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Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head

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Honestly, one of the worst things House did to the modern zeitgeist was to convince techbros that shoving ket up your nose 24/7 will make you smarter.
- Wasn't it vicodin abuse? All I remember them saying about ketamine was House saying it was a lame drug for being heroin without the high.
  
  At some point he starts injecting ketamine for his leg
  
  Wasn’t it vicodin abuse?
  Yes, for the leg pain initially. Although, I thought for sure either he or one of his staff experimented with other drugs, including stimulants, for various reasons.
  I might just be confusing him with Sherlock Holmes, who was notorious for cocaine addiction.
- It was vicodin
  It didn't make him smarter, it allowed him to think about something else besides the pain.
  
  It didn’t make him smarter, it allowed him to think about something else besides the pain.
  As far as I know, that's 99% the reason why people use drugs.
- Last time I did ket I found myself lying on the front lawn of an LA suburban family home, in the rain, watching Mel Gibson choke out Gary Busey, but I definitely was not anymore intelligent from that encounter.
  
  Man everyone's having fun on drugs, meanwhile I just sit there unable to figure out whether I have my glasses on

Woman
- litarelly the worst
  imagine if they made house's boss a woman
  
  that too a hot one
- I bet those woke libs would put 2 or more women in the main cast if they made the show today.
  But maybe they'd all be gorgeous.
  
  One of them might even be clutches pearls bisexual… and interested in black men
  
  And they'd be named Cameron, Thirteen and Cutthroat removed.
- I mean at least they made her conventionally smoking hot and have other characters recognize that

Is calling mid-2000s stuff "90s" the new meta?
- Bojack Horseman actually came out in the 90s. That's why in the theme song it talks about running in th 90s. For more movie facts subscribe to my webzone.
- Idk but we need to tell more people that the early 2000s was hugely influenced by the I Love the 80s VH1 TV series which caused a resurgance of swing and is where we see some of the stuff like Mambo #5 and Christina Aguilera's Candyman, please teach your children the lore
- Did people who grew up in the 90s not see shows made for adults in the mid 2000s?
  
  They don't remember or give a fuck.
- Okay, okay. I should've put 90s/2000s
  
  No, your title makes more sense. People who grew up in the 90s would have watched House in its original run. The thing that makes no sense is the censoring of the word god.
- 2005 was essentially the 90s. People were still talking about the matrix, playing n64 and ps1, barely anyone had a mobile phone and most internet connections were still dial up.
  
  BS the 90s ended after 9/11 and 2005 is when people started using social media and YouTube…the beginning of the end.
  
  Idk about the PS1 as I def had the PS2 by then, but the rest checks out, that was def my life

I don’t remember any of this. Since when was foreman black?
- I salute you. Nice job on not seeing color.
- This vexes me
- Lots of people have black hair. How is that wake?
  
  How is that wake?
  its about to crash, so get on your surfboard already!

Nah. Wouldn't it have just been one season and then cancelled the rest because they didn't make a billion overnight?

I'm not sure, but I think that in the 90s, those goddamn Nazis couldn't express their despicable views publicly without being met with widespread contempt. So it seems to me that the 90s were much more "woke," whatever that means.
- I agree, but there's a trend with some Millennials (and younger) boomerifying themselves and saying you could be a bigot or even a literal nazi with few or no consequences "back in the day"
- My speculation: as long as there were significant numbers of WW2 vets around, an outright Nazi movement could never gain traction in the US. Not that the Greatest Generations was made up of paragons of social justice, but there were limits to what they were willing to tolerate in open society. That generation (and probably home front Silents, as well) was inoculated against going full Nazi in ways that Boomers weren't.
  The few that remain now aren't numerous enough to hold much sway.

Anyone who says that TV in the 80s and 90s didn't have 'woke' or 'politically correct' elements in it hasn't been (re)watching a lot of TV from the era. Many major shows I grew up watching in the 90s were chock full of it. Quantum Leap, MacGyver, Sliders, The entire premise of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and basically every fucking Saturday morning cartoon...
Speaking of Saturday morning cartoons. I wonder what those people would think of characters like Charlie from Biker Mice from Mars? She was a tough, no-nonsense girl working a blue collar job (motorcycle mechanic), and there were times when they wanted to 'Damsel' her but it turned out they didn't. The funniest one for me was when an episode that starts out with a bank robbery, and the robbers claim they have a hostage, the Mice all go 'Charlie?' and then she shows up behind them and says 'why do you always think I'm the hostage?' You know who the hostage was? Greasepit... the villain's main henchman and a certified dumbass.
Every fucking time I go back to rewatch those cartoons I ALWAYS find elements that would make reactionaries go nuts. The pilot episode to M.A.S.K had the bad guys think that one of the protagonists trying to thwart their plans was a man... only for them to figure out quickly that it was a woman. Even shows that I would now consider to be really, really stupid, like Dinosaucers, had gender flipped characters. In Dinosaucers they were making a tribute episode to old-school Film noir detectives, and they had to meet 'Sam Spade' (Sam Spade was the protagonist of the Maltese Falcon), only for them to find out it was not Samuel Spade, but Samantha Spade.
I could go on forever. But one thing that I DID want to say that I honestly did find problematic even as a child from cartoons of the era was what I would call 'the love potion episode'. What I mean is that sometimes in some cartoons they would have an episode where a love potion or something or the other that causes a character to fall in love with another and cannot control it. So what's the contradiction I found as a kid and more so as an adult?
Well... if the person afflicted by the potion is female, the entire episode will center around it. Two examples is one from Dinosaucers were a female dinosaucer gets influenced by it and now is OK with wanting to marry the leader of the antagonists. One other example that was played more for laughs is in Gummi Bears when Duke Igthorn wanted to get Lady Bane to fall in love with him in order for him to gain access to her powers or something or the other to finally capture the Gummis... only problem? The person she falls in love with is Toady, Igthorn's bumbling chief henchman, and the whole episode centers around getting Lady Bane to snap out of it.
So that being said, one thing I DID notice is that sometimes the person being affected by a love potion or spell is a guy... and when that happens, the plot or the show doesn't take it seriously at all and is usually a quick gag. The main example that comes to mind is from Conan the Adventurer where they have a quick scene where a very large, ogre-like woman is dragging a scrawny little man who is actively resisting her and she says 'give him a love potion, I want to marry him!' and the man protests, but the love potion is forced on him and he then he falls in love with the woman he detested and... well, that's it. The episode continues and those two are never mentioned again. There are probably other examples, but that is all that comes to mind.
Trust me when I say it, if these people ended up waking up 30 or 40 years ago and thinking 'ah ha! finally! no more woke!' they would be in for a rude awakening. Don't get me wrong, there was a fuckload of problems with representation in the media at the time. Things like brownface/yellowface hadn't fallen entirely out of style yet, and there were issues with female representation and racial stereotyping. MacGyver had those issues to an irritating degree, especially in the earlier seasons. Neurodivergent people weren't well represented and in many cases not present at all. And don't get me started on transgenderism. It is almost like at the time being transgender was a gag more than anything at best or a highly sinister trait at worst.
- I recognized even back then that it wasn't perfect, yet in many ways the culture of the 90s felt more progressive than today. And there was hope about the future.
  
