# Your favorite 80's movie trope?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [September 25, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521 "2020-09-25T18:10:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**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:** [September 26, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521/21 "2020-09-26T17:07:28Z")

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No mention yet of those punks on the main series page, so…

> **[CHiPs](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/CHiPs)**
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> CHiPs was a 60-minute comedy/drama on NBC about two California Highway Patrol ("CHiPs") motorcycle officers. The series ran for six seasons from 1977 to 1983. The stars of the show were Francis "Ponch" Poncherello (Erik Estrada) and Jon Baker ( …

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**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:** [September 26, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521/22 "2020-09-26T18:25:32Z")

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[Here is the exact reenactment of the trope I was referencing up above.](https://youtu.be/rgRaI8UPovU?t=497)

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**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521/23 "2020-09-26T18:25:45Z")

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The most notable thing about that is how a group of kids is roaming free all over town and the parents rarely know what they are doing.

Nowadays that would be rare and the kids would stuck at home communicating through their cellphones.

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**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:** [September 27, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-movie-trope/921521/24 "2020-09-27T00:05:22Z")

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> [@solost](#):
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> That’s some crazy day those kids had!

…and then they had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

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