Cotton. The Fabric of Our Lives Commercial
These commercials from the early 90s made me teary when I watched them. The music was just emotional to little 1990s me.
Truly the most moving rendition of a black man singing about cotton, ever.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
I hated Power Rangers when they came out. An overacted pseudo martial arts crappy special effects life action version of Voltron? ehnothankyou.
Yet I found myself watching it… at first just to sample what the hell this crap was that everyone was so into. then because it was on and surrounded by better quality programming on Fox Kids’ afternoon lineup. then… because I started to get a Kevin Sorbo Hercules type entertainment out of it.
SEASON 1:
How can that theme NOT pump you up? I mean come on. I also liked that the black guy was the Black Ranger, the Asian was the Yellow Ranger and the white girl was the Pink Ranger. woot for stereotypes! Seriously. That’s not sarcasm. Woot for fkking stereotypes.
SEASON 1 with the addition of the Green Ranger:
So much can change in a year though… By season 2, Rangers were already replaced by new “teenagers with attitude”, new asian themed Mega Zords replaced the original dinosaur ones, Tommy the green Ranger had become the godly leader of the pack as the White Ranger, Rita got replaced by Lord Zed, and the black and the asian swapped Ranger costumes…
SEASON 2:
Then for season 3 they decided to mix it up even more and bring Rita back and drop the Space Cowboy theme and turn them all into straight up ninjas…
SEASON 3 (1995 – 1996):
Big Red
from the late 80s. Features that kid from “Christmas Story”.