The Totally Sweet ’90s: From Clear Cola to Furby, and Grunge to “Whatever,” the Toys, Tastes, and Trends That Defined a Decade (31 page)

Trump Castle 3
(game), 72

T-shirts, viii, 95–96

Turbo football, 207–8

Turner & Hooch
(movie), 73

TV Guide
, 12, 223

TV Guide Network, 195

Twilight
(TV show), 33, 35

twist endings, movies with, 136–37

Tyco, 205

Tyson, Mike, 180

Ty toy company, 15

“U Can't Touch This” (Hammer), 125

UPN/WB, 36

Upper Deck baseball cards, 209–10

Urge soda, 190

Urkel, Steve (TV character), vii,
210
, 210–11

USA, 111

USA Today
, 149

Usual Suspects, The
(movie), 136

Vader, Darth (movie character), 117

Valley Girls of 1980s, 216

Van Der Beek, James, 54

Van Halen, 47

Vanilla Ice, 43–44

Variety
, 80

Vasquez, Rickie (TV character), 138

Vaughn, Vince, 32, 191

Vedder, Eddie, 34

Vega, Suzanne, 176

Ventura, Jesse “The Body,” 221

Very Brady Christmas, A
(movie), 32

VH1, 158

VHS tapes, 135

Video Archives in California, 136

video-store industry, 135–36

vinyl albums, 42

violent video games, xi, 211–12

virtual pets,
195
, 195–96

Visit from the Goon Squad, A
(Egan), 49

Vogue
, 132

Voorhees, Jason (movie character), 23, 172

Walberg, Mark (talk-show host), 194

Waldenbooks, 148

Wall Street
(movie), 84

Walmart, 63

Walsh, Brenda (TV character), 32–34

Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents, 198

“Wannabe” (Spice Girls), 184

WarGames
(movie), 120

Warheads, 182, 183

Warner Bros., 80

Washington, George, 210

Washington Post
, 43

Waterworld
“Fishtar” (movie), 212–13

Watterson, Bill, 41

Wayans, Keenen Ivory, 194

Wayne's World
and
Wayne's World 2
(movies), 201

Wayne's World
on
Saturday Night Live
(TV show), 1, 213–14

WB, 36, 53

Weathers, Carl, 43

WebTV, 7

“Whassup?” ad, 215–16

“whatever,” 216–17

Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?
(Cooper and Bellmont), vii

What Not to Wear
(TV show), 25

Whedon, Joss, 36

When Animals Attack!
(TV show), 154

“Where's the beef” ad, 101

Where's Waldo?
(Handford), 217–18,
218

White, Betty, 202

White, Jaleel, 210, 211

White, Shaun, 222

White, Vanna, 39

“White & Nerdy” (video), 162

Wiesel, Elie, 148

Wild
(Strayed), 149

Wilkening, Matthew, 122

Will.i.am, 199

Williams, Barry, 180

Williams, Kimberly, 69

Williams, Montel, 194

Williamson, Kevin, 172

Willis, Bruce, 137, 214

Wilson, Carnie, 194

Wilson, Dan, 49

Windows 95 & 98 operating systems, 218–19

Winfrey, Oprah, 148–49

Winter, Edgar, 140

Worf, Lieutenant (TV character), 187

WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) bracelets,
220
, 220–21

Wyman, Carolyn, 104

Xena: Warrior Princess
(TV show), 223–24

X-
Files, The: Fight the Future
(movie), 222

X-
Files, The
(TV show), 155, 221–22

X Games
(TV show), 222–23

Y2K panic, 225–26

Yanagita, Mike (movie character), 69

Yankovic, Weird Al, 101, 162

Yoakam, Dwight, 22

YouTube, 3, 9, 58, 92, 103, 130

“You've got mail,” 148

ZackMorrisCellPhone.com, 85

Zamora, Pedro, 161

Zemeckis, Robert, 73

Zima, 47,
226
, 226–27

zines, 227–29,
228

Zubaz, 229

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
is a journalist who writes the nationally recognized pop culture blog
Pop Culture Junk Mail
.

Brian Bellmont
is a former television reporter and producer who now runs a public relations agency.

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