Totally for fun. How good is your recall of the 80s?

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Silly string
Boom boxes
Daisy dukes
Ghosts
Potergeist
When Harry Met Sally
Back to the Future
Ten
Blue Brothers

The guy on bass looks like the dark haired guy with a moustache from Hall and Oats.

Red bandannas around the forehead and the gloves.

The Beat It red jacket

Chili peppers lights

Boom box

(man, they butchered that song)

More than I wish I did :/

Back when Michael Jackson still had skin pigmentation and a nose was a scary, scary time.

Cut off jean shorts

Ghost Busters

Weird Science

Ghost

Sixteen Candles

Teen Wolf

Splash

Poltergeist

Top Gun

Back to the Future

Risky Business

Indiana Jones

The Shining

Rambo

Big

Cocktail

Flashdance

Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween

Twins

Caddy Shack

Norma Rae

Little Shop of Horrors

Blues Brothers

Electric Boogaloo

Weekend at Bernies

One that slipped by me on first viewing; That’s Ethan Embry from Empire Records and Can’t Hardly Wait on the drums there.

This is a densely packed video

And finally The Breakfast Club

(I missed some)

Not much… I wasn’t around then.
My dad was around 10…

@Jude out of all of that, I can’t believe you missed my very favorite 80s movie…

@Blueroses I was watching and typing. I was trying to be quick. :) Let me go and watch it again.

Clueless?

Aliens

ooh, a new ones. But that’s not what I was thinking. It’s really obvious and it’s been hinted at

Pulp Fiction

@Jude you named an element but not the film

Karate Kid

ET

Peewees Big Adventure

Fatal Attraction

Got a few more. Still not the one

Star Wars

When Harry Met Sally

oooh, thanks. Fatal attraction was driving me crazy, lulz

What’s the one with the chick in a red bikini coming out of the pool? Vacation?

For 80s that would be Return of the Jedi
Still nobody’s said the name of the best film

chick in bikini is a classic scene from another great movie… I’ll let someone else answer that

The Terminator

That’s all that I got.

@Jude pssst, think boombox

Say Anything?

Safety Dance song at the beginning by Men Without Hats
Don’t You Want Me Baby?
Michael Jackson’s Beat It
Say Anything
Dirty Dancing
Ghostbusters
Weird Science
Ghost
Sixteen Candles
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
The Karate Kid
ET
(No clue on the rabbit in the hat one)
Star Wars
When Harry Met Sally
Poltergeist
Top Gun
Splash
Teen Wolf ?
Back to the Future
Risky Business
Indiana Jones
(No clue on the shower scene)
The Shining
Weekend at Bernie’s
(No clue on the girl undoing her bathing suit top)
The Terminator ? Or is it some other Arnie movie?
Big
Cocktail
Fletch?
Flashdance
Nightmare on Elm Street
Twins
Caddyshack
Terminator (ah, there it is)
Norma Rae ?
Little Shop of Horrors ?
The Blues Brothers
What is the last scene from? The Breakfast Club?

Nice job @Pied_Pfeffer
Any boys here to remember the red bikini top scene?

I can see at least 2 more that haven’t been named yet.

and yes, Say Anything is what I was looking for @jude

The Challenger explosion
Getting divorced
The 1986 World Series – go Mets!
Jeff
Assassination attempt on President Reagan
Back to the Future
Big hair

Yes, classic pose

make that 4 more I see now that are unnamed.

When the good songs quit coming, I lost track of where I stood in the 80s.

The first half of the 80s was okay. Then, I think all the good song writers died and left us with nothing.

@Blueroses Four movies that are yet unnamed? Or something else from the 80s?

The shower scene at 2:44 probably refers to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
The shower scene can be seen at 0:40 in the FBDO clip.

@john65pennington Oh, they were still there. Most were not played on the Clearchannel radio network, but the music never died.

@Brian1946 Well done! you got one of them.

There are also people/references in the crowds… not just the enactments.

Has the one with the rabbit in the top hat been named yet?

@Pied_Pfeffer Yes. That was Fatal Attraction (crazy blonde perm and rabbit) but possible reference to another film also that seems on the tip of my mind

Desperately Seeking Susan?

