Any early reviews of "I love the 80's"?
 

Just curious if anyone has seen early reviews of the upcoming "I love the 80's" show.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/i_love_...s/series.jhtml

I don't know but that "are you a child of the 80's" is new and funny!

1. You consider Ocean Pacific a designer label.

2. You thought the Stray Cats were bringing guitars back to rock 'n' roll.

3. You thought the lead singer of Poison was hot ... until you realized she was a he.

4. You still get the shakes when you remember Apple Macintosh's 1984 advertisement.

5. You preferred Van Hagar to Van Halen.

6. You thought George Michael was straight.

7. You had just discovered this great new singer called Tina Turner.

8. You owned a home Beta video recorder.

9. The Day After gave you nightmares.

10. Your favorite G.I. Joe figure was Snake Eyes.

11. You wondered what Lisa Bonet was doing married to that loser Lenny Kravitz.

12. You never figured out who the crooks were on Murder She Wrote.

13. You believed The Last Temptation of Christ was going to send Martin Scorsese to hell.

14. You regard Look Who's Talking as a turning point in John Travolta's career.

15. You admired Bill Cosby's taste in sweaters in The Cosby Show.

16. You didn't realize The Official Preppy Handbook was a gag.

17. You rolled up the sleeves on your sports jacket for the Sonny Crockett look.

18. You had no problems thinking members of the Miami police department drove Lamborghinis.

19. You thought Burt and Loni were a fairytale romance.

20. You thought Clint Eastwood would one day be president.

21. Michael Jackson's fondness for Emmanuel Lewis seemed perfectly innocent.

22. You weren't sick of Robin Williams yet.

23. L'Oreal mousse changed your life overnight.

24. You stuck around after the commercial break to see if the General Lee on The Dukes of Hazzard really made it over that dried-out gulch when the bridge was down.

25. David Byrne seemed like the strangest guy ever.

26. You watched The Tracey Ullman Show for the funny cartoon segments about the yellow people.

27. You thought acid wash jeans were as important an evolutionary step as the wheel.

28. You believed Liberace really died from eating nothing but watermelon.

29. You got your medical knowledge from watching TV movies.

30. You wondered who those old guys were in the Run-D.M.C. "Walk This Way" video.

31. You threw out your Atari console after buying an Intellivision.

32. You were 99.9% sure Sue Ellen shot J.R.

33. You can watch Scarface without once thinking of rap music.

34. You remember Ronald Reagan making that "We begin bombing Russia in five minutes" joke.

35. The notion of a roller-skating musical starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly with music from ELO seemed like a good idea.

36. Porky's seemed like a new low.

37. You'd stay up late to watch The Hitchhiker on HBO, because of the dirty bits.

38. You could only complete two sides of Rubik's Cube.

39. Simon Le Bon's lyrics made sense to you.

40. War Games had you wondering if you could really start Armageddon using your crummy TRS-80



come on be honest, how many of you can relate to #3 :)

I'll admit I have an unhealthy obsession with the 80's. I'm afraid this show will see the 80's with 2k colored glasses 'tho. I just dug out my families old beta collection and watched Dick Cavett's - The Year That Was 1982, from HBO. Now that's nostalgia! I know 'Remember When' should be around here somewhere too...

Let's dispose of this fairly expediently - mmm'kay:

Well, ok - yes. In junior high, the height of fashion was a pair of wayfarer sunglasses, rainbow bright Jams and any tropical design OP t-shirt. This one is true.

The Stray Cats were a novelty act, pure and simple, and everyone - I do mean everyone - was in on "the joke." The same could be said of the Brian Setzer Orchestra - except for the fact that no one - and I do mean no one - gets that "joke."

True story. We're in Record Town back in '86, I believe. One of my buddies picks up the album - yes, the record album, not the CD - and says: "Looks like they'll let just any old whore record an album." Deadpan, completely serious. We never let him live it down.

This commercial's legendary status was practically unknown in the 80's. Its only grown in stature based on nostalgia shows, hungry for some tape of the era. Personally I never saw the thing until maybe 1992.

Nobody was that stupid. "And the Cradle Will Rock" was a perennial spinner on the jukebox at Mert's Pizza (next to the Pacman and Asteroids machines) for virtually the entire decade.

Hey, you can't call 'em all. Even I thought I was straight momentarily.

