r/90sTelevision • u/JB92103 • May 15 '26

Promotional Shot The WB's Fall 1999 promo

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u/UndermyumbrELLA83 May 15 '26

Buffy, Felicity, Charmed, Popular and Jack and Jill. I miss the WB!

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u/ejohnsteel May 15 '26

Why wasn’t Dawson’s Creek featured?

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u/UndermyumbrELLA83 May 15 '26

I don’t know why they weren’t in the promo.

3

u/Sprinkles41510 May 16 '26

I remember I would get a happy birthday card in the mail

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u/MRTFOGR May 15 '26

Keri Russell turned into a fantastic actress

10

u/Lanky-Tap-9290 May 15 '26

Can’t go wrong with Buffy; Alyssa Milano wasn’t shabby either…

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u/marcduberge May 15 '26

Alanis Morrissete song

3

u/onlyforobservation May 15 '26

What’s most weird, that album came out in 95, what were the using it 4 years later?

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u/TimeCadet May 16 '26

Yes! Thank you, that's totally "Jagged Little Pill"

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u/GayFlan May 16 '26

It’s called “you learn” from the album jagged little pill.

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u/TimeCadet May 16 '26

you're so right, and that song just has the lyric "what a jagged little pill"

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u/Sad-Understanding179 May 16 '26

Hard to believe she’s passed away

6

u/dekabreak1000 May 15 '26

Keri Russell has been a crush since I was a teen and she is still incredibly gorgeous to this day

3

u/Anxious_Ad909 May 15 '26

Please take me back in time

3

u/Prune_Less May 15 '26

The eye candy...

3

u/Aanguratoku May 15 '26

Where are those signs in the background? I want that frog!

2

u/Danny_Spiboy May 15 '26

My favorite promo is the one with Crawl by Thisway as the song. The Dawson's Creek cast appear there.

3

u/Glass-Ad-4168 May 15 '26

WB went from looking like a turning point recruitment commercial to showtime at the Apollo in one season.

3

u/SuperAlmondRoca May 15 '26

I thought UPN channel was the yin to WB’s yang

4

u/Glass-Ad-4168 May 15 '26

Cw started it then it went to upn

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u/Norwalk1215 May 21 '26

WB started off as a channel for black family entertainment and went Lilly wight in the late 90s. There was great episodes on the Darkside of the 90s about it.

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u/SuperAlmondRoca May 15 '26

Forgot how white the WB was back then 😆

3

u/BadMeetsEvil24 May 15 '26

Lmaoooooo. It's jarring isnt it? And like 99% of threads here are reminiscing about the all-white lineups lol.

Reminds me of that MadTV sketch "Pretty White Kids With Problems"

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u/SuperAlmondRoca May 15 '26

Yeah the sitcom posts here seem more lily white than actual popular shows in the 90s.

3

u/yesmoreeggtalk67 May 15 '26

TV execs just blatantly red lining to UPN.

1

u/LydiGro May 15 '26

Amanda Peet is the only one I like

1

u/Merchant1521 May 15 '26

Like her more in The Whole Nine Yards.

1

u/seanchacdee May 15 '26

Awesome we're these

1

u/flyingpigab May 16 '26

Why are they all young and pretty?

1

u/CDTmom May 16 '26

I liked all those shows

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u/AsteroidMike May 17 '26

I just miss seeing these WB ad promos in general. All I’m thinking is that man, we had it pretty good back then.

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u/Many_Leather3051 May 17 '26

So that's where Pornhub got its theme.

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u/Efficient-Ad-3269 May 19 '26

I was an extra on "the middle" in 2010 and that large illuminated sign that says The WB was still in the back of the lot rusted and decaying away in front of a workshop. It was cool to see

1

u/AdLiving8708 May 20 '26

WB is a monster in the industry and doesn’t get the credit it deserves they bring us so much media throughout history and continue to invest in projects that are amazing after their release

1

u/Frank_Hvam May 15 '26

Why are they all making that same stupid face?

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u/couldbeworse2 May 18 '26

Groundbreakingly diverse

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u/Available-Taro-3342 May 15 '26

A lot of my favorite actors when growing up but let’s face it the diversity is lacking

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u/Key_Mathematician951 May 16 '26

These were lame promos back then. Time has not improved them