“Bikini top” is Fast Times at Ridgemont High, quoting the Phoebe Cates scene when Judge Reinhold is fapping to her at the pool in the cabana.

check the crowd too. There’s a reference to a well-known director and actors from other 80s films.
Well done @aprilsimnel! you got Fast Times

The light sabre fight at 2:06 is a reference to The Empire Strikes Back.

And here is the bikini scene.

I think the part where he’s dancing on a drawn keyboard is from MJ’s Billy Jean video.

I guess the part where he’s twirling a basketball on his fingertip is a reference to Hoosiers.

@Brian1946 that may have been, but the main reference there is to Big the FAO Schwarz scene. There’s a really quick one that’s been missed between Nightmare on Elm Street and Twins

Urban Cowboy?

I just realized that the rabbit is going into a pot and not coming out of a hat.

yes @Pied_Pfeffer can you find the 80s director? and 2 actors?

The three of them make an appearance in the video somewhere?

or direct references to them. one has been mistaken for Michael Jackson but look closer and it isn’t supposed to be him. It’s….?

Is the guy in the red jacket a reference to George Lukas?

Not John Hughes. His films are in there, but that’s not the director reference I noticed.

@Blueroses

I changed my answer to George Lukas.

Nope. Not Lucas either. The black man in the red leather jacket is not MJ. That jacket was associated with another person without whom, 80s comedy would be incomplete.

For the director, look for large glasses

Eddie Murphy?

Bingo @Brian1946 for one actor. Eddie Murphy’s Delirious tour made that jacket famous.

I think the director referenced by the portly dude with the beard and large glasses is Francis Ford Coppola.

@all, in case you didn’t know, John Hughes died August 2009, FYI. :(

I wasnt even a sperm in the 80s..im pretty sure my pops had a medium sized afro..they all did…

In the 80s? No, no, no, @saintDrew. Let me introduce you to the jheri curl. That’s probably what your pops had. I remember grownups freaking out that activator (wet and greasy stuff that relaxed kinky hair into that style) was going to ruin the fabric on their living room couches.

Only “Herbs” (definition #2) still had an Afro by 1983.

@Brian1946 I hadn’t noticed Coppola. Good one. The one I picked up was Spike Lee, looking like this

Wasn’t jheri curl a running joke? pun intended. How sexy was wet, stinky hair?

@Blueroses

“The one I picked up was Spike Lee….”

I think I picked up on Spike too, but I forgot to mention him.
Isn’t he the guy with the blue jacket in the video?

@Blueroses, when done professionally, the style could look great. Accent on look. But many self-maintainers were inevitably heavy-handed with that bottle of activator and that always ended up a hot mess.

I think Pedro Martinez and that white guy who plays Kenny the baseballer on HBO still rock jheri curls, lo, these 30 years later.

Yes @Brian1946 at 2:25 in the video.

That just cracks me up. The idea of guys running around spraying their heads constantly. I don’t think a white guy can pull off the look under any circumstances but rockin’ a jheri curl mullet has to be the ultimate “bad idea”.

@Jude, that would have been Christy Brinkly in that red bikini, coming out of the pool in the movie vacation. The only poster I ever wanted in the 80s, Christy is still stunning and I am still trying to figure out how Billy Joel married her. You almost missed Breakfast Club, did you get Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pritty in Pink, Purple Rain, and the list goes on, St Elmos Fire.

Oh, wait, haven’t even watched the video yet. Sorry, brb.

@Jude, I was wrong, that was Phoebe Cates in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Christy was in Vacation in a pool scene though, but that reference was to Fast Times, the give away was the way she was disrobing, :0

Oh I fricken love it, knorlly, mint, rad, ok on with the movies. Risky Business, Footloose, Big, Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Phoebe Cates I LOVE YOU), Say Anything, Dirty Dancing (RIP Patrick), Ghost Busters, Weird Science, Poltergeist, Top Gun, Ghost, Karate Kid, Mermaid, Back to the Future, Flashdance, Ground Hog Day, Blues Brothers, Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink (correct spelling this time), St Elmos Fire.

Bueller
Bueller
Bueller
Bueller?

“I got my car in my neighborhood, Yo man you left your f’n lights on!” “Eddie, why you wash you dick in the sink” “What time is it?”

OMG I having memory orgasms here, lmfao

Here this link will show the red bikini link

Just ran across this question for the first time…So bummed I missed it :(