r/interestingasfuck • u/Charming_History7423 • 11d ago

/r/all McDonald's in the 80s compared to today

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u/emilyrosecuz 11d ago

Where’d all the talking trees go? They were a hit in the 80s/90s. Loved seeing a talking tree as a kid, very comforting.

Designers and architects need to start doing LSD again honestly

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u/TheSchneid 11d ago edited 11d ago

I do often think about how weird TV and music were in the '90s.and early 2000s (for instance things like sifl and olly making it on TV) and I think a lot of it was actually impacted by a big LSD resurgence in the late '80s and early '90s when the dead were touring.

The people graduating college in the late '90s had definitely been doing a good amount of acid in their high school years. It was before that family that made like 70% of the acid in the US had gotten arrested too.

We can honestly probably thank the grateful Dead for some of the weird trippy shit that we saw on TV and in movies and music back then.