The Love Boat; CaddyShack; “Turning Japanese”; punk and preppy fashions; Strawberry Shortcake; The Blue Lagoon, and Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein ads; designer jeans; “All Out of Love”; Pat Benatar, and Debbie Harry; “Who shot J.R.?”; 9 to 5; Urban Cowboy; "Another One Bites the Dust”; Kenny Rogers; Xanadu; Airplane!; “Rapper's Delight”; “Brass in Pocket”; Mattel Electronic Football; Miracle on Ice; That's Incredible!; and The Empire Strikes Back.
Cable Television and MTV; Porky’s; Ronald Reagan assassination attempt and Pope John Paul II assassination attempt; The Royal Wedding; Luke and Laura (characters from General Hospital); Rick Springfield; Arthur; The Greatest American Hero; De Lorean DMC-12; Rubik's Cube; “Celebration”; Fridays; Stripes; Bosom Buddies; John McEnroe; “Private Eyes”; Members Only; Atari 2600; The Jeffersons; and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Mullets; VJs; "Mickey”; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; “Centerfold”; Square Pegs; Rocky III; Ozzy Osbourne; “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”; The Dukes of Hazzard; The Go-Go's; "Physical"/Jane Fonda's Workout/aerobics fashion; “I Ran (So Far Away)”; Trivial Pursuit; Keytar; "Joanie Loves Chachi"; Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man; “867-5309/Jenny”; Dungeons & Dragons; Poltergeist; “The Message”; Silver Spoons; and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
National Lampoon's Vacation; Family Ties; Diff'rent Strokes; Cabbage Patch Kids; “Thriller”; Flashdance; Duran Duran; Valley Girl; “Love is a Battlefield”; Scarface; The A-Team; Def Leppard's ‘Pyromania’; Eddie Murphy ‘Delirious’; “Come on Eileen”; Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt; Knight Rider; WarGames; Wacky WallWalker; “Mr. Roboto”; He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Breakdancing; Footloose; Madonna; “Sunglasses at Night”; "Where's the beef?"; ‘Born in the U.S.A.’; Mary Lou Retton; Webster, and Punky Brewster; Huey Lewis and the News; Miami Vice; The Terminator; Transformers, and Care Bears; Wham!; Prince; Sixteen Candles; Cyndi Lauper; Michael Jackson's Pepsi commercial disaster; “Hello”; and This is Spinal Tap.
WrestleMania; MacGyver; Back to the Future; “Home Sweet Home”; The Goonies; Pee-wee's Big Adventure; Small Wonder; “Summer of '69”; big hair; Fletch; “The Super Bowl Shuffle”; Bartles & Jaymes; Cocoon; “Voices Carry”; Live Aid; The Facts of Life; “Party All the Time”; The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo's Fire; Day-Glo, and oversized message t-shirts; Pound Puppies; and “We Are the World”/Hear 'n Aid.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Wheel of Fortune; Hands Across America; Teddy Ruxpin; ALF; Pretty in Pink; “Papa Don't Preach”; Swatch; 1986 World Series and the Bill Buckner fielding error; The Cosby Show; Baby on Board; "Crocodile" Dundee; celebrity marriages; Whitney Houston; Comic Relief; Janet Jackson; Stand by Me; “Walk This Way”; and Top Gun.
Dirty Dancing; Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson; hair crimping; Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam; Fatal Attraction; Hair Metal; FOX; “It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”; controversial extra-martial affairs; Wall Street; “Fight for Your Right”; acid-wash, and Converse; Cheers; “Push It”; Hollywood Shuffle; “Addicted to Love”; The two Coreys; and U2's ‘The Joshua Tree’.
Mike Tyson; Child's Play; Roseanne; “Never Gonna Give You Up” Guns N' Roses; The Wonder Years; Modern Rock; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; “Don't Worry, Be Happy”; California Raisins; Perfect Strangers; George Michael's ‘Faith’; Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw; “Red, Red Wine”; Working woman's wardrobe, Color Me Beautiful (seasonal colors); Yo! MTV Raps, “Parents Just Don't Understand”, N.W.A and the rise of gangsta rap; Who's the Boss?; Terence Trent D'Arby; the neo-hippie movement; “Touch of Grey”; and Rain Man.
New Kids on the Block; Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; Milli Vanilli; Game Boy, and Tetris; COPS; Rob Lowe's sex video; “If I Could Turn Back Time”; Do the Right Thing; Madonna's “Like a Prayer” music video and the ensuing Pepsi controversy; Say Anything…; The Arsenio Hall Show; “Love Shack”; Bobby Brown; Afrocentric clothing; BayWatch; “Love in an Elevator”; Heathers; Saved by the Bell; “Funky Cold Medina”; and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Jackson 5; Weebles; Sesame Street; The Partridge Family; Hee Haw; The Carol Burnett Show; Love, American Style; swinging; waterbeds; The Newlywed Game; The Mod Squad; The Odd Couple; Elvis meets Nixon; Black Sabbath; The Carpenters, and Bread; Monday Night Football; Love Story; Neil Diamond; The Beatles' breakup; Wild Kingdom; Lite-Brite; Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret; and The Brady Bunch.
