What crappy pop culture stuff do you remember, but you'd rather not?

[joeybee12]

Right now, for some reason, I'm picturing the Chicago Bears doing "The Super Bowl Shuffle."

[sui generis]

1. like, gag me with a spoon!

the whole val girl thing.

[joeybee12]

4. Truly a low point in our nation's history!

Reagan was president, so what can you expect?

[Susang]

2. I bet I know why

Did you see that Yahoo poll for video "Turkey" they had up yesterday? Superbowl Shuffle was one of the nominees!

[joeybee12]

3. No, I honestly did not see that! Maybe because I've been thinking

about football all day, and keep checking college scores.

BTW, did it win?

[Susang]

6. "Ice Ice Baby" did

Though "Superbowl Shuffle" is a far worse video, IMHO. Especially the way they keep popping Jim McMahon into the scene, because he was far too big of a star to attend the taping. :eyes:

Gee, I wonder what he's doing now? :puke:

[joeybee12]

8. You know, Ice Ice Baby is still damn catchy!!!!!

I think Vanilla Ice had a tatoo a month done on his body since that time. Did you see him on The Surreal World (or was it Life?) People like that don't need to wear clothes they're covered so much.

[Susang]

12. I liked it better when Queen and David Bowie did it

And it was called "Under Pressure". ;-)

I did see the Surreal World that Mr. Ice was on. The poor man really needs to get over himself and get a sense of humor. Sad, really really sad. :-(

[joeybee12]

14. Hmmmmmmmm...are you saying that pop music copies or borrows

from other songs?

That can't be!

Poor Vanilla--didn't some exotic animal just escape from his home?

[Susang]

23. In the case of "Ice Ice Baby"

I'm saying the song does far more than just sample "Under Pressure". The thing I really hate about that song is that whenever somebody decides it would be cute to play it on the radio or at a bar, I get all excited when I hear the first few bars, thinking I'm going to hear Freddy Mercury and David Bowie's voices. The disappointment is crushing. :-(

[joeybee12]

25. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And I thought the song was entirely ORIGINAL like all songs are!

Yeah, it did more than sample--when "rap" started becoming popular, there were quite a few songs that sampled so much they got sued. Can't recall them at the time, but basically they were stealing just about everything from some older songs!

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Is the super bowl shuffle.. ANYTHING like the truffle shuffle?

[joeybee12]

7. Since I have NO IDEA what that is, I cannot answer!!!!

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Do The Hustle!

Music cue in...
Key of C Major

(Begin with E)
dink-dink-dink-dink-dinka-a-dink-dink
(Now lower to C)
dink-dink-dink-dink-dinka-a-dink-dink
(Now repeat all of above)

:puke:

[joeybee12]

11. Whenever I jear that song, I picture Tai Babalonia and Randy Gardner

ice skating! They were on some special and skated to that. I don't associate the song with disco, but with ice skating now. Go figure.

[salvorhardin]

10. Umm... let's see...

1977 to 1989, inclusive. :-)

[Left Is Write]

13. Funny you should ask this today.

I heard a song this morning that instantly brought to mind the roller rink, satin shorts and satin pants, big fluffy pompoms on white-boot roller skates, and hanging out on Friday nights.

[Bat Boy]

15. Clackers.

Two pool balls attached by a piece of twine that children were supposed to swing up and down in a furious attempt to make them smack together in a pleasing manner.

Lost a lot of good friends that way...

[sui generis]

17. oh the bruises!

I remember those in the seventies -- your forearms and wrists would literally be black and blue . . .

[Astrochimp]

16. Convoy! ( I heard a Mannheim Steamroller ad today) N/T

http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/lyrics/spirit/convoy.html

[alvis]

18. How about the Curly Shuffle?

:)

[Skittles]

19. didn't they do that shuffle BEFORE they actually won the Super Bowl?

I'm a big Bears fan but I remember thinking that sure was arrogant! Loved the poster though. :D

[joeybee12]

20. Yup, it was before the Super Bowl...

...maybe even before the playoffs!!!!!!

[Susang]

24. Those pants are TIGHT!

Watching the video yesterday reminded me of that. :D

[realisticphish]

28. how about that Krenzel?

;)...he may have a low rating, but damn, he can win games...just like he did here

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[sakabatou]

21. All the boy bands from the 90's

URGH!

[joeybee12]

22. I have a copy of the 1991 Super Bowl--watched it the other day and

New Kids on the Block were the halftime entertainment!!!!!!!!!!

[mitchum]

26. All of it (the curse of a very good memory)

[Mist]

27. two words

pet rocks

[mondo joe]

29. I remember that Hello Larry was a spinoff of Diff'rent Strokes.

Just think of the brain bandwidth that information WASTES.

[baldguy]

30. Promo the Robot

Rocketship 7

[mondo joe]

32. oh. my. g--. I can't believe someone else remembers that.

I haven't lived in Buffalo for nearly 20 years - but I remember Promo, Captain Tom and Rocketship 7 from my childhood.

Are you still in the Buffalo area???

[baldguy]

33. Went to the Fisher-Price Toy Museum in East Aurora this afternoon.

And Dave Thomas lived on the block behind us in Clarence when I was a kid.

[mondo joe]

34. Wow! Really WOW!

Having not lived in Buffalo for so long there are a lot of things that are half or more forgotten.

