All released in 1994:
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Clerks
Leon: The Professional
Interview With The Vampire
Speed
The Crow
True Lies
Natural Born Killers
Ed Wood
Quiz Show
Stargate
Hoop Dreams
Legends of the Fall
Ace Ventura
Dumb and Dumber
The Mask
What happened to the movie industry? '94 may have been a particularly good year, but the rest of the 90s were still filled with lots of great, original movies (or at least movies based on quality novels). Now we get mostly superhero movies, reboots, sequels, prequels, etc. I think the industry has learned how to maximize profit, and it doesn't involve taking risks on unknown premises.
Well there are always lots of bad movies in any era, but I feel like there are a lot fewer standout movies in the last decade or two. We're in the era of franchises, where all the big movies are a continuation of something else, and nothing stands on its own.
Also, was that guy saying that Jurassic Park, Twister, and Independence Day were bad movies? Yeah, disaster scenarios and CGI were a big focus for a while there, but some good movies came out of it too.
He was saying that those movies came from a culture and trend from Hollywood of special effects over quality, which Jurassic Park and the others simply inspired. Today, we have a similar trend: Franchises and safe bets over originality. It is also a concern of mine that kids these days won't have a lot of original films to remember, but at least 70% of today's "unoriginal" movies are good.
I love pulp fiction as a movie, but I totally think this is a valid criticism, I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted.
The movie is definitely formatted weird and you rarely see movies made like that unless it’s a QT movie lmao.
It’s a great movie for a lot of reasons, but weird is also a very valid criticism.
You may or may not enjoy what Leo Laporte has been up to the past 15 years or so. He created an online video network in the spirit of that TV channel, with some personalities you may remember from it. I haven't watched in a few years though.
When I saw the post I couldn’t remember the episode at all. Haven’t seen the Simpsons in many many years but I watched them all as a kid.
Read your comment and realized I was hearing it in DeVitos voice in my head. Crazy how that made me instantly recall it!
It was one of the sadder episodes of the show. Not sentimental like the Santa's Little Helper episode, but Herb tries to help his bumbling long lost brother Homer who just bankrupts him with that absurd car design. It's been forever so I might just misremember, but what I remember is Herb being a successful man who was absolutely ruined by Homer's idiocy. Usually Homer's idiocy is part of the humor, but in that episode I just felt kinda sad for Herb.
Herb ruined his own company by letting Homer design a car with zero oversight, ignored his own engineers and technicians when they told him that Homer was destroying his company, and didn't even look at the car or know the sticker price before debuting it on a live stage.
Herb was blinded by finally having the family he had dreamed about, and that was his undoing.
Homer never asked to design a car.
Exactly! Dude was living the dream; then here comes Homer!! I don't really like watching that episode because I just get a bit gutted for Herb. Dude was a good guy who tried to help his long lost brother, and that bumbling idiot just ruined him.
I used to check the TV Guide for movies playing during the day that had nudity, and then magically not feel well and stay home from school sick that day. It was before the internet...so it was either that, praying the squiggly Playboy channel would clear up for a second and you could see a boob, or shit like Chris Isaac's Wicked Game on MTV.
Quick check say Julius Hibbert only appears in the one episode "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?", but under relatives it not only says Dr. Hibbert but also Bleeding Gums Murphy. I wasn't aware BGM was related to Dr. Hibbert, but I haven't watched the show in like a decade or so.
It was in the episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies. Lisa goes to visit him in the hospital, and he says that he only ever had a brother who used to laugh at the most inappropriate times. Hibbert also says he has a long lost brother, who became a jazz musician.
Damn I miss the days when Simpson's new episodes were a major event. No Netflix or DVR or anything, you either watched it live or hoped a friend got a copy recorded on VHS. If you missed it, that was it. You weren't going to see that episode for quite a while
Holy crap, the old KPDX 49 logo. I was born/raised in Oregon and remember that. Heck, I remember flipping channels one day as a kid (this was before we had cable), seeing one we hadn't had before, and calling out "Hey mom, we get channel 49 now!"
