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E368268 01: 6/10/99 Mike Myers and Kristen Johnson star in ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.’ Photo New Line Cinema.

Austin Powers’ circle bed

The running joke in the Austin Powers franchise (well, one of them), is this idea that Powers, having been frozen for decades, was super outdated. But outdated or not, Powers’ over-the-top style was its own brand of cool. Mike Meyers’ clothes, his furniture, his car were all colorful, mod cool, especially in comparison to the flannel and Gap Basics that were in fashion at the time the first movie was released.

One of the accessories that sticks out most is the round, cheetah-print-clad bed Powers has on his plane. Yes, it seems lame now, but remember, this is also when things like inflatable furniture were first blowing up (pun intended). Powers, obviously, used it to try to seduce women like Elizabeth Hurley, though he’s disappointed to find his swinging ’60s charms are far less potent when he wakes up in the ’90s. A circular bed, let alone one that rotates, is right in the same coolness vein as a water bed would have been around this time. It’s unnecessary. It’s almost certainly uncomfortable (your feet would surely stick off the edge of a circular bed). It’s motion sickness-triggering. And yet, it was still funky and unique. Or, at least, funky and unique enough to prompt an elementary school kid to add it to his or her unrealistic Christmas wish list.

Plus, Austin Powers, for all his outdated pick-up lines and spying practices, does, in fact succeed in his efforts to woo Elizabeth Hurley’s character by the end of the film. Who’s to say it wasn’t the super cool circle bed that first attracted her to him?