Time Barbarians: April 1981

Huzzah! The boys fid themselves once again hurled through the fizzures of time and space, this time belched right into the bowels of April 1981. Walking amongst the mortals, the fellas lock into a couple of Lean Cuisines, and lemon Nestea.

Topics in this episode:

Skittles make their US debut

Neil Diamond's America hits the top 40's

The Go-Go's sign to IRS records

Australian Jim Bailey attempts the dumbest stunt ever

The Great Once Wayne Gretzky sets the all time assist record

Ty Fighter reveals his love of One Tree Hill

The first portable computer makes it's first appearance

1st female coxswain leads Yale to victory

The Bucksf Fizz win Eurovision

1st ever Hispanic mayor elected

The dumbest bank robbers in Baltimore history

Rick James Street Songs released

General Omar Bradley dies

1st diagnosis of what would become AIDS

Fernandomania is also diagnosed

Hollywood Squares ends its first run

Joe Dante's The Howling released

George Romero's Knightriders released

NIGHTHAWKS hits theaters

Eddie Van Halen marries Valerie Bertinelli

Larry Holmes defeats Trevor Burbick

Arts and Entertainment (A&E Channel) hits cable tv

Joe Louis dies

Tulsi Gabbard belched into the world

Bernstein or Berenstain Bears?

15 coal miners die in Colorado

Buck Rogers canceled

Ringo Starr in CAVEMAN

The longest professional baseball game ever played

Tom Seaver becomes the 5th pitcher to hit 3000Ks

Hayden Christensen born

The death of the Tetris King

The last Women's Professional Basketball game played

Final episode of SOAP airs

Weird Al Yankovic makes his television debut

Falcon Crest airs its pilot episode

Eric Clapton in a car wreck

JC Penny introduces penny bonds

Largest bank robbery in history

Time capsule discovered at the Empire State Building

The first monster truck BIGFOOT born

Paul McCartney's WINGS get clipped

Spiro Agnew continues to be a piece of shit

Man falls into the biggest hole on earth

Billie Jean King sued for being a lesbian

Steve Carlton becomes the 6th pitcher to strike out 3000 batters

Bud Light is marketed for the first time

list of music videos that debuted