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Equalizer was famous for its music, which was composed (in the first couple of seasons exclusively) by Stewart Copeland of the Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAei6YFGlDQ I didn't know that he also composed the music for Spyro the Dragon until I starting hearing motifs from its music in the Equalizer soundtrack.  Also: a fun (?) fact on Manimal: Simon MacCorkindale was once a contender to play James Bond.
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His name could fit easily on a modern wide screen tv, unlike in the past. Why didn't they make him change his named to like McDale or something?
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He has one of those Wikipedia pages that's detailed enough that you'd think he wrote it himself, but it includes one amusing comment about how his refusal to do an American accent restricted the range of roles available to him in the early 80s because it his RP accent made him sound "too intellectual" for audiences. But it also says that, with Manimal, he was one of the first British actors who had the lead role on a primetime American show, along with Joan Collins in Dynasty, then later on people like Christopher Hewett in Mr Belvedere and Edward Woodward in The Equalizer, then Patrick Stewart was on TNG and all of a sudden every show wanted some posh-voiced English bloke.
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One of the lesser-known kid's toy shows I loved back then was Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. I think it was a Canadian production. A live-action show with special effects that seemed pretty cool at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjRsRb1hfA There was another feature of the Captain Power merchandise that was neat: one of the toys was a fighter jet with a pistol-grip/trigger, and light sensors. You could buy VHS tapes that were basically animated on-rails shooters, with the jet toy keeping track of how many targets you shot and how many times you got hit by hazards. If you got hit too many times, it would activate the jet's ejector seat and launch your pilot out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0S0U0DBQo
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Pastry of the Year posted:Want to see what the state of the art was in computer animation in 1985? Talkin' 'bout CGI from 1985? How about Tony de Peltrie, the first CGI character to express emotion through facial and body expressions? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=munTr4vmxYE Ol' Tony showed up in a commercial for Optrex in the UK just three years after the original short, looking more refined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgrJJrPXQt4
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twistedmentat posted:Speaking of Thriller They'd show it every Halloween and I watched it with my family. I can remember us sitting down for the official releases of Black and White and Remember the Time as well (although those were of course released in the 90s) It's completely impossible to imagine all of TV stopping for an artist like that today and really it's impossible to imagine one artist taking up that much of the public consciousness any more. e: also those videos are all either very near or over 10 minutes long and ain't no one loving around with that these days fast cars loose anus has a new favorite as of 09:05 on Jun 7, 2018 |
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What was this cartoon called? I have a faint memory of it.
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We Know Catheters posted:What was this cartoon called? I have a faint memory of it. The Littles
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You Are A Elf posted:Talkin' 'bout CGI from 1985? How about Tony de Peltrie, the first CGI character to express emotion through facial and body expressions? That's seriously impressive for its time. Tony there reminds me of Mr. Game Show, which is probably the most one-off 1980s America toy imaginable:  This is from 1974 (!), but anyone interested in that old CG facial animation should get acquainted with this video (the music is exactly what you'd want it to be, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ  I confidently predict "they" will be idolizing my statue in the year 3010.
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Iron Crowned posted:I didn't understand or grasp it then, but at 5 I do remember the Challenger disaster despite the fact that my mom tells me that I don't I really don't recall the Berlin Wall coming down. I mean, I do, to a certain degree, but al of the famous footage I'm sure I saw later in life and just group them together. But the Challenger? I mean, there was a teacher going into space. So every drat school sat all the kids in front of a TV that morning to watch the historic launch. And every kid got to see what unfolded...
