5:35 McDonald's Biggest blonder every! They lost soo much money! They picked events that USA would never win at, but then..... The USSR boycotted the 84 Olympics and that was it! US won gold after gold !! And McDonald's lost millions hand over fist!
@tdrewman And "The Simpsons" made a chapter with this blunder... obviously using the "Kusty Burger" brand (the chapter when they told how Lisa S. was born)
Even though that Chevy Sprint was really ugly looking, they had the right idea with 53 hwy mpg back then, wish Chevy would bring it back with a new and improved look. Especially with our sucky economy in gas.
Sounds like the guy from the water polo team in the Snickers ad said "I don't really think you could crowd any more penis into a snickers bar," at the end. LOL
I don't care how cheap your beer is, comparing the taste to Budweiser's (aka slightly flavored alcoholic water) is not the way to get me to try it.
I guess I never realized that the Krusty Burger Olympic promotion was based on an actual McDonald's promotion. I wonder just how much money Mickey D’s lost that summer.
A lot of good being the official bread of the Olympics did--I've never heard of that brand.
I was 15 years old in 1984 my mother died that year so I have blanked out pretty much everything in 84 - 85 and most of 86 but for some odd reason I remember these commercials, just goes to show just how good the pros are that make them they make sure the jingles stay in you're head never to leave even for someone like myself who was going through alot of greif at the time thanks ever so much for these commercials they let me know not all is lost to me from that time.
@AdamCartwrightMyLove I am sorry to hear of your loss, as I can relate as well. I was 2 in 1984 and I am surprise to have remembered so much. I especially remember the coke commercials in this vid, ironic because I have always hated coke lol.
The McDonald's Olympic scratch off game is actually a funny story. McDonald's purposely loaded the cards with events that the Soviet Union excelled at (of course, they put in a few events we succeeded at, so there would be SOME winners) Well, the USSR boycotted the 1984 games, and as such the US DOMINATED the games, and McDonald's had to pay out a lot more winners than they thought. IIRC, They lost a raft of cash on the promotion.
Oh gosh.. Mr Siman hahahahaha :P thanks for posting this.. it will always make me laugh to see my swim coach in a snickers commercial :P.. and mustaches don't really matter in polo.. haha :P
Finally! I found My swim coaches snickers commercial!!!!!!! YAY! >.< hehe. . he thought he got rid of them. Hey 80's commercial vault~ at the swim banquet we got him snickers footie pjs that were 6' 7 feet tall. he laughed. . . and he still has the mustache!
The minute that Diet Coke ad came on, I realized I knew every single word, after all these years! Crazy!
I like the old pull tabs on the beer cans.
Oh, and check out these lyrics from the Kodak commercial: "Like a brilliant shooting star, reaching for the sky." WTF? Sounds like poorly translated japanese poetry.
Wow this brings me back a few years, check out the earth grain bread commercial at 7.07. Look for the big weight lifter in red thats me a lot of years ago. The bread wasnt too bad ether. Thanks for posting it I was in a couple commercials during the Olympics.
Your right about the 'probably some others'! I vaguely recognize some of the other faces in the Diet-Coke ads. (Example: the one-man-band in another play list was a stand-up comic, or something!)
And funny you pointed out how this was just before Coke's famous gaff of trotting out NEW Coke! Part of me died then!NOTHING was sacred! Worst of all, my first job was in a supermarket, and ALL DAY long I had to here the customers vent! (Like it was my idea!) Besides, it tasted like Pepsi!
Man, they should make a talking fridge. Like when I get hungry at night, it would tell me, "What the heck are you doing here again?? Hey! Put that ice-cream back in the freezer!!!
now not to nitpick, but the swimmer in the snickers commercial, wouldn't he not want that bushy hair and stache...i always thought swimmers were supposed to shave and have no body hair.
"aetna...i'm glad I met ya!" That's none other than Frankie Faison of "Wire" and "Coming to America'" fame. You fellas will love my place, apartment 1-A..It's REAL F@#d up!! lol
I have consumed plenty of meister brau in the city 20 years ago never saw an advert for it / usually on sale at sloans supermarket but laughable now to see this thanks captures the essence of this you tube
That Kodak commercial was great, as was the "Call to Glory" promo...it's surprisingly how effective those things are with just music (the people who make movie trailers could learn a thing or two).
it's funny, I can't remember the last time I saw an Exxon ad; are they still hiding from after the Valdez spill? lol
John Siman (Snickers commercial, 5:05) was the water polo coach and freshman health class teacher at my high school in Ventura, CA back in the early 90s. He didn't have the 80s-tastic hair when I knew him, but the mustache was in full effect.
