

Melrose Place and all the goofy spin offs that never went anywhere.

I sooooo wanted a tamagatchi when i was a kid. All of my friends had one and they always died.

For the most part, I agree that nineties fashion was all about trends from the past three decades coming back into style. As for the other fads...

Music: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Spice Girls, Hanson

TV Shows: Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, E.R., Singled Out

Toys: Beanie Babies, Furbies, Pokemon

Fashion: "No Fear" shirts--(was this the early 90s?), Mary Janes, capri pants--the ones that ended right past your knees, baby doll dresses, back-pack purses, fanny paks

These are still around... but I remember them being everywhere at one point in the 90s-- chokers and Y-necklaces. And I remember getting a few hair wraps done in my hair-- you get them done at the boardwalk or at fairs... the person takes a little strand of your hair and wraps it in different colors of string. And remember that dance move/song, the tootsie roll? And Britney Spears revived the whole school girl look with Baby One More Time. I owned a few bra strap headbands as well.

Ah the '90s! The decade that gave us Grunge rock, th Crocodile Hunter, Clinton-Gore, Generation X, Slackers, Good Will Hunting, Virtual Pets, Virtual Reality, Beavis and Butthead, Goths, Zima, Pepsi Clear and "Get Out The Vote" Campaign.

My generation is the 1980s and I am a fan of "I Love the 80s". I also like "I Love the 70s". I would like to see a series called "I Love the 60s".

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i do remember playing nintendo in '89, but all of these things did have an impact in '90/91'.

Ohh, I used to love playing with Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles!! Was that in the 80's? And the movies too!

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I had nintendo in the mid 80s with that robot that go against you. Also had the power glove. I was cool.

I identified with way too many things from "I Love the 80s" :p

For the '90s:
- OJ
- All the Bill Clinton scandals
- The original Gulf War
- The World Wide Web
- The ubiquity of cell phones and Palm Pilots
- A couple more Star Trek spinoffs (because TNG wasn't enough :p )
- Hmm, what else...

girl power!!
spice girls
girl rockers: alanis morissette, fiona apple, sheryl crow....

female lead bands: no doubt, cranberries, cardingans..


the 'scream' trilogy

nbc's 'must see tv'

Thought of more--

Sega Genesis, loved playing Sonic

VW Beetles came back

Those necklaces that instead of having chains, they had clear wire, and stones were attached

oh yeah. the insane rebirth of boy bands

the popularity of SUVs
the Starbucks/coffeehouse trend
Dave Matthews Band
the Rachel shag
ER
cutting your hair in short layers and putting it up in that itty bitty ponytail thing
the deep berry lipstick
the clueless look
the amazing economy
hiking/camping wear being cool even if you were nowhere near an outdoorsy type person


since the 90s were sort of "my" decade i will definitely miss them!

Movies:
A league of there own... oh well, anything with Tom Hanks
The 6th Sense
Dances with Wolves
Silence of the Lambs

Fashion:
???

Music:
Faith Hill and Tim McGraw Duets
Toby Keith
Neil McCoy

TV:
Friends
Frasier

Toys:
Beanies

Historic Events:
All the Clinton crap

I'm waiting for an "I Love the 90's", too!!! Here's some stuff I would like to see:

TV shows: ER, Friends, The Real World, 90210, Seinfeld, TRL

Cartoons: Beavis and Butthead, South Park (is that 90's?)

Movies: Titanic, The Matrix, Clueless, Scream, The Bodyguard, Forrest Gump, pretty much anything with Tom Hanks in it!

Music: the deaths of Tupac and Biggie, grunge rock (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.), the Spice Girls, gangsta rap, Puff Daddy, MC Hammer, the Michael Jackson sex scandal, boy bands, Garth Brooks, girl groups, female rockers, Bobby and Whitney getting married, MADONNA!!!

