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1980s

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What everyone in the Eighties looked like
What everyone in the Eighties looked like

The 1980s were a period of time between the years 1967-1993. Your parents and 16 year old girls who weren't even there fap to the decade fondly, even though it was actually ten years of overrated movies and shitty music.

[edit] List of things that happened in the 1980s

  • Morrissey invented gayds.
  • Ronald Reagan fucked up the Third World.
  • Budd Dwyer blew his fucking brains out.
  • Internet stalking was yet to be invented.
  • Boy George had an adventure.
  • Danny Elfman sang that Weird Science song.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles showed kids how to kill each other.
  • Nintendo was invented, thereby enabling basement dwellers to spread rumors that some guy spent so long gaming that he died of malnourishment.
  • Traci Lords made everyone a pedophile.
  • J-pop stopped evolving permanently.
  • Animation dropped in quality from entertaining stories to being just shitty toy commercials.
  • M*A*S*H made everybody cry!
  • Many, many hair crimes. Ozone layer nearly entirely destroyed due to excessive use of Aqua*Net hairspray.
  • J.R. Ewing got shot. Everybody cared.
  • Black midgets everywhere! Gary Coleman and Emmanuel Lewis are still trying to figure out WTF happened.
  • Your sister had a crush on John Taylor from Duran Duran.
  • Your brother had a crush on Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran.
  • Your mom thought shoulder pads that made her look like a linebacker were attractive.
  • People were not ashamed to be seen in public with rat-tails and mullets. Aimee Mann, then in a band pretentiously named 'til tuesday, may have had the most impressive rat-tail of all.
  • Cyndi Lauper made trash-picking fashionable.
  • Madonna started screwing her way to the middle, starting with Jellybean Benitez, while living on popcorn and McDonald's french fries she dug out of dumpsters.
  • Andy Warhol died after gallbladder surgery.
  • Metallica were still metal
  • Punky Brewster became an early bloomer.
  • MTV actually had music videos. I KNOW! Crazy, or what?

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