VH1's "I Love the 90s"? WE'RE NOT WORTHY! [Archive]

Viceroy

06-21-2004, 02:56 PM

Starting Monday July 12 at 9 PM (EST), VH1 will premiere "I Love the 90s", the followup to "I Love the 80s" and "I Love the 70s". According to the website,
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_love_the_90s/series.jhtml
the following cartoons and related shows will be featured:

1992 (Tuesday 7/13 9 pm)
Ren & Stimpy
Barney

1993 (Tuesday 7/13 10 pm)
Beavis and Butthead
Power Rangers

1995 (Wednesday 7/14 10 pm)
Toy Story
Red and Yellow the CGI M&Ms
the Budweiser frogs

1998 (Friday 7/16 9 pm)
Teletubbies

1999 (Friday 7/16 10 pm)
Pokemon

So dig out the pogs and Tickle Me Elmos, put on your flannel shirts and baggy backwards pants, drop some Spice Girls or Hootie and the Blowfish in the boombox, pour yourself a Crystal Pepsi or d### fine cup of coffee, and get ready to enjoy "I Love the 90s"!

But keep that MedicAlert bracelet handy. You know, in case you fall and can't get up.:anime:

Carolina Red

06-21-2004, 03:05 PM

hmm, the Critic isn't on there. I'd put it on the series just because of the cult status that it has gotten over the years, and since it did show up on two separate occasions in the decade...and why not have a little segment on MTV's animation department in 1993 or so? They had so many programs back then, but B&B is the only one really memorable anyway. But anyway, I'll be ready to break out the Pearl Jam and Blind Melon...aw hey, I'll throw Spacehog in there too.

Animelee

06-21-2004, 03:10 PM

Damn, I really wish I could see 'em all, especially the one about Pokémon. I sure hope someone encodes them. :sweat:

True Noir

06-21-2004, 03:14 PM

Isn't it a little early to have a "I love the 90s"? I thought one of those would be coming in a few more years or so. Oh well, I like this show anyway.

MonkeyFunk

06-21-2004, 03:15 PM

We go one in the UK a couple of years back

JDuncan

06-21-2004, 03:19 PM

I can't see them passing over South Park...

Spongebrain2.0

06-21-2004, 03:49 PM

They are only doing every other year, They skipped 97, and 91, and a couple other 90's years. So I'm sure South Park will show up.

Haruhara

06-21-2004, 05:08 PM

...wheres the simpsons?

Alex Toon

06-21-2004, 05:35 PM

...wheres the simpsons?They mentioned it already in I Love the 80s.I tihnk we should have our own I Love the 90s--ToonZone Style! :)

shogunthethird

06-21-2004, 05:48 PM

and Gargoyles is WHERE in all this?

Juu-kuchi

06-21-2004, 05:55 PM

and Gargoyles is WHERE in all this?
And Batman: TAS

Marvel_Knight

06-21-2004, 05:55 PM

More importantly, Batman!http://planetsmilies.com/smilies/mad/1/mad66.gif

Marvel_Knight

06-21-2004, 05:57 PM

And Batman: TAS
Dang you beat me to it. http://planetsmilies.com/smilies/sign/1/sign64.gif

Peter Paltridge

06-21-2004, 06:14 PM

I still think this is sad. I know it's proftable, but in some cases we're "recalling" things that are less than 5 years old and still very much around. I don't think things should "get old" that fast. Wouldn't that be scary? STOP VH1!

lostrune

06-21-2004, 06:14 PM

and Gargoyles is WHERE in all this?

This is "I Love the 90's," not "I Love the 90's Animation."

Any animation that gets into those "I Love..." series has to be something that got ingrained into the general populace's consciousness - something that when you tell them a year, that animation pops up into their heads.

I still think this is sad. I know it's proftable, but in some cases we're "recalling" things that are less than 5 years old and still very much around. I don't think things should "get old" that fast. Wouldn't that be scary? STOP VH1!

Yeah, they even showed commercials about this - whether it's still too early to have an "I Love the 90's" series. :D

06-21-2004, 07:48 PM

Loving the 90's already? Everyone alive now (excluding 4 year olds and under) were alive during the 90s. I think this decade break-down has just gotten silly. What's next? "I Love Yesterday"?

Fatneck

06-21-2004, 07:57 PM

I wonder what they're going to call their special for this decade, "I love the aughts?"

