1988
- Mike Tyson
- Child's Play
- Roseanne
- Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
- Guns N' Roses
- The Wonder Years
- Modern Rock (Specifically INXS, The Cure, Morrissey, Depeche Mode, & Erasure)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy"
- California Raisins
- Perfect Strangers
- George Michael's Faith
- Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw
- UB40s "Red, Red Wine"
- Working woman's wardrobe
- Yo! MTV Raps, "Parents Just Don't Understand", and the rise of gangsta rap
- Who's the Boss?
- Terence Trent D'Arby
- The neo-hippie movement
- Grateful Dead's "Touch of Grey"
- Rain Man
Makeout songs of 1988: Patrick Swayze - "She's Like the Wind", Richard Marx - "Hold On to the Nights", and Cheap Trick - "The Flame"
Read more about this topic: I Love The '80s (U.S. TV series)