I have a curious question. Back in the day, did you EVER hear anyone refer to the game as "Mario Bros" or "Super Mario Bros"? I NEVER heard that (17 yrs old when NES came out). I always heard "Brothers". I hear Bros. all the time now when people reference them. It just sounds so odd. lol
@@courtney5796 Same, it was always “Super Mario” “Mario Brothers” or “Super Mario Brothers”, never bros. The only other difference was how people pronounced Mario, Mah-re-o vs Mary-o.
@courtney5796 It has always been spelt Bros. Idiots! It is just more common to be pronounced Brothers, and Mario Bros. And Super Mario Bros. Are two separate games.
The kids have really fun personalities here, so cute. Them know stuff from 4 or 5 decades before they were even born! As a kid in the 80's, I wouldn't have been able to name a bunch of stuff from the 30's and 40's, besides Laurel & Hardy. I'm generally impressed by kids and young adults today who can grow up in the crazy world we've created for them and be reasonably well adjusted. Thanks for giving them a supportive platform.
According to the actual song “Valley Girl”, the term is “barf me out”. And it didn’t mean to freak out. It was something you said when you were grossed out. In the song it was followed by “gag me with a spoon”, which was similar.
Even though they got a few things wrong, I am actually impressed with their knowledge of the 80s. I think they did much better than the millennials/young people react group did on an early show. My faith in anyone younger than a Xennial is being slowly restored!
This was how much fun the 80's were. Just fun movies and music. We lived in the moment and could have peace and freedom. We actually watched and listened to a concert and didn't sit there filming it with our phones, to impress people on Facebook.
Hey kids, I'm 61, lived through the sixties, seventies and eighties! Seen it, been there. Now I'm a tech-teacher, still love you kids! Great reactions!
@@marycasanova8905 I was more of a Sabbath fan when I got mine for Christmas,y mom loves telling the story of the only time she ever bought into the Black Friday hype and it was to get me that for Christmas... Apparently she damned near beat some woman for it 🤣🤣. I got into Meatloaf a few years later after I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show with my parents one Halloween after watching The Crow.
That Jane Fonda exercise video was not Jazzercise. That’s called aerobics. I think Jazzercise was a franchise. They came out with new dance routines every few weeks.
The little dude who rocks a cassette player is truly in touch with his 80’s self, his parents must be proud:) but i feel like not even their parents are 80’s babies 😂
Maybe you should have consulted with someone who actually knows about the 80s. Parachute pants were popular with break dancers but they were popular for a very short time around 84-85. You did not show parachute pants. Parachute pants are made of parachute material and are rather form fitting with zippers all over. What you showed were Hammer pants or Harem pants which were barely popular in the 80s. More like 89-90. Two different eras and totally different vibe. I don't know why so many people get this wrong.
The super baggy MC Hammer pants are NOT parachute pants. Those are called Haram pants. Parachute pants were made from a slick, parachute-like material...thus the name. They were not super baggy and had a pretty regular fit.
2:01 I don't remember calling them parachute pants. We all called them Hammer pants when I was a little kid. Parachute pants were what we called the huge-legged jeans in the late 90's.
Right, I caught that too. I remember Parachute pants were made of a specific material, the same or similar kind of nylon that parachutes and hot air balloons are made from. VERY noisy when you walk. Pretty sure hammer pants were stretchy cotton.
Gina looked at Amelie like she was crazy when Lionel Richie was on the screen. But Amelie was (accurately) describing the video for "Hello", she just couldn't remember Lionel's name.
And for Gina to totally blank on one of Lionel's most iconic videos. That horrible, horrible bust. I hear he got to keep it but that an accident befell it and it didn't survive.
Orange Julius baby! And Electronics Boutique and and Sear's and um, Sbarro's I guess lol man I can't remember any other stores from back then other than the stores that are still around I guess (sort of). Macy's and what not. King's Plaza in Brooklyn NY was my childhood spot. Had an awesome arcade back in the mid to late 80s, the food court was awesome and had a movie theater along with a Spencer's Gifts which as we all know as a kid you always go into the back of the store where they have the "special" products lol
- Windbreakers are literally timeless. They're just a light jacket. Saying windbreakers are "an 80s fashion" is like saying wearing shoes are a 20s fashion simply because Trump released some gold sneakers. - Walkman was preceded by the Panasonic Dynamite 8 track tape player "allowing you to listen to your music on the go."
