10 Things that SUCKED in the 80s!

[@catguy4996]

As a man diagnosed with autism I would *never* want to go back to the 1980s, because people like me were abused or taken advantage of much more. Nowadays it's easy for people with neuro-divergencies to find acceptance. Only problem I see with the current decade is our addiction to technology. But even then, at least technology is actually useful too!

[@darthg6505]

I wasn't bored at all in the 80's Junkman, I had a big family, lots of friends & I played Guitar in a band which I still do today. If I wasn't in the city, I was in the country Camping, Fossil hunting, Fishing, Building giant Bon Fires, Going Caving. If you lived in Missouri in the 80's there was always something to do, even in the winter. Love your show man! MTFBWY!

[@hanniballecter4924]

"This is the way"

[@ashley_engle]

I completely agree and sorry Junkie! Parties, malls, arcades. We had books with covers that we wrote on that were like shrines. Riding bikes. Flashlight tag 💕 and all the things Darth G said 🤘🏻 we made our adventures every day!

[@darthg6505]

You are absolutely on it! Yes I've had younger generations tell me many times, Man I wish I was around for the 80's. It makes you feel good. My response is it was Totally Awesome Dude!

[@ashley_engle]

@@darthg6505 🥰

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 70s were the same way for me

[@ciscodeer9094]

Crack cocaine was huge back in the 80's

[@theodoreritola7641]

LINE LINES EVERY WERE THIERS LINES And Aids

[@michaelpalmer5351]

Back in the 80s, there would always be all four lights working on a Ghostbuster's Proton Pack whenever you saw one on TV. Nowadays, I see this guy on KZbin with only three lights working. I don't know what's become of the world.

[@chrisolivo6591]

Cars with no air conditioning, manual side windows and manual locks. I remember I’d have to lean all the way over to the passenger side to hit the lock down!

[@theequalizer9154]

It was the next to last decade when driving was driving. I can drive a standard shift. Not to mention the fact with all the gadgets on cars now, it's zoomed up the prices.

[@Solomangarcia]

When I was a kid in the 80s we would go to the theaters in the summer just to sit in air conditioning for a few hours.

[@stuartpenman6387]

My biggest hate of the 80s was BATTERIES

[@jeremyjones5455]

I was just telling my 16-year-year old that I think there was actually some value in only having a few channels, because you sometimes discovered something good that you never would have watched if you had a million other options, but you watched it because it was the only thing on at 2 PM on a Sunday.

[@Necron-ez2cc]

Out on our farm we could only pick up NBC, CBS, and PBS. Absolutely right! Without PBS I would have never discovered Doctor Who (The Tom Baker years), The Goodies (wacky British comedy), etc etc.

[@jeremyjones5455]

@@Necron-ez2cc That's how I discovered MST3K, because I lived in range of the Minneapolis UHF station where it first aired in '89.

[@williamthompson5504]

Hell yeah! That’s how I became a Gunsmoke fan.

[@restock_1731]

Looking back at old pictures of me, one thing I can add was the clothes, those damn short shorts. 🤣

[@TheSickNeeds]

I would never complain about the movie theater experience of the 80s. IT WAS DIRT CHEAP TO GO TO THE MOVIES BACK THEN!!! and there was always something great playing!

[@happymess3219]

😶 AND movie theaters were a lot cleaner and safer.

[@TheSickNeeds]

@@happymess3219 theaters here are clean because nobody goes to them....they are quite nice but you would expect that for the cost of movies these days. I think back in the 80s they weren't as clean but thats because they were PACKED with people. In the mid 80s here (In Canada) it was Two Fifty Tuesdays and every time I went most theaters were full...it wasn't uncommon to show up a half hour early for the seven o'clock show and be asked if you wanted to buy a ticket for the nine o'clock showing because your choice was sold out...and a lot of people did grab those later tickets. The line was always into the parking lot.... now people pay in their phone because there are three people ahead of them in line. Its funny how boring convenience has made things.

[@BadTV1993]

@@happymess3219 not where I lived lol..they were packed, dirty and a fight may break out at any showing depending on the movie

[@chrisolivo6591]

Cassette Tapes. When I got a CD player in 1989, it was light years better sound than awful cassette tapes. Many people say iTunes killed CD’s, but I think the quality of CD’s did them in. I’ve had the same CD collection for 31 years and never had to upgrade like we did with VHS, DVD, Bluray and 4K.

