- Toy Story is that old? - God, I can't even imagine
what it would be like to just turn on the news
and see that as something happening around you.
That's just history to me. But for them, it's breaking news.
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- (FBE) How well acquainted are you with pop culture?
- I've heard of it. What's that?
- I mean, all I do is watch TV, so I think enough. Probably too much.
- (FBE) Today, we're gonna be showing you 10 of the pop culture events
that happened from the last 50 years that are all celebrating
some sort of anniversary in 2020. - Okay. That's fun.
- (FBE) We're gonna start with a news article today
that released 50 years ago on December 31, 1970.
- "Paul quits the Beatles." Wow.
- That was very devastating. Paul left the Beatles.
So, that was the end of the first real rock and roll band.
- Holy [censored]. That was that long ago?
I mean, I'm saying that was that long ago
like I was alive, but that's so wild.
- (FBE) On April 10th, 1970, news broke out around the globe
that Paul McCartney was leaving the Beatles to pursue a solo career.
Although fans were hoping that McCartney and his bandmates
would get back together, on December 31st of that same year,
McCartney filed a lawsuit for the band's formal dissolution.
- That is pretty crazy. - It was just a shock to see
a band that was so iconic to just dissipate.
- He was a great songwriter. He still is.
I mean, he's still keeping it going. But John Lennon was awesome too.
And I know they had a competition. They had a little friendly competition
with writing songs. And they wrote some great songs, man,
that still stand the test of time. - Those guys,
they were young at the time, and they had young families,
and they just artistically started going
into different directions. But it was devastating for their fans.
- (Chase) Live from New York... - It's Saturday Night!
- Chevy Chase, baby. Chevy Chase was the man.
- Oh my god. Samurai warrior. Come on, you guys.
- (samurai) Wa-sha! - This show's been on forever!
(laughs) - Look at his stupid face.
- That's what happens when you don't tip!
- (warrior grunting in pain) - This is insane.
It's so weird to see how different it looks back then.
- Look how young Chevy Chase is. He's a tiny little baby.
- (samurai yells in foreign language)
- (chuckles) - (guest) Room service.
- (samurai yells in foreign language) - That's fine.
- Dude, Belushi was the freakin' funniest.
- (FBE) On October 11th, 1975, NBC debuted Saturday Night Live.
45 years later, SNL is still going strong,
reportedly averaging just under 10 million viewers
every Saturday night, making it one of the longest-running
American TV shows of all time. - That's insane.
I mean, I genuinely thought it started in the '80s or the '90s.
- Saturday Night Live is one of the best ways to just trace history
through comedy, 'cause it's very much so based
on what's happening in the world around us.
- It's crazy how a show can have so much influence
and how really, there's so much political meaning underneath,
so much social commentary underneath, but on the surface,
it's supposed to be something that's entertaining and funny.
- (reporter) This evening, John Lennon arrived...
- Oh, you guys. This was so terrible.
- (reporter) ...at the emergency room at the Roosevelt Hospital.
- Oh, yeah. - (reporter) He was dead on...
- He got killed, man. - This was 40 years ago?
- (Tom) Good morning, everyone. I'm Tom Brokaw.
This is today, December 9th. I'm here with Jane Pauley and...
- This is so sad. I've never seen any clips of this.
I just know that it happened. - (Tom) I'm here with Jane Pauley,
and this entire half hour, we devoted to the murder
of John Lennon, ex-Beatle... - Ugh. Oh my god.
- (Tom) ...best-known musicians and most influential people
of his time. - God, I can't even imagine
what it would be like to just turn on the news
and see that as something happening around you.
That's just history to me. But for them, it's breaking news.
- There are moments that happened in American history,
where collectively everyone goes, "Oh my god."
Like, when JFK was shot, my parents talk about it.
Everyone knows where they were. You know, I was listening to this
on the radio. I used to listen to radio.
And it just was unfathomable. - The thing about John Lennon
is he wasn't afraid to say what he really thought
no matter how it made him look, and that's gonna put a target
on your back, so we're all better off for him having existed.
♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪ (thunder crashing)
- (voice-over) When you get hold of the Nintendo...
- (chuckles) Nintendo. Oh, damn.
- This was just before my time. - (voice-over) ...R.O.B.,
the video robot. - Love the good ol' '80s music.
- Video game commercials used to be so much cooler,
'cause the games looked so much [censored],
so they had to make it, like, "Whoa! In your face!"
But now we just show the game. - Wow. This is like--
it looks like those vintage video games
in vintage arcades. But this was brand new at a point.
- Yup. - (voice-over) Batteries not included.
Super Mario Bros. and other games... - The whole set!
And I knew I would never get it. - (FBE) Although it had launched
in Japan two years earlier, the Nintendo Entertainment System
made its American debut 35 years ago. The robot featured in this commercial,
R.O.B., which stands for Robotic Operating Buddy,
R.O.B. was initially used to market the NES
to make a game system seem more sophisticated
than previous game consoles. - Sophisticated?
All right. - I look at this, and I see
all these accessories going on. And now, it's almost like,
the more simple the better. I know that we have so much technology
at our fingertips, but when you really look
at everything, it's truly impressive just over the past 50 years
how far everything has come.
- (Peter) What else could we be forgetting?
- Home Alone. - Oh my god.
And it's Moira Rose... - (Kate) Kevin!
- ...for you Schitt's Creek fans.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- Wow. Oh, Macaulay. - How do you forget your kid?
I just wanna know.
- This is such a timeless movie. - This movie's such a classic.
I feel like everyone has seen it or it's always on TV
during the holidays.
- Ooh!
It hurts watching this trailer. - I mean, it was just
crazy dumb slapstick but, you know,
you wanna capture the American imagination?
You gotta do something really stupid.
- (FBE) So, that was Home Alone, and it will be celebrating
its 30th anniversary in 2020. As of filming this episode,
the Home Alone franchise is reportedly expecting a reboot of this movie.
- How many times can they forget their kid?
I feel like after the first one, you get a leash.
- I don't necessarily love when people touch classics like that,
(laughs) but we'll see. I'm open to it.
♪ (grand brass music) ♪
- Walt Disney. Okay, Pixar.
- (Sarge) Yes, sir! - (gasps) Toy Story is that old?!
- This is one of the best movies literally of all times.
- (Sarge) Move, move, move, move, move!
It's a... (over monitor) It's a big one.
- (voice-over) Walt Disney Pictures presents...
- I'ma cry. I might do it. - (voice-over) ...the story
of two toys. - So classic.
I can even see the difference in animation between now
and the new ones. - I can't even picture a world
where you're just casually like, "Wanna go see Toy Story in theaters?"
It's the biggest thing on the planet.
- (Buzz) To infinity and beyond! - I low-key, like, let's just stop.
Let's just watch the movie for a minute.
- Toy Story was big. That started, you know,
a big situation when it came to kids' films like that
and bringing characters to life and the animation comes to life.
It's like, that stuff started
a whole trend that'll always... - (FBE) It's pretty impressive.
- ...be around forever. - (FBE) Toy Story was released
in November of 1995, and the rest is history.
It was Pixar's first feature attempt as well as one of the first
all 3D animated movies. - Wow. That's so crazy.
- The whole thing from, you know, when Disney cartoons were like--
people were animating them pretty much, I think,
to the whole computer generated thing. It was pretty crazy
when you think about it like that in the last quarter century.
And the Toy Story franchise is amazing. It's iconic.
(silence)
- ♪ Did it again ♪ Wow.
- Damn! Britney Spears. Oh my god.
- Oh my god. I love Britney!
- We was like, "Who is this girl?" - Ah, she's great.
- And I'm gonna be scared at how old this frickin' video is.
Let me say that much.
- (FBE) So, 20 years ago, in December of 2000,
Britney Spears released her second studio album
titled, "Oops!... I Did It Again." This album and single would go on
to sell over three million copies in its first week and debuted
at number one on the Billboard 200. - That's it.
She had the marketing team behind her. And she did great her first album too.
So, you know, she did it again. - That's the era of radio,
you feel me? That's the era of MTV,
and MTV is all about music videos, you feel me?
