About four or five of these actually had staying power: Martin, Mad About You, Hanging With Mr. Cooper, Picket Fences. Hearts Afire made it to a second season, but not much longer than that. Most of these openings do literally scream “I’m from the 1990s!”...
american here, im not sure if you missed it, but the video is based on shows in the 90s, if you dont believe me the title says 92 thats proof so its no surprises this video is very 90s
I’ve really enjoyed watching these! I think, like most decades, you could split the 90’s into two parts. The first part (90-93) was an extension of the late 80’s, and trying to find its own voice. The second part (94-99) was geared towards Gen X, and reflected the cynicism of the era. This seems to be the peak of that first part.
DJ Kinney It was a great time, but just because things were good, that had nothing to do with the culture. Once grunge went mainstream, cynicism was everywhere; in movies - like Clerks, tv - Beavis and Butthead, music, even food - remember O.K. Soda?
Two words why Picket Fences is one of my favorite show in 92: LAUREN HOLLY!!!!!!! She help me through puberty that year.She and Gillian Anderson and Dana Delany are probably the sexiest red heads in the 90s!!!!!!
These things made me realize one thing. It's amazing how much crap you have to do before you get your big breakout role. Amazing how many memorable names doing shows you've never heard of (and were in your 20s at the time).
All right, you're going more into MY decade. (lol) I was legitimately shocked when I learned Hangin with Mr. Cooper had a first season and a theme song totally different from the ones I'd grown up with on TGIF.
I actually remember both versions of the show, and even though I was a kid at the time I vaguely remember actually liking the original more "adult" version better than the TGIF "family friendly" one, might have to go back and watch some of it now.
Kandi Gloss I remember thinking the 1st season was “more adult” & they retooled Seasons 2+ for TGIF when younger, but then I went back and watched an episode where it crossed over with Full House. Needless to say “all seasons of the show belong on TGIF.” Lmao! Still loved the show!
Black representation was so good in the early to mid 90's. Then all black sitcoms seemed to completely disappear and they're still incredibly rare now.
@@bitteralmonds666 Organic is a good word for it. I was 19 years old in 1992 and the so-called black shows existed because they were popular, expected, and normal. Nobody was forcing anything (aside from normal tv misfires); this material was popular so here’s more of it, plus it had broad appeal while still keeping the “ethnic” flavor. Edit: as I was typing this, Martin came on. A perfect example, my gf/wife and I watched that show for years. Were we the demographic? Yes, because the show was for EVERYBODY, it just happened to star a cast of black people and never apologized for it.
Are you kidding? How can you watch early shows marketed to black audiences, with their overuse of black signifiers like hip-hop music and "funky" font choices, and think they were meant for everyone? Any show put on the air on a major network has ALWAYS been about money and "capturing demographics". Any black person who got on the air in the early 90s did so because of lot of white people saw dollar signs. People are so desperate to be nostalgic. Ask black people how great the early 90s were.
I don't think I ever watched that show, or even knew about it. And I doubt wearing a trench coat and hat makes anyone say "Oooh, we better not mess with these guys." And that bald guy- didn't he ever have hair?
_Mad About You_ was a total piss off.. especially about the fight between Jamie and Paul. She did just as bad as what Ross did on _Friends_, but she was expected to get a pass because of her gender! That duplicity was when the "rules for thee not for me" narrative started with feminism especially.
@@Panwere36 Jamie was fine to me. Paul was the @$$, especially in the episodes where he left her because she briefly kissed another man. I lost all respect for the show after that. Also, it's pretty annoying that the credits never changed for the run of the show. Helen Hunt looked far better with long hair, but they kept the short bob visible for the entire show's run via the credits.
The closed captioning and the "In Stereo" plugs seemly make it obvious. CBS and NBC all had their logo and/or network name in the In Stereo bug (CBS pushed that well beyond when many stations broadcasted in stereo as a rule). The 3D closed captioning bug was ABC's (the only one that did that), and so was the "In Stero Where Available" bug that was surrounded by those icons we put to mobile pay today. The cursive "In Stereo" bug was Fox, unless it was the one shown on The Edge. I hadn't seen that one before, so I was wondering who had that one, but I'm guessing it was one that they were trying out or was something their distributors used instead. To me, I think CBS had the cleanest bug for their "In Strereo" bug. It was slick, it felt like they put a brand name to it (they had a "TM" to theirs, so perhaps that was a brand name) and that they used a different technology than anyone else, and it just looked cool, especially when they added the blue color to it. I wonder if they were the first to go stereo sound.
