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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: Valennia on March 16, 2013, 04:18:15 AM
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Ever since I began rereading the Animorphs series, seeing all of the references to the 90s have made it even more enjoyable for me because it just reminds me of my childhood...
I don't know if a this topic has been posted before but here are some of the 90s references that I've caught since rereading the books:
- Sony Walkman
- Doom
- Baywatch
- South Park
- Circuit City
- 56k dialup internet
- floppy disks
- America Online (parodied in book 16)
- Cindy Crawford
- Terminator
- Alien
- Nine Inch Nails
- Megadeth and Spawn :)
- Alanis Morissette
- Jaws
- Jonathon Taylor Thomas and "Live With Regis and Kathy Lee" (parodied in book 12)
- Mmmbop
I know there's more but those are just a few that I noticed. It's just nice to reminisce of times when Facebook and Harlem Shake weren't around.
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I think you mean Nice is Neat.
I'm not sure what references are from the 90's, or some other time. It's a very 90's series, though.
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i mean, it was written in the 90s after all. :P
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The dolphins they acquire in #4 are named after Friends.
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The South Park one sticks out for me. I hadn't heard of South Park the first time I read them. I read thru again a couple years ago and couldn't stop laughing at it. And now I agree with Ax on the internet speeds. Thousands? not even millions, mi-llions, ions.
Don't forget Power Puff Girls.
XENA!
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Snoop Doggy Dog, The Fugees, Boyz II Men... nice taste of music Cassie's got :D
Is Scholastic really updating these old references in the rerelease? :-[
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I remember Shaquille O'Neal, Arnold Schwarzeneger, Lucy Lawless - Xena, young Hansons "boy that look like girls" (today definitely not!) Goosebumps, and many others.
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Michael Jordan and Titanic too :)
I guess they'll be changing that to Lebron James and Twilight in the rerelease? ::)
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I guess they'll be changing that to Lebron James and Twilight in the rerelease?
I really hope they don't! It would be bleak. There's no reason to "update" a series, would mean altering its nature. "Animorphs" is a 90ies series - and strongly linked to that period.
They were the legendary times of Michael Jordan and Shaq, Hanson, Xena, Friends, Baywatch - no place for LeBron, Ipad, Facebook, Justin Bieber, Twilight etc.
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I really hope they don't! [...] no place for [...] Justin Bieber [...]
Sixty years from now, I'd might be more accepting of an update.
But I'll accept Justin Bieber as soon as I accept that obnoxious, moronic Fred character (translation: never).
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I guess they'll be changing that to Lebron James and Twilight in the rerelease? ::)
Justin Bieber
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
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I guess they'll be changing that to Lebron James and Twilight in the rerelease? ::)
Justin Bieber
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Oh yes please! Including those... materials... would only kill the series faster. That's one of the reasons I enjoy re-reading the series... just to go back to the amazing 90s :)
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KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
YESSS!!! >:D
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I guess they'll be changing that to Lebron James and Twilight in the rerelease? ::)
Justin Bieber
KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
;D ;D ;D ;D
Another reference to 90's : X-Files. Remember "Fox Mulder" and "Dana Scully" in #14? :)
I don't understand why they need to update the series. Is there a reason? Kids are not stupid : they are able understand that a book is not set in the present time.
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Apparently I'm totally out of the loop, but I thought the re-release was dead?
As for 90's references, "Friends" gets mentioned quite a few times, and seeing as that is my favorite show, I have to love it. Any time a landline is used could be considered a 90's reference as well. :P
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Not to mention The Young and The Restless, Cops, The Brady Bunch, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ER, ... can I go on? :)
Oh, and the time commercial breaks were introduced as "These Messages." Ah, 90s TV.
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Not to mention The Young and The Restless, Cops, The Brady Bunch, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ER, ... can I go on? :)
Oh, and the time commercial breaks were introduced as "These Messages." Ah, 90s TV.
young and the restless is still on and has been for over 50 years.
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... can I go on? :)
Of course! :D
By the way even if some of these references aren't specifically 90s, those topics were just talked about more often...Nowadays even though there's so much stuff going on, it just feels like there's nothing to talk about... :(
Haha I love it when Ax makes those jokes about being young and restless. :)
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I don't understand why they need to update the series. Is there a reason? Kids are not stupid : they are able understand that a book is not set in the present time.
And at the very least, there's nothing in there that kids can't Google.
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Party of Five, which Tobias is inexplicably a fan of.
Also The Offspring are mentioned. Not entirely unique to the 90s, but definitely associated mostly with that decade.
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The Offspring to the 90's like Bon Jovi is to the 80's. Yeah, they're both still active, but their biggest moments were in those respective decades.
TV was probably the only thing Tobias had any real access to in his teen years.
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The fact all of this stuff is seen as "nostalgic" really depresses me. :(
This decade (well, the last one I guess, '00 'til '10, and from then on) bites big-time. And not just 'cause I was 14 when it ended and don't know any better.
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I miss the 90s.
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I'm sure people who grew up in the 80s would biatch about the 90s in the same way, but up until '98 or so, that seemed to be like the last gasp of breath before anything culturally cool & interesting went to hell. I can't really name any band or "icon" or whatever that'll be remembered 5 years down the road. At least ones that aren't sleep-inducing.
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I can't really name any band or "icon" or whatever that'll be remembered 5 years down the road.
3 Doors Down, One Republic, Imagine Dragons, etc.
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Well, sure, but they're all Nickelback levels of suckage. Doubtful the latter two'll even make it a half decade of people knowing 'em. 3DD, granted, but yeah. Eww.
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You're entitled to your opinion.
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The way they have to call eachother on their home phones to meet up seems so alien to me. If only Ax could make them i-phones.
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The way they have to call eachother on their home phones to meet up seems so alien to me.
Ah, better times. *Sighs*