# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Gotterfunken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58956e/32.png) [@Gotterfunken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotterfunken)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/21 "2003-10-22T13:12:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > **And who the hell in Godfrey? How long has he been claiming to be a comedian?** Do you mean Gilbert Gottfried? He’s been around for quite a while, and he’s always been that annoying. I think he first came to prominence in the late 80s. He does the voice for the AFLAC duck, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/22 "2003-10-22T13:14:18Z")
How about _I Love The 1880’s_? ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/23 "2003-10-22T13:26:57Z")
I love the show and recognize everything in it. We also had friendship pins, and I still know how to do that fancy braid on the bracelets, as well as the barettes. The commentary is usually funny, enough so that I am not annoyed by it. But sometimes the commentators just don’t have anything funny to say and it gets awkward. Did they do Member’s Only jackets yet? I had the first one in my school… middle school, that is. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Back\_Lot\_Brawl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Back\_Lot\_Brawl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Back_Lot_Brawl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/24 "2003-10-22T13:51:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by widdershins \* > **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.** She’s a year younger than me, and I remember every year of the '80s. She grew up during the decade – how does that make her unqualified to speak about it? As an aside, Boy George is lookin’ like the WWE’s Goldust these days… ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/25 "2003-10-22T14:15:30Z")
Isn’t Godfrey the guy who took over doing the 7-Up commercials after Orlando Jones went off to work on his movie career? I think I recall seeing him on that Bravo show about the struggling actors in New York; was it _The IT Factor_? **AwSnappity** , there’s also the category of “He/She was SOOOO HOT! I had the BIGGEST crush on him/her!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/26 "2003-10-22T14:15:37Z")
They featured the Members Only Jackets in the first I Love The 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/27 "2003-10-22T15:51:28Z")
That little kid from _The Toy_ doing porn? One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. It’s so weird; that was one of my favourite movies when I was little, but it does seem so bizarre now. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/28 "2003-10-22T17:09:27Z")
I’d love to see just these clips and maybe a chatboard. If it were **just** Michael Ian Black or **just** Mo Rocca or **just** Hal Sparks or **just Corey Feldman** , etc., making constant neverending snide smartass commentary it would perhaps add some zest, or if they would just apply it to the cheese it would be alright even, but _Bitch, I know you ain’t just dissed ON GOLDEN POND!_, besides which what have these smartasses ever done that gives them the right to judge the work of others? I seriously doubt that the 2020 series “I LOVE THE '00S” will have anybody mentioning Michael Ian Black (dude, you’re best work was as Johnny Blue Jeans and that was years ago and nobody saw it!), Mo Rocca (dude, who the hell are you?), Hal Sparks (dude, you make your living by getting nekkid and letting other nekkid men climb on top of you AND YOU AREN’T EVEN GAY! and the “William…Shatner…talking…like…this…thing” is older than Grandma Moses’s gynecologist- even Shatner parodies it), etc. . Not to be all Norma “They Trampled on What Was Divine” Desmond, but there’s a difference in wailing on a piece of camp classic like MOMMIE DEAREST and smirking about YENTL (which, while not for all tastes, was an excellent movie). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/29 "2003-10-22T17:14:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NailBunny \* > \*\*That little kid from _The Toy_ doing porn? One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. It’s so weird; that was one of my favourite movies when I was little, but it does seem so bizarre now. \*\* Another 80s kid actor (though a bit older) that went that route: [Stephen Geoffreys](http://imdb.com/name/nm0313267/), the nerd in residence for many 80s movies (most famously [Fright Night](http://imdb.com/title/tt0089175/) ) is now Sam Ritter, the star of numerous very low budget and production-value-free gay porn flicks. The daughter from FAMILY MATTERS also went that route, but that’s the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/30 "2003-10-22T18:49:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NailBunny \* > \*\*That little kid from _The Toy_ doing porn? One of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. It’s so weird; that was one of my favourite movies when I was little, but it does seem so bizarre now. \*\* He was also the character [Flick](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777432/) in [A Christmas Story](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/). ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/31 "2003-10-23T00:15:00Z")
**Back Lot Brawl** , I’ve noticed that usually the people who were at least a little older had enough experience to be entertaining or occasionally informative. I guess I’m a bit of an agist when it comes to people making smartass comments about past decades. Then again, Donal Logue undermines my argument. _Plastic Man_ and _Richie Rich_, reminds me just how much most ABC Saturday morning cartoons sucked. Old Warner Bros. reruns, most _Superfriends_ series, and maybe _Thundarr The Barbarian_ excepted. ---
**Author:** ![UWmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UWmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UWmite)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/32 "2003-10-23T00:40:41Z")
I’m tv-less at the moment, so I haven’t seen the new ones. But Hal, Michael and Mo actually kept me on the treadmill for much longer than normal this summer, just so I could keep watching that show at the gym. I can see how the premise could be wearing thin by now, though. And whadda ya mean, who is Mo Rocca? He is, of course, a frequent participant on “Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me,” NPR’s news quiz. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/33 "2003-10-23T03:22:07Z")
During the first run of the series, they listed Mo Rocca’s profession as “Media Gadfly.” That killed me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/34 "2003-10-23T09:37:33Z")
What bugs me about this series is that most of their talking heads were about 10 years old in the 80’s. So we’re really getting a look at the 80’s from the perspective of a 10-year-old. Frankly, I could do without 10 minutes of rhapsodizing over the Smurfs. I understand why they go with the young talking heads (in light of the viewer demographic they are seeking) but it makes for an odd slant on the decade. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/35 "2003-10-23T11:07:49Z")
The first episode had one gigantic error: _Superman II_ was released in the summer of 1981, **not** 1980. And overall, this series sucks as bad as the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/36 "2003-10-23T13:35:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*How about _I Love The 1880’s_? \*\* “Oh I remember Jack the Ripper! Yeah, EVERYBODY was frightened of him. And then it just sort of stopped. Very weird.” ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/37 "2003-10-23T21:32:44Z")
I was a little surprised that a segment of 1982 (or was it 83?) was dedicated to Snausages, of all things. Dog treats? Who cares! What next, are they going to memorialize the year Kal Kan changed its name to Whiskas? I just sorta fail to see Snausages as a cultural phenomenon. (I bet it was just an excuse to get the commentators to eat dog food.) ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/38 "2003-10-23T22:00:43Z")
**Gr8Kat** : Of course you don’t understand! You’re feline! 😉 Seriously, though, I assumed it was because of the cultural impact of the commercial. “Snausages!” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/39 "2003-10-23T22:00:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*The first episode had one gigantic error: > > _Superman II_ was released in the summer of 1981, **not** 1980.\*\* _Superman II_ opened in Britain and Europe in 1980. It was a British film. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627/40 "2003-10-23T22:20:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Governor Quinn \* > \*\*How about _I Love The 1880’s_? \*\* A PBS show, no doubt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-vh1-i-still-do-love-the-80s/208627.md?page=3)