80's Commercials Vol. 118

[MattTheSaiyan]

Cheesy saxophone FTW!! Also, I've never had "Crunch & Munch", and as such my life is incomplete.

[MeInTX]

It's not a good sign that Fritos (which is based in my suburban Dallas hometown) had to use New Jerseyites to authenticate the chili taste.

Murphy's Romance bought James Garner his only Oscar nomination.

What kind of school do you have to drink Sprite to be cool? And these days, what kind of school has soda machines?

I wasn't aware there were famous bouncers outside of Road House.

It's not the Crunch that's distracting Pete Rose. He bet heavily that he'd hit a home run on an 0-2 count.

[vnisanianisback]

Barret Oliver sounded noticeably younger in that Sprite commercial, than he did in that Gramma episode of the New Twilight Zone.

[Jeff98177]

Am I crazy or is the little girl in the Crunch commercial the same one that was in that Folgers Christmas ad where "Peter" comes home and makes coffee for his family on Christmas morning? I must've watched the Crunch commercial 10 times because she looked familiar and I couldn't place her. This is gonna bug me. It's gonna bug all of you now too, huh. Sorry. hehe

[gayskunk]

King Cobra was pretty funny, as well as seeing Pete Rose in a candy bar commercial. That was before he got into trouble.

[blufish44]

LOL my Neighbor has that EXACT SAME Volvo - color and all!

[DanZero77]

One of the greatest mysteries of life will always be why MALT LIQUOR was always marketed to African-Americans.

The KC/Antioch Dodge ad has the same background music as that infamous Baltimore car dealer spoof, "Big Bill Hell's Cars" (look it up here on YT, NSFW!)

Very easy parking in SF?!

[80sCommercialVault]

@DanZero77 When the big ad agencies finally began courting the African American demographic in the mid-60's, studies were done to see which products they already preferred. According to those studies, they made up a third of the entire malt liquor demographic, which had previously been marketed towards suburban white males. Not idea if those studies were accurate, but they definitely had their reasons for moving towards that market.

[DanZero77]

@80sCommercialVault Ah, cool. At least we had legendary spokespersons like Billy Dee Williams for Colt 45, and now Fred Williamson for King Cobra.

[StormsongK]

Also: "Press on! Apply directly to the fingernail!"

[StormsongK]

Don't let the smooth taste fool ya...this stuff'll knock you on your ass!

[BreezyLotus]

I *had* to have those Lee Press-On Nails when I was a kid!

The Nestle Crunch commercial is cute. I miss that jingle!

[jwgreek8606]

I remember the coloralls commercial being used as a fee plug on game shows like TTD, TJW, J!, and $100k Pyramid

[SaraBellRock]

king kobra is the shizznit!!!!!

[holbrooke7]

Ew, somehow I don't get the feeling that smelling like Coty's Wild Musk Patchouli will get the guys running into your bed. I don't even WANT to think of what that must smell like. UGH.

[MsStinkeye]

Smells like hippies.

[orion5175]

"with all the crap on television now days, if you were to put all of these commercials onto a DVD

seriously I would buy that."

and how do you become a famous bouncer?3:34

[blugreen123]

those guys in the Frito's ad are a little "guido-esque"

"lymon" hmm...interesting

i love, love, loved "Neverending Story"

coloralls are amazing!

"glamour length nails" otherwise known as "hooker claws"

[troodon311]

I really like that "Clan of the Cave Bear" ad, and I'm not sure why.

[TakumaMimura]

For a second I thought I was watching commercials from Kansas City during the car commercial. KC Dodge, we actually have (or had I don't know if it's still around) a dealership of the same name here. Antioch Dodge made me think of the street, Antioch Rd, although there are no dealerships on the road that I know of.

[dwightfan2013]

i remember the coty wild musk commercial when i was little

i was scared of it looks creepy

[djspair]

I like how the kid works at the Chili Cafe in the Fritos Ad.

[cheffy84]

Commercials in the 80's, for the most part; even as cheesy as some may have been, they still kick ass over today's ads. Memories are made from the product jingles, elaborate ads (1984, Apple Computer) I Could go on forever. Who else misses the hard liquor ads? FCC needs to straighten up and fly right... 80's rule!!!

[cmmolthr]

@cheffy84 I couldn't have said it better myself....probably why I don't watch much TV anymore

[IamUberStein]

My fav was the Wild Musk Patchouli commercial. The 80's was the golden-age for the saxaphone.

I own both the novel and the movie of "The Clan of the Cave Bear" My grandmother taped it in 88 from HBO

[mefault]

I use to love the old cars in the volvo ad and I love the Coloralls jingle/logo too!!!

[mariomario8489]

I soooo totally remembered the press-on jokes on a D.C. Follies vid I saw at this website! "Are those press-ons?" LULZ!

[rockergirl83]

Man, I grew up watching Murphy's Romance!!

[Libraloco73]

I haven't seen that Twix ad in over 20 years and never gave it another thought until just now and the music and images all came back to me like nothing. Weird...it's like it was locked in my sub-conscious all these years and suddenly sprung loose. 8)

[Boogeyman80]

Yeah. That's the best part about this channel! Stick around an it'll happen a lot. I had the same feeling about the Nestle's Crunch commercial.

[MsStinkeye]

"There's nothing two sticks of Twix can't fix?" Well... it didn't fix my parents' marriage.

[jakethreesixty]

sooooooo the general consensus is that 80's commercials rule an todays are lame?

[80sCommercialVault]

"Lame" is a complete understatement.

[jakethreesixty]

agreed!

[emily2500cfs]

A new truck for $88/month!? FML

Coloralls I need to get me some so that my butt will wink.

[Jukesette]

Watching these after a hard day at work makes me feel better. :3

[fattoler]

Looking back, the 80's were weird...