South Park was and still is especially guilty of this. I've had to google way too many random celebrities events when watching old episodes.
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ITT: Old pop culture references no modern viewer will get
South Park was and still is especially guilty of this. I've had to google way too many random celebrities events when watching old episodes.
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All of Looney Tunes
Even Bugs Bunny's iconic carrot was actually a pop culture reference to a now forgotten WB movie.
>bugs bunny was based on a real person who actually existed
that's crazy so are all the looney tunes characters based on real people too?
No no no. Just his carrot was based on a real carrot.
It Happened One Night is not forgotten. I've seen it and I'm a zoomer.
Really, you're going to tell me you don't know who Richard Stamps is?
>I've had to google way too many random celebrities events when watching old episodes.
Zoom zoom ;^)
>Zoom zoom ;^)
Yeah zoom zoom zoom.
Boom boom
I want you in my room
Kek someone in another thread pointed out how all "___oomer" speak sounds like babies going googoo-gaga and now I see it
Motherfrickers literally down here going "zoom zoom boom boom"
xoom xoom
lmao it does, _oomer posters really are overgrown babies
its so funny how generational b***h fighting singlehandely gaslighted millenials so hard that they sound more like the clueless zoomers they strive not to be.
>no zoomer knows what a vhs tape or gamecube is le zoom zoom zoom me boom boom and know what a vhs tape and gamecube is
I'm reminded of this Anime clip whenever I see shit like this online.
>they sound more like the clueless zoomers
That's part of the joke you moron. It's mockery. Yet again, a zoom zoom shows how they earned the name
googoo gaga to you to
>it's just mockery bro!!!
yeah, and i was mocking millennials on how incredibly easy they are to gaslight and have them believe that they're actually curmudgeon boomers while sounding like the dreaded cluelesss zoom zooms.
try learning how to read
Millennials are just proto-zoomers or "zoomers but older in age" and nothing more. Zoomers just inherited their personality and lifestyle traits except made them worse, but all and all they are similar. Saying this will hurt some millennial's feelings due to their morbid hatred of zoomers but that's just proving my point.
It IS the weekend this place gets swarmed with literal children off from school
Zoomers literally are actual babies 🙂
>Millennials and zoomers literally are actual babies 🙂
FTFY
Two moronic generations that ruined society with identity politics.
speak english i can't understand a word you morons are saying
it has taken you THIS LONG to realize that?
the first fricking time i heard 'baby boomer' i was rolling my eyes like 'did people seriously talk that way in the 50s? buncha queermos.'
that never happened though.
>that never happened though.
lol
lmao even
why do millennials genuinely believe that vhs ceased to exist after the year 2000?
IDK, 9/11 or some shit.
Beats me, I was arguing with some ESL millennial moron on Cinemaphile the other day who legitimately couldn't believe my family owned a VHS collection and kept it around well into the 2000s. I think his mind would've exploded if I told him my school district still had iMac G3s and beige boxes running Windows 98 as late as 2016 lol
The PS2 did shank it pretty hard with that DVD player.
It's a Mazda commercial you tard
Somewhat related to South Park, the general populace in the late 90s to early 00s was absolutely fascinated by genetic technology in the wake of both Jurassic Park and the successful cloning of Dolly the Sheep just a few years later. Everything from cartoons to movies to music were absolutely fricking littered with references to clones and genetic engineering. Earth South Park is just one notable example of this, but that entire fascination seems almost forgotten now.
Name 5
Clone High
Pokemon the First Movie
Virtual Insanity
Kid A as an album was dedicated to "the first clone"
Multiplicity
Cloned
The Clone
The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XIII
The 6th Day
Gattaca
Just what immediately came to mind
Oh Pokemon The First Movie is a really good example. Or for that matter, the character Mewtwo to begin with was born out of this whole clone fever thing.
There was actually supposed to be a Dolly the sheep Pokemon but it was scrapped because it was deemed to controversial. (It was most likely reworked into Mareep. )
Don't forget Spider-Man (both cartoon and comics) with the Clone Saga and neogenics.
