# Identify this strange 80s show about slacker aliens **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940 "2008-03-11T07:33:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/1 "2008-03-11T07:33:31Z")
For some reason\*, faint memories of this show recently reentered my consciousness. All I can really remember is that the show was about two brothers who happened to be aliens. They drove around in a red convertible, getting up to “wacky” hijinks and hitting on any girl they came across. One brother had blond hair, I think the other had brown curly hair. They were vaguely loser/slacker/surfer dude personality types. \*What actually prompted this was watching BASEketball last night, and thinking the two main characters there reminded me an awful lot of the alien brothers. Anyone have any clue what I’m talking about? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/2 "2008-03-11T07:44:50Z")
_The They Came From Outer Space_ TV show was a sci-fi comedy series about two alien brothers who were sent by their parents to Earth to attend Oxford University. The brothers had other ideas though, and decided to live the wild & crazy life in Los Angeles, CA. From [here](http://crazyabouttv.com/theycamefromouterspace.html) ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/3 "2008-03-11T08:56:29Z")
Heh. I was going to guess Miami Vice. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/4 "2008-03-11T09:14:44Z")
Huh, I was going to guess _Earth Girls Are Easy_. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/5 "2008-03-11T10:01:11Z")
[QUOTE=TellMeI’mNotCrazy] One brother had blond hair, I think the other had brown curly hair. [/QUOTE] I would have guessed Dukes of Hazzard? Starsky and Hutch? Seems like this is one-ah them thar ark-uh-types, or somethin’. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/6 "2008-03-11T18:53:18Z")
[Homeboys in Outer Space](http://imdb.com/title/tt0115206/) ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/7 "2008-03-11T18:58:45Z")
Thanks for the answers everyone - it was “They Came From Outer Space”. What a goofy show. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/8 "2008-03-11T19:34:54Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Huh, I was going to guess _Earth Girls Are Easy_. [/QUOTE] That’s a movie. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-strange-80s-show-about-slacker-aliens/440940/9 "2008-03-11T22:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] That’s a movie. [/QUOTE] I know, I thought he may have mis-remembered that detail. I also thought it possible there had been a TV series of it made that I didn’t know about. Either way, I was pretty sure that by the time I posted that **don’t ask** was right.