SADDO: THE MOVIE (aka READY PLAYER ONE)

looks like I'm gettin dragged to this opening night. tempted to steal the idea of shouting every reference and getting it wrong

tho the theatre didn't exactly erupt in anger when someone said "Hellboy!" when Thanos showed up in the post-credits of Avengers

Whiney u are such a grown-up, I hope I can be a grown-up like u someday, please teach me to put away my childish things oh please won't u, I'm so tired of *already losing*

Whinesplainin

lmao at y'all cuckflake babies who don't think everything Ted Hughes ever wrote should be rented out by Warner Bros

i agree with Whiney and can't wait for the scene with Captain Planet rolling coal

just lmao at all you idiot loser babies who like things. I don't like stuff

otm

no tbf i like age-appropriate stuff

Can't wait until I'm finally old enough to watch Matlock.

adherence to historical context is such a childish endeavor.

superiority is the only true adult sport.

hence why adult shows feature real heroes, cops and lawyers, catching bad guys

the scene with Captain Planet rolling coal

this sounds good, but the audience reaction would make me feel bad

god how amazing would it be if the Dukes of Hazzard and Clyde out of Every Which Way But Loose were in this

giant Arnold Jackson battlebot

the duke boys and clyde team up to impregnate sonic the hedgehog as battlecat looks on

some Dino Riders, Snorks, and Skeletor all part of gun-running venture

Batman murders an innocent man in the first scene and deadpans "that's why you don't mess with THE DARK KNIGHT"

fuck a batman get some care bears up in that shit

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FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOM

may the force be with you, says my girlfriend Princess Leia while the entire cast of Strike Force whips out their proton packs and proceeds to do the Electric Slide. I ponder the nature of the universe while whacking off.

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uh-oh here comes a Jaws

never fear, Captain Power is here

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it's all about fan servicin' kids

apparently ProStars ran for 3 months when i was in my early 20s and it's still indelibly etched

prostars! someone bring that shit back.

lol i watched that shit

Can't wait until the nostalgic revival of shitty early '90s celebri-toons begins in earnest. I need my gritty Hammerman reboot now, dammit.

someday kids will be nostalgic for that time when culture was dominated by 90s nostalgia

Doug Funnie beats up Roger Klotz

Wish Kid ftw

Totally had a Wish Kid reference lined up. Must now scramble for a replacement. Perhaps Life With Louie will do.

obviously not all of your fine children's programming made it across to our side of the Atlantic

The Westing Game is peerless I hope kids are still reading it

FWIW, my older kid read it when she was younger and thought it was just OK. My younger kid (10), we coincidentally tried it last week or so and she wasn't having it. So who knows?

they should have just made the movie a 15 minute "We Didn't Start the Fire" music video with Billy Joel just singing all the characters as they appear on screen.

Goddamn it, I am now almost certainly going to wind up spending a large portion of my day reconfiguring Billy Joel lyrics. Thanksalot.

i do feel that gen x's inability to let go of its childhood pop culture b.s. really poisoned culture to some degree

I agree mostly because it's one thing to talk about all the fun shit you grew up with wistfully, still ok to quote movies and shit around friends...but some years I go to our local Fringe festival and see a show that's all goddamn references and people howling and it is nuts.

Everybody wants to blame Family Guy but its references were often more obscure and inside baseball. like how many times a day do I need to hear Princess Bride quotes?

and a lot of these people are the same folk who say "80s kids remember REAL music and movies" on Youtube comment sections about fuckin' Bananarama

That just means "people who were kids in the 90s", there are people complaining that today's musicians don't live up to Justin & Britney as well.

I guess it feels less impactful to me because I try to avoid things that celebrate hollow nostalgia in favor of my own personal celebrations of hollow nostalgia.

nah, people always been looking to the past. Sgt. Pepper was a nostalgia play on early 20th century salvation army bands and pre-war pop. The Renaissance had plenty of intellectual layabouts getting off on "classic" retro Roman/Greek culture

I grew up in the 90s watching Happy Days b/c it was on TV all the time. the whole nostalgic aspect of the show was totally lost on me. I thought it was actually made in the 50s. I wonder if the next generation is going to think the same about That 70s Show.

there's always been nostalgia for past eras

but i think it's turned into an industry in a way that it wasn't back then

Golden Age isn't a new phenomenon though but the 80s was an explosion of pop culture characters that were expressed in toys, t-shirts, 8-film movie franchises, etc, and now we have the information age where people can just crank out references to the shit all day long.

so yeah it was always there but now it's more in your face.

and yes it will not strictly be stricted to 80s people, I saw someone ruminate wistfully about how there hasn't been good quality music since the 90s on a fucking 69 Boyz youtube video

69 Boyz actually were the last good music iirc

what was their New Jersey?

I would posit that this isn’t a Gen X phenomenon but rather starting way earlier(American Graffiti, Grease, and the aforementioned Happy Days, anyone?), but Gen X grew up in an environment where media became omnipresent, so the Boomer nostalgia process got shoved thru that.

So you had shit like doo-wop being a part of kids entertainment(which I’m not complaining about, but it was there, esp on Nickelodeon), Monkees reruns(also crucial), and that weird Garfield animated special where they wind up on a ‘50s Polynesian Island w/ Wolfman Jack(airdate: May 1986)

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yeah I guess American Graffiti is more ground zero, and from Lucas so it has a tie to what would become the ongoing Star Wars franchise which turned these impulses into the Nostalgia-Industrial Complex of today

also that drawing of wolfman jack in garfield is fucking me up

Nostalgia began the moment human life ceased to be a minute-to-minute struggle for survival. The looming apocalypse should put a pretty decisive stop to it, I'd think.