Dissecting The 80s

Happy Halloween! If you want to hear the rest of our episode on this masterpiece, plus more than 20 bonus episodes, visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to learn more!   We're celebrating this holiday with one of our absolute favorites: John Carpenter's masterpiece Halloween! Tripp nominates this to the American film canon, we look for the non-union leaves, why is Tommy carrying this giant ass pumpkin? How great is Dean Cundey?   All this and more!   “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

BEWARE OF THE BLOB! How great is Kevin Dillon's hair and pirate shirt? Look at this murderer's row of character actors! How great are these practical effects? How deaf would they be post explosion? What's Del Close doing here?! All this and more! Looking for episode #257? It’s Halloween, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

KI KI KI MA MA MA! We're back in Camp Crystal Lake for this Friday the 13th in October with Friday the 13th: Jason Lives! Why is this guy running around a paintball field with a machete? Why did this girl bring a hamster to camp? Why is this such a short camp? How does this rank in the Friday pantheon? All this and more! Looking for episode #253? It’s The Golden Girls At Walt Disney World, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The 2023 Spooktacular has arrived! We're jumping off with the sole directorial effort of special effects King Stan Winston! Is this a secret xenomorph? Are these kids actually bad guys? How many cigarettes does Lance Henriksen smoke each day? All this and more! Looking for episode #253? It’s The Golden Girls At Walt Disney World, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Summer is winding to a close, so we're ending on one of the heavy hitters of the summer movie genre: Vacation! Happy 40th birthday! This movie is way darker than the other vacations! Is Cousin Eddie a creep? What's up with the looking at porn with your cousin business? Did Aunt Edna deserve it? How much does Clark suck? All this and more! Looking for episode #253? It’s The Golden Girls At Walt Disney World, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

To celebrate #SharkWeek 2015, Tripp and Andrew get back in the water with Jaws 3-D! Is this the worst fake shark ever put on film? Would you rather watch a Dennis Quaid film or Randy Quaid film? Is this Shark … Continue reading →

Note! Visit Dissecting The 80s on YouTube for a synced version of this commentary. https://youtu.be/_RgJ3BXLW14  Why is there SO MUCH CHARLTON HESTON! How great are the Monkees? Why aren't there more chaotic specials from Disney? All this and more! Want to see the whole track, plus a video version? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s to hear the rest! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

NOTE FOR TANGENT HATERS: Toy Talk Tangent lasts until 21:24 For this episode (and likely ONLY this episode), we're Heroes in a Half Shell! How much turtle power is in here? How amazing are these costumes? Why is the production design on this cut-rate kids movie so damn good?! All this and more! Looking for episode #248? It’s My Blue Heaven, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Re-released to celebrate our TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH EPISODE! This is our poor audio quality first-ever episode! Tripp and Andrew dissect the 80s dance-a-palooza known as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,” that surprisingly, doesn’t include ANY Cyndi Lauper renditions! Don’t forget to rate and subscribe wherever you get the show! Download!

To celebrate our milestone 250th episode, we went back to where it began: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun! Should we do 100 Military Bullets jokes? What's with Helen Hunt's Hats? Why does every 80s movie do gymnastics instead of dancing?! All this and more! Looking for episode #248? It’s My Blue Heaven, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Our last episode before the big #250 is a real DIFFERENT OPINIONS episode! Hear Tripp try to convince Andrew about how truly masterful this wonderful comedy is...to no avail! All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Looking for episode #248? It’s My Blue Heaven, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

It's the finale of Listener Request Month from our Patreon feed!  Steve Martin and podcast fave Rick Moranis team up for a very odd duck of a mob comedy! All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Want to hear the rest? It’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

Indiana Junes concludes with the franchise's yuckiest sequel: Temple of Doom! What is up with this child re-dubbing? Is Willie the worst character in cinema history? How charming is lil' Ke Huy Quan?! Plus, Andrew's notes on great dinner presentation! All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Looking for episode #243? It’s Andrew’s Grab Bag TV Spectacular, and it’s on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

It's Indiana Junes! We're celebrating Indy's swan song with Raiders of the Lost Ark, a perfect movie, according to Tripp. How perfect is this movie? Is Indy cooler than Snake Plissken? How goofy is this idol? All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Looking for episode #243? It's Andrew's Grab Bag TV Spectacular, and it's on Patreon. Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

  Listener Request month comes to a close on the main feed with The Secret of My Success! How much porno was launched with this movie? How dang charming is Michael J. Fox? What is going on with this boss? All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Looking for episode #243? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

Meat-BALLZ! It's a super-sweet camp comedy with Bill Murray and a score of Canadian teens. Does this make you want to go to camp? How many of these kids were on The Littlest Hobo? What, exactly, is The Littlest Hobo?  All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Looking for episode #243? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

Here's a preview of our latest Patreon episode: Andrew's TV Grab Bag Spectacular, in which we cover Barbie and the Rockers, Beetlejuice and Fraggle Rock! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Want more Dissecting the 80s? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

The first episode of 2023's Listener Request Month is the action-adventure Zemeckis classic: Romancing the Stone! Is this our babe-iest movie ever? How great is Danny DeVito? How gorgeous are Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner here? What, exactly, is the deal with the title of this picture? Plus, a re-litigation of shoes on film heroine's and Andrew's very specific streaming posters. All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Want more Dissecting the 80s? Visit Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s for hours of bonus content!

Our longest-running special month comes to an end: Andrew Programs The Show In The Month Of April, APTSITMOA! It’s a movie Andrew's got quite a lot of fondness for: The Witches of Eastwick! What, exactly, is the deal with Jack Nicholson and his whole career? Why did Cher stop acting? What the hell is going on in this movie? All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The phone lines CLOSE TODAY for May’s Listener Request Month! Call 856-DISSECT (856-347-7328) and tell us your name, where you’re calling from, and your pick! Int’l listeners who can’t call, send a voice memo to dissectingthe80s@gmail.com.

Our longest-running special month returns: Andrew Programs The Show In The Month Of April, APTSITMOA! It's perhaps the best film from very acclaimed director Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands! What, exactly, is Edward? Can he eat? Why, exactly, does Tripp find this idea of him puking so, so, so, so, so funny? (He does not know).  All this and more! “NewsSting, Ouroboros” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The phone lines are open for May's Listener Request Month! Call 856-DISSECT (856-347-7328) and tell us your name, where you're calling from, and your pick! Int'l listeners who can't call, send a voice memo to dissectingthe80s@gmail.com.