Shameful fads from the 90's

[Tucker Max]

From askmne.com:

Zubaz pants
Following the discovery of aphrodisiacs by the ancient Greeks, mankind spent thousands of years trying to create something -- anything -- that could counteract their powerful effects. The result was Zubaz pants, a style so hideous it could make a blind man cry. Invented in 1991, the pants were originally created for bodybuilders looking for clothing that could expand to accommodate their bulging muscles. At their height, Zubaz actually sold over $100 million in merchandise per year, thanks to 1) lucrative contracts with J. C. Penney and the National Football League and
2) mulleted rednecks who wouldn’t recognize fashion if it yanked them by their rattails.

Overalls
For reasons that still elude us, men once thought it would be a good idea to dress up like poor share croppers. The result was the return of overalls. During the 1990s, teens typically wore their overalls either with a belt, letting the front and back flaps hang down, or with only one strap hooked, leaving the opposite side open. Regardless of the technique, this brand of farmer fashion still made the wearer look as though they should be birthing hogs and chasing after their sisters.

Hypercolor
During the 1990s, men went absolutely hyper for hypercolor -- a brand of clothing that instantly changed color with heat, thanks to a thermochromic pigment. There was just one little problem: In addition to showing the world when your body was changing temperature, hypercolor shirts also had a remarkable knack for turning your pit stains neon pink. Oddly enough, during a decade when we were encouraged to “never let ‘em see you sweat,” this sci-fi fashion did just the opposite.

Eight ball leather jacket
During the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, movies like The Color of Money suddenly made playing pool hip again. Recognizing a good thing when they saw it, the fashion industry responded with a series of garish leather jackets featuring eight ball designs on the back and elbows. Needless to say, this laughably dated fashion was the billiard equivalent to sinking the cue ball… over and over again.

Multi-colored silk shirts
Henry Smith once observed: “Any cloth may cover our sores, but the finest silk will not cover our sins.” It’s a hard lesson to learn, but it’s one we experienced time and time again in the ‘90s, thanks to a proliferation of multi-colored silk shirts so garish they looked as though they were covered in clown vomit. If anything, these flimsy garments brought attention to our transgressions rather than cover them up.

Individual movie rewinders
With the possible exception of “Fart Knocker,” no phrase was used more often during the 1990s than “Please be kind -- rewind.” Our national obsession with returning VHS cassettes to their starting point sadly resulted in one-way VHS video tape rewinders. These needlessly cumbersome devices were supposed to extend the life of your VCR, but just ended up cluttering even more shelf space next to our Beanie Babies and Koosh Balls.

V-Chip
The digital equivalent of a prissy chaperone, the V-Chip was a hi-tech computer device used to block the display of television programming based upon its rating. Parents who used the device needed only to blacklist any program designated for mature audiences and it was suddenly goodbye late-night French porn and hello Lawrence Welk. Needless to say, the V-Chip ruined more sleepovers than a urine-soaked sleeping bag.

Clunky portable phones
Anyone who has recently seen Wall Street will recall that cell phones weren’t always the svelte devices they are today. In fact, back in the day, portable phones were roughly the same shape and weight of a brick. The revolution truly began in 1989 when Motorola launched MicroTAC, a cellular phone that featured a flip-lid mouthpiece and was the smallest and lightest phone on the market. In other words, you could hold it up for nearly five minutes before your arm started to go numb.

Car air fresheners
During the 1990s, Americans became obsessively concerned with two things:
1) Who shot J.R. and
2) Keeping their cars odor-free.
The desire to have a clean-smelling automobile resulted in a number of air fresheners, including sprayable mists and scented cardboard trees. Although nothing can truly disguise the smell of a hearty Manwich fart, they always did their best to serve and protect.

Eurodance
As if wearing Zubaz pants wasn’t bad enough, we also suffered musically during the 1990s with Eurotrash groups like 2 Unlimited, Real McCoy, Snap!, Culture Beat, and Dr. Alban. If you can remember any of their synth-heavy albums, you clearly weren’t doing enough drugs.

The cola war
Despite ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East, the only conflict most Americans cared about during the ‘90s was the so-called Cola War between Coke and Pepsi. The animosity between the two conglomerates resulted in a series of commercials starring musicians like Michael Jackson and Paula Abdul. Alas, both artists survived the war and continue to embarrass themselves to this day.

Stoner and slacker humor
Drug-fueled humor came to the forefront in the ‘90s thanks to shows like Beavis and Butthead and films like Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Where else could you hear erudite lines like "Thinking sucks" and "I am the Great Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!” Sadly, time has taught us that although Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge was acting, Keanu Reeves probably wasn’t.

American Gladiators
For those who liked Family Feud, but detested the lack of violence, there was American Gladiators, a game show in which contestants matched themselves up against physical freakazoids with names like Laser, Viper and Ice. In fact, the only thing more difficult than the show’s challenges was differentiating between the male and female competitors.

FOCUS: What trends did you hate from the 90's? Or in the alternate, what trends do they call out that you liked?

[~Antar~]

the debut of Cross Colours clothing? Remember those? I think they were made popular by people like Kris Kross and Jermaine Dupree, but can anyone honestly tell me who thought this was a good idea? You take the same pattern used in the making of the aforementioned silk shirts and substitute denim. There, that's better.

[TerrorismIsForPussies]

Kris-Kross:
Sure I loved their two songs “Jump” and the inspirational “I missed the bus”, but how did Mack-Daddy and Daddy-Mack persuade every 10-14 year old to wear their Girbaud’s backwards? True artists I guess.

Girbauds:
God help you if you went to a school dance without your Girbauds on. It was impossible to find a girl to dance with, especially when Garth Brook’s “Shameless” or Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” is blasting in the gym. If you did not have a pocket to perfectly fit Crocodile Dundee’s Bowie knife on your thigh, you were an absolute nobody.

Starter Jackets:
I had a buddy who had a Phoenix Sun’s Starter Jacket. I can understand how everyone had to have the Orlando Magic or Chicago Bulls, but Phoenix Suns? Does it even get cold in Arizona?

Pepsi-Coke:
I remember my mom taking me to the nearest mall to do the Pepsi-Coke challenge. All I had to do to get the precious Challenge card was close my eyes and differentiate between the two. I failed and became the laughing stock of Dale Street. At least I made that up by stealing a pocketful of suckers for my friends from Shoney Bear at Shoneys. Pepsi is shit, long live coke.

[dfarr]

Bladed Oakleys
All the athletes were wearing them, so every male in the country had to have them, or something similar. My parents wouldn't buy me $140 sunglasses when I was 10, so I had to settle for some gas station knock offs.

[WickedBitch]

Crystal (clear) Pepsi.

Gross.

[dfb547490]

My formative years were in the 90s and I don't remember two thirds of this shit. Hypercolor?? Zubaz pants?? WTF?? Never even heard of those.

That said, the major blight on the 90s is and will always be the emergence of the boy band. There's little doubt that this unrestrained faggotry had a debilitating effect on American society as a whole. Along with such other 90s developments as smoking bans in bars (I don't smoke but if you don't like it GO TO A FUCKING NON-SMOKING BAR), giving the Panama Canal to the government of the 3rd world shithole in which it happens to be located, and giving women the vote, this was a major contributor to the continuing pussification of America. Today's metrosexuals and vapid metrosexual-hunting whores are yesterday's boy band members and fans.

American Gladiators, on the other hand, fucking kicked ass. My friends and I used to use Nerf guns and hide behind bushes to do Assault, it was fucking great.

[Beddie]

Slap bracelets Coolest thing ever in the early 90's BABY!


EDIT :
And a hated one by all boys with sisters at any McDonalds..... Beanie Babies

[Pillage6]

Z Cavaricci

Having a tag that draws attention to your crotch isn't the most wanted thing, but it for damn sure worked. Everyone at my high school was DYING for those fucking things, I am just bitter since I couldn't afford them.

[Mike Gill]

My formative years were in the 90s and I don't remember two thirds of this shit. Hypercolor?? Zubaz pants?? WTF?? Never even heard of those.


YOu don't rember these?
http://www.badfads.com/images/zubaz01.jpg

90210 Sideburns: I was not able to grow them, but the other preppie kids I hung out with did, and that was gay.

Temorary Tats: "hey look I got ink!"
"No Way"
"Psyche!"

[GcDiaz]

JanSport backpacks. Status was defined by how many of those zipper strings you had attached at any given time. One of my classmates had 100 exactly, 50 to each zipper (they didn't all fit inside the little hole, so he'd daisy-chain them). Many actual fights were fought because one kid stole strings from another.

[danege]

The Macarena. The 90's version of the Time Warp, I shudder everytime I hear that now, but I can remember it being SO awesome when I was in grade 7.

[_tom]

Oh, how I loved American Gladiators. Perhaps the stupidest show ever, which is probably why it was so easy to enjoy. Also, what kind of mother names their kid "Laser"?

Focus: Remember pogs? I can remember my nieces and nephews playing with them, although they never played for keeps. They thought I was making things up when I told them this was a game called 'slammer' I played as a kid. For those who don't know or don't remember, you played pogs by turning your pogs over and stacking them. Then you took your slammer pog and smashed it against the stack. All of the pogs you turned over were yours to keep. I played this game as a kid with pennies and a quarter as the slammer. Most kids didn't really play the game, they just collected the pogs.

[Creskin]

I hated the destruction of saturday morning cartoons. when I was little in the late 80s and the early, early 90s, they kicked ass. Then shows like Bobby's World and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ruined everything. Saturday mornings still havn't recovered.

I also hated the rise of Nu Metal. Nu metal is an aural abortion only worth destruction by way of being sent deep into the sun.

[Mike Gill]

Jean Shorts: If you are wearing these you must either be a janitor on your way to a fair or white trash.

Neon lights under your car: Yeah, thats a great way to spend your money.

Z Caviloosers: AKA AC Slater pants

Heroin: Yeah, that was one drug that need not make a comeback.

[Gangston Cashwell]

Doritoes 3D's
The only chip snack that actually made a spatial effort to stop you from eating more than one at a time.

EDIT: HOLY GOD I ALMOST FORGOT

Orbitz
Mankind's only soda drink with gravity-defying orbs of semen flavored sugar droplets ...I still actually have a bottle of it around here. I think that, by now, it constitutes the most potent poison outside of cyanide.

[trippwalls]

Reebok Pump Shoes. My parents never bought me a pair so everyone that had them sucked.

Bomb threats at schools. This happened a lot at the end of my senior year in the late ninties. Nothing pissed me off more than some little dipshit that nobody talked to calling in a bomb threat for attention. That's exactly why they were doing it too. Man, my last semester I had already passed all the important shit and just had two PE classes and horticulture class before I left an hour and a half earlier than everybody else. I DIDN'T want to leave school, dumbass, I had friends to talk to.

[Mike Gill]

I would also like to know if the original article used the same fact checker as MSNBC when they reported Aquaman topped the Box office.

Who shot JR was so 80's.

[Pillage6]

Did any of you guys/girls ever tuck your pants? You know, where you fold the leg over them roll them up to............I don't know what we were trying to accomplish. All I know is that looking back on it, Jesus we were dumb.

[addagirl]

Bleached Hair - especially the studs that would just bleach the tips of their mullets or crew cuts. They were HAWT YA'LL !!

Boy Bands - New Kids on the Block!!! I hope they all get the clap !!

Fanny Packs!!

[addagirl]

The electric slide!! Even the whitest of whitest could do that routine.

[1 track mind]

Skip It w/ counter: Christ. I remember seeing commercials for this between Salute Your Shorts and Hidden Temple on Nickelodeon. It confused me then, it confuses me now. So you jump around and the ball spins around your ankle and you count how many times the ball goes around? I'd rather play soccer.

Was just informed that LA Gears with the lights in them were mid-late 80's.

Animaniacs : Wakko. And Yakko. And Dot. Need there be anything else?

Edit: I can't believe I forgot these.

Push Pops : Nothing like a tube of lollypop that covers your finger in sticky sugary goo.

JNCO's : I hated those kids then, I hate those kids now. And you weren't cool unless your jean legs were in a complete cylinder and 14 inches in diameter, with a really fucking long belt that hung down between them.

[Lorelei]

The Rachel Haircut-- I think 90% of the girls at my school attempted to get their hair cut just like Rachel or Monica from Friends. This resulted in lots of hacked hair at all different angles because the cheapo hairdressers parents take kids to had no idea how to do it.

Butterfly Clips-- What the fuck? Why would you want to stick dozens of neon plastic butterflies in your hair? They didn't actually hold the hair in one place, they just made you look like you had bugs on your head. Awesome.

Spiral Perms-- I don't know if this even needs to be elaborated except to say that if you got your bangs permed too you were an even bigger dork.

Tamagotchi-- I'm not quite sure what the point of this was. I remember kids without pets claiming they now had one, but considering that they only got the bad end of the pet deal (feeding it, putting it to sleep, and whatever the hell else you do to digital pets) I wouldn't be bragging. My brothers and I used to race to see who could kill theirs first. Now THAT was fun.

[Thrillhouse]

Wearing your beeper/pager like a status symbol. Wearing it outside of your pants, or in some extreme cases clipped to the rim of your of your hat or visor.

I think this made a brief comeback a while back, except with cell phones instead.

And Pe, by jean shorts, do you mean cutoffs?

Edit: Oh man, I forgot about those big ass man-earrings. The one giant dangling earring that Jordan, Lawrence Talyor, etc. used to wear.

Did anyone mention Jnco jeans yet? Those giant parachute pants made out of denim? You weren't cool unless they had been dragging on the ground for about 6 weeks and the bottoms looked like shit.

[DCchick80]

Did any of you guys/girls ever tuck your pants? You know, where you fold the leg over them roll them up to............I don't know what we were trying to accomplish. All I know is that looking back on it, Jesus we were dumb.

I believe that was refered to as "tight rolling", and it only looked cool if you tucked your too-big-button-up silk shirt from JcPenny's into it.

I grew up in VT so it always took "fashions" a little longer to get to us. Whats worse than dressing in all OP and LA Gear clothes? Doing it 2 years after everyone else.

Shudder!

[greeneyez]

Fine, I'll say it. The WWF. What? I had three older brothers..

I know you all watched it anyways. My favorite was Stone Cold when he made Vince piss himself.

[TerrorismIsForPussies]

Fine, I'll say it. The WWF. What? I had three older brothers..

I know you all watched it anyways. My favorite was Stone Cold when he made Vince piss himself.


Did anyone else buy those Wrestling buddies from Toys R Us? They were pillows made in the shape and color the top wrestlers. I had the set of Big Boss Man, Hulk Hogan, and The Ultimate Warrior. After dropping flying elbows and handing out tons of suplexes, I resorted to stabbing them with my mom's butcher knife.

Mom was not too pleased.

[Lorelei]

Orbitz-- I loved Kool-Aid Koolbursts and even Mondo, but when you add jelly balls to my squeezy bottle of sugar juice? Gross.


Warheads-- what ever possessed us kids to eat this shit? The 'hot' ones were actually painful and yet we still begged for them. I remember I stuck 4 at once in my mouth and suffered through it-- I couldn't taste anything for 2 days.

[Explosivo!]

THE MULLET!
http://www.mulletsgalore.com/assets/images/picturebooks/24_hey_g_whats_up_II/foakley_mullet.jpg

Granted, this was more of a late 80's - early 90's thing. But, at the time, I lived in South Missouri where there was a 6.2 year culture delay.

[Aquaholic]

Doc Martens: Cause you know, erally, orthopedic shoes are cool


I remember the L.A. Gear light-up shoes, cause some fucking bitch stole mine in grade 3. I see you again, I kill you.

Snow: The "rapper." Remember that shit? That was awesome. Now that I think about it, we could throw Vanilla Ice in there too.

I'm sure I'll think of more, I just need my coffee first...

[WickedBitch]

Banana hair clips. They looked like gaping mouths with sharp teeth, and they sure made us girls look purdy.

[1 track mind]

Pseudo-Parachute Pants Anyone remember those awful pants that Abercrombie, Old Navy, American Eagle etc. were selling in red, green, blue and orange? They came with the zip off legs so you could make shorts and had all sorts of elastic drawstrings in places that you didn't need them.

And on the same train of thought

UFO pants : The brighter, the baggier, the better. Any color and shade possible. Bonus points for useless straps and chains that attached the two legs to ensure entanglements and tripping.

[Misanthropic]

Boy Bands - New Kids on the Block!!! I hope they all get the clap !!


Those Godforsaken Boy Bands were part of a more insidious trend in music that continues today: the emergence of "Whiny Pop"

Of course there were whiny artists around before the 90s (what was "Do you really want to hurt me?" but British alternative whining?). But the bitching and moaning about everyone's goddamned feelings was truly popularized by the "whiny chick" movement of the early 90s. Lisa Loeb was the most annoying, but Alanis Morissette became the Whine Goddess with the release of Jagged Little Pill.

The trend spread in the mid to late 90s to male artists with the popularity of Boy Bands and groups like Counting Crows, who made whining an art form.

Now here we are in 2006 and Whiny Pop is here to stay - Puddle of Mudd, Crossfade, My Chemical Romance, Ashley Simpson, Kelly Clarkson - Whiners, every one of them.

Thanks, 90s. Thanks a whole bunch.

[hoosier78]

In line with L.A. Gear & OP, I give you B.U.M. Equipment.

On a completely different note, how about the ghetto sled. No, this need not be a '64 Impala, but any somewhat older, larger car would do. Take said car, apply metal flake paint job, tiny 13" Gold Daytons w/low profile tires, add hydraulics (if you had the cash), and throw in 1000 watts or trunk rattling stereo system. If you didn't have the cash, you could always make the white trash ghetto sled by removing the shocks from the front of the car, and if you had enough horsepower, you could make it hop on the springs by pulsing the gas pedal. Good times for all.

EDIT: Oh, I almost forgot, the Vanilla Ice post made me remember these guys: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. With that, the 30 minute or it's free pizza delivery. Does anywhere still do that? It was a great idea. Nothing like getting the pizza guy to drive 100 through the neighborhood just so your pizza is there on time.

[Thrillhouse]

Oh sweet Jesus, how could I forget High-Top Fades?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Kid_n_play.jpg http://www.fantasybeyond.com/high-top_fade.jpg

[TheBunny]

-FLANNEL!...A mulato, an albino, a mosquito, my libido...YEAH!

[turtle]

Shaving the Nike sign on the back of your head. I saw one on Tuesday.

5 cent sugar stix. Ever try to mix it with water?

The Tupac style tying of the bandanna in the front so they look bunny ears. My grandmother did that. Why do guys want to look like housewives?

[makersmark]

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/dci428/FannyPack.jpg

The Fanny Pack.. The purse.. er.. I mean, "carry all" you wear on your hip. Great for guys and gals!!! Oh God...

[Pillage6]

Color Me Badd

I totally forgot about these douchebags till I heard them on the computer, forgot that my computer is tuned into the 90's station.

