Besides Bush and reality shows, what embarassing things will be associated with the 00s?

Like disco with the 70s, and hair metal with the 80s?

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It's the Creed of the '00

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Seems like one in the same

The 40 Year-Old Virgin
American Pie series
Bad Santa
BASEketball
Boat Trip
Borat
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Dirty Sanchez: The Movie
Dumb and Dumber (e.g. Jeff Daniels' toilet scene)
Eurotrip
Freddy Got Fingered
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: Number Two
Knocked Up
Meet the Spartans
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Road Trip
Scary Movie series
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Superbad
Team America: World Police
Wedding Crashers
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

There's actually a little bit of depth to the surface juvenileness of those movies.

Plus Dumb and Dumber was the 1990s, and one or two others.

But I agree with the main premise.

Super Bad / knocked up and all those actors that are in those movies seem to be going pretty strong
with no end in sight. A good laugh is still a good laugh

Sure, it had some extreme moments but ultimately it was a great story and done really well!

Ladies, I'll give you a five dollar rebate in good taste if you throw those awful things away.

that skinny jeans on men are better than the sagging, baggy, styles of the 90's.

Stay classy!

*sigh*

I am terrified that she will NEVER go away!

That one will be a laugher for decades to come.

I associate that with gangsta rap, which was primarily popular from the late 80's to the mid 90's. At least in my area, I don't see near as much sagging as I saw 10 or fifteen years ago.

Seen more of this nonsense in this decade.

I lived in an area with a high amount of gang activity that has since been cleaned up, so that may have been the reason I saw it more back then.

and low rise jeans.

Oh yeesh any of those types.

...and if we go political and not just social, its an endless list.

The stigma of the 00s won't be so much Dave Matthews himself as the fact that we didn't leave him in the 90s where he didn't belong, either.

Dave Matthews = college frathouse band who caught a record deal and didn't know what to do with it.

But John Mayer certainly does. What a horrid addition to the oughts.

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That'll do. Whatever it is, other than Green Day's American Idiot album, the rest has been nothing but pure shit and I ain't just talking about music either.

i.e., "Bennifer" and the like

baseball players in their twilight years packing on 40 pounds of solid muscle who tell you with a straight face that it's "all-natural"

and of course, the Iraq invasion

i.e., first-graders being issued them by parents, and people whose whole lives are tied into their phones..

hardcore entitlement-minded kids and parent enablers...

the 'tattoo as conformist quasi-rebellious fashion statement', from nerdy teens to forty-something suburban moms...(I should also include piercings)

really, really shitty, formulaic rap music...

the modern big-budget Hollywood remake of an age-old classic film (too many examples to name)

the modern big-budget Hollywood remake (or re-remake) of an age-old classic comic book hero

the "white women in peril" hysteria of national news broadcast cycles

the over-reliance on 'punditry' and always-wrong commentators in place of real news...

internet knowledge replacing wisdom

lazy over-reliance on random internet polls as a true barometer of public opinion

the final straw in the commercial/political bastardization of the the olympic games

fundie political clout peaks, scoring major victories against the queers, darwinists, harry potter fans and those who actually think church and state should be separate...

the megachurch

the decade where we KNEW fully about the upcoming dangers of global climate change, yet the powers that be clouded the issue and ignored it

the decade of the 'boner pill' and its too-cheesy commercial ads

"hey! remember when people used to REALLY be into NASCAR? back when it got higher ratings than the NFL?"

the $4 cup of coffee...sophistication never came at so cheap a price

the use of the major bookstore chains (borders or whatever) as public libraries/hookup spots/meeting places for harry potter fan clubs/a host of other loud, crowded activities...

the peak of super-suburban sprawl...some cities are at least on their 10th or 11th layer of suburbs...