Michael Jackson Was Still Black
Pretty much my entire adolescence compressed into two minutes and 34 seconds:
God I miss that decade sometimes...
(Via.)
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Pretty much my entire adolescence compressed into two minutes and 34 seconds:
God I miss that decade sometimes...
(Via.)
Comments
Surprisingly, I am familiar with almost all of the references...
Posted by: Ilya | May 7, 2009 6:11 AM
When I saw this on Samurai Frog's blog, I sent it to a listserv I'm on that contains mostly college students.
The general consensus was that they remembered none of these things, but understood 100% of the references.
I think the 80s is quickly becoming the 60s, cultural icon-wise...
Posted by: Brian Greenberg | May 7, 2009 2:06 PM
That makes sense, Brian; as I recall, we who were teens in the '80s were all pretty conversant with the icons of the '60s, too. Certainly pop culture was full of references to The Beatles, the anniversary of Woodstock, the baby boomers, etc. It must be a 20-year/generational thing...
Posted by: jason | May 7, 2009 4:15 PM
...and yet, I feel as if we've all already forgotten the 90s... ;-)
Posted by: Brian Greenberg | May 8, 2009 10:06 AM
That's because the 90s weren't very memorable. :)
Posted by: jason | May 8, 2009 12:23 PM
Love this! - My only beef (not to be confused with "Where's the beef?") is the clip from E.T. is the new, anti-gun version. Ugh. Other than that, this was brilliant.
Posted by: chenopup | May 16, 2009 7:08 PM
Yeah, I caught that too... stupid revisionism!
Posted by: jason | May 17, 2009 10:33 PM