April 1980

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This was always the month that gave us stress when we were first talking about this idea, because it's got the fewest new releases for any month of the year, and it's not a great batch. Still, we've got Dabney Coleman, a weird Disney misfire, Don Knotts and Tim Conway together, and the giant freakshow that is James Coburn. Check this one out!

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0:00.0	There are few decades in film history that have been as scrutinized as the 1980s. But to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple some ones
0:23.2	who were there for it the first time around.
0:25.7	Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade
0:30.5	one month at a time.
0:31.9	The look at what worked then, what endures now, and how it felt to be there when it all went
0:36.9	down.
0:39.4	Turn back the calendar with us.
1:18.3	It's the 80s all over. Wayne Gretzky became the first person to score 50 goals in one season while still just a teenager.
1:21.1	And here's a breakaway by Gretzky all along.
1:22.5	He shoots, he scores.
1:23.9	Post-it notes were released.
1:28.3	And as the hostage crisis reached ahead in Iran, the U.S. decided to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
1:29.4	And I have notified the Olympic Committee that with Soviet invading forces in Afghanistan,
1:35.6	neither the American people nor I will support sending an Olympic team to Moscow.
1:41.4	And in Detroit, a young broadcaster named Howard Stern went on the air for the first time.
1:45.6	Hello. Howard? Yeah, baby. Um, go I ask you a few questions from a school newspaper? Ask me a few
1:52.6	questions for your school newspaper? Yeah. Go ahead, shoot. Why are you different from other DJs? Why am I
1:57.6	different from other DJs? Yeah. Because I fart on the air. What? I fart on the radio.
2:04.6	Amidst these seismic events, here's what people could see in theaters in March of 1980.
2:09.1	Hi, everybody. This is Scott Weinberg, and welcome to episode four of 80s all over in which...
2:14.6	Holy crap, episode four, we're actually doing this thing, man.
2:18.1	You scare me. I thought I did something wrong.
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