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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2015
- 80 facts about the '80s will take you through the pop culture, scientific, and sociopolitical minefield of the 1980s. You'll learn facts about the eighties that will have you kicking your hackysack into Haley's comet (is that a good thing?) Remember: The List Show is a weekly show where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John takes a fond look back at the '80s as he discusses 80 facts about the eighties.
For more facts about the 1980s, check out our article about the 20 best movies of the 1980s: www.mentalfloss.com/article/6...
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Paryt all the time
Pat all the time.kkds.
Here's hoping to 2000 facts about the 2000s
Wouldn't it be 00 facts about the 2000s?
4:34 "Image licensing is hard" XD I found that much more hilarious than I should have!!
"We'll do it in one take, then I'll drive you home..." That's literally the blind leading the blind!
"Have you ever seen their pianos?" Neither have they!!!" 80's joke...
As someone who actually is blind, I cracked up when I heard that. That is absolutely something that I would… Scratch that, I have said to multiple people. The blind leading the blind is exactly right, and I love it 🤣🤣🤣👨🏻🦯
I think we all are wondering this...
When did reality become TV?
Whatever happened to sitcoms, game shows, on the radio?
Nice Bowling for Soup reference.
To be honest, I'm a big fan of
Springsteen, Madonna. Way before Nirvana there was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV
Haha I love Elton John!
And like sadly my 2 kids in high school they tell me that I'm uncool. Maybe its just because I'm preoccupied with 1985.
Oh god... what have I created?
Please make this stop, stop, stop.
Now that you are done with the 80s can we go Back to the Future?
2015 was the future in Back to the Future 2. Where's my damn hoverboard!?!!?!
Liked for referring to the decade correctly grammatically.
rusman74x we have until october!
Lucror Σ They're still very primitive, they only hover about a centimeter off the ground and only work on metallic surfaces.
fatman182 Arguably should have an apostrophe in front, too, but kudos to the fella for resisting an apostrophe between the "0" and the "s."
He could have also mentioned that M&Ms turned down the spot in ET, because they were afraid an alien movie might make their product look gross. Reese's Pieces won that round!
Everybody else was here 4yrs ago.
YT: ok, NOW you can this one!
ME: Lol!, Better LATE than NEVER! Right? 😃
As for number 43: Neil Armstrong was the commander of Apollo 11. MTV used a photo of the 2nd man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin and John Young from Apollo 16 famously the "saluting astronaut". They eventually used video or still photos from all the moon landings.
I recently went through a drawer of old pens. I threw out almost all of them--only a few were still good, including all of the 15-year-old Jelly Rollers. Been using them. The colors are even still swirled. I'm surprised at what great quality they actually are!
Ones you missed:
1.Michael Jackson insisted on manhole scenes in both Beat It & Thriller.
2. Michael Jackson Thriller album set a record for sales and the video was the longest music video at that time.
3. Jamz Shorts were made popular.
4. The movie Risky Business made the Rayban Wayfarer sunglasses popular.
5.Rick Springfield's character on General Hospital was Noah Drake.
6. The wedding between Luke and Laura on General Hospital set a record of some sort.
7. Star Wars character Lando Calrissian was made because people complained there were no black people in the movie.
8. Coca Cola suffered a tremendous backlash and thousands of letters complaining about New Coke. This is why you see the words Classic Coke on cans.
9. Some of the rumors about Micahel Jackson were started by Michael Jackson
10. The Berlin wall was torn down due to miscommunication.
11. The Pet Rock was invented as a gag but sold a million units. This may be the 70s.
12. The Nickelodeon green slime started on a show called You can't do that on television..
13. The Show Dukes of Hazzard destroyed over 450 Dodge Chargers and are this is why that particular nale and model is hard to find.
14. Happy Days ( I know it started in the 70s but it ran into the 80s) star Henry Winkler never smoked a pack of cigarettes, but kept a pack rolled under his sleeve to seem macho.
15. The term jump the shark was from the show Happy Days when Fonzi jumped a shark and then he ratings plummeted. ,
The theme from the Clapper commercial may have been used earlier in a Sine-Off nasal spray commercial, but it's a lot older than that. As the "Duckworth Chant" or "Sound Off!", the US Army has been using it to call cadence since 1944. Vaughn Monroe recorded a commercial version of the chant in 1951.
Anyone laugh when Steve wonder said to ray Charles that he would drive him home two blind guys in car bad Idea
If I recall correctly, one of the country-western artists present refused to sing in Swahili.
I did, I am also blind, and my friends and I make these kinds of jokes all the time.
Thank the 80s for the best time of my life!!!!!!!!
I have vague memories of seeing Haley's Comet over a tree top as a kid.
Me too! Party all the time is now stuck right in the middle of my brain.