Shaft; The Electric Company; Tom Jones; Keep America Beautiful; Hogan's Heroes; Fiddler on the Roof; “Stairway to Heaven”; Ouija; Soul Train; All in the Family; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; hot pants; Operation; “Joy to the World”; H.R. Pufnstuf; Dirty Harry; Ford Pinto; bell-bottoms; “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”; and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Kung Fu, Bruce Lee; Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!; Stevie Wonder; The Godfather; Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids; afros; Ben; lunch boxes and Wonder Bread; Deep Throat; The Poseidon Adventure; Sea Monkeys; Mark Spitz; gaucho pants; The Bermuda Triangle; Josie and the Pussycats; Ziggy Stardust; "I Am Woman" and the Women's Liberation Movement; Blythe; John Lennon and Yoko Ono on The Mike Douglas Show; Deliverance; and The Brady Bunch Hawaiian episodes.
Sanford and Son; A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving; “Jungle Boogie”; Baby Alive; The Waltons; Live and Let Die; leisure suits; Charlotte's Web; ’The Dark Side of the Moon’; Shrinky Dinks; The Dating Game; The Joy of Sex; “Free Bird”; The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour; Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs ("Battle of the Sexes”); Kojak; Schoolhouse Rock!; roller derby/Kansas City Bomber; Easy Bake Oven; ZOOM; and The Exorcist.
Benji; Little House on the Prairie; Hong Kong Phooey; “Sweet Home Alabama”; Good Times; Connect Four; Let's Make a Deal; Elton John; day-of-the-week panties; streaking; Blazing Saddles/Young Frankenstein; Magic 8 Ball; Patty Hearst; The Towering Inferno; Foxy Brown; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; Rumble in the Jungle; Slip 'N Slide; “The Joker”; Death Wish; Happy Days.
Welcome Back, Kotter; Big Wheel; Earth, Wind & Fire; One Day at a Time; Pet Rock; 8-Track; Land of the Lost; The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams; Pelé; Pong; The Shazam!/Isis Hour; “Love Will Keep Us Together”; Baretta; “Feelings”; The Secret Life of Plants; Saturday Night Live; Erhard Seminars Training; Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore; Barry Manilow; Metrication in the United States; Liberace; “Rhinestone Cowboy”; mood rings; Tony Orlando and Dawn; Monty Python's Flying Circus/Monty Python and the Holy Grail; and Jaws.
Charlie's Angels; Kiss; The Muppet Show; Carrie; The Gong Show; Family Feud; Donny and Marie; Oscar Mayer; Taxi Driver; Starsky and Hutch; Dr. J; Bigfoot/Loch Ness Monster; “Do You Feel Like We Do”; Car Wash; Rocky; Stretch Armstrong; Captain Kangaroo; The Bad News Bears; and the United States Bicentennial.
Wonder Woman, Battle of the Network Stars; ABBA; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Star Wars; What's Happening!!; “You Light Up My Life”; Shields and Yarnell; Saturday Night Fever; Studio 54; Queen; Son of Sam, New York City Blackout of 1977, 1977 World Series; Smokey and the Bandit; Annie Hall; clackers; Punk Rock; and Roots.
Superman; The Incredible Hulk; Superfriends; Halloween; The Price is Right; “Brick House”; Underalls; Debbie Does Dallas; Louise Brown; The Bee Gees; Grease; WKRP in Cincinnati; “Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?”; B.J. and the Bear; CB radios; Up in Smoke; Fantasy Island; The Who/Led Zeppelin; Simon; The Wiz; and National Lampoon's Animal House.
CHiPs; The Warriors; Pop Rocks; “I Will Survive”; Apocalypse Now; Alien; Slime; Taxi; Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl/Pittsburgh Pirates win World Series; 10; Donna Summer; Candie's shoes; Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders; Chippendale dancers; Three's Company; The Jerk; Jimmy Carter's Swamp Rabbit incident; “My Sharona”; Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels; The Village People; and The Muppet Movie.
American Gigolo; Too Close for Comfort; “Whip It”; Richie Rich; Grey Poupon; Superman II; The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show; Flash Gordon; “Rock with You”; Real People; The Blues Brothers; Eight is Enough; Solid Gold; satin jackets; Stir Crazy; Private Benjamin; Alice; friendship bracelets; “I Want You to Want Me”; Hungry Hungry Hippos; and Friday the 13th.
Dynasty; The Smurfs; ‘Escape’; On Golden Pond; “The Stroke”; Endless Love; Magnum, P.I.; “Super Freak”; iron-on decals; The Fall Guy; The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You Tour; Fernando Valenzuela; Hart to Hart; Benetton; Benson; Ronald Reagan likes Jelly Belly; jelly shoes; Clash of the Titans; Simon and Garfunkel's concert in Central Park; and Mommie Dearest.
Fame; Annie; “Abracadabra”; Tootsie; ColecoVision vs Atari 2600; John Mellencamp; Wayne Gretzky; “Gloria”; The Toy; Conan the Barbarian, and The Beastmaster; Men at Work; KangaROOS; Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior; T. J. Hooker; “I’m So Excited”; An Officer and a Gentleman; G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero; “Pass the Dutchie”; Pink Floyd – The Wall; and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Richard Simmons; “All Night Long (All Night)”; Staying Alive; Klondike bar; The Thorn Birds; Risky Business; sunglasses; The Day After; The Outsiders; Cujo, and Christine; Snausages; Chicken McNuggets; “Rock This Town”; Donkey Kong; Culture Club; Yentl; Kiss takes off their makeup; Martina Navratilova; Fraggle Rock; and V.
