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Pop References seem off by ten years

posted 16 years ago by jonesjax
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Something that has ALWAYS bugged me about this movie. They're supposed to be 20somethings in 1994. I find it hard to believe that they would know all the words to Conjunction Junction or any school-house rock, OR that they would know all the episodes to GOODTIMES. I think more appropriate references would be 1980s or reruns of that era, which weren't any of those things. Then again, Garafolo's character is fascinated by 70s (Shawn Cassidy poster, etc) - but they wouldn't have been more than six when the 80s began. Just didn't buy it. What I did buy is that the writer was my age. Not the characters.

[–] darqleo 10 years ago

I was 21 in 1994 (when this film came out) and I grew up on Schoolhouse Rock, The Muppets, Electric Company, Sesame Street, Sid & Marty Kroft, Mr. Rodgers, Captain Kangeroo, etc. A lot of those shows repeated over and over again past their original air dates. All of those shows were big for us Generation X'ers and revisited in the 90's. There was even a Saturday Morning Cartoon cover song album released in 1995 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Morning:_Cartoons%27_Greatest_Hits

[–] Jes' Sayin' (6466) 2 years ago

Thanks for posting this. I thought the same thing and am surprised to be reading that that trivial stuff lived on for so long.