# The most '80s image **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636 "2014-10-17T23:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/1 "2014-10-17T23:44:51Z")
It’s competition time. The challenge is this - I show an image\* from the '80s to 100,000 random Americans and ask them what decade it’s from. The one that has the most correct answers, wins. \*image rules; - \*\*Must \*\*be taken from the 80s. No modern stuff dolled up to look 80s! - No collages, a single still image only. Film stills and illustration are ok. - Image must have **no writing** on it, to stop cheating! Here’s my entry for you to beat - [Reagan with Gorbachev](http://www.thereaganvision.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Gorbachev_and_Reagan_630px_465px.jpg) from 1986. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/2 "2014-10-17T23:49:35Z")
Film still are OK? Alright then, I propose [this](http://www.themoviethemesong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/E-4.jpg) one ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/3 "2014-10-17T23:52:43Z")
Any of these might work. > **[These Photos Of Madonna In Her Prime Are Unreal](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mackenziekruvant/these-photos-of-madonna-in-her-prime-are-unreal#2hws47b)** > > Photographer Richard Corman captured the Material Girl in all her pre-Kaballah glory. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/4 "2014-10-18T00:00:04Z")
Pretty much anything by Patrick Nagel…as a specific choice, I’d go with [this one](http://i.imgur.com/3REbBA4.jpg), for not only being in Nagel’s iconic style, but having her in some very-80s fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/5 "2014-10-18T00:06:19Z")
I nominate [this album cover](http://brucespringsteen.net/wp-content/uploads/1984/06/bornintheusa1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/6 "2014-10-18T00:13:37Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Pretty much anything by Patrick Nagel…as a specific choice, I’d go with [this one](http://i.imgur.com/3REbBA4.jpg), for not only being in Nagel’s iconic style, but having her in some very-80s fashion. Not bad, but I’ll go in [a different direction](http://images.barnesandnoble.com/pImages/bn-review/2012/02/0212/ReaganThatcher_AF.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/7 "2014-10-18T00:15:45Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Film still are OK? Alright then, I propose [this](http://www.themoviethemesong.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/E-4.jpg) one Commendable effort, but it’s missing [something](http://www.onmjfootsteps.com/archives/2013/01/15/26163627.html). ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/8 "2014-10-18T00:27:29Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I nominate [this album cover](http://brucespringsteen.net/wp-content/uploads/1984/06/bornintheusa1.jpg) I think I would associate that one with the 1980s. But [this one](http://www.thrilleralbum.com/cover/) is an even safer bet! ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/9 "2014-10-18T00:43:47Z")
Please describe the image so we know without clicking. People may quote you and it would suck to have to repeatedly click the image to see what they are talking about. Micky and Ronny may be the substantive answer. Here’s one that is more pop culture. [Crockett and Tubbs on the hood of the Daytona looking as sharp as the 80s get.](http://blu.stb.s-msn.com/i/E0/749E6ADF86CD69FE99E9B54C6D1844.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/10 "2014-10-18T00:58:30Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > Please describe the image so we know without clicking. People may quote you and it would suck to have to repeatedly click the image to see what they are talking about. Mine was E.T. with a black Michael Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/11 "2014-10-18T01:02:48Z")
[This MTV logo](http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/commercials/2009/8/MTV-man-on-moon.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/12 "2014-10-18T01:16:37Z")
The Calvin Klein Times Square underwear guy. Too homoerotic for any earlier era, too tightie whitie for any later, and the blow dried hair clinches it. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/13 "2014-10-18T01:21:55Z")
> [@Heracles](#): > > I think I would associate that one with the 1980s. But [this one](http://www.thrilleralbum.com/cover/) is an even safer bet! Disqualified due to writing! Although [the inside flap of _Thriller_](http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/michael-jackson-thriller.jpg) would be acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/14 "2014-10-18T02:01:40Z")
I think technology would be the best clue, and you can’t get more 80s than [cassette tapes](http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com//images/Blogs/Tom/sony-walkman/9-portable-tapes-460-85.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![JWT\_Kottekoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@JWT\_Kottekoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JWT_Kottekoe)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/15 "2014-10-18T03:30:49Z")
[Challenger Explosion](http://voices.suntimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHALLENGEREXPLOSION.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/16 "2014-10-18T04:02:41Z")
I’d pick a frame from an 80s action movie with 80s hair. Something from the first _Terminator_ movie, for example. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/17 "2014-10-18T04:42:22Z")
Nothing is more 80s than [Poison at their most hair-sprayed.](http://nashvillemafia.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/poison512.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/18 "2014-10-18T05:55:32Z")
The answer is [Rio by Duran Duran](http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/patricknagel-rio.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/19 "2014-10-18T06:05:47Z")
How about [Marty and Doc Brown?](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Back_to_the_Future_(time_travel_test)_with_Michael_J._Fox_as_Marty_McFly.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636/20 "2014-10-18T06:12:20Z")
Challenger explosion (specifically, something showing the “Satan’s horns” smoke rings) was what sprang immediately to mind before I read the specs. But as a contest, then anything in which Reagan appears while obviously president is bound to score very high. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-80s-image/701636.md?page=2)