Favorite '90s stuff?

[Owain Taggart]

And all-you-can-eat at the local Pizza Hut.

Definitely the decade of Pizza Hut. That chain was everywhere, and I have quite a few good memories of eating there with family. Now, I don't think they're doing all that well. At least locally, where they've been scaled back quite a bit. They moved out of their own restaurant building and into a much smaller strip-mall location. Their old location which had been there for several decades is now home to a popular breakfast restauraunt.

 

[Pondwater]

No love for Zubaz?

Only love for Zod.

 

[Jedi_Master]

The best part of the 90's is the fact that I am old enough now for people to leverage my nostalgia for cash!

 

[ITL]

If the '90s had given us nothing but the intro to this song and James Iha with a towel on his head I'd be OK with that:

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[Lord Garth]

Yin Yang. I had a Yin Yang T-shirt, necklace, and keychain.

Also a glow-in-the-dark Alien T-shirt.

Spencer's was my favorite place to shop at in the late-'90s. Then I switched to Hot Topic in the early-'00s.

 

[Jayson1]

How about "The Simpsons?" This was when they were at the height of their greatness. Also lets also acknowledge that the modern golden age of tv basically born as we currently know from "The Soprano's" which came out in 1999 I believe. Also Allanis Morrisette was great. Also has Mystery Science Theater 3000 been mentioned as of yet? Also Mr Show with Bob and David which is the best sketch comedy show of all-time.


Jason

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Early Red Green.

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[Timewalker]

Early Red Green.

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I used to watch this show with my dad, along with Steve Smith's earlier show, Smith & Smith (in which his wife, Morag, co-starred).

But I prefer Rick Green's show, Prisoners of Gravity - in which he interviews various science fiction, fantasy, and comic book writers. I looked up some of the episodes recently for a discussion on another forum when someone posted a thread about the Clarion Writers' Workshop. One of the episodes was about Clarion, which is a workshop that's been going on every year for decades.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

After all these years of watching him play Bill, I could never get used to hearing Rick Green actually speak...

fun fact: In the episode I just posted, during the game show scene where they're all given different noisemakers to use when 'buzzing in', and one contestant's horn doesn't work...that wasn't planned.

 

[Butters]

My lamentations on the passing of Stuff from the nineties:

The Mary Whitehouse Experience
Tab Clear
Iceberg Lager
Cool Britannia
Babylon 5
Memorable Simpsons episodes
British Rail
The Squariel
The innocence and energy of youth.

 

[Timewalker]

After all these years of watching him play Bill, it'd be a bit awkward to hear Rick Green actually speak...

Well, I'll admit the show is a little odd. The premise is that "Commander Rick" escapes Earth and ends up on some kind of orbiting space station with a computer named "NANCY" and he spends his time interviewing science fiction writers.

But there's a lot of good material in this series. One of the more interesting episodes involves Harlan Ellison pontificating about how shared-universe series are "anti-talent"... and then he himself got involved in a shared universe novel called Medea: Harlan's World, that was written by a group of SF writers.

Here's part 1 of the Clarion Workshop episode:

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[Pingfah]

I miss Northern Exposure. An oft forgotten gem.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

My favourite item from the 90s is the ISS (the first module was built in 1998). Though I'll always miss ist predecessor, good old SpaceLab.

 

[MacLeod]

My favourite item from the 90s is the ISS (the first module was built in 1998). Though I'll always miss ist predecessor, good old SpaceLab.

Personally I would have said Mir was the precursor to the ISS, it did after last longer than the Spacelab.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

you're right! It seems a sign of times that Peace (Mir) gets overlooked and forgotten..

 

[TheSeeker]

Prisoners of Gravity was one of those shows that I didn't follow on a regular basis but I'd always end up watching it if I came across it while channel surfing.

 

[Jayson1]

I miss "Sci-Universe" the magazine by Mark Altman. I always looked forward to reading those until he sold the mag and it went corporate. I also miss Siskel and Ebbert. I didn't always agree but they always made for interesting views and it was nice to have people who review stuff other than comic book movies.


Jason

 

[Lord Garth]

Hackers on '90s TV can do anything.

 

[Chuckles]

The 90's syndication market, I got spoiled to having all those choices of science fiction and fantasy shows. Then come the 2000's and that market just dries up completely.