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Untrue I remember no good things
That’s the thing, really.
We’re so caught up on the good times, we never realised the evil brewing underneath that.
We thought we were the characters in the epilogue, but the truth was we hadn’t even seen the start of the prologue.
I feel awful for young people.
Wish they could grow up in the world we did. The woods we played in are now McMansions and paved over. The malls, video stores, and pizza party places are gone or empty. Friendships were made organically and if someone wanted to fuck with you, they had to do it to your face and take some personal risk.
We were out having adventures until the street lights came on.
Worst of all though, we had hope for a prosperous future. Young people don’t even get to have that now.
For a brief, shining moment you had Animaniacs, XMen, and The Tick all on back to back on Thursdays after school
Oddly I’ve seen a lot of Animaniacs references recently.
So I downloaded an Animaniacs torrent to re-watch a bunch of stuff from the 90s that used to make me happy. Somehow it’s not as great as I remember. Or maybe I’m just old and miserable.
Like another comment mentioned, target age is a huge factor. To that I would add that Animaniacs went unexpected places with the humor in a way few cartoons (that I had access to) were doing. Tiny Toons by contrast was enjoyable enough but the humor was… idk “safe” I guess?
Nations of the World was just tightly executed and clever, for one example. “A clown will not bite me und throw me in the basement” is something I still say from time to time, is another. Both stuck with me because I had that “wtflol” moment the first time I saw them. Real “bologna in our slacks” energy which was hilarious at age 12.
I preferred Freakazoid. I still watch it. the humor of that show was right up my ally. I still say “Que a couple le fromage?” and “poo gas” to this day.
My kids love Pinky and the Brain, so the target age group still seems to like them. I’d say the Looney Tunes aged fairly well from a humour perspective, although some scenes are pretty offensive in this day and age.
it was great. Fox used to show blocks of shows in the morning before school so you could watch Power Rangers in the morning and then more when you got home. Also Disney had their after school cartoon block of Tale Spin, DuckTales, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, etc.
and THEN here in Canada you could get like an hour of and half of Simpsons EVERY night. CBC would show Simpsons at 5, Fox at 5:30, and then another Canadian Station would show an episode at 6.
We really had it great in the 90s.
Nickelodeon also hit hard in this era, same for WB and Cartoon Network
The reason we don’t remember the bad stuff is because Power Ranger and X-men intro theme are just too good. And also Jumanji came out that decade.
Dude the opening riff to the power rangers theme still hits so fucking hard
The Men In Black intro was also a banger.
When Will Smith still good.
But it can only good happen! /s
Seems so silly I’m hindsight, but it struck a nerve at the time:
Three of the biggest hit films of 1999: The Matrix, Fight Club, and American Beauty. The inciting incident in all three was, “Man, life is kind of boring…”
I fucking wish that was my problem.
“May you live in interesting times” is a curse, not a blessing.
I still believe that’s the reason many people voted for Dubya. Gore was dependable but boring. Dubya was entertaining.
What’s something that ages much worse than milk?
Meat.
Aged like meat.
Smells like meat. Rotten meat! Kids, you stupid motherfuckers, why would you bring that rotten meat in here of all places?!
Nah good things happen all the time, we’re just not kids anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars:_1990–2002
I’ve been slowly building a backyard garden with native plants to bring back local pollinators.
I’ve been making my good things happen.
You rule, thank you!
so, like, I got laid sunday… and on saturday, I had been at a protest against trump with 200,000+ other peeps and had an absolute blast.
Like the German intro version of the Megaman TV series
We had a completely different childhood my man.
Sora shutting down made me go “good things still happen”.