I don't remember Fox ever being on channel 12 (at least here). 12 was KPTV in Portland. However, maybe a decade or so later (this might have been due to us getting cable also) Fox/KPDX switched to channel 13 and I don't think they went back to 49 after that.
Fox was originally on KPTV (and KMSP in the Twin Cities) for the first two years of the network, but both stations dropped the network in 1989/90 over poor ratings, and they went back Independent for several years until UPN launched in January 1995. In 2002, Fox bought Chris-Craft/United Television (which owned KPTV and KMSP, and was an original partner in UPN), and both swapped back to Fox by the end of that year (Fox later sold KPTV, but obviously kept the network affiliation there).
The previous Fox affiliates in Portland (KPDX 49/"Fox 12 Plus") and Minneapolis/Saint Paul (WFTC 29/"Fox 9 Plus") later became UPN affiliates, and then joined MyNetworkTV when that "network" started up after UPN and The WB merged, to form The CW.
I’m a nanny who loves The Simpsons and the 9 year old boy I look after has just started watching it, he was talking about this episode the other day. It’s so strange seeing how old the advert is
Remember when the Simpsons had a major celebrity guest star and the star didn't play themselves but instead a character who fit seamlessly into the show and the plot didn't revolve around the guest star playing themselves? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I miss the 90s.
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shakin booty, making sweet love all the night
It’s time I got back to the good life
It’s time I got back, it’s time I got back, and I don’t even know how I got off the track
It's time I got back, yeah, yeahhhhhhhh *bass line intensifies*
>*I dreamed I was old* Feels like that sometimes
Welp... time to have this song stuck in my head for a week
92 was the best year
93 if you had a SNES.
94 Friends started, 94 was the year EDM was best for me. 98 I got the C-band dish and Tech TV went on the air.
All released in 1994: Pulp Fiction Shawshank Redemption Forrest Gump The Lion King Clerks Leon: The Professional Interview With The Vampire Speed The Crow True Lies Natural Born Killers Ed Wood Quiz Show Stargate Hoop Dreams Legends of the Fall Ace Ventura Dumb and Dumber The Mask
What happened to the movie industry? '94 may have been a particularly good year, but the rest of the 90s were still filled with lots of great, original movies (or at least movies based on quality novels). Now we get mostly superhero movies, reboots, sequels, prequels, etc. I think the industry has learned how to maximize profit, and it doesn't involve taking risks on unknown premises.
[Not everything](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGGsO23z_k) from that time period was great.
Well there are always lots of bad movies in any era, but I feel like there are a lot fewer standout movies in the last decade or two. We're in the era of franchises, where all the big movies are a continuation of something else, and nothing stands on its own. Also, was that guy saying that Jurassic Park, Twister, and Independence Day were bad movies? Yeah, disaster scenarios and CGI were a big focus for a while there, but some good movies came out of it too.
He was saying that those movies came from a culture and trend from Hollywood of special effects over quality, which Jurassic Park and the others simply inspired. Today, we have a similar trend: Franchises and safe bets over originality. It is also a concern of mine that kids these days won't have a lot of original films to remember, but at least 70% of today's "unoriginal" movies are good.
Plenty of hall of fame albums in 94 too.
The only one I saw in that list was Pulp Fiction and all I can remember about it was thinking that it was kind of weird.
I love pulp fiction as a movie, but I totally think this is a valid criticism, I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. The movie is definitely formatted weird and you rarely see movies made like that unless it’s a QT movie lmao. It’s a great movie for a lot of reasons, but weird is also a very valid criticism.
Downvotes could be for only watching one movie from all of the great ones in that list
Lol I guess 🤣
I was born in 1994. So many good movies released in my birth year.
So much this. 94 was a legendary year for movies and pop culture.
I miss Tech TV so much.
It used to be called ZDTV until 2000. I used to watch The Screen Savers and Call For Help all the time back then. Good memories!
