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This one was better than the first I love the 80's, do you think they did more research on this one, do you guys think that they listened to what we all have said. About putting more about the scary movies on, they did the thing with Friday the 13th?? I loved that they put in Flash Gordon, cause Sam Jones and Melody Anderson are 2 of my favorite/ actors/ actresses, and that was one of my favorite movies. What happened to Boy George though, he got so bizarre looking, that was more scary than anything I could think up for Halloween. UUGH. I liked that they found alot of the actors we liked, like John Cryer. I wanted to bawl though, after watching it, I just missed it again so much. I said it to my husband last night, that in 20 years from now, what are we going to look back to 2003 and remember, what tv commercials stick out in your mind right now, that you talk about to all your friends about? What is the fashion right now, what are you wearing? It's like each year of the 80's so many things took place, it was endless movies, and great tv, and great cartoon shows, and awesome clothes, and even the world events were so different. The only thing about how they made the show "I love the 80's" that bothers me, is in between when they get all these different celebs to talk about the 80's, some of them talk like such pigs, that I can't let my son watch the show, and that bugs me, cause I wanted him to see it, because he is a junior fan of the 80's from me. There is so much stuff about the 80's, that the I love the 80's show could be a regular program. What all did you guys like about it? I have to get the movie Stir Crazy, after seeing the clips, I remember watching it so many times, and it was so funny! I can't believe I don't own it. I am probably going to watch it again today! At least it gave me something to look forward to watching on television, if only for this week. Oh well, I'll take what I can get.
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I taped it last night,but I havent watched it yet....maybe later. I so loved the 70s and 80s "I LOVE" shows they've done so far. Hopin to get em all on tape.
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OT-I'm baaa--aaack..have been on hiatus for awhile.
I liked it!! I was distracted thru some it with my kid and house stuff so I missed alot, but I'm POSITIVE I'll see those two episodes again within the week. It's on again tonight, right?
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Yeah, tonight is 82-83, every night is 1 hour each, of each year. It goes all week long. I like the earlier years of the 80's, after 1987, it wasn't as nostalgic to me, as 80-86 were, but I still want to see them all.
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So far I like this one better than the first. It seems as though they are getting into more of the movies and songs that have a cult following. The first I Love The 80s was so mainstream, can't wait to see how this one turns out!
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They get really good in the mid 80's, but closer to the end you will probably get into the cheese. I have told all of my classes that they have to watch it.
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Devo, I'm curious to know, do all your students know how much of an 80's fanatic you are? I'm invisioning you having long, drawn out discussions and debates about the movies, music and culture of the decade. I don't see a math class, I see an 80's conversion snactuary. tehe.
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It's rather funny, I tell them to watch these movies that we talk about and songs that we talk about and maybe they listen to me, and maybe they don't. One week, I made them watch 16 candles, and better off dead and back to school, it was well worth it at the end of the year.
Best math teacher ever.
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ISIS9968--Boy George is dressed like that because he is doing a play in England about something in the 80s I can't remember specifically. I just watched the 80-81-82-83 shows last night. I didn't know that there were any before this. I can't wait to see 84 and 85 those years rocked as far as movies and music. I am so glad that this kind of show is on so that those fond memories can be relived. I can't wait for the other ones to come out.
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Just saw 1984 tonight, and Bachelor Party gets about a one minute segment, including an appearance by Adrian Zmed! I was very pleased. The new series is a little better.
As for the 'panel', I can't stand most of the people commenting (namely Hal Sparks and Juliette Lewis), but it's better than when they interview their OWN VJs. That's downright silly.
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I LOVE HAL SPARKS!!!! how dare you!!! He's the funniest one on the show!!!!!! I've been watchin these like its my heroin,my husband is screaming "ENOUGH!!!!!" very funny. I think thier up to the time I best remember (1985) where girls wore stirrup pants and big bulky sweatshirts to cover thier big asses. ah yes,I remember it well.
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I think Michael Ian Black is hilarious! He has that witty sarcasm to go with everything he says. Hal Sparks is great too! They both make me laugh more than anyone else on the show!
By the way, I think it's cool Devo that you let your students watch those classic films. When I was in High School they let us watch The Outsiders in Creative Writing, and thats about it. I would have loved to watch Sixteen Candles or Better Off Dead! You sound like a fun teacher. Posts: 2242 | From: Here | Registered: Aug 2002 | Site Updates: 0
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Ive personally enjoyed the"What the F@<K" segment.So far its been right on. Those really were things that made you "What The F@<k!?"
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I love this series! I think Hal Sparks is hilarious too! I think Juliette Lewis is a little dry though.
I have to agree on the language and some of the discussions on it as well. It would be great for the kids to watch so they can get a better idea of what the 80s was about, but at the same time they are aiming at a certain audience. That audience is full of adults who want to visit their pasts and unfortunately some people think it's ok to use that language if the main target is adults.
Otherwise...great show! Gimme some more! Posts: 156 | From: Midwest, USA | Registered: Jan 2002 | Site Updates: 0
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On Boy George- Ok..I guess it makes complete sense now, holy cow though..I liked him with hair.
