That 80s Show
Shoulder pads, Rubik’s cubes, luminous clothes, angsty movies... and of course loads of factoids. Paulo and Dori are living in the past - and loving it!
Cabbage Patch Lawsuit | Van Damme of the Universe | Hooked on Vampires
Call Corbin Bernsen... That '80s Show is getting into the legal shenanigans behind the Cabbage Patch Kids. Paulo passes out at the thought of Jean-Claude Van Damme in a He-Man movie, and Dori is hooked on podcasts in this week's entertainment recommendation. And against all odds we find out who…
Andrew Read-geley | Reboots no one wanted | Olivia Newton's Bomb
Paulo loved George and Me, until he had to read it like a peasant. People keep making 80s reboots, no one wants them, not even a Short Circuit one - unless they rectify 'that' issue. Dori has a viewing recommendation that's hilariously criminal, while Paulo explores a John Travolta and…
Where the spheres have no name | Body Beat beats Richard Simmons | Garbage Pail Kids were Communistic
'80s legends U2 had a bloody good Sunday when they opened the Las Vegas Sphere, but Dori is still mad at them for having the audacity to give her an album for free. Richard Simmons was only big in the States because they didn't have Body Beat. Now we have…
What Paulo and Germany have in common | The best foreign movies of the 80s | The Burt Reynolds love-in continues
Paulo convinces Dori to love Italo-Disco via Germany, it kind of works. We then take a look at the best foreign films of the 80s - Paulo is let down by Kiss of the Spider Woman and Dori has seen most of them. We get excited about upcoming '80s documentaries…
Freddie Mercury's garden door upset Brian May | New Order and a floppy disk | Burt Reynolds kept making the same movie
Hopefully it's a better week for That '80s Show than it's been for That '70s Show and appropriately Dori takes us to the '90s. We talk about '80s things selling for a lot of money, '80s things that lost a lot of money, a movie that may or may not…
Hate Biff Tannen, Love Tom Wilson | A Neverending Tik Tok | Bardcore from the (14)80s
Paulo is back in the bedroom - after his nightmare about Jamie Lee Curtis, this week he has a problem with a Delorean bed. How does Tom Wilson - the guy who played uber-bully, Biff Tannen - handle all the questions about BTTF? Through song. When we called ourselves That…
Why does Paulo hate Jamie Lee Curtis? | The Chevy Chase rap album | Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Paulo hates talking about dreams - but he has to tell you about his vendetta against an 80s scream queen. Chevy Chase is on everyone's hate list and he just cemented his place in ours after we discovered his album of (s)hits. Terrible movie recommendations that include Andrew Dice Clay…
Pee Wee's Hoff House | Zepotha got us | Fritz the Cat and a rabbit hole | Luke Combs has a Fast Car
Paul Reuben passes away and Paulo links it to the Hoff - and honestly, truth is stranger than the fictional reality show we created. Tik Tok has been duped by Zepotha, we're just here for the promise of Synth-Wave. Dori visits the Costa Del Sol and finds a Town Called…
Paulo quizzes The Quizmaster | Ryan Reynolds reboots ALF | Club Tropicana and the drinks aren't free
Due to no fault of his own, Paulo did not win an '80s quiz evening. He conducts an internal audit. We examine the many reasons why Paulo and Ryan Reynolds would be best friends, a shared love of ALF is one of them. Dori has a very witchy movie review,…
That 80s Show meets Simon Halfon
We just wanted to talk to someone involved in the Wham! documentary. Instead we found Simon Halfon, a man who has played such a unique role in iconic albums from The Style Council, The Jam, Kim Wilde, Oasis and George Michael. He tells us how he got involved in designing album covers, his…
When Rob Lowe says '80s... | It happened on Number 150! | '80s Cow-Reoke
****BEFORE YOU READ THAT READ THIS**** We've been nominated in the Best Music Podcast in the APVA Awards. Please vote for us here, just scroll down to music: https://awards.apva.africa/vote-now/ Mr T, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and a shirtless George Michael all in the opening few minutes - that's why we're…
Wham! Bam Hologram | Strictly Come Ridgeley | Weekend at Kenny Rogers | Barbie in the '80s
****BEFORE YOU READ THAT READ THIS**** We've been nominated in the Best Music Podcast in the APVA Awards. Please vote for us here, just scroll down to music: https://awards.apva.africa/vote-now/ In the latest edition of That Wham! Show we find out that Wham! may come back as holograms, Andrew Ridgeley wants…
There can never be too much Wham! | Sci-Fi Satire | Shaka Zulu and The Knight Rider
With so much Wham! content around, Paulo and Dori have grabbed those teats and are milking George and Andrew for all they're worth. Admit that we've all had that dream... at least once. We also explore the finest in '80s Sci-Fi satire - which may or may not include a…
We didn't start the fire, but Fall Out Boy should stop it | The Wham!u-mentary | Bud (Spencer) Lite
It's Wham! Week and Paulo is angry with Fall Out Boy. They remade a Billy Joel song, and didn't even have the decency to do it in chronological order. We have an intellectual conversation about Wham! on Netflix, before Paulo brings Dori a story about Bud Spencer so ridiculous that…
Rick Astonbury | Why can't a millionaire playboy adopt teenage girls? | Offensive '80s songs
So much Glastonbury, so little time. The biggest event of 2023 gives Paulo and Dori a chance to go back to the '80s to talk about Blondie, The Pretenders, Guns N' Roses, Elton John and Rick Astley. But most importantly, is Slash bald under his hat? Movie recommendations get creepy…
Boom Boom let's go back to our podcast | Beauty and the Linda Hamilton | See Wham! ... think of us
Ever wondered what happened to that '80s one hit wonder? Be more specific you say? A conversation about Linda Hamilton's Terminator arms reminded Paulo and Dori of the very un-Disney Beauty and the Beast. Who was worse? '80s video store guys or '80s music store guys? The video store guys…
Paulo is STILL crying | The world's longest coke straw | Travolta and a mechanical bull | Sade but make it house
Paulo watched 'Still: A Michael J Fox movie' and had all the feelings. So overwhelmed by emotion, he forgot the name of MJF's wife. Paulo is a jerk. But he's a jerk with a new guilty pleasure in 'A Town Called Malice'. Dori recommends a movie with a message, but…
You wake up in the '80s... now what? | Paulo manifested a portable vinyl player | Ferris almost took ALL the days off!
What would you do if you woke up back in the '80s? Buy Apple stock and not really do anything different, unless you're Dori, who would change the order in which she kisses her posters in the morning. We also reminisce about the hilarity of '80s Garfield merchandise, wonder if…
The USA for Africa death pool | The lizard baby from V | Sly did Frank dirty | Two 80s Truths and a Lie?
We open the show with a look back at Tina Turner's career, but being us - we ended up wondering which member of the supergroup USA for Africa would die next. One name 'jumped' out at us. Paulo reminds Dori of the mini-series V, while she reminds him of MacGyver's…
Chunging our Wangs | Skinny Dipping with Jane Fonda | A vinegary Russian
We promise that we had a running order for this week's show, but once Dori brought up Panburgers we took a very weird detour that Chunged our Wangs. Pac-Man, paint-stripping '80s vinegar, skinny dipping with Jane Fonda, another - more obvious - name for the keytar, Paulo being blocked by…