MacGyver: 9 Wild Facts About the 1985 TV Hero
MacGyver ran from 1985 to 1992 with Richard Dean Anderson solving every crisis using brains, not guns. Nine wild facts about the classic 80s TV hero.
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How the Sampler Built the Sound of 90s Rap
The Golden Age hip-hop era ran on two machines and a crate of dusty records. Here’s how the SP-1200, the MPC, and a handful of obsessive producers built the sound of 90s rap.
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Why Every Festival Crowd in 2024 Looks Like Lollapalooza 1993
The grunge resurgence in 2020s fashion has reached photo-finish accuracy — pull up a shot from Lollapalooza 1993 and a clip from last summer’s Glastonbury and you’ll have to check the date stamp to tell which is which.
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Pogs 90s: 9 Wild Facts About the Schoolyard Craze
Pogs 90s ruled American schoolyards from 1993 to 1996 — how a Hawaiian juice cap became a $175 million craze, then collapsed in eighteen months.
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Golden Girls Finale: The 1992 Goodbye That Broke 27M Hearts
On May 9, 1992, the Golden Girls finale brought 27.2 million viewers together as Dorothy Zbornak walked out of the Miami house for good in ‘One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ Here is how the goodbye played, why Bea Arthur left, and why The Golden Palace could not replace it.
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Why 80s Nostalgia Hits Harder Than Any Other Decade
Forty years later, the 80s refuse to take the hint. From MTV to Stranger Things, here’s why this decade became forever.
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Cap Guns: The 80s Toy Every Kid Fired in the Backyard
Remember the smell of cap gun smoke? Every 80s kid had a cap gun, a roll of caps, and a backyard full of imaginary battles. From roll caps to ring caps, neighborhood wars to the orange tip era.
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Secret of My Success: 7 Wild 80s Truths From April 10
On April 10, 1987, The Secret of My Success hit theaters and bottled peak yuppie-era ambition, Michael J. Fox charm, and pure 80s corporate fantasy.
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The Muppet Show: 9 Reasons Jim Henson’s Legacy Still Rules
The Muppet Show still holds up because Jim Henson built a chaotic, funny, brilliantly human variety show that played just as well for adults as kids.
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ALF TV Show: The Alien Who Crash-Landed in Prime Time and Never Left
If you grew up in the late 1980s, there’s a decent chance a hairy, sarcastic alien named ALF took up permanent residence in your living room — and maybe a little corner of your heart. The ALF TV show, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1986, was unlike anything that had ever aired in…
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Roller Derby History: RollerGames, the Wall of Death & the 1989 TV Show
Take professional wrestling. Put everyone on roller skates. Add a figure-eight track with a 14-foot vertical wall that skaters launched over like ragdolls. Throw in an alligator pit — yes, a real, actual alligator pit — and broadcast the whole thing on network television. That was RollerGames, the beautiful fever dream of late ’80s sports…
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Knocking on Doors: Growing Up in the 80s Before Texting
There was no texting “u up?” in 1986. There was no Instagram DM, no FaceTime, no sending your location pin. If you wanted to see your friend, you walked to their house and knocked on their front door. That was the system. It was wildly inefficient, occasionally awkward, and absolutely perfect. For an entire generation…
