It goes without saying, but I'll say it that this show was created in the wake of the success of That 70s Show and the nostalgia for that decade. Apparently there was a lot less nostalgia for the 80s because That 80s Show only lasted for 13 episodes.
Meet the Howards, brother and sister Glenn Howerton and Tinsley Grimes and their father Geoff Pierson. Howerton is 20 years behind the times, he really belongs in the 60s. He's the lead and a creative soul and not into success in financial matters being the only thing that does matter.
It was certainly a materialistic decade for those kids of parents who either really or vicariously went to Woodstock. That 80s Show never created the indelible characters that came from That 70s Show, but maybe it might have had it been given a longer run.
The one character I remember vividly is that of Eddie Shinn, Chinese American, but possibly the illegitimate son of Ronald Reagan. This was a true child of the 80s, a devote believer in any get rich quick infomercial and the messages they sold. The 80s was the decade of that as the brakes started to come off capitalism. Shinn was so funny with his totally materialistic outlook. In fact Karl Marx would have used him as a textbook example of what was wrong with capitalism.
Shinn's character Roger should have gotten his own show. Maybe we still can do that.
Meet the Howards, brother and sister Glenn Howerton and Tinsley Grimes and their father Geoff Pierson. Howerton is 20 years behind the times, he really belongs in the 60s. He's the lead and a creative soul and not into success in financial matters being the only thing that does matter.
It was certainly a materialistic decade for those kids of parents who either really or vicariously went to Woodstock. That 80s Show never created the indelible characters that came from That 70s Show, but maybe it might have had it been given a longer run.
The one character I remember vividly is that of Eddie Shinn, Chinese American, but possibly the illegitimate son of Ronald Reagan. This was a true child of the 80s, a devote believer in any get rich quick infomercial and the messages they sold. The 80s was the decade of that as the brakes started to come off capitalism. Shinn was so funny with his totally materialistic outlook. In fact Karl Marx would have used him as a textbook example of what was wrong with capitalism.
Shinn's character Roger should have gotten his own show. Maybe we still can do that.