I Love the '80s Strikes Back

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I Love the '80s Strikes Back is a miniseries on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1980s popular culture in a mostly humorous manner. The series premiered on October 20, 2003. The series is a sequel to I Love the '80s.

The sequel designation is in reference to The Empire Strikes Back.

Contents 1 Recurring Segments 2 Topics covered by year 3 1980 4 1981 5 1982 6 1983 7 1984 8 1985 9 1986 10 1987 11 1988 12 1989 13 External links

[edit] Recurring Segments

• Donal Logue gives an unfinished thought on a pop culture event from each year.
• Boy George presents the "Break-up Songs" for each year.
• Doug E. Fresh presents the hip-hop jam for each year.
• A public service announcement from each year is presented.
• Gedde Watanabe presents the nerds for each year.
• Gilbert Gottfried presents the "What the F@#$!" moment (i.e., blunder) for each year.

[edit] Topics covered by year

[edit] 1980

• American Gigolo
• Too Close For Comfort
• Devo's "Whip It"
• Richie Rich
• Grey Poupon
• Superman II
• Plastic Man
• Flash Gordon
• Michael Jackson's "Rock with You"
• Real People
• The Blues Brothers
• Eight is Enough (started in 1977)
• Solid Gold
• Satin jackets
• Stir Crazy
• Private Benjamin
• Alice (started 1976)
• Friendship bracelets
• Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me"
• Hungry Hungry Hippos
• Friday the 13th

[edit] 1981

• Dynasty
• Smurfs
• Journey's Escape
• On Golden Pond
• Billy Squier's "The Stroke"
• Endless Love
• Magnum P.I.
• Rick James' "Super Freak"
• Iron-on decals
• The Fall Guy
• The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You
• Fernando Valenzuela
• Hart to Hart
• Benetton
• Benson (debuted 1979)
• Jelly Belly
• Jelly shoes
• Clash of the Titans
• Simon and Garfunkel's concert in Central Park
• Mommie Dearest

[edit] 1982

• Fame
• Annie
• The Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra"
• Tootsie
• ColecoVision
• John Mellencamp
• Wayne Gretzky
• Laura Branigan's "Gloria"
• The Toy
• Conan the Barbarian and The Beastmaster
• Men at Work
• KangaROOS
• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
• T.J. Hooker
• The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• G.I. Joe
• Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie"
• Pink Floyd The Wall
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[edit] 1983

• Richard Simmons
• Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)"
• Staying Alive
• Klondike bar
• The Thorn Birds
• Risky Business
• Sunglasses
• The Day After
• The Outsiders
• Cujo and Christine
• Snausages
• Chicken McNuggets
• Stray Cats' "Rock This Town"
• Donkey Kong
• Culture Club
• Yentl
• KISS takes off their makeup
• Martina Navratilova
• Fraggle Rock
• V

[edit] 1984

• The Karate Kid
• Van Halen's 1984
• The wave
• The Cars' "Drive"
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Cagney and Lacey (originally 1982)
• Menudo
• Scratch and sniff and Trapper Keeper
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Thompson Twins
• Michael Larson incident
• My Little Pony and Glo Worm
• Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"
• Splash and Bachelor Party (both starring Tom Hanks)
• Gremlins
• The Burning Bed
• Tina Turner
• Stirrup pants
• Billy Idol
• Revenge of the Nerds

[edit] 1985

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
• Rambo: First Blood Part II
• Crack epidemic
• Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"
• Teen Wolf
• Inspector Gadget
• Remington Steele
• Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus"
• Jenga
• Tears for Fears
• Bobby Knight
• The People's Court
• Dionne Warwick's "That's What Friends Are For"
• 227
• North and South
• Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is"
• Mr. Belvedere
• New Coke
• Jem
• Weird Science

[edit] 1986

• Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Jolt Cola
• Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet
• L.A. Gear
• Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al"
• Soul Man
• Rainbow Brite
• The Bangles' "Walk Like An Egyptian"
• Dallas episode "Bobby Ewing Comes Back To Life"
• Howard The Duck
• About Last Night
• The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault
• Ocean Pacific
• Gloria Estefan's "Conga"
• L.A. Law
• The Golden Child
• Double Dare
• Garbage Pail Kids
• Michael Jordan
• Don Johnson's "Heartbeat"
• Joe Isuzu
• The Fly (remake of 1958's original)

[edit] 1987

• Beauty and the Beast
• Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
• Scruples
• The Fat Boys
• Flowers in the Attic
• LL Cool J
• Predator, RoboCop, and Over the Top
• Doc Martens
• Michael Jackson's "Bad"
• Full House
• Less Than Zero
• Jody Watley
• Remote Control
• Biker shorts
• Thundercats
• Raising Arizona
• Suzanne Vega's "Luka"
• A Different World
• Genesis's "Land of Confusion"
• Steve Guttenberg
• The Princess Bride

[edit] 1988

• Big
• Growing Pains (original debut 1985)
• MTV's Headbangers Ball
• Ripped jeans
• Beetlejuice
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Billy Ocean's "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car"
• Jamaican bobsled team
• My Two Dads
• Garfield stuffed animals
• Beaches
• Charles in Charge (original debut 1984)
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Ickey Woods and Bash Brothers
• Hypercolor t-shirts
• Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me"
• Young Guns
• R.E.M., Jane's Addiction, and Sonic Youth
• Vice President George Bush elected President of the United States
• Chia Pet
• Tracy Chapman
• Coming to America

[edit] 1989

• Weekend at Bernie's
• Doogie Howser M.D.
• Samantha Fox's "I Wanna Have Some Fun"
• The Clapper
• Field of Dreams
• Pete Rose
• Biz Markie's "Just A Friend"
• Thirtysomething
• Yuppie
• Richard Marx
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Zsa Zsa Gabor slaps a cop
• Guns N' Roses' "Patience"
• Rock N Roll Flowers
• The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
• Bo Jackson
• Designing Women
• York Peppermint Pattie
• House of Style
• Choose Your Own Adventure books
• When Harry Met Sally

[edit] External links

• I Love the '80s Strikes Back on vh1.com

v • d • e VH1's I Love the... series Series I Love the '80s (2002) • I Love the '70s (2003) • I Love the '80s Strikes Back (2003) • I Love the '90s (2004) • I Love the '90s: Part Deux (2005) • I Love the '80s 3-D (2005) • I Love the Holidays (2005) • I Love Toys (2006) • I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006) • I Love the New Millennium (2008) See also Best Week Ever