Street Hawk is a 1985 motorcycle show about a guy named Jesse who is constantly falling in love when he isn’t causing his enemies to drive into heaps of strategically placed landfill fodder. As a visual companion to our podcasts covering “Dog Eat Dog” and “Chinatown Memories,” here’s a slew of GIFs that track the action.

1. Ignition

Right away, Street Hawk hooks the viewer with the coolest possible ’80s imagery: motorcycles, too much fog, and a bright color or two to offset how there’s too much fog.

2. Our Hero

Here’s Rex Smith. He plays Jesse Mach. Jesse is a big ol’ nerd police officer during the daytime hours, but at night, he’s fucking Street Hawk!

3. Vulgar Display of Power

Just to show it can do, the Street Hawk intro sequence boasts ’80s computer graphics, explosions, and Street Hawk hauling ass down a tunnel. Save some for later, jeez.

4. I Want My MTV

Jesse wants the preeminent fake rock star of 1985, Deborah Shain, to star in a PSA about how great cops are, so he shows up to her music video shoot. There are many chained leatherfolk, everyone is sort of wet, and whatever fog was left over from the credits is definitely in use.

5. Ugly Bus

Inside this hideous bus are two men. One of them is Neil, a record company executive who murdered his business partner. The other is Virgil, a greasy twerp who is using a tape of Neil’s crime as blackmail. Never let your guard down on a bus.

6. True Love

Jesse is annoying. He’s back to pester Deborah to do the PSA and go on a date with him. She says she can’t, because a) she doesn’t like cops, and b) she is in a horrible relationship. Cue Virgil, who turns out to be Deborah’s boyfriend and business manager, upping his credentials as a total stain on humanity.

7. Vroom!

Jesse knows something is up with Virgil because of how Virgil is shitty, so he turns into Street Hawk and zooms after the unhappy couple to find out what’s going on.

8. Bad Guy vs. Bad Guys

Virgil and Deborah arrive home to find Neil’s hired goons waiting for them. Neil stashes the blackmail tape with Deborah, heads up the driveway to talk to the goons, and promptly gets murdered.

9. Street Hawk Arrives

Street Hawk shows up too late to save Virgil, but he’s able to stop the goons from pursuing Deborah by hitting the ‘shoot their tires out’ button on his control panel.

10. Workplace Conversations

Big Goon tries to chat it up with Euro-assassin, but the latter isn’t having any of that shit. He just wants to clock in, contract murder a few people in peace, and go home to his family; is that so much to ask?!

11. Where In The World Is Deborah Shain?

No one can find Deborah after she fled from witnessing Virgil’s untimely end. Euro-assassin is the first to connect the dots between Deborah and her mentor, an aging blues musician named Artie Shank. He arrives at Artie’s and makes his presence exceedingly known, causing Deborah to drive off before making contact with Artie.

12. Meeting a Blues/Rock Legend

Jesse and his best bud/Project Street Hawk boss Norman show up at Artie’s a tad later, busy arguing about blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Artie agrees to help the cops find Deborah once he’s created enough of a fuss to kill 90 seconds of airtime.

13. The Limelight Club

The good guys find Deborah at the Limelight Club, an Artie hangout. Everyone’s having a grand time when Euro-assassin walks in the door and starts firing shots, totally unafraid of any consequence.

14. Abduction Hug

Euro-assassin knows you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, so he hugs Artie out of the Limelight Club, taking him as bait to get Virgil’s tape back from Deborah.

15. Viewing the Evidence

Jesse and Deborah finally realize they should watch the tape everyone is willing to kill for, witnessing a shadowy murder in the process.

16. Night Moves

Street Hawk drives around at night to Bob Seger, one of the coolest things you can do.

17. Identity Revealed

Norman’s huge grid computer responds to his nonsense commands by revealing Neil as the killer on the blackmail tape.

18. Afternoon Surprise

Having already sent his goons to take care of Deborah, Neil heads home to relax after a full day of heinous crime. He hits the garage door opener only to find…Street Hawk! Neil: you are fucked.

19. Precision

Street Hawk uses his laser buttons to trap Neil against his car before heading off to rescue Deborah from Men Without Hats.

20. I’m Not Sure I Still Want My MTV

Deborah arrives at the “Safety Dance” music video shoot to exchange the blackmail tape for Artie behind Jesse’s back. She is met with a dusty circus of extras from hell.