There were some very distinctive themes emerging during this time. If you were to go back to some of those 80's new show intro videos you hear lots of saxophone intros but watching this season you hear lots of piano. Another theme is hip-hop. This was the era of In Living Color, New Jack City, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. TV was now changing its focus to Gen X. You would see this focus grow with the eventual launch of networks like UPN and The WB in 1995.
I remember syndication of the 1992 season a lot better. The 90s were a great time for syndication. Highlander the Series began (though I wouldn't start watching it until the following year), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (mmm, Chris Potter
That was an incredible range of musical styles used back then. I remember thinking that the music for new series just three earlier was so generic that it could have been use for any series.
The producers of Great Scott were like “We need something that sounds exactly like Jane’s Addiction, but we ain’t paying Jane’s Addiction money, ya know what I’m saying?”
Kept expecting singer to announce he was caught stealing once and he never did. The music producer didn't even try to hide how bitter he was at not getting that song.
I watched a total of 3 of those 30 shows. The two sketch comedy shows, The Edge and The Ben Stiller Show, were like early attempts by Fox that eventually lead to MadTV.
Camp Wilder 6:33 theme was a wicked rip off of "Walk Don't Run" by The Ventures and Great Scott theme 7:14 is a note for note rip of "Been Caught Stealin'" by Janes Addiction. Brutal
Damn man lol I miss some of these shows Ytf did all the intros ( the heights) look a Levi's commercial lol Oh yea that time delta decided to be blonde....NOOOO!!!lol
Could anybody have foreseen that, 30 years later, the only one from The Ben Stiller Show who would still be relevant, and, working, would be Bob Odenkirk?
The intro to The Round Table did in fact use the first two verses of "Young Americans", and stopped abruptly after the second chorus. I do like the version you put together, though!
Thanks. Not even sure why they used that as the theme for the series since the lyrics don't really seem to reflect much of anything about it, going by my vague memory of it and its description, unless it was merely to stress that most of the characters were "Young Americans."
You beat me to it. I also was working an overnight shift at the time. I didn't miss anything apparently. And television has been going downhill ever since.
Don't remember The Edge . Wonder whatever became of Jennifer Aniston ( Friends) , Wayne ( Seinfeld) Night , Tom ( Spongebob) Kenney and his wife Jill Talley? 😉
Who came up with the dumb idea of The Hat Squad? I was channel surfing the TV late one night and that show was on and first thing was W.T.F. was I dreaming or it's this show a comedy?
Remember Hanging with Mr Cooper & of course Mad About You. Reading about “Rhythm & Blues”, holy crap that sounds awful! 😂 Edit. I liked Martin too. I was younger & maybe shouldn’t have been watching but I thought/think it was funny. Stupid humor but sometimes it’s needed. LOL
I saw "Rhythm & Blues" while it lasted. It was terrific. It was a black station. They hire a new DJ 'cause he sounds black, then they find out he's white. Wouldn't even be put on the drawing board today. Would be cancelled before it got a chance to even air, but an entirely conceivable situation (then, at least) & similar prejudiced attitudes towards white males has, unfortunately, grown.
@@TJ52359 that's debatable, or at least debated, why did no one ever care about you recording a show with your vcr or a song off the radio, but do care about piracy, I understand they are lower quality but are still copies.
@@thesnare100 A. I was going for Sarcasm (another forum I frequent actually has a 'Sarcasm font' activated by putting @s on either end of your comment, so even if I know it doesn't work, I tend to do it elsewhere half out of habit) B. they did care... Mr. Rogers himself testified before Congress on the benefits of 'Time shifting' to keep VCRs "legal" and IIRC the the Radio side of things saw Blank Tapes (and Radio Recording) tied up in the 'Explicit Content' labeling fight and resolution C. I Firmly believe if 'the man' was truly anti-piracy we wouldn't have 100 Blank DVD Spindles for $25 or 4 TB Hard drives available for 'public' consumption at any given Wal Mart/Target/Best Buy/et al D. Addendum to point B... VCR recording vs Torrent isn't just an issue of quality, its a matter of scale... if I sat down with my VCR and Taped Walker Texas Ranger off CBS I'm only one man, making one copy... I might loan it out to a buddy who missed a given week... and if I don't want Commercials I need a 2nd VCR and Chuck Norris' reflexes to do so... If I want CW's Walker Season 1, I log into 'Corsair Cove' at Midnight Next Friday and I (and every one else who wants it) will have all 18 episodes by 1am and with a can of red bull will have it on 3 discs by 3 am... Vintage Walker's first Full Season would need 3-12 Tapes depending on type
*_Picket Fences_* was a guilty pleasure show of epic proportions. The plots that they skewered things like gender politics, neo conservatism, and the real sources of both racial and cultural bigotry in America these days would have insured the show never would have aired within the last ten years especially. David E. Kelly has become an unspoken pariah because of his blatantly moderate and clear thinking take on the extremes of both sides. The way his last two series ( *_Boston Legal_* and *_Harry_* ) were treated by both ABC and NBC in their hypocrisy to pander to all of the unhinged extreme groups on all sides is proof of how television is a propaganda device more than for entertainment these days.
Covington Cross only aired 7 episodes, the final was on Halloween of 92, but 13 or 14 were produced. I once had someone tell me 7 isn't enough to judge if a show is good or bad, but most shows don't even make it past the pilot- in which case the pilot isn't even aired. I liked picket fences, but couldn't quite understand what it was trying to portray/say it was some in a town that has some weird extreme events- a priest with a high heel fetish, the bombastic annoying lawyer finkle, animal sacrifices, shooting patatoes at bully's car with a spud gun............hmm.
Mad about you is a great show, Golden Palace should have lasted more then one season it was funny, most people just couldn't get over that Dorothy was gone, but the show was good. Love and War lasted I think 3 seasons, Susan Dey left or was fired I can't remember , at the end of the first season and Annie Potts joined the show. It's been a long time so I think that's right, but I know Annie potts joined the show. Also Hearts Afire lasted 3 seasons, it was a funny show with John Ritter and Markie Post. Delta should have been given a better chance, Delta Burke is a good actress.
Question: is it luck, talent, drive or a little of each that makes people like Hilary Swank, Tobey McGuire, Billy Bob Thornton and Jennifer Anniston (all in the above clips) get to the "next level" when so many just don't get very far at all?
Lightning in a Bottle... You watch enough of these and you start to see "That Guy'/'That Girl' having a Pilot nearly Every year and nothing ever Clicks for them and then one year you'll see 3-4 people from 'That Show' having wholly different projects the season before they are teamed up for 'That Show', which clicks and lasts 5+ seasons...
@@TJ52359 with that being said some could say, right or wrong, that the writing or the concept of "that show" is more important than the actors delivering the lines. I myself think there has to be a good combination of the two.
The Golden Palace was one sequel that should not have been made, like AfterMASH. Crossroads was something like the 19th of 32 shows that starred Robert Urich. The Heights flopped but its theme song topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts. I liked Going To Extremes (med school rejects studying at a remote island) but it couldn't sustain enough interest to succeed. And finally Woops was a modern-day variation of Gilligan's Island with each of the characters corresponding to the Gilligan's characters. It was short-lived for obvious reasons. In fact I was never aware that show was ever on, it was posted on Robert Marshall's YT channel a while ago.
@@TJ52359 I was being tongue-in-cheek about it, just that he did a lot of shows. While I'm commenting here I want to say that after I made the above comment I was recommended full episodes of Woops on YT and I have not seen any of them and probably never will.
I was going to say "Re-read what I wrote for 1991; pretty much applies here as well"...but I forgot about MAD ABOUT YOU and PICKET FENCES. Not among the all-time best but certainly the best of *this* bunch!
Was in Okinawa that year. I don't remember these..Oh except Mad About You, and Golden Girls. Also Picket Fences which I never watched. Those are from when I came back in 93.
About four or five of these actually had staying power: Martin, Mad About You, Hanging With Mr. Cooper, Picket Fences. Hearts Afire made it to a second season, but not much longer than that. Most of these openings do literally scream “I’m from the 1990s!”...
These were all so 90s that they'll never EVER be mistaken for another era
1992 was probably peak 90's.
@@DJKinney Well, the end of one decade always influences the start of another.
Truly a beautiful, colourful time to be alive. Radical.
@@DJKinney Ah yes. "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so" and all that. The kind of comment formerly found in Reader's Digest, no doubt.
