Fill in the blank: You must have survived a childhood in the 1980's if you can remember...?

Question

..what? Best answer to the person who makes me laugh the loudest or think the hardest. GO!

Here are few of mine- being a terrified kid after watching "The Day After"- BY MYSELF! (my parents taped it for me- how sick is that?!) Livin' on a Prayer. The tv show "V". Clue. Hating, no detesting, Michael Jackson. H.O.U.S.E. taping songs off the radio. TI994a computer. Asteroids! Halley's Comet. Berlin Wall. Cold War fear. Transformers. Smurfs. Strawberry Shortcake (like, gag me with a spoon). Keep 'em coming- this is great!

Answer 1

Oh where to begin... De Loreans, Breakin and Breakin 2, Lets Get Physical, Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, Cabbage Patch Kids, Pac-Man and Space Invaders, Miami Vice and Dynasty, Star Wars, Back to the Future and ET, The Brat Pack, Duran Duran and Sheena Easton... and of course changing the drinking age to 21, WTF was that

Answer 2

Rainbow Brite
CareBears
Smurf's
Cabbage Patch Kids
He-Man and She-Ra (I should get extra points for She-Ra :)Jessica McClure falling in the well
1986 Amazing Mets
1980-1984 Stanley Cup Champs ~ NY Islanders
Reaganomics
Bon Jovi "Slippery When Wet"
Pac-Man
Rubic Cube
Live Aid
We are the World
Madonna
Michael Jackson
Wham!
Lots of neon color clothes and plastic jewelry
Cripping and teasing your hair
Hairspray
Eddie Murphy: Delirious, Raw, Coming to America, BH Cop and The Golden Child!!!

Oh wow! This was fun.

Answer 3

1. Alf, That furry brown alien from Melmac that ate cats.
2. You knew the profound meaning of "wax on, wax off".
3. You ever wondered why Smurfette was the "only" female.
4. Ever wearing a pair of jelly shoes.( I had at least a dozen or more pairs!).
5. "Where's the beef?"
6. "Gag me with a spoon"
7. Getting up early on Saturday morning to watch the cartoons.
8. What Michael Jackson looked like when he was black.
9. Leg warmers
9. Wearing biker shorts underneath a short skirt
10. Banana clips and flouresent, neon clothing.
11. Mc Donald's Happy Meals came in a box, not a bag.
12. You had to get up to change the channel on your t.v.

Answer 4

Pound puppies, hypercolour t-shirts (they were just WRONG on girls who had 'developed') fluro shoe laces, making your own t-shirts with that paint that puffs up when you put the hair-dryer on it, no internet, big cellphones like bricks, you remember when slippery when wet came out, cds were these big new things, buying a vcr was a status symbol, getting an atari when they were brand new, your family bought a first generation microwave oh the list goes on!! pony tails on the side of your head, teasing your hair, the bigger the better, scary female power suits with massive shoulder pads. That's enough for now!

Answer 5

Some of these may be before the 80s:

All in The Family
The Dukes of Hazard
The Nightrider
MASH

Does anybody remember "Burkes Law" Am I the only OLD one in the Yahoo Answers????

Answer 6

Kitt. Snorks. Dangermouse. Heathcliff. Ghostbusters. Back to the Future.

Answer 7

ohmigosh! How 'bout Thriller, Culture Club, florescent clothes, shaved sideburns, big hair, the Smurfs, Beta instead of VHS, skinny jeans with bows or zippers on the ankles, scrunched-down layered socks, fingerless lace gloves, Sixteen Candles, and rat-tails!

Answer 8

I remember:

a) My dad walking on the front lawn causing ash from Mount St. Helen's to puff up, and that it rained 11 inches in May 1980.

b) My parents getting the family an Intellivision for Christmas 1982, and how I burst into tears that I couldn't get to Level 3 on Space Armada on my first try.

c) Me sneaking into my brother's bedroom while he was still sleeping so I could "borrow" his friend's copy of "Dungeons & Dragons" off of the dresser, to play it on the Intellivision at 5 am.

d) Getting thrills that I could make a dot move from one side of the screen to the other on the Apple ][e using Applesoft BASIC.

e) Playing Lode Runner on the Apple for 6 hours straight.

f) Thinking it funny to type in swear words into Infocom text games on the Apple and seeing how the computer responded.

g) Watching Smurfs with my sister from 9 am to 10:30 am every Saturday. I cried in the episode where the mouse "Squeaky" died.

h) Playing with my sister and combining our Lego and plastic Smurfs together to recreate scenes from the Smurfs.

i) Trying to moonwalk like Micheal Jackson while watching his videos until Dad called us kids outside to help feed the cows.

j) The time during The Marathon Of Hope when one of the men repairing our barn's roof who happened to be named Terry Fox came in to eat dinner with the family. When he said what his name was, all us kids looked under the table to see if he had an artificial leg.

k) Lauging at Wayne Gretzky jokes (What is Gretzky's favourite wine? "Mr. Referee! He hit me!") Hey - we were in Flames Territory in southern Alberta.

l) laughing when Steve Smith scored on his own net to help the Flames beat the Oilers in seven games in the 1986 playoffs. The Flames lost the Cup to Montreal, though.

m) going nuts when the Flames won it all in 1989 (also against the Canadiens).

n) playing head-to-head Tetris with my friends on our Nintendo Game Boys.

o) getting my friends' hand-held Pacman game confiscated in Grade 5 for playing it in class.

p) getting my friends' Rubik's Cubes confiscated for the same reason. I left my Cube at home.

q) all those Metricification commercials on TV, and taking the outdoor temperature in Celsius in Grade Two as a Metric exercise. We were only supposed to be outside for a few minutes per turn, but we would end up staying out so long that the teacher would come outside and yell at us.

Answer 9

Watching My son Act like Michael-Angelo after he watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles..

Answer 10

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