[Angus]

I spent this past weekend in Maryland, and I saw two of the aforementioned atrocities. They were:

-A dude who was around 30 or so, with his polo shirt tucked into his cut-off and rolled up blue jean shorts. I honestly haven't seen that in GA since the 1990s.
-A girl who was probably 30 but looked to be 45 or so due to extensive tanning bed and cigarette use wearing a bikini top to show off her tattoos. She was sporting pre-1990 Oakley Blades.

The kicker, though, what really got me, was a guy actually wearing and trying to pull off:

-A Big Johnson T-Shirt. These might as well have a cartoon drawing of a cock and balls and simply say "I support and endorse gigantic penises" or something like that. Ridiculous.

Maryland is beautiful otherwise, though.

[Explosivo!]

Body Suits, for the ladies. They were like onesies for adults. Jesus Christ, I hated these things... Not only did they look ridiculous, but they were a nightmare during random hookups. Fumbling around at the 3 or 4 snaps in the crotchel region is not sexy in any way, plus it made speedy undressing impossible. These things were like birth control.

Houdini would've had a hard time getting laid during the body suit trend.

[TerrorismIsForPussies]

Oh sweet Jesus, how could I forget High-Top Fades?

For the people from a Caucasian decent, there was the undercut and butt-cut. I proudly sported this ‘do’ during the 5 long pubescent years of my life.

[LadyLecter]

90's Nickelodeon Shows: Rocko's Modern Life, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Salute Your Shorts, GUTS, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, All That, Legends of the Hidden Temple, etc. Back when Nickelodeon was classic, and you actually woke up early on Saturday mornings to watch them.

Edit:
Clueless: Not so much the movie as the language trends it spawned. "As if," "Whatever"(with the little hand thing), etc. When the movie came out almost every girl around me started talking like this. I was so happy when that faded...

[BigWig]

In Living Color

Hosted by the smoothest mack daddy pimp of all the Wayans brothers, Keenen. With the Fly Girls doing that super sweet 90's spastic dancing, Jim Carey curling his upper lip over his teeth and screaming, "let me show you somethin" and the perpetually unfunny David Allen Greer's faggoty "Hated it!" movie revue sketch, it filled my nights with laughter and urban culture.

Getting AIDS

Them shits was everywhere. I tried to do a quick calculation of all the people in the U.S. that had different types of STD's. With all the millions having herpes, the clap, crabs and wasn't it like one out of every four people having HIV, I figured there was only about 250 sexually active young adults in the country that didn't have anything at all. I was convinced that as soon as you stuck the tip in to someone that had HIV, you were dead in a month or so. Thanks a lot French flight attendant guy, you couldn't just keep it in your pants or get a boyfriend or something?

I'm Too Sexy

Oh Right Said Fred you glorious bastards. You do that little turn on the catwalk witch yo bad self. And that guy that just walks by and rips his shirt off? I still wanna do that one day while walking down the street, then maybe somebody would put me in the What the fuck thread.

[Korova]

Beepers as a fashion statement or status symbol has already been mentioned but who could forget about the aftermarket car alarm craze where every guy in high school walked around with the clicker part of the key chain hanging out of their pocket.

[frankyl]

-FLANNELI can't believe that it took four pages for flannel to come out. I'd go one better and say all grunge "fashion," at least for the women. It was great as a guy - throw on jeans, a crappy t-shirt and/or a flannel, and you're set. But why the hell were we encouraging this shit for girls? I mean, do we really want our women to be that well covered up, in super-oversized clothes that hide what's under them completely?

Thank goodness the mid-90's saw the return of little skirts, half shirts and tight clothing. College just wouldn't have been the same otherwise.

EDIT: Oh, and I just noticed the "bodysuit" comment someone made. Why the hell did they make those snaps so tiny? Fucking things almost cost me a hookup with a slutty, slutty girl. Unbuttoning those miniature things in the heat of the moment was like trying to repair a watch with tweezers made out of sausages. Pain in my ass, and I'm still bitter. They did look kinda hot on the right chicks, though.

[John The Ripper]

Coed Naked Tshirts: For every sport, activity, or hobby you can fucking imagine. Buy shirt, cut off sleeves, crack beer. Its a party in itself. Some of them didn't even make sense. Coed naked firefighting anyone?

[GcDiaz]

Reebok pumps-What the hell were they thinking? Shoes that you could pump up and make yourself jump higher.

For that matter, how about every NBA player with a SportsCenter highlight having his own sneaker brand? Xavier McDaniels had his own sneakers, which I wore proudly. Liked them so much I even drew the logo. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/GcDiaz/Xanthus.jpg) Best part was the big red + green X they had on the side. Everybody thought I was trying to be Muslim.

[BrotherNumberOne]

Beanie-motherfuckin'-Babies

Almost getting run off the road by some asshole who had 50 of them piled up along the rear windshield of her car. Being smothered with Beanie Baby trading convention ads in the newpaper every weekend, etc.

[Shagwell]

Shoes with fucking lights in them
By the time this fad ended I was ready to beat up any kid with these fucking shoes that would blink every step, take their shoes and burn them, and shove the smoldering remains of the lights into their fucking foreheads.

Air Jordans
Yes we mentioned the pump shoes, but the fact Michael Jordan shoes were marketed so fiercely, and the fact they caught on makes me die a little inside.

[Pillage6]

Bo-knows?

What exactly does Bo know? He knows that his name and that fucking tagline got played out with the quickness.

[Brown Guy]

Baseball hats with the label attached
The cool kids kept the NBA/Starter paper label that came with the hat still attached to the hat so that it would flap happily in the wind.

Cross Colour and every other color
Everyone had jeans in white, red, purple, turquoise, orange...all the colors of the rainbow. I went the extra mile and made sure I had the hat to match.

One pant leg rolled up
I think LL Cool J made this one famous. He even got tattoos on his calf so that he could show them off also while promoting FUBU (another 80's fad).

[Piusbovis]

Zubaz Pants: I had no idea what these were and had no recollection of them from the 90's. It took this thread to make me realize a musclehead at my gym is stuck in the 90's and still wears these pants with a black tank top.

TMNT Toys: I was a kid through most of the 90's and at every occasion possible I got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Those fuckers at Kenner or whatever toy company made them rode that trend like a 2 dollar whore and towards the end they got utterly ridiculous. Spaceman Raphael was somewhat plausible but then came the Caveman Turtles and a fireman Donatello. Fireman Donatello? I think they just picked random careers and stuck a turtle in it so they could sell more hunks of plastic to dorky kids. Meet Certified Public Accountant Michelangelo...

[Migraine Boy]

Extreme Sports movies. Marketing folks figured out more people were taking part in so-called "extreme" sports and that more people were starting to watch it (X-games, I blame thee). This genre spawned some of the most aweful movies of all times:


Gleaming the Cube (Skate or die, man)
Airborne (the roller-blading kids movie)
Dropzone (at least Wesly Snipes can skydive)
Cutaway (Headsdown into the ground and enough is left to cradle afterwards?)
Point Break (Hey, Utah, you wanna go surf?)


But don't think I didn't fucking stand in the cue to watch it!

[bonzo]

Pager Accessories
A chain with a clip or a leather case.

[BigWig]

Koosh Balls

These things were the shit. I heard one of my friends call it a pube ball when I was young and I had no idea what he was talking about, maybe it was the cool new name for it. So when I was in the store with my mom and saw one, I yelled out, "Mom, get me one of those pube balls!"
http://www.justinnewitter.com/stock/Green_Orange_Koosh_Balls.JPG

[-jess-]

The only thing that's sticking in my head right now is Aquasocks. My mom's second husband used to have a million pairs of coordinating Aquasocks and Zubaz pants. 'Cause you know, if you're going to wear neon pink and black pants, you best have neon pink and black shoes, too.

Thanks for reminding me of the scourge of my teen years.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/2145/shoes170qi0.jpg

[Brick Tamland]

Porn Pubes: women would shave their bush to look like a giant V thanks to the work of Janine and Jenna. This was not a good look, ever. But now it seems to be coming back. Saw the V at a strip bar a few weeks ago.

[bondbabe]

The Club - Seems like everyone was trying to steal your shitty AMC Pacer, so you had to get one of these babies.

[Mike Gill]

And Pe, by jean shorts, do you mean cutoffs?




NO I mean knee legenth shorts that are sold hwith a hem at the bottom.

http://www.supercasuals.com/images/levis/34505_1836.jpg

[trippwalls]

Wind suits. Full suits that look and feel like a colorful grocery bag? I need one for everyday of the week.

Chia Pets. The idea is really not that bad, I just hated the damn song.

low rider trucks. I still see douchebags driving these things. Why?

[badkarma6]

Oakley Subzero Sunglasses: I remember all sorts of people wearing these awful things. They made you look like a bug.

Russell Softball Shorts: These things are so awful, I don't know what inspired people to wear them. When I was growing up in the 90s all my coaches wore these and all the men who played softball wore them as well. They are basically just cut of baseball pants, real nuthuggers.

[Iowa_Escapee]

Coed Naked Tshirts: For every sport, activity, or hobby you can fucking imagine. Buy shirt, cut off sleeves, crack beer. Its a party in itself. Some of them didn't even make sense. Coed naked firefighting anyone?
I had a Coed Naked Homework one that said "Study Hard" or something like that.

Anyway, FOCUS:

Pepe Jeans: I did a search for these online because I wasn't even sure that they still exist. Imagine my surprise when I went to Pepejeans.com (http://www.pepejeans.com) and saw that not only do they exist, but that Sienna Miller is their spokesperson. I guess I must really be out of the fashion loop. When I was in high school, EVERYBODY had Pepe jeans, jean jackets, shirts, etc. and they were outrageously expensive. If I was able to buy any, they were always on sale from last season.