I love the girl that recognized Dave Mustaine in the Metallica pic and then said "Metalhead right here" that was just awesome, and actually, I thought these Kids would be totally clueless about the 80's but they actually knew way more than I expected, ver well done, that's parenting done right!!
I’m glad they knew as much as they did. Their parents taught them well. I think we needed Ryder on this episode, he always does well , especially with retro categories.
Ok, I was a teenager in the 80s. I never dressed like this. Watch Breakfast Club to get an idea what we actually wore. I had a Walkman cassette player, Rubics Cube (which I took apart to solve), and a collection of albums and cassettes.
Agreed. That is not the cover or poster used for the majority but it is one of the original posters for the film, in the US. The British poster is by far the best one for this film.
The 80s Cabbage Patch Kids had yarn for hair. I had a Teddy Ruxpin, and my sister was so jealous that she didn't have one (she was super spoiled and always got what she wanted, but the one time I got something I wanted she absolutely flipped!), that she broke the top of Teddy's nose off. I beat the breaks off her. Oh the 80s! lol!
One thing I wish I'd kept was my parachute pants (NOT the harem pants that MC Hammer is wearing! Those are not parachute pants!) and my gray leg warmers.
@@Styxswimmer It was West Coast surfer slang. Like, "Did you see her skate the pool? She's a shred Betty!" It sounded awkward, even when it was fresh...
It kinda makes sense. If they've only seen them in pictures, they probably don't have much reference for scale, so a cassette is a cassette, whether it's VHS or audio. I'm impressed they got a lot of those at all, or even when they got it wrong but were still close.
As a teenager in the 80's, I never heard Choice or Betty ever said. And Totally Tubular is way more from tv and movies with/about valley girls. So apparently regional if used at all.
Holy cow! Cassettes were cool, about an eight the size of 8-track, until your player ate the tape. Cassettes were easier to fix than 8-tracks. My son had a Teddy Ruxpin. In fact, somewhere I have/had a picture of him wearing Teddy's vest. Didn't have a Nintendo, we had Atrari and Sega.
I just recall asking someone's if they're going to grow out their hair. I never asked if they were going to grow a mullet. I never heard that term either until the 2000s.
Except on TV, the 80s were not colorful. There was a lot of brown and wood paneling and ugly carpet and jeans and t-shirts. Stranger Things, if you look at the insides of homes and how people are dressed, actually feels like how the 80s were in real life.
interior were often brown but the clothes were pretty bright, way more than it has been the last 30 years and the hair was big. That said it wasn't like the sort of odd looks and neon everything most of these videos go for. ST 1st two seasons so far are kinda low key underplayed unless it is supposed to be very early 80s)
The photo of the pants you showed were called Unisex pants. Notice they were colorful cotton and both genders were wearing them. Parachute pants were made of nylon and you could hear someone wearing them from a huge distance. Then there was Harem pants. Made for females and usually satin material. You missed an awful lot in the apparel category.
Loved the video. But those aren't parachute pants. Parachute pants were made from swishy nylon - like parachute material - and fit tighter, with a number of zippered pockets. The pants MC Hammer wore were harem or genie pants. And the loose-fitting, colorful pants in the still pic were jam pants (short for "pajama" I think). Credentials: born in 1975
Jane Fonda was her own exercise thing that was totally different from Jazzercise. An actual Jazzercise video from the 80s was insane because of the lady who was in all of them. It was also somewhat similar on a basic level to Beyoncé’s Single Ladies video
@@jimmymelendez1836 the video for the song is very 80s Jazzercise Video-esque. So much so that someone was able to edit together clips from various old Jazzercise videos, speed them up only a tiny amount and make it look like they were dancing to Single Ladies.
Those weren’t parachute pants. Parachute pants were a nylon material and not baggy. There was a couple names for the ones shown, but we always called them hammer pants.
Gen X rulez OK, this was so nostalgic, and its really great that the newer generations know these movies and songs. Their parents have done a great job, way to go, Mom and Pop.
