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Think you've forgotten 1992? Ex-squeeze me? Wayne's World hit it big (We're not worthy!) and underdogs had their day. Ross Perot demonstrated that short, squeaky billionaires could make a run for the presidency, and make pretty charts too. Chris Elliott hit the primetime jackpot playing himself, a thirty-something paperboy living with his folks who needs to Get a Life!
And then there was the Dream Team '92 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. American basketball pros take on the world but come on weren't you secretly rooting for those pint-sized Croatians.
The scandals of today seem trivial in comparison to the tabloid terrors of `92...Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fischer make Long Island a laughing stock, while Woody Allen lives out his movie fantasies, romancing his adopted daughter Soon Yi. If that wasn't enough, Madonna released Sex and...ho, hum, we only read it for the writing. Right Said Fred provided the anthem of 1992, "I'm too Sexy," and The Real World launched a trend of television voyeurism: This is the true story...of seven strangers...
I Love You, You Love Me...Barney became the dinosaur adults loved to hate. Whitney Houston made The Bodyguard, crooning, "IIIIIIIIII will always love YOUUUUUUUUUUUU" forever in debt to her lifesaver Kevin Costner. Now that's wack.
Lest we forget Billy Ray Cyrus, who danced a mean two-step and wore a killer mullet, while engaging us with that endearing ditty: "Don't Break My Heart, My Achy Breaky Heart". What about that other heartthrob Fabio...the man who was the living face of the romance novel. Dreamy.
There were a few women to watch out for in 92. Sharon Stone opened her legs and America embraced her Basic Instinct. Single White Female taught an important lesson about kicking out the roommate when the puppy slips out the window, or she'll sleep with your boyfriend and impale him with her pump.
Arrested Development took over the airwaves along with Sir Mix-A-Lot who put the booty on a pedestal with "Baby Got Back." Rapping pre-teens Kris Kross pioneered the backward fashion trend and made us "Jump." Mortal Kombat made us jumpy, and so did Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, with a colorful criminal gang on a botched job that leads to a bloodbath.
Then there were Dan and Dave who made the big stakes Reebok ad campaign until Dan didn't qualify for the Olympics. Ren and Stimpy made cartoons into cults with the insane Chihuahua and his "eediot" sidekick cat while Murphy Brown took on our "eediot" sidekick VP Dan Quayle.
Oh, and about I Love 1992...she tested very high on the stroke-ability scale.
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