Video: 24 in ’94
posted at 4:56 pm on November 12, 2007 by Bryan
Some parodies are better than others, but this one’s perfect. It catches the vibe of the show but tosses it to a time so distant that it renders the show’s basic premises and suppositions impossible to sustain. That time: Just 13 years ago. If you weren’t around then, it’s hard to explain how much has changed about the things we take for granted now. It’s like explaining Mattel Football II to a kid who has grown up playing the Nintendo DS (I know, because I’ve tried and failed). Or explaining AOL keywords to someone who knows nothing but iPhones and Blackberry.
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Okay, that was pretty good.
Bad Candy on November 12, 2007 at 5:02 PM
God, we used to have Prodigy when I was a kid…awful.
Bad Candy on November 12, 2007 at 5:03 PM
You’re like 5 days late.
Still a good vid.
libertarianuberalles on November 12, 2007 at 5:03 PM
Awesome.
frankj on November 12, 2007 at 5:04 PM
Or, it’s like trying to explain a parody of 24, when I’ve never watched one second of it.
OhEssYouCowboys on November 12, 2007 at 5:05 PM
“BOGUS!”
ZRyan on November 12, 2007 at 5:07 PM
Hilarious
Valiant on November 12, 2007 at 5:14 PM
As I drive home daily and dodge lane weavers and people doing anything but driving while driving, I pine for the days of circa ye olde 1994… a time before everyone age 6 and up had a cell phone.
Hoodlumman on November 12, 2007 at 5:16 PM
can’t.stop.laughing….
max1 on November 12, 2007 at 5:21 PM
prodigy FTW! Black screen green letters and practically had to know code to get anything to work..
oh my that brings tears to my eyes!
amend2 on November 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM
The Snuke
MrC_5150 on November 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM
amazing how much has changed, who knows what the worlds gonna look like in just 10 more years
Keli on November 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM
That was excellent!!
The ending, where Nina mentioned paying for internet access by the hour reminds me of an ad I saw back then for CompuServe – they were offering … hold your breath here … 3 (Three!!) free hours of internet access per month with a CompuServe membership.
Wow.
thirteen28 on November 12, 2007 at 5:24 PM
AHHHHHHHH! Those printers brings back nightmarish memories of trying to feed the freaking paper onto the tracks and constantly getting jammed! What torture!
Anyway, it’s pretty darned funny.
Buy Danish on November 12, 2007 at 5:26 PM
hmmm i wonder how big ctu’s aol bill was they did charge by the minute back then right ???
should have used compuserv
Mojack420 on November 12, 2007 at 5:28 PM
With the election of Hillary Clinton, the world will have one more stinking, stagnant, Socialist cesspool. America.
OhEssYouCowboys on November 12, 2007 at 5:28 PM
C’mon, admit it…y’all miss getting those AOL discs in the mail every other week!
JetBoy on November 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM
I was around then, but it took watching the video to remind myself just how much things have changed.
I was still getting those just a year ago. I used to microwave them for fun.
It’s basically exactly that clip only with modern technology, and instead of sneaking around the bad guys, he often just kills them.
Esthier on November 12, 2007 at 5:38 PM
The Epson Dot Matrix… wasn’t PPM but MPP! heh
And AOL if you did a hit a key or move a mouse for .. something like 5 minutes you got the “goodbye”
Well hey .. atleast Al got us here!
amend2 on November 12, 2007 at 5:40 PM
“IT’S ON THE GO MENU!” — LOL!
infidel4life on November 12, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Back when they used floppies, I went years without buying any in stores; I reformatted theirs and used ‘em.
CDs make nice coasters though.
The Monster on November 12, 2007 at 5:41 PM
Well, given that everything causes global warming, we’ll all be living in caves with no technology whatsoever.
Rick on November 12, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Great video. But we would be talking “instant viral” if they had used a commodore 64.
Now, that was some great computing!
RMR on November 12, 2007 at 5:56 PM
LOL! Though I think you are right that you have to have “lived it” to fully appreciate the spoof. Personally, all the AOL messages and that dial up sound sent me into a techno version of PTSD!
highhopes on November 12, 2007 at 5:56 PM
LOL…That brought back memories…..
liquidflorian on November 12, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Not to be a spoilsport, but they’re pretty impossible to sustain as it is. I had to quit watching in the middle of last season, because the silly “magic computer” plot device became intolerable.
DaveS on November 13, 2007 at 12:12 AM
I remember all of that, even having to pay by the hour.
hadsil on November 13, 2007 at 3:50 AM
Ah, good time, good times….
“C’mon, admit it…y’all miss getting those AOL discs in the mail every other week!”
JetBoy on November 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM
It’s a good thing they stopped. Because when the mass of the distributed AOL floppies reached 3 times the mass of the sun, the earth would have collapsed into a black hole, and then where would we all be? Good thing AlGore invented the internet!
How to tell if a person posting in Usent was an AOL-er?
“Me too!”
georgej on November 13, 2007 at 7:45 AM
Nice old school reference there Bryan. I’ve got a Mattel Football I in the drawer at home! It still works. I remember playing that in the car as a kid on road trips. It was addictive. Ah, good memories.
CP on November 13, 2007 at 10:26 AM
Ha ha! I remember joining AOL as soon as I got a 28K modem, assuming that AOL was the Internet, and getting a bill for almost $200 because the AOL plan only offered something like 6 free hours of service.
Ah, those were the days…
Kensington on November 13, 2007 at 12:46 PM
TECMO BOWL!!!
That was the best.
TallDave on November 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM