...can we talk about these?
Obviously inspired by John Hughes MANIA in the mid 80s featuring a Molly Ringwald look-alike (who I'm told later ended up on Melrose Place).
Watch the first two, and then marvel at the third. Seriously...WTF is that?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1JYs7LN1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpo_9tNscaw
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOeYmwlQkmg
wtf is right!!!
― jed_, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:34 (thirteen years ago)
sure that third one is real? b/c i remember the first two but not that one. also why isn't faux-molly in third one?
anyway, the first one is hilarious
― dell (del), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago)
sure that third one is real?
It's on Jordache's official youtube acct (though I don't remember ever seeing it on tv).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago)
ha, i didn't even notice that
crazy.
i wonder what other john hughes-inspired stuff was around at the time? all i can think of atm is parker lewis can't lose...
― dell (del), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago)
molly ringwald look-alike is a look that could use a comeback tbh
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago)
yeah
― dell (del), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago)
excited to watch these when i get home
my mom used to wear jordache
― j lol (surm), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago)
concur!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago)
i guess between '80s nostalgia and '90s nostalgia we jumped over the whole "what real people actually dressed like" part of the '80s.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago)
J0rdache basicS.
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago)
haha
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago)
faux-ringwald's name is cheryl pollak
― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago)
not much of a singer, but here she is in some early brad pitt movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpa5PDZ-XXQ
― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago)
my take is that people had no problem revisiting early eighties fashion...but late eighties and much of early nineties fashion is so egregiously tacky in a bland way that no one wants to touch it. unless i have missed a massive comeback in acid washed denim, which maybe i did
― dell (del), Monday, 1 August 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago)
She wasn't on Melrose Place, she was on the Heights! They are both Aaron Spelling shows but there is a huge difference.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago)
The Heights sucked, Jamie Walters brooding was never going to make interesting viewing.
when i was a kid sometimes ppl would call me Jordache and i didn't understand why
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 August 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago)
how do YOU talk to an angel, nicole?
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago)
I throw it down a flight of stairs like Jamie Walters did to Tori Spelling on 90210.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago)
she wasn't a cast member but she was billy's love interest in season 3 of MP for a few episodes
― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago)
lol at the opening of this episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjCiFaRKrXk
― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago)
We're straying from the most important topic here: WHY DID SHE STOP LOOKING LIKE MOLLY RINGWALD?!!!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago)
the 80s ended and she thought she'd do better as a poor man's samantha mathis
― buzza, Monday, 1 August 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago)
Wasn't Samantha Mathis meant to be the poor man's Winona Ryder? This is so confusing.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Monday, 1 August 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago)