Star Wars Holiday Special Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/star-wars-holiday-special/ Stories about Culture Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:58:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Star Wars Holiday Special Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/star-wars-holiday-special/ 32 32 Dream of the (early) 90’s: The Simpsons Sing The Blues https://unwinnable.com/2011/03/03/dream-of-the-early-90s-the-simpsons-sing-the-blues/ https://unwinnable.com/2011/03/03/dream-of-the-early-90s-the-simpsons-sing-the-blues/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:00:17 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=9090 If NPR’s All Songs Considered is to be believed, 90’s nostalgia is now a “Thing.” That’s all well and good, but I think that when they talk about being nostalgic for the 90’s, most people are probably thinking about the mid-90’s, when a puritanical, authenticity-obsessed notion of coolness was in vogue for a few minutes. They tend to forget about the early 90’s, a pop culture epoch so corny it almost rivaled the variety show era of the 1970’s. It was the time of Club MTV, the puppet sitcom Dinosaurs, and Ugly Kid Joe.  The Simpsons Sing the Blues was

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