80s

On tonight’s episode of ‘American Idol,’ the Top 8 tackled the ’80s. While the ’80s is a fun decade, full of excess and larger-than-life-ness, the Idols focused on the ballad side of the spectrum. Again, it was a little snoozy, with slow song after slow song. The producers wisely paired the contestants up for duets that were sprinkled throughout the individual perfs, to add some life and livelihoo

In the 1980s, the use of robots in movies was a clear sign of the future ahead. Without the use of mechanical bots in those movies, we'd never have classics like I, Robot. Of course, you had your classic robots of the day like R2-D2 or C-3P0, but what about the others? We ...