Bosom Buddies is just transphobic, no thanks. Shame on the person who recommended it.

@3 Transphobic how?

Oh lord. Now the trolls are talking to each other. Maybe they should get some fresh material?

Dig the Seattle PI blurb at the end of the Demon Lover trailer.

"Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Nixon,
Comet, Cupid... Donna Dixon?"
–Homer Simpson

How can this be transphobic when the characters are clearly crossdressers, not transgender?

I know it is just me but having to relive/remember most things 80's is painful since it was just a mediocre decade all buffed up to shine and look relevant. That's why when the 80's is depicted it always has to have monsters, aliens, or some other gimmick to make it work. Think Stranger things, or any Steven King novel made into a film also Spielberg. Boring decade and in reality annoying to many, like this boring Tom Hanks series. It's just not interesting and talking about it just perpetuates more mediocrity. Like in the 70's when everyone thought happy-days on TV and movies about the 50's (Grease) were great. They weren't, nostalgia is never really great and remembering mediocrity like this TV show is just buffing up more mediocrity to seem relevant. It ain't!

If you are going to talk about a movie and drag why not find the film "Outrageous" (Craig Russell 1977) ya Drag fame long before Ru.

If you really want a gem they try to find the Prince film "Sign o' The Times" (1987).

"Scum" 1977 British film banned by BBC.

"Rumble Fish" and all the Susan Hinton books turned into film.

"Elephant" (Gus Van Sant, producer Diane Keaton‎).

Having said all this I have to admit I don't follow all posts mentioned and if some of these films have been discussed then great. But I guess I am feeling a 80's themed retro trend in some of the selections. Like am I supposed to think a Tom Hanks sitcom is worth watching. It wasn't then and to me isn't now. But that is me and my loathing of mainstream 80's anything, the Miami Vice pastel suits, big hair insanity, paintings of idilic nature senes using baby blue and pink, David Bowie's Lets Dance......... . I guess I was more into David Lynch and as far as music anything produced by Adrian Sherwood or Sly and Robbie. But retro discussions about American sitcoms, like I am going to go find and watch it because it is relevant ?!?! Nah!

"Birdy" Mathew Modiene and Nicolas Cage

I’m not a huge fan of the 1980’s. I was born in ‘72, so I remember living through that period. It doesn’t inspire nostalgia in me at all. Between Reagan, AIDS, homophobic media, heavy metal, questionable fashion principles, toughlove, Bush I, Iran-Contra, the Satanic Panic, televangelist scandals, the collapse of unions, Seattle’s economic implosion, the whole “let the fags die” thing in the House and Senate, you know, I just don’t see how it is that this is the decade younger people latch onto for retro fashion purposes.

When I turned 18, the retro fashion craze was for the 1960’s- I followed the Grateful Dead around the country for a few years, had hair down to my ass, wore tie-dyes and got into the whole retro fashion craze for that era, too. Older Boomers flinched when I did this, and wondered why I wanted to look through their basements in search of long forgotten LPs of the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. I wasn’t alone, most of the popular new music was basically ripoffs of that era, Edie Brickell, 4 non-blondes, Groove is in the Heart, EMF. I was basically just doing whatever the music and film industries told me was fashionable.

I imagine I looked as ridiculous to the Boomers as the Z crowd embracing the 80’s look to me now.

@12 You forget The Replacements, Down by Law, the collapse of communism, and not being offended by everything and anything.

Yeah--but that was 1980. Look at Tom Hanks now. After the 80's he started to get taken seriously as an actor. At least two Oscars (Philadelphia, 1993, Forrest Gump, 1994)---not too shabby.

@5 Catalina Vel-DuRay: Or maybe a room. That seems more likely.

@12 You know when you argue that a couple of crossdressers in a sitcom is “transphobic”, you’re acknowledging that transgenderism is simply, well, crossdressing.

I remember Bosom Buddies. Billy Joel's rock number, My Life was the TV theme song.
Tom Hanks' film career has since skyrocketed from light comedies on TV and film, showing his versatility as an actor. Currently he is portraying children's TV show host and puppeteer, Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.