[@jerryrichburg2458]

Crazy. Thanks for the statement. But CDs costed too much I had albums.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

They tried to introduce upgraded audio formats in the 2000s, but there were competing formats and also most people couldn't tell the difference and didn't see any reason to upgrade from CDs.

[@jerryrichburg2458]

Perfect. Good highs good lows.

[@stevedenis8292]

Would have to tape your new records before they get scratched. The birth of the mix tape.

[@ia5662]

But they allowed you to tape off of the radio, making cassettes insanely important - you can't rip the radio onto a CD or MP3 instantaneously. Mix tapes were the most important part of discovering music for 80s/90s kids...

[@danday9697]

Worst thing for me in the 80s was long distance calls. My cousin was only 20 minutes away but the numbers were long distance. So when I hung out there. We would meet girls in the neighborhood. Get their number and couldn't call without racking up the phone bill and getting in trouble because of it.

[@ascensionindustries9631]

I kinda miss going to the library, but I do not miss spending six hours there on a Saturday doing research for reports. However, I'm glad I didn't have the internet growing up, or else I would have been canceled years ago.

[@thetxaggie6575]

I think one thing is kids today do have superior technology but they aren't near as grateful for it as we were with our inferior technology.

[@danielkegley690]

You speak the truth. I was so glad when we got cable. I remember I was 14 and I figured out how to split the cable to another TV in the house. Cable TV was as big as the internet is today back in the 80's.

[@ThatJunkman]

Lol. Man did try that and had it odd where I had to watch whatever they watched. If he turned the main tv channel my room tv would turn also

[@danielkegley690]

I didn't run into that. Our cable company didn't uses cable boxes. It was wired straight in. I think that made a difference.

[@curly_wyn]

So many people in the comments who can’t accept that the 80s weren’t as perfect and glamorous as they think it was.

[@benrositas8068]

For me and probably a lot of people, the number one thing that sucked (all the fun and life out of) the 80s: the Cold War and that movie about nuclear war, The Day After. Not only did that movie scare the crap out of seven year old me -- in fact, I watched it not too long ago, and it's still horrific -- it was just downright depressing.

[@machineman6498]

Hair band power ballads, 85 % of cartridges video games, New Coke, Central American and the thought of Nukes, going to the bank by 3, that stupid vhf switch box on the back of the tv, having a jean jacket and only having blue jeans, close it the decade out with Tianamen Square.

[@ChapmanFilms]

Ohhhhh Junkman got more cool points from me cause you said Petticoat Junction.

[@gordiasgordian925]

Not to mention that back in the '80s we had to actually pay money for our music, books, movies and video games!

[@opuscrap4322]

You should do a Junkman 3D special. We can all wear the old school glasses while you throw things at the camera. :)

[@ThatJunkman]

Don’t it once need to again

[@opuscrap4322]

@@ThatJunkman I totally forgot about the Bespin guard 3D video. Just watched it again. :)

[@jdsrcs8061]

The 80's were the best, bikes, toys, and Elisabeth Shue!!!! However if we are going to say what sucked, it was having one phone line. It was a brawl every night to get the phone first!!! I only think one person had 2 lines!!!!

[@GarretGrayCamera]

I kind of miss the card catalog. The way the drawers slid out nice and smoothly and there was something very tactile in the way the cards felt. That's one thing that sucks about today, everything is pretty much replicated digitally (movies/music/books). That tactile relationship is gone from mostly everything, unless you count your plastic keyboard. One thing that sucked about the 80's was the threat of nuclear war. Man that was pure dread.

[@loosecannon6852]

And the smell of those cards and wooden cabinets. Smells seem to have disappeared too. Walking by the railroad tracks, mmm that creosote smell... Or my sense of smell is gone. ;-) And yeah, nuclear war. Three words: The Day After. Scariest movie ever. Or mini-series, whichever.

[@nwcoastlife]

For every great band in the 80’s, there were 20 awful ones. Yeah, Saturday morning cartoons were awesome, but Sunday morning was wall-to-wall religious programming.

[@RansomeStoddard]

I liked your list, except seeing movies in the 80’s was awesome. With each theater only 2 or 3 screens, seeing a movie on opening night was a big deal. My mom stood in line for 3 hours to get me tickets to Return of the Jedi. People in line wore costumes. It was something you just don’t experience now.

