Dissecting The 80s

We'll be back on January 20 with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure! Until then, enjoy this archive episode! Out-of-context quote from this episode: “[Steve Guttenberg] in this movie and Ed Begley, Jr. in She-Devil are the two biggest ‘… what?’ casting decisions.” Steve Gutenberg finally makes it onto the show, Ally Sheedy has brown football helmet hair, Military … Continue reading →

It's a true Christmas classic turning 40, so we had to go visit Bedford! Do these rules make any sense? What miracle saved us from the way too dark script version of this? How great is Dick Miller? All this and more! Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Gremlins, Joe Dante, Judge Reinhold, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Our long-delayed Listener Request Month finale is here: Jean-Claude Van Damme's testosterone-fueled, wrestling tinged insanity: Bloodsport! Andrew hates a movie Tripp loved, secret salt, a very confusing tournament schedule/structure, inexplicable plot structure, is Jean-Claude AWOL? All this and more! Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bloodsport, kumite, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Happy Thanksgiving, here's your second helping of Candy-ed Yams: Delirious! What is Candy so into this lady? What's the best part about living in a soap opera world? Plus, we discuss all the dum things we'd do with a magic typewriter! All this and more! Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Delirious, John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We kicked off Candy-ed Yams with a completely incomprehensible movie: Nothing But Trouble! What are we even doing here? Why on earth would Dan Aykroyd bite off so much for his first directorial effort? Why is he wearing a dick nose and a sloppy nightmare monster? All this and more! Looking for #287 Alien? It’s on Patreon, along with more than 25 additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Nothing But Trouble, Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, The Substance, Dan Aykroyd, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

This episode brings us to the end of Freddie month, with a 30th anniversary celebration of Wes Craven's New Nightmare, aka Scream Zero. How did a movie this weird get a greenlight (that's a good thing!), B Roll of real disasters, Andrew hates Tripp's opinions on Heather Langenkamp, Freddie gets scary again!  All this and more! Looking for #282 The Gate? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.  Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, Heather Langenkamp, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We're celebrating the 40th birthday of Horror Icon Freddy Krueger with the original Nightmare on Elm Street! How do we feel about less silly Freddy? Why does he run like that?!!?! Tripp dares criticize Heather Langenkamp and Andrew gets furious. All this and more! Looking for #282 The Gate? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.  Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Nightmare on Elm Street, Robert Englund, Freddy Krueger, Heather Langenkamp, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

We're rounding out the main part of Listener Request Month with Scream for Help, an oddball horror flick! What's with the movie-of-the-week vibes? What on earth is this John Paul Jones score? Does no one know how a lighter works?  All this and more! Looking for #282 The Gate? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.  Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Scream for Help, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

A movie with a perfect episode release date: Saturday the 14th! We kick off Listener Request Month with a strange duck of a movie. Why this title for THIS kind of spoof? What is Tambor doing, exactly? How is a movie THIS short feeling SO long?! All this and more! Looking for #282 The Gate? It’s on Patreon, along with more than TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.  Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Keywords: Saturday the 14th, Spoof, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

ORIGINALLY AIRED July 11, 2016 COMING OUT A FEW DAYS EARLY to celebrate the Ghostbusters reboot, Tripp and Andrew strapped on their proton packs and tackled the albatross of the Ghostbusters franchise: Ghostbusters II! How did AN ENTIRE CITY forget what happened in the first … Continue reading →

It's Listener Request Month! We're coming hot out of the gate with the 1987 too-scary-for-kids flick: The Gate! How great are these effects? What the heck is with Terry's whole vibe? Why is this man driving a dog corpse around town? Why does a portal to hell just pop up in this backyard? All this and more! Want to hear the rest? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.  Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: The Gate, Stephen Dorff, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

Baseball month rounds third and heads for home with the cable classic A League of Their Own! Is this the last '80s-esque Hanks Yell TM on screen? Did Geena Davis throw the game? Tripp reveals a long-held movie grudge, and both brothers pledge to try to kill each other during any competition. All this and more! Looking for #277, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, League of Their Own, Baseball, Rosie O'Donnell, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

It's baseball month! Here in the dog days of August, we're jumping in with Major League! What happened to the raunchy sports comedy? Is baseball the most film-ic sport? Why isn't there more Wesley Snipes? What the HELL is up with this romance subplot? All this and more! Looking for #277, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Wesley Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Major League, Baseball, Tom Berenger, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

It's listener request month! You have until August 15th at midnight. Call 856-347-7328 (DISSECT) and leave us your name, where you're calling from and the movie you want to see us cover! Time's running out!

Eddie Murphy slides right back into Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F! Netflix has released on the best Legacy-quels of all time, maybe? Lots of practical effects and stunts, and Eddie is great! However, MORE JUDGE REINHOLD DAMN IT! Get those Listener Request Month calls in! You have until August 15th at midnight. Call 856-347-7328 (DISSECT) and leave us your name, where you're calling from and the movie you want to see us cover! All this and more! Looking for #277, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Beverly Hills Cop, Axel, Axel F, Axel Foley, Netflix, 80s, eight

An action-comedy classic celebrates its 40th anniversary, and it's return to the big-ish screen: Beverly Hills Cop! How great is Eddie Murphy? Or this whole cast, for that matter! Do they use the song too much? More Judge Reinhold, dang it! All this and more! Looking for #277, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FIVE additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Beverly Hills Cop, Axel, Axel F, Axel Foley, Netflix, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

One of our childhood favorites turns 35 this year, and we're celebrating by discussing the ways Wayne Szalinski's shrink ray would absolutely blow up the world economy (plus, Antie, French class and giant cheerios/oatmeal cream pies). All this and more! Want to hear the rest of this episode? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FOUR additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Rick Moranis, Honey, I shrunk the kids, Disney, quark, shrink, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

The Month of John concludes with Johnny Handsome, a bizarre Walter Hill directed, Mickey Rourke star vehicle where he gets a new face! What on earth is this movie? Is Lance Henriksen the king of scuzzy villains? Did he live in New Orleans for like a decade for all these scuzzy NoLa villain turns? Plus, Mickey Rourke is a babe. All this and more! Looking for #272, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FOUR additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Mickey Rourke, Johnny Handsome, Morgan Freeman, Lance Henriksen, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast

It's our latest theme month, the month of John, and we're kicking off with the delightful spoof: Johnny Dangerously! Amy Heckerling's three classics, spoofing a dead genre, Disney rides teaching us about gangster films, Keaton absolutely killing it, and some real live-action cartoon zaniness! All this and more! Looking for #272, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FOUR additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/   Keywords: Michael Keaton, Keaton, Johnny Dangerously, Peter Boyle, Spoof, 80s, eighties, movie, podcast, beetlejuice

It's the conclusion of I-May-Ginary Friends Month, easily the worst theme month in the history of this podcast! We're visiting with Drop Dead Fred and asking a lot of questions, like: WHO IS THIS MOVIE FOR?! WHY ARE IMAGINARY FRIENDS SUCH ASSHOLES? Why is Carrie Fisher so chill about this enormous tragedy that happens!? What's Phoebe Cates arc supposed to be?! All this and more! Looking for #272, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar? It’s on Patreon, along with TWENTY FOUR additional episodes (More than 35 hours of content!)? It’s all just $5 per month! AND you can listen on your favorite podcast app, including Spotify.   Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/