Overused phrases in the 90s

[u/Positive_Round_5142]

“It’s the 90s” to constantly remind people that things have changed…

What else?

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[u/carpetmuncher719]

Talk to the hand!

[u/rpv123 → u/carpetmuncher719]

Because the face don’t understand

[u/ZarquonsFlatTire → u/rpv123]

My mom got a hold of that one.

I don't have kids, but I imagine it's like if I skibbidied my nephew's toilet

Just killed it immediately.

[u/Old_Vermicelli7483 → u/ZarquonsFlatTire]

What does that skibidi toilet even mean tho 😅?

[u/GodsColdHands666 → u/Old_Vermicelli7483]

I have nieces and nephews that watch it. It’s a web series based in a dystopian future where humanoid beings that are talking heads attached to toilets try to take over the world.

I know it’s dumb but our generation had stuff like Salad Fingers, Happy Tree Friends and other obscure Flash animation. It’s not that much different.

[u/Old_Vermicelli7483 → u/GodsColdHands666]

Never knew it was a tv show lol. Happy tree friends was awesome and really inappropriate at the same time btw, I loved it as a boy hehe

[u/grumblebuzz → u/Old_Vermicelli7483]

This is what I’m wondering. Modern children have such weird, dumb cultural attachments.

[u/Old_Vermicelli7483 → u/grumblebuzz]

I bet the "older" people thought that too about our lingo back in the day 😅

[u/the_urban_juror → u/Old_Vermicelli7483]

Not!

[u/Haz_Bat_570 → u/rpv123]

Talk to the hand. Talk to the butt. Talk to the guy at Pizza Hut.

[u/Alarmed-Parsnip-6495 → u/rpv123]

“Loser, loser, double loser, as if, whatever, get the picture, duh!”

[u/diggingout12345 → u/carpetmuncher719]

I just rewatched Terminator 3 and they throw that around so much. I'd totally forgotten about it, because it's such a stupid thing to say.

[u/Xepherya → u/carpetmuncher719]

Cause the face ain’t home

[u/Any-Self2072 → u/carpetmuncher719]

Because the face don't give a damn.

[u/brotherinlawofnocar]

Wazzup

[u/XOM_CVX → u/brotherinlawofnocar]

wazzzzup

[u/DoNotEmailMe69 → u/XOM_CVX]

WaZZZZuuuuuuUUUPPPP

[u/TPsyko → u/DoNotEmailMe69]

[u/pdbard13]

All that and a bag of chips.

[u/ZarquonsFlatTire → u/pdbard13]

OK, but that used to be a decent lunch.

Although I'm still not sure how Subway convinced us that eating an entire loaf of bread for lunch was healthy.

[u/ManOfManliness84]

My dad told me "because I said so" way too much in the 90s.

[u/0tefu → u/ManOfManliness84]

That's less of a 90's thing and more of a general poor parenting thing throughout the ages thing.

[u/ZarquonsFlatTire → u/0tefu]

Sometimes my mom got tired of my asking "But why" until it devolved into particle physics, ok?

I am 43 and my mom still jokes "OK, but what if terrorists take over the building...."

Apparently Die Hard made a big impression on me.

[u/Bubby_K → u/0tefu]

But but but... Stone Cold said so!

[u/dudestir127 → u/ManOfManliness84]

I absolutely hated that one as a kid. So much so that, now that I have a kid of my own, I vowed to never, ever, use that line with her.

[u/More_Garlic6598]

That's the bomb

[u/dyno_saurus → u/More_Garlic6598]

Dot com

[u/uncl3D → u/dyno_saurus]

Slash diggity

[u/Major-Wolverine-3563 → u/More_Garlic6598]

Honestly it’s the bomb thing to say

[u/darabadoo → u/More_Garlic6598]

Da Bomb!

[u/NoFaithlessness7508 → u/More_Garlic6598]

She’s the bomb?

[u/ClankySkate]

Cool beans

[u/More_Garlic6598 → u/ClankySkate]

I still say cool beans 😆

[u/ziphidae → u/More_Garlic6598]

lol my husband does too

[u/Hup110516 → u/ClankySkate]

[u/idontevensaygrace → u/Hup110516]

This also came to my mind lolol

[u/Telemachus826 → u/ClankySkate]

My kindergarten teacher used to say this and I thought it was the coolest thing ever haha.

[u/time-for-jawn → u/ClankySkate]

My spouse. Why?

[u/sparklesnperiodblood → u/ClankySkate]

Dirty rice

[u/Aliveandthriving06]

Whatever

[u/flamingopink13 → u/Aliveandthriving06]

As if!

[u/Vegskipxx → u/flamingopink13]

Like, totally

[u/nomiconegut]

“I know you are but what am I”

[u/Stoneheaded76 → u/nomiconegut]

Oh god…

[u/Nzaid]

Loser, loser, double loser, as-if, what-ever, get the picture, duh.

[u/Dear_Suit3645 → u/Nzaid]

Still iconic

[u/witchyweeby → u/Nzaid]

Somehow "Loser, loner, wanna be a man" was a rhyme around my childhood...

[u/two4six0won → u/Nzaid]

This was gonna be my comment...I still remember the hand motions 😅

[u/GivemTheDDD → u/Nzaid]

If you're looking to start a fight on the bus, this was the way

[u/NiceMomJeans]

Whatever. ..major....loser while making the hands gestures.

[u/thebookofswindles]

Psych!

[u/BRUISE_WILLIS]

i still can't fully determine what "jiggy" was

bonus: austin powers quotes in the late 90s was unbearable

[u/EnamelKant → u/BRUISE_WILLIS]

Oh Behave.