How is it that Chevrolet was manufacturing a car in the 1980's that got 47/55 mpg, but today they can't sell a fuel-efficient car to save their business!?
i think the budweiser usa commercial is the work of cinematographer owen roizman and is featured in benjamin bergery's book on cinematographers called reflections: twenty-one cinematographers at work
churlyryan, I agree with you. I would defenitely take also all my wordly possesions and my cash and my parents and aunt and all their things and their money. But I started thinking even if you leave this time for 1980 in
January 1, some way some how if you don't die before, you will reach this time again, but then again it will be so good to leave this time.
Did you see that Chevy Sprint commercial. 47 city, 53 Highway..If the big three had been making those cars all along, maybe we wouldn't be in the predicament we are in today...
They were selling them, actually I think its an import (made by Suzuki for GM). It had 3 cylinders and was a total POS, lucky if you saw one on the road with 50,000 miles on it! In 1987 I had a 83 Plymouth Champ (import by Mitsubishi) that I bought used for $1,000, those were the days, the days of being young and broke! It was better then the 74 Dodge Colt (another Mitsubishi) I bought used for $100.00 though!
But then again the 84 Oldsmobile Delta 88 got 25 mpg, and I still see many of those cars around even after 25 yrs! GM did far better on the mid and full sized cars.
and now kodak is broke
ultramega76 4 weeks ago
Man they need to make a cable channel where you can re watch old commercials along with the programing ..lol call it the retro channel
blazexiii13 1 month ago
lol on the gm and ge commercials. the guy from the meister beer commercial is hot though, even now!
starkid77 3 months ago
5:00
My PE teacher LOL
Everytime someone brings up this commercial, he denies it
WE NOW HAVE PROOF >:D
MusicalTomatoes 5 months ago
the snickers guy was my pe teacher GO MR SIMAN LOL
reynundo 7 months ago
OMG! Chevy Sprint...my first car in 1995! HAHA. I started driving at 22. Late bloomer LOL!
humhunny 9 months ago
5:35 McDonald's Biggest blonder every! They lost soo much money! They picked events that USA would never win at, but then..... The USSR boycotted the 84 Olympics and that was it! US won gold after gold !! And McDonald's lost millions hand over fist!
tdrewman 9 months ago
@tdrewman And "The Simpsons" made a chapter with this blunder... obviously using the "Kusty Burger" brand (the chapter when they told how Lisa S. was born)
maraujo1984 8 months ago
Even though that Chevy Sprint was really ugly looking, they had the right idea with 53 hwy mpg back then, wish Chevy would bring it back with a new and improved look. Especially with our sucky economy in gas.
uscgwife1 11 months ago
@uscgwife1 The Sprint was made by Suzuki and sold in America by Chevy. Even back then only the Japanese cars got good gas mileage.
80sCommercialVault 11 months ago
@uscgwife1 and it's not even a hybrid!! what happened to our advanced technology? lol
gamma105 7 months ago in playlist milceb
06:55 the workers return to work safely, lol more like the workers sue the hell out of their employer!
jbracer86 11 months ago
Lol, the snickers guy was my pe teacher last year, lmao
bluewhale8888 1 year ago
@bluewhale8888 The video URL must be passed around by alum and students of the high school...I don't even have his name down in the description.
80sCommercialVault 1 year ago 3
@bluewhale8888 he was my pe teacher last year and he's my pe teacher again this year!
horsemania3 11 months ago
@bluewhale8888 I kinda want to ask him if he even like snickers
horsemania3 11 months ago
"Datsun" is a much cooler name than "Nissan" will ever be.
MattTheSaiyan 1 year ago
"The GE Electric refrigarator, only slightly less creepy than HAL."
Hethrin 1 year ago 2
Sounds like the guy from the water polo team in the Snickers ad said "I don't really think you could crowd any more penis into a snickers bar," at the end. LOL
kstarpictures 1 year ago
In the Aetna commercial: That's Frankie Faison as the welder who says, "Aetna, I'm glad I met ya!" Right?
hagiadzo 1 year ago
Wow. I would have been just under one year old when the '84 Olympics aired. What lame ad jingles they had back then. Sheesh
It's weird to think that back when these commercials aired there was still a USSR.
tekbarrier 1 year ago
I don't care how cheap your beer is, comparing the taste to Budweiser's (aka slightly flavored alcoholic water) is not the way to get me to try it.