Also the Pokemon games since the whole Mew/Mewtwo thing was all about genetics, and the fossils were a very direct homage to Jurassic Park. Metal Gear Solid also heavily dealt with clones and genetics. I'm sure there are a lot more video games from that era that had cloning and genetics as a heavy plot point that I'm just forgetting right now. It's genuinely interesting to me that something that was so prominent in pop culture is now apparently forgotten enough that someone would ask for five examples when there were so many.
Okay now name 11 more.
Don't forget things like
>Metal Gear Solid
>Fallout 1
>Clone Saga
>Superboy
>Cell Saga
>Final Fantasy 7
>Clone High
>Batman Beyond’s splicers
>the movie Splice
>the episodes involving clones in Beast Wars
>Danny Phantom introducing Dani Phantom
>Xmen: Evolution introducing X23
it came to a head with Bush giving the no-go to future Stem-Cell research. Basically it went from being a fictional thing to real life to actually involving "humans" and it caused a big stir politically.
nothing whatsoever to do with genetic engineering, but good job repeating the thing. social credit points for you, comrade.
I still remember having a debate with some kid in my school because he said that "all future wars would be fought with clones because they don't have souls so it's OK to kill them" and even as a kid I thought that was the most moronic thing I'd ever heard
Almost any time there is a moral discussion concerning clones, it’s usually pretty easy to shut it down by asking “Does this also apply to identical twins?” And then you have your answer. Which is one reason why assertions like “clones don’t have souls and therefore it’s okay to kill them” come off as so obviously moronic.
yeah and now everything has muh ai writers are never clever
Not just cloning, even the concept of DNA itself in the 90s was a hot topic. In the OJ Simpson trial, they were actually worried about using DNA evidence because it was such a new thing, and they thought the jury might not understand the science if they tried to explain it. And then pretty quickly, you had every major criminal case being solved with DNA, and now it’s basically taken for granted. And we’ve advanced to the point that the new hot thing is solving cold cases with ancestry dna identifying perpetrators through family member links.
Clones and gene stuff is still fricking cool to me.
In South Park’s case, this wasn’t a flaw. It was a very intentional and successful decision. They stuck out as a show whose gimmick was talking about whatever current event was going on in that same week.
Most other shows that frick up with this are going for something more timeless and then on rare and noticeable occasions frick up by putting in something that they failed to predict would quickly become dated. This isn’t what happened for South Park, they actually wanted to be dated. The fact that any of the episodes at all wound up being timeless enough that they could be viewed decades later and still be both comprehensible and topical is the miracle here.
>they actually wanted to be dated
you're fricking moronic
You’re clueless on how South Park was created, zoomie. It wasn’t made for you to ship the kids and turn them gay.
>It wasn’t made for you to ship the kids and turn them gay.
Why bring that out if the blue? Says more about you rather than mine, zoomhomosexual. And character shipping on South Park has been a thing on artsites/forums since the 2000s, zoomie.
>uses wiki as a source
Your zoomer-gullibleness is showing. No where outside of wikipedia did they say they wanted it to be dated, but I wouldn't doubt that they knew the topics they poke fun of would be dated.
GOOGOO GAGA
>seething this hard
>”n-no u!”
kek, ousted as a shipgay that quick? Back to tumblr zoomer.
>seething this hard
Uh oh projection.
>kek, ousted as a shipgay that quick?
So mentioning the history of South Park's shipgay community (when you initially brought it up out of nowhere) makes me a shipgay now? K.
Not that zoomers like you would know a thing about history since that subject is "problematic" for your generation ROFL.
zoom zoom
Oh was that an Elliot Gonzalez reference? I thought that photo was from WACO.
>Name Elian is right there in the pic
>I still called him Elliot
Brain's falling out.
South Park had a whole character based off that Island of Dr Moreau movie that will baffle modern audiences.
