OT: 90s nostalgia thread

Submitted by DISCUSS Man on

post about your favorite things from the 90s, IMO, the greatest decade in history. This can be anything, literally anything. sports, music, food, TV, movies anything.

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Smoothitron

April 3rd, 2015 at 7:48 PM ^

 
Oh, how I've been itching for this topic.(TLDR Warning, just skip to the videos)
 
I was born in the late 80s, and thus spent a good portion of my formative years following the adventures of the spandex-clad phenomenon Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.   
 
This show represents the worst(best) qualities of children's television.  Extreme measures were taken to keep costs low. Non-union actors of non-union quality were used, all of the music was written by the show-owner, the plots were written by his wife, and, of course, dirt cheap stock footage from the japanese show Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was purchased to fill most of the runtime of the show.
 
While all of this was undeniably terrible television, I didn't care about that when I was 5, so enjoy it mightily I did.  I gave up on the series around age 9, but it actually continues to run to this day.
 
When my son was born in 2013, I was lucky enough to have some paternity time off work.  i used this time to rediscover the series on Netflix.  What did I discover?  It is extremely bad, but there is an undeniable earnestness to the show that I find irresistable.  The fact that this group of people, who were explicitly brought in because of their lack of talent, were able to take the world by storm captivates me.
 
I felt like I needed to share some of my rediscovery with the world.  Whenever I saw a scene or effect or line or whatever that made me think, "How did this show get on television?", I made a note of it.  I took these clips, had some talented friends of mine cook up an intro, and put them online.
 
 
 
Friends, I present Power Rangers Moments:

http://youtube.com/powerrangersmoments

 

There are 74 of them in total with more to come.

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Wendyk5

April 3rd, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^

I was in my late 20's in the early 90's. I bought my first place. I drove a cool car. I traveled a lot for work and met interesting people and did interesting things. I'd love to go back and do it all over again, especially with the knowledge and life experience I have now. 

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Wolverine In Iowa

April 3rd, 2015 at 8:30 PM ^

MCI vs. AT&T (I bled MCI orange for four years - great time of my life professionally)

Having much discretionary income as a single 20-something

Pearl Jam

Birth of the dot-com bubble

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ilah17

April 3rd, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^

Oh my, where to start?? Friends, Wilson Phillips, Clueless, Girbaud jeans, Red Wings dominance, Drew Henson-induced optimism, the 98 Rose Bowl/National Championship, Fab 5 . . . To name a few!



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DMill2782

April 3rd, 2015 at 8:55 PM ^

Charles Woodson, football national championship, beating OSU so often, Tyrone Wheatley, Rose Bowls against Washington & WSU, Touchdown Tim, Desmond, DA, Law, Irons, Sword, Gold, Ray, Steele, Hutch, Jansen, Renes, Runyan, Riemersma, Fab Five, 90s NBA, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Naughty by Nature, Snoop Doggy Dogg, 2Pac, Nas, The Fugees, Busta Rhymes, DMX, Rump Shaker, Daisy Dukes, Tractor destroying backboards, Maceo swatting shots, Sega, Playstation, Tom Brady lighting up Bama, Ace Ventura, Dumb & Dumber,  Jim Carrey in general, Forrest Gump, White Men Can't Jump, SNL, In Living Color, South Park, Tom Green Show, Baseketball, MTV playing music videos, Mike Myers. I could go on and on but that's a good snapshot. 

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UMfan21

April 3rd, 2015 at 9:27 PM ^

Jenna Jameson was still hot, Jenny McCarthy was hot (and had not spread lies), Tara Reid was hot (though we could all see it wouldn't last long)

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UofM626

April 3rd, 2015 at 9:41 PM ^

They both were so influential. The 80's laid the ground work for so many things from music, clothes, movies (best decade ever for movies) sports icons.

I'm tossed on this one

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xtramelanin

April 3rd, 2015 at 10:12 PM ^

right on the cusp of 89-90 when they got big.  my oldest brother gave us all a pair for his wedding.  great family pic is the whole wedding party in tuxes and the reeboks.   my, life was so different then.  wouldn't change it, but man, a lot of mileage put on the odometer in the intervening 1/4 century.

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vermontblue

April 3rd, 2015 at 10:28 PM ^

Awesome times for video games.... Duke Nukem 3D, Final Fantasy VII, Mario 64, GoldenEye 007, Diablo, Resident Evil, Earthbound, Mortal Kombat and the list goes on .

Anyone remember XBAND? Playing Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam online with the Genesis was awesome.

It was the best decade for pro wrestling. WCW vs WWF with Nitro and Raw on Monday nights. Good times!

 

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