Remembering the 80s: The Year in Christmas, 1984

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024

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  • @ChristmasAficionado
    @ChristmasAficionado  17 дней назад +9

    I got another claim for the Gremlins music. I had to mute out that section.

    • @pohpiheno
      @pohpiheno 15 дней назад +2

      so whack its like nostalgic

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 8 дней назад +1

      @@pohpiheno Yeah I remember some of my friends saying that Gremlins' ending left it open for a sequel LOL! (Gremlins 2: The New Batch)

    • @ninademci1500
      @ninademci1500 6 дней назад +1

      @@mikeysuzefour, I didn’t want to see the sequel, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”. The first one was enough; however, there’s one scene that I thought was funny and it was when one of the Gremlins was chain smoking.

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 5 дней назад +1

      @@ninademci1500 I liked the intelligent, talking Gremlin voiced by Kelsey Grammer 😂 😂

    • @off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez
      @off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez 2 дня назад

      That's ridiculous 😢

  • @dycedarg19
    @dycedarg19 24 дня назад +36

    I still carry 80’s Christmases in my heart. The prayers, music, presents, school Christmas programs, Toys R Us, Charley Brown Christmas, dinners at my grandparents. Even my parents’ divorce then did not diminish the child-like joy I still have that I have passed down to my kids.

  • @tyson1fan487
    @tyson1fan487 27 дней назад +48

    The 80's was something truly special and I loved the Christmas season back then and the TV specials were great and it's sad these days you don't see much of anything. No Christmas specials besides the Grinch and a handful of movies but we don't get any Charlie Brown or much else. Times have truly changed and not for the better.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад +3

      There is so much Christmas. More movies and tv specials then ever.

    • @LudwigPaiste28
      @LudwigPaiste28 24 дня назад +4

      @@ChristmasAficionadoWhere though?
      Back in the day, it wasn’t difficult to find a special in December. Now it’s all new stuff that’s terrible. With the exception of A Christmas Story, it’s hard to find the classics.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  20 дней назад +1

      @@LudwigPaiste28 Hallmark plays them from Oct- Jan, Freeform, AMC, new movies on streaming.

    • @JHobartMusic72
      @JHobartMusic72 14 дней назад +2

      You are absolutely correct. I was 12 in 1984 and that decade was the best of my life. Christmas was so “new” and it was everywhere. Sure there might be LOTS of Christmas stuff on “TV” today but that’s just because you have access to 1,000,000 outlets, channels, every movie, etc. but “those we don’t speak of” (the village 😂) have done such a great job of ruining Christmas over the recent years by steadily dismantling everything about it..that when it comes around now. I just don’t feel it anymore and it makes me so sad and angry that I have no feelings anymore, and I’m a musician/composer which is ALL emotion and feeling. Instead of the big man Santa delivering toys to the boys and girls..
      it’s “neutral parcel transporter servicing the non binary products of human admixture”..
      Just doesn’t have the same Christmas meaning 😂.
      But this channel and video helps.
      I wish I could just go back to the 80s again

    • @ilikestuff7598
      @ilikestuff7598 4 дня назад

      Things were more religious and rapey and white. 🤗 but damn I do miss those claymation Christmas specials. It was a magical time

  • @Boblee1975
    @Boblee1975 27 дней назад +29

    Forty years it feels like yesterday ! Wish i could go back, Thanks so much really love your The Year in Christmas specials !! You rock !

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад +4

      I enjoy watching all of these specials. By the time I am done I don't think there will be a Christmas episode or movie I never watched!

  • @Floresj78
    @Floresj78 10 дней назад +4

    I was 6 years old in 1984. Wow, what a good time to be kid and for those who were adults in the 80’s. I will never forget the 80’s decade. Thank goodness I experienced it.

  • @vadneysean72
    @vadneysean72 26 дней назад +9

    The 80s were truly special. Christmas in the very early 80s was going to the local mall where we got to see Santa actually arrive, not by sled but a Bell H 13 helicopter. Then a visit to K•B Toys to finish up the day and look at the new toys on display

  • @3madememumsy
    @3madememumsy 5 дней назад +3

    Thank you so much for the memories! The warm & fuzzies came flooding !!!