Then I talk with someone back home, or read a post like yours, and get these ghostly traces of memory of things I didn't even know I remembered.

Thanks for a much appreciated post. And I am personally thrilled to have this particular bit of pop culture in my brain. :-)

[u4ic]

53. I remember Captain Tom!

I lived across the border, but we got Buffalo stations and I used to watch him religiously as a kid!

[PittPoliSci]

31. POGS!

i can't believe how much money i got my parents to spend on those things for me...

[joeybee12]

35. Can you imagine the money they made on those--I mean, they cost

nothing to make!

[Reverend_Smitty]

41. They were HUGE when I was in 5th grade...

I guess that was around 95. But they were eventually banned because a bunch of kids were getting their expensive slammers stolen. I'm so embarrassed to have been a part of that fad

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

64. "Nah, man, we don't want no POGS..."

I remember pogs getting banned from my middle school in 6th grade.

The last time I saw pogs was at "Penguin Video" in Buttzville, NJ about 2 years ago. My friend & I were bored, just driving around (nothing else to do in rural NW NJ) and stopped randomly at a strip mall. Penguin Video was going out of buisiness. They no longer had any videos, but just boxes of Penguin video t-shirts for $0.50 and FREE pogs at the counter. We each bought a couple of shirts and saw the Pogs on the counter.

I was like, "wow, Pogs..." and the poor cashier desperately said, "Take them...they're free." My response, "Nah, man, we don't want no Pogs...."

[DS1]

36. The rubber bands in Captain Lou Albano's face

:puke:

[joeybee12]

37. You know, I blame Cyndi Lauper for starting the revival of professional

wrestling.

Is Captain Lou still alive?

[blondeatlast]

48. I could have spent he rest of my life happily NOT recalling that.

But, NOOOOOOOOOOO--ooooooooooooooooooooooo...

DS1 just couldn't have it that way, could he?

[DS1]

54. bwaaahahahah

:evilgrin:

[proud2BlibKansan]

38. white lipstick

It was all the rage in the 60s.

[babylonsister]

39. White fishnet stockings w/white go-go boots.

And those short short polyester dresses to accompany the above, with broad, colorful horizontal stripes. What a vision!

[fluffernutter]

40. and hot pants!

[skygazer]

42. Bell bottoms

Over the knee socks (anyone remember those?)
The Macarena
Those awful disco outfits
Electric blue eye shadow - all the rage when I was about 16
Cabbage Patch Kids
Teddy Ruxpin
Tickle Me Elmo
He-Man and all his psycho friends

[Her Blondness]

43. Early 80's Madonna wannabe accessories

I have college pictures of myself with friggin' bow on my head. So retarded!

[BoX o BooX]

44. Leg Warmers

Flock-Of-Seagulls hair.
est
Untrimmed bush in Playboy & Penthouse

[fluffernutter]

46. i'm wearing some right now.

[BoX o BooX]

47. Wearing which? The untrimmed bush, or the Flock-Of-Seagulls hair?

:P

[mitchum]

63. Actually, "the landing strip", "the exclamation point", and "the

completely waxed little girl figlet" are pop culture trends, not the untrimmed ones. Take it from me, I'm a serious scholar of "Delta Studies" :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

45. Some abominations from the 1960s

Granny dresses
Wig hats
crushed vinyl
textured stockings
bouffant hairdos with a "sausage" roll around the bottom edge
mini dresses that had day glo stripes that made them look like detergent boxes
heavily made-up eyes with white lipstick
clip-on velvet bows

[SmokingJacket]

49. Gaucho pants.

I thought they weren't ever coming back, but I saw some on ebay.

[charlyvi]

50. Pet Rocks.

Enough said.

[donheld]

51. How about a current one

The trendy bare midriff on females. :puke: I'm already over it. There's not much worse then a flabby belly hanging out.

[u4ic]

52. Cabbage Patch kids

and that damned Chicken Dance one was expected to do at every wedding

[NightTrain]

55. Mood rings.

[Blue in a Red State]

56. The Macarena

[MissMillie]

57. virtual pets

those little battery powered gadgets that you had to "feed" and "clean" and "love" and "discipline" I guess they came out in the early to mid-90s

[joeybee12]

60. They started out in Japan--proof that we truly did NOT win WWII!!!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

58. Menudo

If you don't know, you don't want to.

[joeybee12]

61. Saw an old CD of them in the store, and Ricky Martin looked gay even

as a 9 year old!

[CBHagman]

59. Thanks, guys!

I've been scrolling down through this list and laughing all the way.

By the way, when I saw fashions I remembered from my childhood and teenaged years worn as HALLOWEEN COSTUMES two years ago, I didn't know whether to laugh or jump off a bridge.

[Nordic]

62. cigarette commercials on television

"tastes good, like a cigarette should!"

shows how old I am

[joeybee12]

69. The only one I recall is the Marlboro Man riding along...I more recall

the fact that we knew they were going off the air soon.

[Behind the Aegis]

65. Stupid commercial!

"Gee your hair smells terrific!" I hated that damn thing! The only good thing that came out of it was a dirty joke!

[devilgrrl]

66. Earth shoes, rabbit fur jackets, Farrah Fawcett's hair.

eom

[Seabiscuit]

67. 1. "Hair Bands" 2.The BeeGees 3. John Travolta 4. Rap "Music"

[Califooyah Operative]

68. hahaha

i've only heard the audio of that and it was funny as shit