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Any topics you hope they'll cover?

posted 9 years ago by kbp-25959
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They obviously have to do everything they've shown. Boombox, Cheers, Madonna, MJ, Berlin, John Hughes, MTV. Those are some of the very first things you think of. I'm wondering about stuff that could be worth discussing but might fall more in the Best of the Rest category. Like last year I wondered about the '77 NYC blackout and some were like 'No that was more of a local event.' but I figured because it coincided with Son of Sam it had to play part of a role in the city going nuts, on top of New York hitting rock bottom around that point from what I've heard. So some of my 80s hopes are these:

Tylenol Murders, although I'm assuming Ted Kaczynski is more likely.

Tootsie - 9 to 5 will probably come up, although I can't comment because I never saw it.

Fatal Attraction

Full Metal Jacket

Scarface

the fall of AMC - the crappiness of 80s cars in general

Lockerbie happened the day before I was born so I guess I wouldn't mind it being acknowledged. I'm more interested in the Menendez brothers though.

And Bosom Buddies purely because Hanks is involved in these!

I haven't seen National Geographic Channels 80s: The Decade That Made Us to know how well they documented the era. Their take on the 90s ended up being sorta silly. Really hope if this series does the 90s next summer they look into more than Lewinsky, Springer, Vanilla Ice, Lorena Bobbitt, and Nancy Kerrigan.

Really curious how they'll cover 1980 though since Carter's downfall was covered on The Seventies all the way to Inauguration Day in '81.

[–] omoxus 9 years ago

I juat recently watched Youtube video of a person playing an 80's video game Dig Dug. I wonder if they'll cover,the arcade video game craze.

I am the Alpha and the Omoxus. The Omoxus and the Omega

[–] claire-chambers-338-686758 9 years ago

I stand (or rather lie) corrected. The Masterpiece Full Metal Jacket was released in 1987.

[–] DanielCraig007 9 years ago

Judging by the episode titles, it covers pretty much the same topics as the Rob Lowe 80's documentary by History Channel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2801364/

[–] Cezar_TheScribe 9 years ago

Releasing the lockerbie bomber from prison on compassion bounds was a stupid move.

Good thing he's dead now. He should have been executed.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/timelines/tp/1980timeline.htm

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/1980s-timeline-important-events-of-the-1980s.html

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[–] claire-chambers-338-686758 9 years ago

Wasn't Full Metal Jacket a '90's release? (I know, I know. i'm right here on IMDB and how hard would it be to look it up?)

Things I hope they'll cover

Ronald Reagan's creation of the homeless crisis in America.
Ronald Reagans absolute refusal to deal with the AIDS crisis.
The Iran/Contra Scandal.
The Event that was the showing of The Day After, including hotlines (1-800-NUCLEAR) for those who couldn't cope with the possibility of nuclear war.
The beginning of what has - thus far - been a continuing trend of the concentration of more and more of America's wealth in the control of an increasingly small percentage of the population.
The explosion of the Challenger. And the subsequent death of America's First Civilian in Space, Christa McCullif.
The funding of a particular war monger leading the resistance of the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, under the name of Osama Bin Laden.

Oh, and the beginning of the co-optation of the Republican party by the Religious Right.

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[–] whjones79-1 9 years ago

For you doubters out there and Clair and Lavaside I have two works for you:

PROSPERITY
SECURITY

You gotta know they are going to go after Reagan. They won't be able to help themselves.

And I was a Demonic-Rat back then but have since grown up. Babysitter no longer required.

K/H D

If there's a way to screw something up, the "O'Commie regime" will find it EVERY SINGLE TIME!!

[–] sagaz99 9 years ago

I see two episodes are about politics. Twoore episodes seem to be about TV in one form or another. One episode is about aids. Why they'd have an entire episode centered on a disease that at the time affected a fraction of the population is beyond me.

I'd like to see an episode about movies. Some of the most memorable characters came out that decade. Examples are Tony Montana, Gordon gecko, the terminator, etc.

Judging from the episode titles, last year's the 70s seems to have had more interesting topics. And I'm someone who couldn't wait for this season to premiere since I was born in '81.

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[–] NAr44 9 years ago

I'm hoping they'll include segments on movies, music, video games, fashion, fads, stuff like that. But in a better presentation than some of the other '80's documentaries-a bit more serious.

[–] kbp-25959 9 years ago

They could talk about the 'and so on, and so on, and so on' shampoo commercial, and the iconic Mean Joe Greene commercial. They could even make the argument that the transition from baseball to football started in the 80s. I know a lot of people blame the 1994 strike but I think some of the groundwork began with the Bears, Montana, Marino, Elway, LT, Rice, Sanders, and Bo. There were a couple strikes in the decade too though so maybe my theories are off.

[–] NAr44 9 years ago

I'm hoping they'll include segments on movies, music, video games, fashion, fads, stuff like that. But in a better presentation than some of the other '80's documentaries-a bit more serious.

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