  • @DavidHagrid1
    @DavidHagrid1 19 дней назад +8

    Thanks for this. It’s like a warm blanket reminding me of simpler times.

  • @off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez
    @off-gridsimplyhappyrodriguez 2 дня назад +2

    80s ruled!
    I was born in 76 and grew up in the 80s. The good ol days for me.
    Thank you for these videos 🙏
    I wish I could hug you 🥹
    I'd buy them on dvd if it were possible 🎁🎄⛄
    😘

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  2 дня назад

      Just watching and subscribing is the best way you can thank me!

  • @MLaker221
    @MLaker221 25 дней назад +7

    I'm always trying to recreate my childhood Christmas tape.. so I love exploring the different years as I've said in other comments here. Your late 80s videos I made a to-do list of.. and now I've been getting phone notifications telling me things like today was Prancer in 1989!!

  • @vincenzoridente9994
    @vincenzoridente9994 23 дня назад +13

    I wish I could build a time machine and go back to the 80s

  • @TaterRogers
    @TaterRogers 17 часов назад +1

    The 80s were a great time even though we didn't have much of anything, we still had the hope that something big would happen, and that was always a good thing. People weren't hating each other about politics and most people were genuinely nice folks. We weren't afraid to sing songs about God or Jesus on TV and I think we have lost sight of that, since we were slammed with media overload, the kids don't get the Christmas specials like we always looked forward to. We watched Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and Frosty every single year and we constantly watched the commercials to see if an item we wanted would be shown. I am trying hard to create that magic feeling for my kid so that he has amazing Christmas memories to take with him and pass on to his kids one day. Thank you for sharing this! 1984 was a great year, and even the Macy's parade wasn't controversial and it kicked off the Christmas season when Santa came down the lane. I have most of these movies on a hard drive and I try to watch them with my family to keep those magical moments alive. I'm a big kid myself and I love re-living things through the movies. One day I bought my favorite cereal as a kid and put on a 6 hour cartoon marathon and we watched cartoons on a Saturday morning.

  • @markbrown9458
    @markbrown9458 25 дней назад +11

    Christmas '84: got my boom box and 4 cassettes; 1984, LIKE A VIRGIN, REBEL YELL, and OUT OF THE CELLAR.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  23 дня назад +1

      I didn't get my first cassettes until 1987 but Out of the Cellar was a great album

    • @bb-gc2tx
      @bb-gc2tx 22 дня назад +1

      me too i got kiss aniamalize twisted sister stay hungry and billy squier signs of life

    • @Joeypeeps69
      @Joeypeeps69 20 дней назад +1

      Me as well on the VH and Ratt.

  • @magamaga1827
    @magamaga1827 21 день назад +5

    the 80s were a magical time to be a kid/teen

  • @meeting_meghan
    @meeting_meghan 27 дней назад +6

    So happy to see another one of these, as they've been great. Certainly hope that when you finish the 80's you continue with the 90's. Such great movies, episodes and specials. Including Candles Snow & Mistletoe (1993), and Christmas episodes of Mr. Dressup (multiple years) and Under the Umbrella Tree (oops just realized this was 1989) (Canadian kids tv shows). Plus Noel the Happy Christmas Ornament (1992), and For Better or For Worse: A Christmas Angel (1992).

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад +4

      That is the plan. I have to do 83 - 80 and then we will start the 90s probably late 2025! I'm already planning graphics for it.

  • @Cyberrat629
    @Cyberrat629 26 дней назад +4

    Another great video going down memory lane!
    Really miss how the season seemed to build up from starting off with Santa ending the Macy's Day parade, all the Christmas Specials on TV, local festivities and then ending with Christmas Eve into Day. As a kid it seemed to take forever even though it was only 4-5 short weeks but always felt so full.
    Now you start seeing Christmas stuff before Halloween and it has been that way a while. Feels like a lot of that *holiday cheer* has gone away and not just because we're adults.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад +2

      It still feels that way. I know some don't watch anythihg until after Thanksgiving. I watch Christmas stuff all year long.

