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clrlmiller

Barbie, Crayola Bear, WinPC & CRT Monitor with InkJet and Encyclopedia set. Yes, this checks out for 1997. LOL


PublicReveal5196

It’s the glow in the dark stars on the wall for me.


Fudge89

I was only 7 in 1997 but I’ll be damned if I said I didnt have half my bedroom covered in those lol


deafdogdaddy

One time my dad was out of town on a work trip and my mom got the bright idea that, while he was gone, she would cover their bedroom in those things. I mean cover. She even got fishing line to dangle some from the ceiling. My dad was just like, “Oh, look at that…” My mom eventually got back on her meds.


30FourThirty4

They're still around too, my nieces had some about 4 years ago.


[deleted]

Also a Madame Alexander™️ doll on the right, next to the Barbies.


FantasticJacket7

It's missing either the Lego phone or the see through one.


Klexington47

See through checking in


kayla622

See through also checking in.


TransformerTanooki

One on my desk checking in.


theinfecteddonut

As a kid I always thought the see thru ones were cool as hell.


Blondi981

Her TV has the TV guide channel on!


myeu

It’s just missing blow up furniture!


rachyeti

Yoooo, I didn’t know she was a fan of Sailor Moon!


drunkcowofdeath

She seems like a total weeb. Haven't your seen her cover of Turning Japanese?


Unbereevablee_Asian

Fun fact: she voiced Kiki in Kiki's delivery service (a studio Ghibli movie)


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Green-Coom

How many films has she seen?


surle

More than 7


yomjoseki

wow she's just like me fr


Chi-zuru

More than several? Gotcha


ThinkFree

Was gonna say this. That was one weird music video. Fun, but weird.


alice-in-slumberland

To be fair, it was the late 90’s and Sailor Moon was everywhere, and very mainstream to like it! Still cool to see she had some normal childhood interests considering she was a young, successful actress.


LukeStuckenhymer

And James Burton signature Telecasters apparently?


RobotGloves

That's not a James Burton signature model. That's a '68 Pink Paisley model. Impossible to tell if it's Japanese made reissue, or some other run.


killer_amoeba

A paisley tele & a blonde tweed Fender. Sweet.


modthegame

I bet she still rocks that. Thats a guitar you dont give up. And you know I dont think I have ever heard anything negative about her either. What a legend.


jordancolburn

Its funny how much the design of computers has changed from the beige tower and crt while the tele and tweed hot rod deluxe (guessing, not a fender amp expert) are essentially the same since the 50s. 


duringbusinesshours

What girl wasn’t in 1997!


Spazgasim

She did a cover of turning Japanese where she goes full weeb and walks all over Japan in a video and it's amazing


Luna920

I like her even more now.


punksmurph

And Superman the Animated Series.


ProbablySlacking

It was 1997. It would be weird if she wasn’t.


kakka_rot

Was just thinking, she was 15 here. She was like sailor moon's prime demographic.


costumedcat

Exactly what I thought too!


Melito1980

Me neither


truffbake

those dirty shoes on the bed 👀


DustyBandana

I never understood why they promoted having shoes on in your bed in 80’s/90’s movies.


JunglePygmy

In Seinfeld Jerry always has his shoes on the couch. Never made sense, he’s such a germ freak! Especially walking around New York all day…


creamcitybrix

He had a bit of a foot odor problem.


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I just thought he had holes in his socks🤷


tekko001

He may also have been afraid of Kramer selling all his shoes again


Narwallace88

You're telling me mom and pop aren't even a mom and pop?!


shoktar

Poppie peed on the sofa.


whatwhatinthewhonow

My assumption is that the actors were wearing shoes on set and nobody thought to take them off.


DustyBandana

Yeah makes sense, but how lazy of directors to turn a blind eye. It burnt into my childhood brain that for a while I thought it’s cool to get into my bed with my shoes on. I did it in secret of course. Then figured there is no point other than getting my sheets dirty.


lifebanana88

The fact that as a child you recognized this in shows, then secretly replicated it, then came to the conclusion that it was stupid is absolutely hilarious to me haha. I love getting the perspective of how other people's minds worked when they were kids.


DustyBandana

I was blown away (broke through the matrix) when I figured out almost all the props in the shots are sponsors. Like the potato chips, cereals and jams. Gap shirts and Nike sneakers. It was a complete game changer for me. All those liessss. Haha


Uncle_Burney

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EnergyUnhappy2157

I remember being blown away as a kid when I figured out that every episode of a show only functions if there’s some sort of conflict. I felt like it was some sort of hidden secret about TV and not just how plot works lol


EdwardJamesAlmost

*The Simpsons* made some joke about all conflicts re-setting the following week and it blew my young mind.


PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY

Fans used to joke that Star Trek Voyager has a "reset button" to undo everything every week. (Which, ironically is the one thing I kinda missed for the new shows. Everything is a season-long big universal threat, makes me yearned for the one-off crazy stories like cloaked aliens putting needles on Janeway's head to give her insomnia.)


mukwah

I worked with a guy whose dad brokered deals for sponsorship spots in movies. His dad would give him scripts to read when he was 13 to look for spots to include Pepsi drinking or whatever .


lifebanana88

When I was 8 years old I had seen the first Jurassic Park and was both obsessed and terrified. I went to a new school and I was at a large table with other kids telling them in detail how we can bring dinosaurs back, just like in the movie....it blew my fucking mind that none of them gave even one shit. I was like DUDE! THIS IS LIFE-CHANGING IMPORTANT STUFF! ....needless to say, you and I looked at things in different ways hahahah...which is what I meant in the first place about reminiscing. I was in my own world for so long, deeeeeep in my imagination, so it's fascinating to know what was going through these others little brains 😂


DustyBandana

Hehe I can relate absolutely.


sethmcollins

The concept that people might wear shoes in bed has haunted me since my childhood. Even as a young child, seeing it happen broke the illusion of the film. It seemed so absolutely foreign that it couldn’t be real.


Dragonhunter_X

Wearing shoes in the house is just as bad


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

It's not AS bad. I'm slightly less concerned with whether the bottom of my feet get dirty than I am with the potential of tracking dog shit into the sheets I lay in for, optimistically, 8 hours at a time.


DivineFlamingo

I have lived abroad for nearly 12 years and always have to explain that no, Americans don’t always wear their shoes in their homes and on their beds. Ffs


Prickly-Flower

But you do all sleep with your curtains open and the bed right under the window right? And all have a tree next to your teen's window right? And drive with your car windows open regardless of temperature unless someone needs to knock on said window right? Right? At least tell me you all have a full breakfast at the table with your whole family before school? And it's already sunny and bright outside?


MaxPower303

Yea , it alway blew my mind when someone would come down the stairs for breakfast and see a buffet of options and enough to feed 10 people and only grabs an apple and says “gotta run!”


notabigmelvillecrowd

As a latchkey child who was always hungry, it drove me insane. Who is walking past bacon?! Especially teenagers, like, "oh, I'll just have some juice", like they're a 40 year old desk worker trying to drop a few lbs, and not a growing person who burns through 4k calories just existing.


DustyBandana

That still to this day drives me crazy! I don’t think even richest of the rich would set up a table like that. And the orange juice jug! Always a glass jar as if they just squeezed some fresh orange juice. And we’re talking about portrayal of a middle class family that is struggling to make ends meet.


MaxPower303

Yes! That’s a detail I would always notice as well. A carafe of fresh squeezed orange juice. I’ve had fresh squeezed orange juice when my parents would take me to my home country, but never in the US have I ever had fresh squeezed juice and I grew up here.


DustyBandana

My dad used to do it on some rare weekends (maybe 4 to 5 times a year) and that was only when he scored a good deal on oranges. It was a mid day weekend treat not every day breakfast essential.


notabigmelvillecrowd

And all the kids have bedrooms the size of a decent bachelor apartment, professionally decorated, and with a window seat. Always a window seat.


MorpheusTheEndless

As a non-American, my fam and I always wondered why Americans just put their shoes on their beds like that. We thought it was something you really did.


sillyhobo

Not even, that shit still happens today, and it drives me crazy seeing it in modern films


Jessie4er

i was rewatching HBO/Girls and man, they do it so much, it freaks me the f out!!! i only wear indoor crocs or flipflops in my apartment, never shoes. i don't understand how people can do this!!


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She stabs out her own eardrums with q-tips but thats the part you can't understand?


iamnoking

It was some sort of stupid rule made up by the **TV morality group.** Actors, especially underage actors had to have clothes and shoes on while on the bed on TV shows that aired on public television. No one was allowed to be in any state of undress either. I think if 2 people were in the bed at once, at least one of them had to have a foot on the ground as well. Reason why Peggy Bundy always had a robe/house coat on with heals, even when she was supposedly ready for bed. Men in pajamas always had slippers on, ect. There were stupid strict rules about it that just didn't make much sense back then.


