Last week my dad was telling me about a show he was watching on Netflix, it starred this guy and Luke Perry. Clearly, not that recent of a show. Anyway, I had completely forgot about Theo Huxtable until my father mentioned him. I just wikipedia'd him (something my grandmother did for the first time while trying to figure out who "Tim Tebow" was), and it seems he is currently on Community and a show I've never heard of called Reed Between the Lines, which is on BET.
Watching "Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook Off" on the Food Network made me think of an idea for this blog. All of the "celebrities" on it were "sort-of" famous, you know, like Aaron Carter famous. They were big for five minutes but most people don't know who they are and if they do, all they know is that they were arrested or went to rehab. Other celebrities on the show were Summer Sanders, Coolio, Joey Fatone, and Lou Diamond Phillips. Yeah, those kind of celebrities. So I have compiled this list of people that were important to '90s kids at one point but now are only remembered in syndicated television. Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Last week my dad was telling me about a show he was watching on Netflix, it starred this guy and Luke Perry. Clearly, not that recent of a show. Anyway, I had completely forgot about Theo Huxtable until my father mentioned him. I just wikipedia'd him (something my grandmother did for the first time while trying to figure out who "Tim Tebow" was), and it seems he is currently on Community and a show I've never heard of called Reed Between the Lines, which is on BET.
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This is a guest blog from our friend Carly. She will be getting some awesome free stuff from my room as a reward. If you want to get free stuff, email us a guest blog at [email protected]! -Patsy I was talking to the boyfriend last night and we got on the concept of the 1990s, he insists that I am a child from the 1980s, uh no. I was born in 1987 and I have zero recollection of the time period of my life. I tried to explain just how awesome the music from the era is and the concept of what exactly a boy band is. Boy Bands [noun]: a genre of its own, including pop music and cheesy dancing in the era of the 1990s. The father band that started it was New Kids on the Block, but I’m sorry to say, that I was not THAT big into them but I do recognize them as founding a generation of pop rock. Jordan Knight, Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood, I thank you for all that you’ve given me. A band that was near and dear to my heart was the long haired boys who basically just dazzled us with nonsense. MMMMMBOP? Everybody knows the words to that song, well at least I do…mmmbop depidadfadkjf; doowop hadlsfd doo. Yeah yeah. Seriously Hanson, with your catchy tune what are you trying to say?? I honestly would consider them a one hit wonder, because I cannot think of another song that they sang without putting Google to work. I know People magazine had an article about them last year and between the three of them they have like 100 kids each. When I was a wee lass, someone asked me who I thought sang the song…and I don’t know a boy and a couple of girls? I obviously was not privy to what puberty did to little boys but I mean I was super confused! Smart House (1999) taught me a couple of things, one of these things was that boys in the '90s spent a lot of time learning dance moves to boy band videos. Now, if this had actually been true, I imagine they would've gotten a lot more girls. If boys had come to my parties, having choreographed an entire routine to one of my favorite videos, I would have melted. However, this was just one of the many things that Disney lied to me about. I should've thought about the fact that there aren't many boys that watch Disney Channel Original Movies, so the Five music was probably more aimed at the girls. *Sigh* There is another scene where Angie jumps/dances along to a B*witched video in her bedroom. In the entire 82 minutes of this movie, they played more music video than MTV has in the last 18 months. If I had live in the Smart House, I probably would've wanted it to play Backstreet Boys videos all day and I just would have stared at them. No dancing necessary. This house of the future always made me jealous. I wanted a house that would cook, clean, and pick out my clothes. However, I was not jealous when P.A.T. took over and locked them inside (that many Katie Segals is definitely nothing to sneeze at), that was basically a nightmare. But needless-to-say, Ryan Merriman was and is a complete babe, therefore it was important that I watched this movie a million times. I currently own it and have forced many people to sit through it. Did you love Smart House? What was your favorite Disney Channel Original Movie?
