Question: What movie by the Coen Brothers employed babies to portray one set of quints?
Last Question: On Too Close for Comfort, what was the name of the cartoon character drawn by Henry Rush?
Answer: “Cosmic Cow”
Category Archives: Television
Return to the ’80s Trivia – 7/29/20
Question: What rock star had an ice cream flavor named for him, a year after he’d survived a diabetic coma?
Last Question: Representing the “Finicky Party,” what ran for president for the first time in 1988?
Answer: Morris the Cat
Quote of the Day: Cheers
Sam: You are the nuttiest, the stupidest, the phoniest fruitcake I ever met!
Diane: You, Sam Malone, are the most arrogant, self-centered son-of-a-
Sam: Shut up! Shut your fat mouth!
Diane: Make me!
Sam: Make you?… My God I’m, I’m gonna… I’m gonna bounce you off every wall in this office!
Diane: Try it and you’ll be walking funny tomorrow… or should I say funnier?
Sam: You know… you know I always wanted to pop you one! Maybe this is my lucky day, huh?
Diane: You disgust me! I hate you!
Sam: Are you as turned on as I am?
Diane: More!
Sam: Bet me. [They kiss, fade to black]
Sam: Now I’m going to nibble on your ear.
Diane: Don’t tell me you’re going to nibble on my ear…
The season 1 finale of Cheers aired which included Sam & Diane’s first kiss aired on this day, 37 years ago (March 31, 1983)
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Quote of the Day: Love Connection
Welcome to Love Connection, where old-fashioned romance meets modern day technology. Where you’ll hear all the intimate details of a first date. Sometimes, our dates have a happy ending, and some other times, there’s just an ending. But it’s always unpredictable when two strangers meet, trying to make that Love Connection. And now, here’s your host, Chuck Woolery!
Happy 79th birthday to Chuck Woolery!!!
Quote of the Day: Moonlighting
Maddie and David: (overlapping) I am not speaking to you – Are too!- I am not. -Are too!!!- Am not!!- Are too!!- Am not!!!
Maddie: Not another word, not another sound, not another beep until we get back to the office!!
David: Beep.
Moonlighting debuted on ABC on this day, 35 years ago (March 3, 1985). It ran for 5 seasons and 66 episodes.
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Quote of the Day
“Pardon Me, Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?”
Remember That Song – 12/2/19
Can you name the artist and song:
Now is the time
For you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night
I’ll save you from the terrors on the screen
I’ll make you see
Last Song: “Thank You For Being a Friend” by Andrew Gold from the album All This and Heaven Too (1978), but best known as the theme from The Golden Girls (September 14, 1985 – May 9, 1992), sung by Cynthia Fee
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And if you threw a party
Invited everyone you knew
Well, you would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say
Thank You For Being a Friend
Here is the full Andrew Gold version:
Quote of the Day: The Day After
Jim Dahlberg: [Danny inadvertently turns towards a nuclear flash] Danny! Don’t look!
On this day 36 years ago, November 20, 1983, an estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie The Day After.
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Quote of the Day: Movie Macabre
I’m glad to see you’re back. You’re glad to see my front.
Quote of the Day: Knight Rider
Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
Knight Rider debuted on NBC on this day, 37 years ago (September 26, 1982)
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