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''Goodbye, blues!'' }}
A character and show by Brad Jones as part of ''[[The Cinema Snob]]'' site. Dan got zapped from 1989 to the present when [https://web.archive.org/web/20131021224126/http://blip.tv/the-cinema-snob/brad-tries-new-coke-4297430 Brad opened a bottle of New Coke]. Since then, Dan has settled with his roommates, Dolly and [[Nintendo Entertainment System|R.O.B. the Robot]], and his neighbors the Crabtrees, to talk about his favorite stuff from [[The Eighties]], no matter how stupid or schlocky it is.
Most of the show is done in a fake sitcom format, complete with canned audience reactions. Plots usually involve Dan gushing over stuff from his time, his friends getting annoyed, and R.O.B. trying to make it with Mrs. Crabtree, to her husband's increasing annoyance.
Episodes can be found on [http://www.thecinemasnob.com/ here].
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* [[Acting for Two]]: In the Christmas episode, all of Brad's characters team up.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Dan dresses up as Cinema Snob in the ''[[Halloween III: Season of the Witch|Halloween III Season of the Witch]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510214736/http://thecinemasnob.com/2011/10/27/80s-dan-halloween-iii-season-of-the-witch.aspx episode], with some heavy [[Self-Deprecation]].
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"The stick up his ass seemed pleasant." }}
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: The show is one of 80's sitcoms, including a gratuitous [[Laugh Track]] and a cute buddy who's completely out of place.
* [[Ass Shove]]: In the [[Christmas Special]], Mrs. Crabtree threatens to shove ROB up her own ass. {{spoiler|Acts as [[Foreshadowing]] to [[The Reveal]] that she really does do that kind of thing when drunk, and that the Christmas star 80's Dan and Dolly were looking for throughout the whole thing was up there all along.}}
* [[Censor Box]] / [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Dolly's religious aura makes it physically impossible to swear around her. But only on Christmas. Actually, the rules aren't clear.
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'''Dolly:''' It doesn't make sense to us either. }}
* [[Character Blog]]: ROB The Robot has a [http://twitter.com/#!/ROBtheRobot Twitter account].
* [[Christmas Episode]]: A "Very Inappropriate" one.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dan, at least that's how he comes across a lot of the time.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Dan's verdict on Mrs. Crabtree's Halloween outfit.
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""That is the worst [[Battlestar Galactica
** Then he mistakes Dolly's [[Sailor Moon]] outfit for a [[Sexy Whatever Outfit|sexy Donald Duck outfit]].
* [[Cool Shades]]: Dan has a pair, just to complete the 80's cheese look.
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* [[Crossover]]: The Christmas special has several of Brad's characters.
** Dan and 90's Kid of ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' have met at least twice (once offscreen and once onscreen).
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* [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon]]: Mrs. Crabtree suggesting that 80s Dan shove a New Coke bottle where the sun doesn't shine.
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** She suggests a similar fate for R.O.B., but it [[Too Kinky to Torture|just turns him on]].
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: "80s Dan's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Very Inappropriate Christmas]]"
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* [[Jerkass]]: R.O.B. casually insults everyone around him and hits on Mrs. Crabtree right in front of her husband.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In the first episode of ''80s Dan'', Dan squirms rather sheepishly while the ''very familiar'' ''[[Automan]]'' theme plays:
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'''ROB:''' Same reason I'm thinking of titties! }}
* [[Laugh Track]]: Not quite spoofed, but it's clear the use isn't serious either.
* [[Leitmotif]]: Dan has "Take On Me".
* [[Love Triangle]]: Between ROB, Mrs.Crabtree and her Husband. ROB actually has [[Robosexual|more of a chance]] than you would think.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Crabtrees are a crabby married couple. Also, Jillian as "[[Dolly Parton|Dolly]]."
* [[Meet Cute]]: The [[Title Sequence]] shows the titular hero falling into a time warp, then slipping and falling on Dolly's driveway.
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** Explained in the ''Hot to Trot'' episode. {{spoiler|He does cocaine and is high as a kite.}}
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: "Goodbye Blues", the theme to the short-lived show ''[[Hawaiian Heat]]''.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: With references to copious drug use, drunken sex, and neo-Nazi violence, "A Very Inappropriate 80's Dan Christmas" definitely fits this trope.
* [[Robot Buddy]]: R.O.B.
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: Dolly embarking on a journey to find the star to her Christmas Tree. Turns out it's [[Ass Shove|up inside]] {{spoiler|the drunk Mrs Crabtree}}.
** "Because this whole holiday reeks of ass!!"
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* [[Shaggy Frog Story]]: 80s Dan relating the story of his 1989 Christmas.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Dan's insistence that his jacket [[Insistent Terminology|isn't white.]] "It's '''[[Miami Vice|Crockett.]]'''"
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* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]: Mr. Crabtree is anxious to show 80s Dan the new ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movies. So he'll [[Driven to Suicide|kill himself]].
* [[Take That]]: To the ''Transformers'' movies, ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', and a lot of the 80's cliches.
** Dan draws a blank on who [[Angie Harmon]] of ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'' is. Mr. Crabtree puts it in terms he can understand: "[[Cagney and Lacey|Tyne Daly]] with a penis."
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Dan and Dolly stumbling into a Neo-Nazi's "lair" on Christmas.
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