@@DJKinney Okay, I apologise. I just badly interpreted your comment.
Fades, hip hop, baggie clothes and alternative music. This is so 90's, it hurts.
Need a theme song in the 80s and 90s? Hire a sax player.
Hey, It Worked for NIGHT COURT
These openings are aggressively, no, VIOLENTLY, 90's.
american here, im not sure if you missed it, but the video is based on shows in the 90s, if you dont believe me the title says 92 thats proof so its no surprises this video is very 90s
😂😅😂
I’ve really enjoyed watching these! I think, like most decades, you could split the 90’s into two parts. The first part (90-93) was an extension of the late 80’s, and trying to find its own voice. The second part (94-99) was geared towards Gen X, and reflected the cynicism of the era. This seems to be the peak of that first part.
DJ Kinney It was a great time, but just because things were good, that had nothing to do with the culture. Once grunge went mainstream, cynicism was everywhere; in movies - like Clerks, tv - Beavis and Butthead, music, even food - remember O.K. Soda?
I'd exactly say 90-93 then 94-97 I'd put 98 & 99 in it's own category
@@maineventmafia7181 yeah 97-99, seemed to be like racing toward the Millennium with the Internet and Y2K hysteria😊
What the fuck is with everyone looking down on other decades? It's fucking stupidity to the highest degree.
Gotta love those holdovers/leftovers from the decade prior. I miss regular tv when it was regular 😂
Two words why Picket Fences is one of my favorite show in 92: LAUREN HOLLY!!!!!!! She help me through puberty that year.She and Gillian Anderson and Dana Delany are probably the sexiest red heads in the 90s!!!!!!
Man, did someone forget Uptown Julie Brown
These things made me realize one thing. It's amazing how much crap you have to do before you get your big breakout role. Amazing how many memorable names doing shows you've never heard of (and were in your 20s at the time).
8:46 Tichina Arnold was low key a very good actress. LOVE her in everybody hates Chris!
All right, you're going more into MY decade. (lol)
I was legitimately shocked when I learned Hangin with Mr. Cooper had a first season and a theme song totally different from the ones I'd grown up with on TGIF.
I actually remember both versions of the show, and even though I was a kid at the time I vaguely remember actually liking the original more "adult" version better than the TGIF "family friendly" one, might have to go back and watch some of it now.
Kandi Gloss I remember thinking the 1st season was “more adult” & they retooled Seasons 2+ for TGIF when younger, but then I went back and watched an episode where it crossed over with Full House. Needless to say “all seasons of the show belong on TGIF.” Lmao!
Still loved the show!
its a lot older than I thought. I assumed it debuted with the WB network later in the 90s.
I remember both versions very well i prefer the En Vogue version than the Soul Man and that other last lame them song in last two seasons
I remember both clearly.i don't think the soul man theme was used until raven joined the cast
Also, 1992 seemed to be the year of wholesome mellow heartland-style piano tunes.
SpongeBob and Newman were in a show together. That’s probably a bar trivia answer waiting to happen.
Whoa. 00:53 Pre-Voyager Torres!! 😲
Picket Fences- one of the best shows ever!
Lauren Holly was a total babe.
Really, what would be along side it?
@@jklax my first ever celeb crush
RIP Markie Post😥
"The Hat Squad" sounds like an SNL skit. 😂
I kept waiting for the jokes to start. They never did.
Huge thanks. I knew there was a show about a white DJ at a black radio station but forgot the name of the show until now.
RIP Markie Post! :(
Black representation was so good in the early to mid 90's. Then all black sitcoms seemed to completely disappear and they're still incredibly rare now.
And why does What Happened look and sound 100% from the 80's?
It also seemed… “organic.” As in, they weren’t part of a bigger identity politics BS we have now 📺🧐🤔
@@bitteralmonds666 Organic is a good word for it. I was 19 years old in 1992 and the so-called black shows existed because they were popular, expected, and normal. Nobody was forcing anything (aside from normal tv misfires); this material was popular so here’s more of it, plus it had broad appeal while still keeping the “ethnic” flavor.
Edit: as I was typing this, Martin came on. A perfect example, my gf/wife and I watched that show for years. Were we the demographic? Yes, because the show was for EVERYBODY, it just happened to star a cast of black people and never apologized for it.
@@chrisw6164Perfect explanation of organic vs. the forced pandering checkbox hell we currently live in.
