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Those edited MTV shows, especially The State, are great in a way if you love "sound alike" music (which I do) because it's pretty funny to guess what song it is trying to be. I'm thinking of one sketch in particular using a hilarious sound alike of Cannonball.
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DreadUnknown posted:Mr Show I think?
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May 11, 2021 19:27
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the_steve posted:Had a random one earlier. I rewatched this recently and expected it to be bad, but holy poo poo it did not age well. 1) A female FBI agent goes on multiple dates with an 11-yr old in order to investigate his boss and some criminals who stole $1mil (except the boss doesn’t exist, it’s the 11-yr old all along who stole from the criminals). Even though she’s just leading him on, it’s still really weird the whole time. But at the end of the movie, they kiss anyways because, what the gently caress. 2) The 11-yr old hangs out with a creepy limo driver the entire time, who never questions why this kid has money and instead just goes around having fun with him the whole time. The whole movie takes the kids movie trope of “what if a kid got everything they wanted” and applies the worst possible writing and adds in creepy relationships between adults and a literal child without ever questioning the implications.
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May 11, 2021 19:32
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Nottherealaborn posted:I rewatched this recently and expected it to be bad, but holy poo poo it did not age well. Yeah, it's weird as hell, especially the pedophilia love story that the movie treats like it's okay Plus it was written by Blake Snyder of Save the Cat fame, so its indirectly responsible for a zillion writers copying Snyder's Beat Sheet Formula so hard they forget to tell a story worth telling
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May 11, 2021 19:35
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Nottherealaborn posted:I rewatched this recently and expected it to be bad, but holy poo poo it did not age well. Came out the same year as Milk Money too. the 80s/90s had a very strange obsession with young boys and sexy adult women in weird, pseudo-relationships, especially if the idea was something like "we can touch a boob for the first time". There's that famous ABC family show with the scene about a kid having a wet dream with the insane quote "chocolate cake, gameboy, or me?" from a grown woman wearing lingerie to a prepubescent boy. Although it's not really like it's not a common subject still. Good Boys had the same kind of poo poo and came out in 2019.
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May 11, 2021 20:06
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pentyne posted:the 80s/90s had a very strange obsession with young boys and sexy adult women in weird, pseudo-relationships, especially if the idea was something like "we can touch a boob for the first time". There's that famous ABC family show with the scene about a kid having a wet dream with the insane quote "chocolate cake, gameboy, or me?" from a grown woman wearing lingerie to a prepubescent boy. Lauren Holly in Picket Fences (from David E. Kelley of Ally McBeal fame).
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May 11, 2021 20:15
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Another creepy trend I remember seeing way too often in 80-90s stuff, is the "younger brothers perving on their older sisters.". No specific examples are coming to mind right now, but I remember being super creeped out about it because I have a younger brother.
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May 11, 2021 23:41
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Baba Yaga Fanboy posted:Yeah, it's weird as hell, especially the pedophilia love story that the movie treats like it's okay My favorite part about Save the Cat is that he had an inscrutable grudge against the movie Memento and whereas a more humble person might admit that Memento goes against their rules of storytelling but was still a well received movie financially and critically, he instead tries to argue that it was actually a flop of a movie that makes no sense. It's incredible.
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May 11, 2021 23:49
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Isn't that the scholar who penned 'Stop or My Mom Will Shoot?'
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May 11, 2021 23:54
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Isn't that the scholar who penned 'Stop or My Mom Will Shoot?' Yep! He sold a lot of scripts but that and Blank Check are the only two scripts he sold that were ever made into movies. Ultimately he was a guy fortunate to be writing scripts during an era when movie studios would pay a premium to buy and hoard scripts.
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May 11, 2021 23:56
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Toshimo posted:Lauren Holly in Picket Fences (from David E. Kelley of Ally McBeal fame). if you search Picket Fences on youtube (like I did since I never heard of this show until now), the suggestions seem to show that a LOT of people remember this scene specifically and not a whole lot else
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May 12, 2021 00:32
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Srice posted:My favorite part about Save the Cat is that he had an inscrutable grudge against the movie Memento and whereas a more humble person might admit that Memento goes against their rules of storytelling but was still a well received movie financially and critically, he instead tries to argue that it was actually a flop of a movie that makes no sense. It's incredible. Right! I'd forgotten how much time he spent trying to dunk on Memento, and its artsy-fartsy writer/director, Christopher Nolan, who would got lucky just that once with his artsy-fartsy movie
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May 12, 2021 00:34
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Sarcopenia posted:Another creepy trend I remember seeing way too often in 80-90s stuff, is the "younger brothers perving on their older sisters.". No specific examples are coming to mind right now, but I remember being super creeped out about it because I have a younger brother. I seem to remember it was Night of the Demons or one of its ilk where the female protagonist has a lengthy changing scene that ends with her pre-pubescent brother bursting out of her closet and shouting “Bodacious boobs, sis!”
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May 12, 2021 00:37
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Phylodox posted:“Bodacious boobs, sis!”
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May 12, 2021 00:45
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On one hand, royalty-free Daria means no body movin'. But on the other, it means no butterfly by crazy town, may I never hear that loving song again.