The Karate Kid; Van Halen's ‘1984’; the wave; “Drive”; Beverly Hills Cop; Cagney & Lacey; Menudo; Scratch-and-sniff, and Trapper Keeper; A Nightmare on Elm Street; Thompson Twins; My Little Pony, and Glo Worm; “Somebody's Watching Me”; Splash, and Bachelor Party; Gremlins; The Burning Bed; Tina Turner; stirrup pants; Billy Idol; and Revenge of the Nerds.
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous; Rambo: First Blood Part II; the American crack epidemic; “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”; Teen Wolf; Inspector Gadget; Remington Steele; “Rock Me Amadeus”; Jenga; Tears for Fears; Bobby Knight's explosive temper and getting ejected from the game vs Purdue; The People's Court; “That's What Friends Are For”; 227; North and South; “I Want to Know What Love Is”; Mr. Belvedere; New Coke; Jem; Weird Science.
Pee-wee's Playhouse; Jolt Cola; ‘Slippery When Wet’; L.A. Gear; “You Can Call Me Al”; Soul Man; Rainbow Brite; “Walk Like an Egyptian”; Dallas: "Bobby Ewing Comes Back to Life"; Howard the Duck; About Last Night; The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault; Ocean Pacific; Gloria Estefan's “Conga”; L.A. Law; The Golden Child; Double Dare; Garbage Pail Kids; Michael Jordan; Don Johnson's “Heartbeat”; Joe Isuzu; and The Fly.
Beauty and the Beast; “Here I Go Again”; Scruples; The Fat Boys; Flowers in the Attic; LL Cool J; "Macho Movies"; Doc Martens; “Bad”; Full House; Less Than Zero; Jody Watley; Remote Control; biker shorts (Lycra); ThunderCats; Raising Arizona; “Luka”; A Different World; “Land of Confusion”; Steve Guttenberg; and The Princess Bride.
Big; Growing Pains*; MTV's Headbangers Ball; ripped jeans; Beetlejuice; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car”; Jamaica national bobsled team; My Two Dads; Garfield stuffed animals; Beaches; Charles in Charge; A Fish Called Wanda; Ickey Woods, and the Bash Brothers; Hypercolor t-shirts**; “Pour Some Sugar on Me”; Young Guns; Alternative Rock; Vice President George H. W. Bush elected President of the United States; Chia Pet; Tracy Chapman; and Coming to America. [*originally premiered in 1985] [**first sold in 1991]
Weekend at Bernie’s; Doogie Howser M.D.; “I Wanna Have Some Fun”; The Clapper; Field of Dreams; Pete Rose; “Just a Friend”; Thirtysomething; yuppies; Richard Marx; Driving Miss Daisy; Zsa Zsa Gabor slaps a cop; “Patience”; Rock 'n' Roll Flowers; ‘Paul's Boutique’; Bo Jackson; Designing Women; York Peppermint Pattie; House of Style; Choose Your Own Adventure; and When Harry Met Sally.
Pretty Woman; Twin Peaks; “Nothing Compares 2 U”; Marion Barry scandal; Ghost; Jack Kevorkian's controversial suicide technique; “The Humpty Dance”; MC Hammer, and Vanilla Ice; The Forbidden Dance, and the Lambada; “How Am I Supposed to Live Without You”; "I've fallen and I can't get up!" commercials; “Groove is in the Heart”; Provocative ads for Guess; Dances with Wolves; In Living Color; “Hold On”; Edward Scissorhands; slap bracelets; and Goodfellas.
Beverly Hills, 90210*; Boyz n the Hood; The Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill sexual harassment hearings; the rise of grunge music and fashion; New Jack City; Color Me Badd; The "Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?" commercial; “Rico Suave”; Thelma & Louise; Family Matters**; Pee-wee Herman caught masturbating; Super Bowl XXV, and Wide Right; “Enter Sandman”; Point Break; “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”***; rollerblades; Garth Brooks; and The Silence of the Lambs. [*originally premiered in 1990] [**originally premiered in 1989] [***originally released in 1990]
Wayne's World; Amy Fisher and Joey Buttafuoco; “Achy Breaky Heart”; Ross Perot; “I’m Too Sexy”; Fabio; The Real World; Woody Allen marries his stepdaughter; Kris Kross; Madonna's ‘Sex’ book; “Baby Got Back”; The Dream Team; The Ren and Stimpy Show*; Murphy Brown**; Single White Female; Arrested Development; Reservoir Dogs; Mortal Kombat; Barney & Friends; Reebok's "Dan & Dave" campaign; and The Bodyguard. [*originally premiered in 1991] [**originally premiered in 1988]
Jurassic Park; Marge Schott; “Informer”; Where's Waldo?*; Martin**; Free Willy; John and Lorena Bobbitt; Blind Melon's "No Rain”***; The Fugitive; The Waco siege; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg; Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers; Dazed and Confused; Crystal Pepsi****; Quantum Leap*****; ‘Get a Grip’; and The X-Files. [*originally introduced in 1987] [**originally premiered in 1992] [***originally released in 1992] [****originally introduced in 1992] [*****originally premiered in 1989]
Melrose Place*; Tonya Harding vs Nancy Kerrigan; Reality Bites, and Lisa Loeb's “Stay (I Missed You)”; John Tesh; Speed; The O. J. Simpson slow-speed chase; NYPD Blue**; “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”***; George Foreman Grill; Boyz II Men; Tommy Hilfiger; Pulp Fiction; Ace of Base; Woodstock '94; Salt-N-Pepa; and Forrest Gump. [*originally premiered in 1992] [**originally premiered in 1993] [***originally released in 1993]
Toy Story; Party of Five*; “Gangsta's Paradise”; Snapple; WaterWorld; Hugh Grant caught with prostitute Divine Brown; M&M’s spokescandies commercials; Heroin chic; ‘CrazySexyCool’**; Clueless; ”Cotton-Eyed Joe”**; Xena, and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; tattoos and piercings; Babe; PlayStation***; chat rooms and cybersex; X Games, and MTV Sports; Hootie and the Blowfish; and Braveheart. [*originally premiered in 1994] [**originally released in 1994] [***originally introduced in 1994]
The Macarena; Oakland Ebonics controversy; Twister; The Nanny*; Tickle Me Elmo; Oasis; Independence Day; Bob Dole; Zubaz; Tiger Woods, and Dennis Rodman; Mentos commercials; “C’mon 'n' Ride It (The Train)”; ‘Jagged Little Pill’**; Kathie Lee Gifford's child labor scandal; Sling Blade; “One of Us”***; and Jerry Maguire. [*originally premiered in 1993] [**originally released in 1995] [***originally released in 1995]
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; Spice Girls; McCaughey septuplets; “Tubthumping”; The Full Monty; Hanson; Dolly the sheep; Beanie Babies; Boogie Nights; Fiona Apple; Tamagotchi; Jewel; Ally McBeal; “Barbie Girl”; Lilith Fair; Mike Tyson bites off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear; the Heaven's Gate cult; and South Park.