Are you kidding? How can you watch early shows marketed to black audiences, with their overuse of black signifiers like hip-hop music and "funky" font choices, and think they were meant for everyone? Any show put on the air on a major network has ALWAYS been about money and "capturing demographics". Any black person who got on the air in the early 90s did so because of lot of white people saw dollar signs. People are so desperate to be nostalgic. Ask black people how great the early 90s were.
I only remember a handful of these! So many of them have a very 1992 WHOA I'M ZANY aesthetic to them :)
Every intro looks like some low-rent C+C Music Factory video
I was watching "The hat squad" opening thinking it was a comedy then I realized it was supposed to be taken seriously
I liked that show.
I don't think I ever watched that show, or even knew about it. And I doubt wearing a trench coat and hat makes anyone say "Oooh, we better not mess with these guys."
And that bald guy- didn't he ever have hair?
@@cathoderaytube7497 It was something retro.
I was laughing out loud watching it. I just love the 90s and their "what's the gimmick?" shows.
What blackmail did Mary Page Keller have on ABC back then?
In 1992 I was mostly watching TNN (The Nashville Network), TBS and Nick At Nite.
Wcw Saturday night at 6:05
I really miss the 90s
If that’s not the part of Young Americans that was used, it definitely should’ve been.
Nice work!
I agree.it went perfectly with the opening.
I agree! perfect for the opening.
Thanks. I thought it went pretty well too, if I say so myself.
B'Elanna Torres was a Klingon, not a Young American #STY
@@donaldpaluga Agree. I got so used to seeing her in the Klingon makeup. She is very attractive.
RIP Jessica Walter
Picket Fences one of the most under rated shows in television history
Once again I can't believe how much I can not remember. Round table, WTF!
It goes to show us just how much was being produced back then. I can just binge intros all day if I could.
Ikr? Pepper Sweeney? Wonder whatever happened to him? 😂🤔
A wannabe St. Elmo's Fire.
These are the most Ninetiest intros ever!
I remember Woops! One of the characters survived because they were driving a Volvo when the bombs fell.
All that "Mad About You" theme reminds me of, is George Costanza in bed with Susan watching the show.... realizing he made a huuuuuge mistake.
We had a pact!
_Mad About You_ was a total piss off.. especially about the fight between Jamie and Paul. She did just as bad as what Ross did on _Friends_, but she was expected to get a pass because of her gender! That duplicity was when the "rules for thee not for me" narrative started with feminism especially.
Poor Lily...
@@Panwere36 Jamie was fine to me. Paul was the @$$, especially in the episodes where he left her because she briefly kissed another man. I lost all respect for the show after that. Also, it's pretty annoying that the credits never changed for the run of the show. Helen Hunt looked far better with long hair, but they kept the short bob visible for the entire show's run via the credits.
@@bethdibartolomeo2042 , of course it was fine for you she kisses another man. Flip the script and you would be pissed off Paul did it. Let's not lie.
If nobody had thier logos you could tell what shows were Fox....
The closed captioning and the "In Stereo" plugs seemly make it obvious. CBS and NBC all had their logo and/or network name in the In Stereo bug (CBS pushed that well beyond when many stations broadcasted in stereo as a rule). The 3D closed captioning bug was ABC's (the only one that did that), and so was the "In Stero Where Available" bug that was surrounded by those icons we put to mobile pay today. The cursive "In Stereo" bug was Fox, unless it was the one shown on The Edge. I hadn't seen that one before, so I was wondering who had that one, but I'm guessing it was one that they were trying out or was something their distributors used instead.
To me, I think CBS had the cleanest bug for their "In Strereo" bug. It was slick, it felt like they put a brand name to it (they had a "TM" to theirs, so perhaps that was a brand name) and that they used a different technology than anyone else, and it just looked cool, especially when they added the blue color to it. I wonder if they were the first to go stereo sound.
same with CBS, it's like for quite a while they were very anti drums
I was 10 in 1992, Tea Loeoni made me feel new things.
Yep, Tea was a whole new level of smokin' hot.
It got real "urban" in 92 for a minute lol
Not gonna lie. Helen Hunt got me through puberty in the nicest way. LOL
Logan Cracraft Lauen Holly was my wet dream fantasy in my puberty year in 92
Paul Reiser, however, was pretty annoying.
Yikes. I can’t agree due to the fact that she looks and sounds like my aunt.
