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Unified Theory of 80's Movies 

The fact that most all movies in the 80's had, at their core, a single running theme:

Bored suburban middle-to-upper-class white teens have crazy adventures and come full circle having learned a little about themselves.

How this particular zeitgeist arose is a matter of debate; its existence is not.

"Adventures in Babysitting, Mac & Me, Flight of the Navigator, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, License to Drive, Pretty In Pink, Mystic Pizza, The Wizard, Breakfast Club, Lucas, Gremlins, Risky Business, All the Right Moves, Back to the Future, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Boy Who Could Fly, Can't Buy Me Love, A Christmas Story, Dirty Dancing, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Goonies, Karate Kid, Labyrinth, Little Monsters, Lost Boys, The Monster Squad, Neverending Story, Pretty in Pink, Real Genius, Revenge of the Nerds, Say Anything, Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Stand By Me, Weird Science and War Games are just a few of the movies from the 80's that fit under the Unified Theory of 80's Movies."

80's after school special 

Totally Un believable, Un relatable, Un realistic drama with a lesson
80's after school specialJonathan steal candy from corner store. Laughed all the way home. Found out his mom is dying and the only thing thatvwill save her is the sales of those candies frim good lo Mr Ortega that helps the community is putting on fund raiser. And though Jonathan maid more then enough money volunteering to sell the most candies his heart was heavy. He needs to tell the truth.
2020 80's after school special
John cheats on Teresa with Stacy and lies about it. Teresa calls Stacy to confront her. Stacy said ots not me its him you need to talk to. John wont talk Teresa leaves John.

Newly single Teresa then gets asked out asked out on a date with Shilo. Excited for new energy, she agrees. Shilo pickes her up and goes to hos favorite place for pizza. ... when Tammy walks up. His ffiance. Dum da da dum Teresa has a 80's after school specieal on her hands.... does she get defensive and tell the girl off or remember confrontimg another girl in the same boat recently......whats the rigjt thing to do,?

Who gives a shit! Sounds like a 80's after school special to me!

80's music 

80's music consisted mostly of whiny guitars, semi-human(as in: never too masculine) voices and better lyrics in general than most/all of the hip-hop/pop songs that you will find on the radio today. Chances are, if the music sounds like a cross between innocently thundering guitars and lukewarm/strong drugs, it's 80's music. If there's a music video involving a singer with a spectacular vocal range and hair combed halfway up to the ceiling dancing on a stage with horrid patterns on his skin-tight outfit, it's 80's music. If you're too young understand the political references in the lyrics or just old enough to remember what they were about, it's 80's music. If a man wearing an 'I love the 80's!' t-shirt suddenly looks up at the supermarket and names a Duran Duran song to the nearest person, it's 80's music. If you go to amazon or e-bay and type '80's music' into the search field, it's 80's music. No, really, it's true.
Guitar: screech
Kid wearing a Pink Floyd shirt: Woah, that's so 80's music!
80's music by Datfish September 19, 2005

80's Hot 

it wasnt feathered hair in the 80's that was the 70's. in the 80's you tried to get your hair to look like an explosion in a mattress factory, with mousse, hairspray, curling iron, crimper.
my hair was unfortunately 80's hot (in the 80's)
80's Hot by da trick biatch January 7, 2006

80's knife 

An expression that is used as the object of a sentence relating to a situation that is reminiscent of the culture of the 1980's.
T1: Woah, check out that bitchen' Camaro stacked with the blower on the hood.

T2: That car makes me want to kill myself with an 80's knife.
80's knife by zwibble de jah jah December 26, 2008

80's cleaning montage 

cleaning up a mess in extremely fast motion while music is playing, made popular by 80's sitcoms
Person 1: Uhh, this is going to take forever to clean!

Person 2: Not if we use an 80's cleaning montage. Lets go!