Rhinestone NFL/MLB hats: A former friend of mine in college had two of these. At the time, I thought they were kind of cool, but looking back I think they're the cheesiest thing ever. When I was in Times Square a few weeks ago, I actually saw one in a sporting goods store and it brought back all kinds of memories. I haven't seen one of those stupid hats in YEARS, and really could have gone several more years without seeing another one. Yes, I have issues...

[WickedPissah]

Devil Sticks: Who remembers these things? Even in 5th grade all I could do was toss it between the two sticks and flip it in the air. The only ones who were amused for longer than 10 minutes were the stoners at the park...

Speaking of devil sticks, I found a set in a store the other day and they were on sale for $45!!! Unless its original vintage, I don't get that...

[fangboner]

No Fear T-shirts. Those supposedly intimidating eyes coupled with some equally badass phrase on the back let the world know that you were, in fact, not afraid of anything.

[crash]

Furbies - I can't even talk about it. Those things scared the shit out of me.

Lisa Frank - Every girl on this board knows about the brightly colored yellow lab stickers and the seahorse notebooks and the kitten pens. You loved it, I loved it, we were all just nuts.

Swedish pop group Take That - Whatever, they were all OVER my TigerBeat. Blonde guys are "hott."

Those purses which looked like mini backpacks - I spent all week bitching about how I had to carry my Jansport bag around to school; why did I want a purse that looked like it's little sister for the weekends? Additionally, this grew into the "backpack purses shaped like stuffed animals" thing, which I think started in Japan... seems like something those crazy Asians would do.

Stir-up pants - Which were, of course, worn with slouch socks (a remnant of the 80s) and Keds. I owned Keds in every fucking color; slouch socks too. Were there days in the 4th grade when I would wear a pink sock and a purple shoe on one foot, and a purple sock with a pink shoe on the other? You're goddamn right there were.

All of the Nickelodeon goo toys - Gak, Floam, Goop, I know there were more. Why did we think this shit was cool? It was like playing with a big blue loogie.

All those dog-themed t-shirt companies. Big Dog, Red Dog, Mad Dog, I don't even know. I never got it.

Parasuccos - Yeah, I still wear mine. I don't pair them with the Timbs anymore, though.

[Gramercy]

I used to wear flannel shirts that had a built in hood. And obviously the hood had to be a different color and/or pattern than the rest of the shirt.

Is anybody else on ebay right now trying to find old cheap hypercolor shirts? The reactions you would get from others on the street would be priceless.

Edit: When girls wore their ponytails in scrunchies, I loved that for some reason.

Real McCoy and Labouche. That was perfect techno bar mitzvah / school dance music.

[Fsusurfer12]

Fubu - This was probably the dumbest fashion trend ive ever seen. "For us, by us". This was supposed to be a line of clothing just for black people, but outside of LL Cool J the only people i ever saw wearing those jerserys were ghetto white kids from the suburbs.

Nike Sandals - Everyone had these things. They cost like $45 and they were not made very well. After about 2 months, the velcro would stop woking. The thing that killed me the most was that because my middle school had some weird rule about wearing socks, everyone wore socks with their sandals. It looked ridiculous.

[makersmark]

Coed Naked Tshirts: For every sport, activity, or hobby you can fucking imagine. Buy shirt, cut off sleeves, crack beer. Its a party in itself. Some of them didn't even make sense. Coed naked firefighting anyone?


I'll see your Coed Naked T-Shirts and raise you The Big Johnson T-Shirts

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j62/dci428/coolrags_1907_5254889.gif

Just simply apply t-shirt to mullet having Red Neck and you're all set.

Just remember: Everything's better with a "Big Johnson."

[yeshiveh]

Everyone was drawing the block "S" on their binders. You're weren't kickin' it unless you were kickin' it with Stussy.

http://www.biwacity.com/upload/21839/stussy-Tshirt-chopper-yellow2.jpg


Throw a little Blind Melon on the boombox, skate on your Alien Workshop or Birdhouse deck, and don Stussy.


Also, the "Flipped Lid," or as some people know it, the Wesley-Snipes-In-White-Men-Can't-Jump. Take your favorite neon colored hat, and "flip the lid" up. I might hit the bars with that look this weekend.

http://www.pumpkinsoft.de/covershots/2630.jpg

[powersexkitten]

Rapcore – Rage Against the Machine were innovative geniuses; Korn were respectable… but of course it went all downhill at the end of the decade, with Fred Durst urging us to keep on rollin’ baby, filling music that could have been good if it had not been polluted with his insipid lyrics.

Safe sex – the 80s was a big orgy, the 00s is a big hos and pimps contest. The 90s? The 90s was the decade where people really thought that you could get AIDS with straight sex, where one of the biggest shows on TV featured two FBI agents who never thought about fucking each others (or anybody else), where rock stars where more preoccupied with their heroin-induced depressed thought than fucking groupies… Nice decade to reach puberty.

Magic: the Gathering – Do I really need to explain?

Hockey: The dedicated, hardcore fans of Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets deprived of their hockey teams. Now the Stanley Cup is in the Carolinas, where nobody gives a flying fuck about it.

Berrurier Noir: leftie punk band… from France…

However – Eurodance: I dismissed, spit on it back then, laughed at my girlfriend who listened to her mix cds on her discman. Now I am old enough and wise enough to recognize it: Eurodance is the ultimate apex of dance music.

[Thurmal]

Continuing with the hairstyles of the 90s...
Black dudes shaving designs into their hair. Some just shaved a few lines; some got creative and shaved in their names or initials. Some, who were fucking awesome, shaved entire murals into their hair like one of my childhood heroes, New York Knicks forward/enforcer Anthony Mason.

Michael Irvin is currently doing all he can to bring this trend back.

[I add nothing with my posts]

Warheads-- what ever possessed us kids to eat this shit? The 'hot' ones were actually painful and yet we still begged for them. I remember I stuck 4 at once in my mouth and suffered through it-- I couldn't taste anything for 2 days.
On that same note.
Tearjerkers - Little sour gumballs that destroyed your tongue if you ate too many of them. I loved these things, especially the blue ones.

[FunKate]

I feel like fads in and of themselves were a fad of the 90s. Unless I'm just too old now to notice any of them, which is entirely possible. But really though, I think as a society we may be finally learning our lessons that not every fucking thing on the market is going to be a "collector's item" someday.

Anyway, on that note, anyone remember these disgusting little things? I used to keep about 20 of them on my 5th grade desk:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y248/fakeplastickate/troll.jpg

I had to edit this in: Did anyone else read the posts about warheads and tearjerkers and get that gross mouth watering? Haha, I did. Yuck.

[Pillage6]

On the scholastic tip, do they still use Pee Chee folders these days? Or were those phased-out along with "choose your own adventure" books?

[ItsOnlyEvolution]

On the scholastic tip, do they still use Pee Chee folders these days? Or were those phased-out along with "choose your own adventure" books?

I remember those books.

Sega Game Systems Sega CD/Dreamcast. Tragically before their times, some games were cool, but nevertheless still lame. Sega Cd got pwned by the Playstation. Remember that game for the Dreamcast where you had to talk to a fish? Retarded.

[Aquaholic]

Devil Sticks: Who remembers these things? Even in 5th grade all I could do was toss it between the two sticks and flip it in the air. The only ones who were amused for longer than 10 minutes were the stoners at the park...


Hey man, I was the bomb at those, and I wasn't a stoner, just a loser. I was seriously good at them, won a couple talent shows. Yeah man, I rock. I still break 'em out once in a while if I'm drunk and feeling stupid. I am not as coordinated as I used to be...

Pogo balls, pogo sticks, scooters (the push kind)...oversized t-shirts on girl, snap-track pants (I get them on Athletes...if you're wearing them to school, you so deserve to have them snapped off).

Seusses (sp?) Little plastic ones on chains...fuck man, that's screwed up...

[Phixional]

NO FEAR shirts

[Stonzey]

I still have my Z. Cavaricci pants in hopes that I'll hear about a horrible 90's theme party. I remember getting them in Chicago when I spent some time there hanging out at Excaliburs, which I assume is still there. I had a couple of those stupid flowery print rayon shirts too. I also still have my Guess overall shorts hiding in a drawer somewhere.

I got to go through my 20's then.
~I remember the "old school" rave parties, when they were much more fun, before the club kids ruined the scene with heroin and meth.
~If you didn't have a custom subwoofer box in your car, your system wasn't shit.
~Everybody wearing the Reebok hightops with the two velcro ankle braces open.
~Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, Ahh! Real Monsters were the best Sunday "wake and bake" shows.
~Star Trek TNG being on approx 4 times a night, and not repeating the same episodes.
~Smoking wherever.
~Before there was Zima and every other bastard "malt beverage".
~When everybody started getting car alarms.
~The East coast/West coast rap wars.
~Coors Extra Gold and the Coors Party Ball(I've seen my old tapper around)


So many memories...

edit: I almost forgot, but in relation to the design being shaved into hair. Black guys were not the only ones guilty of this. I had a white friend who wanted his last name shaved into the back of his head. Unfortunately, his barber was a bad speller, because instead of "Holmes" he got "Hlomes", and that has been his nickname since.

[Skiing Drunk]

Milli Vanilli - hahahahahahahahahaha!

[WickedPissah]

Sega Game Systems Sega CD/Dreamcast. Tragically before their times, some games were cool, but nevertheless still lame. Sega Cd got pwned by the Playstation. Remember that game for the Dreamcast where you had to talk to a fish? Retarded.

