# OK, VH1, I Still DO Love the '80s . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627 "2003-10-21T02:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/1 "2003-10-21T02:25:30Z")
. . . But I still hate the commentators–for chrissakes, Hal Sparks, shut _up!_ 1981, I was 24, the cutest little trick you’d ever see, and moved to New York. I was a super-freak. I was super-freaky. Spent my days in dead-end office temp jobs, and my nights dancing at Limelight, Palladium, The Saint, Heartbreak, Surf Club . . . You can’t beat songs like “Whip It,” “Turning Japanese,” “Call Me,” Dancing With Myself . . ." I wonder if I’m anywhere in [this book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576871878/qid=1066703437/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/104-2334491-9868757)? ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/2 "2003-10-21T05:53:52Z")
This series is completely devoid of creative commentators, but I suppose that happened in the original series as well. Michael Ian Black, Hal Sparks, and Donald Logue seem like parodies of themselves. The commentary falls into one of the following categories: 1.) “I remember that, what was _with_ that?” (see Hal Sparks) 2.) Sing the theme song of the movie/television program 3.) Weirdness for the sake of weirdness (see Michael Ian Black) 4.) “I had one of those, you weren’t cool unless you had one of those” 5.) Insightful commentary (very, very rare) The series as a whole as fun, but not quite as fun this time around. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/3 "2003-10-21T12:44:05Z")
I don’t know. I kind of dig it, but it’s not as funny as the first time. The **Boyfriend** and I were looking forward to it, so we sat down to watch, and were immediately interrupted by phone calls. We never really got back into it. But what in the _hell_ is up with **Boy George**? Is he trying out for a part in a Marilyn Manson video? It looked like a glittery blue spider up and died on his head. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/4 "2003-10-21T13:43:36Z")
I watched about 45 mins of this last night and I am not ashamed to say that Michael Ian Black cracks me up. His line on Fernando Valenzuela was especially funny. Also laugh out loud goodnes came from the one dude doing his slo-mo immitation of a hungry hungry hippo. OTOH, The Donnas have always struck me as extremely annoying and last night did nothing to change that. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/5 "2003-10-21T13:49:05Z")
Is it a Halloween look? I thought Boy George looked like a member of Insane Clown Posse on Crack. I wish he would not be so out-there, and go back to more of a “normal” look for Boy George. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/6 "2003-10-21T14:04:34Z")
I confess that I too find Michael Ian Black hilarious, but not has funny as the other “I Love The \_\_\_\_'s” programs. I wonder, though, where Dee Snider or Alice Cooper are. They usually have the best commentary. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/7 "2003-10-21T14:29:56Z")
i didn’t see the show in question, but Eve’s OP sent me REELING back to the early eighties; my time on the planet. I was highschool class of 81, and I was a total party monster through my twenties. I entered 4 Boy George lookalike contests and won three of them. Man, I feel old; the waves of nostalgia from this thread are enough to make me need smelling salts. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/8 "2003-10-21T18:06:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\*I entered 4 Boy George lookalike contests and won three of them. \*\* Are you bragging about this? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/9 "2003-10-21T18:34:30Z")
By the way, would anyone have recognized that guy from “Gremlins” if he hadn’t been ID’d? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/10 "2003-10-21T18:50:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by adam yax \* > \*\*Are you bragging about this? \*\* Absolutely. It took me HOURS to braid that wig, and I designed and made the outfit and did my own makeup. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/11 "2003-10-21T18:58:34Z")
Anyway we can get a photo **lissener**? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/12 "2003-10-21T19:47:38Z")
none extant. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/13 "2003-10-21T21:00:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stephe96 \* > \*\*By the way, would anyone have recognized that guy from “Gremlins” if he hadn’t been ID’d? \*\* No. I was quite surprised to see how much he has aged in ten years (since the second “Gremlins” movie). ---
**Author:** ![Zazie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Zazie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zazie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/14 "2003-10-22T00:13:54Z")
Michael Ian Black makes the show for me. I litterally laugh out loud in front of my TV at some of his lines. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/15 "2003-10-22T00:16:16Z")
I about fell out of my chair when they held up the braided ribbon barette. LOL! I had a jllion of those and I’d completely forgotten them! Our friendship bracelets were nowhere near as nice as theirs though. Ours were straight braided if I remember right. Actually, friendship pins were more popular where I grew up. (Safety pins with beads that you’d wear on your shoelaces. For some reason our basement was full of never-thrown-away crap like mardi-gras beads, so I made the coolest friendship pins in town!) ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/16 "2003-10-22T02:09:20Z")
Boy George’s VH1 getup looks like the same makeup he wears in that new musical he’s in, that Rosie O’Donnell financed. It’s based on some guy. Or else some other guy designed the show. There’s somebody famous in there somewhere. feeling vague today ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/17 "2003-10-22T03:08:25Z")
This round is definitely weaker, material and commentator wise. _Stayin’ Alive_? _Solid Gold_ without Marilyn McCoo and the late Andy Gibb (guess that might have been a downer)? Reagan’s jelly beans? Who gives a damn. Michael Ian Black - shut the hell up until you learn a new delivery, and cool it with the unfunny overly obvious irony, it’s funny once. Donal Logue - don’t speak unless someone has written dialogue for you. I still like him as an actor, but he must seems to be in permanent annoying bar drunk mode. And who the hell in Godfrey? How long has he been claiming to be a comedian? Jenna van Oy was three in 1980, so she has lots of insight on the 80s. But since she’s like a white trash version of Danica McKellar, I still love her. I don’t want to find out how young the Hanson kids are. I miss Dee Snider, I wish Colin Hay could take up the slack, but he seems to have little to say so far. And wasn’t Zack Galligan arrested for shoplifting CDs about two years ago? Maybe a combination of struggling actor life and teenage girl-style crime has aged him. Boy George is in the musical _Taboo_ about his 80s younger self (played by somebody else). Rosie did finance it. Vagueness justified. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/18 "2003-10-22T04:48:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lissener \* > \*\* Man, I feel old. \*\* Cheer up, **lissner**. At least you weren’t grumbling into your granola that the sixties were over. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/19 "2003-10-22T12:49:00Z")
When they briefly made a joke about doing _I Love the '30s_, I thought, Oooooh, I wanna see _that!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/20 "2003-10-22T13:01:45Z")
Now I’ve got _She’s a super-freak_ going through my head. Falsetto and all. And since I only know the one line it’s kind of repetitive. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627.md?page=2)