I guess I never realized that the Krusty Burger Olympic promotion was based on an actual McDonald's promotion. I wonder just how much money Mickey D’s lost that summer.
A lot of good being the official bread of the Olympics did--I've never heard of that brand.
MeInTX 1 year ago
Dick Van Patten and his All-American smiley-apple-pie family...lol.
jenzeppelin 1 year ago
I was 15 years old in 1984 my mother died that year so I have blanked out pretty much everything in 84 - 85 and most of 86 but for some odd reason I remember these commercials, just goes to show just how good the pros are that make them they make sure the jingles stay in you're head never to leave even for someone like myself who was going through alot of greif at the time thanks ever so much for these commercials they let me know not all is lost to me from that time.
AdamCartwrightMyLove 1 year ago
@AdamCartwrightMyLove I am sorry to hear of your loss, as I can relate as well. I was 2 in 1984 and I am surprise to have remembered so much. I especially remember the coke commercials in this vid, ironic because I have always hated coke lol.
FSinatra1982 1 year ago
@FSinatra1982 , thank-you.that's pretty good to remember seeing how you were only 2.It's funny sometimes what we remember and what we don;t.
AdamCartwrightMyLove 1 year ago
@AdamCartwrightMyLove So very true :-)
FSinatra1982 1 year ago
@0:47 whoa.. I don't remember that Chevy sprint gave 47/53 MPG!!!! what happened to it lol
gamma105 1 year ago
The McDonald's Olympic scratch off game is actually a funny story. McDonald's purposely loaded the cards with events that the Soviet Union excelled at (of course, they put in a few events we succeeded at, so there would be SOME winners) Well, the USSR boycotted the 1984 games, and as such the US DOMINATED the games, and McDonald's had to pay out a lot more winners than they thought. IIRC, They lost a raft of cash on the promotion.
JepMasta 1 year ago
OMG! That guy sat on a TV! 4:12 You can't sit on today's TVs without breaking them! LOL!
cuteycindyhoney 1 year ago
These are all so rad...thanks for the nostalgic flashbacks!
ericpaulnorman 1 year ago
Oh gosh.. Mr Siman hahahahaha :P thanks for posting this.. it will always make me laugh to see my swim coach in a snickers commercial :P.. and mustaches don't really matter in polo.. haha :P
drawnbywater23 1 year ago
Finally! I found My swim coaches snickers commercial!!!!!!! YAY! >.< hehe. . he thought he got rid of them. Hey 80's commercial vault~ at the swim banquet we got him snickers footie pjs that were 6' 7 feet tall. he laughed. . . and he still has the mustache!
GreenVeggieGirl 1 year ago
Yummy, Graig T. Nelson in a uniform.
kari00ws6 1 year ago
I was 2 years old when that Diet Coke commercial came out, and I just saw Christie Brinkley on a toothpaste commercial and she looks the same.
kari00ws6 1 year ago
Shit, man, July 30th, 1984 was the day Metallica's Ride the Lightning album came out (according to their website)!!!
Ribelin2000 1 year ago
Hahaha! my swim coach is in the snickers commercial!! lol he still has a mustache
earthswimsocal 2 years ago
Buy him a snickers bar for me.
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago 2
Yea!! Xerox Square 14644 ????? I think that's wrong, downtown Rochester.
Y does it look like that woman's hand inspecting the front car bumper look like a deer's paw?? Woman were all so skinny in the 1980's.
RCA = piece of CRAP!!
USA had Olympic fever in 1984 'cause it was in L A .
yaywhewclips242 2 years ago
who doesn't want to get shitfaced after doing some carpentry?
AvEryBadApPLe 2 years ago 2
Secretaries? Oh no, now I know we're in the 80s. Nowadays it's "administrative assistant".
Ratgrappler 2 years ago 3
Okay, Miss Secretary.
kiminokami 2 years ago
It was sarcasm, ass mongrel.
Ratgrappler 2 years ago
sorry.
kiminokami 2 years ago
It's all good. I just wouldn't think anyone would believe that I care that much about a stewardess. They're also ass mongrels.
Ratgrappler 2 years ago
I remember that diet coke jingle!I also remember when those cans looked like that!Shit,I feel really old!LOL!
