BBC Eighties Season - The Grumpy Guide To The 80s (5/10/10)

I loved the mid eighties 😀. I was an Estate Agent and earned a load of money. Went to night clubs 2 to 3 times a week. The women were well dressed, immaculate and spent time on big hair. I loved it ! Unfortunately, it disappeared in the early 1990 with the collapse of the property market. I changed careers and ended up as a painter and decorator. But I still loved my life in the 80’s. My life now has provided a trade I can always rely on. The career then was short lived.

I live in new Zealand were, I'm very sad to say, the mullet is alive and well :)

I just don't get it. What the hell is so wrong about greed and money?! I love greed and money.
And I love Thatcher and Reagan.
80s and 90s way better than nowadays when traitorous pacifists March in support for raggies.
Around early 2000s I estimate, was when shit really hit the fan.... with all this pc bullshit etc. I miss the good ol days!

Poor Orville!😭😅

I would agree that there is much about the 1980s that we can now criticise but 13 years on from this programme we can see it was only a beginning. The me, me, me generation of the 80s is nothing compared to today where an almost vanishingly small minority seem to be dictating how we should behave and they will take great offence if you don't agree.

I'm not surpized that cabbage baby crap came from the us. It never caught on the continent

Oh yes, that nouvelle cuisine shit. I had actually banned it from my memory. I was on holidays with my parents in France and the hotel we stayed in served nothing but nouvelle cuisine. After the second day we would walk out of the hotel after having been served our dinner and go straight to the little restaurant accoss the square that would serve proper food, for all the waiters to see

I think the 80's was the best time to be alive, we lived for the moment, everything about it was amazing, wish we had Thatcher back too, she got bigger balls than any of our corrupt politicians today! If I could turn back time I would.

Geoffrey Palmer

Looking back at the 80’s I rather have Roland Rat, Emu, Orville, Basil Brush, Gordon The Gopher, Larry The Loafer, Zippy, Spit The Dog, Sooty and Sweep than the man who plagued our screens Jimmy Saville! Larry The Loafer was a squirrel puppet that squeaked like Gordon The Gopher and was a skit on The Brian Conley Show called Nick Frisbee Show where Brian as Nick was a children’s presenter with his puppet sidekick Larry The Loafer which was a pissed take out of children’s show Go Live on which Gordon was on. And it always came down to Nick Frisbee hitting Larry with a fake wooden club shaped like a baseball bat and Larry would squeak and shake in pain and fear with the audience saying “ahhhhhhh” and Nick would say “It’s a puppet”

I was born in 81 and growing up in the 80’s was great, I preferred the 90’s the 2000’s were ok and since the 2010’s it’s been like falling off a high cliff. It keeps getting worse as time passes and I know at some point it’s all going to come to a screeching halt and I’ll be dead. But in the 80’s there was good music, kids cartoons were great and movies were great too with so many classic films that you can watch today and say that film made me feel good and I can watch it again and again where as films today are mainly disappointing and if there is one film that you enjoyed it doesn’t have the ability to make you rewatch it more than another 1 or 2 times like the Indiana Jones & Back To The Future trilogies or The Goonies, Ghostbusters plus many more movies. I could go on but really the only bad things to come out in the 80’s was the fashion and the hair especially the hair! Also AIDS was a big bad thing in the 80’s but it never effected me or most kids growing up in the 80’s.

The 80's was great if you were southern. We plebs in the north were struggling to survive with whole towns being made unemployed.

Care free 80's was a great era for me loved all the different styles of music. So much fun

Better music than today's crap though

Ronald Regan spent more of his life in university, as a union leader, as a governor, and eventually as President than he ever did as an actor. I think less than 10 years as an actor. So to sum up 8 years as president, 8 as governor, and more than 10 as a union leader, and finally 10 as an actor. I don't like him but I give credit where credit is due,

Mark Steel.... once a C always a C..... the boy has lived up to that, to be fair to the workshy C

They should have included the “Ra Ra skirt” Bit tame but still embarrassed to admit I had one 🤭

The 80s was the best !

Orville was annoying 🙄

Now, Filofax = Cell phone.

Such a negative, pessimistic take on the 80s.... I love it!

I used to love Roland Rat 🐀 ❤. My Dad used to hate him . Which made me love Roland even more lol

I did security at a rally and mark steel did a great speech there. I managed to speak to him so told him I really liked his speech. The bloke was completely, unrealistically arrogant! Haven't paid attention to a word he's said since. Twat

One thing that nevef changes, throughout the millenia, is how each generation mocks the one before them.

Geez, I feel sorta bad for these grumpy folks. They seem to possess the aspects of a human-being, but have never experienced being alive. SAD!

Yes you uneducated bell end

My brother and his friends used to go into toy stores, yell "Cabbage Patch dolls in audle 6!" and then run off and watch the melee from a safe distance.
(P.S, I'm a girl and spent hours trying to figure out my Rubik's Cube.)
It's 2023 and the Mullet is back! WHY?!?!?!!

I discovered LSD, in '83,
And that almost made it bearable,
But I have to say,
That in every other way,
The eighties were bloody terrible! 😂

So glad to see this. Born in '81 and never understood the hype around the 80's. It really was a load of sh*t.

Who are these leftie bellends...

I fking love the 80's

I was in my 20s in the 80s. And hated every one of those things at the time.

80's best decade for music, the last decade that the British people had an innocent society

loved the 80s was a 79/84 at high school. Best time of my life learning my trade skills. Great decade to live .Great memories

Calls Maggie a lunatic 30 seconds in.. Next video please..
Mark Steel's mug in the thumbnail was already a red flag to be fair. So I wasn't expecting much.

I loved filofax if you knocked one you got the credit cards and somewhere inside you'd find the pin numbers

The Brighton bomb was cool

The eighties - met my sole partner, went backpacking/motorcycled around Europe, Austraya wrenched that mug from the Yanks, married, became a dad (twice), bought my first house and who could forget the VCR.

Love this reminder of past times

Yes the 80s were shallow and crap. The fact musicians today are still mining the 80s dung hill speaks volumes for the cultural vacuum of today.

Loved the eighties. These people are the proverbial misery guts. Glad they spent ten years in abject unhappiness.

Oh my dramatic god, I was a teenager in the eighties. It was great. Not one of these people had anything good to say. They definitely new how to have a laugh and not take everything so seriously. And there was some great music out then.

What this show tells me about the 80’s and all the other decades after WW2 to the present day is there is good and bad about each decade some things better than others.

Russell Kane has no place here..
He's neither funny.. or relevant!

80s were great, all the numpties here are just being paid to speak crap.

There was mainstream and alternative 80s

Started with punk, ended with raves, and everything in between