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* TheEighties: Fashions, slang and BMX racing. It's impossible to get any more 80s.



* TheEighties: Fashions, slang and BMX racing. It's impossible to get any more 80s.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Mongoose Bicycling Company CEO is pretty mcuh pure evil and rigs the bike races to promote his own riders.

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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Mongoose Bicycling Company CEO is pretty mcuh much pure evil and rigs the bike races to promote his own riders.
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* MovingtheGoalposts: Duke Best initially declares that any resident who wants to can take part in the Helltrack qualifiers for a chance to compete in the big race. It's clearly just a ploy to placate any ruffled local feathers; when Cru actually manages to qualify, Best manufactures several previously-unmentioned rules designed purely to block him from racing by requiring company sponsorship.

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* MovingtheGoalposts: MovingTheGoalposts: Duke Best initially declares that any resident who wants to can take part in the Helltrack qualifiers for a chance to compete in the big race. It's clearly just a ploy to placate any ruffled local feathers; when Cru actually manages to qualify, Best manufactures several previously-unmentioned rules designed purely to block him from racing by requiring company sponsorship.
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* MovingtheGoalposts: Duke Best initially declares that any resident who wants to can take part in the Helltrack qualifiers for a chance to compete in the big race. It's clearly just a ploy to placate any ruffled local feathers; when Cru actually manages to qualify, Best manufactures several previously-unmentioned rules designed purely to block him from racing by requiring company sponsorship.
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* TheEighties: Fashions, slang and BMX racing. It's to get any more 80s.

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* TheEighties: Fashions, slang and BMX racing. It's impossible to get any more 80s.

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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 2019 Creator/DoubleFine {{Roguelike}} [[VideoGame/{{RAD}} of the same name]].






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A 1986 movie about BMX racing, complete with a heavy amount of [[TotallyRadical '80s slang]], [[EightiesHair hairdos]], and music. It stars a racer named Cru, who must choose between his a qualifying spot on the upcoming Helltrack BMX race and his [=SAT=]s toward college, both of which take place on the same day.

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A 1986 movie about BMX racing, complete with a heavy amount of [[TotallyRadical '80s slang]], [[EightiesHair hairdos]], and music. It stars a racer named Cru, who must choose between his a qualifying spot on the upcoming Helltrack BMX race and his [=SAT=]s toward college, both of which take place on the same day.

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* TheEighties: So much.
** To the point that ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us/ described the prom scene]] as "the most '80s thing you have ever, or will ever, witness in your life, until the almighty hand of God reaches down to take you into his embrace forever and ever, amen".

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* TheEighties: So much.
** To the point that ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us/ described the prom scene]] as "the most '80s thing you have ever, or will ever, witness in your life, until the almighty hand of God reaches down to take you into his embrace forever
Fashions, slang and ever, amen".BMX racing. It's to get any more 80s.


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* LongList: The announcer of the big race spends about two minutes of screen time listing the names, home towns and racing teams of every single racer.
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** To the point that ''Website/{{Cracked}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us/ described the prom scene]] as "the most '80s thing you have ever, or will ever, witness in your life, until the almighty hand of God reaches down to take you into his embrace forever and ever, amen".

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** To the point that ''Website/{{Cracked}'' ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us/ described the prom scene]] as "the most '80s thing you have ever, or will ever, witness in your life, until the almighty hand of God reaches down to take you into his embrace forever and ever, amen".
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** To the point that ''Website/{{Cracked}'' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-weirdest-lessons-80s-movies-really-wanted-to-teach-us/ described the prom scene]] as "the most '80s thing you have ever, or will ever, witness in your life, until the almighty hand of God reaches down to take you into his embrace forever and ever, amen".
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* FlippingTheBird: Everyone who's seen the film remembers Ray Walston [[spoiler:flipping off the CEO]].
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* ShallowLoveInterest: To be expected in a film like this.
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* TheEighties: So much.
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A 1986 movie about BMX racing, complete with a heavy amount of [[TotallyRadical '80s slang]], [[EightiesHair hairdos]], and music. It stars a racer named Cru, who must choose between his a qualifying spot on the upcoming Helltrack BMX race and his [=SAT=]s toward college, both of which take place on the same day.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Mongoose Bicycling Company CEO is pretty mcuh pure evil and rigs the bike races to promote his own riders.
* FallingInLoveMontage: Between Cru and Christian as they go have a day in the woods, throw rocks, and slide into a lake fully clothed.
* SloMoBigAir
* ShallowLoveInterest: To be expected in a film like this.
* TotallyRadical: Need we say more? Hell, it's even in the title!
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