@@Emperorcalebtine Sooooooooooooooo......................yes?
Totally forgot Bruce Willis sang the opening!
So what did I learn? That 90's tv show intros are extremely animated and annoying in equal measure.
There were some very distinctive themes emerging during this time. If you were to go back to some of those 80's new show intro videos you hear lots of saxophone intros but watching this season you hear lots of piano. Another theme is hip-hop. This was the era of In Living Color, New Jack City, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. TV was now changing its focus to Gen X. You would see this focus grow with the eventual launch of networks like UPN and The WB in 1995.
Picket Fences 1 of my favorite 1990s shows. excellent cast and writing.
Man, I bet they thought that the sell of fedoras would sky rocket because of The Hat Squad. Boy, they were wrong
I remember syndication of the 1992 season a lot better. The 90s were a great time for syndication. Highlander the Series began (though I wouldn't start watching it until the following year), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (mmm, Chris Potter
That was an incredible range of musical styles used back then. I remember thinking that the music for new series just three earlier was so generic that it could have been use for any series.
Anyone else notice that most of these openings are HUGELY influenced by the early Real World show on MTV. Also, why is everyone falling?
I remember rewatching The Ben Stiller show around 98 or so and wondering who the hell Bob Odenkirk was. Guess he was a late bloomer.
The producers of Great Scott were like “We need something that sounds exactly like Jane’s Addiction, but we ain’t paying Jane’s Addiction money, ya know what I’m saying?”
Exactly what I was thinking. Egregious.
Kept expecting singer to announce he was caught stealing once and he never did. The music producer didn't even try to hide how bitter he was at not getting that song.
I watched a total of 3 of those 30 shows. The two sketch comedy shows, The Edge and The Ben Stiller Show, were like early attempts by Fox that eventually lead to MadTV.
The 90s called and wants....
...nah they said forget it, keep 'em all
Camp Wilder 6:33 theme was a wicked rip off of "Walk Don't Run" by The Ventures and Great Scott theme 7:14 is a note for note rip of "Been Caught Stealin'" by Janes Addiction. Brutal
I legit thought that was Perry Farrell singing
I loved the Ben Stiller Show. Then it got cancelled and was replaced by The Edge.
12:11 Bobby: Oh, I can touch it if I want to
I had forgotten how weird '90s TV intros were.
Looks like TV was trying to create Friends two full years before they actually created Friends.
Tv Guides fall preview touted The Hat Squad as being a potential mega hit on par with The A Team. :-/
LMAOOOOOOOO
Damn man lol I miss some of these shows
Ytf did all the intros ( the heights) look a Levi's commercial lol
Oh yea that time delta decided to be blonde....NOOOO!!!lol
Most of these have very similar styles! Very 90s!
Watching this old shit is the only thing that can relax me these days.
I can relate because this is helping me go to bed an sleep.
Lots of big tv and movie stars got their start
Thanks For Sharing!
The only shows I recall from the dumpster fire that was the 1992 TV season were Whoops & Covington Cross. 🔥
Could anybody have foreseen that, 30 years later, the only one from The Ben Stiller Show who would still be relevant, and, working, would be Bob Odenkirk?
The intro to The Round Table did in fact use the first two verses of "Young Americans", and stopped abruptly after the second chorus. I do like the version you put together, though!
Thanks. Not even sure why they used that as the theme for the series since the lyrics don't really seem to reflect much of anything about it, going by my vague memory of it and its description, unless it was merely to stress that most of the characters were "Young Americans."
Am I the only one who pauses the video to look things up on IMDB constantly? Lol
The openings are longer than the shows.
I loved Hearts Afire. You could tell Billy Bob Thornton and Leslie Jordan had talent.
this is cool. i think i missed most of these shows. it is fun to see the actors and actresses before they hit it big
Flying Blind was fantastic
AD: I'm shooting the opening credits for The Hat Squad tomorrow, gonna need some dry ice.
Prop master "how much?"
AD: Like, all of it!
Wow, sure glad I worked 2nd shift back in 1992.... what a load of ****!
Right? I was thinking it's no wonder I wasn't watching TV that year...
You beat me to it. I also was working an overnight shift at the time. I didn't miss anything apparently. And television has been going downhill ever since.
If I remember correctly, Nickleodeon probably had the best lineup. My son was 2 years old then so I'm sure I watched that mostly.
