re: Which 80s teen comedy captures the decade the best?

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This is right up my alley;

Some Kind of WOnderful
Pretty in Pink
Revenge of the Nerds
The Last American Virgin
Porky's
Secret Admirer

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Only great 80's thing about that wonderful movie is that it covers the ridiculous preppy angle of 80's movies (80's Hollywood loved preppies) - and the manufactured divide...of super rich white vs. non-super rich white...Hollywood version of class warfare.

The dude wore a white suit with no socks and loafers to high school and smoked in the hallways!

It does epitomize the preppy scene of the 80's to movie lore - but really exaggerates it. It's a good movie...but nobody like that is going to public school - they are at some East Coast prep boarding school - driving around in Porsche convertibles.