I graduated high school in 1985. If someone had sat me down in the early 80s and asked me things like this about the 1940s, I doubt I'd have gotten any of them right. So, good job for these kids!
The 40's were horrible. No cultural impact. After all, it was the decade of WWII. 80's and 90's were all about fun and style, they left an impact for the next generations.
@@msh79 I think the 40s are an interesting and cool decade in their own right. I just didn't appreciate it until I was a little older. I like watching movies from that era now. But you're right, they didn't have much cultural impact. The fun didn't start until the 50s lol
Another 80s fad was the mall. Sure they still exist today but many are closing or turning into something else. In the 80s it was the place to be. You could easily spend all day there and not give it a second thought.
The loss of third spaces is a sad thing. I didn't really grow up in mallrat culture, it was already in decline in my youth, but a place for youth to go and just be is missed
I still remember how busy it would get in our mall when in the 90s, especially during Christmas. Now it’s just sad. Barely any people, there’s now only one food place left, so many empty store fronts. Online shopping and the pandemic really changed things.
It's probably partially to do with this show and discovering things from it they otherwise wouldn't. In the early 90's I discovered Elvis and spent 10 years listening to 50's and 60's music, I really missed out on the 90's because of it, and spent the next 20 making up for it off and on.
You know you're old when the producers confidently get things wrong because they never experienced it either :D
I have a curious question. Back in the day, did you EVER hear anyone refer to the game as "Mario Bros" or "Super Mario Bros"? I NEVER heard that (17 yrs old when NES came out). I always heard "Brothers". I hear Bros. all the time now when people reference them. It just sounds so odd. lol
@@courtney5796 Same, it was always “Super Mario” “Mario Brothers” or “Super Mario Brothers”, never bros. The only other difference was how people pronounced Mario, Mah-re-o vs Mary-o.
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The whole Title is wrong. Most of these aren't fads or trends!
@courtney5796
It has always been spelt Bros. Idiots! It is just more common to be pronounced Brothers, and Mario Bros. And Super Mario Bros. Are two separate games.
We never said it was spelled that way…just said that way. Take your 1 month old burner troll account and GTFO here.
The kid having his own walkman at home. Someone is raising a legend.
The kids have really fun personalities here, so cute. Them know stuff from 4 or 5 decades before they were even born!
As a kid in the 80's, I wouldn't have been able to name a bunch of stuff from the 30's and 40's,
besides Laurel & Hardy.
I'm generally impressed by kids and young adults today who can grow up in the crazy world we've created for them and be reasonably well adjusted. Thanks for giving them a supportive platform.
Better access to info ya know?
Jane Fonda was doing aerobics. Jazzercise was a "brand" of dance aerobics that Jane Fonda had nothing to do with.
According to the actual song “Valley Girl”, the term is “barf me out”. And it didn’t mean to freak out. It was something you said when you were grossed out. In the song it was followed by “gag me with a spoon”, which was similar.
holding the cassette player "I've always wanted to see one of these in person".... is anyone else feeling old right now?!😭
Saw one at the GW last week. $4 American.
Very old
Gotta give these kids credit -- they did pretty well!
they get an 84 from me👍
I was a teen in the 80s. Some of this stuff is inaccurate, and some of the slang and styles were regional or only used as a joke.
The producer said "Indigo Montoya" for the record there's no 'd' it's "Inigo Montoya"
Even though they got a few things wrong, I am actually impressed with their knowledge of the 80s. I think they did much better than the millennials/young people react group did on an early show.
My faith in anyone younger than a Xennial is being slowly restored!
Because real millennials don't care for the 80s, 90s is the best decade
This was how much fun the 80's were. Just fun movies and music. We lived in the moment and could have peace and freedom. We actually watched and listened to a concert and didn't sit there filming it with our phones, to impress people on Facebook.
sounds fun!!
These kids give me faith in the future, non dismissive of the past styles, culture etc and did so well with the questions
Identifying Metallica as The Backstreet Boys was hillarious.
Queen? Is it Nirvana 😂
That wasn't Jazzercise. That was Jane Fonda doing aerobics.
lol.. I was waiting to see mousercise .. and having that be descripted as jazzercise...lol
Exactly!
Hey kids, I'm 61, lived through the sixties, seventies and eighties! Seen it, been there. Now I'm a tech-teacher, still love you kids! Great reactions!