    • @HerrinSchadenfreude
      @HerrinSchadenfreude 22 дня назад +3

      People these days seem to hate the whole idea of Christmas because they hate religion so much. As if you couldn't make the season about something else it just enjoy the festivities and spirit. Everyone is so eager to be offended or to point out that they were not catered to personally.

  • @arnulfopadilla6942
    @arnulfopadilla6942 25 дней назад +4

    Thank you for including such obscure contributions as "Charlie's Christmas secret" and "It came upon a midnight clear!" Good memories, simpler times.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  25 дней назад +1

      You're welcome. I try and include as much as I can find in my research.

  • @3Storms
    @3Storms 25 дней назад +5

    Star Wars, GI Joe, Transformers, Starriors, Select Convertors (yeah I liked them), GoBots, Wheeled Warriors, and Robostrux: 1984 had a major toy overload for kids that only the rich could keep up with. There was even more to want in the following year with MASK and Thundercats.

  • @ninademci1500
    @ninademci1500 6 дней назад +1

    Christmas Aficionado, thank you for posting this compilation. I enjoyed watching it. I remember watching most of these Christmas episodes and Christmas specials that year.

  • @D-Fens_1632
    @D-Fens_1632 25 дней назад +6

    1984 is probably the first year of life I really remember. I have a few memories from 1983, but it seems like all of my first memories come from 84, I remember all of this. Where'd the time go and how did everything get so weird?

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  23 дня назад

      I remember this year fondly

    • @peterlois1086
      @peterlois1086 23 дня назад

      i blame the internet. Life before the world wide web was so much better

  • @vincenzoridente9994
    @vincenzoridente9994 23 дня назад +2

    I loved a Christmas carol with George C Scott still watch it every Christmas on RUclips

  • @JayPatrol
    @JayPatrol 10 дней назад +1

    I loved growing up in the 80's what a funn time to be a kid im sure alot of people would agree. Simpler times they were and these shows bring back lots of memories gimme a break was one of my favorite tv shows back then I even have that on dvd right now, just one the examples of how great the those times were.
    I could go on and on.

  • @jenniferfarvour4852
    @jenniferfarvour4852 4 дня назад +3

    Good times. I would go back in a heartbeat.

  • @Wayne-o8c4e
    @Wayne-o8c4e 5 дней назад +1

    Wow, I remember some of these, I was 18 years old back then, I do kinda miss those days, days that can't never get back, now that I'm 58, things is kinda going good for me, it could be better but hopefully things will again.

  • @YoursInYeshua
    @YoursInYeshua 8 дней назад +3

    '88 to '94 was THEE best time in history.

  • @Wes.jumpss
    @Wes.jumpss 5 дней назад +2

    My first Christmas ❤️

  • @adampellett4917
    @adampellett4917 19 дней назад +2

    So many good movies and cartoons from the 1980s are so memorable. I do miss that generation even better than today’s. Great upload. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁🍽 and Merry Christmas. 🎁🎄 🎅🥳

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  18 дней назад

      Thanks for watching. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to you as well!

  • @CarlainMontana406
    @CarlainMontana406 27 дней назад +3

    I thoroughly enjoyed this trip down memory lane! Thanks for sharing ❤🇺🇸🎅🎄🤶

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад +1

      Thanks for watching. Be sure to watch the other episodes!

    • @CarlainMontana406
      @CarlainMontana406 26 дней назад

      @@ChristmasAficionado I have been binge watching your content 😊and I’ve also subscribed to your channel 🎅🎄🤶looking forward to seeing your 1983 (I graduated high school in 1983 ) Remembering the 1980’s…and hoping you will cover the 70’s and 90’s! Really enjoying the nostalgia of it all! Happy Holidays!

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  20 дней назад +1

      @@CarlainMontana406 thanks. Should be out in early 2025

  • @abelsabalajr5535
    @abelsabalajr5535 9 дней назад +1

    Considering this year and current affairs, thank you for sharing a simpler time

  • @botboy6977
    @botboy6977 25 дней назад +4

    My favorite year of the 80’s!

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  25 дней назад

      why 1984?