[@stevegallo8483]

Music was definitely better in the 80s than it is now, and you're right about a lot of what you said. I had to laugh when you talked about only having three channels to watch and if the President was on you were screwed. I laughed, because it's the damn truth.

[@ThatJunkman]

You think one channel would say let’s not show it and get extra ranting

[@hunterschoumacher9560]

Battlestar Galactica (1978) comes to mind!

[@curly_wyn]

Only underground music speaking. Much of mainstream music in the 80s was completely soulless and artificial, like Duran Duran. Ugh.

[@williamrandall9502]

One thing that sucked, no TV remote. I always hated waiting for my dad to stop changing the channels and sit down so I could see the TV. That sucked!

[@joshuaross4644]

We had better bubblegum 😉 I miss grape 🍇 & Lemonade 🍋 Bubble Yum

[@ChrisRoth1972]

Junkman one thing about the 80’s that sucked was Medical Technology compared to today cause a lot of us can relate! And for the most part I agree with you about how the 80’s sucked especially the Card Catalogs,setting a VCR,& missing a favorite TV Shows,& now that we have Stadium Seating,dang I think we are all spoiled in a lot of things that we didn’t have Junkman. ♥️ The Video Junkman! Thanks 😊

[@davereece2470]

TV in the '80's... We had a 25" wooden frame, floor model console television that got 5 channels (including the church station). It didn't have a remote ... & in my bedroom I was lucky enough to have a 10" black & white set that actually had a carrying handle to make it...portable. After homework, & whatnot, I would watch reruns of Sanford & Son in black & white.

[@StarryDrukhari]

Even the best TVs in the 80s were like garbage compared to even a budget model HDTV from Costco. Sure, they were made to last back then, but you were still stuck with a tiny, low-res CRT and terrible reception.

[@egrintarg230]

Well one thing that really sucked about the 80s is that my sadistic father wasn't burning in hell yet.

[@jerryrichburg2458]

Love what you do junk. Your stuff is on point.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

One of the best things now compared to the 80’s is that you can watch anything u want anytime u want..That’s also one of the worst.if that makes any sense

[@chrisdragnet722]

ATARI……i was hardly ever bored.

[@benfromthebunker9621]

Growing up outside of chicago we got NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, WGN, Christian station, PBS, public access channel, and three Spanish stations.

[@jakobfel2]

I was born in the 90s, grew up on the 2000s and was raised by parents who grew up in the 80s. While I loved the pre-Recession 2000s a lot -- I mean it, I'd love to see the era of spiky hair, baggy cargo pants and alternative rock make a return -- I'd honestly rather live in the 80s, the 50s or even back near 1900 or so. A lot of what you listed here is good convenience and all but I think our world was better before instant gratification and social networks became the law of the land. I miss the days of actually having to socialize in person (or on a forum, at least; Reddit sucks IMO), I miss the days when you had to watch your favorite show at a specific time and wait a week for each new episode (that was fun!), I miss the days when you actually had to know how to use a library/encyclopedia/dictionary. The list goes on. I guess I'm just old fashioned but I STILL buy physical DVDs, CDs, books and other media any time I get a chance and if it's not available that way, I'll find a DRM-free distributor. Streaming may be nice for discovery but it has absolutely RUINED the media industry as they continue to push us toward total elimination of private property within media. Again, we have lots of convenience nowadays but I definitely think that has made our society worse; I just really wish I had the ability to go back to a better time. Shoot, even going back to those pre-Recession early 2000s would be enough for me.

[@bluejayfan5584]

Just watched Star Wars 4 and realized a scene with Luke in the evening looking onto the horizon for R2D2 and Uncle Owen calling him inside was something that would resonate with all kids who were playing outside till the sun went down. Life was better in the seventies and eighties.

[@theodoreritola7641]

1977 The 1st STAR WARS And the best

[@juanfierro7365]

Junkman, when are you covering COPS. Remember that there was a cartoon of the same name of the reality show, with toys and everything...

[@TheSickNeeds]

Librarians pointing you to the Card Catalogue in the 80s is the equivalent of me telling customers to look it up on google or youtube. During lockdown my job basically consisted of me informing customers of what the top three results of a google search was.

[@drexsonaljames8345]

My childhood in the 80s was super dope... whether with friends or not...I had a ball because my imagination was thru the roof...and my grandfather taught me how to build stuff...so I took some scrap wood from his workshop and went in the woods and built a shabby little clubhouse and that was my private little spot... whether playing with friends or by myself or being around my grandfather...I was constantly doing something fun

[@GameHammerCG]

One thing that’s not great about modern cinemas is that the oldest films are sometimes filmed with the camera looking up a little, to make the angles look right for anyone watching in a flat cinema. You can’t get the right experience on those now.

[@klyodog9980]

I agree about the better movies/cartoons but the toys today are way better in quality IMO

[@dang75790]

You are on Crack. Lol. Toys are cheaply made and quality is a joke. 😆

[@klyodog9980]

@@dang75790 why are you so mad. The toys today are way better. The toys in the 80s were the ones cheaply made with crappie articulation.

[@danday9697]

@@klyodog9980 wait what? The Tonka trucks still work after 30 years of being outside. Besides blowing in the cartridge. A lot of nes systems still work like a champ while new ones get a red ring of death

[@Necron-ez2cc]

Junk, that part about not having friends that weren't local is bunk! I grew up in the Deep South back in the 80's and I can't count the dudes I knew who had "a girlfriend in Canada". I even had one who told me he couldn't show us a picture of his GF because they didn't have cameras in Canada. BTW, out in the country we only got 3 channels on the antenna... NBC, CBS, and PBS. Kids in the county school would talk about shows on ABC, which would mystify us kids that lived in my area where we got no reception for that channel.

[@brianomdahl8377]

I have FOUR girlfriends up in Canada. And they STILL don’t have cameras up there! Sheesh!

[@Drknnja]

All 3 networks and PBS.

[@Tricob1974]

For the second half of the 1980s, I had a home computer, and I programmed. So that half certainly didn't have boredom. And yes, there was only four broadcast channels on TV, but most of the shows were good, and having so few shows competing against each other demanded high-quality content on every TV network. My picks for things that weren't good in the 1980s: Chia Pets, "Dream Away", "Elvis' Greatest Shit", "The Snorks" animated TV series, "Dance With Me" from Reginald Bosanquet, the "Stoned" computer virus, and legislation that enabled Infomercials.

[@adamn.4615]

Most TV shows were WAY better in the 80s than they are now, but there were only a few hours a day of kid-friendly television. Once Nickelodeon came around, I got much more programming that had my interest, but come 7 PM, it switched to Nick at Night and a bunch of old not-cartoon shows.

[@trannongoble7722]

Subscribed. One of my new favorite channels. I remember the "Satanic Panic"! My Dad got rid of my cassette tapes and I had to re-record my rock music on blank cassettes and title them "Country Stuff" so he'd not bother.

[@ThatJunkman]

Thanks

[@cheddarcheese7928]

In the 80’s the world was more innocent .Growing up In Philly my friends and I went to a lot of Phillies games.Getting autographs we learned where HOF Mike Schmidt parked his car.Well in 87 Schmidt had a early car cell phone and his number was written on the handle..For about a year we called him off and on.Probably got thru about 10 times..I can remember asking him why he stuck out so much..The 80’s were fun!

[@curly_wyn]

Lmao, the 80s were not innocent.

[@cheddarcheese7928]

@@curly_wyn Really?..So you think today people aren’t more concerned with guarding their personal information than they were in the 80’s?.The more innocent time?..Okay

[@y2kcell]

@@cheddarcheese7928 Crack Epicdemic & High Crime Rates.

[@tomcreech4848]

Amen, but if I had a time machine I go right back to the 80's

[@theequalizer9154]

I wish I had a time machine, to go back to that time. I would warn myself not to get married!

[@Andrew-el8xi]

Dad hiring a VCR for my birthday and it' never worked properly !!! Going back too school after any holiday especially summer after I had such a great time with my family and friends ...

[@Tfor2show]

"Hey, Junkman channel don't worry be happy doe!"

[@ProfessorGamez]

Anyone else remember rushing home after school to make sure that you didn't miss any cartoons?

[@chazhaze3d]

We had a movie theater literally down the street that had a "summer camp" where for $4.00 you could watch 4 movies popcorn a hot dog and a drink. You had to stay for the whole 8 hours but the movies were different every day. It was like a daycare preteen to to teens. I saw the original Clash of the Titans that summer...lol Malls all day drinking Dr. Pepper and playing video games and looking through albums all day. Or just riding your dirt bike in the fields all day jumping dirt mounds!

[@Cincinnatijames]

Racism and homophobia has always been there, it's just that now it is rightfully being called out.

[@BigBossMan2000]

😅🤣😂

[@jamespeters2859]

True bro, good thing too!

