The Big Picture: Ninetiestalgia Stinks

[Arcane Azmadi]

Interesting. I wish I'd seen this back when I still watched TV.

Don't understand why this episode was called 'Ninetiestalgia Stinks', though. I'm assuming "It stinks" was Jay's catchphrase, but I thought this episode was going to be about ragging on 90s nostalgia.

 

[rayen020]

Dude that show.. man. I watched the first season religiously then it went and changed networks and my young easily confused mind could not cope with that. i never watched the second season until the DVD set came out. i loved taht show even though i was waaaaaay too young to be watching it. Course your talking to the same kid who's parents let him watch Die Hard (1,2, and with vengence) without batting an eye and the kid who at 6 years old found cinemax after about 12:30am VERY interesting.

 

[kailus13]

Bob said that Street Sharks was a story for another time, so can we hope that it's next week?

 

[RaikuFA]

Loved the show, owned the DVD set for ages. (virtual fist bump to Bob)

But enough about that, lets get on with the questions.

Are you prone to having blackouts?

I can answer that with with another question.

Are you prone to having blackouts?

 

[Winthrop]

Good episode. I was hoping for a Video Games are Weird episode on Sim City and Alien: Colonial Marines (I know its 90's month, but still). I hold Movie Bob's opinions and analyses in very high esteem. I also respect Jim and Shamus a lot and have already heard their opinions on the issues and was hoping for Movie Bob's opinion as well. You know what, Jim, Shamus, and Movie Bob should do a show together. I'd watch the heck out of that.

 

[varmintx]

Perhaps you can talk about MTV's toons, next?

It's probably not really necessary to discuss Beavis and Butthead as it's still pretty well known (especially after its revival), but The Maxx, Aeon Flux and Daria could all use some love. Damn kids don't know that, once upon a time, MTV actually had good programming.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Man this show was so awesome. I watched it at like 2 in the morning on Teletoon few years back. It was a real pick me up as animation was (As most of it is now, taking a few spins around the drain), so it felt as a fresh breath of air. It has all the right amounts of class, wit, charm, humor, and touching moments. And I've never seen another example I could compare it to side by side.
You can go Simpsons > Family Guy > American Dad > Cleveland Show > Bob's Burger's > and a myriad of other shows build around your dysfunctional yet functional families and their friends and regulars that support what evers going on.
The critic has same type elements, but it's just to independent I think to be compared.

It stinks! (In the good way)

 

[Your Gaffer]

Yeah I used to watch it when I was a kid with my dad. We just really loved Jon Lovitz and the show turned out to be really smart. Sort of an anti-comedy. I'm sad no one here will remember it but me. Oldest viewer win. Lol you just reminded me of the time he can't understand her. I said maah priiide.."Your prode?" "Mahh priiide". Being from kentucky I thought that was hilarious. I never got the Ted turner reference until you mentioned it. I was too young for that stuff. yeah I've got the DVD set. Yes I'm also in the camp that thought the simpsons lost a lot of gas after those guys left. I miss the tongue in cheek jokes you gotta think about or rewind to get. Simspons just got so blatant with every joke these days they just scream the punch line at you like Adele's singing.

So you are saying you are what, 28? I remember the show and really liked it too.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

When I first saw 'A Star is Burns' I had no idea what The Critic was, but even then I thought it was a brilliant episode. At the time it was before we had a proper computer/internet connection in our house, plus the show was cancelled when I was like 3 and I don't think it ever aired outside of North America. But since then I'd discovered it a couple of years ago; watched all the episodes online and loved it, my personal favourite being the Siskel and Ebert episode:


I suppose it's kind of a shame that the series was so short lived and that it ended on a clip show, but at the same I think it's better to be left wanting more. I haven't seen the shorts, but seeing as they're only 3 minutes long I may as well give them a go and I might get a kick out of them if I adjust my expectations accordingly.

 

[OManoghue]

It's one of my favorite shows. Jay's dad is one of the funniest characters on TV.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

Doesn't look like my kind of show. Seinfeld was and still is the only real Jewish humor show I "got" and even most of the references there go over my head.

 

[daxterx2005]

The Critic also crossed with south park.

 

[Roroshi14]

I really liked this episode, being raised in Seattle in the 90's I am partial to it, and love the decade tremendously. I wish Bob would do a SNL episode, the 90's were a big time for it. From Sandler and Meyers up to Farrell and Fallon. Please do a SNL episode Bob, PLEASE.

 

[LackofCertainty]

My brother and I still occasionally reference The Critic to this day.


"You understand the silverware?! Cukoo, Cukoo!"

P.S.
Stef1987 and synobal get to wear the dunce caps of shame for complaining about Bob hating on the nineties.

The focus of this entire episode is Bob pointing out The Critic, which is a nineties comedy and also one of his favorites. The title of this episode isn't Bob complaining about the ninties; It is a reference to The Critic tv show, because Jay's catchphrase in the show is "It stinks!"

Granted, since you two weren't intelligent enough to watch the episode before complaining about it, I highly doubt the cliff notes version posted here will get your attention, but... all I can do is try, I guess.

 

[kburns10]

I really liked this show when I got older! I didn't catch it until it's syndication, but it was funny and Jay was very relatable. I think shows like this one, Duckman, and Rocko's Modern Life still hold up to me because they were about the every man and his daily struggles. It was a nice change of pace from other wacky cartoons.

Oh, and PLEASE do something on Duckman! Both the Critic and Duckman are in my movie collection and I need to finish them.

 

[NiPah]

Ah so the title is a reference to the show? I was just thinking it was trolling the wave of hate his previous episodes garnered. Ah the Critic, art style put me off, setting and main character annoyed me, and everything else put this square in the "don't watch" category". Knowing it gave birth to annoying catch phrases and inside jokes among new age film critics only builds my distaste for that show.

 

[likalaruku]

The Simpsons went on too long while The Critic, Aeon Flux, & Duckman died off too soon. I was 11 when I was watching them; my parents didn't give a shit what I watched. Not many little girls claimed to be a Freddy Kreuger fans.

Well, if you're a fan of people like The Nostalgia Critic & The Cinema Snob, obviously you will have grown up on The Critic & MST3K.

 

[likalaruku]

Jennifer is the epitome of a poorly developed love interest. She's just a piece of cheesecake with no personality, interests, hobbies, background, or character development. I'm guessing the creators either couldn't get the rights to their own characters, never wanted Alice in the first place & scrapped her, just couldn't see using a full cast in a bunch of 5 minute episodes, or couldn't get any of the voice actors to work for an internet show back in 2000.

 

[mykalwane]

Was good, never got to see all of the episodes. I always remember the one where he saves the billionaire guy just to make sure Casablanca doesn't get edited. Always makes me smile. Though it was a show that made me smile for the same reason The Drew Cerry show did.

 

[AngelSword]

I remember having a love/hate relationship with "The Critic." When it worked, it worked really well. But when it missed, something about the way it missed really kind of put it off for me.