I am pretty impressed. These kids got way more than I thought they would.
Amelie describing the Hello music video & Gina looking lost 😂😂😂
Michael J. Fox in The Fast and the Furious - 😂😂😂😂😂
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As a teen in the 80s, this video was pure nostalgia for me. Definitely felt my age watching this! 😂
Jane Fonda's workout was NOT Jazzercise
Right, we just called it aerobics
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Or the gentler version PhysioRhythm
I was born in 70's and grew up in 80's, the best decade EVER for music.
These kids will never understand how great it was to listen your parents Black Sabbath cassette through Teddy Ruxpin.
Bat out of hell... Meatloaf's best.
ok
@@marycasanova8905 I was more of a Sabbath fan when I got mine for Christmas,y mom loves telling the story of the only time she ever bought into the Black Friday hype and it was to get me that for Christmas... Apparently she damned near beat some woman for it 🤣🤣. I got into Meatloaf a few years later after I watched the Rocky Horror Picture Show with my parents one Halloween after watching The Crow.
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“Like gag me with a spoon” is one of my fav 80 valley girl slangs
That Jane Fonda exercise video was not Jazzercise. That’s called aerobics. I think Jazzercise was a franchise. They came out with new dance routines every few weeks.
Right, it's like watching 80s Jackie Chan fight and calling it Tae Bo
@@dogstar75 EXACTLY!
When they do 80’s fashion, none of these kind of videos never mentions Members only jackets. They were quintessential for 80’s fashion.
The little dude who rocks a cassette player is truly in touch with his 80’s self, his parents must be proud:) but i feel like not even their parents are 80’s babies 😂
We sure were! Lol
"And I give it to someone special" 💀. So happy Gina caught that right away lol
I was blown away that she recognized Metalicca, and then she said because Dave Mustaine was in there and my face melted off. Respect.
She instantly arose to the top of the respect ladder. Her metal card was instantly approved.
Maybe you should have consulted with someone who actually knows about the 80s. Parachute pants were popular with break dancers but they were popular for a very short time around 84-85. You did not show parachute pants. Parachute pants are made of parachute material and are rather form fitting with zippers all over. What you showed were Hammer pants or Harem pants which were barely popular in the 80s. More like 89-90. Two different eras and totally different vibe. I don't know why so many people get this wrong.
If Cabbage Patch creep them out, Garbage Pail kids would put them in Therapy
Scrunchie never went out of style. Every one still knows what they are and every girl has used them til this day.
I keep a few on my turn signal lever. It gets hot fast in South Carolina, so gotta have some for emergencies.
FYI, we actually never said
cowabunga. That was just a TMNT thing.
Hans Moleman said it once. But that was in the 90s.
And an original Bart Simpson catchphrase.
@@sasaro oh yeah! Good call! 😃
I did back in the day, but it was because I was a huge TMNT fan as a kid.
I think it originated as Californian surfer slang in the 50s or 60s, like 'gnarly'.
These kids are legit. I kinda wanna adopt them all! Fun episode!
They did surprisingly well
They really did. I was surprised how much they knew. Good job kids
some of these were still popular in the 2010s lmaoo
@@mylove_0777 many are still used today that wasn't the point
You did leave out "Dude," and everyone forgets about Daryl Hall and John Oates... but other than that, it was awesome! 😂😂😂
For the slang round ... You neglected gag me with a spoon! Lol
Gale? Is that you?
The kid with the cap. Leo I think? “I just watched this the other day”, haha. He guessed like most right in the movie section!
The super baggy MC Hammer pants are NOT parachute pants. Those are called Haram pants.
Parachute pants were made from a slick, parachute-like material...thus the name. They were not super baggy and had a pretty regular fit.
Thanks.
You are correct sir. They also had zippers all over them.
easiest way to solve Rubik's Cube is to remove the stickers and put them back in the right order.
Girl that almost said Megadeth because of Mustaine but then saw Lars and realized it was Metallica has been parented well.
2:01 I don't remember calling them parachute pants. We all called them Hammer pants when I was a little kid.
Parachute pants were what we called the huge-legged jeans in the late 90's.