The Lewinsky scandal; Viagra; John Glenn's return to space; Armageddon; “Gettin' Jiggy Wit It”; Teletubbies*; Backstreet Boys; Dawson's Creek; “Torn”; The Jerry Springer Show**; Jesse Ventura becomes governor of Minnesota; “The Dope Show”; Furby; The Big Lebowski; the Swing revival; Mark McGwire vs Sammy Sosa; Frasier***; Martha Stewart; soccer moms; “Make 'em Say Uhh!”; and There's Something About Mary. [*originally premiered in 1997] [**originally premiered in 1991] [***originally premiered in 1993]
The Blair Witch Project; Tae Bo; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire; “Summer Girls”; Y2K; Fight Club; the Taco Bell chihuahua; John Rocker; The Sixth Sense; Harry Potter; Latin Pop; Elián González; “Mambo No. 5”; Office Space; Susan Lucci wins an Emmy after nineteen consecutive nominations; Teen Pop; The Atkins Diet; and The Matrix.
Misery; Supermarket Sweep; “Poison”; fanny packs; Nelson; 2 Live Crew; MTV Unplugged*; “Opposites Attract”; dolphin-safe tuna; James "Buster" Douglas' defeat of Mike Tyson; Days of Thunder; The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; Dick Tracy, and Madonna's “Vogue”; Moscow gets its first McDonald’s; Cop Rock; Caller ID; Total Recall, and Kindergarten Cop. [*originally premiered in 1989]
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Planet Hollywood; David Duke; Public Enemy “Bring Tha Noize”; Lollapalooza; Jungle Fever; the Soviet Union ceases to exist; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; “Wicked Game”*; The Atlanta Braves Tomahawk Chop controversy; Starter Jackets, and pagers and their use for numeric spelling; Red Hot Chili Peppers' “Give It Away” and Weird Al's parody version; Wilt Chamberlain's ‘A View from Above’; “More Than Words”; Rugrats; and Cape Fear. [*originally released in 1990]
The Crying Game; American Gladiators*; Thighmaster; “Jump Around”; Singles; Studs**; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus; “To Be with You”***; the nicotine patch; Bill Clinton says he "didn't inhale"; “Cop Killer”; Mad About You; George H. W. Bush vomits on Japan's prime minister; Larry Bird retires; Sinéad O'Connor rips up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live; A League of Their Own; Teen Talk Barbie; Euro Disneyland; Northern Exposure****; and White Men Can't Jump. [* originally premiered in 1989] [** originally premiered in 1991] [*** originally released in 1991] [**** originally premiered in 1990]
Cliffhanger; the Energizer Bunny; “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”*; Chicken Soup for the Soul; the U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy; Mrs. Doubtfire; “Creep”**; Monica Seles gets stabbed; Paintball; Falling Down; “Insane in the Brain”; What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Leprechaun; the Great Flood of 1993; Frank Sinatra's ‘Duets’; Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain; Zima; and True Romance. [* originally released in 1988] [** originally released in 1992]
The Wonderbra; Anna Nicole Smith marries J. Howard Marshall; Tales from the Crypt*; The Cranberries; The Club; Michael Fay's caning; Benedictine Monks' ‘Chant’; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Models, Inc.; Warehouse clubs; “Loser”**; New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup; Blues Traveler; Clerks; Tony Little; Counting Crows; Ricola; and Natural Born Killers. [* originally premiered in 1989] [** originally released in 1993]
The Usual Suspects; Fashion Cafe; “Boombastic”; NewsRadio; Species; Psychic Friends Network; Starbucks; Mallrats; Se7en; Newt Gingrich vs. women in the military; the hemp debate; “This is How We Do It”; To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar; babydoll dresses; Moviefone; Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon; and the O.J. Simpson murder trial.
