7. The TV Channels Were Awful
Most families were unable to afford cable or satellite television, and even if they could, why would the parents bother paying for it? They had grown up as baby boomers and didn’t have TV as kids. So most kids who lived during the 80s only had rabbit ears and maybe three terrible channels to watch.
Most towns didn’t have movie theaters, either, and VCRs weren’t all that popular until the end of the decade. What this means is that the only way to watch movies was to see the censored versions on television. If you had to get up to pee during a commercial, you had to hope that you got back before the movie restarted, because there was no rewinding.