Did VHS skew your perspective?

[Driftwood]

Many of us came of age during the rise of VHS and early '80s movies.
40 years later, I'm still confused as to why my life didn't turn out as a daily routine of fighting Soviets and attending wet t-shirt contests.

What say you?

 

[Batman]

Didn't you get the fighting Soviets part, at least for a little while?

 

[Batman]

Every time I see an old school full-face hockey goalie mask I get a little scared.

 

[Driftwood]

Didn't you get the fighting Soviets part, at least for a little while?

Yes, and I attended some wet t-shirt contests, too. But damn it, it wasn't supposed to end. I mean, I'd have to take some naps and wear stretch waist pants, but I could still do those things. My beard is gray, and my wife would be pissed. Still.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Well, that's stopped me to this point.

 

[BTExpress]

I never heard of a high school that had an all-day Saturday detention until Breakfast Club.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Many of us came of age during the rise of VHS and early '80s movies.
40 years later, I'm still confused as to why my life didn't turn out as a daily routine of fighting Soviets and attending wet t-shirt contests.

What say you?

To borrow another phrase from the VHS era...we're fighting Soviets on the daily, but THE CALLS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!

 

[Batman]

I firmly believe that at least 80 percent of our personal disagreements can be settled with a ski contest.
Snow or water. Either one.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Also, **** St. Elmo's Fire b/c I thought for a good decade afterward that I'd get to hook up with the hot girl forever out of my reach if I just told her that I'm totally...completely...in love with her, a la Kevin with Leslie. Never happened!

 

[Driftwood]

I firmly believe that at least 80 percent of our personal disagreements can be settled with a ski contest.
Snow or water. Either one.

Chinese downhill.

 

[ChrisLong]

Hey, is that Shannon Tweed in the hot tub?

 

[justgladtobehere]

I've been watching "Workaholics" a lot lately. The actors/creators were born around 1984. Their pop culture knowledge is amazing. A part of it has to be growing up with a VCR and watching everything.

 

[John]

Greatest VHS achievement was my brothers and I recording our favorite music videos for the better part of a year. Lucked into a Blinded Me With Science straight into a KISS' Lick It Up. Felt like we'd won the lottery.

 

[Huggy]

Chinese downhill.

Hot Dog, along with Spring Break, are among my great cinematic guilty pleasures from that era

 

[Driftwood]

Hot Dog, along with Spring Break, are among my great cinematic guilty pleasures from that era

I had a bootleg tape with Hot Dog, Spring Break, and Hardbodies on it.
The inspiration for this thread is I watched Hardbodies last night and Spring Break tonight on Tubi.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia had an absolutely hilarious homage/updating of ski movies in "The Gang Hits The Ski Slopes"

The Gang Hits the Slopes

Apparently it was a homage to/updating of "Ski School," which came out in 1991, well after the VHS peak. But it's got all the tropes of those borderline soft core comedies.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

And if we're talking great movies of the VHS era we gotta mention "The Last American Virgin," which had a ton of nudity for a horned up pre-teen but also the most stunning twist ending the genre ever saw.

 

[garrow]

Me and my friend tried making a girl on our computer. Didn't work.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Me and my friend tried making a girl on our computer. Didn't work.

ACTUALLY making a girl?

 

[I Should Coco]

My favorite was when someone didn’t know, or didn’t care, that something important was on a VHS tape.

My sister was a prime offender. I taped the Bears’ Super Bowl win and clearly wrote SUPER BOWL XX on the VHS tape. Went to watch it a few years later (no doubt after a late-1980s playoff choke job), and a few minutes in there was a Golden Girls episode. Grrrr …