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The father-son road trip Disney barely believed in — a fishing trip to Lake Destiny that was really about a teenage kid terrified of turning into his dad. Max lip-synced Powerline, pined for Roxanne, and inherited the laugh anyway. A modest theatrical performer in 1995, A Goofy Movie built its legend on home video and became a generation's comfort watch.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's cat musical ran so long it stopped being a show and became furniture: the yellow cat's-eyes logo, the slogan "Now and Forever," and "Memory" belted from a junkyard set. It opened in 1981, but the 1990s are when it became the thing everyone had heard of — the tourist-Broadway default your parents took you to. In June 1997 it passed A Chorus Line to become the longest-running show in Broadway history, and its Broadway run closed in 2000 after 7,485 performances.