[@ThatJunkman]

But the point is now anyone is a called a racist. Without even being one. Just wearing clothes or liking a tweet

[@Cincinnatijames]

@@ThatJunkman Junkman, I'm from Kentucky and all my relatives complain on Facebook and Twitter about being called racist, well guess what... they 100% are. Where there's smoke there is fire. My born and raised in Ohio relatives fly the Confederate flag and claim it is heritage. They've never even lived in the south, so I wonder what heritage they are talking about🤔

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@ThatJunkman Or not watching certain movies.

[@kaidzaack2520]

Agreed! And…most TV’s had no remote control - so you had to stand up to skip between the whopping 3-4 channels…and due to the tube you felt x-rayed after 2 hours of staring at a screen the size of a stamp…

[@chrisolivo6591]

Big hair, especially mid/late 80’s from the girls I went to school with. I can’t even look at my middle school yearbook anymore. Lol

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 80s hurt the ozone layer BIG TIME Thanks 80s

[@Junk_World_Templar]

Nah for me the 80's was a golden age, you had to use your imagination back then, I had Combat on my Atari 2600,and it wasn't just a couple of squares, it was tanks going through the rubble of a shattered war torn city etc. Glad we didn't have social media and 400 different genders back then too. My Cinema was pretty awesome, we had the Odeon nearby, 4 pretty big screens, red carpets, popcorn and hotdog machines etc, always reminded me of the cinema from the Blob haha.

[@Drawkcabi]

If you knew how things worked in the 80's and you had access to at least some of the technology then there was no way we could be bored. But as kids we could be lazy or stupid or both and that was something that would cost you. That's one thing I would agree on, so much is easy to do entertainment wise today, but you had to learn to finesse in the 80's. My family had a Betamax since 1977. There was SO MUCH I could have recorded (cadtoons, movies, specials, regular shows) that I only recorded a fraction of. All I needed was enough blank tapes and a little bit of foresight and I could have had so much stuff to watch I'd never be bored. So we had to learn how to program a vcr, it could be done, just needed the effort, which is what everything in the 80's that was worth it, needed. Also, you could record things on one channel and have the TV on another channel. (There is a hilarious scene in the movie City Slickers about that.) Of course when cable came along many of had cable boxes as opposed to just plugging the cable directly into the TV and that screwed up the whole watching something on one channel and recording something on another. It was the price we had to pay to get those extra channels. Also, it is so true about everything having to go right when setting a timer on the vcr. You had to remember to have a tape in the vcr, make sure there was enough room on the tape to record what you wanted, if it wasn't a blank tape you needed to make sure the tape was at the right spot to start recording or you could tape over something you wanted to keep. The vcr had to be on the right channel, the TV on the right channel, the correct record time set on the vcr, and make sure your vcr had the power on or off depending on what model vcr you had. Then you could have done everything right setting it up and so you to out to do whatever you had to do...and then there's a thunderstorm. It only takes a brief flicker of the power going off to mess up the set timer. When you set the timer to record something you knew it was a 50/50 craps shoot. When you came home and saw everything recorded as you wanted...it was always a pleasant surprise. When you came home and found something messed up it was always no more than what you thought would happen. But putting that aside...if I had just recorded even half of what I watched on a daily basis I'd have had so much to keep me entertained! And music...two words: Mix Tape. Like everything 80's, it just demanded the effort put in for the reward you take out. When I played video games I'd mute the TV and have the radio on. Whenever a song I liked came on, I'd record it on audio cassette. I had a bunch of mix tapes back in the day...I may still have one or two still lurking in storage at the bottom of a box. But once you had at least one cassette full you had something to stick in your walkman and take wherever...no long commercial breaks and station identifications each time after 3 or 4 songs. The radio stations telling us their station was more music and less talk but they were always telling us that during a bunch of talking. The worst things we had to deal with songs on mix tapes was hearing the DJ at the beginning and end of songs. I liked movie theaters in the 80's. I prefer them to stadium seating. The seating was still on a slant and I never really had a problem with people sitting in front of me. Also, most of the stand alone movie theaters in the 80's were built in the 60's and 70's. The majority of movie theaters built in the 80's were being built in malls and that's where the best movie going experiences were. There was nothing better than being dropped off at the mall to see a movie! You'd check the times and decide which showing you'd go to. Sometimes you'd give yourself a while to walk around before the movie, you usually always hung around after the movie. There was the candy store that sold nothing but candy and they sold it in bulk. You just needed to judge what you could smuggle into the movie, if it was winter and you had a winter coat, you were golden. Winter coats had lots of pockets and deep ones too. You could even just carry your coat with the candy wrapped in it. Before or after the movie you could go to the video arcade. You could browse the toys and video games in stores like KayBee. Many malls had stores that only sold video games and video game accessories like Electronic Boutique or Babbages (which became GameStop). You could browse Spencer Gifts which always had unique gadgets and a great selection of joke stuff. You could browse the books at Walden Books or B. Dalton. Browse the music at Sam Goody, browse the sneakers at Footlocker and The Athletes Foot. If the mall had a Sears or Montgomery Ward those stores usually had massive toy departments and if they had items on sale they were usually a better deal than at Kaybee and definitely better than the video game stores. Then there was the food court with any and every kind of fast food/junk food you could hope for. You could take a break there, get a snack or just a drink, or even just sit down and read or play with the Tiger game you just bought. As long as the mall was open, you weren't causing a disturbance, and you didn't fall asleep there, you wouldn't be told to leave. I broke that last rule once. I had just ate a meal, my stomach was contentedly full, I felt relaxed after walking around a lot, and I started reading my book. Next thing I know I had fallen asleep with my head in my arms and now Paul Blart is standing over me telling me I can't sleep there. Finally, there is one thing about the 80's that sucked that not only should have been on your list but should have been #1... Not having a phone! I know you mentioned that but you didn't mention it for the worst reason that sucked. You needed a phone to call your parents or your older brother or sister, or someone...to pick you up and give you a ride home. You had to resort to pay phones which used to be ALL OVER the mall. There's be banks of 5 or 6 of them on a wall. And there were always teenagers talking on them. In the 60's and 70's it cost a dime to make a local call. Now I think it's $0.35? At least it was last time I used one which was years ago. In the 80's it was one quarter...which also was the cost to play one game on most arcade games. Sometimes I couldn't help it...I just had to play one more game of Joust or Donkey Kong or whatever... Then I'm totally broke. When you're out of money it's time to go home. If you have no one you can bum a quarter off of, you have to call home collect. Only that pisses your parents off big time because of the cost. So you need to learn to do the code name: "I have a collect call from (your voice: Emmett Jamal Pickmeup) Do you accept the charges?" And then they can just not accept the charges. But the absolute worst thing is when you are at the mall and you are seeing the late movie/last showing and you come out of the theater and the mall is closed and access to it is blocked. You have to leave the theater by the back door. You need to call for a ride but all the payphones are *inside* the mall! So you have to walk maybe half a mile to the nearest gas station or 7/11 and it's after midnight and it's not the safest part of town. That's happened to me more than once and I got to tell you, fluorescent lights are never more comforting than when you walk into a 7/11 after being out in the dark. Best Regards!