Until next time, Brianna I know that in the past I have blogged about shows that you might have forgotten or shows that were important to the 90s. Today I want to talk about the shows that I never enjoyed. I may have disliked them because I was too young/immature to understand the humor or it might just be because they annoyed me. Now, feel free to disagree and defend these shows if you want to but I am going to give you my opinion based on my personal experience and childhood. 1. Ren & Stimpy I was not allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy for the entirety of the '90s, however my sister and I would watch it when my parents weren't home or when they were busy. We thought it was a rebellious thing to do and we wanted to see why we weren't allowed to watch it. My mom didn't want us to watch it because it had crude humor, which is totally fair because it did. I didn't find any of it funny, it was just ridiculous and obnoxious. 2. Roseanne This was another show that my sister and I were not technically allowed to watch but we would anyway. Now, I understand that Roseanne is a comedian and I am supposed to laugh but I never laughed at this show except when I was uncomfortable. I was definitely too young to be watching it (my mother was right) but I don't think I would enjoy it now either. I guess the family was supposed to be a little closer to what a dysfunctional family is like, something that had previously been taboo on sitcoms, yet I never met a single family like this one. Remember this girl? Her name is Bianca Lawson. In the '90s, she played Rhonda Coley on Sister, Sister and Megan on Saved by the Bell: the New Class. She also had a short stint on Buffy and Dawson's Creek. She even played the really mean girl who fought Julia Stiles in Save the Last Dance (2001). Bianca Lawson was born in 1979, making her 32 years old (she will be 33 this year). She has been acting since 1988, according to Wikipedia. Here is Bianca Lawson now. In 2009, she began appearing as sixteen-year-old Maya St. Germain, love interest of Emily Fields (played by 24-year-old Shay Mitchell) on Pretty Little Liars. She is literally playing a girl HALF her age. When I watch Pretty Little Liars (which I often do), I cannot help but think about the fact this woman is ten years older than me, yet playing someone 6 years younger. She also appeared on The Vampire Diaries as the ghost of a 19th century witch, however her age was never disclosed so I can pretend the ghost is supposed to be at least in her twenties. She maintains a very slim and tiny stature. It is not a surprise to me that she can still pull off being a young woman. However, if any '90s kid was paying attention, they'd know that she is WAY too old to be kissing high school girls in a photo booths. I would love to know her secret for still being able to pass for a teenager, at least in Hollywood. I mean come on, she's been acting since before I was born and I am 22! Many shows these days cast actors who are older than their characters, mostly because it saves them from having to hire tutors or limit the minor's work week. Usually the people you see playing a high school student are actually in their early to mid-twenties (this is why I was super confused going into high school when no one looked as mature as Chad Michael Murray). I believe that some of the cast members of Glee are in their late twenties. However, none of these people are familiar faces to us. When you start casting actors from the early '90s to play the same age characters that they played then, that becomes questionable (unless they never stopped playing that character like Chantay on Degrassi: The Next Generation who has been in high school for 8 seasons and no one thought we'd notice). Imagine if ABC called up Ben Savage or Rider Strong to play high school students in a new television series aimed at teens? I don't see that going over well. What do you think? Do you believe Bianca Lawson as a teenage lesbian? Does it bother you that Chantay Black was like 26 before she finally graduated from Degrassi Community School? What other stars have you seen pop back up into film/television trying to pass for their much younger selves? I'd love to hear your thoughts. -Brianna Do you like free stuff? Are you also a borderline hoarder? Are you excited about the Growin Up 90's one year blogaversary? Be sure to read this entire post to find out how YOU can get free stuff from us! Well, friends. It is now 2012 (pronounced "Twenty-Dozen"). Seems like yesterday it was 11:55 on December 21, 1999, and I finally stared to wonder if I should be worried about the Y2K. I had just watched the entire Zoog Disney New Years Eve special, and it was scheduled to repeat after the ball dropped. If technology ended, I couldn't watch it again. My first memory of year 2000 was my brother shaking his head, yawning, and saying "I'm going to bed. There's no way I'm staying up until Mom gets home while you watch George of the Jungle again." He was always the sensible sibling. However, my childhood memories are not the point of this blog (which is opposite of every other post I've ever made). The point of this blog is to announce the BRILLIANT IDEA I had while laying awake last night, staring at the glow in the dark stick on stars on my ceiling, thinking of the best way to celebrate our Blogaversary. Any of my friends can tell you I am sort of a pack-rat. "Sort of a pack-rat" is actually the most dramatic understatement I've ever made in my entire life. I can empty multiple garbage bags from my bedroom and you wouldn't even know. I have more Beanie Babies than any normal adult I've ever met. Actually, I kept boxes from the last 3 packs of Koala cookies I got from the Asian food store because I thought the packages were cute and maybe I could do something with them (I haven't). I am a frequent yard sale and flea market shopper, and I buy TONS of stuff that other people were sensible enough to get rid of. My biggest fear is that Brianna is going to put me on Hoarders, and the world will see me buried beneath a pile of TY toys and Pound Puppies. After Imagining that future episode of Hoarders, I made my Twenty Dozen Resolution. I am going to get rid of some stuff, and you, yes you, faithful blog readers can help. All you have to do is write a guest blog for us, and I will mail you something awesome and 1990's related. If you write a guest blog, I bet you will post the link all over facebook and e-mail it to your tech-savvy Grandma, and she will tell her friends. And everyone will think you are so funny and witty, and then they will read the rest of our blog and see that Brianna and I are the best bloggers on the entire planet. You will even get a free gift from me. If you are interested in writing for us, click "read below." -Patsy Welcome to the year "Twenty Dozen", aka 2012. Will the world end? Maybe. If it does, I will be quite upset considering that I just finished my undergraduate degree and have not yet had a chance to live in my own home or decorate my own Christmas tree. However, I suppose 90% of the world does not have these privileges, so I cannot actually complain if I go without them. Anyway, in my opinion if the Mayans had that much foresight they probably could have predicted and stopped their own demise. But I digress.. This advertisement showed up on the sidebar of my facebook page today. I do not know if this is a legitimate poetry contest (I imagine that it is not) but it intrigued me none the less so I figured I ought to blog about it. Now, I would not write a poem about AJ McLean but it makes me wonder what kind of prize this contest would offer. Do I win AJ Mclean? Maybe a date with him? Or just an autograph? If I am winning $1,000 then what does it have to do with AJ? Well anyhow. Remember 12 years ago when we all thought the world was going to end at midnight and our computers would all crash? Now we still believe the world will end but no one is concerned about the computers crashing, just the market. Okay, I'm done. -Brianna |
90s Quote of the Week"I can handle this. "Handle" is my middle name. Actually, "handle" is the middle of my first name."
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