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fast cars loose anus posted:Also I do love 80s music More Toto! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOLtTGvsbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgr3pvBr-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCq9751mOFo
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Yeah, but it was still popular in the 80s
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Moral Panics were pretty popular in the 80s. You have the Satanic Panic with its McMartin preschool trial. These were the most sinister becuase they ruined peoples lives because religious nuts who were acting like modern day inquisitors would show up and run roughshod over everyone local because some one was found dead in an abandoned building and because someone spraypainted Slayer on a wall, it meant SATANISTS. McMartin was a little different becuase it was a clear case of collusion between police and the religious nuts to coerce children into claiming Satanic ritual abuse had occured. Things like being flushed down toilets to secret tunnels where bunnies and babies were sacrificed and traveling in hot air balloons. It was obvious to anyone with half a brain that this was complete horseshit, but it ruined the lives of the people running the preschool. I remember about a decade ago, some article saying someone had found tunnels under the site where the school had been which proved it, but it turned out they just found the storm sewer. There's less sinister and life destroying moral panics too. The Revened and second worst named person ever after Jordan Peterson, Rev Phil Phillips wrote a book called Turmoil in the Toybox which claimed that toys and cartoons were full of occult things. Occult things being basically anything that isn't explicitly Christian, like Yoda promotes occult ideas like Zen Buddhism. There's also Deception of a Generation, which is a movie version of the book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnjdq32u-MU&t=155s Now these people are trying to get gay people throw in camps and saying God chose Trump. The D&D one kept going, but it ran out of steam, but that didn't stop them from making a TV movie that was very losley based on the poor kid who tried to kill himself because he was gay in the late 70s but blamed D&D instead. Mazes and Monsters was also the first Tom Hanks movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IksagJHO6vs I guess Christians didn't have a lot of real problems in the 80s.
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Moral panics were definitely a thing in the 80s. If you have HBONow there's a movie called Indictment: The McMartin Trial starring James Woods that covers a lot of it. It's not bad. The 80s also featured Tipper Gore creating the PMRC and insisting that heavy metal and other rock was corrupting our youth. If you were British you also got to live through the Video Nasties thing; there are some good docs on Shudder about that. Here's more 80s music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9AbeALNVkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwrg0db_zY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9kW4A16es fast cars loose anus has a new favorite as of 07:52 on Jun 8, 2018 |
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I still have my Colecovision and Intellivision with the Intellivoice. https://youtu.be/EQMOkC2BdRk
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So I was watching an episode of the old Mister T cartoon, as one does, and:  Steve Gerber was a critically acclaimed comic book writer, and Jack Kirby was (is) the King of Comics, for the four or five of you that didn't know that he had a hand in creating almost everything that's dominating the modern pop culture zeitgeist.
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That's weird, no one has Kirby Jaw, and I don't remember Mr T having Kirby Crackle when he punched people. I was thinking about the Anti Drug PSA's posted earlier, and I was reminded of the bizarre world they showed. In the 80s, it was assumed there were scary pushers everywhere trying to get kids to try drugs, but like, I doubt there were really guys in overcoats going "hey kid, want some coke?" all over the place. Also, i doubt little kids are the target market for drug dealers.
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There was a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80s that used to be on when I was a kid. The protagonist had some kind of grapple hook wrist bracelet device he would use a lot and I remember there being kind of an Egyptian feel to the whole thing. Does anyone have any clue if this existed or if I’m just getting too old.
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Pastry of the Year posted:So I was watching an episode of the old Mister T cartoon, as one does, and: Check out Gerber's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0314153/ G.I. Joe, Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons
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Ferrule posted:Sky Commanders, maybe? Holy poo poo yes! Thank you! It’s like my brain has been itched!
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Cosby did as for New Coke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GmAmT0_zgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnMKhfloQbA This is amazingly awkward. Pepsi had Michael Jackson though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po0jY4WvCIc
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Between 1983-1984 there was a brief genre of fake news broadcasts/mockumentaries about nuclear war. Threads is probably the most famous of these but there we a few American productions that really capture that news and nuclear terror feel of the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZQsVNZ3SE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knSSUEdLcvg The BBC did something similar recently after Russia annexed the Crimea. Sorry they're a little more bleak than GI-Joes and Transformers.
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twistedmentat posted:Pepsi had Michael Jackson though You can't link a Pepsi MJ commercial without talking about the time they literally lit his hair on fire
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Reminds me of this old chestnut burned into my brain from frequent commercial breaks during Saturday morning cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md_uz1dKMTM Over thirty years old and still radical as a motherfucker.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:The BBC did something similar recently after Russia annexed the Crimea. Sorry they're a little more bleak than GI-Joes and Transformers. It wasn't the BBC, it was some third party working through a Irish shell company. Probably Russian psywar because the video had a bunch of the usual language about "NATO's aggression against Russia in the Baltic" and so on.
