Parker Lewis Can't Lose - that's something you don't hear mentioned very often! It came out during that weird 89-92 period when people were trying to figure out the 90s by extending the 80s. Lots of garish clothing and weird, comic-sans like faux-urban fonts. The hey day of Color Me Badd &NKOTB. That era was…

I actually liked the Dilbert show when it was on, but it was years after Get A Life . In between, Elliott had a stint on SNL and appeared in There's Something About Mary.

What about Get A Life, which at one time dominated Seinfeld in ratings.

The only joke I remember from this show was when JTT was supposedly writing a term paper on the Franco-Prussian war. He spent all day in his room, but at the end of the day when Tim Allen came up to check on him all JTT had wrtitten was" The Franco-Prussian War was".

Maybe this means that, buried under all the garbage, there's something about Full House that's actually really good that makes it stand out as an all-time show.

Night Court- forgotten classic. It still holds up. Not quite Mr. Belvedere good, but few things are.

I think another factor is that Home Improvement didn't seem popular with the crowd that is now influential in nostalgia sites like AV Club. I was in middle school when Home Improvement was at the peak of its popularity. There was a definite divide between people who liked the Simpsons and those who liked Home…

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I don't remember it- I don't think that it reached out to the hinterlands where I grew up.

First jean shorts, now cargo shorts… are there any acceptable shorts out there?

How bizarre.

Whatever you call them, they make every band mentioned in this article seem like The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin rolled into one.

We had three major stations in the Pittsburgh area- one that was essentially a Classic Rock station that would play some Metallica from time to time (WDVE); one that was branded "the X" that would play mostly heavier alternative like Alice in Chains, Tool, NIN, etc., but with bands like Bush thrown in; and one that…

I wouldn't think there'd be that much of a gap between people who listened to Dave Matthews / the Wallflowers / Sheryl Crow and people who listened to 311 / Sublime / No Doubt. The same stations that played music from the first three seemed to also play music from the second three.

There are some seriously bland songs in that list (though as someone who was in high school in the late 1990s, some of them have a soft spot in my heart, like "Good").

You've really never heard 311's "Down" before? That's hard to believe unless you were born in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

All things considered, I'd rather have the pop dreck. A little bit of industrial went a long way for me.

We had a station that was similar called Bob. The format, which came out in the hey day of Napster, was meant to mimic people's eclectic play lists.

Between Matchbox 20 and his collaboration with Carlos Santana, Rob Thomas was on 85% of all songs played on rock/alternative leaning pop stations in 1999 / 2000, hence this joke from the Onion:

He's a host of a 90s throwback show on SiriusXM these days. He's always been down to earth and self-effacing enough that I've never really developed a dislike for him. He's sort of the anti-Fred Durst.