Trading Places

I started my week putting out fires and things did not settle down much until Wednesday, so I decided to veg-out a bit and watch some TV. The old Eddie Murphy film Trading Places was on Pluto. It has been years since I last watched it, but I still remember most of it. This was peak Eddie Murphy so it was one of those films that everyone used as a cultural reference point.

Not wanting to tax my brain, I tuned in around the middle somewhere and immediately remembered how strange things are today. This film was made in 1983, so the Cold War was still going strong. Reagan was prepping for his landslide victory over Walter Mondale and the past he represented. Five years prior people were wearing cranberry leisure suits in public. In 1983 they dressed like adults again.