pivot! pivot! chandler: : shut up! shut up!p! shut upup! lisa kududrow: i feeeel like wet to k know these e sitcom chahar; they re e your frienends. ross: : i don t ththink it s going to p pivot anymomore. chchandler andnd rachel: you thinink?! jason alexander: they were purely selfish anand purely i immature. jerry: a are you stitill mastster of yourur domain? elelaine: i m queen of the casastle. alalyson hanninigan: youou he that you l ll have thohose kinds s of relatioionships in your rereal life. barney: : tonight isis about cecelebrating ouour enduring b bonds as friends,s, nay, famimily max: gooood to see y you too girl, whwhere you going? carnival? ha! kim fields: your friends. sometimes that s more family than the people thatat you re rerelated to.. toototie: someththing s bothering g you! natalie: i ve never been happier. ted danson: trying to make your way in the world and having a safe harbour. you knowow, where eveverybody knows yourur name. nonorm: afternoon ever
that you couldn t have on network television. - peoplele are realllly tryg to do something adventurous. [both gasp] alall: channelel 7, shame e on. - this is morere a celebrbration of c culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on i inside. - therere s alwaysys somethg on t television,n, and sosome of it may b be ber than we e deserve. - [laughs]s] that wasas cool. [d[dramatic musisic] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eieight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horribible year never enend? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lolot of expererimentation. [gununshots] all:l: [quickly]y] seven, six, , four, three, two, , one! [cheerining] - anand the simimpsons, i ththink, in sosome sensess was s inspired by not necessarily a hatred o of television bubut a distrurust of a a lot of ththe ways in whichch televisioion was s talking toto us. - tv res
downs: unless you ve been living in a sealed cave, you ve probably noticed that america s latest craze is disco dancin . this is punk rock, and its purpose is to promote violence, sex, and destruction, in that order. pure rock k n roll e energ, pure guts, pure stamina. rock singeger jimi henendrix didied today i in london,, according to a police source, from an overdose of drugs. reynolds: janis joplin was found dead last night. ththe cause ofof death wasas d to be an o overdose ofof drug. jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. naftali: the early years of the 70s are sad in music because you lose people. and you lose the beatles. simon: t this small l gatherig on savavile row is only the beginning. the evenent is so momomentous that hisistorians may one e day view i it as a a landmark k in the decee ofof the brititish empire.. ththe beatles s are breakikin. heilemanann: it was s like a dh for r a lot of p people. rock n ro
clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching ononly one of f three netwtwork. more thahan 30 millilion peope are addicted to o it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? it s television s prime-time, prairie pot boiler, dallas. bobby:y: a move lilike thatl deststroy all ofof ewing , and it l ll ruin our familyly name. i assure y you, a thouought le that nevever crosseded my mind. brotheher or no brbrother, whatever i it takes, i llll stop you u from destrg ewewing oil. dalallas realllly did estatah new ground in termsms of the weweekly, one hour s show thatat literallyly captivated amererica for 1313 years. dallas is a television s show whwhich in somome ways is s rd in t the 1970 ss and onone of the c crazy thins that
- it s a tough time to grow up in, anand nirvanaa and kukurt cobain,n, in particular, reflect that angst. - i learned how to write for myself, and it s pretty ironic that most people related to it. - boom, there it is. platinum record. - country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. - the honeymoooon s over.. now we re getting down to real commerce. [fans screaming] - aren t these girls just crazy? - yeah, they are. [stirring instrumental music] [poison s unskinny bop ] [rousing rock music] - you may think of it as the channel that rattles your china and occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes your children, but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. - unskinny bop just blows me away - mtv makes the hits. it s as if there were just one national radio station for new songs. - unskinny bop - ending the 80s, in terms of rock music, you re getetting a a lot of haia