Right, I caught that too. I remember Parachute pants were made of a specific material, the same or similar kind of nylon that parachutes and hot air balloons are made from. VERY noisy when you walk. Pretty sure hammer pants were stretchy cotton.
Parachute pants were mid 80s, not baggy AT ALL made of like a nylon type material and had a lot of zippers I had a red and Grey pair.
The 80's were the best time to be a teen!
Gina looked at Amelie like she was crazy when Lionel Richie was on the screen. But Amelie was (accurately) describing the video for "Hello", she just couldn't remember Lionel's name.
Thats what I came to say. She knew exactly.
Specially for a kid nowadays, for her to remember an older video is awesome. 👏🏻
And for Gina to totally blank on one of Lionel's most iconic videos. That horrible, horrible bust. I hear he got to keep it but that an accident befell it and it didn't survive.
Being a teen in the 80's was totally awesome! Fer shur! Our social media was the mall and actually social.
Orange Julius baby! And Electronics Boutique and and Sear's and um, Sbarro's I guess lol man I can't remember any other stores from back then other than the stores that are still around I guess (sort of). Macy's and what not. King's Plaza in Brooklyn NY was my childhood spot. Had an awesome arcade back in the mid to late 80s, the food court was awesome and had a movie theater along with a Spencer's Gifts which as we all know as a kid you always go into the back of the store where they have the "special" products lol
Like it was totally awesome to the max fer shur! 😆😆
Nah calling "back to the future" "fast and furious" is a SIN
and calling the shining twilight
Calling the NES the VHS just made my day. Such a funny yet understandable mixup. Just having heard of one of those was more than I expected anyway.
Calling the Walkman VHS really got me then calling the NES VHS was the icing on the cake lol
Nintendo tried to make the NES look like a VCR to appeal to parents.
When I was their age, I was really into 60's & 70's music. Now, 20 years later, it seems kids are really into 80's & 90's music. Funny how that works.
Betty is 90s term from Clueless. Never uttered by anyone in the 80s
Epic also wasn't used until the 90s
I think it was used in Encino Man before Clueless.
Surf/Skate types used "Betty" this way in the 80s.
The excitement when the kids saw a walkman just cracked me up!
The small boy seems to be know everything 80's. He gets my utmost respect.
1. Damn. That girl in the Coke shirt knows her thrash. Props.
2. I am growing skeptical of this channel's scholarship.
- Windbreakers are literally timeless. They're just a light jacket. Saying windbreakers are "an 80s fashion" is like saying wearing shoes are a 20s fashion simply because Trump released some gold sneakers.
- Walkman was preceded by the Panasonic Dynamite 8 track tape player "allowing you to listen to your music on the go."
putting metal albums into teddy ruxpin was the best way to use it!
I love the girl that recognized Dave Mustaine in the Metallica pic and then said "Metalhead right here" that was just awesome, and actually, I thought these Kids would be totally clueless about the 80's but they actually knew way more than I expected, ver well done, that's parenting done right!!
Yeah deep cut girl - good job.
That totally blew my mind! Nobody I know would have known only fractions of the task. And she's put it all together. She's totally awesome!
I literally facepalmed when that girl said the Back To The Future poster was The Fast And The Furious.
Well..to be fair, since there's been like 20 of them, it's easy to think it might have started in the 80's
Viv even knew it was the old Metallica with Dave Mustaine, she gets cooler every time
when they did a video about Metallica Viv said she was a big fan of them
Teddy Ruxbin was always creepy AF. And I can legitimately say I never heard a single soul say "cowabunga" in the '80s who wasn't a ninja turtle.
Well, Bart Simpson too but that was in the 90s 😂
I’m glad they knew as much as they did. Their parents taught them well. I think we needed Ryder on this episode, he always does well , especially with retro categories.
Ooof! I just realized that teens these days look at the 80s like used to look at the 50s when I was a teen. I feel old...
As a 90s kid, there was a lot of 50s-70s nostalgia growing up. Now it's 80s-00s nostalgia, I know how you feel
I’m actually impressed with how much these kids know. Pretty cool!
Ok, I was a teenager in the 80s. I never dressed like this. Watch Breakfast Club to get an idea what we actually wore. I had a Walkman cassette player, Rubics Cube (which I took apart to solve), and a collection of albums and cassettes.
