80s Fads & Fashion

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Take off eh? Bob and Doug McKenzie to return in cartoon form

Posted by ChuckyG, April 29, 2008
Fans of the movie Strange Brew and SCTV will be happy to hear the duo have reunited and are going to be animated for an upcoming cartoon version of their characters. Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are going to be doing the voices as well, no lame imitations!

The Bob and Doug characters launched as a two-minute skit on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp's sketch-comedy series SCTV in 1980, in part to mock federal government rules that require the public broadcaster to air identifiably "Canadian content" in its homegrown TV shows.

Full story at Yahoo News

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Latest Additions to Fads and Fashions of the Eighties Pages
don't know!
It was a purple "sea dragon" bath toy, it filled with water and squirted the water, it floated and had other pieces on it. I forget what it was called, I was 3-4 when I had it last! Its from the early 80'a maybe late 70's. Help!!
Submitted by dontknow2.shtml. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
I feel like such a wastoid when I get hot over the Tiffany "I Think We're Alone Now" video. So sexy, so ginger, so wastoid. Like a snow pea in the summer a.k.A. SO WASTOID.
Submitted by Elisha. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
Chronologically speaking, 9/11 is now closer to the collapse of the USSR, than it is to the present day. Let that sink in for a minute.
Submitted by Ed Guzman. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
Justin Bieber's mom was born in like 1977.
Submitted by Janice. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
When you were a kid in the 80s and 90s you thought The Beatles were a lame old Baby Boomer band from your parents time. Though now as an adult you recognize just how cool and awesome they were back in the 1960s, b/c the kids of today look at the 80s and 90s the same way we looked at older decades when we were their age. I remember most (but not all) of us kids were laughing at our teachers when they would go on and on about The Beatles back as a young kids around 1987. They were nutty oldies from 20 years b4, who cared was our attitude. I had a biology teacher in 1994 who always wanted to tell us where he was when he heard that The Beatles broke up in 1970, at the time as a kid I could care less. But as an adult that's in my 30s today (and still younger then many of my teachers from the 80s and 90s, ha!) that realizes that 1993 was "20 years ago", I've really come to appreciate a lot of music that was "before my time".
Submitted by David. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
Overhearing kids say, "my mom and dad grew up in the 80s and 90s".
Submitted by Shannon. Added to the site on April 27, 2013
donut hole shoes?
My mom came home in Hawaii with a pair of what would have been my first high heel type shoe. The platform was all one piece and solid and at the heel was an oval(ish) round cut out. At the toe area under the shoe, it was curved up so that you were all most "rocking" as your foot took the step. Sound familiar to anyone??
Added to the site on April 27, 2013
'Lil Abners
tan boots on which laces started from right after the toe of the boot, all the way to the top...the toe was very round; like 'Lil Abner's boots!
Added to the site on April 27, 2013
Food stand?
I had a toy food/hot dog/ice cream stand in the mid to late eighties. It was really cool and came with plastic hotdogs, hamburgers,fries, and ice cream that you could stack on top of a cone. I have been searching the internet and ebay but can't seem to find it. It was large enough to stand behind and serve your friends food. Does anyone know what I am talking about or the brand name?
Submitted by foodstand0.shtml. Added to the site on February 09, 2013
a doll called ( chubby kid)
Looks similar to a cabbage patch kid
Submitted by adollcalledchubbykid0.shtml. Added to the site on February 09, 2013