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In this show, an ex-model and a private detective team up to run the Blue Moon Detective Agency.
What is Moonlighting?
This media franchise started in 1984 with their toy line of robots in disguise that are “more than meets the eye”.
What are Transformers?
Dialing 867-5309 will get you this person.
Who is Jenny?
This person directed quintessential 80’s teen movies such as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Who is John Hughes?
These seeds are applied to a terracotta figurine and watered, so that it grows “hair” or “fur”.
What are chia seeds?
This is the car Thomas Magnum drove in Magnum, P.I.
What is a Ferrari?
These bears have unique colors and symbols on their tummies that represent their personalities.
What are Care Bears?
This is an Internet meme where a posted hyperlink claims to lead to one thing, but actually takes the reader to the “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video.
What is “Rickrolling”?
You’ll find “Iceman”, “Viper”, and “Goose” in this 1986 film.
What is Top Gun?
This question, uttered by 82-year-old Clara Peller, first aired as part of a Wendy’s commercial in 1984.
What is, “Where’s the Beef?” ?
This tv trope originally comes from an episode of Happy Days; it’s used to imply a long running show has changed significantly from its original intent, usually signaling the beginning of the end.
What is “Jumping the shark”?
These “Loveable Huggable” stuffed dog dolls had floppy ears, droopy eyes, and came in their own cardboard crates.
What are Pound Puppies?
This artist achieved the most number-one hits during the 1980s with 9 number-one songs.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This movie featuring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise won Best Picture in 1988.
What is Rain Man?
This Claymation group sang the song “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” in an ad for Sun-Maid.
What are The California Raisins?
Tom Hanks got his start on this 80s sitcom.
What is Bosom Buddies?
This bear-like children’s toy, technically called an Illiop, became the best-selling toy of 1985 and 1986.
What is Teddy Ruxpin?
This Duran Duran song is the only James Bond theme song to reach the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
What is “A View to Kill”?
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are professors of this field at Columbia University.
What is parapsychology?
This is Chuck E. Cheese’s full name.
What is Charles Entertainment Cheese?
This is the name of Gargamel’s cat in The Smurfs.
What is Azrael?
This building, a medical clinic turned toy store, is the “birthplace” of the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.
What is Babyland General Hospital?
This song remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the longest time at 10 consecutive weeks. The British-Australian singer / actress starred in the music video, which won a Grammy Award for Video of the Year in 1983.
What is “Physical” by Olivia Newton-John?
This real-life location inspired The Shining.
What is The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado?
The original Donkey Kong operations manual and instructions refer to the player by this generic title instead of Mario, which is fitting for the actions performed while playing the game.
What is “Jumpman”?