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!
That 80s Show meets Headway Gauteng
As part of the #Podcasthon Initiative - www.podcasthon.org - That 80 Show met with Michele Cahi, an occupational therapist and trustee at Headway Gauteng to discuss the charity's vital work supporting individuals with brain injuries. We highlight the emotional and psychological challenges faced by patients and their families, find out…
Flipping Your Flappers | Bill Cosby’s Special Jello | Toxic Dinklage
This episode is part of the Podcasthon Initiative and supports Headway Gauteng, a registered non-profit organisation that offers a variety of support programmes for adult survivors of Acquired Brain Injury. Find out more: www.podcasthon.org https://headwaygauteng.co.za/ This week, Paulo and Dori both have wrist injuries—arcade game injury or too much hitchhiking?…
George Michael's bush | Los Magnificos | From Sun City to Carnival City
In an inadvertently Spanish themed episode, Paulo doesn't want to join the Redington Frognal Neighbourhood Forum Whatsapp group - even if it does have to do with George Michael's bush.A Knight Rider Agujero de conejo, led us to discover the joys of 80s shows in Spanish - which makes them…
If it’s going in your bum, it’s going in a Care Bear | Not our He-Man | Now, The Hoff has a penguin!
Casting news of the new live-action Masters of the Universe movie is out, and Paulo and Dori reject He-Man 2026 due to his tiny nipples.We never knew how good we had it with Dolph.We visit the 80s tuck shop of our minds and fill our bellies with corn syrup and…
Boomers Day Out in Vienna | Post-Sam Malone | The Hoff has crabs
Paulo went to see Midge Ure and Tom Bailey from The Thompson Twins—and got to see so much more. Very little of it involved sunscreen.We connect 80s movies with the songs that made them, and Dori spends time with a sex-addicted RDJ.Paulo would rather talk about anything else than his…
The, "Is Game from Game?'' game | Die Morkels Tannie | A Gen Z rates 80s hotties Part 2
Ever stop to wonder if the delicious isotonic drink, Game, was made by Game the store? We did, It's literally the point of this show.We revisit 80s ads and find Louis the fly in the garbage bin with every can of hairspray:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqcj4pRZ1R8Get a blow after a show with Twinsaver: https://web.facebook.com/reel/1271216420776346Beat…
80s Grammy Snubs | Eres El Hoff | Killed by Mello-Yello
We didn’t have our usual time to do the show and should have known that once The Hoff entered the conversation, we would lose all track of time. Before that, we looked at the massive 80s stars who were snubbed by The Grammys during the 80s, when it was a…
Concert Friends | Give Sly a call | Tito bought my girlfriend | CDogg needs a washing machine
Add some more explicit warnings—Dori will make you blush and confuse Emmanuelle with Emmanuel Lewis. What happens when you return Sly Stallone's call? You make a song with more “Bams” than the entire Rocky franchise. Dori reviews ’80s anime, and Paulo discovers a forgotten Keanu Reeves film that may have…
David Lynch and The 2 Amigos | Robert the Robber | Not everything she wants
Welcome to That 80s Show where we celebrtae the music made 40 years before Hop Hop Spinnekop. This week we discover that Rod Stewart and David Schwimmer are NOT friends and how David Lynch almost reunited 2 of The Amigos through shared saliva. We hear through the grapevine how the…
Scarier than Teen Wolf Too | Police Academy meets Fire Department | Dating ''Brad Pitt''
The first show of the year kicks off with a look at movies and songs that will celebrate their 40th anniversary and includes Eddie Murphy blowing up, A Last Dragon, Marty going Back to the Future and Harrison Ford prompting a high school kid to go ''Hubba Hubba''. Dori recommends…
Young Ryan returns | Don't Google Whamster | Perverto the Ninja Turtle | Dolph's nipples are safe
There was a Young Ryan from Limerick Who joined That 80s Show with his little... Let's leave that there - Young Ryan returns with tales from The Emerald Isle and his list of Top 3 Lesbians in a segment that has nothing to do withe nudie films. Paulo introduces his…
How many Bananaramas can you fit in a VW | Elton John's still standing | Who's the doppelgänger
Paulo relives a childhood Castle Grayskull nightmare and makes a Freudian slip that would give He-Man and Fisto a very profitable Only Fans account. Status Quo locking Spandau Ballet in the bathroom, Bananarama don't need town cars, a very thirsty Boy George and Bono's villain origin story, we find out…
We change our mind about #BandAid40 | Gymnastics, mullets, karate | The last Grace headline you'd expect
Presented with the evidence, we change our minds about BandAid40 - that's the power of Christmas...and George Michael appearing on screen with Robbie Williams. We hate all versions of Last Christmas except the original, but Paulo found one that made his palms sweaty. Dori finds 80s Steve Buscemi sexy, Paulo…
Boycott Band Aid 40 | A lady anthropologist? | Where does Snoopy poop?
Do they know it's inappropriate after all? Band Aid is back for a 40th-anniversary nightmare mash-up. While we love an '80s supergroup, we all know better now—or do we? We uncover what Tim Curry was doing to Freddie Mercury's bushes and explore the meaning behind the lyrics of Karma Chameleon. Spoiler:…
Madonna would never say | Dori's Dalliance | Taken for a Dino-Ride | As fun as sand
Whose been kissing Madonna's brother? It's a Careless Whisper and the only living person would never admit to being jilted. An 80s frontman takes a swing at Taylor Swift. We do not want to be his social media manager right now. Did we brainstorm a more interesting Flash Gordon remake…
Hunting for Hörfest | Slutty E.T. | Workin’ for a merkin | T and T on TV
Lost-core meets Hardcore as Paulo and Dori tie up a loose end from a past show. Two mysterious ‘’80s’’ songs appeared on the internet and the sleuths got to work. Sleuths and pervs. Halloween costumes got us having odd thoughts about E.T. as well as Roger and Jessica Rabbit’s children!…
Defrost Mr Ridgeley, it’s about time | Johnny 5 vs an Elon Musk killbot | The errant willy that didn’t stop believing
It’s November the First and if the question is, “Can I start playing Last Christmas?’’, the answer is, “Why did you stop?’’. Paulo is not afraid of Elon Musk’s killbots, he has the best 80s robots - and V.I.C.I. on his side. Dori doesn’t want to see an American Psycho…
Whatchoo talkin' bout Gary | Surely the funniest movie of all time | Back to the Future Day | Freddy Krueger scared himself
Don't you forget about The Breakfast Club sequel. We didn't but the internet tried to trick us. It's doccie time with the life story of Gary Coleman and the death stories of 80s hair band members. The resurrection theme continues in Dori's movie of the week while Paulo's movie is…
Blame it on the Menendez Brothers | The Seinfeld Cast in the 80s | How an obvious cult inspired Footloose
Milli Vanilli are back in the charts for the first time in over 30 years, and you gotta blame it on something. In less murderous brother news - Paulo reveals the names of the little dinosaurs from Bubble Bobble which prompts us to try to name their girlfriends with sub-par…
Dirty Decks | Is Wombling legal? | 80s dogs were the worst | Don't be an old Josh
Nothing like a dirty old 80s deck to get the show started! Paulo wanted Michael Knight to be his dad and Thomas Anders is a dzaddy. 80s TV shows had terrible endings especially Three's Company, so Dori fixed it. We remember the Wombles and find out that Wombling is legal…