Parallax

06-21-2004, 08:44 PM

Loving the 90's already? Everyone alive now (excluding 4 year olds and under) were alive during the 90s. I think this decade break-down has just gotten silly. What's next? "I Love Yesterday"?
They do have "I Love Last Week", kinda.

Carolina Red

06-21-2004, 09:20 PM

I almost forgot, I'd be surprised if Dexter's Laboratory wasn't mentioned. That was big in the 1990s, more than it is today I believe. Now I agree that this may be a little early, but the 1990s did end five years ago, and many of us who grew up then are now in college, so for me this should be very interesting. I just hope I finish my paper due on space by then - I have got to score an A and get some thesaurus books with it!

Viceroy

06-22-2004, 10:39 AM

and Gargoyles is WHERE in all this?
Remember, Disney and Warners are Viacom's rivals in the entertainment biz. So it's unlikely we'll see Batman, Gargoyles or even Lion King or Space Jam.

THough IL90s is featuring Toy Story, so there may still be a chance.

Shaggy&Daphne

06-22-2004, 11:05 AM

The 90's sucked!

Nuff said.

Rayeli

06-22-2004, 11:17 AM

What the hell are you talking about?! It beats our current decade so far.

sag_2002

06-22-2004, 11:21 AM

They do have "I Love Last Week", kinda.
Yes, "Best Week Ever".

As I mentioned in the Entertainment board a few months back, I am looking forward to the 90's version of the "I Love" series. And, to all those who think the 90's weren't all that, I've got two words for you. Power. Rangers.

Behonkiss

06-22-2004, 11:25 AM

Heehee, I am really looking forward to this. I found the previous 70's and 80's incarnations to be hilarious, and this should be no exception.

Don_East

06-22-2004, 02:15 PM

And, to all those who think the 90's weren't all that, I've got two words for you. Power. Rangers.
I got one word why the 80's were radical and superior to the 90's.

TRANSFORMERS

Shaggy&Daphne

06-22-2004, 04:06 PM

I got one word why the 80's were radical and superior to the 90's.

TRANSFORMERS
I have one word why the 80's were superior to the 90's.

Ronald Reagan

Don_East

06-22-2004, 04:35 PM

I have one word why the 80's were superior to the 90's.

Ronald Reagan
That also.

Conekiller

06-22-2004, 04:48 PM

I have one word why the 80's were superior to the 90's.

Ronald Reagan
that's 2 words, or rather, a name :p

Pokejedservo

06-22-2004, 04:51 PM

For starters that is only a small example of a list, and second there might be a 2nd installment like how "I Love the 80's" got. So what isn't in the first "I Love the 90's" will be on the 2nd time, if there is one.

And another thing, It would make perfect sense for a nostalgic program featuring the early & mid 90's. To be quite honest how can they NOT have nostalgic value? Granted I can understand why would anyone question the nostalgic value of the later 90's. But I heard a very intresting point "Because people miss the days back when Bill Clinton's sexual escapades were the biggest thing on the news rather than the current news of today". So in another words it doesn't work as much as the early & mid 90's but it still works. And besides not everything in the later 90's is still around, even though they are remembered fondly in certain ways. (Such as Nick's Angry Beavers for one small example.)

So trust me a "I Love the 90's" is a LOT more workable idea then you people give it credit for. So yeah I too defintely look forward to it especially since I've been watching all the other ones as well.

John Pannozzi

06-22-2004, 06:14 PM

Let me just say that all decades had their ups and downs (at least IMHO, but I think it is many people's opinion, or at least it should be):

Examples:

1980s:

Ups:

Lots of good films (Ex.:the Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future series, E.T., Gremlins, Ghostbusters 1 and 2, and of course, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Matt Groening found fame through Life in Hell

Katey Sagal found fame through Married...with Children (I have no real opinion on M...WC, but Katey Sagal is very talented actress. Her peformance as Turanga Leela was very good IMHO.)

Transformers, The (Real) Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Turtles (there are other '80s phenominons but these are the best and most noteworthy IMHO)

I was born (in the 1980s).

Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball

The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse helped make cartoons great again.

DuckTales, the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers

Classic cartoons started to become hot again (thanks partly to WFRR)

Video games

And last, but definitely not least............ the birth of the Simpsons!

Downs:

Not a good time for the daikaiju industry (only 2 Godzilla films were made and weren't terribly sucessful, "King Kong lives" both literally and figuretively killed the most famous American giant monster for nearly 2 decades)

America was greedy, Communist-hating place (not that that is completey bad...)

Lots of mediocare cartoons.

