I Love the '80s Strikes Back Bob Barker about AIDS (debunking the misconception of getting AIDS from cats) Ending Music Video: "Take On Me" by a-ha Breakup songs of 1986: Howard Jones "No One Is to Blame"; Crowded House "Don't Dream It's Over"; Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark "If You Leave" Hip-Hop Jam of 1986: Walk This Way by Run-D.M.C. and Aerosmith Nerds of 1986: Max Wright (Willie Tanner from ALF), Rick Moranis ("Little Shop of Horrors"), Cliff Clavin ("Cheers") PSA of 1986: Rockers Against Drugs (Aimee Mann of 'Til Tuesday) The What The F#?%!!! Moment of 1986: Fred Grandy (Gopher from "The Love Boat") runs
The Little Shop of Horrors with us, and the three of us worked out the rest of the story together. The first screenplay Griffith wrote was "Cardula", a Dracula-themed story involving a vampire music critic. After Corman rejected the idea, Griffith says he wrote a screenplay titled "Gluttony", in which the protagonist was "a salad chef in a restaurant who would wind up cooking customers and stuff like that, you know? We couldn't do that though because of the code at the time. So I said, "How about a man-eating plant?", and Roger said, "Okay." By that time, we were both drunk." Jackie Joseph later