The early 90s nostalgia is overrepresented among Gen X (some period pieces make it seem like the entire 90s were basically 1990-1993); hang out with millennials enough and you will see the back half of the 90s are well trodden.

I think part of it is that the nineties never really left. There’s a lot of iconically nineties media, but a lot of it also persisted into the 2000s, so it bridges “eras” (I know there’s a better word, I just can’t think of one right now) in a way other shows maybe don’t. Nineties fashion is for sure coming back,…

it’s just the 80s got overrepresented.

Sitcom-wise, there’s Young Sheldon and Fresh Off the Boat, as well as this show. Oddly, there have probably been more sitcoms about the 90s than there were about the 70s in the 90s. Happy Days had a whole universe of shows, so I guess that was probably the biggest peak of that kind of thing.

I think it’s quality, not quantity. Sitcoms were cloying garbage. For every Cheers or Golden Girls there were about 10 Full Houses, and the good ones were just very good versions of the same tired formula. In the 90's the form really evolved with Seinfeld, The Simpsons, and the Larry Sanders Show.

The 80s didn’t really end until Nirvana came along and vaporized the hair metal bands.

Barnie and Oppenheimer.

it’s slowly creeping in. If anything it’s weird that the 80s cycle has gone for so long as it has.

Eh, I don’t buy it.

I think there’s plenty of 90s nostalgia—you’ve never heard millennials wax rhapsodic about how great it was to be “90s Kids”? To the extent that 90s nostalgia is underrepresented in the pop culture* I think it’s because so much 90s media is still readily available (and massively popular) on streaming. Not much point…

I thought Hughes was Vice Barsanti. Schimkowitz is, like, Deputy Assistant Barsanti at best.

There’s some room to play with “final.” It may be the last film that is a “Quentin Tarantino movie” from start to finish. I don’t think for-hire directing gigs would be totally off the table for him. One of the big studios would back a Brinks truck up big enough for QT to make a tentpole movie.

I hope lasagna is on the menu at The Last Supper.

And if you want to advertise something as your “final” film just pull a Miyazaki and just do it anyways and then make another few movies 

The 10 films thing could possibly be related to how Beethoven wrote 10 symphonies (not completing the 10th), so some artists think they should only make 9 or 10 “great works” in homage to Beethoven or something.

Maybe it’s just boat captains?

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Prophet."

“thank you, sir”

Does Rob Schneider appear in this in any way?

The Toronto Raptors tried the same thing in 1996 with Michael Jordan, except they had to settle for the old couple from the “It’s Patrick! He took out life insurance” commercial.

Didn’t work out.