Tag: 90’s

Nickelodeon Announces They’re Bringing Back ‘All That’ With Kenan Thompson As The Lead Producer

With many people in society trying to bring back the iconic ’90s, kids and teens who grew up during the time will be glad to hear that an epic TV show from their childhood is making a major comeback. According to Variety, the sketch comedy show All That is being brought back to Nickelodeon as part of a new venture. The company announced the big news on Twitter by sharing the link to the Variety article.

According to the network, Kenan Thompson—who was part of the original cast—will be the executive producer of the revamp. Additionally, it makes perfect sense as the show was a “kid’s version” of Saturday Night Live, where Thompson has been an active cast member for several years.

Not only did All That launch a career for Thompson, but it also helped jumpstart the career of many other cast members—such as Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon, who both ended up with spin-off shows on the network. Additionally, Thompson himself landed a spin-off with co-star Kel Mitchell. In several interviews, Thompson said he “owed his entire career to All That.”

Brian Robbins, President of Nickelodeon, told Variety:

“We think there’s a great opportunity to find the next pool of stars. We want to bring the show back in a real fun way. This summer, we are going to bring back a lot of the original cast and the cast through the years, and let them introduce the new cast of ‘All That’ to the world.” He suggested the program would be “a sort of mash-up of some of the old sketches and a lot of new sketches.”

After the news hit social media, people online were celebrating the return of a classic.

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h/t: Variety.

13 Songs From The ’90s That You Completely Misunderstood As A Kid

The 90’s was a helluva time for music. On the one hand, it was the golden age of pop. Bands like N*SYNC, The Backstreet Boys and T.L.C. proved to the world that if you rounded up a couple attractive friends, wrote a few ballads, and got genetically engineered by Disney, you too could be famous.

Then 90’s grunge bands like Nirvana, The Goo Goo Dolls, and Semisonic proved that those lonely kids in high school had something to say too. Then Blink 182 came flying in with their nostalgic chords and party-vibes and all of a sudden that guy with the mohawk was invited to the football kegger.

In the midst of our dreary haze of hormones and Bill Clinton, there was something for everyone.

Thing is, there’s also a lot we missed. In fact, a lot of the most popular songs of the decade have been completely misinterpreted or misunderstood for all these years.

Here are the 13 songs from the 90’s that you probably totally misinterpreted.

1. “Closing Time” by Semisonic

You thought it was about closing time at a bar.

It’s actually about the singer having a baby. Dan Wilson wrote this cryptic song about his daughter who was born 3 months premature and had to spend months in the hospital fighting for her life. It’s a heart wrenching story that makes the phrase “I know who I want to take me home” just a little more meaningful.

2. “One” by U2

You thought it was about love or marriage or something.

It’s actually about father and son angst. After his mom died when he was 14, Bono said he had a strained relationship with his father, and wrote the song about that emotional distance.

3. “Possession” by Sarah McLachlan

You thought it was about super passionate romance.

It’s actually about a stalker who sent McLachlan a series of obsessed letters. The fan then sued her for writing a song about it but the lawsuit was dropped after he committed suicide. Yikes.

4. “Heart Shaped Box” by Nirvana

You thought it was about Courtney Love. Or perhaps just Courtney Love’s vagina.

It’s actually about kids with cancer. Something Kurt Cobain described as “sadder than anything I can think of.”

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This Viral Theory About ‘Ferris Buller’s Day Off’ Will Change The Way You Watch The Movie Forever

If you’re a fan of ’90s movies and culture, you’ve most likely seen the cult classic Ferris Buller’s Day Off. The iconic film about a high school student who has an adventurous and exciting day off from school has long been a favorite of many. But, while the film looks—on the surface—like a regular day in which a smart, cunning, and witty teenager manages to pull off the ultimate prank on his principal, people online think that there is much more than meets the eye.

The theory, which was originally posted on Reddit by duncandy, shares that Buller actually relives the same day over and over again until it’s absolutely perfect (think Groundhog’s Day). The user points out details and plotlines that correlate to the idea that he actually does relive the same day numerous times, as he is able to obtain the “perfect” day with “years of practice.”

Hit upon a theory when watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and I was shocked I couldn’t find it anywhere on the internet. The reason things constantly seem to go right for Ferris Bueller is that he has lived this exact day countless times before a la Groundhog Day or Edge of Tomorrow.

The biggest piece of evidence is how he is able to plan for almost all possible contingencies to make sure his plan works – the Rube Goldberg-like mechanisms that are just good enough to work on his parents, outsmarting the snooty waiter, constantly outsmarting Rooney, covering every single possible flaw in the plan (the answering machine messages, calling Rooney while he’s on the phone to ‘Mr. Peterson’). The reason every gambit he makes works is that he has had the trial-and-error opportunity to perfect his day. He’s incredibly lucky with every situation – able to catch the baseball at the game, able to sneak onto the float, able to hit the baseball perfectly onto his tape recorder at the end – and has mastered complex skills at a young age including being able to hack into his school’s computer network.

This theory also justifies his mostly live-in-the-moment, no care for consequences attitude. His fixation on getting married to Sloan is another sign of this – he’s desperate for this romance (by all accounts in its early days since the administrator isn’t sure who Sloan is dating) to have some kind of meaning because in his head, he’s been in a relationship with Sloan for years.

Thirdly, the constant fourth-wall breaking. This is a sign of the strain this time-loop has left on his brain – it has deluded him into thinking he has a constant audience that he can explain all his thoughts to. The camera is essentially his imaginary friend, a result of the trauma of reliving the same day constantly.

