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Mware

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, I have to give lots of credit to Whowhere. We started this whole thing over on the Survivor board when we were talking about Rosie O'Donnell hosting the reunion show after the winner is announced. Someone remembered her doing standup, and I remembered her on Star Search in 1984 losing in the comedy finals to Brad Garrett from Everybody Loves Raymond. It kind of grew out of that, and we moved it over here since we weren't talking about Survivor at all anymore. Haven't seen Whowhere here today, though. She said she was going to rent Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure last night - maybe she's stuck in the phone booth fighting off some huns

OK, maybe this belongs in a 70s thread, but the girl who was in those Nightmare on Elm Street Movies - the actor who played her father was a villain in one episode of Six Million Dollar Man.

More importantly to us, though, the girl was in what 80s TV show, which was an offshoot of what other 80s TV show, which had on its cast for the final season one of the actors named on this thread a short time ago, and which actor was it?

Shakes

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 02:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mware - I KNEW you were going to bring up that damn sitcom! I've been calling "80's friends" trying to come up with all the answers before you posted!!! Here is all we can come up with...

The Dad is a coach with lots of daughters (including Heather Langenkemp - the Elm St. girl). The daughters all live upstairs in an attic bedroom, where way too much of the action takes place.

Mware - I GOT IT! The show was "Just the Ten of Us", the Dad is Coach Lubock (?) who was the gym teacher on "Growing Pains". Leonardo DiCaprio joined the cast of "Growing Pains" in its final season. TA DA! (Someone just called and gave me this info. - we just had an "80's TV Hotline"!)

I won't be happy until I stump you Mware!!

Mware

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 03:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You Rock, Shakes!!! That's one of my better ones, too. I brought it out against the advise of my lawyer, too. He works at the firm of Mackenzie - Brackman.

Who was better for Alex: Ellen or Lauren?

And didn't a part of you want Janet to marry Jack?

And what ill-fortuned 80s movie birthday girl was in a TV show just a few years earlier which had its theme song written by an actor who starred in an 80s TV show mentioned earlier in this thread? And who's the actor? (Hint - he cowrote the theme song with a Days of Our Lives actress.)

Well?

Shakes

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 03:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not sure I'm reading this one right or not so I might need a clarification:

Ill fortuned b'day girl = Molly Ringwald - Sixteen Candles

TV show a few years earlier = Facts of Life

Actor in 80's show = Alan Thicke - Growing Pains

Soap Actress = Gloria Loring

Am I right????

Mware

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 03:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All true. Nice going, Shakes.

"Dad's a plumber, and I guess, well, you plumb, right Dad?" is a quote (as best as I can remember it) from a movie starred in by the scene stealer in a movie mentioned earlier in this thread. Actor and movie please?

And while you're at it, another actor from the same earlier mentioned movie kissed the (at that time) relatively unknown actress in another 80s movie who would go on to marry (and divorce)the one of the two stars of a hit 80s detective TV show whose other star made a sexy movie a long time ago with what 80s detective TV star who drove a fancy car?

The question continues, but becomes so difficult to track that I'll split it up into two parts. See if you can follow this one, and I'll give you the second part after that.

This is really cool!

Whit4you

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My first memories of the 80's would be

Mt St Helens - I was very young and pregnant when almost 400 miles away - I was standing outside talking to my future hubby and suggesting he needs to wash his car - I ran my fingers across his dusty car - and minutes later my prints were gone. This was very confusing to me (as I said I was young lol) - seemed a bit spooooky... I made a comment that my finger prints were gone and wrote something on his hood. A few minutes later that writing was gone too - I knew something was seriously wrong then but didnt understand "what" - we went up this mountain that day and I never knew about Mt St Helens then because we had no electricty or phone or anything like that up there. The next day I found out all about Mt St Helens and found out that - the reason my finger prints and my writing had disappeared in minutes is cause the ash had covered it... that was my first memory of '80. :)

Shakes

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 07:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mware...

Sorry I ran out on you on friday - but I got so caught up in our little game that I ended up having to (literally) run out the door to catch a train that was taking me away for the weekend. I made it with about 2 minutes to spare!

I've been reading your last movie trivia post and I'm getting nothing! One more teeny clue - please, please!

Grooch

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 07:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am guessing the actress is Melanie Griffith who was married to Don Johnson who was in Miami Vice.

But I don't know the movie or the actor. (I hope you guys don't mind my butting in.