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C.M. Kruger posted:It wasn't the BBC, it was some third party working through a Irish shell company. Probably Russian psywar because the video had a bunch of the usual language about "NATO's aggression against Russia in the Baltic" and so on. No poo poo? Well that's good to know. It's an entertaining piece of propaganda, at least.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Between 1983-1984 there was a brief genre of fake news broadcasts/mockumentaries about nuclear war. Threads is probably the most famous of these but there we a few American productions that really capture that news and nuclear terror feel of the 80s. Wasn't the 80s, but the 90s, but CBS aired a 2 fake news movie called "Without Warning" which was about a mysterious signal from space and a disappearing town, and the speculation of whether or not it was aliens.
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I'm probably wrong in that I'm speaking from nostalgia and everyone probably has this moment in their early youth, but I've told my decade-younger siblings and other young folks there was something "different" about the early 80s when E.T. was huge, when there were cartoons on every weekday afternoon and Saturday morning, and when Michael Jackson could do no wrong. I think the real difference was the childhood innocence and ignorance of not understanding the impact of racism and sexism in the media we consumed. While you saw growth in diverse casts, we were still lied to via poo poo like DARE, most everything had white male lead/white female love interest/black male wacky sidekick. With that said, He-man, She-ra, Bravestarr (underrated!), Silverhawks, Jem, and Pee-Wee's Playhouse are my all-time 80s favorites I'm very queer now Oh, and this, which aired on old Nickelodeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGOMnE26jNo (Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea) twistedmentat posted:That's weird, no one has Kirby Jaw, and I don't remember Mr T having Kirby Crackle when he punched people. Kirby did the character design sheets, but (sadly) nothing of his style translated into the final animation. Ferrule posted:But the Challenger? I mean, there was a teacher going into space. So every drat school sat all the kids in front of a TV that morning to watch the historic launch. And every kid got to see what unfolded... I'm from Florida and got to watch it in person. I remember sobbing uncontrollably and being ridiculed for it by most of my peers (and my lovely teacher) except for one perceptive girl who asked if I knew someone on the shuttle. I didn't, but it seemed like I was one of the few kids who understood on some level what had happened. Challenger was tiny me's favorite shuttle!  twistedmentat posted:Weird Al - Dare to be Stupid This and "Take On Me" are the two earliest music videos I remember outside of Michael Jackson's Thriller. All three are probably critical to shaping the kind of music and entertainment I enjoy even today, but Weird Al installed my love of good-natured parody.
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Was Thundarr the Barbarian 80s? I remember thinking that poo poo was rad; Earth had been turbo-hosed by the apocalypse, so it was slightly medieval and magic existed again. Thundarr had an energy sword, hung out with a Chewbacca knock-off, and kicked rear end. I think. It's been a while.
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Thundarr was 1980-1981. It was another one Steve Gerber was involved in; Alex Toth (who'd done a lot of superhero animation work going back to Space Ghost in the 1960s) was supposed to design the characters but wasn't available, so Gerber and Mark Evanier managed to get Jack Kirby aboard instead.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:
I'm trying to think of what else were some of the earliest videos I can remember. Seeing music videos was pretty rare unless you had cable and acess to those channels. There was a show called Switchback in Canada in the 80s that was localized for certain markets, but the Atlantic Provinces had the best host, Stan The Man. It showed Music videos, normally head to head by phone voting. How I saw stuff like Ghosbusters or Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. There's not much of this on youtube but weirdly, there are clips of Stanton Friedman, the original weird UFO guy on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzuWbzkdHDk&t=12s I was thinking about artists that are big in the 70s and how they adjusted into the 80s Elton John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-Q-Acv4qs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KYAVn8ons David Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTYvjrM6djo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4d7Wp9kKjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyMm4rJemtI I think they came out pretty good. Though Kiss probably lost its edge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcj34XixuYg I mean kiss really had their hayday in the late 70s when they had the attraction of being the band your parents hate, and nothing gets a teenager into something faster than their parents hating it. But by the 80s, parents had softened and I remember watching a doc about Kiss and their fandom and one of the interviewees said "Kiss was dead to me the moment my little brother went as Gene Simmons for Halloween". But I still remember kids current affairs programs still talking about them as they were still massively popular. My cousin was a bigger kiss fan so I learned more about them from him.
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