The girl that said: "since when is this The Princess Bride's cover?"...I agree. I may have been stumped, and I saw it in the theater.
Agreed. That is not the cover or poster used for the majority but it is one of the original posters for the film, in the US. The British poster is by far the best one for this film.
The 80s Cabbage Patch Kids had yarn for hair.
I had a Teddy Ruxpin, and my sister was so jealous that she didn't have one (she was super spoiled and always got what she wanted, but the one time I got something I wanted she absolutely flipped!), that she broke the top of Teddy's nose off. I beat the breaks off her. Oh the 80s! lol!
+100 for noticing Dave Mustaine.
These kids actually did good for their age. Knowing the 80s.
Actually, “barf out” meant “gross”, as did “grody”
Barf me out and Grody to the max = valley speak
Best decade ever! KEEPIN' IT G SINCE 83! 🔥 💪
One thing I wish I'd kept was my parachute pants (NOT the harem pants that MC Hammer is wearing! Those are not parachute pants!) and my gray leg warmers.
"Megadeth?" no "Metallica?" yes! "because Dave Mustaine is in it"
That's an easy 100 Respect points won right there, you rock girl! :D
Total respect for that girl!
MAN I feel old 😂. I still have my original walkman and NES from the 80’s and they both work.
I was a kid of the 80s teen of the 90s. This was SO MUCH FUN to watch. These teens know their 80's. Impressive. Fun time. Do this with Elders!
13:37 My wife & I both grew up in the 80s & neither of us ever heard the term / slang “A Betty”.
Good to know I'm not alone. I grew up in the 80s and never heard that.
@@Styxswimmer It was West Coast surfer slang. Like, "Did you see her skate the pool? She's a shred Betty!" It sounded awkward, even when it was fresh...
@@Styxswimmer Betties was like saying Chicks. Were was you? Not CA I assume
@@BuckSkull no. I grew up in Indiana.
@@GavinEhringer I think the first time I heard it was in Encino Man.
They should make them all watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. It would be most triumphant.
Bodacious and non-heinous, indeed.
Pretty funny when they mistook a walkman for a VHS recorder hahaha
It kinda makes sense. If they've only seen them in pictures, they probably don't have much reference for scale, so a cassette is a cassette, whether it's VHS or audio. I'm impressed they got a lot of those at all, or even when they got it wrong but were still close.
As a teenager in the 80's, I never heard Choice or Betty ever said. And Totally Tubular is way more from tv and movies with/about valley girls. So apparently regional if used at all.
Same with Betty.
Holy cow! Cassettes were cool, about an eight the size of 8-track, until your player ate the tape. Cassettes were easier to fix than 8-tracks. My son had a Teddy Ruxpin. In fact, somewhere I have/had a picture of him wearing Teddy's vest. Didn't have a Nintendo, we had Atrari and Sega.
For the record, I don't recall anyone ever using the word "mullet" in the 80's. I never heard that word until half way through the 90s
I just recall asking someone's if they're going to grow out their hair. I never asked if they were going to grow a mullet. I never heard that term either until the 2000s.
Wait, what? What did they call it then?
Except on TV, the 80s were not colorful. There was a lot of brown and wood paneling and ugly carpet and jeans and t-shirts. Stranger Things, if you look at the insides of homes and how people are dressed, actually feels like how the 80s were in real life.
Soooooo much leftover 70’s everywhere. So much ugly green, so much nasty orange. What were they thinking.
interior were often brown but the clothes were pretty bright, way more than it has been the last 30 years and the hair was big.
That said it wasn't like the sort of odd looks and neon everything most of these videos go for.
ST 1st two seasons so far are kinda low key underplayed unless it is supposed to be very early 80s)
The photo of the pants you showed were called Unisex pants. Notice they were colorful cotton and both genders were wearing them. Parachute pants were made of nylon and you could hear someone wearing them from a huge distance. Then there was Harem pants. Made for females and usually satin material. You missed an awful lot in the apparel category.
Just an fyi for those that don't know, leg warmers are used to keep your calves warm, for dancers.
Never heard A BETTY in the 80's. The term ‘Betty’ is a surfing-slang word for a woman who surfs. West cost only.