    • @botboy6977
      @botboy6977 25 дней назад

      Not sure! 😂

    • @bb-gc2tx
      @bb-gc2tx 22 дня назад

      1984 was the greatest year in the history of mankind just the summer movies alone gremlins ghostbusters temple of doom the last star fighter splash the karate kid

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  20 дней назад

      @@bb-gc2tx Last Star Fighter is the best

  • @stephenr3910
    @stephenr3910 25 дней назад +2

    I was a sophomore in college. I know we had recently gotten our first VCR, and my mother got her first Apple computer which she used for work. But those were a little before Christmas. I had recently started sponsoring a kid in Hong Kong. He'd be 48 now. My sister got a Cabbage Patch doll.

  • @scottthompson4193
    @scottthompson4193 26 дней назад +3

    I was 7, fantastic time to be a kid!!!!

  • @FrootLoop31122
    @FrootLoop31122 5 дней назад +1

    My sister’s best friend had that Cabbage Patch Kids record and we would put on “shows” in her room to it. The way that came flooding back when “Otis Lee” was playing 😂.

  • @renaherbert3142
    @renaherbert3142 23 дня назад +2

    I was born In July 1984. I was five month old when this came out. It's crazy that a lot of 80's footage has been popping up in my feed.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  21 день назад

      Nothing wrong with 80s in you feed!

    • @renaherbert3142
      @renaherbert3142 21 день назад

      @ChristmasAficionado There's nothing wrong with it at all. I'm super stoked about it actually.

  • @bombfog1
    @bombfog1 3 дня назад +2

    Thanks, Man for these videos.

  • @laurenjones4468
    @laurenjones4468 27 дней назад +7

    I'm early. I can't wait. I'm a big fan

  • @wonderfilled6048
    @wonderfilled6048 27 дней назад +2

    I’m so hooked on these videos! Glad I found this channel.

  • @teresasparks9194
    @teresasparks9194 18 дней назад +2

    I got a German cabbage patch kid, my parents went on vacation and they weren't as popular there so they were able to get a could. I was 8 in 84 so it was awesome. I remember am of this

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  17 дней назад

      were they different from the US version?

    • @ladyrazorsharp
      @ladyrazorsharp 16 дней назад

      I was 11. My mom and 2 of her friends who had daughters in my class wanted to get us Cabbage Patch Dolls. Everywhere was sold out in our (then) little town, but someone tipped them off to order them from a Sears Catalog Store in a little village full of retirees near us. Each store got a set number and when they were gone, they were gone. The only catch was they didn't come in the fancy display boxes. However, it was cool because us girls were stumped, only to open these oblong boxes and discover the ultimate prize inside!

  • @ladyrazorsharp
    @ladyrazorsharp 16 дней назад +2

    You Can't Do That On Television! Such an awesome show. Spent many an afternoon with Moose and Lisa and Alistair. Old Nickelodeon (and I remember when it didn't have commercials!) was the best.
    I became a Gerry Anderson fan as an adult so the Terrahawks episode gives me a giggle.
    And is Christmas horror a thing? I guess it is!
    I think a big part of the holidays were the commercials. Brands took a lot of care with their holiday offerings; I'm not sure that happens anymore, since we've gone away from 'the big three' networks.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  15 дней назад +2

      You Can't Do That on Television was a fixture in my house. Oh yes Christmas horror is a thing. I love showing the specials, TV episodes, horror, and the commercials

  • @gregorygriffin6341
    @gregorygriffin6341 26 дней назад +2

    Christmas 1984 was the most memorable Christmas of my life. A few ones in the 80's have came close, but nothing has wowed me like '84. Standout gifts? Hmmm...let's see: A Voltron doll (Metal cast), Transformers Ray Gun, A Michael Jackson Turntable w/mic, and 7" single of Purple Rain with purple vinyl (among others). Blew my 7 y.o. mind!!

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  26 дней назад

      do you still have those presents?

    • @gregorygriffin6341
      @gregorygriffin6341 25 дней назад +1

      @@ChristmasAficionado Oh no. They're long gone. Just pleasant memories now. You know how as kids you take things for granted? Then as you grow older....you get the point. I loved my gifts, without a doubt. Just got lost in the shuffle.

  • @bingdong8571
    @bingdong8571 27 дней назад +3

    look at all of the movies that came out in 1984. Its crazy

  • @HerrinSchadenfreude
    @HerrinSchadenfreude 22 дня назад +2

    Best time in my life, Christmas from '78-'84. So funny they showed Press Your Luck. Big money and no whammies! I'd forgotten about Body Language though!