  90s liberalism had its flaws (it often didn't acknowledge systemic racism as we know it), but at that time most open racism had been thrown out of mainstream media, except for occasional spots on scandal shows like Jerry Springer.
  The very idea that racism would become open again like it is now was unthinkable. But they slowly and surely allowed it to come back.
  Racism on the internet always existed. Stormfront and various white nationalist sites sprung up almost immediately once the internet became mainstream in the mid-90s. From what I understand, the first ever site on Martin Luther King was literally a site smearing the man and calling him a fraud back in 1995.
- Okay but like some of the cartoons weren't woke, like that one about the respectable businessmen fightong those eco terrorists and their heathen goddess of hating job creation.
  
  I know, right! The writers were also pedophiles! I mean teenagers saving the day? What is the obsession with teens! It tell you something!
  
  I don't remember that one
- It was tastefully done and minimal. It’s so over represented and in your face it comes off as forced.
  
  translated: "I didn't notice it, it kept those 'different ones' out of the spotlight for me, so that I could continue to pretend that they didn't really exist."
  
  No, no, no... they were as subtle as an anvil falling on your head.

Idk, I think it's lupus.
- Underrated comment. However, it's never lupus.

Shaking my head my head.
- ATM Machine
  
  You have to put your PIN number in the ATM machine
  
  Thanks, I hate it

I am literally shaking
- Probably sarcoidosis
  
  Might also be lupus.
- Did you try medicine drug?

I'm sorry, but Wilson a Twink?
- he was in dead poet's society
- Maybe 20 years earlier, he was.
- Legit a babe in the pilot... like a baby I mean

In 2024/5 media companies are too terrified of anything that even appears to be new for "House MD" to get the green light. To get it made now it would have to full embrace its remakeness and it would be Dr Holmes MD and his assistant Dr Watson.
- Did you mean: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22475008/
  
  I guess so.

wait did that character really kill someone?
- He killed a tyrant dictator who was hospitalized at their hospital, because the guy was leading a genocide against the native population of his country. Falsified his test results and administered "treatment" that ended up killing him IIRC.
  
  In Japan, heart surgeon. Number one. Steady hand. One day, yakuza boss need new heart. I do operation. But, mistake! Yakuza boss die. Yakuza very mad. I hide in fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car, and new woman. Darryl save life. My big secret: I kill yakuza boss on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!
  
  based and chadpilled
  
  I'll give him a pass.
  
  Wow, this show really went places. I've only ever seen like the first half of season one.
- Not really, it was acting. He killed an African warlord.
  
  This clears up nothing up haha. He was just acting. So pretended to kill someone? Or he actually killed an African warlord... Which somehow doesn't count, and acting is a non sequitar
- I think the patient was like a tyrant dude played by James Earl Jones: https://house.fandom.com/wiki/President_Dibala.
- I'm more puzzled by the "twink" guy.

More mouse bites

If they made Better Call Saul in the 80s it would have been about Mike ruthlessly tracking a family through an authoritarian pan-dimensional nexus.
- someone give RizzRustbolt a 50 million usd budget

Guys, House is woke now. Yeah, they made a meme in this thing called "Lemmy" that suggests it's woke, so it's woke now.
- Lemmy is woke, so that checks out
  
  I'm not sure Lemmy is woke since it's half tankies that love dictatorships as long as they once cosplayed as communist

lol out loud
- "woman"

Who the fuck is G*d? Do you mean God?
- Officially it's Ganusd, but there are different stages:
  G*d God G0d GOd
- Agreed I'm not even reading further than that shit.
- Nah, Gg0d. Double gee oh dee byatch!
- Dunno if it applies here but it's a thing some Jewish people do
- I prefer god.

Episodes 7 and 15 would've taken place on the holodeck.

Weird how some people are so obsessed with telling other people how to make their art. Can you not even watch a show without feeling like your white hetronormative maleness is being challenged?

And now do 2025... We are regressing fast.

Go woke, no broke

Uh the correct expression is shaking my smh

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