Toys: Super Soakers, Beanie Babies

Trends: baggy pants, the grunge look, the World Wide Web

Historic events: Operation Desert Storm, the Clinton Presidency, the OJ Simpson trial, the Rodney King beating

Anything else?

Anyone remember Hot Loops...they were like flourecent colored nothings that you would braid into stuff :rolleyes:

Or - not an origional 90's thing but something I did in the 90's - friendship bracelets that you made at camp with the beads and string.

-WWJD?
-How expensive CD players were in the early 90s
-Brooks & Dunn
-Achey Breaky Heart (BLAH)
-The Body Guard & the infamous song (I will always love you)
-Milinuim New Years (is the power going to go out?)

Do you guys remember those little plastic shirt ties? They were neon colored and you put the excess of your baggy shirt through it, and it sat to the side of your hip. They were used to go with the shirts you wore over your leggings. Completing this look were those giant slouch socks (two pairs/two different colors that you alternated on each foot ala punky brewster) and high tops. Maybe this was just my elementary school though!

That song was from the late 70s/early 80s? when Dolly Parton wrote and recorded it for "The Best Little Whore House in Texas

Movies: TITANIC and the song that wouldn't go away....

Quote:

Originally posted by LuaBlanca

My Heart Will Go On-- and I still love that song!

The GRUNGE trend! So unattractive on everyone! But a lot of good music came out of that... Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc.

The Real World! What a classic show... one that I still love!

And, Clarissa Explains it All on Nickelodeon and all of the truly heinous fashions she wore.

Speaking of heinous, CLUELESS!!!

... God I love the '90s!!!

Ah... my time period
 

Seeing that I graduated high school in 1996 I remember alot about the 90's

tv shows- Friends, ER, 90210, Saved by the Bell, Clarissa Explains it all (sidebar I actually got to meet Melissa Joan Hart and her now husband last year at BayFest a local 3-day long music fest in my hometown, she's a really great person), Mystery Science theater 3000(which is now available on DVD!), Twin Peaks (that's backwards-talking little man always scared the bejesus out of me)

-cartoons- Aeon Flux (if you watched Liquid Television on MTV), Animaniacs, Beavis and Butthead, Captain Planet, Darkwing Duck, Duckman, and my personal fave (I own the VHS movie) JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS!!!

-movies The Bodyguard, Austin Powers, Unforgiven, Wayne's World, Reservoir Dogs (just totally badass), Rudy, Dazed and Confused, Pupl Fiction, Clerks (Kevin Smith movies are the best ever made), Desperado, Hackers, and Friday!

-music-TLC, Kriss Kross, Garth Brooks, G'n'R, Billy Ray Cyrus (met him at the same music fest, he still has a mullet), STP, Janet Jackson, NKOTB, Boyz2Men, Bel Biv Devoe, Tim Mcgraw, Faith No More, Biz Markie, Sinead O'Connor, The Divinyls (hee hee), House of Pain, Jesus Jones (I actually still have my cd, the first one I ever bought and I still think it's awesome) Sir Mix-a-Lot, Snow, Haddaway, The Verve Pipe (met the lead singer a few months ago) Marcy Playground, Macarena, The Verve, and many many many more I could name (music is my passion)

-trends (clothes, hairstyles, etc...) Clogs, Birkenstocks all year round, Tye-dyed anything, Hypercolor shirts, Cross colors, wearing clothes backwards ala Kriss Kross, Guess Jeans, and the "preppy" look

-historic events- the Clinton-Lewinski scandal, the Hiedi Fleiss scandle, The Gulf War cease fire, end of apartheid, birth of The Euro, Y2K scare



I guess this is showing my age a little too much since I can remember all of this stuff LOL!

Much love,
Sara

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jem was created in the 80s. its hard to think of stuff when they have an overlap in decades. i loved jem!!!!

