Dissecting The 80s
Tripp and Andrew Laino have been watching movies together since 1992, and making fun of them together since 1999, when a rainy afternoon of babysitting turned into 8 straight hours of cheesy science fiction, popcorn and jokes. Raised on a strict diet of 80s adventure, action, comedy and drama, the pair have an undying love for the 1980s and all of the weird, wonderful cinema therein. Since 2014, they’ve hosted this podcast - every other week they dissect a movie (or sometimes a TV show), finding plot holes, bad lighting and acting choices and the bizarre cinema quirks of 30-odd years ago (Smoking in hospitals! Rubber suits without neck hinges! Corey Feldman!).
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
#162 Friday the 13th Part II
#161 Cocoon
Tripp writes a song, the secret origin story of Back to the Future wrapped up in this cocoon, a compliment for Bryce …
#160 Deadly Friend
Oh man, we are so pumped for y'all to hear this one!
It's Deadly Friend - a new to us and completely BONKERS Wes Craven movie, ripped to shreds by the studio, who desperately wanted another Nightmare…
#159 Adventures in Babysitting (Sample)
Out now on our Patreon page (Patreon.com/DissectingThe80s), it's our Adventures in Babysitting episode for listener request month!
Hear this full-length studio episode + EIGHT more full-length episod…
#158 They Live
"This water tastes like broccoli, mannnnn"! Andrew coins a new catchphrase, utterly delightful Roddy Pip…
#157 Grease 2
We kicked off Listener Request Month 2020 with a Patreon pick: Grease 2!
We've got a wacky theme park stunt show, the stunt doubles for the original cast get to make a whole movie, Rizzo is in…
#156 Gymkata
#155 Valley Girl
It's the movie our mom has been begging for for six years, and with a terrible-looki…
#154 Class of Nuke 'Em High
#153 Never Say Never Again
#152 When Time Ran Out
#151 Used Cars
We're celebrating a 40th anniversary with our long-time pod-friend Kurt Russell in Used Cars! Is t…
#150 She's All That (Clip) + 150th Episode Spectacular!
It's our 150th Episode Spectacular, and the Savage-inator has us stuck in the 90s! Hear a clip of our She's All That episode (exclusive to Patreon) and us answering some audience questions of the jou…
#149 Ready to Rumble
Leap Day's Curse has struck again, driving us all the way to the year TWO THOUSAND for Ready to Rumble!
Is wrestling real or scripted, because this movie sure doesn't know! Why does Scott Caan always…
#148 Herbie Goes Bananas
It's the nearly-final FOURBRUARY episode: Herbie Goes Bananas!
Why does this kiddo call Herbie Ocho? How many great character actors can you fit into one movie? What's up with the bananas? Why doesn'…
#147 Howling IV: The Original Nightmare
It's FOURBRUARY! (Maybe for the last time!)
We workshop a new werewolf idea (TMTMTM), peanuts on Coke, Coke as bourbon, massive continuity issues, random day/night shifts, a true and serious lack of …
#146 Cruising
It's the single most confusing movie we've ever done on the show: William Friedkin's Cruising!
Why is this movie made this way? What on EARTH is Al Pacino doing in it? Why is it completely out of sor…
#145 Tuff Turf
We're kicking off 2020 with a weird little movie turning 35: Tuff Turf!
Baby James Spader is doing a not-so-great James Dean to woo future Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards away from…
#144 Return of the Jedi
We're revisiting a childhood favorite in celebration of the final Star Wars Skywalker film: Return of the Jedi!
WHERE'S THE YUB NUB? All the horrible CGI changes in the current version of the film ar…
#143 Die Hard (Clip)
Yippee-Ki-Yay, Patreon Dissectamaniacs!
We hope you're having a fabulous holiday, and we've got a present for you - one you don't have to unwrap: a feature-length, in-studio episode of what Tripp cal…