Kerri Strug; The Crocodile Hunter; Romeo + Juliet; the Caesar haircut; Jeff Foxworthy's redneck routine; “Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check”; Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape; Deion "Primetime" Sanders; East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry; Jenny McCarthy; David Crosby fathers Melissa Etheridge's child; R. Kelly's “I Believe I Can Fly”; The Unabomber; Michael Flatley; 7th Heaven; and Evita.
Air Force One; Kenny G breaks the world record for longest note held; “Bitch”; the "death" of Joe Camel; Con Air; TV show content ratings; “Sex and Candy”; Latrell Sprewell chokes his coach, and Marv Albert bites his girlfriend; the death of Chris Farley; Mary Kay Letourneau; the WNBA; “Fly”; Starship Troopers; PokéMon*; Barbie and Paula Jones get makeovers; G.I. Jane; and Titanic. [* did not debut in the U.S. until 1998]
Godzilla; Ginger Spice leaves the Spice Girls; “Thank U”; Raves; Blade; Buffy the Vampire Slayer*; Lay's WOW chips; Mad cow disease; Urban Legend; Gary Coleman punches a fan; MTV's guest VJ Jesse Camp “Ghetto Supastar (That is What You Are)”; The Waterboy; Behind the Music*; The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up**; Naomi Campbell throws a cell phone at an assistant; El Niño; and Run Lola Run. [*originally premiered in 1997] [**originally released in 1997]
Freaks and Geeks; Chris Gaines; TRL*; “Hard Knock Life”**; Emeril Lagasse; Red Bull; Lance Armstrong; Matthew McConaughey arrested for playing the bongos naked; Cruel Intentions; Limp Bizkit; SpongeBob SquarePants; The Tom Green Show***; Win Ben Stein's Money****; Being John Malkovich; and Varsity Blues. [*originally premiered in 1998] [**originally released in 1998] [***originally premiered in 1994] [****originally premiered in 1997]
Fame; Paul McCartney gets busted for marijuana possession in Japan; ethnic Barbie dolls; the Pepsi Challenge; Richard Pryor burns himself; Fruit Roll-Ups; “Cars”; Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; Post-it notes; “Back in Black”; Intellivision; My Bodyguard; “Sailing”; The Jazz Singer; Fashion plates; Sugar Ray Leonard; The Elephant Man; and Little Darlings.
History of the World, Part I; Circus of the Stars; The first laptop; “Working for the Weekend”; Chariots of Fire; You Can't Do That on Television; mud wrestling; “Hold on Loosely”; Escape from New York; Penny Racers: the Mediterranean fruit fly infestation; Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters; “Keep on Loving You”; Body Heat; Erasermate; Country stars performing pop songs; Gimme a Break!; and An American Werewolf in London.
Quest for Fire; VCRs; “Don't You Want Me”; Cats; TRON; Freezy Freakies; “Rosanna”; BMX; Shopping malls; “I Want Candy”; headbands and mesh shirts; The $25,000 Pyramid; EPCOT Center; Victor Victoria; the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders; Ripley's Believe It or Not!; and First Blood.
Jaws 3-D; Star Search; Monchhichi; “Rockit”; St. Elsewhere; Truly Tasteless Jokes; Mr. Mom; the Jheri curl; Jesse Jackson runs for President; Press Your Luck; ZZ Top; D.C. Cab; Reading Rainbow; Mr. Wizard; the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars”); Quiet Riot; and Terms of Endearment.
Red Dawn; Dr. Ruth Westheimer; “One Night in Bangkok”; Band Aid; Children of the Corn; New Edition; hair mousse; Amadeus; Doug Flutie's hail mary pass; “Rappin' Rodney”; Voltron; calculator watch; Romancing the Stone; designer shoelaces; Snorks; the anti-fur movement; TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes; and Police Academy.
Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting; monster trucks; Mick Jagger and David Bowie's version of “Dancing in the Street”; Calvin Klein's Obsession; The Legend of Billie Jean; ‘No Jacket Required’; Joe Theismann gets his leg broken on Monday Night Football; My Buddy; "Weird Al" Yankovic; Just One of the Guys; The Subway Vigilante; Sour Patch Kids; Brewster's Millions; Sally Field's Oscars speech; “Rhythm of the Night”; Spies Like Us; and Rocky IV.
Back to School; Love Connection; Madballs; “We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off”; Murder, She Wrote; Muammar al-Gaddafi; The Color of Money; Short Circuit; Snuggle; Not Necessarily the News; Memorex tapes; Lucas; Head of the Class; Heart; Halley's Comet; and ¡Three Amigos!
Predator; Oral Roberts asks for $8,000,000; Max Headroom; “Mony Mony”; The Legend of Zelda; Moonstruck; Baby Jessica falls down a well; Lee Press-On nails; Throw Momma from the Train; microwave ovens; Ozone depletion; Spenser: For Hire; Black Monday; Mannequin; the bolo tie; “(I Just) Died in Your Arms”; Kelly Le Brock Pantene advertisements; Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Lethal Weapon.
