Channel surfing at 3am in the summertime in the 2000s. Kick back and relax to the wacky visuals of old TV commercials and late night infomercials as you flip between the golden age of Comedy Central, Spike TV, and Adult Swim.
The 2000s was likely the last decade that had a definitive cohesive "style" and "atmosphere" to it. It had the garishness and camp like the 80s, with a little bit of the "wild west" internet culture of the 90s, with an emphasis on hedonism and excess. Looking back, the decade feels more in line with the end of the 20th Century than the 21st Century. Every decade that follows will have its own distinct atmosphere and styles, but the rise of smartphones and streaming services (both TV and music) has splintered mainstream culture into more specific niches, so there's less cohesion than the days where everyone was forced to listen to the same music, read the same magazines, and watch the same TV shows.
This was basically my 20s. I was out of college but still delivering pizzas until midnight. I'd come home and play ps2 on one TV while watching Comedy Central or Conan on the other TV. I was a good multitasker too, so I could smoke weed as well.
Wtf the natural male enhancement guy just unlocked a massive core memory I had completely forgotten about but now I can’t get that silly song out of my head
THANK YOU SO MUCH for this comp!! It was great being 10-19 years old during the 2000s staying up and watching Adult Swim, Toonami midnight run, MTV, VH1, MTV2, History Channel, and Comedy Central, and shows that aired on local channels like Letterman, Conan, Real TV, Maximum Exposure, The Red Green Show, and MAD-TV, and seeing Jack Horkheimer ending PBS broadcast day. Back when TV was worth staying up for! RU-vid has overtaken that for me in the 2010s and 2020s.
That crappy animated anti-pot commercial really resonated with me. I didn’t wait until tomorrow to quit. I quit that day! I wasn’t about to disappoint my dog.
I was young but now that I'm 30 the grim reality of corporations farming the masses through labor and consumerism while being hypnotized by media is apparent. The matrix is real and I believe to an extent everyone in the world knows it, they just don't want to admit it because it's too depressing and brutal to admit to. In a way, seeing the world humans created for what it is, is almost a form of self defeat as well as a contradiction. Because we got so used to this kakistocracy powered by corporate fascism and are so dependent on it to survive, speaking against it is taboo. I believe the first step as a civilization is to come back to the root and understand the purpose of our existence and reality. The more that we are distracted from this notion, the more we waste our lives by letting others exploit us to do things we hate, that usually hurt people we don't want to, for resources that we don't need.
The Nostalgia I felt watching this and late night 90’s ads is unexplainable, Sadness is that someday there will be no commericals on tv as streaming platforms are taking over, Most of the time we are annoyed by commercials- but look at us looking back on them and enjoying them? Shows when we sometimes take things for granted, and are unaware of what a simple thing can do impact wise. Thank you for making this! ❤❤
True story. They were. Most middle-aged men and adolescent boys were pretty jacked up. But, you know, every generation of men have their own struggles.
imagine watching these in a fancy newyork city apt and flying on a private plane and picked up to go nap in your european apt maybe in paris or rome and how fun it used to be back then to have money and do drugs
I've had thoughts of showing up at my childhood friends doorstep to ask them to come out and play again like the good old days and then I realize they would call the cops and I would be put away in a mental hospital.
South park is brought to you by tom clancies splinter cell "GIRLS GONE WILD WITH SNOOP DOGG" hahahaha woahhhh maybe George W Bush was actually an amazing President and we were just too young to ever understand
same for me, man. sometimes I'd go out and stay out all night with friends but other times I would be there on MySpace or where ever online on my laptop or desktop and watching Comedy Central and other late night t.v. on the old CRTV
People knock 2nd shift but I liked it. A lot of time late at night to think and not be bothered by the fast pace of day shift world. then sleep when everyone else is miserable waking up in the morning. wake up around noon everyday and never felt ill tempered going into work at 2:30 or 3 like everyone else does going in 6 to 9am
The Snoop Dogg GGW ads make me think this is 2002-2003ish. I remember going to one of their promo appearances at a club in Columbus Ohio in the fall of '02. Shit was lame though meeting Snoop was cool. Oh, and the GGW crew were handing out swag bags without telling people they had to pay for them, then had their security goons try to shake us down like gypsies. It was surreal.
probably a false pretense and paid actors EDIT: my comment is probably wrong. they actually did that in real with snoop dogg and even eminem in their ads and they got sued, I read the wikipedia page. thanks commentor below
They were essentially goading women to sign documents while they were intoxicated that waived liability. Apparently they threatened a lot of them too. Pretty disgusting stuff.
I remember going to more rural relatives house or my grandfather's who only had two or three channels that would sign off at midnight and be static. I would go so stir crazy at night. It's kind of like now when the internet goes out for a few minutes and everyone acts like it's the end of the world.
