I'm trying to find the name of or clips from an animated film that I saw on HBO or Showtime in the mid-1980s. It was about a robot who was looking for its mother. Some of the other robots said "One! One! One!" a lot. And there was a dumb joke in the middle: "Did you hear the one about the fire in the circus? The heat was intense!" Can anyone help?
posted by chavenet on Nov 3, 2009 - 1 answer

Does anyone know of a horror short film/ ad/ preview from the 80s wherein a fisherman at the edge of a lake bites into an apple he finds on the ground, realizes there is a line coming out of the apple... [more inside]
posted by joechip on Oct 9, 2009 - 12 answers

Track ID needed (late 80s/90s popular music) - Reward for the finder! [more inside]
posted by groovinkim on Sep 14, 2009 - 29 answers

Movie Identification Filter: Can anyone identify this movie based upon my faint recollections? [more inside]
posted by starscream on Aug 30, 2009 - 10 answers

What would you call that sweater-loving, Volvo-driving, PBS-donating late 1970s-mid 1980s American culture? [more inside]
posted by oinopaponton on Aug 17, 2009 - 80 answers

More than a playlist, I'm trying to make an entire sub-set of my music collection: I want the music that a 17-year-old D&D playing geeky almost-metalhead would be listening to...in 1981. [more inside]
posted by Weighted Companion Cube on Aug 6, 2009 - 32 answers

Does anyone know what this game/toy was that I used to play with? I thought it was called "Let's Put On a Show" but now I can't find it. [more inside]
posted by peanut_mcgillicuty on Jul 27, 2009 - 3 answers

Help me identify this movie! 1980's: the big identifying point I can remember: Teens meet an alien. Out in space, the alien gets into a confrontation with a larger alien, and the audience can't understand what's going on... Afterwards, the most laconic of the teenagers turns to the others and says, "I think that was his dad!" and they realize their alien friend is a teenager too. [more inside]
posted by FortyT-wo on Jun 29, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm working on a story set in 1987, and I want it to be nostalgia-heavy, a little like The Wedding Singer (except of course totally different). My memory is mushier than I realized, so I was wondering, what do YOU remember from 1987? [more inside]
posted by smoakes on Mar 21, 2009 - 70 answers

What is the name of this 1980's television series? [more inside]
posted by clamato on Feb 15, 2009 - 14 answers

TV Movie ID: A sci-fi-ish TV movie from the 1980s which mostly featured children living on a planet where it never stopped raining. [more inside]
posted by DavidNYC on Jan 1, 2009 - 11 answers

This question reminded me that I have a trashy paperback romance novel memory of my own that I would like to track down. It was about a female highwayman and its cover art was mostly in shades of dark green. [more inside]
posted by matildaben on Dec 12, 2008 - 5 answers

If anyone can help me identify a piece of TV music from the early 80s, you all can. [more inside]
posted by evilcolonel on Oct 25, 2008 - 1 answer

I am looking for photos of the Cambridge, MA area taken between 1950 and 1999. I am especially interested in the commercial areas along the current Red Line route (Porter/Harvard/Central/Kendall), and the industrial areas southeast of Central Square. If you happen to know of any repositories of offline photos, that would be cool too. Thanks!
posted by rxrfrx on Sep 9, 2008 - 10 answers

1980s kids' television with silhouettes of running/skipping/jumping children? [more inside]
posted by slightlybewildered on Aug 29, 2008 - 5 answers

Okay, longshot here. I'm trying to get ahold of an old episode of 3-2-1 Contact, specifically the segment where they visited the company working on the TRON arcade game. According to tv.com, it appears to be episode 104, titled Building: Modular, from season 2, and it originally aired on Thursday, November 17, 1983. [more inside]
posted by Driph on Aug 12, 2008 - 4 answers

Complete longshot, but can anyone tell me which TV show this is? [more inside]
posted by hnnrs on Jul 18, 2008 - 7 answers

Trying to remember an early '80s (possibly Canadian) short film shown on HBO's Short Take (right after a video for the original "Don't Stand So Close to Me," which might place it around 1980/81, maybe later?) about a prep-school kid who spots a punk rock girl on a train and dreams that he's kissing her.
posted by btmeacham on Jun 25, 2008 - 0 answers

Wonderful Mefis: I know someone will help. I seek the name of a movie, or made-for-TV movie. 1980s, probably. May have starred cast members from Absolutely Fabulous. Maybe a Brit production. [more inside]
posted by yazi on Apr 19, 2008 - 5 answers

I want to throw together 2 costumes (1 guy, 1 girl) that would scream 80's new wave high schooler. I need pictures to help us not end up too emo. "New wave" means different things to different people, so please read inside. [more inside]
posted by 23skidoo on Apr 15, 2008 - 17 answers

Back before the internet, how long would it take for legal decisions to be published, and how quickly would a lawyer be able to find out about new decisions? I'm hoping for the recollections of some of you older lawyers, but primarily I would love to find a printed resource for this type of information. I've been looking and looking and can't seem to find the info anywhere. I am looking at the late 80s-early 90s. I've looked for law review articles, caselaw, and general internet info on this subject and can't find anything. If a lawyer relied on a case in 1989, how long after a case reversing it was decided would it be published?
posted by anonymous on Mar 22, 2008 - 9 answers

Please help me identify this song/video from the mid-80s! [more inside]
posted by deern the headlice on Mar 8, 2008 - 10 answers

