Oh God, the 90s were such a horrible time.
Now, now. Friends wasn't that bad. Just shallow.
I don't really see the relevance of the Friends comment, but anyone who thinks the 90s were 'terrible' must not have seen them or mis-remembers them. Everything's been precipitously downhill since the 1990s.
Then you mis-remember. Or forget. The 90s were an embarrassment. Dude, it was awful. Those ghastly early-70s women's fashions coming back--halter tops were okay back when very few of the US population was obese, but seriously, didn't you spend any time in the US in the 90s? Jeezus, girl, put a shirt over that. Please. The music was horrible--distortion over full chords! Teenage angst. Summer "thrillers." The ubiquity of sentences ending with "not" or the adverb "not" being placed at the weirdest places, often after the verb. Baseball players spitting in the faces of umpires. (The advent of interleague play, while we're at it!) And a president was impeached--over the silliest of things. While we're on the topic of the President, and to relate it to the thread, 1992 was the only time in my life I can remember a presidential candidate flying back home to Little Rock--not once, but twice, and well publicized by his order--to witness an execution, as though he wanted to make sure everyone know how pro-capital punishment he was. "I ain't like that redneck Jimmy Carter, y'all. I'm a death penalty redneck, so you kin vote fer me with a clear conscience." The Democrats are back, y'all. Yee haaaa!
Seriously, it really was a tacky, gaudy decade, full of missteps and embarrassments. Not that the following or previous decades were any less embarrassing--one was of greed and the other of even more greed--but I suspect that you only remember the 90s fondly because you likely spent most of the decade in Southeast Asia getting your undercarriage waxed while the rest of us stuck it here in the trenches.
