The Flash
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WhileThe Flashis often filled with referential humor , the season 7 episode " The One With The Nineties " took this to a fresh floor , with an storyline that sent applied scientist Chester Runk and Cisco Ramon on a trip back in clock time to 1998 , occupy with pop civilization references and Easter egg . The episode give court to many classic movies and telecasting shows of the era , as " Team Chessco " tried to unravel the paradox and get a means home .
The plot of ground ofThe Flashseason 7 has focus around the find of several new Forces following the reincarnation of the Speed Force . With Barry Allen placing himself in a comatoseness to convalesce and the Speed Force itself having direct theform of Barry ’s motheras it healed from its own injuries , the eternal rest of Team Flash begin looking for agency to tail the new Forces that seemed to desire to ruin the Speed Force . This led to the discovery of a new third Force tied to the time flow and an increasing number of misdating around Central City .
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Beyond traveling back in time , Cisco and Chester also found themselves watching the same day play out repeatedly . This head to the two pretending to be high school scholarly person , as they tried to track the being responsible around Masonville High School and hijinks result , with a turn of relevant reference coming into play .
Friends
Even the title ofThe Flashseason 7 , episode 6 is a mention to the Nineties and the naming conventionality of one of the decade ’s most pop sitcoms;Friends . Everyepisode ofFriendsafter the pilot had a claim that started with the words " The One With " or " The One Where , " such as " The One With The Dozen Lasagnas " and " The One With Rachel ’s Crush . “The Flash ’s " The One With The Nineties " also unfold at cubic centimetre Jitters ; the preferred coffee shop of Team Flash . Nearly every episode ofFriendsfeatured at least one scene of the ensemble hanging around their favorite coffee berry shop , Central Perk .
Jurassic Park
The scuttle scene of " The One With the Nineties " centered around Natalie , a barista at CC Jitters and Chester Runk ’s not - so - undercover crush . As Natalie gravel off body of work and plain to a friend on the phone about how boring her line of work was , a man in Romanist armour ran past her and a submarine suddenly manifested in the midriff of the street . While this was fairly typical for Central City on a Tuesday Nox , it was a sudden ripple blueprint in her coffee which made Natalie freeze up , just before aTyrannosaurus Rex stomp into viewand growled at her . While comedic in tone , the scene was a send - up of one of the most dramatic second ofJurassic Park .
Under The Dome
" The One With The Nineties " find Cisco Ramon and Chester Runk installing signal - boosting scanners around Central City and its suburban area , to better detectThe Flash ’s newfangled cosmic forcesunleashed in the wake of the Speed Force ’s Renascence . One of these young world power , a light-green wave that left behind residuary traces of worldly vim , seemed to make Chester and Cisco ’s headphone disappear along with their new wave , while they were on the outskirts of Masonville . When they run into a forcefield that prevented them from leave the town , Cisco declared they had been " under - the - domed " in a nod toUnder The Dome ; the 2013 series based on the 2009 book by Stephen King .
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Blockbuster Video
Upon give Masonville , Chester and Cisco envision out that they had travel in clock time based on one simple fact ; the local Blockbuster Video was still opened and guarantee that they would haveSpace Jamin line of descent . The telecasting store also had motion picture posters promoting the romantic dramaWhy Do Fools Fall In Love?,the supernatural murder mysteryFallen , the science fiction thrillerSphereand the wild-eyed phantasy comedyPractical Magic- all of which were release in 1998 .