1990s:

Ups:

The Simpsons become famous

Ren and Stimpy and many other great cartoons (Ex.: The Critic, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Batman, Rocko's Modern Life and others)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

The Heisei/VS Godzilla were very sucessful

The American Godzilla film at least made a good deal of money and spawned a good cartoon sequal series.

The Gamera trilogy

The birth of Futurama and Family Guy

Downs:

The death of Roger Rabbit

2000s:

Ups:

Futurama won fame with nerdy fans (like me!)

Downs:

Futurama's cancelation

Shaggy&Daphne

06-22-2004, 06:28 PM

You didn't include "Beetlejuice" and "Batman" in your list of great movies from the 80's!

Eidan

06-22-2004, 10:33 PM

Peter Paltridge

06-23-2004, 03:27 AM

Artimus Gigan

06-23-2004, 03:29 AM

The 90's are only remembered for the following:

The Birth of the Macarania

The Death of The Macarania

That was the coolest 3 weeks EVER!!!!

Shaggy&Daphne

06-23-2004, 10:55 AM

I would have liked "Beetlejuice" if Beetlejuice wasn't made the villain of the movie. I wanted to see Mr. B go nuts and terrorize mortals for 90 minutes and love every minute of it and wrap us all in his infectious enthusiasm for (after)life. Nope, he was the villain and the stars were some helpless ghost couple. And for this kind of film, they used the "forced marriage" climax? It didn't work. The cartoon worked better...
Well, if they went with that concept for the movie then there wouldn't have been much of a plot, and the final result would have been nothing more than a campy romp through cartoonville as Beetlejuice terrorizes the living. Also, Beetlejuice wasn't a villain. Sure he was a trouble maker, as it was stated in the film, but he wasn't the villian. He did save Addam and Barbara at the end of the film and was the one responsible for them getting there house back. Yes, there was forced marriage in the climax of the film, but if you remember, Betelguice had explain to Lydia that he wanted freed for good and that in order to do that he had to get married and made a deal with Lydia, that if she wanted his help she had to marry him. So she already new what she was doing.

Yash

06-23-2004, 04:24 PM

It's great that R&S is in there but... Pokemon was '98...

Pokejedservo

06-23-2004, 04:43 PM

It's great that R&S is in there but... Pokemon was '98...
It actually had a decent following in '98 until it became super popular in 1999.

Peter Paltridge

06-23-2004, 07:15 PM

Well, if they went with that concept for the movie then there wouldn't have been much of a plot, and the final result would have been nothing more than a campy romp through cartoonville as Beetlejuice terrorizes the living. Also, Beetlejuice wasn't a villain. Sure he was a trouble maker, as it was stated in the film, but he wasn't the villian. He did save Addam and Barbara at the end of the film and was the one responsible for them getting there house back. Yes, there was forced marriage in the climax of the film, but if you remember, Betelguice had explain to Lydia that he wanted freed for good and that in order to do that he had to get married and made a deal with Lydia, that if she wanted his help she had to marry him. So she already new what she was doing. I don't know what movie you were watching. The last time we see Beetlejuice is right after the wedding when Barbara crashes through the wall riding the Sand Worm and the worm eats him. And he's the reason she was on that worm in the first place! Mr. B only saved Adam and Barbara because there was something in it for him. And I could have lived with the wacky lovable no-plot Beetlejuice...it worked for The Mask.

G. Wen

06-26-2004, 01:30 AM

Gargoyles and Batman were big within the animation community, but neither shows made a deep impact on pop culture in general. You heard about toy stores stocking up in Pokemon during the holiday seasons, but did you hear them stocking up on Batman or Gargoyles toys? On a side note, were Hootie and the Blowfish that big during the '90's? I never heard screaming fans for Hootie and the Blowfish, nor did I hear people incessantly calling the radio stations for that band.

JDuncan

06-26-2004, 01:43 AM

On a side note, were Hootie and the Blowfish that big during the '90's? I never heard screaming fans for Hootie and the Blowfish, nor did I hear people incessantly calling the radio stations for that band.There were a couple weeks back in 1995 where they were the most popular band in the world, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing that horrible song.

John Pannozzi

08-11-2004, 07:54 AM

I have one word why the 80's were superior to the 90's.

Ronald Reagan
(shows Shaggy&Daphne and Don_East Matt Groening's vicious parodying of Ronnie Regan in his "Life in Hell" strip, but doesn't mention it in detail on this thread because it's not right to make fun of the recently-deceased.)

