I Love the '90s: Part Deux

I Love the '90s: Part Deux is a miniseries on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1990s culture. It premiered on January 17, 2005. This series is a sequel to I Love the '90s. Its title is a reference to the 1993 comedy, Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Recurring segments

In addition to the commentary on specific events, each year's episode also has all of the following segments:

• Jay and Silent Bob present a list of "Guys We'd Go Gay For".
• Ben Stein presents a list of the popular rap music songs of the year in "Pimpest Tracks of..."
• A. Jay Popoff and Jeremy Popoff of the rock band Lit present the most popular college rock song of the year.
• Emma Bunton presents a comparison of trends in the given year and the present day
• The announcer of Moviefone, creator Russ Leatherman, presents a segment called "Bootyfone", in which he lists the three songs most conducive to a romantic environment.
• A summary of the events in the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 is read from a journal, ostensibly from the point of view of Andrea Zuckerman.
• During the credits of every episode, a clip from a popular music video was played without any type of commentary. These were usually replaced with a show promo by VH1.

Topics covered by year

1990

• Misery
• Supermarket Sweep
• Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison"
• Fanny packs
• Nelson
• 2 Live Crew
• MTV Unplugged
• Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract"
• Dolphin-safe tuna
• James "Buster" Douglas' defeat of Mike Tyson
• Days of Thunder
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
• Dick Tracy and Madonna's "Vogue"
• Moscow gets its first McDonald's
• Cop Rock
• Caller ID
• Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall and Kindergarten Cop

1991

• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• Planet Hollywood
• David Duke's political career
• Public Enemy and Anthrax's "Bring Tha Noize"
• Lollapalooza
• Jungle Fever
• Soviet Union goes out of existence
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game"
• The Atlanta Braves Tomahawk Chop controversy
• Starter Jackets/Pagers and their use for numeric spelling
• Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away"
• Wilt Chamberlain's A View From Above
• Extreme's "More Than Words"
• Rugrats
• Cape Fear

1992

• The Crying Game
• American Gladiators
• Thighmaster
• House of Pain's "Jump Around"
• Singles
• Studs
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
• Mr. Big's "To Be With You"
• The nicotine patch
• Bill Clinton says he "didn't inhale"
• Body Count's "Cop Killer"
• Mad About You
• George H.W. Bush vomits on Japan's prime minister
• Larry Bird retires
• Sinéad O'Connor rips a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live
• A League of Their Own
• Teen Talk Barbie
• Euro Disneyland
• Northern Exposure
• White Men Can't Jump

1993

• Cliffhanger
• Energizer Bunny
• The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
• The Chicken Soup For The Soul series
• The U.S. military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Radiohead's "Creep"
• Monica Seles gets stabbed
• Paintball
• Falling Down
• Cypress Hill's "Insane in the Brain"
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape
• Leprechaun
• Great Flood of 1993
• Frank Sinatra's Duets
• Animaniacs
• Zima
• True Romance

1994

• The Wonderbra
• Anna Nicole Smith marries J. Howard Marshall
• Tales From The Crypt
• The Cranberries
• The Club
• Michael Fay's caning
• Benedictine Monks' Chant
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Models, Inc.
• Warehouse clubs
• Beck's "Loser"
• New York Rangers win the Stanley Cup
• Blues Traveler
• Clerks
• Tony Little
• Counting Crows
• Ricola
• Natural Born Killers

1995

• The Usual Suspects
• Fashion Café
• Shaggy's "Boombastic"
• NewsRadio
• Species
• Psychic Friends Network
• Starbucks
• Mallrats
• Se7en
• Newt Gingrich vs. women in the military
• The hemp debate
• Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It"
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
• Babydoll dresses
• Moviefone
• Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
• O.J. Simpson murder trial

1996

• Kerri Strug
• The Crocodile Hunter
• Romeo + Juliet
• The Caesar haircut
• Jeff Foxworthy's redneck routine
• Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check"
• Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape
• Deion "Primetime" Sanders
• East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry
• Jenny McCarthy
• David Crosby fathers Melissa Etheridge's kid
• R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly"
• The Unabomber
• Michael Flatley
• 7th Heaven
• Evita

1997

• Air Force One
• Kenny G breaks the world record for longest note held
• Meredith Brooks' "Bitch"
• "Death" of Joe Camel
• Con Air
• The beginning of ratings for TV shows (e.g. "TV-MA", "TV-14", "TV-PG")
• Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy"
• Latrell Sprewell chokes his coach and Marv Albert bites his girlfriend
• The death of Chris Farley
• Just Shoot Me
• Mary Kay Letourneau
• The WNBA
• Sugar Ray's "Fly"
• Starship Troopers
• Pokémon
• Barbie and Paula Jones get makeovers
• G.I. Jane
• Titanic

1998

• Godzilla
• Ginger Spice leaves the Spice Girls
• Alanis Morissette's "Thank U"
• Raves
• Blade
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Lay's WOW chips
• Mad cow disease
• Urban Legend
• Gary Coleman punches a fan
• MTV's guest VJ Jesse Camp
• Pras' "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)"
• The Waterboy
• Behind the Music
• The Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up"
• Naomi Campbell throws a cell phone at an assistant
• El Niño
• Run Lola Run

1999

• Freaks and Geeks
• Garth Brooks/Chris Gaines
• TRL
• Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life"
• Emeril Lagasse
• Red Bull
• Lance Armstrong
• Matthew McConaughey's public nudity
• Cruel Intentions
• Limp Bizkit
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Tom Green Show
• Win Ben Stein's Money
• Being John Malkovich
• Varsity Blues