January 1984

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

John Cassavetes wants a Gloria of his own, Eddie Deezen gets evil with some mutant punks, and Jodie Foster is somehow romantically involved with Ed Asner. Good lord, 1984, this is how you start? We’ve got a fistful of foreign-language classics like El Norte and Entre Nous, the obligatory teen sex comedies like Hot Dog… The Movie!, and the first film from the great Kathryn Bigelow. All that, plus a Woody Allen gem and a Steven Martin almost? It’s time to kick off the fifth season with January of 1984.

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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.
1:30.1	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. Pop culture started to look a The year kicked off of the milestone when Wilson Good was sworn in as Philadelphia's first black mayor.
1:32.6	Pop culture started to look a lot more 80s.
1:43.7	Night Court debuted on NBC. Van Halen released their single biggest album in 1984.
1:44.8	Madonna appeared on American Bandstand to sing Holiday, and John L Linden's posthumous single, Nobody Told Me, Find the Charts
1:49.4	in America while shameless hippies Paul and Lyndon McCartney were arrested in Barbados for possession
1:53.7	of marijuana. Clara Pellers, where's the piece? Lady appeared in her very first commercial
1:58.1	and America lost its damn full mind for her. Speaking of
2:01.4	commercials, on January 24th, Apple computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why
2:10.4	1984 won't be like 1980. Apple released a Macintosh personal computer tied to the single
2:17.1	greatest commercial in television history directed by the legendary Ridley Scott.
2:21.2	And finally, in a decision that had a huge impact on both young Drew McQueenie and young Scott Weinberg,
2:26.6	the Supreme Court ruled that home VCRs were allowed to take TV programs without any violation of federal copyright law,
2:32.7	allowing the movie orgy to commence in January of 1984.
2:36.5	Hi, everybody.
2:37.2	I'm Drew McGweeney, and welcome to the fifth season of 80s all over, where I am joined, as always, by my co-host, Scott Weinberg.
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