I Love the '80s 3-D

Recurring segments

• Movies That Should Have Been Made in 3-D: "Weird Al" Yankovic presents movies from the year that should have been made in 3-D but weren't. This is a reference to his album "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D.
• Teen Idols: Paula Abdul presents teen idols from each year.
• Best On-Screen Hookups: Chuck Woolery presents an on-screen hookup of each year.
• Biggest Boobs: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, whose character costumes emphasize her ample bosom, presents the foolish or stupid people of each year.
• Hot Moms: Alan Thicke presents the sexually attractive mothers from each year.
• Pop Culture Terms: Emmanuel Lewis presents a slang word or phrase of each year.
• Guilty/Not Guilty: Harry Anderson judges a "trial" of a pop culture icon.
• The Year in Review: John Moschitta, a famed fast-talker who appeared in 1981 commercials for FedEx, gives a quick recap of each episode.
• During the credits of every episode, a clip from a popular music video was played without any type of commentary. These were usually replaced with a show promo by Vh1.

  Topics covered by year

1980

• Fame
• Paul McCartney gets busted for marijuana possession in Japan
• Ethnic Barbie Dolls
• Pepsi Challenge
• Richard Pryor burns himself
• Fruit Roll-Ups
• Gary Numan's "Cars"
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
• Post-it notes
• AC/DC's "Back in Black"
• Intellivision
• My Bodyguard
• Christopher Cross' "Sailing"
• The Jazz Singer
• Fashion plates
• Sugar Ray Leonard
• The Elephant Man
• Little Darlings

1981

• History of the World, Part I
• Circus of the Stars
• The first portable microcomputer
• Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend"
• Chariots of Fire
• You Can't Do That on Television
• Mud wrestling
• 38 Special's "Hold On Loosely"
• Escape from New York
• Penny Racers
• The Mediterranean fruit fly infestation
• Barbara Mandrell and The Mandrell Sisters
• REO Speedwagon's "Keep on Loving You"
• Body Heat
• Erasermate
• Country stars crossing over to the mainstream
• Gimme a Break!
• An American Werewolf in London

1982

• Quest for Fire
• Videocassette recorders
• The Human League's "Don't You Want Me"
• Cats
• Tron
• Freezy Freakies
• Toto's "Rosanna"
• BMX
• Shopping malls
• Bow Wow Wow's "I Want Candy"
• Headbands and mesh tops shirts
• The $25,000 Pyramid
• EPCOT Center
• Victor/Victoria
• 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders
• Ripley's Believe It or Not!
• First Blood

1983

• Jaws 3-D
• Star Search
• Monchhichis
• Herbie Hancock's "Rockit"
• St. Elsewhere
• Truly Tasteless Jokes
• Mr. Mom
• Jheri curl
• Jesse Jackson runs for President
• Press Your Luck
• ZZ Top
• D.C. Cab
• Reading Rainbow
• Mr. Wizard's World
• Strategic Defense Initiative
• Quiet Riot
• Terms of Endearment

1984

• Red Dawn
• Dr. Ruth
• Murray Head's "One Night in Bangkok"
• Band Aid
• Children of the Corn
• New Edition
• Hair mousse
• Amadeus
• Doug Flutie's hail mary pass
• Rodney Dangerfield's "Rappin' Rodney"
• Voltron
• Calculator watch
• Romancing the Stone
• Designer shoelaces
• Snorks
• PETA begins practice of throwing red paint
• TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes
• Police Academy

1985

• Bob Ross' The Joy of Painting
• Monster trucks
• Mick Jagger and David Bowie's version of "Dancing in the Street"
• Calvin Klein's Obsession
• The Legend of Billie Jean
• Phil Collins' No Jacket Required
• Joe Theismann gets his leg broken on Monday Night Football
• My Buddy
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Just One of the Guys
• The Subway Vigilante
• Sour Patch Kids
• Brewster's Millions
• Sally Field's Academy Awards speech
• DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night"
• Spies Like Us
• Rocky IV

1986

• Back to School
• Love Connection
• Madballs
• Jermaine Stewart's "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"
• Murder, She Wrote
• Muammar Gaddafi
• The Color of Money
• Short Circuit
• Snuggle
• Not Necessarily the News
• Memorex tapes
• Lucas
• Head of the Class
• Heart
• Halley's Comet
• Three Amigos

1987

• Predator
• Oral Roberts asks for $8,000,000
• Max Headroom
• Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony"
• The Legend of Zelda
• Moonstruck
• Baby Jessica falls down a well
• Lee Press-On nails
• Throw Momma from the Train
• Microwave oven
• Ozone depletion
• Black Monday
• Mannequin
• The bolo tie
• Cutting Crew's " Died in Your Arms"
• Kelly LeBrock Pantene advertisements
• Lethal Weapon

1988

• Twins
• The party line
• Cher and Rob Camiletti
• Buster Poindexter's version of "Hot Hot Hot"
• Cocktail and The Beach Boys' "Kokomo"
• Micro Machines
• Lita Ford's "Kiss Me Deadly"
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Midnight Run
• Jimmy the Greek's racist comments
• Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning"
• The rattail
• The Morton Downey, Jr. Show
• It's Garry Shandling's Show
• Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
• Tanning beds
• Rod Stewart's "Forever Young"

1989

• Rescue 911
• The Little Mermaid
• Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy"
• The Exxon Valdez oil spill
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Mr. Bean
• Leona Helmsley convicted of tax evasion
• Paula Abdul
• Road House
• Super Bowl XXIII
• The Noid
• The hi-top fade haircut
• Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
• Parenthood
• Kim Basinger buys a town
• Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford's "Close My Eyes Forever"
• The B-2 bomber
• Steel Magnolias