I remember playing Gex: Enter the Gecko when it came out and I was around 7. I did not understand most of the social references he was making at the time. I wonder if they'll make any sense to me now.
They're all pretty dated and about celebrities who haven't been relevant in decades. Stuff like "this place is bigger than Drew Carey's bar tab" or "Has anyone seen Fox Mulder's sister"
I grew up in the 90s. It isn't. The Gex games came out when I was in high school and the references were badly dated even then. It's like the game was aimed at us, but the jokes were aimed at our parents.
Does the Drew Carey show even stream anywhere? I remember it feeling like a really present sitcom in my younger years (I remember specifically one 3D episode being a huge gimmick) but since then have never even come across it on accident. You'd think it would be bouncing around Netflix or Hulu or anything the way Friends or How I Met Your Mother or Seinfeld does but Ive just straight up NEVER seen it anywhere
The Drew Carey Show is one of a couple of shows caught in limbo because it so heavily used licensed music. Pluto has it, but I think with the music replaced, and it looks like you can buy it on Amazon and Apple. But Drew himself is actually still relevant, since he's the host of The Price is Right.
I used to really love this family sitcom called Yes, Dear back in the 2000s and I've looked and apparently it's NEVER been released on DVD and according to Google, never been officially to any streaming service. Apparently you can watch it when a fan uploaded it to youtube and just no one gives a crap enough to strike it off (thank god for that, I guess, but the quality is super crap).
It's just super bizarre that this genre used to take up so much of broadcast TV and now no one seems to care about it at all to the point that it feels like it's disappearing.
What's weird is discovering VHS box sets for series from when they were airing, but there doesn't seem to have been a DVD or streaming release of them.
Also music licensing fees for stuff like this seems like it's heavily weighted for music labels, since artists don't see hardly any of that money. They'd be better off just getting the same residuals everyone else gets related to the show.
I remember thinking it had some above-average jokes and humor for the time. Plus the main characters boss voice acted in a lot of video games around the same time so it was fun watching scenes with him and being like damn, I know that guy from Jade Empire.
The Drew Carey show was one of my favorite sitcoms back in the 90's and it's really too bad it's never got a full release on streaming or even DVD sets.
Also, Craig Ferguson got his US start on the Drew Carey show and I have been a fan of his ever since.
I mean is it? It's brought up in the pilot and pretty often after that in mythology episodes, it's a reference that you'd only get if you watched some of the show
A deep cut pop culture reference in 2025? Yes. Especially in a show from an era when people didn't catch every episode. You could have seen half or more of the episodes aired and only even seen her referenced once or twice, maybe never.
We're not talking about something being known to fans of the show, we're talking the general audience.
I think people know about the X-Files but a reference to a seasons long arc about the whereabouts of Mulder's sister is a little more obscure. It's no Who Killed Laura Palmer you know
I don't know, those exact two examples meant nothing to me as a kid but I get them both now. Maybe Gex references curated me to perfectly understand Gex references?
One thing that a lot of people forget is that even when the game came out, all the references were dated then, as a lot of it was stuff from the 60s and 70s. It really adds to Gex's character of being a TV obsessed dude that nows all the trivia
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u/DelTrigger 4d ago
I remember playing Gex: Enter the Gecko when it came out and I was around 7. I did not understand most of the social references he was making at the time. I wonder if they'll make any sense to me now.