  • @scupking
    @scupking 6 дней назад +1

    80s and 90s were great times!

  • @ReynDacen
    @ReynDacen 3 дня назад +2

    I was 4 years and do i wish i could go back...

  • @FAA-DPE
    @FAA-DPE 7 часов назад

    People will never know, nor could they ever believe just how perfect we had it in the eighties.
    If they only could have left things alone.

  • @snoo333
    @snoo333 25 дней назад +2

    this was awesome. thank you

  • @billyaitchison9106
    @billyaitchison9106 6 дней назад +2

    this is the year i was born

  • @thenuclearsandwich
    @thenuclearsandwich 10 дней назад +1

    80s was the best. Especially 84.

  • @Eddunaway-qp5tv
    @Eddunaway-qp5tv 23 дня назад +1

    Very very good memories of lot of good memories of that on TV and that in 1984 lot of good movies came out in 1984 a lot of good sports to even especially the Christmas specials were good too on TV

  • @Deathbruce
    @Deathbruce 7 дней назад

    We have lost the ability to express joy in this world. These were irreplaceable times.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  6 дней назад

      I still find joy in this day but there is something about remembering your childhood that makes you feel that way

  • @sarahsimpkins1311
    @sarahsimpkins1311 26 дней назад +2

    I was 4 years old back in 84😊😊

  • @WillKnight-m6u
    @WillKnight-m6u 26 дней назад +4

    I love the 80s

  • @CartoonChris1
    @CartoonChris1 24 дня назад +2

    For me, it was wave 1 of the Kenner DC Super Powers collection.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  23 дня назад +2

      I would love to include every toy in the intro. Maybe I need to make a video about the toys!

  • @windowken
    @windowken 2 дня назад +1

    The 80s was the best 😁

  • @philip-ij6dm
    @philip-ij6dm 14 дней назад +1

    Happy thanksgiving 🦃

  • @kcskoolz8312
    @kcskoolz8312 11 дней назад +1

    The year I was born

  • @chef_boi_r_c
    @chef_boi_r_c 10 дней назад +1

    Did anyone else lose audio near the end? Mine cut out during the Punky Brewster clip and never came back on.

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  10 дней назад

      I got a claim on the Gremlins song but it should not affect the punky clip

  • @Tommygunz838
    @Tommygunz838 6 часов назад

    1984 was the year of The SUPER POWERS and SECRET WARS ! 🔥 TRANSFORMERS, VOLTRON and of course the 1984 GI Joe series 🔥🔥🔥

    • @Tommygunz838
      @Tommygunz838 6 часов назад

      WWF figure, MOTU and Ghostbusters!

  • @Papa0918
    @Papa0918 15 дней назад +1

    Sophomore year of high school.

  • @SchemeTintFocus
    @SchemeTintFocus 11 дней назад +1

    Someone got a VCR for Christmas

  • @jAyl0rd
    @jAyl0rd 10 дней назад +1

    Why does the end have no sound

  • @krisbromilow7255
    @krisbromilow7255 15 дней назад +2

    Was Emmanuel like 28 here?

  • @medicatedmastermind1879
    @medicatedmastermind1879 День назад +1

    I remember i wanted to BE Mary Lou Retton ❤️

  • @regularguyreviews3048
    @regularguyreviews3048 11 дней назад +2

    Bro it’s 1984 and you didn’t mention He-man for a Christmas toy 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @ChristmasAficionado
      @ChristmasAficionado  10 дней назад

      I only mention a few toys balancing boy and girls toys . I went hardcore He-Man in 1985. 1984 was the Cabbage Patch Kids. He-man debuted in 1982 and will probably talk about them in 82 and 83

  • @CleverDowed
    @CleverDowed 11 дней назад +1

    I was 6

  • @bingdong8571
    @bingdong8571 27 дней назад +1

    theres war in bierut and press ur luck is on prime time. Is it 1984 or 2024?

  • @Charles-ke2po
    @Charles-ke2po 26 дней назад +2

    This is the closest thing to a time machine