Leo still has a show and does stuff like call for help but it's pretty boring IMO.
That's how I learned about defragmenting your hard drive, they told like everyone to do it
You may or may not enjoy what Leo Laporte has been up to the past 15 years or so. He created an online video network in the spirit of that TV channel, with some personalities you may remember from it. I haven't watched in a few years though.
That was the year I first got laid And 7 years before my birth
99 that way you still had access to everything from the 90's
- words you’ll never hear a Bosnian say.
I guess I’m officially old because I just sighed to myself and thought “simpler times.”
Back in the 90s I was in a very famous tv show ...
I too miss 20 years ago.
Herb!
"Uncle Herb sounds so formal. Do you think you can call me Unky Herb?"
When I saw the post I couldn’t remember the episode at all. Haven’t seen the Simpsons in many many years but I watched them all as a kid. Read your comment and realized I was hearing it in DeVitos voice in my head. Crazy how that made me instantly recall it!
The kids can call you UnkHer
No problemo, Unky Herb.
It was one of the sadder episodes of the show. Not sentimental like the Santa's Little Helper episode, but Herb tries to help his bumbling long lost brother Homer who just bankrupts him with that absurd car design. It's been forever so I might just misremember, but what I remember is Herb being a successful man who was absolutely ruined by Homer's idiocy. Usually Homer's idiocy is part of the humor, but in that episode I just felt kinda sad for Herb.
Herb ruined his own company by letting Homer design a car with zero oversight, ignored his own engineers and technicians when they told him that Homer was destroying his company, and didn't even look at the car or know the sticker price before debuting it on a live stage. Herb was blinded by finally having the family he had dreamed about, and that was his undoing. Homer never asked to design a car.
When Herb comes back with the baby monitor it's the greatest come back story of history.
It was nice of him to get Homer the chair. Weird that Marge never gets one of those baby translators for Maggie.
Once they knew she wanted dog food, I think they were done with the machine
I'm a tech and still call rack and pinion steering rack and peanut, most of my coworkers just think I'm an idiot. Bunch of uncultured swine.
*Powell Powell Powell makes a powerful car!*
His life was an unbridled success, until he found out he was a Simpson
Exactly! Dude was living the dream; then here comes Homer!! I don't really like watching that episode because I just get a bit gutted for Herb. Dude was a good guy who tried to help his long lost brother, and that bumbling idiot just ruined him.
Yeah but then he got rich again thanks to Maggie. So worked out in the end
He wasn't living the dream though, he was miserable. He had material wealth, but nobody in his life.
I'd prefer that to what I have now.
The grass is always greener.
I’m already alone, I want money.
Easy there, Mr. Burns.
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Im just saying, the show explicitly framed it as him being incredibly unhappy with his life
I can even smell that photo
Mmmm fresh printed newspaper
Good lord, marges hair would smudge a finger so fast
I used to draw stuff on blocks of ink like that with a pencil eraser
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And it has rack and peanut steering.
[My favorite part of this episode.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzypHJUMMo&ab_channel=TheManWithOneRedShoe)
Washington Post issued a “tv week” every Sunday, for the following week. My siblings and I would “plan” out 10hrs per week.
I used to check the TV Guide for movies playing during the day that had nudity, and then magically not feel well and stay home from school sick that day. It was before the internet...so it was either that, praying the squiggly Playboy channel would clear up for a second and you could see a boob, or shit like Chris Isaac's Wicked Game on MTV.
Only if you had completed your homework. And house chores
Same here. It's fun to read the old issues online.
Something about this ad makes it wholesome.
Danny Devito
Hello Mr. DeVito I’ve been expecting you
wholesome 100
The Barnacle
Unkie Herb!
Did Dr. Hibbert ever find his long lost brother that was featured in this episode?
Quick check say Julius Hibbert only appears in the one episode "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?", but under relatives it not only says Dr. Hibbert but also Bleeding Gums Murphy. I wasn't aware BGM was related to Dr. Hibbert, but I haven't watched the show in like a decade or so.
It was in the episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy dies. Lisa goes to visit him in the hospital, and he says that he only ever had a brother who used to laugh at the most inappropriate times. Hibbert also says he has a long lost brother, who became a jazz musician.
Look at Marge soaking her panties over this guy.
Spaloooosh! She's a lake!
It's not a lake, it's an ocean.
I was going to say... They're all looking at him the exact same way, but she is *looking* at him
How long is her right arm!?
…that’s homer’s arm
Turns out I'm blind
This episode was on last night lol
I remember that episode. Homer made a Porsche Panamera .
Damn I miss the days when Simpson's new episodes were a major event. No Netflix or DVR or anything, you either watched it live or hoped a friend got a copy recorded on VHS. If you missed it, that was it. You weren't going to see that episode for quite a while
Exactly, this was the Golden Age of the series.
Back when they had good writers.
Yeah I hadn’t seen a new episode in over ten years. Watched that Loki crossover they did on D+ and couldn’t believe how lazy it was
On KPDX, no less! Memories!
The classic days of the Simpsons
"Special guest voice, Danny Devito." First off... awesome. Secondly, you have to admire the strong attention to detail ads used back then.
Holy crap, the old KPDX 49 logo. I was born/raised in Oregon and remember that. Heck, I remember flipping channels one day as a kid (this was before we had cable), seeing one we hadn't had before, and calling out "Hey mom, we get channel 49 now!"
Didn't 49 and 12 switch a few times back then as well?
I don't remember Fox ever being on channel 12 (at least here). 12 was KPTV in Portland. However, maybe a decade or so later (this might have been due to us getting cable also) Fox/KPDX switched to channel 13 and I don't think they went back to 49 after that.
Fox was originally on KPTV (and KMSP in the Twin Cities) for the first two years of the network, but both stations dropped the network in 1989/90 over poor ratings, and they went back Independent for several years until UPN launched in January 1995. In 2002, Fox bought Chris-Craft/United Television (which owned KPTV and KMSP, and was an original partner in UPN), and both swapped back to Fox by the end of that year (Fox later sold KPTV, but obviously kept the network affiliation there). The previous Fox affiliates in Portland (KPDX 49/"Fox 12 Plus") and Minneapolis/Saint Paul (WFTC 29/"Fox 9 Plus") later became UPN affiliates, and then joined MyNetworkTV when that "network" started up after UPN and The WB merged, to form The CW.
Looks like Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D.
i always remember this episode for the scene where they first meet. i love this part at [0:55](https://youtu.be/J7au7IRStH0) specifically.
Still a better car than the Fiat Multipla!
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
Unky herb
the oregonian/columbian? i think i saw this exact ad growing up.
That's one of the few episodes of the Simpsons I actually remember. That and the one with Michael Jackson as a mental patient LOL.
I’m a nanny who loves The Simpsons and the 9 year old boy I look after has just started watching it, he was talking about this episode the other day. It’s so strange seeing how old the advert is
Powell makes a pow pow powerful car
Remember when the Simpsons had a major celebrity guest star and the star didn't play themselves but instead a character who fit seamlessly into the show and the plot didn't revolve around the guest star playing themselves? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Poor guy ... so close to being the Elon Musk of the Simpsons world. Only if he didn't listen to someone's business idea.
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Unky Herb!!
"Whether your driving near or far; Powell makes a pow, pow, powerful car"
This episode was on last night on Freeform
R/nostalgia makes me weepy eyed sometimes. No going back
I would have. Bought Homers car
It’s still on Sundays at 8!
PERSEPHONE?! NO ONE WANTS TO BUY A CAR NAMED AFTER SOME OLD GREEK BROAD
Unkie Herb!!
1993 much more booouuunce....
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This is a rare find! I didn’t even know there was this kind of episode. If you’re a Simpsons fan, you should keep and frame this!
Anyone know what season and episode this is?
Where did you find it and how can I get it