And I know why the 90's and the 2000's were somewhat superior to 80's IMHO:

Ren and Stimpy

Rocko's Modern Life

Aaah! Real Monsters

SpongeBob

Fairly OddParents

and of course,

Futurama (Everybody do the Bender!)

And the 1980's were a horrible time, at least according to Wanda from FOP (see the commentary for "Abra-Catsrophe").

But I was born in 1986, so at least 1 good thing came out of the '80's (besides Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Gremlins, GhostBusters, etc.)

SlyBoy

08-11-2004, 04:05 PM

And the 1980's were a horrible time, at least according to Wanda from FOP (see the commentary for "Abra-Catsrophe").
You don't like the 80's because a cartoon character said so?

OK...

J. B. Warner

08-11-2004, 04:41 PM

You know, when this series finally aired last month, I noticed a lot of omissions, as if tons of last-minute editing had been made. For one, several entries mentioned in this thread ("Beavis and Butt-Head", the Budweiser frogs, "Pokémon") were nowhere to be seen. There was no love for "The Simpsons", "Futurama", or "Family Guy". "The Lion King", the biggest animated film of 1994, was never mentioned. And on the non-animated end of the spectrum, such memorable 90s milestones as "Terminator II", "Mrs. Doubtfire", Super Nintendo, "Home Improvement", "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Seinfeld", "Friends", and all those other things that were indeed big regardless of their quality were gone. Makes me think that Wendy the Snapple Lady wasn't kidding when she said "I Love the 90s Part Deux" was in the works.

Master Moron

08-11-2004, 04:56 PM

I can't believe they're not going to mention Power Rangers. That series was just as popular as Pokemon during it's heyday.

Don_East

08-11-2004, 05:57 PM

And I know why the 90's and the 2000's were somewhat superior to 80's IMHO:

Ren and Stimpy

Rocko's Modern Life

Aaah! Real Monsters

SpongeBob

Fairly OddParents

and of course,

Futurama
Okay first off how dare Matt Groening disrespected Raegan like that, he is dead to me now. Second, put a helmet on because most of the cartoons you listed are usually rejected by parents while the cartoons I'm about to list is fun for the whole family & are gonna hit you like a ton of bricks.

(Breathes in)

GI Joe,

He-Man And The Masters of The Universe,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

The Real Ghostbusters,

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures,

Voltron,

Robotech,

Thundercats,

MASK,

Inspector Gadget,

And of course

The Simpsons(Back when it was still good).

Finally why the hell would you take history advice from the Fairly Oddparents? All the writers in the show probably flunked history class, I mean sandwiches weren't invented in the colonial era, Benidict Arnold's treachery didn't happen in 1776 & was not arrested, & how did Bill Gates invent the Internet if it was ****ing invented in the 1960's?

(breathes very fast)

[Don_East]

John Pannozzi

08-11-2004, 08:57 PM

Okay first off how dare Matt Groening disrespected Raegan like that, he is dead to me now. Groening only made fun of Reagan back when he was alive, and MST3K and the Critc also made fun of Reagan

Second, put a helmet on because most of the cartoons you listed are usually rejected by parents while the cartoons I'm about to list is fun for the whole family Since when have parents rejected Futurama, it's not popular enough to controversial with parents, plus many of the shows below WERE rejected by parents back in the day, course they seem tame now. [/QUOTE]

& are gonna hit you like a ton of bricks.

(Breathes in)

GI Joe,

He-Man And The Masters of The Universe,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

The Real Ghostbusters,

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures,
Okay, now THAT deserves credit.

Voltron,

Robotech,

Thundercats,

MASK,

Inspector Gadget,

And of course

The Simpsons(Back when it was still good). But it wasn't GREAT until the 90's.

Finally why the hell would you take history advice from the Fairly Oddparents?
I'm taking opinion, not historical advice.

All the writers in the show probably flunked history class, I mean sandwiches weren't invented in the colonial era, Benidict Arnold's treachery didn't happen in 1776 & was not arrested, & how did Bill Gates invent the Internet if it was ****ing invented in the 1960's?

(breathes very fast)

[Don_East]
It's just a cartoon. P.S.: I don't really hate the 80's, they were okay and had great movies and I was born in the 80's, I just don't think they were the BEST decade ever, I fact I don't think there best or worst decades, each have their ups and downs. Butthe WORST decades, if any, go to the Crusades and the Black Plauge and stuff like that.

RAINMAN

08-13-2004, 04:26 AM