Here we go again | TheaterFire

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skeptoid79@reddit

As an elder Xennial ('79) I still feel like most of this montage is geared towards more younger xennials.

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Alternative-Light514@reddit

It toed the line, for sure. Between this one and the last one, Jncos, tamagotchi and pogs were all for the kids younger than us (in my neck of the woods)

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skeptoid79@reddit

I mean I knew all of it, but it's mostly all from late childhood/teenage years. Mid to late 80s is underrepresented imo.

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Philly_3D@reddit

I watched this with no sound and I still could hear about half of them anyway.

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mydeadbody@reddit

The sound was Good Riddance by Green Day. I turned it off so I could hear it in my head too.

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ItComeAFlood@reddit

Same. I didn't want it to sound like our senior prom.

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Practical_Theme_6400@reddit

Same, but it was a welcome reprieve from "I Hope You Dance".

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brokenman82@reddit

My class picked ‘bulls on parade’. The yearbook staff didn’t like that song so they printed all the books with ‘I hope you dance’ instead 😡

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Shadrach77@reddit

25 years later and I'm still sick of that song.

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TerseFactor@reddit

And when I think about you, it makes me want to fart!

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Philly_3D@reddit

I sing this regularly... like way too regularly.

Now get it right or pay the price!!

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

My husband & I were singing this to our kids this morning

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Foreign_Town6853@reddit

Call me now fo yo free reedin let cleo show you the ansas

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Agitated-Resolve-920@reddit

I remember all this, and I was born in 87. Plus, I live in middle America, which is like 10 years behind.

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Efficient-Log-4425@reddit

'87 is a solid millennial by a number of years.

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sharkattack85@reddit

85 here and this was all a core part of my childhood.

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Efficient-Log-4425@reddit

We were all in college when that chip in was made by Tiger on 16.

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Giving_Dad_Advice@reddit

I was good then the towers showed up.

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PileofTerdFarts@reddit

I didn't see the obligatory Atreyu riding Falkor and pumping his fist??? WHERE???

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PileofTerdFarts@reddit

That was pretty good! Still no Falkor, but I'll let it slide in exchange for The Carlton, Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler, Scrooge McDuck, and old school Gwen Stefani pre-fake boobs. Well done!!

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Tsunamiis@reddit

Did we all get that radio really. I got mine from a trunk for 25 bucks.

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Loose-Fisherman-4774@reddit

It’s log, it’s log. It’s big it’s heavy it’s wood. It’s log log better than bad it’s good!

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OurHouse20@reddit

It's great for a snack, it fits on your back, it's log log

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MochiFluffs@reddit

The Delias catalog hit hard. I wore so much of their stuff through school channeling my inner Angelina Jolie in Hackers. 🥲

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Rhianna83@reddit

Jim Carey on it twice. As it should be.

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anjowoq@reddit

Seeing the Addams Family movie, it should also be said that we grew up with a ton of reruns from the previous 2-3 decades as well.

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BugEquivalents@reddit

Part Punky Brewster part Ren & Stimpy, that about sums me up

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Mellowtraveler@reddit

I hate to be a that guy but like ... Are we that nostalgic about a bunch of consumer crap? I do still wish we could all have a parachute day every now and then though...

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Pogokat@reddit

Your response to this is exactly what 90’s me would have thought, thereby INCREASING the nostalgia

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I don't think people actually miss playing with super soakers or playing the Crossfire board game, it's more just using those things to ignite the nostalgic feeling of being a kid and all throughout your formative years. They call them your formative years because of how things easily leave an impression on you. It's just reminiscing about the things that defined your early years.

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

I would argue that it’s not all consumer crap. There was music, gym, snacks, & also horror

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worksnake@reddit

Allow me to join you in the "that guy" corner. I still remember when over-the-top appeals to emotion meant a total hack was making the media, and audiences felt condescended to by this sort of slop. But, now we're all supposed to immediately fawn over stuff like this. Basically, the slop media works. It plucks the exact strings it so unartfully seeks to pluck. "Hey, I remember that from when I was a kid!" over the absolute sappiest music ever made and, yeah, it's gonna make people nostalgic. And, for whatever reason, it's the format that hits gold on social media now. So you'll see it for all sorts of things. Rinse and repeat. Time for today's 30 second Totally Authentic Nostalgia Bomb.

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aamabkra@reddit

Ecto cooler. Oh man I loved that

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

I can still taste it

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Motosurf77@reddit

Whoever made Hi C came to our school to test new flavrors.. the green was the best

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sunbnda@reddit

SKIP IT!!!!!! That was a blast from the past. I had to look up the commercial and the jingle is just as memorable as you remember it. "The very beat thing of all..."

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

The neighbor kid had Skip-It & I used to skip on hers all the time. My parents never would buy me one, or a fuckin Power Wheel, either.

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AlienDelarge@reddit

If I never hear that song again it will be too soon.

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

Dude I hate that song so much

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Ok_Prior_4574@reddit

Dude, ending on the twin towers? Kinda harshin' my buzz, don't ya think?

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Much_Ad470@reddit

Omg I was watching and was like “no, please some show us that again”. I don’t need that emotional damage again

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Pogokat@reddit

Same, I was thinking there better not be any airplanes. But I’m cool with the video ending there because me and my friends went to nyc right after graduation in 2000, and this fits perfectly.

