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TMC · 04-10-2015, 03:46 AM

I'm going off the top of my head:
*There's an episode from the fifth season, where Jesse asks Joey's help to "toughen up" his band's image (since the record label believes that Jesse and the Rippers are too "soft"). Joey makes Jesse where a long, blonde wig and Joey (w/o a hint of irony I don't believe) says "It's totally Nelson!" I don't think that it takes a dummy to realize that Nelson (those pretty boys w/ the long blonde hair in the poster on Stephanie's wall) had a "tough" image. Then, Jesse reels off names of popular '80s era hair bands like Whitesnake, Ratt, and Poison. What's funny is that this episode was aired in the fall of 1991. Roughly around this time, Nirvana (w/ the help of other Seattle area "grunge" bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains) was about to come out w/ "It Smells Like Teen Spirit", which is often regarded as at the very least, the final nail in the coffin for said hair metal bands.

*The episode in which DJ calls the radio station for Beach Boys tickets. How the hell in all seriousness, would DJ know enough about the Beach Boys (then again, it was around this time that they had a #1 Billboard hit w/ "Kokomo", so it isn't like they weren't that irrelevant) to be a fan of them. I'm not saying that people her age shouldn't like the Beach Boys (the Tanner girls had an otherwise dorky taste in music in retrospect like Stacie Q, Milli Vanilli, Tommy Page, and Nelson), but I find it funny that she's never heard of the song "Help Me Rhonda", and yet she's calling for tickets.

*The episode from the last season where Stephanie, Kimmie, Gia, and some other girl form a band. Kimmie and Gia seem too cool of girls to be playing an Ace of Base song. To me, they seem (especially Gia, who was supposedly, a girl w/ an "edge" to counterbalance Stephanie) like they would be more into alternative rock.

*The episode where Joey gets the "Ranger Joe" job, he tries to hook up w/ the hot cable TV repair-woman by telling her that he won (again w/o a hint of irony) Donnie and Marie tickets.

04-10-2015, 03:46 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,334	Were the writers often a step behind in pop culture? I'm going off the top of my head: There's an episode from the fifth season, where Jesse asks Joey's help to "toughen up" his band's image (since the record label believes that Jesse and the Rippers are too "soft"). Joey makes Jesse where a long, blonde wig and Joey (w/o a hint of irony I don't believe) says "It's totally Nelson!" I don't think that it takes a dummy to realize that Nelson (those pretty boys w/ the long blonde hair in the poster on Stephanie's wall) had a "tough" image. Then, Jesse reels off names of popular '80s era hair bands like Whitesnake, Ratt, and Poison. What's funny is that this episode was aired in the fall of 1991. Roughly around this time, Nirvana (w/ the help of other Seattle area "grunge" bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains) was about to come out w/ "It Smells Like Teen Spirit", which is often regarded as at the very least, the final nail in the coffin for said hair metal bands. The episode in which DJ calls the radio station for Beach Boys tickets. How the hell in all seriousness, would DJ know enough about the Beach Boys (then again, it was around this time that they had a #1 Billboard hit w/ "Kokomo", so it isn't like they weren't that irrelevant) to be a fan of them. I'm not saying that people her age shouldn't like the Beach Boys (the Tanner girls had an otherwise dorky taste in music in retrospect like Stacie Q, Milli Vanilli, Tommy Page, and Nelson), but I find it funny that she's never heard of the song "Help Me Rhonda", and yet she's calling for tickets. The episode from the last season where Stephanie, Kimmie, Gia, and some other girl form a band. Kimmie and Gia seem too cool of girls to be playing an Ace of Base song. To me, they seem (especially Gia, who was supposedly, a girl w/ an "edge" to counterbalance Stephanie) like they would be more into alternative rock. The episode where Joey gets the "Ranger Joe" job, he tries to hook up w/ the hot cable TV repair-woman by telling her that he won (again w/o a hint of irony) Donnie and Marie tickets.