In the 1996 the keystroke moment in culture and sports was a combo of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. Jordan was the epitome athlete of the 1990s. He rounded out his dynamic persona in Space Jam that bleeds the spirit of zany 1990s.
In this cinematic wonder, Jordan is drafted into to save the Warner Brother's cartoon gang to fend off intergalactic slavery. The toon gang is challenged in a basketball game and they recruit Jordan, for to save their race.
The livery of the Tune Squad is blue, orange, and white. They have the circular bullseye WB cartoon logo with the word Tune Squad written upon it. It should read as Toon Squad, but it is a moot point.
Another 1990s decaderal institution is Wayne Knight, who played as the lovable pudgy sidekick. He was the 1990s King Fatman. Previously John Candy reigned as the Fatman in the 1980s, but Knight was the 90s' F-man of extra space, due to this presence on Seinfeld and Jurassic Park. On Knight's jacket, you can see the generic Toon Logo with a capital letter T. Jordan in the Tune Squad uniform. This was a unique movie that captured the zeitgeist of the 1990s. Space Jam was a movie for children, but it was a strange hybrid of cartoons and sports that gave way to the collective memory of America.
Jordan will always be remembered as a Bull, but he was also a Wizard, a Tar Heel, Olympian, Baron, and Buccaneer. Perhaps his highest note of fame for any child who grew up in the 1990s, was a his number as #23, for the Tune Squad.
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