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    23 Totally Perfect "Reality Bites" Style Moments That Make Us Miss The '90s

    This week marks the 20th anniversary of the '90s classic. Let's celebrate, shall we?

    1. Lainie: "I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23."

    2. Lainie: "You've been waiting for this since the day we met."

    3. Vickie: "Lainie, sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship."

    4. Troy: "You can't navigate me. I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you 'cause you know I'm the only real thing you got."

    5. Vickie: "Évian is "naïve" spelled backward."

    6. Lainie: "I'm not a valedictorian but I play one on tv."

    7. Vickie: "Sometimes I get that not-so-fresh feeling."

    8. Troy: "This girl is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."

    9. Lainie: "I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives."

    10. Troy: "He's the reason Cliffs Notes were invented."

    11. Lainie: "It's not like I had a hysterectomy. I just got fired."

    12. Troy: "You look like a doily."

    13. Lainie: "He's so cheesy, I can't watch him without crackers."

    14. Vickie: "Sometimes I get that not-so-fresh feeling."

    15. Troy: "I'm bursting with fruit flavor."

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    16. Lainie: "Hey! I'm a non-practicing virgin."

    17. Vickie: "It's not like its happening to me. It's like it's in a crappy show like Melrose Place."

    18. Michael: "Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you? Because excuse me if somebody doesn't know the secret handshake with you."

    19. Troy: "I am not under orders to make the world a better place."

    20. Vickie: "Welcome to the Maxi Pad."

    21. Lainie: "You guys better not be inhaling."

    22. Vickie: "I'm late for a jean-folding seminar. Let's locomote!"

    23. Troy: "You have reached the winter of our discontent."