33 Things From the Aughts That Sure Hit Different Now

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33 Things From the Aughts That Sure Hit Different Now

Give the early 2000s a break, okay?! The digital age was in its infancy, social media was just a hot new trend and emo bands were running amok. We thought the new millennium would magically bring about flying cars and teleportation. But it turns out its early years still had that ‘90s stink all over them.

CRACKED SARAH SILVERMAN is horrified that she did blackface. About her show's 2007 episode: I don't stand by the blackface sketch. I'm horrified by it, and I can't erase it. I can only be changed by it and move on. That was such liberal-bubble stuff, where I actually thought it was dealing with racism by using racism... All I can say is that I'm not that person anymore.

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CRACKED DRAKE From 2001 to 2009, Aubrey Graham played Jimmy on the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. Не quit to pursue rap, became Drake (his middle name), and his first album Thank Me Later debuted at #1 on Billboard in 2010.

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Disastrous Comedy 2002 Baby Bob Folded Turning an ad into a sitcom, this talking baby got his own CBS primetime show after a string of Freelnternet.com commercials. It's 14 episodes of Wait, that baby can talk? moments that got old right away. CRACKED

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Disastrous Comedy 2006 Emily's Reasons Why Not The ABC sitcom starring Heather Graham was canceled after one episode. Programming chief Steve McPherson said, It's not going to get better. Apparently ABC committed to the show without even seeing its pilot. CRACKED

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Sitcoms and real world events Becker acknowledged 9/11 poignantly. In 2004's Subway Story, Becker helps an older woman find Chambers Street, and she delivers a heartbreaking speech about losing her son on 9/11. CRACKED

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Celebrities who tried something new Scarlett Johansson released an album (of mostly Tom Waits covers). Johansson released Anywhere I Lay My Head in 2008, and it got some pretty rough reviews. A Pitchfork critic said, The only thing we've learned is that she really, really likes Tom Waits. CRACKED

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CRACKED 2007 A PIRATE-THEMED SURVIVOR SPIN-OFF AIRED FOR ONE WHOLE SEASON. Pirate Master mostly involved contestants running around trying to find treasure that led to other treasure, so it was basically an extremely high-stakes escape room.

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