28. A blow by blow account of “A Muppet Family Christmas” (December 16,1987)
24. My Christmas Ornaments of the 1980s and 1990s
23. TV Guide Kraft TV Special Recipe Collection, December 6, 1986
21. Sue Bee Honey Walnut Fruit Salad (1997? 1998?)
26. Christmas Commercials of the 1980s and 1990s Playlist
Month: December 2013
109. Seventeen, December 1996, part 2
I cannot believe this is Fiona Apple in this pic, at the beginning of her career. It totally doesn’t look like her.
I remember being jealous of this outfit when I was 13. I still am 16 years later.
Yup, an entire digestof all of Kate Moss’ runway hairstyles. I desperately wanted hairstyle #10 in 7th grade. I didn’t start wearing accordion headbands until 9th grade, but even then I didn’t know the art of hairspray, or flopping my hair upside down for more volume. I might try #14 tomorrow at Christmas Eve lunch.
The copy for this sponsored “article” is so hilariously bad. Don’t forget, she also gave his basketball buddies cookies too!
The camo look didn’t hit Hampton, Virginia until early 1998. One day in choir class, several girls in class were wearing their camo (including me), and my teacher, Ms. Forrest said, “are we going to Desert Storm again?”
109. Seventeen Magazine, December 1996 (part 1)
(This entry is in html, so if you’re reading this on Tumblr dash, you have to click on the little grey polaroid blanks, sorry.)
Here is an early discussion about teenage girls wanting more body diversity in their magazines. This was the time of the waify models. Here is the big reading version.
The last of the overall trend.
Those pleather skirts, I miss pleather skirts in obnoxious colors. I had a silver one in 8th grade. I had the matching suit jacket that I wore as my coat in 8th grade. By the end of Spring, the button holes were all stretched out, and there were green ink marks all over it.
Big version, I want that airplane ring, but in my huge ring size.
(reading size). Those red white and blue sheer Tommy Hilfiger lipsticks…don’t you wish those were still being made? I also love that I wasn’t the only one who was trying to mix the few cosmetics I had into other cosmetics, like the sparkily eyeshadow + lipgloss mentioned.
I love how the top right corner is a story about some girl who slathered Vaseline in her hair, and messed it up, but at the bottom left, there is a suggestion to put shea butter in your hair.
JUST FLOATIN’
We voluntarily wore clothes with Winnie the Pooh that only toddlers should have worn. I would never go out in public with Winnie the Pooh on! I still think plaid shorts and tights should come back though.
I had the Hello Kitty backpack that looked like a JanSport knockoff, I bought it on vacation in Alaska … and then kept it on my shelf for years with my other Hello Kitty stuff I thought was priceless.
Remember those Filas that Kirsten in the top right are wearing?
Every girl in 7th grade had the top girl’s shoes the first week of school.
I remember they got rid of the guy clothes at Gadzooks in the early 00s, and just a couple of years later they were gone completely.
Oh, I’m sure any perfume from Eckerd will knock a guy dead.
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Those My Generation scents were SO GOOD. I got them Christmas of 1996.
108. ♫ Santa Packs are coming ♫ (1995)
I know I’m supposed to enjoy the “Santa Packs are Coming” Coca-Cola commercial song, and its supposed to give me warm and gooshy feelings about Christmas during middle school in the mid 90s, but it doesn’t.
It’s just a really annoying jingle.
107. Christmas newspaper clippings part 1
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
She looks like the inspiration for Charlene Matlock, either pilot Charlene Matlock, or Linda Purl Charlene Matlock, choose one:
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
Everything for your yuppie kitchen.
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
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The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
Aw, nobody likes this candy. Not even in 1980. Also, deadmalls.com dead mall, Northridge Mall.
I am so bothered by the Bone Fone, its the definition of ridiculousness. I think this was right before the Walkman hit it big, so these were probably mildly popular for about 2 months.
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
That is not a Care Bear.
I don’t know too many people who buy their gifts at the auto part store, especially at 11:45 at night on December 23rd.
Schenectady Gazette – Dec 12, 1987
EVERY discount store had their own bear back in the 1980s and 1990s. I had one from Kmart that had a little sweater dress from 1990. The reason why I knew it was from 1990 was because it said so on her sweater.
Schenectady Gazette – Dec 12, 1987
I didn’t know that people still bought Atari’s in 1987.
107. Christmas newspaper clippings part 1
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
She looks like the inspiration for Charlene Matlock, either pilot Charlene Matlock, or Linda Purl Charlene Matlock, choose one:
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
Everything for your yuppie kitchen.
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
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The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
Aw, nobody likes this candy. Not even in 1980. Also, deadmalls.com dead mall, Northridge Mall.
I am so bothered by the Bone Fone, its the definition of ridiculousness. I think this was right before the Walkman hit it big, so these were probably mildly popular for about 2 months.
The Milwaukee Journal – Dec 4, 1980
That is not a Care Bear.
I don’t know too many people who buy their gifts at the auto part store, especially at 11:45 at night on December 23rd.
