kill it with fire 

1982 sucked. 

Like, I like to, like, like liking... ya know? 

great, now i have a giant slit in my monitor where i stabbed this video with a knife. 

That... made my brain hurt. For anyone else, when you're ready to close it, skip to the 5:50 mark. It redeems the whole video slightly. 

Valley Girl 

Loved that show. That and That's Incredible. 

But... but... but who won? I watched that whole thing, only to be left hanging!? Great, now how will I know who to go back and kill when i finally invent time travel? 

fuckin Fred Willard. So full of win 

Avlar said:

Loved that show. That and That's Incredible.

I remember That's Incredible... however, many of their most fantastic appearances have been discredited as frauds. 

lol wut? 

I remember watching this one when it aired. Was kind of obsessed with the song at the time. 

BAG YOUR FACE! 

did they really talk like this? i would feel pretty uncomfortable having a conversation with one of these girls. they need to talk right. 

Zappa's daughter on the vocal.  

"Vals" were cool chicks to hang out with once they got high and that persona went out the windows. 

Mr T said:

did they really talk like this? i would feel pretty uncomfortable having a conversation with one of these girls. they need to talk right.

Yeah, they did. But since my friends and I talked like Spicoli back then, it was like, totally bicthin' Stew!

http://tinyurl.com/348mtoo

Me circa 1981/82 

Jellyman said:

But... but... but who won? I watched that whole thing, only to be left hanging!? Great, now how will I know who to go back and kill when i finally invent time travel?

they already told you who started the fad
you have your assignment 

The source of Like. 

I thought Like Likes came from Hyrule. 

Basically the same as the Hills and the Kardashians today. Like, iknowright? 

GRAFiZ said:

1982 sucked.

It did. Look at all the albums and movies release in 1982 and tell me you don't barf afterward. 

Someone needs to do a followup and find out where the winners are now in life. I'm sort of hoping for burned-out and hiding from creditors after their valley homes were foreclosed on in the crisis, but the reality is probably closer to normal PTA moms who indulge their children a little too much. 

Thank you Frank. 

Moon Zappa..?! Who the hell gives a name like that?

Moonzappah! 

Oafah said:

It did. Look at all the albums and movies release in 1982 and tell me you don't barf afterward.

Not all of them. 

Kauna said:

Moon Zappa..?! Who the hell gives a name like that?

Moonzappah!

Her full name is Moon Unit Zappa, Frank Zappa's Daughter. His son's name is Dweezil Zappa. 

This would only be cool if they were doing the Macarena, followed by a spirited rendition of "Whoomp! There It Is"
Oh, fads. Time is so unkind to you. 

I made it through about 3 minutes. Then I grabbed my letter opener and gouged out my ears. 

lulz -- haven't seen Byron Allen in a while 

that's.......yeah. that really happened once. 

Bag your face totally needs to come back as a....comeback 

this is nothing to strive for

and i live about two blocks from the galleria 

Oafah said:

It did. Look at all the albums and movies release in 1982 and tell me you don't barf afterward.

Loreo said:

Not all of them.

And this one.

\m/_ 

thank GOD that led to sublime

what would i have done? 

Loreo said:

Not all of them.

This too. 

How valley girls talked in the 80s is pretty much how everyone outside of subculture groups (ala Fazed) types on the Internet nowadays.

Example: omg I no your the one for me ;) j/k

Same stupidity, different millenium. 

That sounds like Sarah Purcell. I guess this was from Real People? 

I love how they had Moon Unit and mentioned her father's song, which Moon Unit provided back up on. The song was a complete jab at the Valley Girls and was meant to mock them. 

All of you hating this. Do you ever use the words like, or um, totally? I bet you do. The untintelligent banter of our everyday vocabulary still includes fragments of this valley speak. This movement caused the whole country, if not the whole world to pick up ideosyncrisies of the L.A. Valley's children's linguistics. It's kind of amazing. Totally. For sure. To the max. 

zorro869 said:

All of you hating this. Do you ever use the words like, or um, totally? I bet you do. The untintelligent banter of our everyday vocabulary still includes fragments of this valley speak. This movement caused the whole country, if not the whole world to pick up ideosyncrisies of the L.A. Valley's children's linguistics. It's kind of amazing. Totally. For sure. To the max.

I use "like" when I'm talking about something that is similar but not exactly the same as something else. I use "totally" when something is complete. They are not filler words. This "movement" can go fuck itself. 

You completely don't know what you are talking about haha. 

@zorro not you phile 

Ah 1982... back when she was just a pony... 

"This is I think...is our future right here. I'm looking for the leaders, I'm looking for presidential quality."

"Self respecting val"?

They lost me at "looking for the most articulate" 

russxl said:

You completely don't know what you are talking about haha.

he's right, this stuff happens like crazy through tv, movies and the internet. our popular culture is spread by our media all over the world. stupid hollywood colloquialisms such as "i SO don't want to yadda yadda" or the widespread misuse and abuse of "literally" are used daily by hollywood writers, picked up and spread by airheads in chatrooms and they become common place.

/SO totally armchair sociologizing 

yo that's not what i meant. i'm not arguing about the existence of catchphrases and language change lol. i'm saying when dude says "like" "um" "totally" and other hesitation utterances exist because of "valley speak".

everyone on the planet should read this book it addresses things like the media's influence (or lack thereof) on language change:
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Myths-Laurie-Bauer/dp/0140260234 

ad "he is wrong" to the end of sentence 3 

Um...
I work in the San Fernando valley. It is the shittiest fucking asphalt gray place in the world. G'dam, I mean it sucks. 

Man I am glad that I don't live in a time with these stupid wo....oh wait.