[@jamespeters2859]

80’s was the golden age of arcade games. ...You’re right, setting the VCR to record was a bitch. Even in the UK that awful droning “don’t worry” track was rammed down our necks. I tell ya wot woz cool about the 80’s. The theme tune to Miami Vice! No TV remote control sucked, ...a bit. And do you know what sucked the most??? There was no KZbin and therefore no Junkman. ❤️

[@theodoreritola7641]

In The 70s i liked the Theme to Hawaii 50

[@michaezell4607]

The macarena of the 80s LOL!!!

[@KasumiKenshirou]

A lot of times they would interrupt a show and it would resume "already in progress", so you just missed part of it. I disagree with your statement that movies are better now. Most of the movies now are just crappier versions of movies from the 80s. Party lines. Basically you shared a phone line with all your neighbors who couldn't afford a private line. You would pick up the phone to make a call and there would be someone you didn't know blabbing on it and you would have to wait for them to be done before you could make a call.

[@mikethemechanic7395]

Born in 75. One thing that sucked in the 80s. Was nothing to watch in the summer. Any favorite show. You had to wait till the fall to watch it. If you missed a few episodes. The tv stations would play 75 percent of the episodes then jump around. It was the worst. Any move that came out in the theater. You had to wait 1 year for it to come out on VHS.

