If it came out ten years later.
If the show came out in 1999, do you think it would have lasted longer? If ALF had been CGI, I think so?
shareI think ALF was pure 80's. Once 1990 hit it was time to call it quits. Man, that last year was rough!
Shall we play a game?
The 90s started with 1991. 1990 was the final year of the 80s.
shareAbsolutely not!
You begin a new decade when the last digit in the year is a 0.
No. Our calendar began with the Year 1, not with the year 0. The year 10 was the final year of our first decade. Period. This is not subject to debate.
Arthur C Clarke titled his novel 2001 because it is the first year of the 21st century. Arthur C Clarke was an educated man.
No, decades are counted in a more sensible way than the centuries.
So it would make no sense to count 1990 as a part of the '80s.
And even if your way of counting would be correct, 1981-1990 would the '90s and not the '80s.
But that is not how it is, because 1980-1989 was the '80s and 1990-1999 was the '90s.
R_Kane is correct.
The first year A.D. was 1, not 0. The end of the first decade came at the end of the tenth year, 10, and the second decade began with 11. The world (at least not the people who knew how to count and understood what "decade" means) didn't switch over to counting decades as nine years after that. It's pure arithmetic, and not a matter of opinion. "Decade" means ten. It does not mean nine. "Century" means one hundred, not ninety-nine. "Millennium" means one thousand, not nine hundred and ninety-nine. They all end with "zero" years, regardless of incorrect popular opinion. 1990 was the last year of the eighties. 2000 was the last year of the twentieth century and the second millennium. All those fireworks were shot up a year prematurely.
No, you are both wrong.
And even if your method of counting was right, 1990 would have been in the '90s and not in the '80s.
And yes, all the fireworks went off in the right year.