I LOVE THE 80s (Not Really)

Radical and Bodacious Words

• Awesome

• Bogus

• Fer sure

• Fresh

• Gag me with a spoon

• Gnarly

• Gross me out

• McFly

• Preppie

• Radical

• Yuppie

• Excellent

• Not good / Fake

• Yes (Agreement)

• Cool

• Disgusting

• Exceptional

• Disgusting

• Nerd / Geek

• Snob

• Extremely hip

• Material, rich person

1980s Movies

What 80s movies are these?

“Your Jedi

mind

tricks do

not work

on me.”

1980

The Empire

Strikes Back (#30 All-Time Gross)

1983

Return of the

Jedi (#24 All-Time Gross)

What 80s alien

movie made this

candy popular?

OUCH!

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Directed and Produced

By:

Steven Spielberg

Steve and Harry

are together

trying to find 10

old laws in this

top grossing

movie of 1981.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Star: Harrison Ford

Directed and Produced By: Steven Spielberg

What 1986

Academy

Award Winning

Movie made

Americans face

the realities of

the Vietnam

War?

80s Movies

“Man, do I love a happy ending”

The Breakfast Club (1985)

What 80s

movie made

Saturday

Morning

detention fun?

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

What movie

showed

that skipping

school

was easy in

Chicago?

Sixteen Candles (1984)

What movie

allowed a

jock to notice a

nobody girl on

her

16th birthday?

1980s Television

This show named

after a Texas town

was the highest

rated show 3 times

in the 80s.

Aired 1978 - 1991

Who Shot JR Ewing?

First Cliffhanger

• 2nd most watch episode

• over 83 million watched

• Queen of England

• Turkish Parliament

The Cosby Show

What 80s TV show

was about a lawyer

mom and a doctor

dad who lived in

Brooklyn?

• Neilson rated #1 show for 5 straight years

(1985-1990)

• Opened the door for African-American shows

• First Aired

June 1, 1980

• Watershed

moment: Captured

Persian Gulf War

Live

• Internationally

available to 1.5

billion people and

212 countries and

territories

• #1 cable news

source

What did music lovers want in the 80s?

Aired August 1, 1981

“Video killed the radio star”

by the Buggles

The Oprah Winfrey Show

• Time voted this show among the “Best TV shows of the 20th century”

• TV Guide’s voted it among the top 50 all-time TV shows

The Oprah Winfrey Show

• Aired 1986 – 2011 (25 seasons)

• Oprah’s worth $2.5 billion

80s Pop Music

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – “The Boss” “The hardest working man in show business”

• sold over 60 million

records in the US

• 15 Grammy Awards

• Inducted into Rock and

Roll HOF -1999

• #23 all-time best

musician

–Rolling Stone

MADONNA –The “Material Girl”

• won 2 Grammy

Awards and a Golden

Globe

• sold over 200 million

records worldwide

• 2006 Confessions

tour top grossing tour

for female artist

• worth $850 million

MICHAEL JACKSON –The “King of Pop”

• sold 750 million records worldwide

• 13 Grammy Awards

• 13 #1 Hits

• Guinness Record Book “Most successful Entertainer of All Time”

TOYS

TOYS

The 1980s: Sports

• All Time Career Hit

Leader = 4,256

• 3 World Series

• 3 batting titles

• 1 MVP

• 2 Gold Gloves

• Rookie of the Year

• 17 All Star Appearances

Pete Rose –“Charlie Hustle”

Banned from Baseball (1989)

We really do love the 80s