Trivia / '80s All Over

• Blooper: These were common enough over the show's run — usually involving release dates for films — that the "We Pulled a Boner" segment was introduced to the near-top of each show just a few episodes in. There are also occasional unacknowledged errors, such as Drew mixing up Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown and Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown in the On the Next segment at the end of the April 1980 episode (the latter is the movie that came out in May 1980, but Drew describes the former, from 1977), and Scott confusing Moonwalker with Captain EO in the Musicals bonus episode (Drew not noticing that Scott asks him if he saw the former at Disneyland).
• Colbert Bump: One of Drew and Scott's goals for this show is to provide this trope for '80s movies that don't get talked up much in favor of Small Reference Pools. Several bonus episodes examine which movies managed this with the listeners, with Used Cars, Road Games, Deathtrap, The Verdict, and Birdy becoming particularly popular. In the Feburary 1983 episode, they especially push Local Hero because, while it is not their favorite film of that particular month, they are pretty sure the listeners already know about/have seen Videodrome and/or The King of Comedy and want to give a hand up to a smaller but also worthy film.
• Corpsing: Drew and Scott's casual, generally upbeat discussions sometimes have them breaking into fits of laughter — often when they're discussing particularly ridiculous horror movies (as in September 1981, when they discuss a bunch of them in a row).
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Drew and Scott will point out if any of the movies they cover are very hard to find in a legitimate release as of the episode's airing, and if they enjoy the movie encourage people to contact the rights holder to get it back on the market. One prominent case of this is Betrayal, discussed in the February 1983 episode. They also, very occasionally, cannot cover a given film at all because it's seemingly dropped off the face of the earth, such as the Burt Reynolds vehicle Rough Cut.
  • Initially, the Patreon bonus episodes in the wake of the show being Cut Short. The page was left up for a month after the announcement so subscribers could download the episodes before deletion, but in September 2019 they began uploading these episodes to iTunes along with the regular episodes.
• Real Song Theme Tune: Beyond the remixed arrangement of the HBO Feature Presentation music that opens each episode...
  • The corrections segment uses The Gap Band's "Oops Upside Your Head".
  • The Boogie Nights version of "The Touch" starts being used for any and all movies about fake rock musicians in November 1984.
  • Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" was introduced as the theme song to any "Bad News" movies — that is to say, films about terrible reporters — in February 1985, but was not used again due to the show being Cut Short.
• Series Hiatus: The day after the April 1985 episode went up (April 29, 2019) an 80-day hiatus was announced so Drew, Scott and their producer could have a break after several years worth of weekly episode releases (counting the Patreon bonus episodes) and rethink the show going forward. Sadly, it didn't work out and the show was cancelled come July 1.
• What Could Have Been: The obvious one is that the show was supposed to cover the entire 1980s over five years' worth of shows, but it ultimately ended a little over halfway through the decade with April 1985. This meant that a lot of iconic movies teased in earlier episodes were never fully covered — The Goonies (June 1985), Back to the Future (July 1985), Top Gun (May 1986), Fatal Attraction (September 1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (May 1989), Batman (June 1989), etc. On the other hand, in a sort of Spiritual Successor Drew would participate in the Screen Drafts podcast episode covering the David Cronenberg filmography in May 2020 and discussed the two '80s films of his the show hadn't been able to cover — The Fly (1986) and Dead Ringers — at length in a similar manner to this show. As for the Patreon bonus episodes/content, stuff that was considered or promised but unrealized included:
  • Interview episodes with Xander Berkeley and William Sadler were teased in the April 1981 episode. They were still working on those as of April 1982, and planning an Ellen Barkin interview as well.
  • The same episode had Drew floating the idea of a "We Pulled a Boner" special that would have him and Scott properly discuss movies they neglected to feature in previous episodes and thus only briefly described in correction segments. While this didn't happen, later "boner" titles would receive straight-up discussions upon being noted in regular episodes.
  • Additional episodes about the film work of Saturday Night Live cast members, having only covered the first generation cast (Seasons One-Five).
  • A text piece and/or episode related to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the latter of which would have given special attention to Richard Williams's animation for the film.
  • A episode devoted solely to beloved Made For TV Movies of the decade, due to popular demand. Some of them were discussed in the episode featuring TV Guidance Counselor host Ken Reid, though.
  • In the August 1984 episode, Drew said he was planning an episode where he and his parents would rewatch several films they took him to see at the time of theatrical release that were ridiculously inappropriate for a kid to be watching; one of them would have been the subject of discussion at the moment, Tightrope.
  • In the April 1980 episode Drew said they would revisit The Watcher in the Woods in a 1981 episode due to the 1980 cut being quickly pulled, recut, and reshot for an '81 wide release, but this didn't come to pass.
  • The Halloween Episode has Scott note in passing that they were hoping to interview Joe Bob Briggs in a bonus episode.
• Working Title: Klytus, I'm Bored, as revealed in the December 1980 episode.