I Just Want To Know Why People Thought These Incredibly Weird Things Were Totally Normal In The Early 2000s
1.Everyone's parents opening up their computer browser, seeing this, and just saying "looks good to me":
Shout out Bonzi Buddy.
2.Having a whole-ass desktop computer in your kitchen that the entire family used:
Very chill sitch.
3.A seemingly endless amount of pictures of SpongeBob looking like this:
If you had this as your MySpace profile pic, it meant you once almost smoked a cigarette.
4.And like this:
If you had this as your MySpace pic, it meant you once listened to Something Corporate.
5.Going into the grocery store and seeing tubes upon tubes of Shrek GoGurt:
Look at that all that goop, folks.
6.Convincing people the iPhone was worth the money by showing them that one app where it looks like you're drinking a beer:
Steve Jobs' vision: finally realized.
7.Every dad on the planet carrying around a little leather BDSM case for their flip-phone:
Maximum protection.
8.That absolutely terrifying Honeycomb mascot being shoved in our faces:
Chills.
9.This particular type of floor being in every single fast food restaurant:
I can hear my shoes on the sticky surface right now.
10.Watching full-length movies that cost tens of millions of dollars to make on an iPod with a two-inch screen:
The future is...TWO INCHES!
11.Constantly quoting that one Bill O'Reilly video wherein he swears:
If you knew this video and could quote Anchorman, you were the coolest kid in school.
12.Every single corporate logo looking like this:
Very, very odd.
13.Everyone having these purses that pretty much immediately came apart:
They lasted, like, two minutes...but what a two minutes they were.
14.This commercial, which was basically a fever dream:
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. OKAY?!?!?!
15.A Shrek phone? A SHREK phone? A Shrek phone:
Steve Jobs is shaking right now!
16.Literally every single person on Earth thinking that talking baby in the E-Trade commercials was the funniest thing they had ever seen:
The baby talks, folks. THE BABY TALKS!
17.Just throwing an incredibly random tie with every single outfit:
Rough stuff.
18.U2 just being everywhere you looked:
Bono was inescapable.
19.Constantly harassing everyone on Facebook with, like, 27 "LOST MY PHONE, NEED NUMBERS" groups:
Why was everyone losing their phone so often? WHY?!?!!
20.Everyone thinking Chuck Norris jokes were the be-all and end-all of comedy:
People seriously couldn't get enough.
21.Shrek Twinkies, complete with creamy green ogre filling:
Uhhhhh.... sure.
22.Phones having a truly unfathomable amount of little fake diamonds on them:
Feel like this would scratch your dang ear up.
23.The entire world being absolutely entranced by everything related to Diet Coke and Mentos for, like, two weeks:
People thought this was the greatest scientific discovery since Jonas Salks' polio vaccine.
24.People having something like this as their MySpace profile picture:
Wow. Now this is cool.
25.Signs that solely exist to stop people from wearing Heelys:
You gotta draw the line somewhere. You just gotta.
26.Shrek Kid Cuisine that'll turn your tongue green:
Doth mine eye deceive me or do I spy some goop in the middle there?!
27.A Britney Spears protective case for a Nokia phone:
Not sure why a Nokia would need a case, but ya gotta love it!
28.The Crazy Frog in a flat-brimmed hat with a huge gangsta chain on:
At least it's hiding his hideous you-know-whats!
29.An American Idol PS2 game, for some reason:
Okay!!! OKAY!!!!!!
30.People wearing skate shoes big enough to house a family of four:
Bigger than my freakin' apartment! Bada bing! Zuppa toscana!
31.A book about a dog with sunglasses saving the world from Y2K:
Pretty standard stuff here. Moving on.
32.Faking people out with your voicemail message:
All-time prank.
33.Shrek POPCORN:
greenshrekpopcorn
34.These absolutely ridiculous fries:
And with that, two people finally got their wish: blue fries.
35.A Wii disc that lets you stream Netflix:
Just like the pioneers.
36.A Britney Spears inflatable chair that promises you'll be "coolin' like Britney":
Now this is groovy!
37.Mutant green ketchup:
It's still hard to believe our country reached this point.
38.The majority of the human race celebrating International Talk Like a Pirate Day:
It's crazy to think now, but literally, everyone thought this was so funny.
39.Shrek Rice Krispie Treats, held together with a mysterious green substance:
Is that some goop? Saints preserve us.
40.Squeezable BUTTER?!?!?!?!
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created?" —Spy Kids 2
41.Shrek...waffle sticks??? SHREK WAFFLE STICKS?!?!?!
SHREK 2 WAFFLE STICKS w/ GREEN SWAMP SYRUP
42.A lit'ral $120 Rugrats bowling ball:
Every game is a perfect game when you're bowlin' with the 'Rats.
43.Waffles stuffed full of fruity GOOP:
MORE GOOP. MOOOORE GOOP!!!!
44.Shrek body wash, for anyone who has needed to smell like the infamously good-smelling Shrek:
Hey, Dial, I wanna speak to the manager! The soap manager! Okay! Sure.
45.A 50 Cent Bulletproof-themed XBOX:
Been hoping and praying for a bulletproof XBOX for years. Finally got it.
46.A Mary-Kate and Ashley Game Boy Color game that was less of a game and more of a calendar:
Here's to hoping the new God Of War game is just a calendar.
47.An electric toothbrush that only plays one song, an Ashley Tisdale song:
This is a good idea! Would not drive you completely insane at all! Ha! Ha! Ha!
48.A Warped Tour DVD for PSP:
The Warped Tour...on MY device??? Well, I'll be!
49.MULTIPLE video games featuring the Burger King King:
Hope these make it to the PS5.
50.And, finally, a SHREK CHIA PET:
That's it, folks. That's the most 2000s thing there is.
