• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Otter@lemmy.ca
        7·
        1 day ago

        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

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          1 day ago

          Yes people regularly call me MacGyver in my job to this day because of being crafty about finding solutions with what we have on hand. Never heard of air wolf in Europe.

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 day ago

          Having just watched an episode of the A-team, I think it’s that when these iconic vehicles are onscreen and ‘doing things’ they play the score. (I’m just assuming that’s true for the other two as well, it was true in other 80s shows I’ve seen and seems to have been something of a trope)

        • EisFrei@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            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)

        • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org
          2·
          1 day ago

          I watched these shows as a kid in late 90s via Austrian public TV and can confirm: Air Wolf wasn’t among them but MacGyver was though.
          I think Baywatch would’ve worked as well though the genre might be a bit off compared to the others.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zip
      2·
      23 hours ago

      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.

    • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • egregiousRac@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        There was a ton of combat helicopter use in Vietnam, which led to a heap of pilots willing to do crazy stuff.

        • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Then the 90s rolled around and we got amazing shows like Viper and Thunder in Paradise instead.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 day ago

            I wonder how much of that behavior is because it was viewed as acceptable behavior through things like its portrayal in this movie? “Media shapes culture shapes media” is an argument, but “it’s realistic” falls a bit flat as a reason to perpetuate normalizing the behavior since clearly society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

            • red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              It’s about how you show it. If it’s clear from the film that the behavior is not OK, I think it’s fine to show things that are absolutely happening in the real world. We get films and shows where cops murder people, steal drugs, whatever. And that’s certainly not normalizing this behavior. Not showing it is, in my mind, sweeping the well-documented asocial, asshole behavior of many cops under the carpet. Copaganda, essentially.

              • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 day ago

                society has shifted away from that kind of representation of casual sexual harassment as being acceptable.

                I think we agree? My point is that this movie does not depict it in a negative light, which is gross. Showing it because it’s ‘realistic’ is likely self-fufilling, showing it as commentary is very different from how sexploitation films usually operate.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 hours ago

      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

  • mrmisses@lemmy.world
    111·
    1 day ago

    I don’t know what I’m supposed to be hearing for the a team van. The theme music? Engine noises? The gravel road?

    • greygore@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      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.

  • corvi@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    For some reason my brain cannot separate the A-Team theme from Indiana Jones. Am I crazy or are they super similar?

    • bstix@feddit.dk
      3·
      1 day ago

      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.