October 1981

'80s All Over

Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny

Comedy, Tv & Film

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

October of 1981 may be one of the most jam-packed months we've ever done, and the types of movies we're discussing are all over the place. We've got a fistful of grimy little horror films like Just Before Dawn, The Pit, and Galaxy of Terror, as well as high-end art-house releases like My Dinner With Andre and The French Lieutenant's Woman. Did you know there was a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show? Well, we're going to discuss it! We'll discuss the two different Burt Reynolds personas, and we're going to make some sure-to-be-controversial comments about Halloween II. Peter Falk and women wrestlers, Bruce Dern needling Maude Adams, and the final film of the legendary George Cukor... all that and more!

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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
0:22.0	to take a couple some ones who were there for it the first time around. Drew McQueenie
0:26.2	and Scott Weinberg are ready to review every major film of the decade 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.
1:18.6	It's the 80s all over. Thank you. I'm The Mawater! Ha! What time! The Meadowlands Arena opened in New Jersey, which technically counts as the founding of the first church of Springsteen.
1:32.5	Aspartame, artificial sweetener, was approved for usage by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
1:37.4	The U.S. debt hit $1 trillion for the first time, and in Oakland, California, cheerleader Crazy George Henderson led the crowd in what is reported to have been the very first crowd wave of all time. And in Oakland, California, cheerleader Crazy George Henderson led the crowd
1:44.7	in what is reported to have been the very first crowd wave of all time. Now, join us as we do a wave
1:50.2	ourselves for the tsunami of movies that came out in October of 1981. I'm joined, as always,
1:55.8	by my co-host, Scott Weinberg. Hi, I'm doing the wave right now by myself.
2:02.7	There I just sat down.
2:07.5	The sad thing is I heard you also have a kiss cam in your room.
2:08.1	I do.
2:15.9	Drew, I know we say this a lot, but I think that when we were doing our prep, October 81 may have been the most daunting, massive month to date.
2:19.3	It's crazy. And we're going to get into that real quick. I want to ask people, and I think
2:25.3	this is okay. I think we're among friends here, the listeners, the readers, as we call them.
2:31.1	I'd like to ask them to give us money. Why should you do that? Well, you should do it
2:36.0	because if you're a fan of the show, it is not a cheap show to produce. We actually, we would
2:40.8	like to be able to keep this thing going and do all five years. And I find that the best episodes
2:44.9	come when we do all of our homework like this month. You know, we considered almost 35 movies
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