<<And while you're at it, another actor from the same earlier mentioned movie kissed the (at that time) relatively unknown actress in another 80s movie who would go on to marry (and divorce)the one of the two stars of a hit 80s detective TV show whose other star made a sexy movie a long time ago with what 80s detective TV star who drove a fancy car?>>

Mware

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 07:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, Don Johnson is a part of this - He's the 80s detective TV star who drove a fancy car. Working backwards, now, the "other" star used to drive whenever she and the "first" star in question used to go anywhere, and she drove a BMW. The theme song to the show was sung by jazz great Al Jarreau.

You're welcome anytime, Grooch! The more the merrier.

Shakes

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 09:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepard - Moonlighting! (such a great show!)

But now...how does it all fit together?

Grooch how bout you? Can you make this one work?

This is a tough one Mware!

Mware

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 10:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, you've made the Don Johnson - Cybill Shepherd- Bruce Willis connection. The rest of it follows from Bruce Willis. Keep going - you're on the right track. (Never saw Long, Hot Summer, with Don and Cybill - heard it was pretty steamy though.

Squaredsc

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 11:54 am EditMoveDeleteIP
great game mware/shakes, i am totally stumped on this last one, but then i am not good a trivial pursuit(sp)

i loved moonlighting, also facts of life was and still is a favorite....."there's a time you got to go and show your growin now you're knowin about the facts of life, the facts of life....

Mware

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, Square, when the boys you used to hate, you date, I guess you'd best investigate the facts of life, the facts of life....When the world never seems to be livin' up to your dreams, then suddenly you're finding out the facts of life are all about you...

But that doesn't solve the puzzle. (It's still lots of fun to sing and make people wonder what you're doing, though.)

Shakes

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 12:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mware - I'm losing my 80's mind!!

I believe the following are the players - but I cannot get them to fit together:

John Cusack
Demi Moore
Bruce Willis
Cybil Shepard
Don Johnson

I think the movie quote is from 'Better Off Dead'(hilarious!) or possibly 'One Crazy Summer'. The John Cusack connection to the "earlier mentioned movie" is shaky though...I'm not sure but, didn't he play a 'super-nerd' in '16 Candles'?

Am I close?

In the meantime - how about a quick music question?

"....we can dance if we want to, we've got all your life and mine..."

I'm looking for the name of the group and the name of the song.

Grooch

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 12:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Safety Dance by Men in hats

Mware

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shakes, you absolutely got it. In fact, we can do a "Six degrees of separation" connecting Leonardo DiCaprio to Don Johnson -

Leonardo DiCaprio was on the final season of Growing Pains, which also starred Alan Thicke, who wrote the theme song for Facts of Life (which was sung earlier in this thread by Squaredsc and I), and Molly Ringwald appeared in the first season of Facts of Life. She later went on to star in Sixteen Candles as the ill-fortuned birthday girl Samantha Baker. John Cusack was, in fact, one of the nerds (not the one with the headgear) who paid $1 to see Samantha's underwear in the bathroom. A slightly more mature John Cusack starred in the movie "One Crazy Summer" and in the movie, kissed Demi Moore, who, of course did a lot more than kiss Bruce Willis, who starred in "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepherd. Cybill, years before, starred in the movie "Long, Hot Summer" with Don Johnson, and we're done!!!

Now, to continue this madness and mayhem, we can branch off just about anywhere in this list, involve both John Cusack and Tom Cruise, and still end up with Cybill Shepherd and Demi Moore, with just one actor being the key. Who is he, and how does he fit into this 80s puzzle???

By the way, Men Without Hats came to my college the first weekend of my freshman year! They were pretty cool.

And I also saw over the weekend one of my favorite shows of all time, which was cancelled way too soon - Bosom Buddies! That show rocked!

Squaredsc

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh i loved bosom buddies, and i wish that tom hanks would go back to comedy, i like his drama, but i think he needs a balance.

i also have to give it up for the cosby show which came in the late 80's i think. i also think the teen movies were better then than now, like 16 candles, oh and can't forget "Porkeys". that was a classic.
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Mware

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 07:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
One of my favorite TV moments of all times was in the first season of the Cosby show where Theo just wants to be "regular people."

How about "dialogin' with the BBD." 80s movie. Title?

And is anyone working on my last little puzzle???

Shakes

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 08:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mware - you KNOW I'm working on your last puzzle...and I will not admit defeat!!!

I have a few theories; I get most of the way, but I can never seem to fit Cybil in.

You could gimme another clue if you wanted to (Shakes coyly smiles and bats eyelashes).

