I Love the '80s Strikes Back
I Love the 80s Strikes Back is a miniseries on VH-1 which explains such stories about the 1980s. The series premiered on October 20, 2003. The series is a sequel to I Love the 80s.
See also I Love the 70s, I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s.
Partial list of featured ideas and happenings of the 80s
- Fraggle Rock
- Pee-wee's Playhouse
- American Gigolo
- Journey
- The Cars' "Drive"
- The Smurfs
- Musical Youth's "Pass the Dutchie"
- KISS takes off the makeup
- Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again"
- Scruples
- 227
- Wayne Gretzky
- A Different World
- The Karate Kid
- On Golden Pond
- The Golden Child
- Revenge of the Nerds
- Richard Simmons
- The Outsiders
- Risky Business
- Dancing flowers
- Cagney and Lacey
- Hart to Hart
- Flowers in the Attic
- Remington Steele
- Less Than Zero
- Snausages
- The Toy
- Weekend at Bernie's
- When Harry Met Sally
- Conan the Barbarian
- Mr. Belvedere
- Laura Branigan's "Gloria"
- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
- Too Close for Comfort
- Rambo
- Christine
- Superman II
- Private Benjamin
- Stir Crazy
- The 1980 Flash Gordon movie
- Tootsie
- Mommie Dearest
- Friday the 13th
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Robocop
- Over the Top
- John Mellencamp
- Guns n' Roses' "Patience"
- Richard Marx
- thirtysomething
- Designing Women
- Bobby Knight
- MTV's House of Style
- Samantha Fox
- The Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian"
- Miami Sound Machine's "Conga"
- Genesis' "Land of Confusion"
- The clapper
- Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al"
- Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault
- Menudo
- Cujo
- Predator
- Beastmaster
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- The People's Court
- The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- Tina Turner
- Van Halen
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
- Eight is Enough
- Plastic Man cartoon show
- Clash of the Titans
- Ronald Reagan promotes jelly beans
- My Two Dads
- The Fat Boys
- Yuppies
- Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra"
- Field of Dreams
- Big
- Colecovision
- Beetlejuice
- A Fish Called Wanda
- V
- The Princess Bride
- Thompson Twins
- Thundercats
- Billy Idol
- Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"
- My Little Pony
- The Burning Bed
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Benson
- Rick James' "Super Freak"
- The Richie Rich cartoon show
- Devo's "Whip It"
- Jody Watley
- LL Cool J
- Endless Love
- Boy George
- Garbage Pail Kids
- Nightmare on Elm Street
- Jolt Cola
- The Fly
- Weird Science
- Gremlins
- The Fall Guy
- T.J. Hooker
- Bon Jovi
- Hypercolor shirts
- Coming to America
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Growing Pains
- Charles in Charge
- Rainbow Brite
- Jem
- Michael Jackson's "Rock with You"
- Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
- Beauty and the Beast
- Solid Gold
- Magnum, P.I.
- Ickey Woods and the Ickey Shuffle
- Fernando Valenzuela
- Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling
- Zsa Zsa Gabor slaps a policeman
- Teen Wolf
- Headbanger's Ball
- REM
- Jane's Addiction
- Sonic Youth
- Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round"
- 1988 presidential election
- The Pointer Sisters' "I'm So Excited"
- Men at Work
- Chicken McNuggets
- The Day After
- Splash
- Real People
- Bachelor Party
- Grey Poupon
- Staying Alive
- Tears for Fears
- Bobby Ewing comes back to life on Dallas
- Garfield suction cup dolls
- Remote Control
- Donkey Kong
- Sunglasses
- The wave
- The Blues Brothers
- Dynasty
- Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)"
- Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me"
- Tracy Chapman
- Full House
- L.A. Law
- Friendship bracelets
- Satin jackets
- Ribbon barettes
- Howard the Duck
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- Soul Man
- Suzanne Vega's "Luka"
- Double Dare
- Doogie Howser, M.D.
- G.I. Joe dolls and cartoon
- Alice
- Fame
- Yentl
- Beaches
- Young Guns
- About Last Night...
- Rolling Stones' "Tattoo You" tour
- Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park
- Iron-on decals
- Chia pet
- Steve Guttenberg
- The Thorn Birds
- North & South
- Crack cocaine
- Jenga
- Michael Jordan
- Trapper Keeper
- Scratch 'n' sniff stickers
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Annie
- Joe Isuzu
- What would you do for a Klondike bar?
- York Peppermint Pattie
- Choose Your Own Adventure books
- Martina Navratilova vs. Chris Evert
- Lycra fashion
- Stirrup pants
- Bo Jackson