When I was a kid (mid-1980s, early-90s) I was obsessed with these compendiums of Japanese illustration they had where I took art lessons. Most of the art was airbrushed; a lot of hyper-realistic work in the vein of Hajime Sorayama, which I don't mind, but some of it was this cartoony airbrush style I love. In particular there was this cartoon dog who wore a suit which I'd like to find again. I'm not sure what the advertisement was for, but it features a cartoon dog wearing a suit in various situations with a weird cast of characters. On a rollercoaster, etc. i know that is vague, but does anyone know what this is? The style is pretty similar to the boxart for Hudson's Adventure Island. Does anyone know who did the art for that game? Any artists I should check out based on that style?
posted by apetpsychic on Mar 7, 2008 - 2 answers

Please help me find a poem/comic book story -- it takes place on Mars and ends with the line "Damnation, I've run out of air!" [more inside]
posted by breezeway on Feb 19, 2008 - 1 answer

I'm looking for a very specific (Fisher Price?) record player from my childhood. [more inside]
posted by mamessner on Jan 28, 2008 - 2 answers

Help me identify this cool 1970s advertising font! [more inside]
posted by evilcolonel on Nov 4, 2007 - 5 answers

I need help identifying a television show from the '80s about a boy and his hot ghost. [more inside]
posted by Lownotes on Oct 21, 2007 - 10 answers

Need creative ideas for a high-end gala event with a decidedly low-end theme: the 1980s. [more inside]
posted by justonegirl on Sep 7, 2007 - 26 answers

Can I run a C64 BBS on my PC? [more inside]
posted by damn dirty ape on Aug 5, 2007 - 4 answers

A friend of mine is hosting an 80's Geek-boy Movie marathon. Help me think of movies. [more inside]
posted by 23skidoo on Jul 10, 2007 - 47 answers

PromAttireFilter: Have one (1) White linen, 2-button blazer from the mid to late 1980s. What to add? [more inside]
posted by weaponsgradecarp on May 25, 2007 - 12 answers

Late 1980s or very early 1990s made for television science fiction mini-series. All I remember is that it involved some space ships that joined together to form something else, at least a couple of kids, possibly an abandoned/run-down space station or colony, and a mystery to be solved by flying all over the place. Like all such things I probably wouldn't enjoy it now, but would like to watch it again if possible.
posted by Captaintripps on Apr 8, 2007 - 10 answers

Is there a music video from the 1980s where a guy in a warehouse washes his face in a sinkful of worms? [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Aug 6, 2006 - 7 answers

Yes, it is a 'what was that movie that I can only remember one scene of?' thread...Featuring the 1980's (I think). [more inside]
posted by nadawi on Jun 12, 2006 - 9 answers

I'm looking for 1970s / 80s era stock music that may have been used in technology-related or science-themed documentaries, film-strips, commercials for tech schools, or even narrated science museum exhibits. The music sounds very dated, probably late 70s or early 80's. There is a percolating type of rhythm, and really cheesy sounding synthesizers. [more inside]
posted by BoatMeme on Apr 20, 2006 - 13 answers

Anyone have quality screencaps of Martin Short's Saturday Night Live characters from the 1980s, e.g. Jackie Rogers Jr., Nathan Therm, the synchronized swimming guy, etc.? (FYI: At this point,I'm more interested in SNL images than stuff from SCTV.)
posted by iced_borsch on Mar 19, 2006 - 2 answers

Help me figure out the name of an alien-related mid-eighties children's TV show... [more inside]
posted by greycap on Jan 29, 2006 - 3 answers

What is this? Mid-late eighties DOS game. In space or underwater. Little submarine or spaceship guy, cruising around a platform/maze type environment. There are teleports with codes to move between some areas. x [more inside]
posted by slightlybewildered on Dec 31, 2005 - 10 answers

1980-ish Top 40 version of "Pop Goes the Weasel" -- who was it by? [more inside]
posted by Aknaton on Dec 7, 2005 - 12 answers

A New Wave History question for Angelenos. [more inside]
posted by shoos on Oct 7, 2005 - 2 answers

What interesting things did people do with "big iron" computers in the late '70s and early '80s that is not generally well known, but could be useful to modern computer users? [more inside]
posted by b1tr0t on Jun 30, 2005 - 25 answers

OldTVShowFilter: A group of real-life young kids are playing in a garage band when they get sucked into their televison and become cartoons. They spend their time in cartoon land trying to get back out. [more inside]
posted by nyterrant on Jun 28, 2005 - 10 answers

Question about Murakami's Wind-Up Bird and 1980's Japan. [more inside]
posted by OmieWise on Mar 30, 2005 - 21 answers

Thanks to this, I'm trying to find out what the top-selling single was when I was born (Dec. 4th 1982).
posted by Tlogmer on Mar 23, 2005 - 48 answers

Help me identify something from my childhood. I remember having a bunch of little "army men" style Martian figures between 1984 and 1986. They each stood about an inch tall, were made of rubber or resin of some kind (no plastic), and were basically a "Smurfs in Space" knock-off. What were these little guys? [more inside]
posted by Servo5678 on Feb 25, 2005 - 9 answers

Help me remember and/or locate a semi-obscure toy from the 1980s! [I'm nosier, Ed] [more inside]
posted by Dr. Wu on Dec 23, 2004 - 14 answers

He was heavily involved in the underground cassette/home taping movement of the mid to late eighties, releasing scores of solo and collaborative experimental recordings. Now he's apparently silent. Anyone know what became of Minoy? The Google cupboard is pretty bare.
posted by davebush on Aug 11, 2004 - 3 answers