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10 April 2010

You know you're a child of the 80s if... you can tell the difference between Audrey and Judy Landers.

post by: Joe Beese at: 08:59 | 21 comments

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See? They knew I wasn't a child of the 80s!

posted by Obscure Reference 10 April | 12:13

Never heard of them but then at the time I did my best to pretend that the eighties didn't exist.

posted by octothorpe 10 April | 12:43

I don't even have to click, that's how 80s I am.

(although I'm a child of the 70s, and a lazy college student of the 80s)

posted by JanetLand 10 April | 13:11

I was born in '76, but for the life of my I've never heard of them before.

Erin Gray? Yes.

Catherine Bach? You bet.

I even know Jill Whelan.

But if it helps, I'll learn to tell them apart, durnit.

posted by jabberjaw 10 April | 13:45

Born in 1975 and never heard of 'em.

posted by amro 10 April | 15:01

Oy, and here I had just managed to forget all about the wearing of panty hose under nylon shortshorts.

posted by jamaro 10 April | 15:53

Audrey is the Landers sister who can sing, kinda.

posted by oneswellfoop 10 April | 17:27

How did you people miss out on the Landers sisters? Did you never watch BJ and the Bear?

posted by jrossi4r 10 April | 18:48

I am a child of 1980 in specific, and I don't recognize either of them.

posted by Eideteker 10 April | 19:11

Did you never watch BJ and the Bear?

Didn't have cable for most of the decade and lived in rural PA where you could get CBS and PBS on the rabbit ears if you were lucky. I only had a 13 inch B&W TV anyway so it wasn't really worth watching anyway.

posted by octothorpe 10 April | 19:48

OK, now I feel better. I consider myself a child(teenager) of the 80s and I had no idea who these people were. But I never watched BJ and the Bear.

posted by BoringPostcards 10 April | 20:02

Nope, never watched BJ and the Bear. Apparently it only aired from 79 to 81... I'm thinking I was probably too young to watch it when it was on (I was born in December 1975).

posted by amro 10 April | 20:10

I know them but I have no idea how or why.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 10 April | 22:04

What?!? Greg Evigan played a trucker with a monkey. And one of the Landers sisters played a fellow trucker named Stacks who wore a lot of tight shirts and short shorts. Next you'll all be telling me you didn't have CB radios either.

posted by jrossi4r 10 April | 22:06

I remember the Landers sisters but I don't know why. I never saw BJ and the Bear?

posted by arse_hat 10 April | 22:07

Teenager/young adult in the '80s here. I wore tight shirts and short shorts, I watched BJ and the Bear (plus a lot worse) and had a CB radio in my panel van. Ahhh, those were the days.

posted by dg 11 April | 05:32

Ah, short shorts. The boys were so cute in their short shorts. Basketball, in particular, has never been the same since.

posted by JanetLand 11 April | 06:28

Next you'll all be telling me you didn't have CB radios either.

Oh, those we definitely had!

posted by amro 11 April | 09:54

I know them but I have no idea how or why.

I remember the Landers sisters but I don't know why. I never saw BJ and the Bear?

They were ubiquitous in late 70's/ early 80's tv: Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Dukes of Hazzard, everywhere. You could not escape the giggly, jiggly Landers sisters. They make Barbi Benton look like Dame Judi Dench.

posted by Elsa 11 April | 10:13

You could not escape the giggly, jiggly Landers sisters.

Not quite true. I don't remember them... but I spent 77-81 on various military installations in Germany, so all we had was AFRTS/AFN.

posted by ROU Xenophobe 11 April | 10:42

Not quite true.

That's fair! I only meant that most regular viewers of U.S. broadcast TV would probably see them, whether they knew it or not.

posted by Elsa 11 April | 10:50

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