On that note, do you remember how lame some of the games were for normal Genesis, like Echo the Motherfucking Dolphin? Sonic, ToeJam and Earl and games of the like were classic, but man, there was some shit out there.

Also, who remembers the attempted-way-before-technology-allowed-it gaming accesories? The SuperScope for Super Nintendo was good for causing headaches and could be used for ONE GAME that I knew of. Then there was the punch and kick accessory (I forget what its called) for Sega that you could use for games like Mortal Kombat. Yea. Worked like a charm.

I can't forget one of the pinnacle achievements of 90's culture:
T.G.I.F. Shows : When you were 10, there was literally no cooler way to spend your Friday nights than with Steve Urkell, Cody from Step by Step, Mr. Cooper and Cory from Boy Meets World. And I was passed out by 10:30. Things just aren't that simple anymore.

[Grey Goose]

I think this

http://www.caffelena.com/psg/ggg32_gallery/camping/images/hacky_sack_pic00018.jpg

reached the apex of it's popularity in the 90's, and the shit just won't die.

[ThaBucmaster]

This may be more of a New England area thing, but L.L. Bean backpacks. They came in multiple colors, sizes, and you weren't cool unless you had your initials engraved on it.

[Gramercy]

Couple more: Shark watches, umbro shorts, spin the bottle.

[BCD]

Along the same lines as the Hypercolor trend: This may have been a SoCal 90's trend, but people at my school went through a short phase of wearing lots of fluorescent colors. Especially fluorescent sweatshirts, with sleeves that could be rolled up to show yet another fluorescent color on the inside. White or acid-washed jeans often accompanied the shirts. Hideous...

[Cargasm66]

In my school, you weren't shit if your homework didn't come out of a Trapper Keeper

http://i7.ebayimg.com/02/i/06/18/c4/26_1.JPG

God forbid if your parents wanted to buy you a 99 cent 3 ring binder from Office Depot because they knew you were going to destroy it anyway.

Side Note:
Those that loved Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain, you'll be pleased to know that the DVDs of these shows are coming out on the 25th....
AMAZON (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FA57H6/qid=1153414031/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-0153440-9306228?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=dvd&v=glance&n=130)

[WickedBitch]

The ladies will remember this, and groan in digust:

Zinc Pink lipstick. Primarily worn by the cute, tiny, blonde cheerleaders.

It looked horrible on a brown-haired, dark-eyed, pallid girl like me, but I was so cool because of it! Right?

[disqoteena]

Vuarnet (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremiah_owyang/180760540/in/set-72157594185851867/) t-shirts were HUGE around here. Everyone had them. No one seemed to know what the hell Vuarnet meant, though.

And this might be a regional thing: Pepsi AM. Pepsi launched this concoction and it had 2-3x the caffeine of normal Pepsi. You were supposed to drink it in the mornings to help wake you up. Everyone I know drank it. I always stopped & got a 20 oz. before going to school every day. Once it was discontinued, though, the withdrawal was fucking FIERCE.

[Angus]

~If you didn't have a custom subwoofer box in your car, your system wasn't shit.

I have to address this. I didn't know anybody in high school ('93-'97) without some kind of system in their car, and mine was usually the worst. I had the following:
-'83 Chevy S10 Blazer: 2 Crunch 12s, bandpass box made from 3/4" plywood. I actually stole the design from a Crutchfield box, but it was still a failure. It sounded like shit. The 12s were pushed by a Profile(whatever the hell that is) 5 or 600 watt amp.Later, I added an Advent...something. I can't remember the name, but it looked like a big granite rock with two 10 facing one another. It sat in my backseat.
-'88 Pontiac Grand Am-The aforementioned Advent speakers in a custom box, closed up in the trunk. You could barely even hear them.

My friend had a Punch 18 in his '87 Pathfinder whose box was so big that his rear window shattered...not because the speaker was bumping so hard, but because he hit a bump and the box slammed into the rear upper corner of the window. It was also heinous-sounding.

[The_Undutchables]

Eurodance
As if wearing Zubaz pants wasn’t bad enough, we also suffered musically during the 1990s with Eurotrash groups like 2 Unlimited, Real McCoy, Snap!, Culture Beat, and Dr. Alban. If you can remember any of their synth-heavy albums, you clearly weren’t doing enough drugs.
Yeah..a lot of that stuff was actually started by us Dutchies...sorry about that one.


And to dutifully add to the shoe list: Puma Disc System (http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/images/news/1145420750.jpg)

I actually had these and they sucked balls. Not only were they expensive, they also worked for like 10 steps and then you had to tighten your shoe again. You had to stop en twist the disc all the damn time, and it would break easily, making the whole shoe useless.

[Rad]

I loved the 90's. The trapper keeper was the ultimate, but only if it had a "No Fear" picture and saying on it. You would put it into your blocky locker backpack (remember that?), put your crazy triangular pencils with detachable extra eraser (because who wants to use the eraser built into the pencil) into the pen pocket of said backpack, strap on your L.A. Lights or pump ups, slap on your bracelet, comb your bull cut, and get to the back seat of the bus. While on the bus you would discuss TGIF or read a Goosebumps novel. At recess you would throw the crazy nerf football with the rocket fins on the back or get one of the girls to tell your fortune with those crazy oragami things, or perhaps practice the MC Hammer dance to 2 legit 2 quit (remember the hand motions?). On second thought... I hate the 90's.

[lhprop1]

Doc Martens: Cause you know, erally, orthopedic shoes are cool

-FLANNEL!...A mulato, an albino, a mosquito, my libido...YEAH!

I hate to break it to you, but there are some things that aren't "fads" and will NEVER go out of style. Among them are:

Doc Martens
Levi's
Flannel
AC/DC

Practicality and comfort will never go out of style. My boot-wearin', flannel-sportin' lumberjack ancestors would be appalled if they heard you say their daily garb wasn't hip anymore.

[sporting16w]

Champion Sweatshirts.

If you wanted to be cool, you need one in every color. Not the cheap ones with the word Champion, the nice ones with just the "C".

People even wore them in the summer with shorts.

[Griswold]

We're still living this one out to some extent.

Huge, puffed up, "down-filled" winter coats usually made by North Face or something similar. Trying to see female curves is tough enough in the winter, taking it all away with these jackets was the worst.

[Angus]

Writing shit across your windshield-We're all aware that you have a Nissan lowrider without you spelling it out across your windshield with the logo. What's that? Local Motion? That's cool...we're inland GA...do you surf? I doubt it.

Bad Boy Club-I had one of these t-shirts when I was like 14. Again, the other day when I was in MD, I saw someone with a Bad Boy Club sticker on their car.

[Stonzey]

I hate to break it to you, but there are some things that aren't "fads" and will NEVER go out of style. Among them are:

Doc Martens
Levi's
Flannel
AC/DC

Longevity, practicality, and comfort will never go out of style. My boot-wearin', flannel-sportin' lumberjack ancestors would be appalled if they heard you say their daily garb wasn't hip anymore.

He's got a point...

Focus: I just thought of a couple more. What ever happened to TCBY? You remember, This Country's Best Yogurt. Seemed those places were popping up everywhere like Little Caesar's, or a modern day Starbucks, and then, like Kaiser Sose, they were gone.

and to go along with Angus, the "Oakley" stickers, either on the windshield or the rear.

[ThatWhiteCop]

Wearing your beeper/pager like a status symbol. Wearing it outside of your pants, or in some extreme cases clipped to the rim of your of your hat or visor.

I think this made a brief comeback a while back, except with cell phones instead.

I'm glad someone mentioned this.

One of the funniest things I have ever seen was in the mall, some idiot had just bought a new case for his pager from one of those carts. He got it put on and was in the mirror, posing, lifting up his shirt, alternating between putting it on his pockets(inside and out),waistband, hat brim, and clipped on his long chain.

When he found the look he apparently desired he put his hand up to his chin like he was in a sears catalog, wearing a grin of complete satisfaction in his purchase.

I sat for 10 min watching this and to this day I can still get a chuckle out of
it.

[TheUselessIntern]

Who could forget this company:


The pinnacle of cool for about 4 years. Then of course it tanked and became "cool" only if Target had anything to say about it.

[Pax Romana]

Stop... Hammer Time. MC Hammer... this fucker was everywhere for like two solid years. Pepsi adds, concert tours, cameos on shitty T.G.I.F. shows... then he became a preacher, then he became a gangster rapper, I will forever know his as the "Parachute Pants Lord of the Dance."

I actually saw him in concert, a concert which opened with the one and only Vanilla Ice. Yea, I can't believe I admitted to that either.

The phrases "the bomb" and "...yo" (as in "what up yo?" or "word, yo").

[TheBunny]

Flannel
Regionally classic, practical, comfortable garb doesn't go out of style. Flannel in LA? I don't think so. Linen? Yes.

Docs
Again, classic/practical/comfy where you're from...not so much where I'm from. Gay, actually. Very very shout out loud gay.

[Shua]

For those of you discussing rolling up your pants we referred to it as pegging your jeans.

Not so much a specific fashion but all of the neon that was worn was pretty bad.

And who can forget shaving lines into your head. I know there has to be someone on this board who rocked a mullet with 3 lines shaved into the side of your head. If so pictures should be provided for the entertainment of the board.