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Thanks, I was going to say that, too. I used to miss the bus in the morning in 3rd grade all the time because I was watching Jem. :)

some of you guys are mixing 2000s

-tv shows
most of you have named them all. . .My SO Called Life, Keenan and Kel, Martin, In Living Color, Living Single, MTV Real World, Seinfeld

-cartoons
didn't really watch them

-movies
the jury's still out

-music
Boot Scoot Boogie, Tim McGraw

-toys

-trends (clothes, hairstyles, etc...)
the Beatles haircut, the mullet(b/c of Achy Breaky Heart), Dixie Chicks making it okay for white girls to wear the black people's cornrows, jean overalls with one strap undone, jogging pants with one leg up, nylon warm-ups with the running stripes down the side, black clubbing pants(i was a senior in HS when people started wearing those in abundance), double earrings(stemming from the one earring), tongue and belly button piercing, tatoos, one night stands

-historic events
Jerry Springer throw-downs
Rikki Lake losing pounds
RuPaul and the emergence of transgenders
stripping becomes a big commodity for college women
Greek hazing crackdowns
the conventional $1 menu at Wendys

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Snow's still around, his predecessor Vanilla Ice ain't...i'll admit it, i had his hair.

How can we forget Weird Al Yankovich...mr. 90s.

edited to add: Ren & Stimpy.

I can't wait til they do a "I love the 90s show!" here's what I can remember about the 90s.......
-tv shows: My So Called Life! That was like the best show ever!
90210, Saved by the bell, Swans Crossing, Sweet Valley High, USA High, and Breaker High (Those stupid teen shows that you were afraid to admit you watched) The TGIF Friday line up. Singled out, Are you afraid of the dark? Clarissa explains it all, Boy Meets World, Sister Sister. You can't do that on Television, Double Dare. There are so much more

-cartoons: Tiny Tune Adventures, Animanics, Duck tales, Chip and Dale's rescue rangers, Tale Spin (I'll admit I knew the theme songs to these and still do! lol) Inspector Gadget.

-movies: Scream, I know what you did last summer, Clueless, The freddy movie where he dies, The Faculty (I think), Anaconda with J-lo, Loser- the dumbest movie ever, Titantic

-music: nirvana, pearl jam, mcHammer, vanilla ice, snow, Remeber Rico Suave? that was a good song, All 4 one, Color me bad, Immature, Brandy, Monica, That song Aiesha by Another bad creation, Boys II Men, Belv Biv Divoe. Shabba Ranks.

-toys: Nintendo, Digemons (I think that's what they were)

-trends (clothes, hairstyles, etc...): Slap bracelets, bangles, those ties that you would tie on your tee shirts, flannel shirts, dying hair with cool aid, stretch pants, saddle shoes, BK's, Jordache jeans, flat shoes. Those UGLY mulitcolored mchammer pants.

-historic events: OJ, Gulf War, Clinton Scandal, Michael Jackson's molestation scandal, Ross Perot, Madonna's justify my love video,


That's all I can think of now... I'm sure I might think of more later

i loved those shows!! swans crossing was the best! and we got this channel at school my senior year that used to have breaker high on it at like 3:30am. i always watched it when i couldn't sleep!

Awesome! another person who has heard of Swans Crossing! I was OBSESSED with that show back when it was on! Sarah Michelle Gellar was on there!

i was so in love with shane mcdermott back then!

I know! he was so HOT! :D I think he was in the movie Airborne too!

oh he definitely was! and you can still catch it on the disney channel every now and then.. and i'm the sad one still watching it!

i used to have the Baby Sitters Club video series. Shane was in one of the episodes.

FYI-
21 year old Sweet Valley High/University fanatic here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have love them since i was 8 years old when i read the 'sweet valley twins' series.

That is sooooo funny b/c I had those books too! (I know, it's sad) LOL

my parents got rid of all of my sweet valley high books and babysitter club books during one of their moves.. i so want to read the sweet valley university ones though!

i loved USA High
i was pissed when they canceled it