She wasn't necessarily "new" then - as most everyone was aware of the "Ike and Tina" fore-runner. But nothing in her output since has topped: "Private Dancer."

Nope, not in my family. We were too poor. I do distinctly remember the weekend we spent around $100 to rent a VCR, along with 5 videos. I nearly spent 24 hours watching "Purple Rain" on that behemoth of a recorder.

As my nightmare repertoire already included a tank invasion and WWWIII, I wasn't allowed to add to that list by seeing "The Day After."

G.I. Joe was so not cool. Those were my little brother's toys. Yoda'd kick Snake Eyes ass any day of the week.

Bonet didn't really register on the pop culture meter until late in the Cosby Show run. At least the marriage produced the only listenable album ever recorded by the Lenny "Powers," er, I mean, "Austin" Kravitz - the latter-day time-warp sufferer.

Never watched it. Not even in re-runs.

No - but it was one of our first tastes at the mind-numbing censorship practiced by the Christian right. I made a point to purchase the videotape as soon as it was available.

Oy. Do not remind me.

Not necessarily - but that was the style back then. I remember being so proud of my red and gray swirl sweater from Chess King (with the matching "indoor" scarf) for awhile.

Well, yes, but all of the information contained inside had been fact-checked. Every phone number for Lacoste worked. Every address for L.L. Bean was dead-on.

Yes. Guilty.

Well - only when they were undercover, trying to ferret out Calderone.

Ew. Like an embryonic Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson. Ew. Ew. Ew.

Hey, if one stiff, under-emoting actor can do it for the better part of a decade, why not two?

Actually anything involving Emmanuel Lewis was inherently icky. Factor in whacko-jacko and Brooke Shields and it was a recipe for awards ceremony disaster.

Nope. And I'm still not.

Again - guilty. My hair went from preppy swirl to new wavey spikes literally overnight.

Again, this was my brother's territory. I was more enamored of "Fantasy Island."

Until every adult over the age of 21 suddenly had a copy of "Speaking in Tongues" - when suddenly the Talking Heads became incredibly, inexorably un-cool. When your biology teacher knows the words to "Slippy People," it's time to find a new band.

Cable television didn't hit central Vermont until almost the 1990's.

Not so much the jeans - as the jean jackets. I still have that jacket wrapped in plastic someplace at my parents house. Top off the OP/Jams ensemble with that jacket and I was "stylin'."

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I did carry around a copy of the Liberace biography for awhile in graded school. I always wanted a baby-grand piano shaped swimming pool like they showed in that book.

No - the covers to the Robin Cook novels scared the crap out of me. I had a serious hospital phobia when I was a youngun.

Nope, we wondered who the black guys were ruining the basketball team anthem.

Nope - I still own my original Atari 2600 - in full working order. The games for Intellivision sucked ass and the controller looked like a television remote.

Well, that was the most commonly held theory at the time. Again, not my thing back then. This was my mom's show.

Yes. But not without being horrified at the shoddy orange coppertone make-up job on Pacino.

I can still remember the hackles rising on the back of my neck after I heard him joke so. What a sad, sad, sad little man.

I saw it on three consecutive nights. Bought the LP as soon as it arrived at the Record Town. And scarfed up the DVD when it became available. To this day, ELO kicks Tool's ass all over town. ;)

I was supposed to be asleep when it came on at the drive-in. We'd seen whatever film had preceded it and by the time Porky's screened, my brother and I should have fallen off to sleep. I distinctly remember my father raising his elbows and yawning a lot, blocking all of the shots of the naked people on the screen.

No - that's what Burt Reynold's movies were for.

Nope - I devised my own system to complete the whole thing, without cheating and learning the moves from the guidebook like my friends. Of course, it took me about 10 minutes to solve to their 2.

Hooh! Wild Boys!!!

Every basic program I ever wrote involved some variation on asking the question(s): Shall we play a game? How about global thermonuclear war?

Uh....nah, I won't even start.

You did, however, get the second part right.

Is this the one with the ad that shows all of the 1980's touchstones and asks "What the hell were we thinking?"

Sorry, I'd rather not have my past insulted by a bunch of equally trendy jerks who think Creed and Shania Twain are cool.

They'll never need to to a series like this about the 90's/early 00's, because nothing worthwhile has happened.