This edition of the show that plays out like a pub quiz was part of the series of programmes with questions about events in the 1980s and the 1990s, and this was a great show to watch and have fun with. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, with celebrity panellists in three teams: David Mitchell and Phil Jupitus, Jason Donovan and Jack Dee, and Alan Carr and presenter Sarah Greene (Blue Peter and Going Live!). This quiz focused on the 1980s with all sorts of questions to answer about the decade of headlines, music, television, movies, lifestyle (fads, fashions, technology and toys), adverts and their slogans or catchphrases, people and scandals. These questions are asked as they are, with video and sound clips, with pictures (including Say What You See), and by celebrity and mystery guests on screen or in the studio, so it really does feel like a proper quiz that you can take part in. Events in the 1980s that were questioned and joked about, and mentioned (or pictured) included: Space Raiders video game, actor President Ronald Reagan, the first London Marathon, the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Treasure Hunt, Sir Richard Branson in his hot air balloon, Mary Whitehouse, The Elephant Man, Mohamed Al-Fayed buying Harrods, The A-Team, Blind Date, Madonna married to Sean Penn, Dirty Dancing, Jools Holland swearing live on TV, Birdseye Potato Waffles, Um Bongo, Sade, leg warmers, Margaret Thatcher, Mr. Freeze Ice Pops, the Soda Stream, Neighbours, Kylie Minogue, a child calling Going Live! and swearing talking to Five Star (the clip features young Michael McIntyre), the miners' strike, Thundercats, the Salmonella virus, Michael Fagan sitting at the end of the Queen's bed, the search for the Loch Ness Monster, Edwina Currie, Duran Duran, Guns N' Roses, Poison, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Wham being the first Western band to play in China, Michael Jackson trying to buy the bones of The Elephant Man for $1 million, "Oops Upside Your Head" by The Gap Band and its famous dance on the floor, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, Miami Vice, Bullseye, the cancellation of Doctor Who, The Wombles, David Bowie in the opening of The Snowman, the lesbian protest live on the news with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell, RoboCop, Annie, Flashdance, sweets such as Cola Cubes and Wham bars, My Little Pony, the mobile phone, VHS and Betamax, the launch of Channel 4, "Beat It" by Michael Jackson, the Rubik's Cube, Red Nose Day/Comic Relief, TV-AM, the VCR (video cassette recorder), Apple computers, hair mousse, Lord Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Starlight Express, Pacman, the Shredded Wheat "Bet You Can't Eat Three" advert, an advert for milk mentioning Accrington Stanley, the Yellow Pages "Fly Fishing by J.R. Hartley" advert, John Lennon being shot dead, John McEnroe in Tennis convinced the ball was in and shouting "you cannot be serious", Blackadder, Neil Kinnock trying to avoid a wave and tripping over on a beach, the Chippendales, Michael Jordan fined for wearing branded sneakers, Hurricane Higgins, the autobiography of Charles 'Chas' Hodges of Chas & Dave, acid house parties, the first nudist beach in Brighton, the disappearance of Shergar (a race horse), the police seizing thousands of video nasties (films like The Evil Dead, Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave, and The Driller Killer), "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood being the longest Number One of the 80s lasting 9 weeks, the most bankable actor of the 80s being Harrison Ford (in the Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones trilogy), and the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana being the most watched live event on TV with 21.7 million viewers. Other celebrity and special mystery guests in the show included the children of Goldsmith Community Hall in Lewisham who act out a well known news story, Charles Dance who reads passages from a celebrity autobiography of the decade, John Craven who reads news related to lyrics from a song of the decade, Bullseye host Jim Bowen, The Krypton Factor host Gordon Burns, Bob Carolgees and Spit the Dog, T'Pau singer Carol Decker, mystery guest Stelios Havatsias who appeared as a baby on L'Infant (man and baby) Athena posters, Anneka Rice, Blackadder actor Tony Robinson, Toyah Wilcox, and Kym Wilde. The jokes and the questions are what make this show so much fun, they always choose the right celebrity panellists, and it works as a funny way to reminisce on the events of the decade, a great comedy quiz show. Very good!
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