The 2000s
If you'd like to understand the 2000s, don't look at Y2K or George W. Bush or the War on Terror or the Great Recession. No, to understand the 2000s, watch Gossip Girl. Do you see it? It's hard to put your finger on, but there's something distinctly trashy-while-trying-to-be-classy about the 2000s. It was a time of sleazy pickup artists and lying memoirists, and we haven't even mentioned all the gloriously earnest emo lyrics of the 2000s. Actually, most of those hold up, but…it paints a picture, right?
In these dark times, we turned to Disney Channel Holiday Specials to teach us gifts are important. We wrote fan fiction, most famously the Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal, whose author isn't transphobic (that we know of). And perhaps most importantly, we laughed. Sure, some aughts comedies aged like milk, but there was a definable generation of aughts comedy stars working steadily. Not everything was all bad.
5 Famous Goons Of The Early 2000s (Whose Fortunes Turned For The Worse)
Turns out that being a professional unpleasant person doesn’t always have long-term benefits.
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- By Cedric Voets
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51 How Classic 90s Sitcoms Stayed Timeless and 2000s Sitcoms Didn’t
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- By Luis Prada
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6 Famous 2000s Things (That Were Actually Awful)
When one looks back at that decade, we were all complete morons.
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Overlooked Ways Harry Potter Screwed Up Movies Forever
Thanks, Harry Potter, for cursing us to decades of crappy cinematic franchises.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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'The Skulls': A 10 Year Old Movie That's Already Baffling
YEAR 2000 TRADEMARKS: -Concerns elderly rich perverts in robes (see: Eyes Wide Shut, The Ninth Gate) -Disc sold as "Collector's Edition" -Stars of two WB dramas (Popular and Dawson's Creek) -Spawned numerous straight-to-DVD sequels (see: Bring it On, Wild Things, American Pie)
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- By Pat Cassels
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