Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Memory Lane: 1980's Fads

Wacky Wall Walkers: Found in almost every box of cereal so coated in sugar you could almost slip into a diabetic coma if you ate too much. Throw them on a wall (or pretty much any surface) and they would stick and slowly "walk" down. Unless they got dirty, then they would just stick for a few seconds and fall to the floor.

Neon: Anything.

Jelly Bracelets: They came in all sorts of colors and were good for flinging at people. The more you had, the cooler you were.

Jelly Shoes: Sure they were kinda cool but they gave you massive blisters and made you feet sweat like crazy.

MC Hammer Pants: I have no words for this one.

Garbage Pail Kids: A spoof of the Cabbage Patch Kids (see below) but instead of the sugar and spice, they were more snot and barf. Lovely.

Cabbage Patch Kids: My mom was actually the front end manager of a toy store when these dolls first came out. It was mass pandemonium. People got trampled! And yes, I had one. Her name was Ramona. I ended up with a Cabbage Patch Baby soon after but I ended up coloring it's head with marker that didn't wash off. She didn't get played with much. (This coming from the girl who used to cut all of her Barbie's hair off and then decapitate them.)

Hair Bands: The hole in the Ozone, it's from all of the Aqua-Net these guys used. True story.

Boy George: Enough said.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Memory Lane: 1980's TV Shows

Ah, the 80's. Do I really need to say more? Over the weekend I was going through some old photos and got a bit nostalgic so, here we are. I thought I'd do a little Memory Lane series for all you late 70's - early 80's babies.

Punky Brewster - It's funny how this mismatched multicolored look has come back.

Scooby-Doo (Pre Scrappy-Doo) - Yes, I still watch it.

Solid Gold - Had you asked me when I was little what I wanted to be when I grew up, my first choice would have been a Solid Gold dancer. Runner up was a dolphin trainer.

The Love Boat - Sadly the only thing I remember from this show is the theme song. The loooooooove boooooat...

Thundercats - Saturday mornings I was glued to the tv. This show is why. Yeah, Lion-O is hot.

Mr. Belvedere - I secretly wanted him to be our butler.

MacGyver - Thanks to this show I know how to stop a bomb with a hockey ticket.

Knight Rider - I LOVED this show when I was little. Before Hasselhoff got all drunk and started getting taped by his daughter eating cheeseburgers and ranting like a lunatic.

JEM (And the Holograms) - Another show I totally loved. I think I even had a cassette tape with their music.

Gumby - Yes, I still watch this as well. There was an R-rated gumby spoof on YouTube a while ago that was hysterical but it's a little too R-rated for me to post here. (Bad language voice-over)

Growning Pains - Didn't we all have a crush on Kirk Cameron?

Fraggle Rock - I remember watching this on HBO before school.

Fame - Another show that made me want to dance by butt off. And the remake that they did last year is pretty amazing too!

CHPS - I love me some Eric Estrada!

The Jetsons - I actually found out this debuted in the 1960's! Who knew? I wonder if they have this on DVD... Hmmm...

Hope you enjoyed the little trip down memory lane!
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