[Obviously5Believer]

How the hell could you people forget about Pokemon?

http://www.asia.msu.edu/Study%20Units/graphic%20for%20study%20units/original%20image/q-pikachu-dt2_upd.jpg

That shit was so popular when I was in school. Kids had binders and binders full of the cards. Pikachu was probably the most recognized one, but I think the rarest cards were the Mew and Mewtoo cards. I never bought any, but for a full month my recess consisted of watching the other kids have Pokemon battles. You got to give credit to Nintendo on this one. They managed to suck in a whole generation of kids into spending their parents' money on little peices of cardboard.

[bondbabe]

Tamagotchi - I hated the hell out of these things. You had to feed, discipline, exercise and let these stupid virtual pets poop.

[Dobieks]

And who can forget shaving lines into your head. I know there has to be someone on this board who rocked a mullet with 3 lines shaved into the side of your head. If so pictures should be provided for the entertainment of the board.

This is close...but still bad

[bondbabe]

All the exercise crap they had:

Sweatin to the Oldies
Susan Powter - "Stop the insanity."
Buns of Steel
Abs of Steel
Deal-A-Meal
Thighmaster

[Kyle]

One annoying phrase I haven't seen mentioned is, "NOT." It was generally used to disagree with a comment someone else made.

"This thread is really great!"
"Not!"

[bonzo]

How the hell could you people forget about Pokemon?



Or Power Rangers or Barney. I used to a run a video store in 1994 and parents would rent the shit out of those videos for their kids.

[kgslim12]

Starter Jackets



I hated these fucking things. People wore them until the white on them turned poop brown. The big oversized sports logo on the back was like a big kick-me sign. Your team sucks........now go wash your jacket.

[Red Vengence]

Ritalin .

Please god somebody tell me they've banned this stuff since I got off it. That shit is the biggest damn reason I don't remember anything between the years 1993 and 1997. I'm serious, I remember pre-school and some stuff before that, but my next memory is of me graduating from the fifth grade, what the fuck is up with that?

And it wasn't just me, I know lots of people who took that shit in elementary school during the 90's.

[TheBunny]

asdf

[Lalor]

Tae Bo (yeah, it counts)
http://www.raceagainstdrugs.org/images/photos/Tae%20Bo%20Kick.JPG

Motherfuckin' pogs.
http://ranneih.antimon.org/ranneispix/pogs.jpg

Bud. Weis. Er.
http://www.floridastuff.com/bud/frogs2.gif

Can forget the new breed of idiot that spawned during the late 90's. Wiggerus Poserus.
http://www.wiggaz.com/wiggaz/going.jpg

[3ToedSloth]

How the hell could you people forget about Pokemon?

I see your Pokemon and raise you Digimon. It might not have been as big, but I remember everyone having the Tamagotchi toys of them and battling during school.

Also, how come no one has mentioned the infamous return of the yo-yo? My school put a ban on them because kids were getting hit in the face from other people doing around the worlds and being careless.

[eastjenn]

Who could forget this company:


The pinnacle of cool for about 4 years. Then of course it tanked and became "cool" only if Target had anything to say about it.

Along this same lines as Mossimo, and the previously mentioned Stussy, was Yaga. If your mall had a Good Vibrations, they carried all three brands.

[Suonimun]

Who could forget about the Bangs?

The bigger the better.

[Kubla Kahn]

Teenie Bopper music:

While the early nineties started off great for music. Grunge and alternative rock layed down shitty 80's hair metal like a scythe to wheat. Satan himself couldn't have reigned in more terror than the rise of teeny bopper music. What a way to end a fucking millenium:

Britney Spears
Christine Aguilara
Mandy Moore
The Backstreet Boys
N'sync
O-town
LFO


Raves: Somehow in the nineties stupid mid-westerners found a way to make doing drugs and fucking all night lame. Everything produced by this fad pisses me off. Rave pants, you're on E and you need to drink tons of water not to die, why not wear over sized nylon pants with hundreds of useless straps on them? Glow Sticks/light shows, can't dance but still want to impress chicks? Get a few of these babies and twirl them around your head like a dipshit, problem solved. Techno/trance/Paul Oakenfold, every fucking song has the same fucking drum beat! FUCK!

[kaliente]

Raves!


http://www.ratemyrave.com/images/ul/rave_222.jpeg

Indeed.

[bcarlzson]

Someone knocked bad extreme movies, including Airborne, don't ever knock a movie about a surfer kid from Cali who's forced to live in Cincinati and wins the big rollerblade downhill race. (staring Seth Green with Jack Black)

Focusing, I always hated the wallet with the chain attached that hung to the knee and attached to a belt loop.

[Backroom]

Gameboy, big part of my short attention span problem...
Also, game system called the Nomad, like Genesis, but portable, I loved it.

[TheBunny]

Extasy. Yummy yummy Extasy.

[danege]

When I was around 6, in 1992, myself and my friends could not want anything more than to have hair like this:

http://www.mulletjunky.com/webimages/gangstarat.jpg

[Social]

It's all a blur...

[hellhole]

For a while, it was considered unbecoming to play guitar in any other way except for shittily. If you were a shitty guitar player, you got praise. If you actually knew how to play and weren't afraid to show it, you got shit on.

Good thing that retarded idea seems to be finally coming to an end.

[ItsOnlyEvolution]

For a while, it was considered unbecoming to play guitar in any other way except for shittily. If you were a shitty guitar player, you got praise. If you actually knew how to play and weren't afraid to show it, you got shit on.

Good thing that retarded idea seems to be finally coming to an end.

Absolutely right. Red dot me all you want, but Kurt Cobain sucked at guitar. Mike McCready, Spin Doctors, and others fucking ruled at guitar and got shit on.

Also I dont recall reading any posts about Eddie Vedder knockoffs yet. Scott Stapp, Lifehouse, Fuel, all of the post-grunge late 90's baritone voices polluted the airwaves for a while.

[Ihatehippies]

Man all these pages and no mention of

Dry Beer Who can forget "Why ask why try Bud Dry". Dry beer was everywhere all the major brewers had it.

California Coolers 2 liters Wine coolers in general were the cool beverage to have but "California Coolers" had it down 2 liters of Orange cooler goodness before homeroom was the breakfast of champions.

Jams These maybe more of a late 80's thing. They were shorts/swimtrunks with like either fish or fruit on them. They came in neon ugly colors.

[dustnureye]

http://www.davydean.com/adpics/lk147_2.jpg

Switch combs: These were super cool until schools started banning them.

Also worth mentioning are laser pointers, and tying sweaters around your waist.

[twheatley]

If you ever watched daytime tv in the 90s you would know that it was overrun with saved by the bell, full house, and a plethora of interpersonal issue exploiting talk shows.


eg. Maury, Jenny Jones, Jerry Springer, Montel etc.

[LillyFish]

Shoes with fucking lights in them
By the time this fad ended I was ready to beat up any kid with these fucking shoes that would blink every step, take their shoes and burn them, and shove the smoldering remains of the lights into their fucking foreheads.


How about L.A. Gear, later to become L.A. Lights. I was so cool in my high-top, light-up L.A. Gear with 4 different colored shoelaces.

[Ouroboros]

What ever happened to 3 Liter sodas? Did they die in the 90's? I cant remember the last time I saw one..

Back in 94, a friend bought a No Fear shirt with the slogan "Second Place is the FIRST LOSER"..a day after he placed second in a school singing competition. He later asked me why I let him buy it, claiming he didnt realize what the shirt said- he just wanted a No Fear shirt. I didnt open my mouth.

Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken- and basically every other hot 1-on-1 fighting game to blow up in the 90s ruined my academic career. I still suck at them all.

Edit: I just remembered those "Virtuality" games that used to be set up in the malls around here. For 5 bucks or more you'd be placed in a small ring with a bulky headset and a hand control and try to shoot your opponent (another idiot in the ring next to yours) before you puked from motion sickness.

[exbunobooga]

[B]Bad Boy Club-I had one of these t-shirts when I was like 14. Again, the other day when I was in MD, I saw someone with a Bad Boy Club sticker on their car.

How about a bad boy tatoo.

At the beach some tool was sporting a bad boy tat on his shoulder. Yeah bet he didnt realise that brand wouldnt be popular forever.

[NorthernSouthern]

Chain Wallets
Because when you were 15, everyone was trying to steal the 17 dollars from your wallet.

[sillylittlefreak]

Things I have not changed since the 90's:

Docs. My boots will kick your faggy sneakers' ass.

Music taste. I dig new stuff, which you should know if you read the board, but some of the best stuff came out in the prior decade. Those that actually make music do not deny their roots. Yeah there was a lot of crap in the 90's, but there is a lot of crap now.

Chain wallet. Mine has skulls on it. It was expensive. I will never lose my wallet or have my pockets picked.

Flannel. I don't bust out the flannel unless it is under 50 degrees, but I have a few. Lined and unlined.

[Doc Rivers]

1) Nerf, motherfucker--non-expanding recreational foam.

I'll fucking smoke you bitches with my sweet Nerf bow and arrow! I'll launch a fucking Nerf Turbo fucking Football up your motherfucking ass! That is, until I leave it out one night and dad runs it over with the lawnmower! Totally gay!

Bitches, life is war. Nerf WAR!

2) Everybody in the world except me removed "mondo" from their lexicon in 1994.

3) Panama Jack.

4) Those fucking things that were like, you slapped them on your wrist, and then they were like, a bracelet, or something? Does anyone fucking remember those things? I got tons of chicks with my wrist...slappy...thing, because it had a totally sweet...

5) Smiley face on it. I also had a smiley face on my...

6) Shirt that reacted to heat and changed color, but only worked until mom washed it.

7) Reebok Blacktops. Motherfucker, I could jump ten feet with those bitches. But my friend Kevin had the Blacktop pumps. With the extra support the pumps gave him, he could jump 20 feet.