[@williamwilkinson381]

I would say having to wait over a year to see a move again once it let a theater in some cases it was longer .it wasn't until 1989 when Batman came out on video 4 months after it hit theaters also by 89 vhs movies were affordable under $20

[@madmax8620]

"Be angry"!...My biology teacher brought her boom box to class with that cassette one day asking if we ever heard of it and proceeded to share it with us every day for half a year until one of the smart kids made the tape disappear permanently. ..at least she was young dumb and super hot.

[@johnbockelie3899]

" The land Lord comes to get the rent, now he's mad cuz you told him it's spent, don't worry.........be happy !!!". My version of that song. 😄

[@brianhenson4128]

Rhe movies and machines you rented that looked like record and you would have to flip the record over or put in another disc halfway through the movie.

[@rickwj324]

The 80s rocked! Best time for toys, shows, movies, horror, music...etc!

[@theodoreritola7641]

The 70s say hold our beers ,,

[@visionaryventures12]

Born in ‘75. I disagree about the movie theaters. There were several in Syracuse. I also think having to gather information or having limited access did make one value what they got. I felt more proud when I would discover some article or book. There’s a Dynamite magazine article I would borrow several times from our library. It was likely in 1984 and it was talking about the various transforming robot toys out that year, with price points and nice photos. Usually, I would photocopy an article if I liked it that much, so perhaps there’s a photocopy in my Transformers box of papers somewhere.

[@BadTV1993]

making your dad yell at you because the car just got SIMONIZED and you touched it

[@ghostbusterscollector8593]

I grew up in the 80s. Things are so much better today.

[@jhmed9]

There was a lot of hair in the 80s, and I don't mean just on your head. Hahaha, I see what you did there.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Thats sick lol ,, Aids came out in 1981 Thats nothing to be proud of

[@brianlang5482]

Hot vinyl car seats.

[@zaiusbaltar7091]

I liked 80;s tv because you could start watching the show after missing the first 15 minutes and still enjoy it. The plots weren't overly complex, 99% of episodes were self contained ( talking about hour long dramas) Bad thing about the 80's, getting a hold of a nudie mag meant either grabbing a quick look at one at the pharmacy or a random find in the woods. It was a true hardship. The pro wrestling was also really boring and stupid, didn't improve until the 90's.

[@theequalizer9154]

Microfiche, also known as microfilm and that machine one had to use to view it. I used that a lot!

[@jtszabo1691]

Saw meets Girl Interrupted? That sounds like my life when I was married, I feel attacked lol

[@sormaikel7093]

✨🎃✨ actually i enjoyed the lack of multiple channels a lot. because you had so few, you had something to look forward to days ahead. i was always scouring the tv program for movies to come and the excitement of that was almost like waiting for x-mas ! ✨🎃✨

[@grotgrusson5124]

There is an wonderful clip from a Swedish "talk show" where they talk about the rock band WASP. They even decoded the acronym to We Are Santa's* People... The whole clips ends with a girl reading a poem whit highly Christian values and connoations. *) I think you have to rearange the letters a bit 😉 There is also an hilarious clip with upset parrents speaking of the VHS and Video violence. Upset parrents who is chocking of how easy it is to rent a cassette, pop it in to the video an press Play. 😄

[@anthonyreed3682]

I can definitely relate to the TBS comment, it sucked. MTV in the 80s was better though, they ACTUALLY played music videos.

[@ghostbusterguy20011]

I would have put phones in there somewhere we wanted to make a call away from home we had to use pay phones and if you weren't home when someone called you missed it but I will say that wasn't necessarily a bad thing

[@3Storms]

Mail order sucked back then. And when you live in a rural area it's the only way save for long road trips to get a lot of things. When they told you it takes 6 - 8 weeks to get something, they f'ing meant it. Also look up 1980s ad and catalog prices for TVs. Use an online inflation calculator to see what a 31" TV costs in today's dollars. There's a reason why 90%+ of all households had 19" TVs.

[@DatDudeVince]

90's>80's

[@theviking6052]

15 of us inside my neighborhood

[@constancecherry3996]

And dungin and 🐉

[@jamesmaurer8349]

As far as I'm concerned everything you just named made the 80s better.

[@theflyingninja1]

Googling things is not a positive. The internet has taken the challenge out of life. Everything is right there in our hands.

[@badape3620]

The music was ehh, some high points but mostly ehh. The cartoons where legendary. But the fashion was horrible. Unforgettable horrible. Ripped jeans big hair, skinny ties and shoulder pads. I still have nightmares of those terrible times

[@matthewmonsour9802]

The 80's was killer! The talk about down time was true until the summer of 1981 the year that MTV and cable kicked in and after that it never affected me. I was an athlete year round so when i wasnt playing a game id play video games go fishing or chase girls. No down time so i loved it.

