Well, false alarm for now. They're still there, but you have to go up to your disqus profile. When I get an email notification for an AV Club Disqus response, the link takes you to the Kinja'd page, so I thought they had vanished. They still may, who knows. And who knows where this comment will appear, the…

Oh Boy I take a week's vacation only to return to find The Great Kinjaport has eaten up my Disqus page. I would occasionally go back through my previous Disqus posts to refer to things, and 90% were AV Club. Boo

I just saw it once on video or on premium cable when it first came out. It was basically 20 years ago, and I might have been in a bad mood or tired or under the weather or something when I saw it back then, so I really should give it another watch.

Romy & Michelle is a perennial delight, a million times better, and I'll never understand why everyone hagiographized Grosse Point Blank. I saw it once when it came on premium cable and barely remember it because it was so meh.

Sans the genuinely shitty pop dreck of that era, there's nothing wrong with the good cultural elements of that era (the rise of independent film, the explorations into newer, innovative sounds in music, etc.), and the buoyant optimism. Everything did go to shit soon after GWB got in, and things have devolved into a…

Yes! I woulda been about a dozen years older than you, but those three shows were exactly where I was at comedy wise in 1997. For Conan, were you a night owl or did you just have a robust VCR? Also, someone mentioned MST3K before and I vaguely recall that year or the year before it had moved to late Saturday…

I just rewatched probably my favorite neo-noir of the decade thus far, Animal Kingdom. Damn he was great in that. When I put two and two together and realized he was the lead in the sequel, I was happy he got a big paycheck for that at least.

You did nail the general optimism of the time, anything seemed possible. I was in my early-mid 20's, and I'd probably put my halcyon years around 1994-2000. You're dead on about the technoutopianinism of that time, aside from annoyances like dialup it really seemed like nothing could go wrong. I even made some…

I felt pretty proud of myself after seeing "Brassed Off" and recognizing that the soundbite in the beginning was from Pete Posthelwaite, ie. "I thought that music mattered, but it was bollocks!" Which added to my appreciation of the song.

Oh haha that's right.

I know the iconic Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Simpsons episode was mentioned, but one of my favorites from that year was The Canine Mutiny, which lampooned the credit card companies handing out cards like Skittles, which they really did back then; ie. "Dear Resident, because of your outstanding credit history…"

The song and video for This is Hardcore is such audaciously lush Sirkian brilliance.

Fargo is a perfect capture of the tonality of the movie, and the Coen Brothers aesthetic, streched out over three seasons, anthology style. It's kind of a modern miracle.

I'm trying to remember what I watched on TV in 97. Had The X Files jumped the shark by 1997? I don't remember. I probably watched them that year after the Simpsons on Sunday night.

Ok finding some gems on my 97 mixtape… including audio from a character that combines the classic sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp. That's right…it's Pimpbot 5000!

Well, I found a long mixtape that I made in 1997, so I'm gonna give it a spin. I'm pretty sure I bought more music in 1997 than any year before or after, do there's a lot to wade through. Mostly Trip Hop and Electronica and the very tail end of Britpop (think Pulp's This Is Hardcore, which was definitely in my top…

Oh that's so hilarious, that's one of my guilty pleasures, and that's around when me and my friends would spontaneously drive out to Vegas for the weekends from SoCal. Vegas was still pretty cheap back then even without going downtown; you could get amazing buffets & drinks for nothing, the machines paid out well,…

Sugar Rays can't fuel steel melts!! Investigate 311!!

I was in Boston when they released it, and the night before one of the alt clubs actually got a hold of a copy a day before it dropped. The DJ just played the album, front to start, and we were all on cloud nine. That was a great memory. Then getting perfect seats at PopMart; not too close, but close enough that…

Boy, as a U2 compleatist back then (especially from Achtung to Pop), you really had to get a lot of import CD singles, compilations, and grey bootlegs to get the full essence of Pop.