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Thread: 90's appreciation thrad
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05-21-2022, 08:05 AM #451
Then this happened
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X0EpWLPupI
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05-21-2022, 11:47 AM #452
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05-21-2022, 12:18 PM #453
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05-21-2022, 12:35 PM #454
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05-21-2022, 12:42 PM #455
Woulda been the wrong decade when it came out. They hit a stride in the middle of the run that makes some of the first season hard to watch in comparison.
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05-21-2022, 12:58 PM #456
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05-21-2022, 02:14 PM #457
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05-21-2022, 02:56 PM #458
I never really liked it. Don't get me wrong, I recognize that it is a brilliant show, and has supplied so many things to our lexicon. But ultimately, it was a show about people who were not good people. The final episode drove this home for anyone who didn't get it. So to me, they were all unlikable, which just didn't work for me. At least, that's the best explanation for why it isn't one of my favorites, though I have seen most of the episodes.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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05-21-2022, 03:00 PM #459skier
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Never like Seinfeld -- in living color?
Genius
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05-21-2022, 03:20 PM #460
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05-21-2022, 03:24 PM #461
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05-21-2022, 03:51 PM #462
I was rockin these babies in my hypercolor shirt and hammer pants.
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05-21-2022, 05:11 PM #463
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05-21-2022, 05:33 PM #464
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05-21-2022, 06:24 PM #465Registered User
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seinfeld was almost cancelled after the first two seasons
I can't stand larry david but seinfeld was the waiting for godot of the 90s
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05-21-2022, 06:46 PM #466
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05-21-2022, 08:43 PM #467
Had to google the timeline: 89-98
I'd seen his standup and although he was good, the material was just glib observations, and petty annoyances. Plus, as you noted, his acting was terrible.
But setting that aside, it was just completely unrelatable as someone fresh out of college, chronically underemployed, of no fixed address, with a revolving cast of roommates. I'd see that show and think, 'what the fuck is the problem with these people?!' Barely working, yet living in Manhattan, dating a constant stream of hot women. Friends that would do pretty much anything for each other. They're living the dream! And yet they're completely caught up in triviality.
I did eventually see the genius of Larry David's writing, and went back and binge watched the entire series.
As for them being unlikeable, I'll just say this: Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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05-21-2022, 08:50 PM #468
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05-21-2022, 08:56 PM #469
Regarding summer concerts:
If either the Black Crowes or Jane's is anywhere near as good as they used to be, go see them. Two of the better live bands I've ever seen.
There were a few years where the Crowes would only play in 1000 people or less venues, sometime around 1997. I saw them twice at La Luna in PDX (maybe 500 people?) during this era and was absolutely floored both times. Saw them again at a bar in Boise around '04 and they still had it."All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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05-21-2022, 09:10 PM #470
Got to 3rd base for the first time at a Steve Miller Band concert (or possibly Rusted Root) at the Coca Cola Starlake Amphitheater in Burgettstown PA.
Have yet to wash that finger.
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05-21-2022, 09:24 PM #471
I sat on a curb outside the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco once and shared a 40 of Miller High Life with John Popper. I was working as an usher for the Jerry García show that Blues Traveller (or maybe just Popper, I don’t remember) opened for. I got canned for buying my underaged friend a drink, and they kicked me out. Popper wasn’t allowed to watch the show from the audience ‘for security reasons’, so he left, and came outside. Random, but true. Strange life moment.
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05-22-2022, 06:00 AM #472
This one's gonna transport you right back:
https://youtu.be/fXJc2NYwHjw
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05-22-2022, 07:43 AM #473
Helps to remember Jerry hates sitcoms, including his own. No question they opened the door for a broader spectrum of things that just focus on funny and actively try to avoid any moral take. Stand-up as a genre certainly wasn't hurt, either.
The entire show was basically an ironic riff on the inanity of everything human, including the main characters--and most of all sitcoms. That's what made Jerry's half-grin and awful acting work: it was a constant reminder of what's really going on without breaking the fourth wall (much). As he got a little better at it they wrote him more absurd lines (a la Kramer) which was usually a little funnier. ("Come on, Kramer, I dug Fredo up--now let's cut him open!!")
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05-22-2022, 08:26 AM #474
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05-22-2022, 08:40 AM #475
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