If you watch cable TV, have plenty of guilty pleasures, and love nostalgia, then you’ve probably watched, or at least heard of the VH1 series “I Love the ___” Series. Basically, VH1 gets a bunch of ‘celebrities*’, comedians, and rights to show bits of shows and movies, and they just talk about trends and stuff from that decade.
With I love the ‘80s, it was a hit. Then they just decided to do that with the ‘70s, the ‘90s, toys, holidays, and the 2000s. In 2008. Seriously?
Aside from the fact that the decade wasn’t over, I Love the New Millennium was bad because of a couple of things:
- They missed out on a lot. For certain years, they didn’t include things which were iconic in the year (And still are big now), yet they included things that were kind of big, but forgotten about after a while. Most of the time, this was for budget reasons, or the actors from the movie/show didn’t want to be on, but still.
- It wasn’t much of “I Love” the New Millennium, as much as it was “Let’s roast trends from the 2000s, because when they were in, we were too old to ‘get it’”. I watched a “Best of I Love the ‘80s” and the comedians actually liked the things they were talking about, and seemed nostalgic. But for things like Sudoku, they were just like “WTF IS THIS?” They could’ve wait till 2020-ish, so then people whose childhoods were in the 2000’s could talk about the trends and toys and stuff more nostalgically.
- They missed out on a lot of stuff. They made it in June 2008, and a lot happened in the year and a half left of the decade: Barack Obama winning presidency, the Tina Fey/ Sarah Palin SNL sketches, the Olympics, H1N1, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and lots of other celebrities dying, Lady Gaga (In general), Glee, the Taylor Swift/Kanye West VMA incident, The Hangover, Avatar, etc…
Sadly, it came to this fate:
The Golden Rule of today? Don’t recap decades that haven’t ended yet for nostalgia, especially if they don’t even have a proper name!
*Celebrities meaning D-List has-beens or never-weres.
I love the I love the decades!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the Millenium. Why do it in 2008? Why not wait until 2011, it would be more for "nostalgia" sake then wouldn't it? LOL
Yeah, I wish they waited another three years. I watched some of it yesterday, and the 2007 episode wasn't nostalgia- it was what happened a couple of months before the Millennium special.
ReplyDeleteAnd did they have to have the annoying iPod transitions for almost EVERY SCENE? I probably wouldn't be able to watch another three hours of the the 2000's if it meant watching those transitions.