Man, back in those days I thought we were truly in the post-racism era. Then I grew up and saw how the world really was, and social media happened and allowed all the awful people in the world to find each other.
A simpler time
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cattywampas@midwest.social 2 months ago
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I went to cancun that year for my senior trip. It was non stop 18 y/o boys quoting chapell show to each other. Take me baaaack
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
FUCK YO COUCH!
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You betta axe sumbody
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What do you mean no memes? This was 2004 and there were a bazillion Rick James memes as far as I remember. Image
other_cat@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If anything it feels like the purest form of meme for something to be quoted repeatedly like that lol
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Nobody tell them that yelling random jokes from somewhere at other people are memes in their purest form.
bigfondue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was in high school at the time. I remember everyone yelling “Whaaat! Okay!” at each other like Lil Jon
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Showed all of Charlie Murphy’s real hollywood stories to my s/o who had never seen them. They hold up, we were crying laughing.
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I think the genius of those skits is they were true stories and Charlie Murphy wasn’t acting. Like the dramatizations of them were obviously supposed to be ridiculous and comedic, but the stories themselves were basically a retelling of what actually happened.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think it may have been a little before. April 1999, the premiere of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? Everyone was talking about it. We were ALL going to be millionaires. We all dressed like Regis for awhile (…right?). The new millennium was right around the corner. Things can only go up from here.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
contestant on final question. It’s super hard.
“I’m going to use a lifeline to phone my dad. Hey, dad? Yeah. I’m on Who Wants to be a Millionaire a d just wanted you to know I am about to win a million dollars.”
hangs up, gets right answer, wins a million bucks
Dude was epic.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was working in a cubicle farm at the time, and everybody was on the phone all fucking day for weeks trying to pass the call-in test for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Absolutely no work got done by the entire IT department of a major corporation for that whole time. I’m surprised that show didn’t have a worse effect on the economy than 9/11 or COVID.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m Rick James bitch!
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
UNITYYYY!
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m Rick James bitch!
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What did the 5 fingers say to the face?
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Charlie Murphy!
frunch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Darkness!
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I went to see him at a college in this era and he couldn’t even perform his set because drunk frat boys kept screaming it at him
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
White people yelling "I'm rick James bitch" at hims is literally why he stopped doing comedy for like a decade.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That and some industry people tried to fuck him on a contract or something
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I thought it was them quoting Clayton to him
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Memes have existed long as humans have.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Game Blouses
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
What?
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Fuck yo couch!”
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And thus awoke a dark urge in the mind of JD Vance.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 months ago
Buy another one, ya rich motherfker!