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Every morning is Sunday, October 13, and every morning Henry has to make Lucy fall in love with him again. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's Hawaiian reunion gave 2004 the Good Morning Lucy tape, Ten-Second Tom, a walrus named Jocko and 311's reggae-tinged cover of The Cure, and left a trail of remakes from Telugu to Japanese.
The 1999 Disney Channel movie about a 13-year-old Hawaiian surfer whose family moves to Vermont, where the mountain is split between rich private-school skiers and public-school snowboarders. He picks the snowboarders. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays his grandfather, the surf legend of the title.
A lonely girl named Lilo adopts what she thinks is a small dog in Hawaii — it's actually Experiment 626, an alien on the run — and their chaotic, heartwarming bond redefines what family means. Disney went back to watercolor-painted backgrounds for the first time since the 1940s, Elvis Presley's music soundtracked the tropics, and the core message stuck with a generation: Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind.
A high-school kid from Hilo, Hawaii, teaching you How To Be Ninja, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo in a living room with his friends. Ryan Higa's nigahiga channel was the most-subscribed on YouTube for 675 straight days between 2009 and 2011, the first to pass three million, and a template for a decade of YouTubers.
The little white shell choker every guy wore over a popped-collar polo circa 2001 — beachy, breezy, and slightly cheesy. Puka shells turned a Hawaiian souvenir into a mall-store staple of the early-2000s.