Space Jam
Apart from being the most prominently featured plastic film on the marquee at Blockbuster Video , the 1996 movieSpace Jamalso was mentioned when Cisco and Chester were confronted by the scoundrel of the episode . Still playing the part of in high spirits school students , our zep play impeccant and taste to make their escapism , say they were conceive of heading over to Blockbuster and checking outSpace Jam . ( This may be a clever piece of embodied synergy on the part of Warner Bros. , as the firsttrailer forSpace Jam 2dropped the same workweek this episode ofThe Flashoriginally aired . )
Groundhog Day
Another famous Billy Murray movie besidesSpace Jamplayed a striking role in the plot of " The One With the ninety , " withThe Flashepisode also acting as a tribute to the 1993 comedyGroundhog Day . In gain to being send back in time , Chester and Cisco quickly determine that the same day , December 4 , 1998 , was replay over and over within the township of Masonville . While this was at last unconnected to the reason for the time loop , the paradox did give Chester a chance to bond with the Fatherhood he conceive had desolate him as a child and wreak out some of his issues , in the same way that Bill Murray ’s miserable weatherman character became a secure mortal after repeating the same daytime over and over . The instalment gave Bill Murray himself a nod in a subtle moment of prefiguration , as the two time - force out scientist walk past a hoarding for Murray Motors just before realize they had become lost in time .
Hot Tub Time Machine & Back To The Future
After realizing that they had traveled back to 1998 , Chester take how they were supposed to get home " without a DeLorean or spicy bathtub . " This evoked the two time machines from theHot Tub Time MachineandBack To The Futurefranchises , respectively . " The One With the Nineties " also paidhomage toBack To The Futurewith Cisco and Chester ’s entranceway to Masonville mime Marty McFly ’s arrival in the Hill Valley of 1955 , with a walk around the Ithiel Town square confirming the protagonists had journey back in fourth dimension .
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DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
To well intermix in among the denizen of Masonville High School as they searched for the metahuman creditworthy for the fourth dimension loop-the-loop , Chester and Cisco bust the shoal ’s Lost and find and picked up some clothes more appropriate to the later Eighties or early 1990s than 1998 . Their outfits resemble the colourful neon dress and wild rule favor at that sentence , but which were perhaps most famously worn by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince ( aka Jeffrey Allen Townes and Will Smith ) in the Greco-Roman Nineties sitcomThe Fresh Prince of Bel - Air . The whole situation also seems to be a takeoff of the custom of shows direct at teenagers casting histrion who were understandably in their 20s and 30s as teenagers .
The Matrix
Cisco unintentionally uncovered the time loop while reassure one suspicious teenager that he and Chester really were teenagers who also " like Beanie Babies and The Matrix . " When the teen suddenly looked dazed and said thatThe Matrixhadn’t come out yet , Cisco asked how he knew that just before the time loop was reset . In beauteousness to Cisco , he was only off by a little bit in his movement to be timely , asThe Matrixwas in the beginning released on March 31 , 1999 - about four month after the ever - repeating December 4 , 1998 he was snare in . " The One With the Nineties " is also something of a tribute toThe Matrix , as both stories deal with people trapped in an unreal reality .
Steve Urkel
The baddie responsible for time grommet was at long last give away to be Deon Owens ; an embitter x - jock whose assure career in professional football was cease by an ill-timed injury in the first quarter of the state high school football game backup . Empowered by what Cisco later dubbed the Still Force , Deon create his own personal heaven , reliving what had been the best solar day of his animation repeatedly and get behind the rest of Masonville along for the drive , much likeScarlet Witch inWandavision . When Deon finally discovered the two scientists who had been disrupting his paradise , he said he was going to " kick you wannabe Urkels to the bridle . " This was a reference to nerdy Nineties ikon Steven Urkle , who became the breakout grapheme of the sitcomFamily Matters after what was signify to be a single node appearance .
Retro Fashion Flashbacks
Outside the Masonville dome , the Still Force was causing random fluctuations in the time stream , with aim from other times ( such as the T - Rex that peril Natalie ) being rend into the present and existing objects being interpolate at random . This resulted in all of the allies of Flashwho were at STAR Labs let their clothes changed , with Detective Joe West dead boast a zoot case and trilby , Frostrocking a Modern Hippie look and Caitlin Snow suffering a very Eighties hair - do with match power wooing and heels . Iris West - Allen had the best entryway , however , walking into the command inwardness like the 2d approach of Pam Grier , as a blaxploitation music bunko game flowed into the soundtrack .
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