Nowadays it seems normal to see rappers performing with bands, but back in the day when LL Cool J took the stage with a live band on MTV's "Unplugged," it was actually pretty groundbreaking...not to mention it was pretty damn great.
As the country celebrates this Inauguration Day, we thought it would be as good a time as any to look back at one of the most memorable 1990's presidential moments - specifically Bill Clinton's televised apology to the nation in the wake of his sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky.
Here's a bit of obscure 1990's television for you - a promo commercial for the Sega Channel, which was really a precursor to today's online video game play only it was handicapped by the "state of the art" technology of the 90's.
Here's a forgotten bit of 1990's TV history, a video clip from the popular sitcom Murphy Brown. Featuring some interesting 90's jumpsuits and cameos from a couple familiar faces, it's a fun trip down Candice Bergen memory lane - if there ever was such a thing.
While Jenny Jones was busy giving Mack Daddy makeovers, Ricki Lake spent the 1990's shining a light on society's real problems - teenage whores. In this clip, Ricki chats with a 15-year-old mother who wants the world to know that her child "is tooken care of" and that she's got plans to stop smoking weed and go get her GED when she turns 16. Wonder where this girl is now - we're guessing in the cast of Flavor of Love.
In Living Color was one of our favorite 1990's TV series because of the collection of talent on the show and the consistently hilarious sketch premises they came up with. In this case, it was Jim Carrey doing a great William Shatner impression in a Star Trek sketch featuring Damon Wayans as Minister Louis Farrakhan.
About a decade before these two collectively owned late night television, Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien were just a couple of struggling talk show hosts trying to make a name for themselves. At the time, they both probably thought their shows would be canceled, but apparently fate had some other ideas.
Back in the 90's before music's new artists became about as controversial as the Jonas Brothers, awards shows always promised a little bit of chaos. And there was no more bizarre music awards moment than when Fiona Apple accepted her Best New Artist award and made a rambling speech that included references to Maya Angelou and how "this world is bullshit."
As we've shown you multiple times before, the 1990's had more than its share of funny commercials. Today, we thought it would be a good idea to look back at one particular genre of funny 1990s commercials - ones that feature professional wrestlers. So here is our pick for the 8 Best Wrestling Commercials of the 1990's...
8. WWF Action Figures Back before Jesse "The Body" Ventura was a politician, he was paying the bills by doing voiceover work on commercials for some really lame-looking WWF action figures.
7. 1998 Royal Rumble Commercial This commercial for the Royal Rumble features a bunch of adults dressed up for a classy evening who then wind up beating the crap out of each other when they watch the Royal Rumble. O...k.
6. Nintendo's Wrestlemania Game This commercial for Nintendo's Wrestlemania game reminds us of two things - how bad video game graphics used to be and how annoying commercial kids are.
5. Mean Gene Gays It Up For Toys'R Us This commercial about how you can buy WWF merchandise at Toys 'R Us is notable because of how host Mean Gene Okerlund drops a lot of pseudo-gay comments about the products including comments like "How'd you like to hug the Ultimate Warrior?," and "How'd you like to bonk Hulk Hogan?"
4. Ultimate Warrior Snaps Into A Slim Jim This commercial might be for a fake meat product, but it could just as well be for steroids. Or cocaine.
3. The Hitman For Humpty’s Omelettes While Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Savage were busy doing national commercials and making bank, apparently Brett "The Hitman" Hart was taking whatever commercials he could get - including this one for whatever the hell Humpty's Omelettes is.
2. Sting Wrestles A Kid For Sprite Not only is this clip notable because it's pretty funny, but we're also pretty sure that the kid in it is the same kid that stars in the movie Almost Famous.
1. WWF Sportscenter Commercial ESPN may not cover wrestling, but that didn't stop them from putting a bunch of wrestlers into this fantastic commercial. If you enjoyed this list, please take a second to upvote it on Digg, Reddit or StumbleUpon using the links below - thx!
You might be wondering what a video clip of The Monkees is doing on a site dedicated to 1990's TV clips, but that's because you have forgotten that ABC actually gave the Monkees their own special in 1997. Yeah, judging from this clip, that was probably a mistake.
You gotta love the Jenny Jones Show. While the rest of the world was busy trying to survive the ups and downs of the 1990s, Jenny was there with a talk show addressing the most important issues of the day - like giving a couple guys who pick up chicks at Taco Bell some "Mack Daddy Makeovers." Take that, Springer!
Twin Peaks was probably one of the most inventive and difficult to describe television series of all time so you can imagine how challenging it was for ABC's marketing department to try to figure out how to sell it. This video clip features several commercials for the show which demonstrate what ABC ultimately came up with.
It doesn't get any more 90's than an appearance by Vanilla Ice on the Arsenio Hall Show. But what really makes this video clip great is the way Arsenio goes after Vanilla, all but telling him to his face that he's a fraud and people hate him. Vanilla sweats his way though the interview and the 14th minute of his 15 minutes of fame.
Back before Judd Apatow became the king of comedy movies, he was the king of innovative (but failed) TV series like Freaks and Geeks. This clip, from the episode "Looks and Books," is a glimpse of how Apatow spent the 90's and what most TV viewers were missing by not paying attention to his work.
Here's a classic scene from one of our favorite overlooked sitcoms of the late 1990's, Action, starring Jay Mohr. In the series, Mohr nails the role of scumbag Hollywood producer Peter Dragon and in this clip he gets pitched a surprising male lead for his next film - OJ Simpson. It doesn't get any more 90's than that.
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Do you think you can tell from the first few minutes of a new series whether or not it's going to work? Based on this video clip of the first three minutes in the history of ER, would you have guessed it would have gone on to become one of the most successful television series of all time? We certainly wouldn't have.
Love him or hate him, Jerry Springer revolutionized daytime talk shows in the 1990's. How did he do it? With episodes like this one which features a midget love triangle and inevitable brawl with the crowd chanting "Midget fight! Midget fight!" You'll hate yourself for finding it hilarious, but you won't be able to stop watching. That's the genius of Springer.
What better way to kick off the New Year than with a compilation of Carlton Banks' legendary dance moves from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Cut together to the sweet sounds of Tom Jones, it's a fun look back at what was probably the most recognizable dance of 1990's TV.
