* CreatorBacklash:
** Lauper had such an unpleasant experience producing "The Goonies 'r' Good Enough," first having Creator/StevenSpielberg back out of the project after she dared to criticize his vision for the accompanying music video, then being forced to tack the title of [[Film/TheGoonies the movie it was made for]] onto the title for publicity and then having additional CreativeDifferences with Richard Donner for the music video, that she grew to loathe the song. It didn't appear on her compilations until 2003 and she didn't perform it live until a year later. She eventually warmed up to it when she was asked to record a parody of it for the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode, "The Belchies." Sean Astin (who played Mikey in ''The Goonies'') has said in a couple interviews that he always regretted everyone's demeanor while making that music video because him, the other child actors, and the crew were all very low-energy and catatonic, giving the impression that none of them wanted to work with Cyndi. In truth, though, everyone loved working with her, and everyone's indifferent attitude was because they had ''just finished'' making the film and everyone was ''exhausted''. Astin has said he's wished he could get back in touch with Cyndi to explain all this, as he feels parts of her animosity towards the song had to do with everyone's behavior during filming. Josh Gad's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SF_VyXQpyo "Reunited Apart"]] webisode on ''Film/TheGoonies'' did give Sean - and the entire rest of the cast - the chance to video conference with Cyndi.
** She's not too fond of her third album, 1989's ''A Night to Remember'' which she prefers to call "A Night to Forget" due to the album selling poorly, as well as drama involving her boyfriend David Wolf and the disassociation with the overall album production.
** She said the failure of the film ''Film/{{Vibes}}'' hit her hard and that she had trouble reconciling with it for years.
* RealLifeRelative: Cyndi's own mother appeared as herself in "Girls Just Want To Have Fun".
* ReferencedBy: ''Series/YoungSheldon'': Missy has a Cyndi Lauper poster on her side of the bedroom. Sheldon questions the singer's pose.
* SoMyKidsCanWatch: Lauper's son is a huge ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' fan and and it was he who convinced her to record the "Good Enough" parody "Taffy Butt" for the show's season 2 premiere, a WholePlotReference to ''Film/TheGoonies''.