You grew up in the 80’s if…
23 Mar
This is for those of us with enough…maturity to understand.
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You Know You Grew Up In The 80’s if:
1. You’ve ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE. (Author’s note: I know it’s PSYCH so quit emailing me already. This isn’t my list, I’ve already noted that this was an email I was sent awhile ago.)
2. You watched the Pound Puppies
3. You can sing the rap of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton.
4. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters Club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those Lil’ Strawberry Shortcake Pals scented dolls.
7. You know that “WHOA” comes from Joey on Blossom.
8. Two words: Hammer Pants
9. If you ever watched “Fraggle Rock”.
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars… and spokey-dokes or playing cards on your spokes for that inredible sound effect.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to “Duck Tales” (Woo ooh!)
12. It was actually worth getting up early on Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen… and still know the turtles names.
15. You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
17. You played the game “MASH” (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
18. You wore stonewashed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear….need I say more?
20. You wanted to change your name to “JEM” in Kindergarten. (She’s Truly Outrageous.)
21. You remember reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and all The Ramona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of “WAX ON, WAX OFF”.
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing (some of us…head-to-toe).
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
26. You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took lunch boxes to school…and traded Garbage Pail Kids in the schoolyard.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
29. You still get the urge to say “NOT” after every sentence.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts.
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
32. You thought She-ra (Princess of Power) and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes.
35. After you saw Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, you kept saying “I know you are, but what am I?”
36. You remember “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up”.
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
38. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
39. You have ever played with a Skip-It.
40. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
41. You’ve gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
42. You remember Popples.
43. Don’t worry, be happy.
44. You wore like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top Reeboks.
45. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do…getting yelled at by younger hip members of the family).
46. You remember boom boxes and walking around with the one on your shoulder like you were all that.
47. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
48. You know what it meant to say “Care Bear Stare!!”
49. You remember watching Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony Tales.
50. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot.
51. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
52. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool…and don’t even flinch when people refer to them as “NKOTB”.
53. You knew all the characters names and their life stories on “Saved By The Bell” the ORIGINAL class.
54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi – SHOT THROUGH THE HEART.
55. You just sang those words to yourself.
56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird.
57. Homemade Levi shorts…the shorter the better.
58. You remember when mullets were cool!
59. You had a mullet.
60. You still sing “We Are The World”.
61. You right rolled your jeans.
62. You owned a banana clip.
63. You remember “Where’s the Beef?”
64. You used to (and probably still do) say “What you talkin’ ’bout Willis?”
65. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
66. You’re still singing shot through the heart in your head, aren’t you?
Note: This was an email sent to me awhile ago. I know that it’s spelled “Psych” and I know that some of these apply to the 90’s as well as the 80’s.
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Isn’t “shot through the heart” actually called “You give love a bad name”
Yes “M”, it is “You Give Love A Bad Name” which I clarified back in the 21st comment but most people are familiar with the lyrics and not the actual song name. Either way, they’re both really good songs.
I was born in 1979, so I remember like 95% of these. (And I’m sitting here going “YES! I totally remember that!”)
He-Man and She-Ra (what the hell is a “ra”? In keeping with the theme of pronoun-gender, shouldn’t it have been “She-Woman”?) should NOT have hooked up, because they were brother and sister. I was an avid fan of both shows as a kid (although, being a girl, I liked She-Ra better) and I remember the episode of He-Man which introduced She-Ra, and at the time, she was evil, until she and Prince Adam found out that ohmygod they’re related! And then I think they both defeated whoever the evil guy was that She-Ra used to work for. Or something. It was twenty-some years ago.
Also: Slap bracelets! I used to have one of those. And Fraggle Rock was the best. And Popples! I had a Popple with the manufacturer-given name of Potato Chip.
i was born before that and shot through the heart still goes round my head
Wow! Do I feel old. LOL I still watch SBTB. That’s my dirty little secret.
Hi
I really loved this,I dont know when i grew up really,i was born in 82 and took me a while I guess to grow up,so I grew through the 80s and 90s!This is quite western in its approach,never the less,quite familiar,I grew up in India and Oman during those years.Different cultural perspectives!
Nice page.
Cheers.
I think I just died and went to heaven while reading this… it’s was like “Flashback from the past!” I’m so going to give this link out.
Thanks Robert
I totally remember all of these. The one I had completley forgotten about though was the Oregon Trail! You had to grow up in the 80’s to know that one. I remember every Friday at school was our day to go to the computer lab and we played Oregon trail and also a program where you had to write your own story and you used backrounds and premade characters or objects to fill a book. That was the best day all week for sure.
True it’s all true. Did you do this yourself?
Ahaha! All of those ‘Shot Through the Hearth’ ones really got me so well!
I’m also European, ans most of it is true too
The word at the end of the 1st one should be psych
I got through half the list and I was wondering where the hypercolor shirts where, you totally nailed it.