Today, you can go on SoundCloud, you can go on YouTube,
you can go on Spotify, you can go on a person's Instagram
to hear their music. It's popular because music
is controlled by a small group of people who say,
"You're gonna listen to this,
and if you want something else, good luck."
♪ (soft instrumental music) ♪ - YouTube!
- Whoa! 2005.
- Search the videos! (chuckles) - It looks like Google.
That's so weird that it used to look like that.
- I remember we used to have to use proxies in high school
to be able to get into YouTube or Myspace back then.
- It took me a minute to really-- my brain to comprehend
what this actually is. And it's been a short period
of time from the time of that of just it skyrocketing.
- (FBE) So, 15 years ago, above a pizzeria
and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California,
three PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,
and Jawed Karim would go on to start one of the biggest
video sharing websites the internet has seen to date.
And because of them, we are here today.
- That's so cool. That's honestly--
that just gave me chills. - It's not even just a platform
at this point. It's a way of life.
Every single artist's music video is put on here.
Every trailer for every movie is put on YouTube.
This is the way to get any information in the world
and market anything is YouTube. - I love the ordinary person
becoming extraordinary within what they wanna do
with this platform. To have a platform like this
to be able to do that without being caught up
in the corporate America or red tape of this, that,
and the other, and just can be creative?
Ah. (claps) It's fantastic.
- (crowd cheering) - (Lady Gaga) I never thought...
- Lady Gaga! - (Lady Gaga) ...to hold
my meat purse. - (chuckles) The meat dress!
- (Lady Gaga) ...nervous for tonight. - A good Lady Gaga outfit,
and a star was born. - (Lady Gaga) I love you so much.
Thank you to my family and... - See, this, to me--
I feel like this outfit, I saw it maybe five years ago.
- (Lady Gaga) ...I'd announce the name of my new record.
- I love her. She's so pure! - (Lady Gaga) It's called
"Born This Way." - Wow. That's so crazy.
That was such a big deal.
- (FBE) So, that clip was of Lady Gaga accepting
her award for the 2010 Video of the Year Award
at the VMAs for "Bad Romance." As you may have gathered,
it wasn't her 14 nominations or eight wins that caught
everyone's attention. It was her meat dress.
- Oh my god. It's like aged beef now.
(laughs) (rim shot)
- Everyone's [censored] criticized her for the [censored],
and now it's like everyone would've glorified her,
like, "Oh yeah, stunning [censored] meat dress"
or whatever, but back then, I guess people were just like, "No."
- Lady Gag wasn't really respected as an artist until then,
because I remember seeing this and everyone being like,
"Oh, she's in a meat dress. That's so weird. I don't like it.
She's just a weird person." And then, just slowly watching her
be respected as a real artist and then seeing "A Star Is Born,"
I love just being able to see the whole timeline of it.
(silence)
- Left shark? - Oh, I remember this.
At the Super Bowl, they see them sharks dancing.
- Wait. Was this-- this feels so much longer.
This feels like 10 years ago at least. (chuckles)
- This is how you're ending it? You started with the Beatles.
- Oh, man. He's getting it. He's getting it.
That's all I could say is he's an icon.
- This isn't even the best shark-based pop culture icon!
Where is Baby Shark?
- (FBE) So, back in 2015, now five years ago,
the Super Bowl launched an unwitting star.
During the song "Teenage Dream" by Katy Perry, she was flanked
by two dancers dressed in shark costumes,
and the left shark drew attention due to his off-script choreography.
The moment quickly caught fire on social media,
and the left shark became an internet sensation.
- Mm. Nope. Don't remember that at all.
- It's a big moment. The Super Bowl, everybody's watching.
It's one of the most watched events in history.
- This is so crazy. It's like, you see how times
have changed. The first thing was a newspaper clipping
back when newspapers were a thing for when the Beatles broke up.
And the last one is internet culture and sharks going viral
with a meat dress somewhere in the middle.
- I don't know how we got to the point that we are now with technology.
And then also, why does time fly so fast? I don't get it.
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