I learned more about the '80 from this then I have from asking people who lived during this time.
Plot Twist: Jessie's girl goes on to be Stacy's Mom.
Rob LaRosa did you know that when you play the songs side by side they're very similar?
😮
The 80s had a lot of cool stuff going on in it. It's my favorite era, after all I was born in it.
You should definitely do 2000 facts about the 2000s
Wait, you mean he's NOT saying "I wish I was Jessie's girl"?
It's "I wish that I had Jessie's girl"
He's saying "I wish that I had Jessie's girl"
So many ways you could have punctuated "'80s," and you chose the correct one. Congratulations.
Truly outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
These facts are TOTALLY AWESOME!
Jazzercise!
I
Miss the 80's... Wish i could go back. 😒
The Catcher in the Rye also takes place in New York
I was born 5 days from today in 1983. The best day in all of history.
Can you please do an episode about misconceptions about world war 2
jazzercise! :)
Say yeah comment where this phrase came from I'll sub if you get it right ,
SASSY SO SASSY
By far the best list show in quite sometime
8:11 This was because of the still recent video game crash of 1984, when the US video game console market fell to shambles because of a large amount of extremely similar consoles that all played the same terrible games. Toy stores didn't want to sell another game console, particularly one that came from Japan.
Nintendo also included ROB in the first line of US NESes, to sell it as a toy, not a game console. ROB was a "robot" who could play games with a player, but it only worked on two games (and it didn't work particularly well for either of them).
I enjoy these so much! That Stevie Wonder/Ray Charles joke was a great chuckle at the end. Well told sir.
I started this video thinking "80 facts? Why do we need 80 facts?" but now it's over and I want more facts. Hahaha
All these years I never knew the reference for every time my mom would say "Bedtime for Bonzo(s)". Thanks John!
Thank you for teh nostalgic trip through my childhood - amazing the stuff kids remember huh?
Last bit was a treat
Class of 1985! Good times, that's for sure! :)
When I was a kid I always wanted a waterbed.
Stevie Wonder : "I'll drive you home". Proper LOL !
John Green is my favorite, I love his books, and he's brilliant! I've read Paper Town at least 7 times!!
I studied in the US in the 80's. I'd forgotten about Fraggle Rock until I saw ths video. Great show!
Next week, 0 facts about the 2000's.... wait.
Or 2000 facts oo
Peliculas en espanol
Or 100 facts.
So many memories for me. And Jazzercise.
Jazzercise!! I love Mental Floss!!
Thank you for pronouncing Reese's Pieces correctly, even though pronunciation isn't your thing. I don't understand why some folks think it's Ree-Sees. Doesn't rhyme with pieces!
The latter pronunciation would fit nicely if they ever released "Reese's Feces"
How do people think it's ree-sees? that doesn't make any sense!
Unless you say Ree-sees pee-sees, like I do. I'm not saying it's the right way, I just knew it had to rhyme. I felt more comfortable changing the pronunciation of an actual word than a made up word used to describe a chocolate candy. Priorities.
Evolutionmine16 I do the same thing.
Evolutionmine16 And do you say "Ree-see Witherspoon?"
the Stevie wonder joke is GOLD
What's disturbing about waterbeds? I'll have been sleeping on one since 1984 and my wife since we got married in 1991. My wife said that I have spoiled her and she has trouble sleeping on a regular mattress. What was nice was when we switched from a free-flow to a waveless mattress. Now the mattress doesn't slosh around when someone gets in or out of the bed.
I think it was a cringe for him because they actually did hurt a lot of people's backs. My parents had one for a while and I loved moving around on that thing
We still sleep on a waterbed. The big disadvantage is finding sheets for it. The only place I can find waterbed sheets is online.
A+ video!
Great facts, so much pop culture history took place during that decade.
Lemon on a pear is my favorite 80's song
Don't you mean Lizard in a Chair?
I grew up in the 80s and I have to say that while most of this list is news to me, there are a few things that were common knowledge at the time (EVH playing on "Beat It"). And for the record, I personally, had never even heard of Reese's Pieces until E.T. came out. I had always thought the candy and movie were made and introduced to the public simultaneously. I guess I was wrong.
I remember New Years Eve 1979 and thinking things were about to change. I was 14. So much did.
There funny thing is, it doesn't feel that long ago. Due to digital media each decade looks pretty much the same. Yes, there are tech advances but we keep longing for the times before the internet. When we actually interacted with others.
Decades took decades to pass, now it seems it takes only a year. 2010 to now was not the same span as 1970 to 1980.
Time keeps on slippin'...into the future.