I only know Betty from the Archie comics and riverdale
I knew the term Betty from Clueless in the 90's when Cher referred her mom as a Betty 😂🤣
@@stephanieblanchard1798 After further research, the term actually comes from the 1970s and is based on Betty Rubble from the Flintstones.
Loved the video. But those aren't parachute pants. Parachute pants were made from swishy nylon - like parachute material - and fit tighter, with a number of zippered pockets. The pants MC Hammer wore were harem or genie pants. And the loose-fitting, colorful pants in the still pic were jam pants (short for "pajama" I think). Credentials: born in 1975
Best way to describe parachute pants is like Michael Jackson’s red Thriller jacket, just as pants haha.
bonus points for recognizing that was Dave Mustaine!
And even Ron McGovney, that was the OG lineup right there, I was surprised.
Born in 83…. Not worried about if I know it -I’m trying to see how many of these I remember lol 😂
People liked to put heavy metal cassettes into their Teddy Ruxpins.
Impressive. They knew a LOT of stuff that I didn't expect or didn't remember myself.
McHammer didn't wear parachute pant in his video, those were Harem Pants
Exactly... I hate when people call those parachute pants.
Jane Fonda was her own exercise thing that was totally different from Jazzercise. An actual Jazzercise video from the 80s was insane because of the lady who was in all of them. It was also somewhat similar on a basic level to Beyoncé’s Single Ladies video
What does Beyonce's Single Ladies(Horrible song, by the way.)have to do with Jazzercise?
@@jimmymelendez1836 the video for the song is very 80s Jazzercise Video-esque. So much so that someone was able to edit together clips from various old Jazzercise videos, speed them up only a tiny amount and make it look like they were dancing to Single Ladies.
Those weren’t parachute pants. Parachute pants were a nylon material and not baggy. There was a couple names for the ones shown, but we always called them hammer pants.
I think I remember them being called jammers.
Correct, Parachute pants were not baggy. We (my friends and myself) in the 80's referred to them as "balloon pants"
Gen X rulez OK, this was so nostalgic,
and its really great that the newer generations know these movies and songs.
Their parents have done a great job, way to go, Mom and Pop.
It's pretty impressive that these kids know as much as they do of stuff that's mostly over 40 years old now.
Any teenager in the 2020s who knows Dave Mustaine on sight is doing alright.
I graduated high school in 1985. If someone had sat me down in the early 80s and asked me things like this about the 1940s, I doubt I'd have gotten any of them right. So, good job for these kids!
Maybe it's my bias of growing up in the 80s and 90s, but I think the 80s are far more interesting than the 40s lol
@@oneslikeme I don't disagree with you on that. :)
The 40's were horrible. No cultural impact. After all, it was the decade of WWII.
80's and 90's were all about fun and style, they left an impact for the next generations.
@@msh79 I think the 40s are an interesting and cool decade in their own right. I just didn't appreciate it until I was a little older. I like watching movies from that era now. But you're right, they didn't have much cultural impact. The fun didn't start until the 50s lol
Another 80s fad was the mall. Sure they still exist today but many are closing or turning into something else. In the 80s it was the place to be. You could easily spend all day there and not give it a second thought.
The loss of third spaces is a sad thing. I didn't really grow up in mallrat culture, it was already in decline in my youth, but a place for youth to go and just be is missed
I still remember how busy it would get in our mall when in the 90s, especially during Christmas. Now it’s just sad. Barely any people, there’s now only one food place left, so many empty store fronts. Online shopping and the pandemic really changed things.
princess brides cover is usually him holding her hands over a sunset backdrop
Wow, why do these kids know 80's so well? I'm flattered!
Apparently, their parents and grandparents have done them right. =)
It's probably partially to do with this show and discovering things from it they otherwise wouldn't.
In the early 90's I discovered Elvis and spent 10 years listening to 50's and 60's music, I really missed out on the 90's because of it, and spent the next 20 making up for it off and on.
When they say “my mom my dad ……” I realize I am that generation and I feel ancient 🤣🤣🤣
We're STILL awesome! 😀
Parachute pants where made of nylon and worn fairly tight usually had zippers, not hammer pants
Quite a few zippers if memory serves me well.
"Fast and the Furious" I laughed so hard at that guess.