TeamEdward1976 2 years ago
Gee the typewriter Ad comes up a lot in these commericals from 84
910364 2 years ago
uniflow? sounds like the name of a transformer
Triad3Force 2 years ago
"recommended by doctors and pharmasists. AND THEY'RE RIGHT!" :D
tarcal87 2 years ago
The minute that Diet Coke ad came on, I realized I knew every single word, after all these years! Crazy!
I like the old pull tabs on the beer cans.
Oh, and check out these lyrics from the Kodak commercial: "Like a brilliant shooting star, reaching for the sky." WTF? Sounds like poorly translated japanese poetry.
RoxyAlexander 2 years ago
Oh, yah, I think the kid in the robo-fridge commercial is Cary Guffey from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
RoxyAlexander 2 years ago
hahaahah, mr. siman. oh goodness.
xoxostephh8 2 years ago
Omg! haha it's Mr. Siman! haha 5:06
man he looks hella younger.....dats funny. Had him last year for P.E. & he's mean...& he still has da mustache...haha
xoxoEffieTinkxoxo 2 years ago
wow! commercials as old as I am!!! woohoo!!
gws51284 2 years ago
MR.SIMAN!!!!!
the guy at 5:06 is a PE teacher at my school! ahahahaha
mellymelissa881 2 years ago
Haha...what school do you go to? He must be about 55-60 years old now!
smilegrrrrrl 2 years ago
Good luck finding Diet Coke in a glass bottle these days!
RoadCone411 2 years ago
"I don't really think you can crowd any more penis into a Snickers bar" 5:28
cyphersum 2 years ago
Wow this brings me back a few years, check out the earth grain bread commercial at 7.07. Look for the big weight lifter in red thats me a lot of years ago. The bread wasnt too bad ether. Thanks for posting it I was in a couple commercials during the Olympics.
vinat290 2 years ago 2
GM government motors now & days lol!!!
cooledkill 2 years ago
very cool!! takes me back!!
jovifan771 2 years ago
Your right about the 'probably some others'! I vaguely recognize some of the other faces in the Diet-Coke ads. (Example: the one-man-band in another play list was a stand-up comic, or something!)
And funny you pointed out how this was just before Coke's famous gaff of trotting out NEW Coke! Part of me died then!NOTHING was sacred! Worst of all, my first job was in a supermarket, and ALL DAY long I had to here the customers vent! (Like it was my idea!) Besides, it tasted like Pepsi!
dukes0916 2 years ago
I remember the giveaway with McDonalds during the Olympics. I won so many fries and Big Macs.
USA! USA! USA!
LouisvilleCardinal72 2 years ago 3
Man, they should make a talking fridge. Like when I get hungry at night, it would tell me, "What the heck are you doing here again?? Hey! Put that ice-cream back in the freezer!!!
Lagorditalinda17 2 years ago 10
remember in 1984 a lot of our competition (i.e. USSR) boycotted the games...mcdonalds gave away a lot of free food and prizes...douh!!!
Lafours 2 years ago
Kaopectate...relief within 24 hours???
Lafours 2 years ago
After seeing that commercial I have to go boo-boo!
LouisvilleCardinal72 2 years ago
wow, I was 13 mos old when these aired
rockergirl83 2 years ago
now not to nitpick, but the swimmer in the snickers commercial, wouldn't he not want that bushy hair and stache...i always thought swimmers were supposed to shave and have no body hair.
pika23 2 years ago
Someone shaving their mustache...in 1984? No chance.
The mustache is probably what helped him win.
80sCommercialVault 2 years ago 2
lol pretty strong argument =p
voodoodude313 2 years ago 2
hehehe the electronics dept at Kmart! My uncle worked their in the late 70's early 80's
pika23 2 years ago 2
"aetna...i'm glad I met ya!" That's none other than Frankie Faison of "Wire" and "Coming to America'" fame. You fellas will love my place, apartment 1-A..It's REAL F@#d up!! lol
frankasu03 2 years ago 2
I have consumed plenty of meister brau in the city 20 years ago never saw an advert for it / usually on sale at sloans supermarket but laughable now to see this thanks captures the essence of this you tube
JBonthebase 2 years ago
Ha! We totally had a Datsun station wagon when I was a kid (i was 4 months when these aired, by the way).
I vaguely remember asking if our car was special, because it was the only one I had seen with the "DATSUN" stamp still on it.
Also, I totally remember both the Diet Coke and the Snickers jiggles/taglines.
