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The Love Boat; CaddyShack; “Turning Japanese”; punk and preppy fashions; Strawberry Shortcake; The Blue Lagoon, and Brooke Shields' Calvin Klein ads; designer jeans; “All Out of Love”; Pat Benatar, and Debbie Harry; “Who shot J.R.?”; 9 to 5; Urban Cowboy; "Another One Bites the Dust”; Kenny Rogers; Xanadu; Airplane!; “Rapper's Delight”; “Brass in Pocket”; Mattel Electronic Football; Miracle on Ice; That's Incredible!; and The Empire Strikes Back.
Cable Television and MTV; Porky’s; Ronald Reagan assassination attempt and Pope John Paul II assassination attempt; The Royal Wedding; Luke and Laura (characters from General Hospital); Rick Springfield; Arthur; The Greatest American Hero; De Lorean DMC-12; Rubik's Cube; “Celebration”; Fridays; Stripes; Bosom Buddies; John McEnroe; “Private Eyes”; Members Only; Atari 2600; The Jeffersons; and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Mullets; VJs; "Mickey”; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; “Centerfold”; Square Pegs; Rocky III; Ozzy Osbourne; “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”; The Dukes of Hazzard; The Go-Go's; "Physical"/Jane Fonda's Workout/aerobics fashion; “I Ran (So Far Away)”; Trivial Pursuit; Keytar; "Joanie Loves Chachi"; Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man; “867-5309/Jenny”; Dungeons & Dragons; Poltergeist; “The Message”; Silver Spoons; and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.
National Lampoon's Vacation; Family Ties; Diff'rent Strokes; Cabbage Patch Kids; “Thriller”; Flashdance; Duran Duran; Valley Girl; “Love is a Battlefield”; Scarface; The A-Team; Def Leppard's ‘Pyromania’; Eddie Murphy ‘Delirious’; “Come on Eileen”; Jerry Falwell vs. Larry Flynt; Knight Rider; WarGames; Wacky WallWalker; “Mr. Roboto”; He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Breakdancing; Footloose; Madonna; “Sunglasses at Night”; "Where's the beef?"; ‘Born in the U.S.A.’; Mary Lou Retton; Webster, and Punky Brewster; Huey Lewis and the News; Miami Vice; The Terminator; Transformers, and Care Bears; Wham!; Prince; Sixteen Candles; Cyndi Lauper; Michael Jackson's Pepsi commercial disaster; “Hello”; and This is Spinal Tap.
WrestleMania; MacGyver; Back to the Future; “Home Sweet Home”; The Goonies; Pee-wee's Big Adventure; Small Wonder; “Summer of '69”; big hair; Fletch; “The Super Bowl Shuffle”; Bartles & Jaymes; Cocoon; “Voices Carry”; Live Aid; The Facts of Life; “Party All the Time”; The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo's Fire; Day-Glo, and oversized message t-shirts; Pound Puppies; and “We Are the World”/Hear 'n Aid.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Wheel of Fortune; Hands Across America; Teddy Ruxpin; ALF; Pretty in Pink; “Papa Don't Preach”; Swatch; 1986 World Series and the Bill Buckner fielding error; The Cosby Show; Baby on Board; "Crocodile" Dundee; celebrity marriages; Whitney Houston; Comic Relief; Janet Jackson; Stand by Me; “Walk This Way”; and Top Gun.
Dirty Dancing; Tiffany, and Debbie Gibson; hair crimping; Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam; Fatal Attraction; Hair Metal; FOX; “It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”; controversial extra-martial affairs; Wall Street; “Fight for Your Right”; acid-wash, and Converse; Cheers; “Push It”; Hollywood Shuffle; “Addicted to Love”; The two Coreys; and U2's ‘The Joshua Tree’.
Mike Tyson; Child's Play; Roseanne; “Never Gonna Give You Up” Guns N' Roses; The Wonder Years; Modern Rock; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; “Don't Worry, Be Happy”; California Raisins; Perfect Strangers; George Michael's ‘Faith’; Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw; “Red, Red Wine”; Working woman's wardrobe, Color Me Beautiful (seasonal colors); Yo! MTV Raps, “Parents Just Don't Understand”, N.W.A and the rise of gangsta rap; Who's the Boss?; Terence Trent D'Arby; the neo-hippie movement; “Touch of Grey”; and Rain Man.
New Kids on the Block; Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; Milli Vanilli; Game Boy, and Tetris; COPS; Rob Lowe's sex video; “If I Could Turn Back Time”; Do the Right Thing; Madonna's “Like a Prayer” music video and the ensuing Pepsi controversy; Say Anything…; The Arsenio Hall Show; “Love Shack”; Bobby Brown; Afrocentric clothing; BayWatch; “Love in an Elevator”; Heathers; Saved by the Bell; “Funky Cold Medina”; and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