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May 12, 2021 00:58
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Volcott posted:On one hand, royalty-free Daria means no body movin'. But on the other, it means no butterfly by crazy town, may I never hear that loving song again. in high school i dated a guy who tried his damndest to make that our song 
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May 12, 2021 01:04
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Volcott posted:On one hand, royalty-free Daria means no body movin'. But on the other, it means no butterfly by crazy town, may I never hear that loving song again. the worst #1 hit ever.
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May 12, 2021 03:29
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I was not familiar with that one so I looked it up and no I did not last long
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May 12, 2021 03:37
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That song hit at just the right time in my formative years and I'll always have a nostalgic soft spot for it. So I guess maybe it's I that did not age well.
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May 12, 2021 03:44
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Feel free to like the songs you want. Do not be bullied by others who don’t like the things you do.
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May 12, 2021 03:45
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oldpainless posted:Feel free to like the songs you want. Do not be bullied by others who don’t like the things you do. Except Baby Shark. That means you're a monster.
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May 12, 2021 04:09
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Toshimo posted:Except Baby Shark. That means you're a monster. What if baby shark sang butterfly? What then?
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May 12, 2021 04:11
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Doot my lady Doot doot my lady You're my baby shark Sugar baby
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May 12, 2021 04:12
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CPColin posted:Doot my lady Jesus Christ 
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May 12, 2021 04:17
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oldpainless posted:Feel free to like the songs you want. Do not be bullied by others who don’t like the things you do. WE BUILT THIS CITY WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK AND ROLL
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May 12, 2021 04:20
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CPColin posted:Doot my lady 
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May 12, 2021 04:22
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CPColin posted:Doot my lady Well, someone has to sing it now.
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May 12, 2021 04:32
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How about instead I sing gently caress You.
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May 12, 2021 04:37
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sweet geek swag posted:How about instead I sing gently caress You. If you have Cee Lo's pipes, you run with that poo poo.
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May 12, 2021 04:58
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Toshimo posted:Lauren Holly in Picket Fences (from David E. Kelley of Ally McBeal fame). I remember as a kid it had the weirdest sexual plotlines, like one where the wacky "foreign" guy from Ghostbusters 2 asked another dude to show him a place in the pit of a woman's knee that you could massage and it was basically like fingering them. I distinctly remember scenes where both of these 40-somethings basically finger-blasted their 20-something female colleagues in public at work meetings. Am I the only one who remembers how loving weird this was? And of course it was the daycare gig for Robert Downey Jr. at his nadir. But it all seems to have vanished from pop culture memory.
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May 12, 2021 05:00
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Mooseontheloose posted:the worst #1 hit ever. i remember there was this weird thing with it where for a hot minute it was played everywhere, all the time, to a degree that was unusual even for the era, until it got dumpstered even the band itself at the time was saying that getting overplayed to that degree was going to ruin them and welp
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hard counter posted:i remember there was this weird thing with it where for a hot minute it was played everywhere, all the time, to a degree that was unusual even for the era, until it got dumpstered They were nu-metal, so it was the worst kind of one hit to have: one completely unlike the rest of their music. They might've had a chance if they leaned into it, they clearly struck some kind of gold, but even if they wanted to they couldn't; the best part is that Red Hot Chilli Peppers sample.
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mind the walrus posted:Speaking of Ally McBeal wtf was up with that show in general? That whole late 90s FOX "dramedy" era seems to be completely lost to time, along with Party of Five. I remember that character also had a thing for "wattles" under a woman's neck which lead to him being a massive creep to women. In a crossover with some other serious law show he actively sexually harassed one of their staff in front of an entire room of people and it was treated as wacky.
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May 12, 2021 05:49
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Toshimo posted:Except Baby Shark. That means you're a monster. I used to sing that to calm down my younger relatives and then it got massive so now I don't even have to sing, i can just pull up the video on youtube and be done with it. It getting popular made my life so much easier.
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May 12, 2021 05:54
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christmas boots posted:WE BUILT THIS CITY That song isn't nearly as bad as people act like it is.
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Vandar posted:That song isn't nearly as bad as people act like it is. Megillah Gorilla posted:I remember that character also had a thing for "wattles" under a woman's neck which lead to him being a massive creep to women. Oh loving lord the wattle thing. God what was it with that show? The whole thing seems like some horny late-Boomer/Gen-X fever dream. Much like the dot com era in general, come to think on it. mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 06:18 on May 12, 2021 |
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Every decade has its own messed up sexual politics but a lot about the 90s seems particularly skeevy, at least in the 70s and 80s they were honest about it? Especially iffy looking back at how much media of the time was basically defined by sexual predators and abusers.
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Does anyone have that tweet or was it a tiktok where some guy rewatches a teen movie from 2004 and is all  at how skeevy it actually was?
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mind the walrus posted:Does anyone have that tweet or was it a tiktok where some guy rewatches a teen movie from 2004 and is all It’s probably  https://www.twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1377696492295761923
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90s entertainment pretended racism and sexism were over while also revelling in awful poo poo and broke a lot of brains.
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