![]() ![]() “Suddenly, Seymour” One of the many alternative medical treatments Anya’s former roommate tried involved carnivorous plants. MacGyver Sandra says she has a hyacinth macaw named MacGyver, “because his voice sounds like Richard Dean Anderson.” MacGyver is an action TV series - featuring a do-gooder who could jerry rig anything - that first ran on CBS from 1985 to 1992 and was later rebooted on the same network. They replaced portable cassette players, yet, ironically, many people had to use tape adapters to connect them to car stereos. The first of these devices, Sony’s Discman, was released in 1984. Portable CD player When Ilonka first meets Kevin, he’s listening to music on a portable CD player. It was unseated by Google (but not Ask Jeeves). Yahoo! Ilonka researches Brightcliffe using Yahoo!, a pioneering internet search engine launched in 1995. When connecting, modems would make terrible screeching sounds, which The Midnight Club viewers get to hear when Ilonka goes online at the hospital. And they protected your CD from being scratched, which was so totally annoying.ĭial-up modem sounds Before everyone had fast, instant connections, computer users would have to use a modem to dial into the internet. CD cases were both a storage solution and a way to show off your musical taste. The car was first introduced in 1990 and went out of production in 1995, though it remains a common sight on the roads today.ĬD case Compact discs were the most popular way to play music in the ’80s and ’90s before they were largely rendered obsolete through MP3 players. Volvo wagon When dropping Ilonka off at Brightcliffe for the first time, her foster dad, Tim, drives one of the most iconic automobiles of the ’90s: the Volvo 940 wagon. It remained there for 15 weeks, making it an instant classic of the era. One of Stone Temple Pilots’ biggest hits, “Interstate Love Song” reached No. So drink a Jolt Cola, put on your Doc Martens and peruse these 94 (yeah, like the approximate year of the show!) 1990s references and other pop culture Easter eggs of The Midnight Club. Virginia Woolf and ley lines? Both were topics of conversation in ’90s English classes and amongst alien-obsessed dorkazoids in the lunchroom. ![]() And a quick note on our methodology for the Easter egg police: We considered many pop cultural touchstones that may be outside the ’90s but that informed the world of the Midnight Club teens. So we assembled an intrepid team of ’90s historians - aka everyone at Tudum headquarters from the MTV generation - to reveal all the archaic tech and awesome jams of the era. Since The Midnight Club is set in the mid-1990s, many folks who were born in the new millennium may need a catch-up on what those halcyon days of dial-up internet were really like. ![]() Remember the ’90s? Whether you’re Gen X or Millennial, or Gen Z with a Y2K obsession, the ’90s never went away. ![]()
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