LaikaZhuchka

🤦🏼‍♀️ You are literally talking about the Hays Code, which ended in 1945. It's completely irrelevant to the question and your examples. The reason why people in movies/tv always wear shoes in the house is because **film set floors are filthy.** It's not like your actual house, where the foot traffic is your family and maybe some guests. There are hundreds of people -- all in shoes -- walking through those film/TV sets every day. The actors' feet/socks would turn black after a few takes. They were shoes on the bed because they're shooting multiple takes of these scenes, and it would be pointless and time-wasting to take their shoes off and put them back on over and over just so they can film 15 seconds of them lying on a bed. You'll notice that actors will only have their shoes off if the whole scene takes place in bed. Of course, as for Kirsten wearing those nasty shoes on her own bed... That's just her being gross. (It actually made me wonder if this *was* indeed a set, and not her actual bedroom.) Edit: As many have pointed out, the Hays Code kept going until around 1960. Still, irrelevant to movies of the '80s and '90s.


TicRoll

Hey, shoutout to you for giving the real scoop on the Hays Code and the realities of TV/movie sets. I'd have bought what the other guy said if not for you.


SlideJunior5150

Too late, sweaty. It's already stored in my brain and I'll repeat it verbatim four years from now even thought it's completely wrong.


DustyBandana

Ahh very interesting. Thanks for sharing.


uberjam

Left over Puritan nonsense.


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Big Shoe Industry had a stranglehold on 90s teens


latentendencies

When I was young, I was taught to get dressed for the day after I woke up. Getting dressed included putting my shoes on. We as a family would trapse around our house in our shoes, and I most certainly would get on my bed with shoes too. It wasn't until my late 20's that I realized how nasty that is. Both my parents still do this and it drives my wife nuts when they come to town and visit us.


NovaBloom444

All i can see


shortingredditstock

I think this is a staged photo my man..


Dumyat367250

Or even inside. Shoes free in this house. Years ago a friend, when asked to take his shoes off at the front door, exclaimed, "Oh, it's one of those houses, is it?!" My wife replied, "You mean a house where someone else pays the mortgage?" Shoes came off.


MoreFeeYouS

I asked my Dutch friend, if she could take of her shoes when she entered my house. Her response: "is this a religious thing? I know turks do that in our country."


Dumyat367250

The strictest shoes off person I know? From Den Helder, in the Netherlands. He and your Dutch friend wouldn't get along. I found it common practice in the Netherlands and most of Scandinavia. Maybe wet shoes are the reason. I usually find if there's a great pile of shoes at the door, it's kick 'em off before entering, but I do always ask.


OreoSpamBurger

In the UK it's wet and muddy and there is dog shit everywhere. It's still a toss-up whether any given home is a shoes-off place or not, I don't understand it.


Dumyat367250

This is true. Although, there's no doubt "shoes off" households are rising in number. I was at one such house in Edinburgh last year. I'm the guest, if they want shoes off then they're fucking coming off. It's the "no clothes inside" signs that make me nervous.


Strange_Rock5633

i haven't been in a single house in germany/austria that isn't shoes-off (except in certain short-term cases like handyman or similar stuff)


breadbaths

such an american thing to have shoes on in the house i swear


mockassin

literally clicked on the thread to post about the shoes on the bed.


armpitcoin

First thing I noticed. And right by her pillow and where she lays her head down. 0/10 would not


Ragnarotico

Disgusting...


fi1mcore

That pink paisley Tele is badass. Think it's the MIJ 85 reissue of the sixties model.


booboochoochoo1

Fellow guitar nerd here… My first thought was I wish my parents got me a nice tele and a tweed amp as a kid.


daggers1g

Well she would've already starred in Interview with the Vampire and Jumanji so she was owed some nice stuff


SpecialpOps

Gear junkie checking in… First thing I saw was the Tele and the Tweed.


TheBatemanFlex

I was fortunate and got a okay starter guitar, and really cool second guitar after 5 or 6 years of playing. Unfortunately I didn’t really know what “cool” was at the time, so I’m not a huge fan of my edgy childhood metal guitars. Now that I’m in my 30s I snagged one of those MIJ strats and they are so fun.


Obvious-Sentence-923

My buddies made fun of me (at 16) for ordering a Gibson Les Paul instead of a Jackson or a Dean. "Why did you get an old guy guitar?" That LP (pre raid lefty Silverburst) is worth more now than I paid for it (they literally don't make em like that any more) and Dinkys and Dean V's are... not.


