When one thinks of ‘Say Anything...,’ John Cusak, holding a boom box above his head and serenading Ione Skye with the Peter Gabriel song ’In Your Eyes' likely comes to mind.
But beyond that iconic scene, Cameron Crowe’s directorial debut is perhaps one of the most well-crafted and nuanced teen romantic comedies of all time.
Here's something for all you painfully nostalgic types out there. It's video footage of John Cusack awkwardly shuffling onstage with a boombox and handing it to Peter Gabriel before he performed "In Your Eyes" in concert over the weekend.
PBS mainstay 'Mr. Wizard' was so crotchety back in the day that comedy writers Mike Schuster and Diane Bullock had to make two videos just to contain all of his hilarious put-downs and snide remarks directed towards his young sidekicks. (You can watch the first Mr. Wizard supercut here.).
Everyone starts small. Unless you're Will Smith's kids. But other than them, most people tend to start somewhat smallish, even Bruce Willis. Way back, even before 'Moonlighting,' Bruce was slowly climbing his way up. Here he is showcasing his hot moves for Levi's. We're going to call this video his "stripper money," you know, since he's dancing to get paid and it's pretty embarrassing.
'Perfect Strangers' was about more than just mismatched cousins who often found themselves in ridiculous circumstances and occasionally danced the "Dance of Joy." The sitcom, which ran from 1986 to 1993, was about following one's dreams.
In the case of Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot), his dream was to escape his family sheep farm in the Greek-like island of Mypos and start anew in America. Balki is also the star of an addictive new 'Perfect Strangers' video game from designer Jason Oda.
If you were a child of the '80s, there was a good chance you owned some kind of model toy version of the A-Team's specially modified black and red GMC Vandura van.
That was also apparently true for kids in England, like 40-year-old Tag Majid, who's spent $30,000 pounds ($47,000) to turn a beat-up old 1985 Vandura he found into a real-life version of the legendary TV wheels.
Children of the '80s and '90s pretty much learned everything they need to know from TV. (It was basically like a third parent.) Besides "very special" sitcom episodes, one of the major ways we learned about how to say no to drugs and avoid "stranger danger" was from public service announcements.
The Jeremy Lin tale is one of a basketball player who happens to be a little different than his teammates coming out of nowhere to dominate from the point guard position. So where have we seen that story before?
Yup, 'Teen Wolf,' the 1985 movie in which Michael J. Fox played a much more hirsute and acrobatic version of Lin.
In 1984, 'Sesame Street' asked a group of New York school children what a computer was. Though computers have certainly come a long way since then, this video shows us that actually many things haven't changed.
Normally, we wouldn't expect much from public access TV, but this segment from a locally-programmed 1983 show in Tuscon, Arizona has the most adorable Christmas bunny ever! Also, two incredibly weird hosts.