TMC
08-23-2018, 12:12 AM
What TV show it just screams 1980s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TheEighties) the most: music, fashion, setting, etc.
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View Full Version : What is the quintessential 1980s TV show? TMC 08-23-2018, 12:12 AM What TV show it just screams 1980s (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UnintentionalPeriodPiece/TheEighties) the most: music, fashion, setting, etc. Crusinforabrusin 08-23-2018, 12:26 AM Cheers for sure jimpickens 08-23-2018, 01:02 AM Miami Vice and Square Pegs. tlc38tlc38 08-23-2018, 06:53 AM The Facts of Life robyrob 08-23-2018, 07:22 AM Square Pegs Adamantium 08-23-2018, 11:01 AM The Facts of Life I agree. This show just screams 1980s!!!!!! From the clothes to the hairdos. It's 100 percent 1980s. AMackII 08-23-2018, 11:02 AM Family Ties Newhart Cheers Miami Vice MA 08-23-2018, 11:49 AM Cheers Miami Vice Facts Of Life bgva 08-24-2018, 03:24 PM Miami Vice Family Ties Impressions 08-24-2018, 08:18 PM Miami Vice for sure and also, Miami-centric, The Golden Girls! RetroGuy2000 08-24-2018, 09:28 PM I'm torn. Family Ties was a very topical show for the '80s: here was Alex P. Keaton, endlessly spouting Reaganomics while Mallory and Jennifer went to the mall. The whole premise of the show was the 1980s. And yet... there is The Facts of Life. The later years of that show are so chock-full of '80s kitsch and '80s fashion that it's like a time capsule of that decade. Heck, the characters even started their own '80s kitsch store! At one point, a character is strangled to death using 1980s fuzzy dice! No one has yet mentioned Small Wonder, which hasn't dated well, and might go down as the most plastic cheese-fest of that decade. The '80s technology, combined with Jamie's wooden acting, the cutesy doll clothing they put Vicky in, and the bizarre scripts, definitely put this show in the running as one of the '80s-est things to ever '80s, IMO. AMackII 08-30-2018, 09:11 PM Remington Steele, The Golden Girls & Dynasty are also 1980s Quintessential TV Shows |