The moment when attitude, melody, ego, style, anger, hedonism and funny headwear – factors often ruinously unbalanced in hard rock in the 80s and beyond – cohered immaculately and vindicated an era.
In a nutshell, they do what they do very well indeed, and their songs are genuinely catchy and funny – a crucial factor which helps diminish, if not entirely eradicate, the irritation levels for those poor parents sat alongside their children watching the DVDs on an endless loop.
They're fixtures, not factors: funny walk-ons who barely figure into the plots.
These values were entered into a within-subjects ANOVA (Woodward et al., 1990) and compared across the three levels of the Ending Type factor, including funny, congruous, and incongruous endings.
But "The It Factor" is also funny and engaging, as each person's career takes the shape of an intimate little story.
Instead of being shrouded in shame or the "ick" factor, the anecdotes are funny, honest and varied.
She wrote that the episode "was not only funny but had a huge nostalgia factor", and continued the show's trend of strong holiday episodes.
"We play such a small factor, it's not even funny.
(Its defeat of the far better Funny Girl ruled out the musical mania factor).
Whatever the underpinnings of its origins, the idea that women aren't funny has become one entrenched by social factors.