Mware

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 08:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Shakes - Can't tell from your profile whether the coy smile and eyelash batting would make me want to help you, or turn away, but I'll give you another clue anyway...

Our guy can also be traced through to...Gary Coleman through George Clooney. (Actually, I don't know whether that clue helps or hurts, but if someone had told me that I could link Demi Moore and Gary Coleman through the "six degrees of separation" I would have told them they were nuts until I thought about it) And you've already hit on a key movie to pull it all in. Don't stress on the Cybil thing - that's just Moonlighting.

Shakes

Thursday, May 02, 2002 - 03:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
MWARE!

Did you think I forgot about the puzzle?? I've actually been thinking about it all week. I honestly can't get to the one actor who ties it all together-but-what I did manage to do was get everyone we mentioned connected. OK - stand back:

Tom Cruise does "Top Gun" which also features Anthony Edwards who eventually does "ER" with George Clooney who was on "Facts of Life" many moons ago with Charlotte Rae (Mrs. Garrett)who once was the housekeeper on "Diff'rnt Strokes", a show that starred Gary Coleman, as the impish Arnold Drummond. Gary guest starred on "The Facts of Life" (episode #11 "Rough Housing", Aug. 24, 1979) while Molly Ringwald was still on the series. We have already established that Molly did "16 Candles" with John Cusack who kissed Demi Moore in "One Crazy Summer". Demi marries Bruce, who stars with Cybil Shepard in "Moonlighting" who did a nasty movie long ago with Don Johnson.

I'm still standing better than I've ever been...

Mware

Thursday, May 02, 2002 - 04:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Shakes, you ROCK!!! But, unless you are as truly sick as I am, you might never come up with the actor named Curtis Armstrong.

This little guy popped up just about everywhere in the 80s, and can be used to connect just about everyone who did anything for the whole decade in entertainment. With just these few credits, he encompasses a ton of real people we might care about:

Played Burt Viola on Moonlighting (came on in about the 4th season as a junior detective, and married the secretary, Miss DiPesto. This gets him everyone that either Bruce Willis or Cybill Shepherd ever acted with or married.

Played Ack-Ack in the movie "One Crazy Summer." He was the kid whose father owned an ammunition store. This gets you John Cusack, who gets you back to the whole "Sixteen Candles" gang, which gets you the whole "Facts of Life" and "Different Strokes" gangs, which gets you the "Growing Pains" group, as well as George Clooney. It also gets you Demi Moore, who gets you Bruce Willis again.

Played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, which gets you Anthony Edwards, which gets you George Clooney again, which sparks off that chain.

Played Tom Cruise's friend in Risky Business, the one who encouraged him to say "What the ****?" and call Rebecca DeMornay. And, of course, Tom Cruise gets you Anthony Edwards through Top Gun, which sparks off that chain again.

So little Curtis Armstrong, bit player with the stars, seems to be a huge nucleus in the center of the 80s TV and movie atom.

I'm kind of tired now, so I'm going home for the night. I've been checking the board for you though, and you once again wow me with your 80s prowess.

Til next time, in the words of the immortal Michael Damien (OK, so he's not immortal, in fact, he's barely even cool) Rock On!

Mssilhouette

Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 01:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Has no one mentioned that insanity when just about every soft drink maker wanted to make everything....CLEAR!

Pepsi Clear, was it Crystal Coke? (geez that sounds more like a drug, than a drink)

Okay what about when the only flavor Doritos came in was Nacho, Corn and Taco! Can't even find Taco anymore.

Mware

Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 02:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nice call, Mssil! And what about the commercials they used to promote those new sodas (and the old ones!!!)

Think about how your computer has changed since the 80s, too. I remember programming in BASIC on a single-color (green) monitor connected to a big old dot-matrix printer in a computer lab!

And how about Mr. 80s, himself, Michael Jackson!!!
The Thriller video, the success of the album, and the ill-fated Pepsi commercial, then the totally inappropriately named Victory tour which reunited him with his brothers! Showing up at the awards show with Brooke Shields and Emmanuel Lewis...

Luvmom

Monday, May 06, 2002 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow!does this ever bring back old memories.Guess my favorite Song and artist,Movie and TV show from the 80's.These will be too easy because I'm not that good at giving hard clues.

Song: She's got it,ya baby,she's got it!
Artist: Oh,thinking about our younger years.There was only you and me.We were young and wild and free.

Movie:Where the hell have you been!Do you know what time it is?Well it's 2:00 in the morning kiddo.Hey Pony where you been?

TV Show: Heeyyy!!!