I love I love the 80s/90s

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I mean might as well run, I love July 12th 2004.

Oh, that'll be on in a few days. It's called Best Week Ever.

 

[The_lurkeR]

Hi I'm also a closet "I love the ..." lover too.

I don't seek out these shows, but if I come across it, I'm usually hooked and don't realize it until the marathon is over. It is more fun to watch with someone else though, nodding at the " I had one of those..." etc.

 

[Krieg]

It's a bit weird for me watching the ones from the early 90's, as I spent a lot of that time deployed in Saudi Arabia/Kuwait, Somalia & other fun places.

I sit there dumbfounded muttering to myself..."Nelson who?! I don't remember any of that."

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I Love the 90s is creepy because I was actually there. I remember this stuff! I got that nostalgia-lite from the first two that comes from pop culture that you never witnessed, but when Power Rangers or Barney or whatever shows up, and you find yourself nodding in recognition, it's a little scary.

But I like these shows. A good source for my daily dose of snide.

Demiurge out.

Did someone say Power Rangers?

Its Morphin Time!

Dragonzord!
Pteradactl!
Mastadon!
Triceratops!
Sabertooth Tiger!
Tyranasaurus!

**Riffs the MMPR Theme**

 

[Silver Moon]

..."I Love the 70's" when it aired late last year... I'm sure that it was funny and informative and all that, but the 70's really meant nothing to me.

Yes but old timers like me who lived through years throught it was great.

...it just seems that (so far) "I Love the 90's" isn't as well-done as either of the "I Love the 80's" shows - comparitively, something just seems to be missing.

What's missing isn't in the show itself, it's that extra decade of nostalga. It's too early to do a humorous retrospective on stuff that's recent.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I don't seek out these shows, but if I come across it, I'm usually hooked and don't realize it until the marathon is over. It is more fun to watch with someone else though, nodding at the " I had one of those..." etc.

Yep, thats exactly what happens to me & my wife. We've stayed up until 2 or 3am on occasion (knowing we had to go to work the next day) just because we couldn't bring ourselves to turn the TV off.

It's amazing how much of a difference the 3 years between us makes when watching. While I remember lots of the stuff from the 70s, she remembered very little of it. And towards the end of the 80s, there was alot of stuff that I remember knowing about but not owning or caring about, while she thought that was the best part.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I dont like them. I despise those kinds of shows.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I dont like them. I despise those kinds of shows.

 

[Goodsport]

Yes but old timers like me who lived through years throught it was great.

I apologize if it seemed like I was putting you and the 70's down. That wasn't my intention.

I suppose that my time during the 80's was like your time in the 70's - having been born in 1971 (yes, I'm old ), pretty much all my formative years (particularly junior high and high school years) were in the 80's... I was too young to remember and/or to be affected much by the 70's.

If "I Love the 70's" is ever rebroadcast, I'll try and catch it.

What's missing isn't in the show itself, it's that extra decade of nostalga. It's too early to do a humorous retrospective on stuff that's recent.

I agree about the need for that extra decade of nostalgia. I think it's also that many of the humorous guests that were on both "I Love the 80's" series (and I suppose were on "I Love the 70's") didn't return for "I Love the 90's", and those who've remained seem to be a bit more mean-spirited (and not as purely funny) than they were before.

Then again, the 90's was a somewhat more mean-spirited decade than the previous decade or two, with the militant political-correctness in the early half of the 90's and the extreme cynicism during the second half.


-G

 

[Silver Moon]

I apologize if it seemed like I was putting you and the 70's down.

Dude, the 70's have so much about them that deserves to be "put down" that it just made for more fodder for the show. No insult taken.

If "I Love the 70's" is ever rebroadcast, I'll try and catch it.

No need unless you enjoy it. Personally I'm still waiting for an "I Love the 60's" retrospective. I was born in '62 but my father was a college professor and we lived on campus in a house surrounded by dormatories. So even though I was at a very young age I still experienced the late sixties (I just didn't understand some of it, then again I doubt many of the students at the college understood it either at the time).