But then mom got me the Nike Air Raid Much Up Tempos, and I could jump 35 feet! I totally jumped over the teeter totter once!

8) If you didn't have Green Day's "Dookie" and "Smash" by The Offspring, you were a suspected communist, and probably a total homo.

9) Tupac was alive, which meant nobody gave a flying fuck about him. He rapped alongside Mr. Humpty in Nothing But Trouble. East coast, west coast, who cares about street cred when you can sell out and be in a sweet Dan Aykroyd movie?

10) Mr. Humpty was the true genius

11) Movies in which young black men live the lives of gangsters in south central L.A., drinking 40s, fornicating with "fine ass bitches," and occasionally twisting the caps of motherfuckers back, only to one day experience a profound moment of self-reflection and realize that hood life is not for them. Then the promising young football player gets shot in slow motion.

Suburban whites watched these movies and nodded in approval, remarking to their friends that "something must be done about the plight of these black people," while thinking "just so long as they don't move the darkies anywhere near me."

[Skiing Drunk]

How huge was this?

[Gramercy]

Screech.

Oh wait, he's still around.

[Crazy Eddie]

Taking good 80's music and completely fucking it up to create a "dance remix".

The entire genre of music that the "dance remix" was a part of.

OJ Fucking Simpson. And the retards that cheered when the retards on the jury let his ugly murdering ass off. You'd think that when one ugly has-been kills his wife his trial wouldn't be the top story for a whole fucking year. In 1994, you'd be wrong.

[TheBunny]

asdf
Susan Powter was just in Angeles magazine. She has dreads now. She's apparently living in that dark and evil lesbian camp in New Hampshire with Animal Prufrock, The drummer from the band "Bitch and Animal" an opening act for Ani DiFranco that sings songs like "Sparkly Titties" and "She's got the Best Cock on the Block; It's Eternally Hard." She just sold a pilot, too. So...she's baaaack.

[doglegleft]

B.U.M. Equipment Sweatshirts (Inside Out)

"The County Seat" and for some, "Man Alive"

Date rape

The "Roger Rabbit" and the "Running Man"

[Aquaholic]

Someone mentioned Pokemon, which reminded me of Magic the Gathering or something like that...I never got into it, but I remember that's when I realized my brother was a loser...staying in friday nights playing Magic and drinking Sambuca....yeah, that was lame.

[lust4life]

There have been a lot of posts about footwear.

Teva sandals

Not nearly as comfortable as my Birkies, nor do they last nearly as long.

[Brown Guy]

Nintendo Power Glove had no use and I didn't know anyone who had one but everyone wanted one...especially after watching The Wizard.

"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad"

Rasta Belts- Didn't matter what your background was, these red,yellow and green belts could be seen everywhere.

Pepsi Blue - I loved this stuff then the bastards discontinued it.

[Pillage6]

Chat rooms- Anyone up for a round of a/s/l?

[MrClean]

Corduroy Shorts anyone?

My favorite were gray and beige, bonus points for having them hit just above the knee, with your bowl cut, and No Fear shirt.

Note: 90's corduroy shorts are not be confused with more, modern-day microfiber (http://images.google.com/images?q=corduroy+microfiber+shorts&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off) shorts.

[KevMal]

saved by the bell
This show ruined my childhood (among other things). Apparently, I have a resemblanceto Zack Morris. Growing up, people have always told me this and this thing (http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php) says it too, but they are all wrong. Anyways, because of this, I grew up with the nickname of "Preppy" thanks to AC Slater. I don't even have blonde faggy hair.

FOCUS: Adidas Windpants. You know, the ones with the stripe down the side. Made noises everytime you moved.

[scowl]

snap bracelets.

[powersexkitten]

Kevin Costner super-productions.
Robin Hood, Waterworld, The Postman...
I love post-apocaliptic sci-fi, even a moderately average movie would entertain me. That is, if Kevin Costner is not in it.

[stewy]

Tear aways-these things were the shit back in the day. Why wear normal pants when you gave yourself the ability to rip them off if an emergency basketball game broke out? I remember one day for some reason I had the opportunity to "tear" them off in one heroic motion for gym or something, I felt like a king among men.

Yikes pens and pencils-they're just like normal pencils, but with funky colours and built in grips!! These things actually had commercials...for fucking pencils. I remember actually asking for and getting some for my birthday, not one of my prouder moments.

Talkboy-after the amazing success of Home Alones 1 through 2, the Talkboy was needed for any cool kid to stick it to the man. No, I didn't want a normal tape recorder, I wanted a tape recorder that was twice the price and size just because Kevin McCallister used it as a medium for his hilariously witty antics.

[Pint?]

Combat trousers. You were clearly a loser and/or fag if your bottoms didn't have at least 16 pockets and crazy beige and green camouflage colour combos. Extra coolness points if you had a penknife concealed in a pocket halfway down your leg.

Shaving your head and leaving a stupid fringe tuft thing at the front. Maybe that was just where I lived but in the mid-90's it wasn't only complete low life trailer trash types who sported this cut around these parts.

Skateboarding. Ok it is a legitmate sub culture now but there was a time when NOBODY skated then Tony Hawks' Pro Skater came along for the playstation with an equal measure of skate happy punk bands in circulation and suddenly everyone had a damn board.

Yo-yos. Everyone had a damn yo-yo. We were all trying to be like Yohans or whatever his name was, the yoyo world champ. With our gold spinners. Coca Cola even had promos for a gold spinning yo-yo. Everyone was walking the dog or such like all day long. My younger brothers dont have a clue what a yo-yo is now.

[backwards7]

The interminable public mourning of Diana, Princess of Wales

I shudder when I think of it.

In the aftermath of Diana’s fatal car accident, an outbreak of mass hysteria swept across the nation. People grieved for her with an intensity that seemed completely disproportionate. Many had probably shown less emotion for departed members of their own families.

I didn’t like Diana and this may have coloured my view, but I found the whole public outpouring of emotion both knowingly ostentatious and hugely dishonest. It was as if she had become an outlet for a lot of bottled-up emotion that had its origins elsewhere.

For months the pavements outside Kensington Palace were carpeted with bouquets of flowers. There was even talk of renaming Kensington Gardens, Diana Gardens. Thankfully more sensible thinking prevailed, although the park was the eventual recipient of The Diana Fountain, which cost a small fortune and has become a huge liability.

Around the time of her death, Diana was elevated by unspoken proxy to the position of people’s saint. In the minds of many, she was a kind-hearted and generous woman, who had been broken down by the staid traditionalism of the Royal family. The tabloids dubbed her the “Princess of Hearts”– an epithet so saccharine, it aptly summed-up the greetings card insipidness that had characterised her life as a royal personage.

The minority opinion (the one which I shared) was that Diana was manipulative, passive aggressive and self-absorbed. Her charity work often took the form of carefully choreographed photo opportunities, seemingly engineered to draw attention to herself, rather than the worthy causes she supported. It was her tendency to seek validation through the media which proved to be the catalyst for her untimely end.

As Elton John’s musical tribute – a rewrite of Candle in the Wind - took up residence in the top end of the charts, and the mourning continued unabated, it became increasingly difficult to publicly hold a negative view of Diana without invoking the ire of complete strangers. You were not allowed to have a dissenting opinion on the subject.

A few month later, when I visited Vietnam, Americans kept offering me their condolences. When I told them that I wasn’t a supporter of the monarchy and didn’t think that Diana was quite as great as she was made out to be, they reacted as if I had just committed an act of high treason.

This great folly of the 1990s has carried over into the new millennium. A BBC poll of the 100 greatest Britons of all time, ranked the late Princess of Wales 3rd, before Darwin and Shakespeare. Also before Queen Elizabeth I, who did deserve to be in the top 10 and would have soundly kicked Diana’s arse, had she lived in the 1600s.

[WillardSchreck]

Friday nights...10pm...Comedy Central.

MST3K was the funniest ass shit ever put on television, this side of MXC. I've still got a shitload of them on tape. Great to watch while drinking heavily.

[AntonL]

Skateboarding. Ok it is a legitmate sub culture now but there was a time when NOBODY skated then Tony Hawks' Pro Skater came along for the playstation with an equal measure of skate happy punk bands in circulation and suddenly everyone had a damn board.


I have to disagree on that one, skateboarding has always had it's ups and downs, in fact, skateboarding almost died again in the 90's, but thats not the point. Just because more people started skating because of the Tony Hawk games doesn't make it a fad, because there are more people skateboarding today than ever. If anything, skateboard POSING was a 90's fad created by the THPS games, not skateboarding.

[IAmWillIAm]

Am I the only one who ever had a digipet? Friggin' annoying little toys that needed to be fed, given medicine, and cleaned... banned from schools the world over?

[ChileanGuy]

Tight jeans (blue or black) with non-matching full WHITE shoes/snickers.

Probably more 80s, but it sure kept going on the early 90s. I see some people still do it... looks like shit.

[Obviously5Believer]

The classic:

http://www.klast.net/bond/images/nintendo.jpg

The N64 was big. Even as a cartrige system, it still whopped Playstation's ass for multiplayer parties. Mario Party, Super Smash Bros, Goldeneye, Mortal Kombat 4...the list goes on.

[Mr. Satanism]

"Grunge". Quite possibly the biggest musical hoax of all time.

Edit: Okay, remove "quite possibly" from the above sentence.

[ItsOnlyEvolution]

The classic:

http://www.klast.net/bond/images/nintendo.jpg

The N64 was big. Even as a cartrige system, it still whopped Playstation's ass for multiplayer parties. Mario Party, Super Smash Bros, Goldeneye, Mortal Kombat 4...the list goes on.

