There are a few decades in film history that have been as screwed nuts as the 1980s, but to really understand the decade and its movies, it's going to take a couple of someone's who were there for it the first time around.

Drew McQueenie and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade, one month at a time. The look at what worked then, what endoers now, and how it felt to be there when it all went down. Turn back to calendar with us. It's the 80s all over. I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel.

I'm gonna have to go back to the hotel. It's the 80s all over. India went to court and sued Union Carbide over the disaster in Bhopal. Also sending shockwaves through Asia? WAM, who were the first Western band ever released a pop album in China? Billy Martin evidently trapped in a revolving door, became the general manager of the Yankees

for the fourth time.

He would go on to be fired and rehired a grand total of 11,803 times before the end of his career. And finally in a move that baffled industry analysts and which nearly destroyed their company. So New Coke is catching on. The taste is better and newer. You said the P word.

So what I want to know is if you're drinking Coke, who's drinking Pepsi? If you can't beat it, pass the wave. Coca-Cola announced that would be changing their trademark secret formula, rushing new Coke onto the market. It was a dark day, leaving us more dependent than ever

on the movies of April of 1985. Hi everybody, I'm Drew McQueenie. I'm joined as always by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. You're all right with question for you. You produce the world's best selling sugar water. I come into your office and go, let's fuck with that formula. What do you say to me, sir? Can we make it taste exactly like the other sugar water that doesn't sell as well as us?

Because if so, I'm in!

Whoa! What a bonehead ID! What do you say to me, sir? Can we make it taste exactly like the other sugar water that doesn't sell as well as us?

Because if so, I'm in.

Whoa, what a bonehead idea. It was crazy. I just remember the moment around it being truly the end of the world for that company for a few years. I don't remember. I'm not a sugar water historian, Drew, but do you remember how long the actual New Coke campaign listed? I think it's in two months. We're gonna talk about the rollback. Okay, never mind.

Yeah, well, in addition to mistakes, by the way, made by Coke. Say oops, upside to head, say oops, upside to head. Say oops. A quick mistake that we made, although not really mistakes and which is I just didn't give the proper name of the place. Yes, it's not the Toronto Tower.

It's the sea and tower. I just made the giant tower in downtown Toronto and because I'm from out of town, I don't know what you guys call it. Located in your sea. You're so sensitive about their landmarks. Good Lord. You're very touchy, can't ex. Scott made a mention of American greetings as the company behind Care Bears. did not mean they were also the company behind Heman and Shira, although I don't believe

he named that company, that would of course be Mattel. You should be my lawyer dude good job. Yeah So mr. Mr. Weinberg is not answering any questions at this time. I was I was not wrong. I was half right so there you go There you go and now speaking of things that are not right I would like to somebody to write a play, a one act play called James Froly's agent.

And it's about a guy, one of his clients just directed the Muppet movie. James Froly comes into his office and says, hey, I directed the Muppet movie. Have you seen the Muppet movie, which is by the way, the Muppet movie? Right, right. You know, like I'm not even part of the and team. Necessarily came

from outside to direct th

and during that landmark

through that happened that movie that everybody on the planet talked about? Yeah, that was me. And his agent says, here's what I got for you. You want to direct fraternity vacation? Meet Joe. Take off his trunks. And mother. This could be interpreted as perverted behavior and introducing. How do you do, sir?? I'm Wungled to Vets. They're determined to make new friends. Hi boys, come on if we join you. And share a holiday adventure they'll never forget. Some doctors have been to town to cheer for her beans. Why would that be a relief? Fraternity vacation. If we had it to do over, we'd do it again. All in the National Guard. Fraternity vacation. It's the best time of the year. Man, oh man. And one of the things that I'm going to say a few times this week is it's starting to blur. These things are starting to get confusing because there's so many of them and they're so similar to one another. The only way to differentiate one does it look like it had a budget over 90 grand? Okay, and this one does to be fair look like it had a budget over 90 grand. And then the second way is does it have familiar faces? Tim Robbins is probably the biggest part in this who went on to much bigger things, but Matt McCoy, who was a big sitcom guy for a while, our beloved Barbara cramped in John Vernon, Amanda Beers from Merid with Children, who's now a giant TV director. And it has some, you know, likeable faces, but none of them are given anything funny to do. And the whole thing hinges on the charisma of Stephen Jeffries, which is a peculiar thing to say the least. And this is that era where you You could potentially make a star out of a Christmas Glover or Steven Jeffries. And I think there was an attempt that during the 80s to figure those guys out, like the weirdo who could maybe carry a movie, maybe Steven Jeffries is half all-shocked likable in this movie. He really is. It's the difference between Val Kilmer getting real genius and reading that scripting going, ah, perfect. This is exactly my sense of humor and it gets to show me off. And somebody who's got a comic persona, but who gets a script that doesn't have any jokes in it. And it's like, the persona isn't enough to sell it. It's the same problem I have with Bob Goldthwaite and Police Academy 2. We heard from people who were like, but I love him in that one. Yeah, like Bob too. I don't think in the movie, they give him anything.

Yeah, I mean, all right.

I don't want to jump all the way back to police academy too,

but Bob Goldway is one of the saving graces of that series because he's like a wild manic flower growing out in like a field of 1930s, Borsfeld, Vaudville comedy. Dice Clay did this a lot where the dice man is his character that moves from movie to movie and pretty much if you cast him

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