The theory is even supported by some of the dialogue – the moment where he looks into the camera and says ‘this is the bit where Cameron goes berserk’ suggests that he is recalling current events as a memory. Best of all, at the end of the movie when his parents come home and he’s in bed, they ask him how he ended up so perfect. His response?

“Years of practice.”

Other Reddit users chimed in with their own takes on the film and the theory—many agreeing with the idea that there could be this kind of component to the movie without us even knowing.

The theory makes even more sense when you consider that perhaps, like the actual Groundhog Day, the “point” of the loop is to make Ferris reconsider every aspect of his day and approach to life and actually achieve something by helping someone else (Cameron) and perfecting the romance in his life (Sloane)

–BeefPieSoup

This is awesome! It also puts a new spin on the very end of the movie where he tells everyone that “it’s over”. He’s finally accomplished the “perfect” day.

–Prince_In_Tha_Club

I really, really dig this theory. May I add that the day we see in the movie is his “final day” in the loop? Through his actions, he is finally found worthy by the universe to escape the loop.

Maybe it’s the universe he is talking to. Maybe his intention is being so cool and entertaining because he is trying to appease the gods (think Cabin in the Woods).

My two cents.

–gunguolf

You could also go further and say the entire plot stemmed from this loop he got trapped. What I mean is Ferris probably went to school normally one day and from there his day started resetting leading him to realize he doesn’t need to go to the school to learn the same material so instead he devises the perfect day off, correcting his mistakes as time passes.

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If You Were Born Between 1977-1985, You’re Not A ‘Millennial’ Anymore, You’re A ‘Xennial’

Millennials get a bad rap for being entitled, lazy, immature, obsessed with selfies and social media, and so on. They’re associated with the rise of the internet and smartphones and resulting cultural outcroppings of these technological advancements. But generational distinctions are imprecise and subject to debate, and what we typically consider to be Millennials actually contains a subsection of somewhat older Millennials that are culturally distinct from their younger brethren.

Sandwiched between Gen-Xers and Millennials, ‘Xennials’ are typically classified as those being born between 1977 and 1985. They’re a microgeneration that copes with the clash between Gen-X’s cynicism and Millennial optimism.

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Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996 and Gen-Xers were born between 1965 and 1980. The term ‘Xennial’ to describe the generation on the cusp of the two first appeared in GOOD magazine as a way to define the older Millennials who shared a different experience than the rest of the generation growing up.

According to Notable Life,

The term is a solution to recent complaints by “mature millennials” that they don’t feel as though they fit the avocado-eating, Snapchat-loving mold of the endlessly dissected generation — but also don’t really remember the first Star Wars movies.

Xennials had an analog childhood before riding the digital wave into the 21st century. Xennials were fully aware of the shifting technological landscape, going from a time when the internet didn’t exist, to suffering through the dial-up era, to embracing the latest social media platforms. They were also in early adulthood during the September 11th terrorist attacks, while many Millennials were still in elementary and high school.

Xennials are also called “the Oregon Trail Generation” because of how widespread the educational game was in the “cutting-edge” computer labs they had in elementary and high school.

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There are plenty of things Xennials remember that are just fuzzy memories to Millennials. Things like pay phones, landlines, and sitting through countless 1-800-COLLECT commercials.

The landline wars were intense until cell phones came along, and Xennials remember having to talk to their friends’ parents on the phone before reaching their friends. Call waiting and extra phone lines were godsends for the Xennial generation.

And watching Jurassic Park in theaters and memorizing Clueless.

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Mean Girls may be the defining women’s movie for Millennials, but Xennial women grew up watching Clueless on repeat at slumber parties. And the cutting-edge computer-generated dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were truly revolutionary on the big screen. Goonies, Heathers and Dazed And Confused were also seminal Xennial coming-of-age movies.

Being a little too old for Pokémon and Neopets.

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These pop culture phenomena took off a little too late to get Xennials on board.

Getting that first clunky cell phone in their teens or 20s that was “for emergencies.”

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Ah, those indestructible Nokia phones! Before Temple Run and Candy Crush, Xennials killed time by trying to beat their high score on Snake.

Coping with T9 texting was a real struggle for Xennials.

Sure, Millennials are the generation that turned texting into an artform, but Xennials were the pioneers who had to really work to make texting happen.

And connecting with friends on AIM changed Xennial social life.

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Online chat application like AOL’s Instant Messenger and ICQ allowed young Xennials to socialize online for the first time.

Looking things up in encyclopedias, and later, Encarta is an experience every Xennial remembers.

Xennials went to school before web-based reference sources like Wikipedia, and many still remember having to use the card catalog at the library.

And the hole in the ozone layer and acid rain were the most critical environmental threats.

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Before global warming reached a boiling point, acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer were some of the biggest man-made threats to life on earth.

Xennials will remember when this was the hottest boy band around.

Xennials loved Back Street Boys and N’Sync, but the New Kids On The Block were the original boy band.

And trying to hit “record” at the exact right time to snag the song of the moment off of the radio to make your crush that mixtape was a Xennial thing.

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Well before MP3s became a thing, CDs were a welcome change for Xennials, who grew up with cassettes and top-40 radio stations that had actual human DJs.

Also MTV showed mostly music videos.

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Today, MTV hosts a raft of original programming, but Xennials remember a time when you could tune in to MTV and either see a music video or a VJ introducing one.

And the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase and double murder trial divided America on racial lines.

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It was called the “Trial Of The Century” and helped launch the Kardashian’s father to fame (or infamy). News coverage of the double murder trial was non-stop and his acquittal rocked the nation.

Xennials also remember when Columbine was the first and only shocking school shooting.

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Long before the current epidemic of gun violence plaguing U.S. schools, the mass shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado shocked the country. Ask a Xennial and they can probably tell you where they were when they heard the news.

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