BazzleElf 2 years ago 2
That Kodak commercial was great, as was the "Call to Glory" promo...it's surprisingly how effective those things are with just music (the people who make movie trailers could learn a thing or two).
it's funny, I can't remember the last time I saw an Exxon ad; are they still hiding from after the Valdez spill? lol
monarchofvideos 2 years ago
During the Earth Grains commercial, I thought the guy with the swim goggles around his neck was cool.
wonderglory 2 years ago
- Damn that Oldsmobile 88 was huge!
- That was the most hilarious bread commercial I've ever seen.
- Regardless of if you like McDonald's or Coca-Cola, their jingles/commercials are incredibly good/catchy.
seattlesfinestwrx 2 years ago 2
fuuuck weve advanced so muuux!
laloaldo 3 years ago
I love the Delta 88 commercial, I wish GM made cars like that again.. and advertised them!
regency98us 3 years ago
Lots of classic jingles here!
And who isn't reminded of The Simpsons with the McDonalds ad?
"I thought we rigged the cards so that the COMMUNISTS WIN!"
DanZero77 3 years ago 5
John Siman (Snickers commercial, 5:05) was the water polo coach and freshman health class teacher at my high school in Ventura, CA back in the early 90s. He didn't have the 80s-tastic hair when I knew him, but the mustache was in full effect.
PDXOutsider 3 years ago 5
That's awesome! And that's good to hear about the mustache.
80sCommercialVault 3 years ago
lol in the snickers commercial, i thought it said "I don't really think you can cut out more penis into a Snickers bar."
Tommalicious333 3 years ago
Lol, diarrhea control within 24 hours? That's not fast enough!!
AlderDragon 3 years ago
huh huh huh huh huh, he said diarrhea!
Dropkick32X 3 years ago
lol the world seemed so much happier back then :(
GoAtheism 3 years ago 4
i agree
kidmclain 3 years ago
love the olds commercial I only saw the commerical from 1985 with patten when they restyled the delta 88
coololds85 3 years ago
How is it that Chevrolet was manufacturing a car in the 1980's that got 47/55 mpg, but today they can't sell a fuel-efficient car to save their business!?
matbergman 3 years ago
The Sprint was actually designed by Suzuki as the Cultus, and sold as a captive import to the US market. Later on it was sold as the Geo Metro.
80sCommercialVault 3 years ago
we have that refrigerator
doesn't work like that LOL
it does beep but it's EXTREMELY annoying
kittymow321 3 years ago
i think the budweiser usa commercial is the work of cinematographer owen roizman and is featured in benjamin bergery's book on cinematographers called reflections: twenty-one cinematographers at work
beetleborgnine 3 years ago
LOL I was thinking the same thing with ur 2001 reference
Generic1125 3 years ago
Somebody please invent a Time Machine. I want to go to January 1st 1980 and then destroy the machine! :D
churlyryan 3 years ago 11
churlyryan, I agree with you. I would defenitely take also all my wordly possesions and my cash and my parents and aunt and all their things and their money. But I started thinking even if you leave this time for 1980 in
January 1, some way some how if you don't die before, you will reach this time again, but then again it will be so good to leave this time.
halcaannen 3 years ago 2
Did you see that Chevy Sprint commercial. 47 city, 53 Highway..If the big three had been making those cars all along, maybe we wouldn't be in the predicament we are in today...
LAOCAppraiser 3 years ago 4
They were selling them, actually I think its an import (made by Suzuki for GM). It had 3 cylinders and was a total POS, lucky if you saw one on the road with 50,000 miles on it! In 1987 I had a 83 Plymouth Champ (import by Mitsubishi) that I bought used for $1,000, those were the days, the days of being young and broke! It was better then the 74 Dodge Colt (another Mitsubishi) I bought used for $100.00 though!
verbusen 3 years ago
But then again the 84 Oldsmobile Delta 88 got 25 mpg, and I still see many of those cars around even after 25 yrs! GM did far better on the mid and full sized cars.
regency98us 3 years ago
That McDonalds commercial was the greatest.
tabooman 3 years ago
Another volume well done, time child.
troodon311 3 years ago 2
Oh man, I haven't seen that Diet Coke commercial FOREVER!
agltbialik 3 years ago
Aetna? I have that insurance. Pretty good. Didn't figure it was around then. lol
Oldsmobile Delta 88? My dad had that car and I hated it. Ugly car lol
Also...I don't think I'd drink a coke after running a marathon. lol
DTakersgurl 3 years ago 2
Oh i see your uncle and aunt
michaeltymich 3 years ago
you're great on providing these commercials....Is your dad the one who recorded these?
michaeltymich 3 years ago