Thanks for mentioning my Rainbow Brite Museum (#32)!! The cosplayer pic that went along with it wasn't me, but it's all good...lol :)
BTW, for those curious - here's more info about the museum: www.rainbowbrite.net/collect/museum/
Rick Allen & Def Leppard happened in 1978.
"79 Facts About the 80s."
Yes I was hoping someone would say something about this, as soon as he said it I was like well that’s wrong as he joined the band on his 15th birthday which was in 1978, if they said he lost his left arm in a crash and carried on playing then that would be a fact
They were huge in the 80s though
Interesting fact: To arrive back in 1985, rather than a DeLorean, all that is needed is a TRUSTY BUTTER KNIFE!
Dr. Ruth was actually a spotter in an Israeli sniper unit - not a sniper herself, but she did retire (at like age 19), due to taking shrapnel from an explosive device. So all in all, pretty badass for a little old lady that asked you way too many questions about your sex life.
Out of all the possible Transformers facts, you chose that? You could have gone with the fact that Peter Cullen, who voiced Optimus Prime also voiced Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Or that Frank Welker, who voiced Prime's archenemy Megatron also provided the voice for Spike, of The Land Before Time. (So in addition to robotic space warlords, they were also the memorable big, slow, quadrupeds in kids' cartoons)
Both men provided voices for Ghost Buster cartoons, and both were in the Rambo TV series.
And that's just scratching the surface. There are certainly tons of interesting facts about the original Transformers that could have been mentioned... but no. Let's go with "there was a guy who quit because of that one racist character."
Aside from that, great video!
Jazzercise! I love you, behind-the-camera people!
You have Wilson in the backround! :D
An interesting fact related to #52:
Land also designed the reconnaissance camera on the U2 spy plane.
70s and 80s=best music
glad I was born in awesome 80s ^^
You guys make me feel old I was born in the early 80's and remember most of these things >.< lol
My first "big girl" bed was a water bed. haha
For the entirety of this video, Wilson stared at me and it gave me the chills.
Jazzercise! I love every video John Green puts out!
It is depressing when your teenage years show up on nostalgia shows.
Reese's Pieces were barely four years old at the time, so an increase in popularity doesn't mean much. The book featured M&Ms.
I don't get the MTV one, Neil Armstrong was in Apollo 11.
Posted on my Birthday, very special. ;)
In Orlando, they say things like "I hate tourists."
John you mentioned Hasbro products three time this episode maybe you should do an episode dedicated to Hasbro just an idea.
I only really remember two McNugget shapes-the boot and the ball. When I was a kid, the boot was my favorite, I'd bit off the toe then finish off the rest.
Now, I've got an 80's joke for you...
What did Michael Jackson do when his hair caught fire? Beat it!
Shit, that was so unintellegent of me. I should go die in a fire.
***** And I would beat the crap out of it.
michael jackson hasn't looked himself since the 80s
***** Duh!
BOOOOO
Whenever you introduce yourself it reminds me of that scene in “Johnny Got His Gun” when his boss kept saying “I am the boss. This is champagne. Merry Christmas!” Like 1,000 times
42: Slash went to the audition in jeans and t-shirt, and the Poison guys asked him "is that all you got to wear?" Slash said "yeah" and didn't even get to play. Out the door, he walked past C.C Deville , who was in high heels and full makeup and hairspray- that guy got the job.
Waterbeds were great!
Glad I'm not the only one that spotted the "jazzercise" bit there. After all they put more than a considerable bit of time into these. xD
"Image licensing is hard." Yes. Yes, it is.
70 facts about the '70s!
Cool Back to the Future fact: There are several cuts in the movie that are of Eric Stoltz (who was Marty Mcfly before they recast Michael J. Fox).
That volley ball in the back with a face painted from That Movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7:29- that was David Lee Roth, not the whole band. They didn't have that in their rider with Sammy Hagar.
Haha, I remember my cousin having a red lips phone in the 90s.
Am I the only one who laughed way too hard when I realized that blind musician Stevie Wonder told fellow blind musician Ray Charles that he would drive him home?
70 facts about the 70's!
Dude said 38 like she was ancient. 😂
Jazzercise.
Love this channel.
I sure do love me some JAZZERCISE
I'm still addicted to gelly roll pens.
I like John Green....you learn a lot of cool stuff! #Thanks
How is it that this was made only five years ago, but it seems like a different universe.
That was your best video yet! AWESOME!!
Jazzercise
Now I have party all the time stuck in my head!!!! Aaarrrrrgh!!! Hahahaha great video 👍🏻
Jazzercise!! Lol!!
You have a Yoshi in a jar... you, sir, are amazing!
Is that the John green that wrote the fault in our stars
Yes.
Dawson Fox thank tou
I can't wait for "0 Facts about the Aughts".
I knew a few too many of these before watching, especially anything related to Back to the Future.