10 Forgotten '80s Comedies Everyone Watched Then TOTALLY FORGOT

You asked for it. You begged for it. You flooded the comments demanding we cover these films — and honestly? Your taste in forgotten garbage is impeccable. Part 2 of Forgotten 80s Comedies is here, and every single entry came directly from the Vault Dwellers. These are the films that slipped through the cracks, died on the VHS shelf, and got thrown in the dumpster by video stores — and they deserve to be remembered. This is the era when studios greenlit anything with a pulse. Before focus groups. Before algorithms. Before Hollywood learned to play it safe and boring. We're talking Mad Magazine's only theatrical release — a film so catastrophically offensive that Mad demanded their own name be removed from it. We're talking Denzel Washington's theatrical debut, buried in a broad race-relations comedy that nobody saw coming. We're talking Hamburger University played completely straight, Dick Butkus beating students for incompetence, and a farting sequence that will ruin all other farting sequences for you forever. We're talking Mr. T running the worst cab company in Washington D.C., a women-in-prison musical with a subplot so unhinged it can't be described in a family-friendly description, and a Faust-inspired virginity comedy with an R.E.M. and Buzzcocks soundtrack that the film has absolutely no right to deserve. These are lost comedies from the lawless wasteland of 1980s cinema — exploitation comedies, campus comedies, beach party movies, spy romances, and one genuinely bizarre military academy film directed by Robert Downey Sr. himself. Films like Carbon Copy (1981), D.C. Cab (1983), Gotcha! (1985), Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986), Under the Rainbow (1981), The Party Animal (1984), The Beach Girls (1982), Slammer Girls (1987), Screen Test (1985), and Up the Academy (1980) represent everything wild, unhinged, and spectacularly willing-to-fail about that decade. Directors like Joel Schumacher, Jeff Kanew, Michael Schultz, Chuck Vincent, and Robert Downey Sr. made movies that couldn't exist today — and that's exactly why they matter. – Intro – #10. Up the Academy (1980) – #9. Screen Test (1985) – #8. Slammer Girls (1987) – #7. The Beach Girls (1982) – #6. The Party Animal (1984) – #5. Under the Rainbow (1981) – #4. Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986) – #3. Gotcha! (1985) – #2. D.C. Cab (1983) – #1. Carbon Copy (1981) Outro / Your Picks for Part 3