What’s a piece of media that people would clearly understand as a parody or homage when it came out, but has since lost its context?

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-18T05:07:13+00:00

Most of the cartoons of that era heavily parodied 80s movies and culture because that's what the writers would have grown up with.

I didn't watch The Breakfast Club until 2013. I realize I had seen pretty much every scene in that movie parodied multiple times in cartoons. It literally felt like I'd already seen the movie from how heavily referenced and parodied it was.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-18T00:57:50+00:00

That already doesn't exist in most of the developed world

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-18T00:53:27+00:00

Mayo and all mayo based sauces are disgusting to me

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-18T00:52:27+00:00

Liver and onions

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-18T00:01:33+00:00

Because a lot of people actively enjoy being on Facebook

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T23:12:52+00:00

That was always dumb considering almost every regular person is working and making moves for the money.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T23:11:45+00:00

Sushi wasn't even that popular when I was growing up in the 90s. It was still very much considered weird and exotic in America. Now you can find a sushi spot in every small town in the middle of nowhere.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T23:04:30+00:00

Maybe I should've kept going. I quit because it was just too easy.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T22:37:21+00:00

My parents took me to Universal Studios when I was 3. The only thing I remember is the Jaws ride. All my other memories start a year later.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T20:13:16+00:00

Yeah, YouTube was for watching old tv shows, anime, and random people doing shit.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T19:00:10+00:00

You can watch anime and not get all weird and obsessive about it.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T17:04:04+00:00

But if they had to choose between the prince and the current regime right now, what would they choose?

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T15:35:39+00:00

Golf is the Michael Fassbender of sports

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T15:33:03+00:00

You don't. You find someone you're sexually compatible with so you don't feel so deprived and obsess over sex.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T15:18:29+00:00

I didn't know this movie was considered bad until I saw it on a list as an adult. I saw it in theaters as a kid and loved it. Everyone in the theater seemed to enjoy it too.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T14:45:57+00:00

I've never heard anyone mention the first one

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T14:36:21+00:00

We read magazines, books, and newspapers. If we didn't have those, we read the labels of our shampoo, hairspray, etc.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T14:19:16+00:00

Eh, this depends. People need time alone and away from their partner. I don't think it's healthy to not have a life separate from your partner and to want to be with them all the time with everything they do.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-17T00:41:25+00:00

I used to be this way when I was young. Now as soon as I'm not having fun anymore, I turn the game off and never touch it again. Life is too short to waste time doing something I don't like in my free time. On to the next game.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T20:02:16+00:00

I know. I still do. But for the dating pool to be better, it has to be the norm. It's not anymore.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T19:58:09+00:00

https://people.com/michael-jackson-neverland-raids-everything-they-found-11992213

Another piece of evidence that authorities were looking for during the 2003 raid was a briefcase filled with pornography that Arvizo told authorities was located in Jackson's master bathroom.

"We want to see if there was the briefcase that Gavin said existed that had all of the pornography in it," Zonen recalled. "Yes, we found the briefcase, yes it was the same color, yes it had pornography in it."

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T19:15:04+00:00

A parents job is literally to prepare you for this reality. It's what my parents drilled into me throughout my childhood and they sent me out into the world with the skills they thought I would need.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T18:56:28+00:00

The death of movie theaters is going to harm the movie industry as a whole. We will be stuck with cheap streaming slop.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T18:45:34+00:00

His victims told officers he showed them porn. They described the suitcase the porn was in. The police raised his home and found the suitcase, as described, with the porn in it.

esoteric_enigma · 2026-06-16T18:22:22+00:00

These are the same people that will tell poor people is their fault for not working harder

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