Category: When We Were Young podcast
108: “The Big Orange Couch Is in Place, So Hop On!” – SNICK
If you were a ’90s kid, chances are you wanted just two things in life: for Nick to take over your school, and a spot saved for you on the big orange couch synonymous with SNICK. Nickelodeon’s Saturday night programming block for pre-teens launched in 1992 and became an instant hit with the demographic who…
106: “…And Start Getting Real” – MTV’s The Real World Part 2
In Part 1 of our look back at MTV’s The Real World, we were impressed with how quickly the show defined the tone, format, and style that reality television would use for the next thirty years (and counting). But it was the show’s third season, with the infamous slob Puck facing off against courageous AIDS…
104: “I’m Gonna Get Medieval On Your Ass” – Pulp Fiction
McDonalds, TV pilots, Elvis, and foot massages – just the usual topics of conversation between gangsters, drug users, hitmen, and criminals, at least in Quentin Tarantino’s world. The release of the writer/director’s heavily-lauded PULP FICTION in 1994 was a groundbreaking moment for both Tarantino and movies, and its pop culture-obsessed characters and narrative-jumbling structure influenced the…