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Schenectady Gazette – Dec 12, 1987
EVERY discount store had their own bear back in the 1980s and 1990s. I had one from Kmart that had a little sweater dress from 1990. The reason why I knew it was from 1990 was because it said so on her sweater.
Schenectady Gazette – Dec 12, 1987
I didn’t know that people still bought Atari’s in 1987.
Recap of Christmas entries from Christmases past
28. A blow by blow account of “A Muppet Family Christmas” (December 16,1987)
24. My Christmas Ornaments of the 1980s and 1990s
23. TV Guide Kraft TV Special Recipe Collection, December 6, 1986
21. Sue Bee Honey Walnut Fruit Salad (1997? 1998?)
26. Christmas Commercials of the 1980s and 1990s Playlist
107. Christmas newspaper clippings part 1
108. Santa packs are coming (1995)
132. Christmas in July: Night Court (December 17, 1987)
160. January 1995’s predictions for the hot toys of December 1995 (Newsweek, January 23, 1995)
163. That time Raymond was in Christmas boxers sweeping and singing “In the Ghetto” (1997)
109. Seventeen, December 1996, part 2
109. Seventeen Magazine, December 1996 (part 1)
Recap of Christmas entries from Christmases past
28. A blow by blow account of “A Muppet Family Christmas” (December 16,1987)
24. My Christmas Ornaments of the 1980s and 1990s
23. TV Guide Kraft TV Special Recipe Collection, December 6, 1986
21. Sue Bee Honey Walnut Fruit Salad (1997? 1998?)
26. Christmas Commercials of the 1980s and 1990s Playlist
107. Christmas newspaper clippings part 1
108. Santa packs are coming (1995)
132. Christmas in July: Night Court (December 17, 1987)
160. January 1995’s predictions for the hot toys of December 1995 (Newsweek, January 23, 1995)
163. That time Raymond was in Christmas boxers sweeping and singing “In the Ghetto” (1997)
109. Seventeen, December 1996, part 2
109. Seventeen Magazine, December 1996 (part 1)
106. “Nightingales” (1989)
The five students featured on the show, you see, don`t spend much time studying. And they do hang around in their underwear a lot. 1.
I found parts of the second pilot episode from January 21, 1991, (a failed pilot aired in the Summer of 1988) and the introduction by Suzanne Pleshette:
“you get to meet the girls, to discover their secret pasts, their dreams, their desires, their loves …."
…sounds more like the back of a softcore vhs box than a NBC pilot on a Saturday night before the Superbowl.
This is the first thing you see in the pilot, because you see, one of the girls in the nursing program witnessed a murder and now she’s in the witness protection program, and they make her become a nurse?
Already at 7:58, it looks like they’re about to shoot a pillow fight scene.
"YOUR ASSES BELONG TO ME.” really, she says that. I’m not joking.
Wow. Look how short those uniforms are!
All the ladies were making googly eyes at this doctor. Did I mention that he walked away from a guy who had just been stabbed to introduce himself to the new students?
They go to a club named Panda after studying for 5 minutes…
…and one of them has the stage all to herself and dances with a cigarette? I think a 12 year old girl wrote this. This is something I would think was cool when I was 12.
They focus on her butt a lot too.
She’s dancing and grinding on a mannequin. This was all to reveal that she has a life beyond nursing school where she dances at Panda…oh and she abandoned her daughter when she was six months old, and her mother is trying to adopt the little girl now.
In the second clip from the pilot, right after a commercial break, there is this long shot of one of the girls bodies while they lounge around on a 90° day.
Our little dancer rings water on herself.
Ok, thats enough. Real nurses who didn’t play ones on tv were PISSED at this show, and the negative articles starting rolling in around March of 1990:
Carol Grimaldi, a spokeswoman for the nurses association, says
“Nightingales” belittles the profession by portraying the future nurses as “little sex kittens.” “Why don`t they just go ahead and do a show about lingerie models instead?” she asks bitterly.
Members are writing to get NBC to cancel the show and most letters probably echo a nursing instructor who said: “We do not want this type of image on TV. You`re reducing nurses to a bunch of sluts.” 1.
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By May of 1989, bowing to pressure, and advertisers pulling out, the producers said that if Nightingales was renewed for another season, the show would be “cleaned up”. 3. It was too late, and the show was canned a few days later.
1. "Sour Notes On `Nightingales`.“ Chicago Tribune, March 16, 1989. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-03-16/news/8903270408_1_nightingales-carol-grimaldi-american-nurses-association (accessed December 3, 2013).
2. Trafford, Abigal. "Prime-Time Women: Still Skirting Reality." Anchorage Daily News, March 8, 1989. http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/media/tv/nightingales/anchorage_1989-03-08.pdf (accessed December 7, 2013).
3. ”‘Nightingales’ cleaned up.“ Kentucky New Era, May 5, 1989. http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/media/tv/nightingales/kentucky_1989-05-05.pdf (accessed December 8, 2013).
Bonus:
The clip I used in this entry also had the original commercial breaks. They start here, here, here, here, and here.
Bonus II because its December.
In part 3 of the pilot, Santa Claus keels over.
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