Thanks stumbleupon
I was born in ‘77. This is a great list, although a tough centered on the female recolections (not that I care). I had the whole Care Bears, My Little Pony, Jem, Strawberry Shortcake, SHE-RA!!! and Rainbow Brite; I read all those Ramona and Judy Blume books, all the hair bands, not just Bon Jovi; I haven’t thought about playing MASH in years! For a long time, I used to type my journals, which I learned from Doogie Howser, MD…Saturday morning cartoons were worth watching…I own all the Golden Girls seasons on DVD…I had Pound Puppies and Cabbage Patch Kids (and the Garbage Pail Kids as well)…NKOTB…yeah, I can still sing the FPOBA theme song…socks scrunched down and Bobby McFerrin…wow, I miss those days…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StC-UCCNC_A
I almost spit out my tea when I read “Kids Inc.”! I LOVED them!!! I watched, listened to and wished to BE them!! I was just making mixed CD’s and came across Kids Bob and couldn’t help thinking how much better Kids INC was! Now I have to search for them on the net!
thanks for the memories
It’s PSYCH, not SIKE!
priceless.
OMG I feel soooooo old!
YOU KILLED ME !!!!
You missed a few , try to go for the top 100 with the help of your repliers :
• You knew the thriller choreography
• Believed at some point you were MacGyver when you found yourself in an unusual situation.
• Not me but my friends couldn’t go out without the shoulder pads that added a Frankenstein touch to them.
• Your brother adopted the identity of one of the A-team members.
• You used to carry an extra sweater around your waist.
• Big, thick, shiny, stylish belts.
• You love bubblegum and still find yourself chewing bubblegum every day.
• You believed you would find “the captain of my heart”
• You own the Breakfast club and pretty in pink because… you watch them once a month.
• Your heart beats faster when your 80 sradio station plays “girl I am going to miss you ” and still wonder why did that HOT, HOT, HOT guy with the beautiful eyes committed suicide.
• You dreamt on dancing dirty with Patrick Swayze
• When someone asks who do you call in case of… you instantly reply :”Ghostbusters”
I will be thinking of more, let me know if you are interested in them…
Thank you VERY, VERY much for making my weekend so Happy !!!!
I remember nearly all of this now I make a living off all the paraphanelia above as a videographer in Las Vegas!
That was really awesome!!! I hope you don’t mind if I link to this in my blog…?
Thanks for bringing back so many memories.
thats freakin hilarious. born in 83 and still remember 98 percent of that stuff. what about thunder cats and voltron? maybe evn silver hawks? any wayz, thanks for the remenising.
LA
That list was “Bad” man, but no Transformers OMG! What about when lego was fun to build with because you didnt get specifically moulded parts, also StickleBricks lol.
The Snap bracelets I totally forgot about lol, the rival to the Skip-It aswell, the football with a ring, it looked like Saturn or Jupiter lol
Gummi Bears, MTV played Music!!! Board Games were good, the NES and the Master System, or them Nintendo Game and Watch’s!
OMG thanks a bunch for this list, its really cheered me up! Thankyou so much xxx
love this list
born in ‘90 and i remember at least 75%
ok i was born in 88 and most of these applied to me… and now i need to get Bon Jovi out of my head.
My friend, Chris, and I gave up TV for lent one year. It was way easy until 3pm. That’s when Duck Tales came on followed by JEM- then it was like we were late for the methodone or something.
this is my life when i ggrew up i ad forgotten about some of this – it was an awesome time trip-THANKS!!!!!
This list is great….you totally forgot Jem & the Holograms, potatoe head kids, glow worms hehehehe need I go on. anyway totally knew all the the items on the list and knew someone or did most of it myself, and was totally in love with the New Kids. lol
Krista (reply #24); the fact that you just “switch my itunes to shot through the heart”… You were not in the 80s!
and yes, as the rest of you; I loved this list!!!
7. You know that “WHOA” comes from Joey on Blossom.
It came from Joey on “Gimme a Break!”
Wow. I never thought about it, but gods I’m getting OLD!
I AM A BEAUTIFUL CHLID OF THE EIGHTIES, CLASS OF ‘86 AND ALL OF THESE APLIED, BUT I LAUGHED MY ASS OFF WHEN I STARTED SINGING SHOT THROUGH THE HEART TO MYSELF AND YOU KNEW IT. THANKS FOR THE LAUGH.
Wow, I must live in some kind of backwater town because all of those are still popular
It’s funny that event though i was born in the 1990’s, i can agree to more than half of these.
I remember alot of these things and I was born early ninety’s. I feel honoured.
Add you remember the break of Grunge into mainstream. Even though that was 1991 but you would remember it if you were and 80’s kid.
Just so people know, the was smurfette and sassette. 2 girl smurfs. and i love all those cartoons. That was back when cartoons were gooooood!!!!
Wouldn’t you know you grew up in the 80s if…well…if you grew up in the 80s?
You REALLY know your 80s if you corrected the song title.
“You Give Love A Bad Name”
Oh my gosh, me and my sister were just laughing and nodding our heads in agreement the whole time. I’m so sending this to everyone I know who grew up in the 80s.
Oh i know way too many and i really was singing shot through the heart help i am stuck in the eighties !
Oh wait no i am not i am on the interweb !
nice promenade on the path of “oh my god! i remember it!”
this is an inaccurate discription of growing up in the 80’s. half of that stuff went on in the early half of the 90’s.
GREATEST THING EVAR.
I’m still singing “shot through the heart” too lol.
i was born in ‘84 but i still remember heaps of these things
but yeah some were still around in the 90’s, some of these things i still do today…NOT!:p
the song is “You Give Love a Bad Name” not “Shot Through the Heart”
more people know “Shot Through the Heart” since Blake Lewis sung it last year
yes im guilty of the whatchu talkin about lol