The 1990s Are Back! - Neatorama

Remember the 1990s? You know, Rugrats, Saved by the Bell, and - gasp - New Kids on the Block? Well ... love 'em or not, get ready: they're baaaack!

Claire Suddath of TIME gets us all ready for the inevitable arrival of the scrunchies:

Recently, the pace of '90s references and revivals has quickened. In May, the New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys reunited; they're currently touring as one giant acronym monstrosity called NKOTBSB. This fall, MTV will restart Beavis and Butt-Head; their music-video show 120 Minutes is already back on the air on MTV2. VH1 is about to reboot Pop-Up Video. And then a few weeks ago, Nickelodeon started airing its "classic" children's television shows like Clarissa Explains It All and All That on its sister station, TeenNick. That made it official: the '90s have been gone long enough that we've decided to bring them back.

They are not "scrunchies". They are a ponytail holder patented by Scunci.

http://www.amazon.com/Scunci-Effortless-Beauty-Thermal-Twisters/dp/B001T8MD8Y/ref=sr_1_7?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1313344487&sr=1-7

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While that may be technically true, "scrunchy" is the colloquial term for that particular hair accessory. If someone asked me for a hair scrunchy I would know that they are looking for an elastic band encased in an inch-wide (approximately) tube of cloth.

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Ummmmm, no. The 90s was just a rehash of previous decades. It will not be back because it never made much of an impact in the first place.

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NKOTB is more 80-ish in my opinion. And Kenny V. is whacked, the 90s is the best decade ever! :p

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There was nothing very culturally definitive about the 90's.

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I saw this coming years ago. The 00s were steeped in that 80s nostalgia garbage. It seemed pretty obvious the 90s would get a similar treatment. But nothing culturally definitive about the 90s? Absurd.

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I want the 1980/80s back.

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My 7 year old daughter is waiting for Nick to bring the Animorphs back...

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I knew I was officially old once '90's nostalgia overtook '80's nostalgia on the web. Oh well, at least I have Fraggle Rock and MacGyver on DVD and my old Walkman still works.

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