History WebVideo / EightiesDan

* {{Crossover}}: The Christmas special has Dan meet two of Brad's other characters, WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob and Kung Tai Ted, and has shout-outs to ''WebVideo/TheHookerWithAHeartOfGold'' and ''The Big Box''.

A character and show by Creator/BradJones as a spinoff of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''. Dan got zapped from 1989 to the present when [[http://blip.tv/the-cinema-snob/brad-tries-new-coke-4297430 Brad opened a bottle of New Coke]]. Since then, Dan has settled with his roommates, Dolly and [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem R.O.B. the Robot]], and his neighbors the Crabtrees, to talk about his favorite stuff from TheEighties, no matter how stupid or schlocky it is.

A character and show by Brad Jones as part of ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'' site. Dan got zapped from 1989 to the present when [[http://blip.tv/the-cinema-snob/brad-tries-new-coke-4297430 Brad opened a bottle of New Coke]]. Since then, Dan has settled with his roommates, Dolly and [[NintendoEntertainmentSystem R.O.B. the Robot]], and his neighbors the Crabtrees, to talk about his favorite stuff from TheEighties, no matter how stupid or schlocky it is.

* AbstractApotheosis: 80's Dan. He fell into a time warp at the exact moment the Nineties began.

* RealSongThemeTune: "Goodbye Blues", the theme to the short-lived show ''Series/HawaiianHeat''.

* ActingForTwo: In the Christmas episode, all of Brad's characters team up.

Episodes can be found on [[http://www.thecinemasnob.com/80s-dan.html

Episodes can be found on [[http://www.thecinemasnob.com/80s-dan.html here]].

** For Halloween 2012, Dolly tries wearing a "sexy [[WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster Captain N]]" outfit (something Dan might actually recognize.) Everyone mistakes it for CaptainPlanet, and Dan ends up praising Mrs. Crabtree's ''GameOfThrones'' outfit instead.

* RealitySubtext: Parodied in "The Sweenz", which plays with fan expectations about Brad's output following various life changes, such as his separation from his wife Jillian (whose character Dolly is now played by a man), Brian and Sarah Lewis's divorce (they're so close to murdering each other they have to be filmed separately with inanimate objects standing in for the other) and Jerrid Foiles leaving Team Snob (he shows up in a gratuitous 5-second cameo just to show he's still around).

** Then he mistakes Dolly's SailorMoon outfit for a [[SexyWhateverOutfit sexy Donald Duck outfit]].

* ActorAllusion: Dan dresses up as Cinema Snob in the ''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'' [[http://thecinemasnob.com/2011/10/27/80s-dan-halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch.aspx episode]], with some heavy SelfDeprecation.

* TheOtherDarrin: Parodied with a guy replacing Dolly, until the actual Dolly showed up later, then the Crabtrees being alternately played by inanimate objects.

Episodes can be found on [[http://www.thecinemasnob.com/ here]].

** And then in the next year's Halloween Special, Dan is dressed up as [[AtopTheFourthWall "A Kid from the Nineties"]].

* RealSongThemeTune: "Goodbye Blues", the theme to the short-lived show ''HawaiianHeat''.

* RealitySubtext: Parodied in "The Sweenz", which plays with fan expectations about Brad's output following various life changes, such as his separation from his wife Jillian (whose character Dolly is now played by a man), Brian and Sarah Lewis's divorce (they're so close to murdering each other they have to be filmed separately with inanimate objects standing in for the other) and Jerrid Foiles leaving Team Snob (he shows up in a gratuitous 5-second cameo just to show he's still around).
* RefugeInAudacity: With references to copious drug use, drunken sex, and neo-Nazi violence, "A Very Inappropriate 80's Dan Christmas" definitely fits this trope.