Twins; party lines/1-900 numbers; Cher and Rob Camiletti, Buster Poindexter's version of “Hot Hot Hot”; Cocktail, and the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo”; Micro Machines; “Kiss Me Deadly”; Unsolved Mysteries; Midnight Run; Jimmy the Greek's racist comments; “Beds Are Burning”; the rattail; The Morton Downey, Jr. Show; It's Garry Shandling's Show; Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!; tanning beds; “Forever Young”; and The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Rescue 911; The Little Mermaid; “She Drives Me Crazy”; the Exxon Valdez oil spill; Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Mr. Bean; Leona Helmsley charged with tax evasion; Paula Abdul; Road House; Super Bowl XXIII; The Noid; the hi-top fade haircut; Salman Rushdie's ‘The Satanic Verses’; Parenthood; Kim Basinger buys a town; “Close My Eyes Forever”; the B-2 bomber; and Steel Magnolias.
Hawaii Five-O; the AMC Gremlin; “Spirit in the Sky”; Willis Reed and the 1970 NBA Finals; Adam-12; miniskirts; “Band of Gold”; Patton; Airport; Three Dog Night; the first floppy disk; Jimi Hendrix; Woodstock: The Movie; Casey Kasem's American Top 40; Sly and the Family Stone; hippie fashions; and Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Hollywood Squares; The French Connection; ‘Tapestry’; ‘Sticky Fingers’; Billy Jack; Sears Toughskins; View-Master; The Dick Cavett Show; The Grateful Dead; K-Tel; Malibu Barbie; The Flip Wilson Show; Jethro Tull; Supercomb; “If You Could Read My Mind”; and Brian's Song.
Superfly; The Paul Lynde Show; Carly Simon, and James Taylor; the 1972 Nixon visit to China/Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing; Pink Flamingos; Alice Cooper; Maude; Nerf footballs; Miami Dolphins' perfect season; the Goodyear blimp; Billy Dee Williams; Gary Glitter; The Bob Newhart Show; Richard Pryor; Bobby Fischer; and Man of La Mancha.
Match Game; Jesus Christ Superstar; homosexuality no longer considered a mental disorder; “Half-Breed”; WestWorld; “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia”; Charlie perfume; Steve McQueen; “Let's Get It On”; The Streets of San Francisco; Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite; Celebrity Bowling; Secretariat; “Smoke on the Water”; Paper Moon; and American Graffiti.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show; The Street Fighter; Electric Light Orchestra; string bikinis; Password; Hank Aaron; Mikhail Baryshnikov's defection to Canada; Chico and the Man; the Harlem Globetrotters; Burt Reynolds; “Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”; the Bedazzler; Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore; “Midnight Train to Georgia”; Sit 'n Spin; the Heimlich maneuver; and Earthquake.
S.W.A.T.; Dog Day Afternoon; the skateboard craze; The Hustle; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; “Lady Marmalade”; the 1975 World Series; Rollerball; the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa; “Thunder Road”; the AMC Pacer; Joe Namath appears in a Beautymist pantyhose commercial; Shampoo; Nair; The Swiss Family Robinson TV series; “You Are So Beautiful”; and The Return of the Pink Panther.
Network; Fleetwood Mac; “Afternoon Delight”; In Search of…; laser light shows; The Doobie Brothers; The Omen; “Disco Duck”; Nadia Comăneci; Thin Lizzy; Paul McCartney/Wings; Freaky Friday; Captain and Tennille; and King Kong.
Pumping Iron; Billy Beer; Quincy, M.E.; Calgon; The Kentucky Fried Movie; The Joker's Wild; Leif Garrett; Name That Tune; The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries; Plato's Retreat; Ted Nugent; Oh, God!; Slap Shot; Meat Loaf; Elvis dies; and The Deep, and Orca.
Battlestar Galactica; Andy Gibb; Leon Spinks wins Heavyweight Title over Muhammad Ali; Mr. Whipple; Dawn of the Dead; Ginsu; Blondie; the Pogo; Barney Miller; Cheryl Tiegs; Billy Joel; Kristy McNichol; Ice Castles; Doctor Who; Devo; Merlin; Heaven Can Wait; and Midnight Express.
Rock 'n' Roll High School; “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”; ESPN; The Amityville Horror; “Rock Lobster”; “Joe's Garage”; Trapper John, M.D.; Disco Demolition Night; Tab; The Rose; McDonald's Happy Meals; The White Shadow; “Is She Really Going Out with Him?”; and Hair.