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WockaWockaWompWomp@reddit

That was truly the end of our collective innocence; the day the world we thought we would inherit ceased to exist.

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rhoswhen@reddit

Oh that's deep. And really true, which is annoying.

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TurtleSandwich0@reddit

Ominous ending.

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THATS_ENOUGH_REDDlT@reddit

Yeah, please cut that ending out. Let us stay innocent for a moment longer.

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RoastQueefSandwiches@reddit

Thank you for not having the plane pass through at the end

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icouldlivewoutbacon@reddit

Damn, I didn't even have my sound on and I shed a tear watching that

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deezsandwitches@reddit

I did the fat guy in a little coat today. It was regarding a kid who was wearing an old jersey that was too small. He is not fat, and it was not a coat. But the quote worked

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Rich_Visual7800@reddit

Camp Anawana We hold you in our hearts

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Assortedpez@reddit

And when we think about you, it makes me wanna fart!

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KahBhume@reddit

It's "I hope we never part!" Now get it right or pay the price!

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spicy_ramn@reddit

I jokingly tell younger folks at work "get it right or pay the price!" all the time and they have no idea what its from, but idc.

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NiteTiger@reddit

I'm happyhurt, like I'm remisissing something... oh, there's a word for it on the tip of my tongue... like I've just seen it... a lot

😄

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Sibshops@reddit

I absolutely understand that feeling.

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Ambitious_Nomad1@reddit

The good ole days! Then the internet happen and well, game over…

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flittingly1@reddit

Where's part one?

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/FuUXlSnuqe

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flittingly1@reddit

Thanks!! Yes I've got em both now

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xmadjesterx@reddit

I've been rewatching Punky Brewster. A 3 minute version of the intro song is on my Spotify.

Pun-keh!!!

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PlayedUOonBaja@reddit

I wasn't a cool enough kid for a few of these, but about 95% of them hit me right in the nostalgia. So great aim!

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PlayedUOonBaja@reddit

Watching this outside and had to lol. Just seconds after the mighty ducks scene with the V-Formation a flight of actual ducks honking loudly flew overhead in a v-formation.

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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Things like this remind me that we have an identity that no longer exists. A part of us, a whole damn other person that disappeared and we were so distracted with growing up that we never got to say goodbye to them. We never realized they’d go away. That little girl in me who drank ecto-cooler is gone, but she was real

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

It's like this with every generation as they age. I've heard my parents and grandparents talk about all the stuff from their youth that they missed.

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TP_Crisis_2020@reddit

I had that Pioneer deck in high school. DEH-P7200. OEL dolphins were all the rage.

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Zbrchk@reddit

Relatable AF

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DgingaNinga@reddit

Where is the 1st part?

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/FuUXlSnuqe

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Smoky1279@reddit

I don't remember ever playing with one of these in school.

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

Whut

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weedtrek@reddit

So I don't have friends now, but one of my dreams has been to get one of those parachutes and have a joint smoking session in it. Maybe I'll get one and go to a Dead show.

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

Sounds like a good time, I’d join ya

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twodexy82@reddit (OP)

Here’s part 1! https://www.reddit.com/r/Xennials/s/FuUXlSnuqe

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X---VIPER---X@reddit

Man, why did I get so emotional watching this? What’s happening to my Xennial heart??

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

One of my favorite internet videos ever was one of those giant parachutes with a bunch of college kids smoking weed under it, then the cops shut w up and like 100 kids come running out of it.

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radkoolaid@reddit

It's pretty awesome that we share collective experiences like this. Hits the feels. Thanks OP.

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Both-Tree@reddit

Pretty solid

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Idont_thinkso_tim@reddit

This is all millennial stuff. Xennials would be what? Like 5 years old watching titanic?

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worksnake@reddit

See, this is what happens when you don't pronounce Xennial the proper way (EX-ennial). You get confused with Zillennials (or Zennials or however the kids are writing it nowadays. I feel vindicated by this small and unimportant error.

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flittingly1@reddit

Xennials are older than millennials

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greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit

I went to a concert about 13 years ago to one of my favorite bands (Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls) and the opening act whose name I don’t remember came down into the crowd with a rainbow parachute and played games while performing. It was a fucking blast.

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TamalesForBreakfast6@reddit

Love Frank!

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sahuxley2@reddit

Hijacking this thread to leave this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSoJXpCjzGY

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xtlhogciao@reddit

I didn’t appreciate how cute Lisa Loeb was, back then. 11 y/o me: “gross, she wears glasses!”

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rockettravis@reddit

Its all there, the beginning times.

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TrashEatingCrow@reddit

I never see Robbin Williams in these... probably still too painful to remember he's gone.

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SciFiCrafts@reddit

The Ducks snippet hits hard.

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Assortedpez@reddit

Well god damn that was nearly perfect

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MaxPower836@reddit

People think that I don’t wash my face. Or I eat too many chocolate barz

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DashboredPro@reddit

Ecto cooler!!

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elkniodaphs@reddit

This one is a lot better than Part 1. Sincerely, I was frustrated with how '90s-centric Part 1 was, considering Xennials start in 1977 and would have had the bulk of our nostalgic childhoods in the '80s. Consider that a Xennial born in 1977 would have been nearly 20 years old when the Nintendo 64 came out, possibly living on their own.

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