1980's Trivia

More Ways To Prove The 80's Will Live On (In You) Forever

You know you're from the 80's if…

36. You used to roll up the cuffs of your jeans and harem pants.

37. You can't Reese's Pieces without think about E.T. phoning home. (Bonus points if you know that he was supposed to be eating M&M's, but it got changed to Reese's Pieces at the last minute.)

38 . Your first album was a vinyl 33 and you laughed at your parents because they wanted to play 45's and 8-track tapes.

39. Your feet and ankles never got cold because you were wearing three pairs of socks.

40. You had to buy your high-tops at least one half size too large to accommodate such high fashion - aka all those pairs of socks.

41. You remember when Sebastian Bach was hanging out on Skid Row before he was Jesus Christ, Superstar on Broadway.

42. You spent all your change on stickers for your sticker album and you still know the value of shiny versus puffy stickers.

43. You begged for a horse for your birthday and ended up with a My Little Pony doll.

44. Your wardrobe contained Jelly shoes, Jelly bracelets, and Jelly rings.

45. You whizzed around your local roller skating rink to the tunes of Pac-Man Fever and Love is a Battlefield.

46. "Cell phones" meant the telephone people used when they got their "one phone call" in jail.

47. You're still trying to figure how Smurfette could be the only female Smurf.

48. Teased hair added several inches to your height.

49. Moonwalking was one small dance step for you rather than a national event for your parents.

50. You begged your parents to pay for martial arts lessons after you saw The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid, Part II. You were over it by the time you saw The Karate Kid, Part III and you had no idea until you read this sentence that there was a The Karate Kid, Part IV in 1994, which was also called The Next Karate Kid, in which Hillary Swank was Pat Morita's protégé that time.

51. You know that "glasnost" means openness or transparency and "perestroika" means economic restructuring.

52. Miami Vice, Dukes Of Hazard, and Dallas were television shows, not movies.

53. To you, Tom Hanks will always be the cross-dressing guy from the sitcom, Bosom Buddies. Now, if you could only remember if he played Buffy or Hilde! (Tom played Kip Wilson, also known as "Buffy." His roommate, Henry Desmond, also known as "Hilde," was played by Peter Scolari who later starred in the long running sitcom, Newhart.)

54. You added "To the max" or "Totally" to the end of every sentence.

55. Braces came with headgear and glasses had thick plastic frames.

56. You and your friends made fun of the "I've fallen and I can't get up" lady. (The fictional woman was named Mrs. Fletcher and the product was the LifeCall emergency service.)

57. You subscribed to cable television for the first time and actually thought there'd always be something to watch.

58. You remember Superstation WTBS Atlanta started all its shows five minutes later than all the other channels.

59. Made-for-TV movies were shown on network television, not Lifetime and The Hallmark Channel. The many "disease of the week" melodramas, as they were often called, taught you more about medicine than you ever learned from your doctor.

60. You threw cans and bottles in with your garbage and if anyone had mentioned "recycling" you would have thought that they were talking about some new type of exercise equipment.

61. You know all the words to the McDonald's commercial in which the kids were playing jumprope. You know the one…Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish, Quarter-Pounder, French fries…Icy Cokes, Thick Shakes, Sundaes, and Apple Pies.

62. To you, Mark Walhberg will always be the brother of that guy from New Kids On The Block. Also, you hated it when they changed their name to NKOTB.

63. Your parents were afraid you'd cut yourself putting on a snap bracelet.

64. You can name the Brat Pack – Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy.

65. You actually remember and care that the show Valerie was renamed to Valerie's Family and then to The Hogan Family.

66. You've not only a fan of the following super successful shows, but also their less successful spin-offs: Dynasty and The Colby's (also known as Dynasty II – The Colby's), Growing Pains and Just The Ten Of Us, Three's Company and The Ropers as well as Three's A Crowd, and Who's The Boss and Living Dolls.

67. His name will always be Ricky Schroeder to you and not Rick Schroeder. Also, you were so jealous because of all the toys he had on Silver Spoons.

68. Renting horror movie sequels about Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers took up a lot of your time.

69. You or someone you know had a mullet hairstyle. (Extra credit if you still have one or someone you know does.)

70. You still watch your Michael Jackson Thriller VHS video (that you taped yourself from MTV) every Halloween.

OK, 80's fans, you haven't used up all the Aqua Net and Drakkar Noir quite yet. Find out some more things that identify you as an 80's guru by visiting the final page of 1980's information.