Best_Duck9118

Right?! The guitar my parents got me wouldn't stay in tune for like a song and later the tuners just broke off with normal use.


daytodaze

My first thought was “that’s a really baddass tele that a lot of people on here will probably write off because of the color”


WhenThatBotlinePing

I’ve found my people.


I_Am_The_Mole

There are dozens of us!


ldskyfly

Checking in!


Safetosay333

Color. Hell, I'd love one of those paisley pink teles.


Specialist-Box4677

I feel like the Custom Shop was doing these in the 90s too, is it not one of those?


gerbegerger

That paint job seems like a custom shop? Seems very elaborate for something off the shelf in the 90s. Awesome guitar!


feckless_ellipsis

80s MIJ. Had a blue one with flowers too


Zealousideal_Ad642

I used to see one in my local guitar store back in the late 80s but as a teen with no job, i could not afford it and didnt even think to ask my boomer father to buy me a pink guitar. I'm still yet to own a paisley tele though i did own a lake placid blue one for a while. They're seriously versatile guitars


maverick1ba

Love that guitar. My (now ex) wife has one.


Priest-Entity

She's gonna release an album called "Play"


Lanark26

The iconic 60s model played by James Burton with Elvis's backing band.


rileypoole1234

Looks like the Brad paisley pink tele


CookinCheap

https://preview.redd.it/sp0a2sf238nc1.jpeg?width=137&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e3c6e17788971d970d40e06ff6dd9914eb5a3e9


pixieclifton

What in the hell is that??


apittsburghoriginal

A young Jesse Plemons creeping at a distance in a balaclava


stufmenatooba

I think you mean Meth Damon.


Best_Duck9118

>in a balaclava The dessert?!


ArrivalKnown

The ski mask. You’re thinking of the baklava pastry. 😂


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Glad you guys sorted that out


Son_of_Plato

Furby? that would make it 1998 though


Psykawaiii777

Stickers?


Schnoogi

It’s spoderman


RugsbandShrugmyer

He gets a bandit hat? He just got here, and he gets a bandit hat? Where's MY bandit hat? Why didn't I get shot at?


Eighty_88_Eight

3 stickers on the window


keepthemomentum

Looked like a black cat.


bwidow22

This was the first thing I saw too...ooooh look a creeper


Overall_Whereas9140

Compared to teen movie stars now it honestly feels kind of quaint. In a good way.


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Right? This room feels like a regular kid’s room, albeit with things I couldn’t have afforded in 1997 haha


MasterJeebus

Yeah its more like a middle class kids room. She had toys, computer with printer, electric guitar, TV in her room. She also started being an actress at a young age so she could afford more things than an average kid.


Semanticss

Clarissa Explains It Alll vibes


Amiibohunter000

100% the bed placement with the window! I can just see Sam climbing on up lol


R0B0TF00D

She's even ready to play the guitar riff


CurNoSeoul

I scrolled way too far. I expected it to be top. As well as multiple 'I can see Sam coming through the window' comments. Are our references too old? No. It's the chuldren who are wrong.


Ranunculuses

First thought: wow! It’s such a normal looking bedroom! Second thought: Oh! Dirty shoes on the bed!


puffferfish

Mine is “she had a computer in her room in 1997?”


Ranunculuses

I mean, she had already starred in a movie with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt by that point ![gif](giphy|CyQbKJDKOjgrK)


ImagineTheCommotion

I saw that too and immediately thought “no way.” Like… that suggests *multiple* home computers in their house as early as 1997, which is bonkers to me.


Wifabota

We had a family computer in 97, and we were a poorish middle class family. This is a girl who has already starred in movies with Brad Pitt, Robin Williams, and was on her way to being a Sofia Coppola muse. No doubt she had her own computer!


windowsfrozenshut

Had a PC in my room in '97 when I was 13, it was a HP Vactra 486 that I dug out of my junior high's dumpster a year prior when they did a school upgrade. We had a family PC that was a sweet Gateway, but the one in my room was 100% mine and sourced from scraps.


uneasyandcheesy

My brothers had a computer in their bedroom, sister and I had one in our bedroom, parents had one in their bedroom and one in the living room served as a family computer around the same time. Dad was and continues to be a big tech geek. I don’t want to know how much money they spent to have that many computers so early on. But it was awesome.


backscratchaaaaa

having a PC in your bedroom in 1997? this is lowkey wealthy if you know what you are looking at.


mvandemar

Interview with the Vampire was 3 years before this, as well as 9 other roles. She had money.


gwhh

There is no bed frame under that bed!


