June 17-23, 1984: Ghostbusters/Dancing In The Dark

Quantum Week

Music, Tv & Film

2.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On this episode of Quantum Week we visit June 1984, including movie: “Ghostbusters” and song “Dancing In The Dark”. Does Ghostbusters rank in Chris and Matt’s top 5 comedies of all time? Should Winston’s character even exist? Is "Dancing In The Dark" a good Bruce song? These questions answered, and more!

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0:00.0	On this episode of Quantum Week, June 17th through 23rd, 1984.
0:18.0	Welcome to Quantum Week. I'm Matt. I'm Chris. Quantum Week is a show in which Chris and I leap into a random week of a random year,
0:23.4	and we talk about the movies, the music, the headlines, everything that makes that time period unique.
0:28.3	And today we are on June 27th, no, no, June 17th through 23rd, 1984.
0:33.6	In fact, we're going to be in 1984 for two straight weeks.
0:36.0	Yeah, so there's like six shows.
0:37.3	Six shows of, including YouTube's of 1984.
0:40.7	And I'm not every movie we're talking about, and I think every song we're talking about, is, is legit iconic.
0:48.8	Oh, yeah.
0:49.3	And a lot of fun.
0:50.4	This is, this is like a reprieve for us after weeks of kind of less than ideal circumstances with songs and movies.
0:57.9	Some were okay, but we had a lot of shit in there too.
1:00.6	Yeah, and you probably would have already seen the YouTube show where we talked about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
1:08.5	And we're not going to talk about the song.
1:09.9	Oh yeah, we can tell the song now
1:10.9	because it's after the fact
1:11.7	because we're traveling through Thai.
1:13.3	But it would have been Doves Cry by
1:15.3	when the Doves Cry by Prince.
1:16.9	And it's not the first time,
1:17.7	not the last time we'll see Prince
1:18.8	over the next week either.
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