ITT: social security recipients
I wish. I’m still 20+ years from being able to draw on SSI and I can hear every image clear as day. This was just part of my childhood.
If was 20 years older that would mean that I could draw on social security before it’s fucked and probably would have worked somewhere with a pension too, rather than being forced into a 401k that’s probably also going to be fucked.
For anyone else confused like I was, these were iconic vehicles from some old and terminally 80s television shows (“A-team”, “Knight Rider”, “Air wolf”). Seriously, the theme songs alone are just… wow.
IMO the title cards would have worked better. This makes it seem like you’re supposed to hear the sound that the vehicles made
Also, was Air Wolf that popular? I would have swapped it with MacGyver, and I’m judging that based on how often other pop culture seems to reference the shows above (ex. Community, etc).
MacGyver is popular enough that some people use it to describe when something is juryrigged/improvised. They might even understand it better than those alternate definitions
MacGyver was more popular, but I doubt much of anyone remembers the theme song.
I can hear Airwolf’s screaming turbine and K.I.T.T.s sensor array.
And they were all very popular. They left the one unpopular vehicle out: Street Hawk.
Man I loved street hawk as a kid for all 2 episodes it existed (or at least that’s probably all my parents let me watch)
DUNDUNDUNDUNdudududDUNDUNdun
I wanted to fuck that helicopter so bad ngl
I-
what
Which orifice would you go for? Seems to me that there wouldn’t be any good options…
Airwolf was so fucking good. I actually have it on DVD.
I never saw a single episode, but the NES game fucking owned. I still have the theme embedded in my brain wrinkles. I won a trivia contest over movie and show theme songs with it too, was a bonus question.
Anyone who doubts, have a listen. https://youtu.be/U2MCKB-s90M
I thought Airwolf was a fever dream I had as a child? It was real‽
It’s really wild that the main characters had the weird habit of ending up in aerial combat every week as civilians.
Not once in my 43 years have I felt the need to ascend in my battle helicopter to save the day.
Maybe if you had an Airwolf you would have found opportunities!
With beloved TV action star Ernest Borgnine!
RIP Jan-Michael Vincent
Helicopters were so cool in the 80s.
There was a ton of combat helicopter use in Vietnam, which led to a heap of pilots willing to do crazy stuff.
Don’t forget Riptide
Then the 90s rolled around and we got amazing shows like Viper and Thunder in Paradise instead.
Fucking christ I’m glad I don’t live in the 80s…
They call it in, and Murphy decides to show Lymangood something interesting. They fly over to nearby Encino, which is outside their patrol area. At 9:30PM, Lymangood is able to observe a very flexible young woman doing some amazing yoga moves in the nude. Unfortunately, they are interrupted. That “abandoned car” they spotted earlier was not abandoned.
Dude, that would 100% happen when you give cops surveillance tools. Not showing that in movies is actually less realistic.
80s movies were so much more sexploitative. But this scene is just accurate.
For some reason my brain cannot separate the A-Team theme from Indiana Jones. Am I crazy or are they super similar?
Blue thunder much better than airwolf, and looks cooler
I thought it was only a movie, I didn’t realise it was a show too
It doesn’t even have to be a picture:
- leaf blower
- charlie brown adults
- bacon sizzling
- stirring macaroni
I don’t know what I’m supposed to be hearing for the a team van. The theme music? Engine noises? The gravel road?
I heard the “bullet” noises when the logo letters hit the screen between the opening monologue and the first bars of the theme song. And then I saw that jeep doing the barrel roll from the opening. I hadn’t realized how much of that was burned into my brain.
The theme for the A-Team.
The others are: Air Wolf and Knight Rider.
Oh because for the others I heard the noise the vehicle made
Only two of those, I’ve never heard the Air wolf theme.
You probably did hear it if you were alive in the 80s.
Outside the tv show, the track was also included in all kinds of compilation albums for synthesizer music which was used in many places.
If you had a Commodore 64 you probably heard it in the cracker intros or demoscene.