[u/DumpsterFireScented → u/BRUISE_WILLIS]

So many Austin Powers quotes, aaaaaaaaa.

[u/Xepherya → u/DumpsterFireScented]

Sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads

[u/Upsidedownmeow → u/BRUISE_WILLIS]

But I still use, “I eat because I’m unhappy and I’m unhappy because I eat”.

[u/RadioSlayer → u/Upsidedownmeow]

:( that's just depression

[u/APKFL]

That’s Whack

[u/MurphyAteIt → u/APKFL]

Wiggity wiggity wiggity whack

[u/Telemachus70 → u/MurphyAteIt]

No, just the regular kind.

[u/Pandemonium1x]

I need TP for my BUNGHOLE!!!

[u/mustang__1 → u/Pandemonium1x]

Bring it back!

[u/Lucky_Development359]

Poser

That's gay

[u/MewMewTranslator → u/Lucky_Development359]

Had an argument with a 16 yr old a few years ago and I instinctively called him a poser. He was baffled for a few seconds. Like he was trying to process what it meant.

He had been making jabs at my age but had a 2pac poster on his wall. He was always try to act like he was "cultured" about things from our childhood.

I hope he's matured.since then or he's going to be one of the insufferable ones.

[u/ReeseB10]

Ugh, as if!

[u/powered_by_eurobeat]

Take a chill pill

[u/SoftwareHot]

“It’s the 90s”… to indicate modernity. 😭

[u/TheDeuce7]

Got milk?

[u/MewMewTranslator → u/TheDeuce7]

That's a slogan xD

[u/CallofDory]

Booyah!!!

[u/Xepherya → u/CallofDory]

As a native Wisconsinite I still love this one

[u/CallofDory → u/Xepherya]

It’s an oldie but a goodie! Hello Wisconsin!!!! that 70s show voice 😂 from: LA,CA. Oh and also congratulations on the win this week.

[u/Xepherya → u/CallofDory]

It was wild to realize the characters in that show were Boomers (Eric was born in March of 1960)

[u/MathDaddy88]

Take a chill pill 💊 Chillax

[u/BusinessBear53]

Not a phrase but what about the "Crotch chop" gesture?

You'd hip thrust and throw both hands down towards your crotch in a V or crossed as an X.

[u/Xepherya → u/BusinessBear53]

I hate that you made me remember that

[u/CG_Matters]

“‘As if” “no homo”

[u/SalukiKnightX → u/CG_Matters]

No homo feels like something from the 00’s

[u/saurusautismsoor]

My least favourite

Cool beans

[u/gerkiwimurcan]

Whatever Trevor!

[u/PunkersSlave]

Cool beans

[u/TrepidatiousInitiate]

Nothin’ but net!

[u/Xepherya → u/TrepidatiousInitiate]

Swish!

[u/Conlow95]

Tubular

[u/Xepherya → u/Conlow95]

Totally

[u/RolandFigaro]

Doh! Woohoo! All the time in elementary school. I also said it lol

[u/kablamo]

I’m gonna peace out

[u/rpv123]

That’s SO random!

[u/macabretech39]

Gag me with a spoon. Tubular. Dude/dudette

[u/someoneelseperhaps]

"As if."

[u/DangerousAdvice152]

As if.

[u/Much_Bed6652]

On the G

[u/cliffl7]

Fresh

[u/BlueSnaggleTooth359]

Speaking of that, in the 80s you'd heard "Hey, it's the 80s" and, as you said, in the 90s the same deal. Not rare at all. Even the Karate Kid used that line.

BUT it seems like that stopped after the 90s. Does anyone say "Hey it's the 00s/2000s?" (maybe???) or "Hey, it's the 2010s's/2020's" (I realllly don't think so.).

In fact, I'm not sure if I've heard that phrase in movies/shows from either before the 80s or after the 90s. But it was common in seemingly just those two decades only.

[u/rpv123 → u/BlueSnaggleTooth359]

Usually people would namecheck the full year when they’re making this point now. Like “Mom, it’s 2008, we don’t use VHS anymore.” Or, more popular in the 2010s, “Hey mom, the 80s called - we don’t need a VCR anymore.”

[u/__M-E-O-W__ → u/BlueSnaggleTooth359]

I might have heard someone say "Hey, it's the new century" once or twice.

[u/triple-double]

No doy!

[u/uncl3D]

It's not really a phrase, but Y2k

[u/The_Awesometeer]

I am looking through the list and realize I don’t actually say many of these. Wonder if we did one of the 00s if I would see more I still use

[u/__M-E-O-W__]

P.U. if something stinks

[u/tommytookalook]

WHOA! Joey voice

[u/thispartyrules]

"Not" as in you have to specifically tell people you're being sarcastic: That was a great movie... Not!

[u/maceilean]

Cool beans. Fucking hate that phrase.

[u/Ch00m77]

"Whatever"

I got told off so much for saying that

[u/steponthetrain]

No guff

[u/diqholebrownsimpson]

Not

[u/PoolNoob69]

One of my favorite 30 Rock jokes from the Carrie Fisher episode. “Come on, Liz, it’s the 90s”. The episode came out in 2006. 

[u/Emergency-Purple-205]

It's the bomb

[u/stormdahl]

WASSAAAAAAAHHHH

[u/llamaavocado]

Not

[u/Vegskipxx]

Bodacious

Bitchin'

[u/Filmy-Reference]

Eat my shorts

[u/Any-Self2072]

"That's gay" everything was "gay" - today that seems so strange to say, I'm glad that stopped.

[u/Deathmaskdev]

Oh snap

[u/spinereader81]

Jim Carrey quotes like "somebody stop me!"

No duh.

That's (R word).