Budweiser's "Whassup?" ad campaign*; Dude, Where's My Car?; Jackass; the 2000 Florida presidential election; Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football; Razor Scooter; Survivor; “Who Let the Dogs Out?”; Gladiator; TiVo**; Big Mouth Billy Bass; CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Erin Brockovich; Napster; David Crosby fathers Melissa Etheridge & Julie Cypher's kids; MTV Cribs; and Cast Away. [*originally aired in 1999] [**originally introduced in 1999]
Zoolander; Live with Regis and Kelly; Enrique Iglesias' “Hero”; low-rise jeans; Fear Factor; Sharon Stone's husband, Phil Bronstein, bitten by Komodo dragon; Pearl Harbor; the iPod; The Weakest Link; Moulin Rouge!; Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Lil' Kim & Pink's “Lady Marmalade”; Winona Ryder shoplifts; “It Wasn't Me”*; Segway; Memento; XFL; and the aftermath of 9/11. [*originally released in 2000]
Spider-Man; the Homeland Security Color Alert Advisory System; Yao Ming; Robert Blake is accused of murder; The Ring; Liza Minnelli marries David Gest; “Party Hard”*; My Big Fat Greek Wedding; Botox Parties; Ted Williams being cryogenically frozen; Signs; Avril Lavigne; Mojito, Cosmo & Martini; Unfaithful; David Blaine; and American Idol. [*originally released in 2001]
The O.C.; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; trucker hats; Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes the governor of California; Chappelle's Show; “In da Club”; Michael Jackson is accused of child molestation; Joe Millionaire; metrosexuals; Clay Aiken; Finding Nemo; Paris Hilton sex tape; Siegfried & Roy's tiger incident; McGriddles; Saddam Hussein captured; and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Punk’d*; Ken Jennings dominates Jeopardy!; Kabbalah; William Hung; Jim McGreevey resigns from office; Dan Brown's ‘The Da Vinci Code’**; Super Size Me; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County; Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction"; UGG boots; ‘He's Just Not That into You’; “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”***; The Burger King; Dance Dance Revolution****; and the Boston Red Sox win the 2004 World Series. [*originally premiered in 2003] [**originally published in 2003] [***originally released in 2003] [****originally released in Japan in 1998]
Pope John Paul II death/Benedict XVI succession; To Catch a Predator*; Grizzly Man; The Runaway Bride; José Canseco's ‘Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big’; Sudoku; Pat O'Brien's voicemail scandal; Martha Stewart released from prison; fauxhawks; Hurricane Katrina/Michael D. Brown scandal; YouTube; “Here It Goes Again”; Fat Actress; Bill O'Reilly's sexual harassment lawsuit; and March of the Penguins. [*originally premiered in 2004]
Borat; Mel Gibson's DUI incident; MySpace; Crocs; Dreamgirls; Fergie's “London Bridge”; Neil Patrick Harris and Lance Bass coming out of the closet; Casino Royale; Dick Cheney's hunting incident; “You're Beautiful”*; Little Miss Sunshine; “Stupid Girls”; Kim Jong-Il tests missiles; Rachael Ray; Daniel Powter's “Bad Day”*; and 24**. [*originally released in 2005] [**originally premiered in 2001]
300; GEICO Cavemen commercials; iPhone; Bob Barker retires from The Price is Right, and Drew Carey takes his place; Transformers; “Rehab”*; Don Imus controversy; Astronaut Lisa Nowak's attempted kidnapping; “Umbrella”; Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?; David Beckham joins the L.A. Galaxy; Chris Daughtry; guyliner; Michael Vick arrested for dog fighting; “Hey There Delilah”*; and The Bourne Ultimatum. [*originally released in 2006]
Trading Spaces; Almost Famous; PokéMon; Tiger Woods wins the 2000 U.S. Open; The Perfect Storm; Who Wants to Be a Millionaire*; text messaging; Santana & Rob Thomas's “Smooth”**; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”**; speed dating; Charlie's Angels; Dora the Explorer; Brian McKnight's “Back at One”**; American Psycho; “All the Small Things”; Jared Fogle; and Cheaters. [*originally premiered in 1999] [**originally released in 1999]
Bridget Jones' Diary; Mariah Carey invades TRL; “Because I Got High”; Bratz; Legally Blonde; MP3 players; “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”; Wikipedia; Drew Barrymore and Tom Green get married; “Thank You”*; Listerine Pocketpaks; Grand Theft Auto III; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Danny Almonte; Crossing Over with John Edward**; Richard Reid wears bombs in his shoes to Flight 63; “Kryptonite”*; and Donnie Darko. [*originally released in 2000] [**originally released in 1999]
Blue Crush; the Axis of Evil; “Hot in Herre”; Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez; Serena Williams; “Soak Up the Sun”; The Wire; Juicy Couture; World Series of Poker; “Superman (It's Not Easy)”*; "Can You Hear Me Now? Good" advertisement; Chicago; Anna Nicole Smith wins $88 million lawsuit; Jimmy Eat World's “The Middle”*; ringtones; 28 Days Later; “Work It”; satellite radio; and 8 Mile. [*originally released in 2001]
Star Wars Kid; R. Kelly's “Ignition (Remix)”; Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher; Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; the Steve Bartman incident; Monster; Paris Hilton; Freedom fries; “All the Things She Said”*; Da Ali G Show**; Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica; “Seven Nation Army”; Blackout in the Northeast; Freddy vs. Jason; Dixie Chicks bash George W. Bush; and Kill Bill: Volume 1. [*originally released in 2002] [**originally released in 2000]
White Chicks; Pimp My Ride; “Lean Back”; George W. Bush's re-election; the Dean Howard scream; Saw; Desperate Housewives; designer dogs; The Notebook; The Swan, and I Want a Famous Face; Livestrong wristbands; Entourage; Napoleon Dynamite; the final episode of Friends; Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; “Tipsy”; and Mean Girls.
Brokeback Mountain; “Since U Been Gone”*; Heelys; “Trapped in the Closet (Chapter 1)”; Mr. & Mrs. Smith; How I Met Your Mother; Bluetooth; The Polar Express*; Hell's Kitchen; “Collide”*; Terrell Owens; “Lazy Sunday”; Ann Coulter; Weezer's “Beverly Hills”; Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney's short-lived marriage; parkour; Mad Money; and King Kong. [*originally released in 2004]
Flavor of Love; Wii; Tyra Banks; Pluto's demise; Steve Irwin; The Da Vinci Code; Zinedine Zidane headbutts a player; “Promiscuous”; Hannah Montana; ‘A Million Little Pieces’; The Devil Wears Prada; Diet Coke and Mentos eruption; “Hips Don't Lie”; Paul McCartney and Heather Mills split; High School Musical; ‘Eat, Pray, Love’; D4L's “Laffy Taffy”*; and Snakes on a Plane. [*originally released in 2005]
Rock of Love; Juno; “Lip Gloss”; Andrew Meyer gets tazed (the University of Florida Taser incident); Yo Gabba Gabba!; Google Street View; “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” Larry Craig's sex scandal; Sammy Stephens; Gossip Girl; the bacon craze; Barry Bonds breaks home run record and gets busted for steroids; Hairspray (2007); Rock Band; Get a Mac; ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’; and Paranormal Activity.
