ABOUT THIS EPISODE
This is episode 9 of 1999 FOREVER
"Remember: Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99" read a Best Buy sticker that was given to every computer customer for months leading up to the new year. An entire catalog of Y2K prep manuals appeared. Suddenly it did seem possible that ATMs would freeze, elevators might plummet, planes might crash, and nuclear missiles would erroneously fire. So many things were controlled by computers. On "The Simpsons," Homer messed up and personally caused Y2K chaos and the end of the world.
President Clinton called Y2K "the first challenge of the 21st century successfully met." What's unclear–and in the words of Alanis Morissette, isn't it ironic that we'll never really know–whether the Y2K bug wasn't actually a big deal at all, or whether it only seems that way now.
"Run Lola Run" director Tom Tykwer says the 1999 movie is about "the energy of my generation which is too often kept bottled up inside." Lola, a Manic-Panic redhead with tattoos and Doc Martens, does cut a striking heroine for the twenty-first century.
1999 FOREVER'S theme song is "In the Freezer" by Sophie Strauss
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SOURCES
- Brian Raftery, "Best. Movie. Year. Ever.," 2019.
- Perry Chen, "Computers in Crisis," 2014.