I was a kid then so that’s why I liked Hangin’ with Mr Cooper lol. But otherwise, lots of bad looking shows here lol
Don't remember The Edge . Wonder whatever became of Jennifer Aniston ( Friends) , Wayne ( Seinfeld) Night , Tom ( Spongebob) Kenney and his wife Jill Talley? 😉
First seeing a show called "Great Scott" *Oh, is it a Doc Brown series?*
After seeing "Great Scott" *...what was that?!*
The Ben Stiller Show was fantastic and should have lasted longer.
Were Ben and Janeane dating at this time?
where was "Melrose Place"?. That was a HUGE TV Show.
Watching those videos in order its really sad when someone seems to be on a different show each year. It means they got a new job so its cool.
Was everyone 'fly' in the 90s?
Yes, we were.
Does "fly" mean painfully embarrassing?
@@PatTheBatmanFan No, it doesn't
Ahh yes The Heights... Where the song did better than the show!
Who came up with the dumb idea of The Hat Squad? I was channel surfing the TV late one night and that show was on and first thing was W.T.F. was I dreaming or it's this show a comedy?
Are you a SLACKER, Warhurst?-Principal Strickland
Remember Hanging with Mr Cooper & of course Mad About You. Reading about “Rhythm & Blues”, holy crap that sounds awful! 😂
Edit. I liked Martin too. I was younger & maybe shouldn’t have been watching but I thought/think it was funny. Stupid humor but sometimes it’s needed. LOL
I saw "Rhythm & Blues"
while it lasted. It was terrific.
It was a black station.
They hire a new DJ
'cause he sounds black,
then they find out he's white.
Wouldn't even be put on
the drawing board today.
Would be cancelled before
it got a chance to even air,
but an entirely conceivable
situation (then, at least)
& similar prejudiced attitudes
towards white males has,
unfortunately, grown.
If that wasn’t the theme song to Round Table, is be shocked. The part you used works perfectly.
Why does every intro look like a full motion video cut scene from a Sega CD game.
Yep, if this were any more nineties it'd be wearing flannel and drinking espresso. :D
Seriously though, why can't I find Covington Cross anywhere?
while @Piracy is illegal and wrong@... I believe that a certain torrent site (synonymous with 'Corsair's Cove') might have what you are looking for...
@@TJ52359 that's debatable, or at least debated, why did no one ever care about you recording a show with your vcr or a song off the radio, but do care about piracy, I understand they are lower quality but are still copies.
@@thesnare100 A. I was going for Sarcasm (another forum I frequent actually has a 'Sarcasm font' activated by putting @s on either end of your comment, so even if I know it doesn't work, I tend to do it elsewhere half out of habit)
B. they did care... Mr. Rogers himself testified before Congress on the benefits of 'Time shifting' to keep VCRs "legal" and IIRC the the Radio side of things saw Blank Tapes (and Radio Recording) tied up in the 'Explicit Content' labeling fight and resolution
C. I Firmly believe if 'the man' was truly anti-piracy we wouldn't have 100 Blank DVD Spindles for $25 or 4 TB Hard drives available for 'public' consumption at any given Wal Mart/Target/Best Buy/et al
D. Addendum to point B... VCR recording vs Torrent isn't just an issue of quality, its a matter of scale... if I sat down with my VCR and Taped Walker Texas Ranger off CBS I'm only one man, making one copy... I might loan it out to a buddy who missed a given week... and if I don't want Commercials I need a 2nd VCR and Chuck Norris' reflexes to do so...
If I want CW's Walker Season 1, I log into 'Corsair Cove' at Midnight Next Friday and I (and every one else who wants it) will have all 18 episodes by 1am and with a can of red bull will have it on 3 discs by 3 am... Vintage Walker's first Full Season would need 3-12 Tapes depending on type
Most of these intros could be mistaken for Mint Condition or Tevin Campbell videos. The beginning of the end for TV
New jack swing, baby.
OMG I had completely suppressed the Golden Palace. What were they thinking?!?!
I'm always amused by the obvious trends in these. Apparently intro collages were extremely in for 5 minutes, then never used again.
Hat Squad has almost the same music as Cry Little Sister
Has anyone else but me noticed the Rhythm and Blues theme song was similar to The Parent Hood?
I loved the Hat Squad.
Good job with trying to recreate the first intro, you did better than some of these, lol. That music for The Edge is ill fitting as heck.
