History Main / ILoveTheExties

** These shows were so popular that ''I Love the New Millennium'' covered the 2000s in '''2008''', before the decade it was nostalgically looking back at was even over. It's almost fascinating now as [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece a time capsule]] for what people ''thought'' would be memorable and lasting about, say, 2007. Some looked laughably dated just a year or two down the road (they had a long segment about Myspace... but didnt mention Facebook once) -- and yet, it's almost more apt for the sort of nostalgia the franchise was made for. In any case, [=VH1=] revisited the decade in 2014, this time calling it ''I Love the 2000s''.
** [=VH1=] also did a series of specials called ''When _____ Ruled the World''. The ''Franchise/StarWars'' episode actually had the merit of featuring almost the entire cast of the old trilogy. Other topics included Music/{{KISS}} and disco.

* In 2014, Creator/{{CNN}} premiered a 10-part documentary miniseries entitled ''The Sixties'', produced by Creator/TomHanks and Gary Goetzman, which went into detail on notable subjects of [[TheSixties that decade]] (with one episode devoted simply to 1968 due to just how many major political events transpired), and primarily using archive news footage and interviews with associated figures and analysts. It proved popular enough that the series has received sequels all the way through TheNewTens, along with separate [[SpinOff spin-offs]] focusing on film in each decade, and a four-part miniseries on 1968 in general. It focuses more on news and world events than pop culture and has a more serious tone overall, but [[OnceASeason each series]] has had one episode focused on television, one focused on music, and beginning with TheEighties, one episode on technology.

* In 2014, Creator/{{CNN}} premiered a 10-part documentary miniseries entitled ''The Sixties'', produced by Creator/TomHanks and Gary Goetzman, which went into detail on notable subjects of that [[TheSixties decade]] (with one episode devoted simply to 1968 due to just how many major political events transpired), primarily using pundits (such as associated figures and analysts) and archived news footage. It proved popular enough that the series has received sequels all the way through the TurnOfTheMillennium (with one covering TheNewTens scheduled to premiere in 2023), along with a separate SpinOff focusing on film in each decade. It focuses more on news and world events than pop culture, but each series has had one episode focused on television, one focused on music, and beginning with TheEighties, one episode on technology. It is notable for being a lot more serious and less snarky than many of the other examples on this page.

* These kinds of shows are spoofed in ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'' and its spinoffs with the interludes with Barry Shitpeas (and later Franchise/PhilomenaCunk), a couple of mindbogglingly shallow TalkingHeads of indeterminate social role (initially Barry was always explained as a 'comedian' in his subtitle description, but later any description of his job became surrealistic nonsense - Philomena is usually introduced with some internet-based pseudo-job such as 'Facebook Liker' or 'Animated GIF') who comment on contemporary shows in this manner. They usually have extremely limited understanding of the shows: for instance, they assume that ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] because it also stars Creator/DavidTennant, think that ''Professor Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe'' is about a former boyband star on his holiday [[MushroomSamba slowly freaking out on drugs]], and open their description of the Creator/DavidAttenborough nature documentary ''Africa'' with "There was this amazing programme about Africa, right, all about this [[AfricaIsACountry country called Africa]]..." and goes on to explain that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXnAlHF-D90 no-one lives in Africa because it's all full of monsters]]. In the ClipShow episode, the whole show is framed as one of their usual rants, with them even singing along to the theme music.

* In 2014, Creator/{{CNN}} premiered a 10-part documentary miniseries entitled ''The Sixties'', produced by Creator/TomHanks and Gary Goetzman, which went into detail on notable subjects of that [[TheSixties decade]] (with one episode devoted simply to 1968 due to just how many major political events transpired), primarily using pundits (such as associated figures and analysts) and archived news footage. It proved popular enough that the series has received sequels all the way through the TurnOfTheMillennium (with one covering TheNewTens scheduled to premiere in 2023). It focuses more on news and world events than pop culture, but each series has had one episode focused on television, one focused on music, and beginning with TheEighties, one episode on technology.

* Creator/{{CNN}} has done one for every decade from TheSixties to the TurnOfTheMillennium covering every aspect of those decades, as well as one specifically about the year 1968 which premiered in 2018.

* These kinds of shows are spoofed in ''Series/{{Screenwipe}}'' and its spinoffs with the interludes with Barry Shitpeas (and later Franchise/PhilomenaCunk), a couple of mind-bogglingly shallow TalkingHeads of indeterminate social role (initially Barry was always explained as a 'comedian' in his subtitle description, but later any description of his job became surrealistic nonsense - Philomena is usually introduced with some internet-based pseudo-job such as 'Facebook Liker' or 'Animated GIF') who comment on contemporary shows in this manner. They usually have extremely limited understanding of the shows: for instance, they assume that ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}'' is a ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[ContinuityReboot reboot]] because it also stars Creator/DavidTennant, think that ''Professor Brian Cox's Wonders of the Universe'' is about a former boyband star on his holiday [[MushroomSamba slowly freaking out on drugs]], and open their description of the Creator/DavidAttenborough nature documentary ''Africa'' with "There was this amazing programme about Africa, right, all about this [[CriticalResearchFailure country called Africa]]..." and goes on to explain that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXnAlHF-D90 no-one lives in Africa because it's all full of monsters]]. In the ClipShow episode, the whole show is framed as one of their usual rants, with them even singing along to the theme music.

* Ireland's answer to this trope is 'Reeling in The Years', which is stock footage from whatever year they're showcasing, layered with songs from that year with comments running like subtitles on the screen. This was based more or less on a British series called ''The Rock and Roll Years''.
** ''Reeling in The Years'' is not really an example of this trope; songs aside most of the stock footage is of news reports (often of now largely forgotten protests, prison breaks and the like), political interviews and so on and the 'comments' are strictly informative, making this much more akin to a regular stock-footage history programme, such as ''The Second World War in Colour''.