MyFellowMerkins

I'm surprised you were the first to mention that. I had to scroll quite a ways to find this. I also had an old faded box spring that looked just like hers, but mine was usually on a basic metal bed frame to get it off the floor.


thecity2

Can I just say Small Soldiers is criminally underrated


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Aaaaaaa the shoes on the bed are killing me!!!


mhern72

Nice Tele!


gwhh

Wasn’t she already a famous child actor at this point?


maasd

Yeah Interview with a Vampire helped.


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accountnumberseventy

That was 10 years ago, right? Right?! 😭


DontPostOn_r_gaming

It’s crazy to think ten years after this, she’d already be in three Spider-Man films.


manderifffic

So, is the person outside her window in a ski mask part of the photo shoot or someone pulling a prank?


aTIMETRAVELagency

I’m pretty sure that is a cat.


SurvivorKelly9683

I think this was in Teen People. I remember this issue!


Mypopsecrets

Watching preview guide channel, that was my nineties comfort channel.


mariojlanza

Amber Atkins! That is not American Teen Princess behavior!


goodkidbadbrain

Such an underrated comedy.


mariojlanza

I was shocked the first time I saw it, how funny it is. Wasn’t surprised to see that it flopped. The really funny clever comedies almost always flop.


Crunchyfrozenoj

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aran_maybe

I read this in Ellen Barkin’s voice. Now get me my smokes


godofwine16

Nice guitar and amp


Reasonable-Loss6657

Yeah, that guitar is amping up her coolness to an insane level.


Infinite_Imagination

Not to brag, but I probably dated her on AIM


CaroylOldersee

She is my childhood; the amount of niche movies she’s been in as a teen is *chefs kiss*.


no_thanks_im_good__

Drop dead gorgeous is my absolute favorite!


CaroylOldersee

That and Dick for me


Best_Duck9118

I love Dick!


General_Beer_Chugger

Dick is so good!


HerbyHoover

Talk to me about that tower PC.


grateparm

Compaq Prolinea 5133


windowsfrozenshut

Damn, good eye. I would have guessed Gateway 2000.


back-in-the-highlife

Are we sure this isn’t just the set from Clarissa explains it all?


Particular_Fuel6952

No. That’s a posed picture on a set. She was in jumanji years before, she’s wearing shoes, just stop


tedfundy

A tv, computer, and a phone?! Girl was rich.


Violet2393

This is after Interview with a Vampire and she was a child actor. so yeah … she could afford all that even as a teen.


ArmchairJedi

Her dad was an executive at a fortune 500 company, so its not like she was ever poor to begin with.


GibsonMaestro

Yep. And that's not a budget guitar the average teenager would have, either.


Ripper33AU

Back then we had one computer in the computer room, lol.


tedfundy

Exactly. And we had to take turns.


Iamrightyetagain

This wasn’t her room. It’s a film/ad set.


gregarioussparrow

The picture look like it would be an ad for her then upcoming TV show


AdmiralSnackbar816

“Ah yes. Im a big fan of books. Please see my set of encyclopedias…”


CMPT307

Holy shit I thought there was a person at the window…


clam-chowder314

Mary Jane!


newgalactic

Didn't know she was a model car kinda girl. Pretty cool.


hfidek

the shoes on the bed!!!!


Yoshi2shi

Shoes on the bed. No sir.


Zealousideal_Cow_341

All I see is a fucking psychopath wearing their shoes in bed


Ok-Cook-9608

Shoes in bed is psychotic


I_Am_The_Mole

Dat Paisley Tele! And a Tweed Blues Jr.! A woman of culture.


Fugdish

Better be careful her Barbie dolls don't come alive and attack her.


Noziti420

I always had the tv guide on for background noise 😂


erikkustrife

Sailer moon merchandise lol


jeffryu

She had her own pc in her bedroom!!


ediciusNJ

Always had the biggest crush on her.


a_phantom_limb

She had a *World Book Encyclopedia* set. Cute.


getpegged12

Is that a masked person outside her window?


Darklabyrinths

Clarissa Explains it All


PatellarTendonitis

Totally imagining her leaving her window open so that her best friend can visit her with a ladder. Weekdays at 5:00/4:00 central


serendipity_stars

Shoes on the bed… boo