Deal or No Deal*; Slap Chop; Beijing Olympics; Twilight; Friday Night Lights**; Facebook; Barack Obama elected President of the United States; “Paper Planes”; Breaking Bad; “All Summer Long”; Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson; Rickrolling; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; “I Kissed a Girl”; The Dark Knight; Thomas Beatie; and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. [*originally premiered in 2005] [**originally premiered in 2006]
Jersey Shore; the Balloon Boy hoax; Precious; David After Dentist; Miracle on the Hudson River; Susan Boyle; “Tik Tok”; Taken; the Shake Weight; Glee; Octomom; Lady Gaga; the first inauguration of Barack Obama; Tiger Woods caught cheating with several mistresses; “Party in the U.S.A.”; and Avatar.
Celebrities comment on things related to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's Eve/Day.
Good Times; The Jackson 5; the afro; Stevie Wonder; The Wiz; Sanford and Son; The White Shadow; the Harlem Globetrotters; Soul Train; The Jeffersons; Shaft; Funk music; Roots; Barry White; and What's Happening!!
Mr. T; break dancing; Diff'rent Strokes; New Edition; Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign; 227; Michael Jackson; Rap; Mike Tyson; Eddie Murphy's “Party All the Time”; Whitney Houston; The Color Purple; Lionel Richie; Hollywood Shuffle; and Do the Right Thing.
Martin; Waiting to Exhale; Michael Jordan; Hootie & the Blowfish; House Party; low-alcohol beer; The Arsenio Hall Show; Family Matters; the Million Man March; Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg; Boyz n the Hood; Mary J. Blige; Living Single; Tae Bo; the Los Angeles riots of 1992; and In Living Color.
I Am Legend; the Williams sisters; “Hot in Herre”; Girlfriends; Chappelle's Show; Usher's “Yeah!”; Tyra Banks; Undercover Brother; Beyoncé; Barry Bonds; Ray; Mariah Carey's ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’; Barbershop; Kanye West; and Barack Obama.
Welcome Back, Kotter; Kiss; Shrinky Dinks; Metrication in the United States; The Dating Game; “Free Bird”; Lite-Brite; bell-bottoms; Studio 54; Hollywood Squares; “Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?”; the Bedazzler; Pop Rocks; Josie and the Pussycats; Wonder Woman; Tab; Ginsu; Hank Aaron; The Gong Show; hot pants; Disco Demolition Night; and Rock 'n' Roll High School.
Donny and Marie; ‘Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret’; 8-Track; View-Master; Billy Beer; One Day at a Time; the United States Bicentennial; Up in Smoke; mood rings; Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; The Hustle; Pong; leisure suits; Baby Alive; Password; Pet Rock; K-Tel; Sea Monkeys; CB radios; The Shazam!/Isis Hour; Mr. Whipple; the skateboard craze; Big Wheel; and Smokey and the Bandit.
Gremlins; Miracle on Ice; “Walk Like an Egyptian”; Hungry Hungry Hippos; Members Only; breakdancing; The Day After; “Land of Confusion”; Wacky WallWalker; Teddy Ruxpin; "Where's the beef?"; “Somebody's Watching Me”; Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man; big hair; “Don't You Want Me”; “Just a Friend”; Press Your Luck; Tetris; sunglasses; 1986 World Series; “Whip It”; Rubik's Cube; Lee Press-On nails; and Back to the Future.
Atari; Richard Simmons; “If I Could Turn Back Time”; party line/1-900 numbers; The Royal Wedding; “All Night Long (All Night)”; monster trucks; scratch-and-sniff and Trapper Keeper; MacGyver; mullets; “Pass the Dutchie”; Dungeons & Dragons; Teen Wolf; “Super Freak”; the fall of the Berlin Wall; Grey Poupon; Truly Tasteless Jokes; Small Wonder; Valley Girl; Toni Basil's “Mickey”; My Buddy; and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
Ally McBeal; raves; Oakland Ebonics controversy; Kenny G breaks the world record for longest note held; Reality Bites; the Lewinsky scandal; “The Humpty Dance”; fanny packs; Run Lola Run; “Rico Suave”; Mark McGwire vs Sammy Sosa; Fabio; The Dream Team; Moviefone; Blues Traveler; Provocative ads for Guess; Zima; Where's Waldo?; “Tubthumping”; Supermarket Sweep; and Ghost.
Melrose Place; Kerri Strug; Jewel; Caller ID; Ross Perot; the Wonderbra; the Caesar haircut; Planet Hollywood; Jenny McCarthy; Dolly the sheep; the Energizer Bunny; Thighmaster; George Foreman Grill; Hootie and the Blowfish; George H. W. Bush vomits on Japan's prime minister; Zubaz; MTV's guest VJ Jesse Camp; Benedictine Monks' ‘Chant’; Starter Jackets/pagers; and Singles.