21. Hidden Goon

Deborah thinks she has Artie back without incident, but then a secret goon starts firing at her from the villain trailer.

22. Artie Eats Shit

As the musicians escape the goons, Artie takes a dive face-first into the concrete. There is no way that didn’t break his whole body at his age.

23. Stunt Hawk

On his way to rescue Deborah and Artie, Street Hawk drives through a cardboard brick wall to scare the shit out of poor, loving Norman.

24. Hay Day

Street Hawk takes out the big goon with an expertly aimed motorcycle missile into a pile of hay, wagon wheels, and the past.

25. Anticlimax

Street Hawk quickly subdues Euro-assassin by shooting bullets all around his feet. Later, Jesse gets a date with Deborah and convinces her to do the police PSA. That Jesse, he can do it all!

26. What’s In The Box?!

We begin “Chinatown Memories” by watching Joe Ching steal a powerful idol from a cool box.

27. Baywatch: Origins

Perhaps sensing he would one day guest star on an episode of Baywatch, Rex Smith takes a sand jog  as Jesse Mach to get his day started. (Author’s note: Jesse is not able to do all this sand stuff when he’s Street Hawk)

28. Old Flame, New Beginnings

Jesse arrives home from beach exercise to find his ex-girlfriend Lilly eating his aired-out sauce and telling him her friend is in danger. The friend (and fiancé, we later find out) in question is Joe Ching from earlier, and the statue he stole is desired by the Tong, a network of Chinese gang families that rule whatever city Street Hawk takes place in. Whether the statue has magic powers as some believe or not, Joe believes it belongs back home in China. Mr. Chen, the worst of the Tong, will stop at nothing to claim the idol for himself.

29. Grocery Goons

Lilly just wants to put her brown grocery bag inside, but two of Mr. Chen’s goons slowly apprehend her.

30. Jesse Whoops Ass

With no time to turn into Street Hawk, Jesse has to save Lilly as his boring, regular self. It turns out Jesse has a pretty mean dropkick, though he stops short of climbing to the top turnbuckle and delivering a double stomp for the pin.

31. Anticlimactic Chase

Because he’s constantly running on the beach, Jesse outpaces one of Chen’s henchmen with ease, sealing the deal with an awkward reverse tackle.

32. Tirefucker

Street Hawk later shoots bullets straight into the tires of a goon car, causing it to veer into mounds of loose trash.

33. Steering Shitter

Street Hawk ups the ante on the next carload of baddies, lasering them right into the dumpster someone should have shoved all that loose trash in.

34. A Deep Longing

Jesse tells Norman he’s thinking about giving up being Street Hawk to eat old sauces with Lilly, a proposition that breaks both of their hearts.

35. Rekindled

Jesse takes Lilly somewhere no one would ever think to look: his house, and more specifically, the wide open beach. The two of them make out around a fire, totally unconcerned with poor Joe Ching.

36. A Pact of Duty and Honor

While he may be in love with Lilly again, Jesse returns to Norman understanding his true calling. Jesse knows he must remain Street Hawk for as long as his heart shall beat, so the two shake on it. The plan is set: Joe will head back to China with the idol, Street Hawk will stop the Tong from interfering, and Lilly will remain in America to bone down with Jesse.

37. Crate Job!

Street Hawk is a little bit late, so Joe takes a non-fatal bullet, but it’s still hard not to be impressed watching all these bad guys get pelted into miscellaneous ’80s dock crates.

38. Hell Yeah

A pair of villains think they’ve escaped to the sea, only to be given an early Viking funeral when Street Hawk hits the ‘lob a bomb’ button on his dash and sends them asunder.

39. Bittersweet Victory

Street Hawk got the bad guys, but Jesse didn’t get the girl. Lilly decides to head home with her silver medal, a wounded Joe Ching, once she learns of Jesse’s renewed dedication to Street Hawking.

40. Love’s Many Shapes

While out doing beach calisthenics with Jesse, Norman is being a real downer. Jesse stops him, saying what had gone unspoken between them for so long. Perhaps the real magical idol in a fancy box was friendship the whole time!

That’s all the Street Hawk we can muster for now, but check out our podcast episodes for a deeper (and wilder) discussion, and rate us 5 stars wherever you listen to stuff!