Should a show that first aired in December of 1989 and did not become a cultural landmark until the 1990s really be on this show? I know the Tracey Ullman Show sketches started earlier but it was not a show in its own right until December 17 of 1989, two weeks before the end of the decade. I thought that was fairly sloppy work from an otherwise informative and entertaining miniseries.
shareYeah, but I think they were really talking about where the next decade was going too. The Simpsons started in the 80's and is still going...
Did I miss Michael Jackson being talked about? I don't remember seeing him get props and just Thriller alone could have been 5-10 minutes of that show.
If I remember correctly, he, and the Thriller video, were talked about during the segment about MTV's rise. I do not think there was a separate section just on him, unless I am forgetting it.
shareYes, as a child of the 80's I remember my brother having a Bart Simpson poster and a t-shirt that said "Eat my shorts". This was absolutely offensive at the time and the t-shirts were banned. I do not know if anyone else remembers, but there was a bud light campaign in the 80's with a white pitt bull dog. A company came out with a "Rude Dog" clothing line that I had as a pre-teen and it was very controversial.
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This bothered me to no end when I just saw it in lead up to the 90's series. The Simpsons was not a product of the 80's. Its like they didn't think they were going to do a 90's miniseries also, so they wanted to shoehorn the Simpsons in while they could. I mean they showed a clip from the episode Simpson Tide, which aired in 1998. I don't see how that's part of the 80's.
shareI think you have a good point. It's always been funny to me when people try to make something be about a specific decade, even when it doesn't really make a lot of sense. The Simpsons may have debuted in 1989, but it really wasn't a big deal until the 1990s.
To me, it's the same as when people compile lists with things like, "biggest selling artist of the 80s," and count anything that the artist sold from 1980 to 1989, when there might be someone who sold more albums from 1981 to 1990, but because the third digit isn't an 8, this has no meaning, if that makes any sense.
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