Let's do the time warp again...

"Can't Buy Me Love" is on TV right now - Patrick Dempsey long before he was McDreamy. God love those cheesy, craptastic 80s movies that suck you in.

Here's a few other memories from way back when...

Remember when Burger King tried to do sit-down food? You'd order a "dinner," they'd give you a tub of popcorn and you'd go sit at your hard plastic booth for a few minutes and then one of their less-than-enthusiastic-to-be-there employees would bring you your order? If you don't remember, you didn't miss anything.

Ohhhh, remember when Micky D's did delivery? You'd call an 800 number to place the order, they'd ask you where the closest McDonald's was to you and then you had to pay an astronomical delivery fee, thereby making that $3 Big Mac an $8 Big Mac. Yeah, that was rather short-lived, so don't feel bad if you don't remember.


It's actually funny, I mention these things to my friends here in Kentucky and they swear to God it never happened and that I'm crazy. I may be crazy, but they happened. It could have been that I was lucky enough to live in a test market. Who really knows.

Oh, remember when Papa John's was good pizza? I don't know if they changed their recipe, the novelty wore off, or what ... but I'm not the only one who used to love Papa John's and now can't stand it.

Remember stirrup pants? Wow - how stupid were we? Or "Hammer" pants - there's a fad that can totally stay in the past. What about crimping your hair? There's something we never should have done - not only is it impossible to look good when you intentionally make your hair frizzy, but God knows how much money Paul Mitchell made in products to fix the damage created by those things. And speaking of bad hair, perms should never, ever, ever be an option. Period. If I never see another picture of my mom with a perm again, it will be too damn soon.

Remember when track suits first made their debut? It was so cool to have those nylon pants and matching jacket. Now that sort of outfit is saved for the stay-at-home-mom crew or if you're over 60. (Though, to be fair, now they are velor instead of that awful nylon. But that doesn't really make the trend any easier to swallow. If Stacey and Clinton have taught us nothing, it's never to wear the same color from head to toe.)

Do you remember when it was cool to be "2 Legit 2 Quit?" Apparently Hammer wasn't 2 Legit 2 Quit, he wasn't even 2 Legit 2 file bankruptcy, become an ordained minister, and appear on some crappy VH1 reality show.

Oh, how about Saturday morning cartoons that weren't Japanime? I don't remember, someone will have to remind me, did we EVER see Nanny's face, or was it always those green and white socks? Someone please explain to me how she landed such an eclectic mix of "creatures" that were all roughly the same age, orphaned, and needed a home with a giant playroom, two cribs, and a portal to go God only knows where? Why was Miss Piggy in love with Kermit even back then? And technically, since they grew up together and were all part of the same family, isn't that incest? (Incest is best, put your froggy to the test.)

I could go on and on. Really I could. I guess just seeing "Can't Buy Me Love" put me in a nostalgic mood. If you'll excuse me, I need to pull out my copy of "Better Off Dead" to make this a perfectly 80s-tastic day.