In what could be used for entire library of “Whatever Happened To” the movie Just One of the Guys has got to be one of the most underrated eighties classics of all time. It it weren’t for channels like Encore or even HBO playing it 600 times a week during certain spans, I’d have never caught this masterpiece.
There’s really too much to talk about here. Joyce Hyser plays a pseudo hot girl (with huge boobs) who wants to be respected as a journalist. She submits an article to a contest which of course does not win. She argues her loss is due to the fact she’s a girl.
To prove that she’s right, Terry dresses as a guy and goes to another school where she will resubmit her paper and win. When she doesn’t win, Terry learns new things about herself through acting as “Just one of the guys.”
From the blazers and jeans to the whacked out hair, the 80’s reminds us that this was the decade to be weird, or more to the point…uncoached. Of all the decades I’ve been a part of none could compare to the amazingness that is the 80’s.
Each week I’ll toss in something that will remind us all that when you think someone’s hairstyle is weird, that the clothes they’re wearing suck, that virtually anything they do is out of the ordinary, simply watch one of these videos or look at a few pictures that I bring to the table.
Today? Dead or Alive’s “You spin me right round baby right round, like a record baby, right round round round.”
Amazing song by the way, but this video is very freaky.