[@highwayman1218]

Ahhhh the 80s as a kid! 👍 Grew up in a small mountain town in So Cal. I was a latchkey kid and could catch all the scary stuff on HBO, TMC, premium channels while parents were at work till 6 pm. 👍 After school out all day on bmx (later mx) bikes untill sun down with friends. Or hanging out at the arcades in town with every other cool kid all day spending our school lunch money on games. 👍 How we stayed alive with never wearing helmets ripping or freestyling on bmx bikes, no new parent would ever understand.. Had a few jobs as a teen in town 8 miles away..... Always got back and forth hitchhiking (before driving in 86) and I was never late. 👍 Only suck was just one phone line in the house... Always a pain to talk to girlfriends on the phone and parents always yelling to get off the phone. 👎

[@samsquanch1996]

I was born in the mid-90s and as I'm getting older, I'm starting to realize that every decade sucks. The world is just a terrible place.

[@harrycollins3248]

Speaking of the first Star Wars movie, I once knew a guy who claimed he saw it when it originally came out in theaters. He said the title crawl said "Episode 4 - A New Hope". I told him that Lucas didn't add that to the movie until 1981. He didn't believe me. He said "I saw it with my own eyes" then he called me a stupid Southerner. 🙄

[@ThatJunkman]

Lot of people misremember stuff and can’t admit it

[@alice_evermore]

The "Don't Worry, Be Happy" song made me agitated and in a bad mood.

[@Imaminimonstertruck]

Keep in mind that dungeon & dragon wasn't very popular yes among a handful of geeks but it wasn't a worldwide phenomenon yes stranger things made it a lot bigger than what it is but back then it was very niche.

[@UrMomsChauffer]

This video was particularly hilarious. The TBS thing pissed me off too. I will say this, and I'm surprised you didn't mention it, toy access is much better now compared to the 80s. I can remember not being able to get a lot of different toys in my state back in the day. Even the Toys R Us was kinda limited. Now, you can find any toy you want, including stuff from the 80's.

[@michaelmcfarland1716]

At least you could find the newest star wars at the local stores back then. The isles are mostly empty for long stretches nowadays.

[@chrisdragnet722]

There were way more shopping options back then there is today. Toy stores are practically nonexistent these days. You need to comb the internet now.

[@UrMomsChauffer]

@@michaelmcfarland1716 that's my point, we couldn't. The stores are empty now, but at least they have access on line.

[@UrMomsChauffer]

@@chrisdragnet722 have you used the internet? There are more options on the Internet than all the stores you could go to in the 80s combined.

[@FatrickTomlinson]

It wasnt even the 80s but anyone remember GTA1 when they were little blocks and circles hahaha

[@davidthomas283]

MIcrofish? Don't you mean microfilm? I had to find an 80's newspaper article this way!

[@ThatJunkman]

microfiche, Microfilm is a roll of images, much like a movie reel, while microfiche is a flat sheet of microfilm.

[@airxtream2139]

Don't worry Junkman be happy hahaha

[@constancecherry3996]

I remember the laidatey

[@tzgaming207]

if nothing else, the limitations of the 80s made us more innovative when entertaining ourselves... for better or for worse 😅

[@timbartschwolfman]

I was born in 94 I'm proud to be a 90's Baby

[@WVMothman]

Yes you had to wait for everything aside from sharing it. Parents don't have a friend filter for their kids these days, at that time they would say "I think that kid is inappropriate" and it might be a school mate that lived across the tracks. Weird shit. Adult material only if you had an ID or found a stash in the woods, these days you can pop up Xhamster. Lol!.

[@Dale_The_Space_Wizard]

What sucked in the 80's was AIDS coming around while I was still a young virgin, so everyone stopped having wild consequence free sex and I missed out on it.

[@comicbookshopofdoom8160]

Things that sucked in the 80's : The Cold War, No internet, inflation, and the Goonies.

[@frekitheravenous516]

I would take all of that over anything today.

[@stevegallo8483]

We have inflation now, only it's worse than it was in the 80s.

[@comicbookshopofdoom8160]

@@stevegallo8483 he didn't ask about now. We need Trump back asap.

[@theodoreritola7641]

Didnt Aids come out in 1981 ? O thats right Crickets