Watch: Apparently the 1980s thought vigorous thrusting by John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis was a good thing

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/19/watch-apparently-the-1980s-th.html

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02:20 - 02:40 Damn.

When the phone rings the 1980’s can have this back.

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Ouch, my back hurts.

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Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ou6MoKmxFQ

(Link is as nsfw as the video above, essentially a remake of it. The song will also get stuck in your head for approximately forever.)

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It’s proto-twerking.

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In our defense, it was during the Reagan administration, and we were all quite repressed. We didn’t have Pornhub back then.

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Just watched Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” again, which came out the same year as this movie. Something to ponder…

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Hey everyone! I’ve got a radical idea!

What if videos with music was timed so that the music was actually in sync with the video. I think that could be somewhat interesting.

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You bet they did.
And how.

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How did this Get Made covered this terrible movie. Hadn’t heard of it before!

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you poor children. it’s hard to explain how both of them were considered quite sexy at the time, but it’s true.

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are you sure it’s not pseudo-twerking?

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Sorry, but the best way to appreciate that footage is in the context of this killer synth-wave tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNJsjmWYLwg

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I had no idea until about 6 months ago, that the pop video was directly lifted from somewhere. It seemed uniquely awful.

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I had an even better idea. I stopped watching it after 2 seconds. Couldn’t stand the music. Must preserve brain cells.

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I’m…I’m okay with this.

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Lou Reed had a song on this film’s soundtrack (FWIW).

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The aerobics craze was pretty weird but seemed fairly normal at the time. I wonder what the 2017 equivalent to this will be 30 years down the road.

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Aerobics themselves may not have been weird, but the fact that there’s been a national championship that started, far as I can tell, in 83 and continues to this day is kinda weird. Yes, Key & Peele ripped the melody for their aerobics sketch, then I think from the Key & Peele sketch we got Da Tweekaz and their bundled stepmania version of it.

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It was the biggliest decade ever. It was yuuuge.

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