What is the quintessential 1980s TV show? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 08-23-2018, 12:12 AM

What TV show it just screams 1980s 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

Quote:

Originally Posted by tlc38tlc38

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

08-23-2018, 12:12 AM	#1
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08-24-2018, 09:28 PM	#11
RetroGuy2000 Julie,Julie Anne,&Felice 4Ever Forum Star Join Date: Dec 27, 2013 Posts: 16,914	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.
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08-23-2018, 12:26 AM	#2
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08-23-2018, 01:02 AM	#3
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08-23-2018, 11:02 AM	#7
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08-24-2018, 08:18 PM	#10
Impressions She died the way she lived Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 08, 2002 Posts: 4,640	Miami Vice for sure and also, Miami-centric, The Golden Girls!

08-30-2018, 09:11 PM	#12
AMackII Member Forum Star Join Date: Oct 23, 2015 Location: St. Louis Posts: 17,221	Remington Steele, The Golden Girls & Dynasty are also 1980s Quintessential TV Shows