I love Michael Ian Black,oh, if I wasn't married,I think he is hilarious and cute, and I don't remember seeing him in anything before these shows.
There a couple people I can't stand seeing(commenting)..and I hate the what the f---! Why does everyone think just saying that word alone, is hilarious? I don't get that..It doesn't make everything super funny, it completely turns me off to that person..and then I don't care what else they have to say.
I loved stirrups pants too, and the shirts with the big belts, and I had a Trapper Keeper, I had a pair of Kangaroo boots. I did go in to JC Penneys this morning, and I see alot more pastel colors again, which I think makes people act differently, if you see someone dressed in black all the time, it makes you depressed, if you see people with colors on, your attitude changes-I think anyway.
I am loving watching the show. There are so many things I remember..I have to get the Toy..I wish it didn't talk about sex in there..I could fast forward that scene, cause there are so many hilarious scenes, my son would crack up on. I remember him saying, Ok Philbert-but I didn't know why he called him Philbert, but we liked it, so for some reason we nicknamed my mother that, and called her Philbert for 3 years. She liked it.
I loved 1985 and 1986-in my life, they were great years, and I had such a blast, there were 3 people I hung out with constantly then, and I wonder now, are they watching it, and remembering all the things we did, cause we all have the same memories, that no one else knows.
I like these ones much better, people seemed to put everything down more the first time, and now people that are commenting do seem like they actually miss stuff too, I mean how can you think that things are better now than then..they must know something I don't. When all the president worried about was what flavor jelly bean was his favorite, like there are no other cares in the world, that says alot about society.
I'll be tunning in and taping them all, I wake up with the tv on in the middle of the night, and they are already rerunning the shows they already did, like over and over.
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Devo-I think it's cool too about communicating to your students better quality stuff for them to be watching.
I sent a note in to my son's teacher, he teachers history, and they are doing stuff on Indians, and wigwams, and I told him I had a tape of Grizzly Adams, where he and Nakoma become blood brothers, and I think the kids would love it. I have another episode with Nakoma in it too, and it teaches about not judging people because of their race/nationality/skin color, and it sends a huge moral lesson about people being different, but we are all the same, when you come right down to the basics, and you don't judge people or fear them because they might be different from you. And, I think kids don't have any where to learn that through the media today.
I have tapes that I thought they might like of movies I liked as a kid-that I offered to send in, The Ring of Bright Water, Rascal, and The Wilderness Family movies. I have the cartoons A Cricket in Times Square and Rikki Tikki Tavi, and my son and his friends loved them, I make them watch those when they come here.
I am making the kids watch the episode of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew meet Dracula, if I have it in time for the party. I used to think the old Dracula was the scariest thing I ever saw, being in black and white made it more scary, kids just are so desensitized to everything, that would be nothing to them now, but I think it could change if people cared enough to pay attention, and do something about what kids are viewing- so way to go Devo!.
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I started watching 1986, and then it was getting boring, I can't believe they pretty much stuck the whole sex scene from About Last Night in it..that was too graphic for Vh-1... I can't stand that Donal Logue, I couldn't remember his name, but he drives me crazy. I thought Samantha Fox-looked unrecognizable, and Lita Ford was looking pretty bad too. But, Virginia Madsen looked great-and I never liked her.
I think around 1987-that's when things started changing, and it is hard to come to the end of a great decade.
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Donal Logue is really funny. I enjoy blatant honesty towards how some of these people felt about these topics. You didn't need to love everything that everyone else loved. I hated full house. I hated Howard the Duck. I think it would be a riot if we filmed our own version of any one of these years. We write about them all the time. I would probably be Donal Logue. Or someone really annoying like that. But I would also probably be like Rich Eisen, who actually went to the high school that I teach at. I find that funny all the time.
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Get rid of Michael Ian Black and Hal Sparks and Mo Rocca and every loser that likes to bad talk every single thing of the 80s, then the show would be great. Everytime I watch these, I get ****ed off. All it is just people trying to make themselves seem cool or funny by dogging on stuff that they probably loved back then.
VH1 should rename it "I Hate the 80s: Strikes Back", because thats what most of the commenters seem to feel.
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It doesn't seem like bad talk to me.... it just seems they are remembering with some humor. I think Michael Ian Black is hilarious.
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Michael Ian Black seemed like he liked everything. Donal Logue just seemed gross to me..I don't like that kind of humor, he just seems wasted, and stupid..like he'll do anything for a laugh, and he isn't even funny, he just is showing off. I agree that there were a couple things that I was never a fan of, but I didn't give it a chance either..like My Little Pony and Rainbow Brite , and I could tell Howard the Duck would be stupid, when it previewed-so what was the point of even trying to give that one a shot. I will have to watch 1987 today, I didn't hang in there for it last night. I graduated in 1986, and I swear after high school, that's when things started changing, and everything is still pretty much the same as it was since around 1989. It was the early years that are really different to me.
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The person who wrote about Michael Ian Black said just what I feel about Hal Sparks: If I werent married I would be sittin in a tent outside his house right now!!! I swear everything he likes,I like and everything I hate,he hates. Sometimes I pretty much know what he's gonna say before he even says it!! I swear he's my soul mate and I missed the boat!
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