# I love the 80's - VH1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 15, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068 "2003-06-15T19:02:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/21 "2003-06-16T13:47:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > My favourite part is when he makes fun of George Michael. > “George Michael was gay? Didn’t see that coming. The front man for Wham!? Gay? No! Not at all!” (of course, this was interspaced with many a scene from “Wake me up Before You Go-Go”, such as the dancing in short-shorts.) Heh. My wife and I had this conversation Saturday morning in the car. George Michaels’ “I Want Your Sex” song was playing on the radio, and she mentioned that she’d always liked the song. I said, “Well, you know, ol’ George wasn’t picturing anyone like _you_ while he was singing this.” She thought for a minute, then said, “You know, I hate you.” I live for stuff like that. “I Love the 80s” is an automatic stopper in my channel-flipping. Since I rarely know when any given show is on, I just flip around until I find something I want to watch. “80s” always fits that bill. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/22 "2003-06-16T13:49:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Some of us figured out how to unscramble those channels by messing with the TV dial. 😃 \*\* Then they weren’t scrambled. They were mistuned! ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/23 "2003-06-16T13:54:37Z")
This show is like crack to me. I can’t resist it even though it’s repeated every friggin weekend! I always seem to catch 1983. I can’t wait for the “I love the 90’s”! Ah the flannel shirts, Clinton years, Kobain’s death, viable job market, Lewinsky… good times! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/24 "2003-06-16T14:07:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dantheman \* > \*\*Then they weren’t scrambled. They were mistuned! \*\* Right! It’s amazing how simple the scrambling was on the premium channels compared to today. Anyone with the right type of analog TV controller could just set it between channels and the picture would be clear for the most part. Not in color, but not scrambled anymore either. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/25 "2003-06-16T14:09:32Z")
I tried, I swear I tried, but the best I could get was the Mary Jane Girls singing “In My House” on some urban/suburban rock video show. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/26 "2003-06-16T15:08:12Z")
What year was the Dungeons and Dragons bit on? I wouldn’t mind catching that some time. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/27 "2003-06-16T15:18:48Z")
I have loved watching these shows. And it has fueled an obsession for Mo Rocca, who I now want with all my heart. I will make him mine!!! 😃 It brings back memories of things I haven’t thought of in a long time. But please, the dude doing the hottest babes of the '80’s??? He pisses me off when he ends with “and I ought to know.” What, did you bang them all? I don’t think so! Andrew Dice Clay also must die… ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/28 "2003-06-16T15:29:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > \*\*But please, the dude doing the hottest babes of the '80’s??? He pisses me off when he ends with “and I ought to know.” What, did you bang them all? I don’t think so! > \*\* Yeah, it’s kind of funny though when one of the “hottest babes” is someone like Divine. “And I ought to know.” ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/29 "2003-06-16T16:16:25Z")
Hal Sparks cracked me up so much that I started watching bits and pieces of _Queer as Folk_ to see what he was like in that show. What a contrast. Yeah, get rid of Andrew Dice Clay and the Poison guy. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/30 "2003-06-16T16:25:53Z")
This thread almost made us miss my husband’s Father’s Day dinner. I read it, put on VH1 and we sat and sat and sat. . … I hope it comes on again because we only saw about three years or so. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/31 "2003-06-16T16:50:42Z")
I’m sure they will. The episodes I’ve seen have been over several weekends in the past month or so. It seems they’re running them constantly, so I’m sure you’ll be able to catch the rest. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/32 "2003-06-16T17:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > **But please, the dude doing the hottest babes of the '80’s??? He pisses me off when he ends with “and I ought to know.” What, did you bang them all? I don’t think so!** I wonder how you make it with the Statue of Liberty… ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/33 "2003-06-16T18:48:14Z")
One of the certainties of life, that VH-1 will rerun something again…and again and again and again until you’re begging them to stop. Re: Lisa Ling. Kind of explains why she was on _The View_ in the first place. Now she’s stinking up some National Geographic series on MSNBC. I want to say the D&D segement was on the “1982” episode, but I could be wrong. Warning: heavy Joel Stein during that part! ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/34 "2003-06-16T19:28:17Z")
**mobo85** , I guess it helps to be hung like a horse. And I’m sure he’d say he is! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/35 "2003-06-16T19:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slortar \* > \*\*What year was the Dungeons and Dragons bit on? I wouldn’t mind catching that some time. \*\* 1. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/36 "2003-06-16T20:06:40Z")
And yes, Teddy Ruckspin _was_ freakin’ scary! ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/37 "2003-06-16T20:17:27Z")
Ah, washed up stars from the '80s making fun of other washed up stars from the '80s. Debra Winters is incredibly unfunny. On the other hand, like others have said, Michael Ian Black, Mo Rocca, and Hal Sparks are pretty funny, and a few others have their moments. Hal Sparks has to be the most prolific of the commentators, but he has my favorite bit. In the segment on the Cure, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, etc he does this hilarious bit on Robert Smith’s hair. There’s no way I can do justice to it. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/38 "2003-06-16T21:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JohnT \* > This show reminded me of just how MUCH I hated “Greatest American Hero.” God, that show annoyed me. **HEATHEN!** ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/39 "2003-06-16T21:44:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by scout1222 \* > **But please, the dude doing the hottest babes of the '80’s??? He pisses me off when he ends with “and I ought to know.” What, did you bang them all? I don’t think so!** Boy, how the mighty have fallen. That “dude” is Bret Michaels from Poison, and considering the hot girls he HAS banged, I think he’s faily qualified for that spot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068/40 "2003-06-16T22:51:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lisa-go-Blind \* > \*\*Ah, washed up stars from the '80s making fun of other washed up stars from the '80s. > > Debra Winters is incredibly unfunny. On the other hand, like others have said, Michael Ian Black, Mo Rocca, and Hal Sparks are pretty funny, and a few others have their moments. Hal Sparks has to be the most prolific of the commentators, but he has my favorite bit. In the segment on the Cure, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, etc he does this hilarious bit on Robert Smith’s hair. There’s no way I can do justice to it. \*\* Who are the washed up stars from the 80s making fun of others? Ian Black, Rocca, and Sparks are nineties dudes. (Who’s Debra Winters, though?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-the-80s-vh1/182068.md?page=3)