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I remember seeing a Baywatch documentary on TV when I was a kid. Pamela Anderson was going on about how they cut the legs of their swimsuits to be much higher up their thighs than the actual lifeguard uniforms they were based on. And how they were required to ice their nipples before each take so that they had pokeys in every scene.
The 90s was a decade.
It was just a soap opera set on a beach. A few hairs above softcore porn. And it was crazy cheap to produce, as most of these "actors" were just local models (which LA had in spades) who got handed their lines a few minutes before the shoot.
Go over to Haim Saban Entertainment and you'll see the same thing but for little kids. He bought up a bunch of the rights to rebroadcast Japanese tokusatsu shows, then cut in high school drama shorts between the action scenes and redubbed the tokusatsu in English. Filming was practically free and he ended up selling the rights to Disney after a measly five years for a whooping $5.3B (of which $1.6B went straight into his pockets).
The 90s was this experiment in how many episodes you could churn out on a budget of the change you had in your pocket.