Sealab 2021 had an episode in 2002 where Debbie shouts out I NEED AMMO with an icon appearing over her head. Apparently this was a reference to a video game but nobody watching the show 22 years later has a clue which fricking one. Possibly The Thing? Yeah no shit it's confusing
The Simpsons was referencing movies that were thirty years old in the 90s and are even more obscure now.
I never understood what the frick was happening in this scene as a kid but it was so funny I didn't care
Simpsons is a good example of why, as long as it’s funny enough, it really doesn’t matter if half your audience doesn’t get the reference and thinks it’s completely off the wall. Just means the five guys out there who do get it are gonna appreciate it even more.
Simpsons did a lot of this. They made a Prisoner referencing episode in the early 00s.
I fricking love It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Is that what that YT video is?
Yup, it is. I like old references and find it funny that people don't get some of them. Like... people my age need to be told who Peter Lorre, Cary Grant, George Burns, Uncle Miltie and Betty Grable were. ffs, they need to be told who Dick Van Dyke is (yes, is; motherfricker's close to a century old and still kickin') despite certainly having seen him in at least two movies.
I'm foreign so I can understand not knowing who our old actors and actresses are but it shocks me how little people my age anywhere know and American golden age stars.
>people my age need to be told who Peter Lorre
I was doing a Peter Lorre impression at a Halloween gathering with my friends last year and they legitimately had no idea what the frick I was on about, that was a weird experience. Ended up showing them some clips and they INSTANTLY recognized him but for some reason couldn't make the connection without actually seeing him.
I was doing a pitch-perfect Don Knotts impression last night and my wife got pissed off at me for doing it right before bed.
Saddest thing I've heard of was when my friend took his twins trick or treating dressed as Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz. According to him, most people instantly knew the redhead but not a single person under wrinkle-age recognised Ethel or knew how she connected to Lucy.
A lot of the Moreau references are specifically the 90's movie version with Marlon Brando.
Well, no one references the Burt Lancaster one. 1977, iinm. And even fewer have ever read the book
Early South Park was bad about the really odd references that were not new or topical at the time it was made. The first two seasons kept referencing totally random B actors form the mid 80s for some fricking reason.
>for some fricking reason.
because the show was meant for gen Xers who would find it funny. They'd have no idea that show would continue to be popular with Zoomer girls.
almost all of season 12 of south park its a time capsule
That’s just because 08 was really really distinct like people acted weird that year looking back
>all the zoomers commenting "lol why is the animation so weird in this scene"
Also, pudding being sold in cans dates the episode.
You homosexual generations both deserve each other
this is why I liked old south park. constant deliberately corny references and moments, which perfectly balance the sensible politics and total unrestriction of things that upset soccer moms
Cartman was way funnier when he was talking all cutely and talking about his Wellington Bear and Polly Prissy Pants and shit, like zero kids in the late 90s were doing, it made him amusingly oldfashioned which plays perfectly with the casual racism.
these days we have Butters for the cutesy stuff, but he's innocent, and it feels dumb when he's used as the mouthpiece like in the anti gay conversion episode.
>Cartman was amusingly oldfashioned
Yeah, that was a charming kinda thing old South Park used to do. When my brother was in middle school, he got insanely into reading Charles Dickens because he saw Great Expectations referenced on South Park and he ironically thought that made it the coolest and edgiest shit ever.
A lot of Robot Chicken sketches were 80s pop culture references I didn't get, and some even older.
Goddamn do I love this joke though.
His name is spelled Kurtis on the board but is spelled Curtis on the box.
Clearly a cover-up.
I bet nobody that checked out Steamboat Willie this year after it went public domain has any idea what song Mickey is whistling in the opening scene.
>nixon... le bad
Why did 90s cartoons do this?
because animators are all practically universally leftist morons. The people making Histeria/Animaniacs and others were especially hardon for Hillary.
90s animators only caricatured Nixon to pre-emptively shit on Trump by association, it's a hatchet job funded by the Bidens to ruin his election chances this year.
>Animators that grew up during the Nixon administration and saw him as an easy man to caricature since they were all trained artists did caricatures of a man they could easily caricature
Wow whoa
The MySpace episode of King of the Hill