Goldeneye isn't the least bit shameful. I can remember playing that game for 20+ hours one day down the street on summer vacation when I was about 12.

Edit: This was the game that paved the way for Halo. Besides Doom, which I was way to young to play in 1993, this was proabably the most innavative and influential FPS game ever.

[sillylittlefreak]

Besides Doom, which I was way to young to play in 1993, this was proabably the most innavative and influential FPS game ever.
No, that would be Wolfenstein 3D.

[Signatory]

Chain wallet. Mine has skulls on it. It was expensive. I will never lose my wallet or have my pockets picked.

The chain on the wallet makes a certain amount of sense even if it is white trash. But those tools who hung a hundred and one chains from every pocket of their cargo pants annoyed me even then.

[MGX]

Trashy Talk Shows. Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Geraldo all introduced us to sister humping rednecks, retarded klansmen/women/children and girls with more baby daddies than cubes of government cheese in the fridge.
Remember the Arsenio Hall arm pump + Woot Woot Woot sound?
Rise of the Wiggers. Every rich, suburban white kid at my junior high wore his baggy pants around his ass, had gold chains and talked like an inbreed. What is worse is that these hosers all had 'good' homes and came from decent stock.

[Aetius]

No, that would be Wolfenstein 3D.

I might throw it up to Half Life, just for the way it presented the game, and the fact that the AI actually made sense.

"You mean the enemies aren't going to run around this corner blindly into my hail of gunfire?"

[Stunt]

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/sppcollect/clothing/clothes_bbhat1.jpg

The bicycle hat. At one point, someone decided the confines and structure of a traditional baseball hat were too much to deal with, so they engineered a new hat, made of thin polyesther, with a brim that was too short to wear down, but served no purpose when flipped up over your forehead.

This, above all else, is why cycling is gay.

[Ironman]

I might throw it up to Half Life, just for the way it presented the game, and the fact that the AI actually made sense.

"You mean the enemies aren't going to run around this corner blindly into my hail of gunfire?"
How old are you?

[Obviously5Believer]

Goldeneye isn't the least bit shameful. I can remember playing that game for 20+ hours one day down the street on summer vacation when I was about 12.

OK, OK, Goldeneye isn't shameful. But the amount of time people spent playing this game was. I wasted so much of my youth on this game.

[Aetius]

How old are you?

19. The question wasn't which game came first, but which was the most influential and revolutionary. While I appreciate what Wolfenstein and Doom did, in my book Half Life was the bigger leap.

Besides, we all know the true grandfather of FPS is Battlezone.

[Dead Man Walking]

At around 1997 or so, there was a minor swing-music movement that tried to revive the style of music. This resulted in a bunch of mexicans in fedoras, and a bunch of wanna-bes in wanna-be zoot suits that look like they came off a Wal-mart rack.

The style was cool back in the 20's 30's and 40's, but just let it die already.

[Dallas]

People have already mention gak, floam, skip it, and nerf.


But how do you grow up in the 90's and not mention

http://www.backtobasicstoys.com/images/430.jpg

moon shoes?


God knows I broke 3 pairs of those shitty rubber bands before i stole my sisters pair. And broke them too.

[danege]

19. The question wasn't which game came first, but which was the most influential and revolutionary. While I appreciate what Wolfenstein and Doom did, in my book Half Life was the bigger leap.

Besides, we all know the true grandfather of FPS is Battlezone.

Whats more influentual and revolutionary? Something that improved on an already worked idea, or something that basically STARTED THE WHOLE GENRE?

[StacyBoots]

Trashy Talk Shows. Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Geraldo all introduced us to sister humping rednecks, retarded klansmen/women/children and girls with more baby daddies than cubes of government cheese in the fridge.
Remember the Arsenio Hall arm pump + Woot Woot Woot sound?
Rise of the Wiggers. Every rich, suburban white kid at my junior high wore his baggy pants around his ass, had gold chains and talked like an inbreed. What is worse is that these hosers all had 'good' homes and came from decent stock.

If you mention Arsenio Hall, then you have to mention the Dog Pound.

I don't know how wide spread this was, but our 90's drink of choice was Purple Passion, conveniently served in the 2-liter bottle

[Imgr8t]

Dancing Baby

I don't know how many computers I saw between 1996 and 1998 that had the freakin dancing baby screen savers.

[sillylittlefreak]

19. The question wasn't which game came first, but which was the most influential and revolutionary. While I appreciate what Wolfenstein and Doom did, in my book Half Life was the bigger leap.

Besides, we all know the true grandfather of FPS is Battlezone.
The question also wasn't on the thread topic.

Stop debating this.

[rum_snuggles]

Chicken Soup for the Soul. The books are still around, in a thousand million trillion variations meant to "inspire" and "comfort." It's just a bunch of heart-warming tripe yanked from the pages of Reader's Digest. My mother and her circle of church-lady friends were completely obsessed with these books. My sister is, too. She even bought one for me: "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul." Thanks, bitch, like I really needed someone else to tell me how fucked up I was.

[Dubbub]

Why anyone like me in landlocked bumfuck Iowa needed Body Glove gear is beyond me.

http://parisvoice.com/03/june/assets/images/04-body-glove.jpg

[Dallas]

oh dear god. i just went downstairs to my basement to change the ac filter and suddenly found myself staring into a box of old books.

Directly on top? Every single "Goosebumps" book R.L. Stine wrote in the 90's. Including such classics as "the haunted mask", "lets get invisible", "monster blood", "deep trouble" and of course the special edition of "night of the living dummy", complete with glowing red led eyes on the cover that lit up.

I am proud to say those books scared the fuck out of me when I was 7-10.

[svp81]

On the idea of the "Goosebumps" books, let's not forget about the classic "Fear Street" books. I couldn't get enough of them for a while.

[Dick Trickle]

How about the Bud Bowl

[Obviously5Believer]

Lest we forget: Animorphs.

Of course I read Goosebumps, but I was a fiend for those Animorph books. A group of young kids who have the power to change into animals to defeat the evil alien race the Yurks or some shit like that. They were given this power by a blue alien deer with a scorpion tail and no mouth.

On seeing the cover of one of my animorph books depicting a boy turning into a rhino, my Grandpa launched into a 45 second rant about how those "shit-eating scientists are trying to poison you by teaching you that evolution horse-shit."

[Dead Man Walking]

On seeing the cover of one of my animorph books depicting a boy turning into a rhino, my Grandpa launched into a 45 second rant about how those "shit-eating scientists are trying to poison you by teaching you that evolution horse-shit."

That is by far the funniest thing I've read all day. I just shot beer out of my nose. That seems to happen a lot on this board, I'm going to stop drinking while I read this site.

Back in the day, Animorphs kicked ass.

[wojtek]

Squiggly writers.
All the girls had them. I thought they were normal pink girlish crap. Then I discovered why all the girls had them, and loved them even more.

[Snatch]

Braided fucking belts. Make sure it's 10 inches too long, flip over the excess and let it hang for extra phallic effect.

(My high school actually banned these abominations because they were "phallic in nature")

[GcDiaz]

If you mention Arsenio Hall, then you have to mention the Dog Pound.

I don't know how wide spread this was, but our 90's drink of choice was Purple Passion, conveniently served in the 2-liter bottle

Both of you are fucking insane, for not mentioning The Richard Bey Show. He did Springer before there even was a Springer. The sound effects, the wacky guests, the racy topics, this show had it all. I still remember the Mother-Daughter Olympics; this HOT puertorican pair, Angela and Fatima, won the competition, and mooned the audience at the end.

[StacyBoots]

Two things:

1. I was truly obsessed with Beverly Hills 90210, still am. Anything teen-angst and I am sucked in.

2. Those fucked up 3D pictures that you would stand in front of for at least 10 minutes, making yourself somewhat blind while boats and dragons and balloons and shit are supposed to be jumping out at you. If you were stoned/drunk/on mushrooms, or any combo of the 3, you'd either be completely out of your mind or staring at the thing for **hours**.

[AK47vsM16]

Every time i saw someone hiking one pant leg up to their knee, I got the urge to beat them to death.The only fashion statement they made was "I am a douchebag, and proud of it"

[Hoju]

This wasn't necessarily a fad, but it was a catalyst for the Goths out there. By the end of the Nineties, this man was the end of civilization as we knew it. He ate babies, punched puppies, and pissed on old people. He freaked out a whole nation of parents and made teenagers shoot up their school. Concerts were canceled, and middle America burned CDs. Part of me wishes he still installed that kind of fear, because emo sucks balls. I never thought that I would respect Goth fags until emo fags showed me the light. Damn you GG Allin for dying before you made good on your promise.

[NattyLight1128]

Tight Roll the Pants I saw the tucked pants, but nothing eminated cool factor like cutting off circulation to your foot. You did it, I did it, we're ashamed.

Overall Shorts (with option of a custom air brush mural) Sure, having overalls were alright, but the summers get hot, hot, hot. Kick it up a couple degrees with a portrait of an illiterate kid throwin' dice on the neighborhood stoop for added effect.

Starter Outfits Again, it's summertime, and you've gots to represent ABC (Another Bad Creation for the youngin's round here) and an assortment of other associated gender crisesis. I sported the Georgetown Hoyas.

Love Line There was no TMMB in the 90's, so I fell asleep to Love Line everynight to make myself feel normal. I understand that it's still on, but it's pretty lame that the lessons in presented were a cornerstone of my adolesence.

Hand Jobs Didn't get one in the 80's. Didn't get one in the 00's. Must be a shameful fad of the 90's.