*_Picket Fences_* was a guilty pleasure show of epic proportions. The plots that they skewered things like gender politics, neo conservatism, and the real sources of both racial and cultural bigotry in America these days would have insured the show never would have aired within the last ten years especially.
David E. Kelly has become an unspoken pariah because of his blatantly moderate and clear thinking take on the extremes of both sides. The way his last two series ( *_Boston Legal_* and *_Harry_* ) were treated by both ABC and NBC in their hypocrisy to pander to all of the unhinged extreme groups on all sides is proof of how television is a propaganda device more than for entertainment these days.
1000% agree with everything you said.
Covington Cross only aired 7 episodes, the final was on Halloween of 92, but 13 or 14 were produced. I once had someone tell me 7 isn't enough to judge if a show is good or bad, but most shows don't even make it past the pilot- in which case the pilot isn't even aired. I liked picket fences, but couldn't quite understand what it was trying to portray/say it was some in a town that has some weird extreme events- a priest with a high heel fetish, the bombastic annoying lawyer finkle, animal sacrifices, shooting patatoes at bully's car with a spud gun............hmm.
Tom Kenney (sp) - spongebob :O
So many talented people on the Ben Stiller show. WTF was Ben Stiller doing there? Oh yeah.
His talent was bringing them all together.
You could say that same thing about The Edge as well
Preparing for reality bites?
Mad about you is a great show, Golden Palace should have lasted more then one season it was funny, most people just couldn't get over that Dorothy was gone, but the show was good. Love and War lasted I think 3 seasons, Susan Dey left or was fired I can't remember , at the end of the first season and Annie Potts joined the show. It's been a long time so I think that's right, but I know Annie potts joined the show. Also Hearts Afire lasted 3 seasons, it was a funny show with John Ritter and Markie Post. Delta should have been given a better chance, Delta Burke is a good actress.
camp wilder was pretty funny and a lot of young stars
I think that, conceptually, WOOPS was a bad idea.
Mad About You wasn't terrible. Martin's first season was awesome. But then he got so conceited. He ended up sexually harassing his co-star.
Question: is it luck, talent, drive or a little of each that makes people like Hilary Swank, Tobey McGuire, Billy Bob Thornton and Jennifer Anniston (all in the above clips) get to the "next level" when so many just don't get very far at all?
Lightning in a Bottle... You watch enough of these and you start to see "That Guy'/'That Girl' having a Pilot nearly Every year and nothing ever Clicks for them and then one year you'll see 3-4 people from 'That Show' having wholly different projects the season before they are teamed up for 'That Show', which clicks and lasts 5+ seasons...
@@TJ52359 with that being said some could say, right or wrong, that the writing or the concept of "that show" is more important than the actors delivering the lines. I myself think there has to be a good combination of the two.
The ones who got to the next level sold their souls to the Illuminati. The others didn't.
Don Cheadle did pretty well for himself as well.
@@earlholland7894 As did Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk
The Golden Palace was one sequel that should not have been made, like AfterMASH. Crossroads was something like the 19th of 32 shows that starred Robert Urich. The Heights flopped but its theme song topped the Billboard Hot 100 charts. I liked Going To Extremes (med school rejects studying at a remote island) but it couldn't sustain enough interest to succeed. And finally Woops was a modern-day variation of Gilligan's Island with each of the characters corresponding to the Gilligan's characters. It was short-lived for obvious reasons. In fact I was never aware that show was ever on, it was posted on Robert Marshall's YT channel a while ago.
Urich has his own special Video on the site here
@@TJ52359 I was being tongue-in-cheek about it, just that he did a lot of shows. While I'm commenting here I want to say that after I made the above comment I was recommended full episodes of Woops on YT and I have not seen any of them and probably never will.
@@keithidota I'm not dismissing Mr Urich in anyway... It's actually a cool video, you should seek it out
I was going to say "Re-read what I wrote for 1991; pretty much applies here as well"...but I forgot about MAD ABOUT YOU and PICKET FENCES. Not among the all-time best but certainly the best of *this* bunch!
Was in Okinawa that year. I don't remember these..Oh except Mad About You, and Golden Girls. Also Picket Fences which I never watched. Those are from when I came back in 93.
@John Bold The Golden Girls started in 1985, so you're right. That was the spinoff in the video, The Golden Palace. It did not do well.
another great video ! thanks!