re: Iconic Pop Culture

For the 80s -

1. The Breakfast Club
2. Family Ties
3. Michael Jackson
4. Pacman
5. Ronald Reagan
6. Ferris Bueller
7. Berlin Wall/Challenger Explosion

No ET?

Movie: The Goonies
TV Show: Family Ties
Band / Artist: Phil Collins
Video Game: The Legend of Zelda
Person: Kinda vague, but I'd say Ronald Reagan
Fictional Character: Indiana Jones
Historic Moment: Challenger Disaster

These choices are off the cuff. If I had more time to think about it, I probably would come up with better answers.

1970's

1. Movie - Saturday Night Fever
2. TV Show - Brady Bunch
3. Band / Artist - Led Zepplin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bee Gees, etc.
4. Video Game - I don't know. Pong?
5. Person - Richard Nixon
6. Fictional Character - Mork from Ork
7. Historic Moment - Watergate

1980's

1. Movie - Brat Pack movies, E.T., National Lampoon's Vacation, Flight of the Navigator, Back to the Future, etc.
2. TV Show - ALF
3. Band / Artist - Michael Jackson
4. Video Game - Super Mario, Pac Man
5. Person - Ronald Reagan
6. Fictional Character - Marty McFly
7. Historic Moment - Challenger, Cold War

1990's

1. Movie - Independence Day
2. TV Show - The Simpsons
3. Band / Artist - Hell, I don't know. I'm not a music guy
4. Video Game - Wasn't big into video games
5. Person - Bill Clinton
6. Fictional Character - Steve Urkel, Homer Simpson
7. Historic Moment - End of the Soviet Union, Gulf War, Bill Clinton sticking cigars in an intern, O.J.

To answer my own question regarding the ‘80s.

1. Movie: The Breakfast Club.
2. TV Show: The Dukes of Hazzard.
3. Band / Artist: Michael Jackson.
4. Video Game: Pac-Man.
5. Person: Ronald Reagan.
6. Fictional Character: Thomas Magnum.
7. Historic Moment: Challenger explosion.

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1. Movie 2. TV Show 3. Band / Artist 4. Video Game 5. Person 6. Fictional Character 7. Historic Moment

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1. Sex, Lies & Videotape
2. X Files
3. Live
4. Doom?
5. Clinton (sleeze bag)
6. The Smurfs
7. 9-11

Music

80s for me and but man there is a lot to pick from

1. Top Gun, Raiders, Fast Times, Empire, Breakfast Club, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and a lot more great movies

2. Streetfighter

3. Michael Jackson and all the 80s rock hair bands

4. Wonder Years and Dukes

5. Reagan and Mandella

6. Challenger explosion and Berlin Wall

7. this one kinda hard to quantify but I would say the one single character would be Indiana Jones

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what would you choose as the best representative of the decade most closely associated with your youth?

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Born in 85, so youth would be the 90s. This is nearly impossible to pick one true answer.

1. Movie - Good Lord idk. From my actual YOUTH probably lion king but I wouldn't call that the most representative of the 90s. I have no idea
2. TV Show - Seinfeld
3. Band / Artist - "most representative" I guess you could go with nirvana or maybe even one of the pop people that took the world over like britney spears?
4. Video Game - Goldeneye for N64
5. Person - Yeesh. Bill Clinton? Idk
6. Fictional Character - No clue
7. Historic Moment - Hmmm. Idk

I'm not very good at this

eta: I see a lot of good answers already been posted for 90s.