cutting edge joke references (for 1986)

…sometimes there’s a ma'am – I won’t say a hero, cos what’s a hero? – but sometimes there’s a ma'am. And I’m talkin’ about the Dudette here – sometimes there’s a ma'am who, well, she’s the ma'am for her time ‘n’ place. She fits right in there – and that’s the Dudette, in Los Angeles.