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Weinerville looks like a nightmare.

It's easy to see (and hear) why the Cocoa Krispies monkey didn't last too long.

If you're going to turn an incredibly violent movie series into kiddie toys, is it too much to ask that the series's hero stay a heroine?

Was there an early 90s board game that d...

10 years after graduation, and I see Mizzou hasn't changed (other than the wireless network. We didn't have that at all when I was a student).

Clearly we run with different crowds. I hear "Let's go to the Eagle" or "...TMC" far more often "...S4".

That NFL Charities business meeting is the fakest-looking meeting ever.

So the Miller guy, in addition to controlling the weather, can cause cars to overheat and can take control of the radio? Good thing he doesn't use that power to do something evil like force woman to come to him...oh.

Both ...

Personally, I'd rather go and be a hero on Mars than drive around in a truck.

That Arco Transformer is the saddest Transformer ever.

I'm sure the Engineers appreciated their dues money going to pay a football player to tell everyone how awesome they were.

We Built This City isn't a great song ...

It's a 90s type product? So does it play Seattle grunge while you shave?

I think Godfather 3 would be much better respected if it wasn't called Godfather 3. Also, if Francis Ford Coppola hadn't cast his daughter.

The Tandy, for when you can't manage your time and are still working during your...

This was appropriate to watch at the beginning of Super Bowl weekend, with the Giants in the game and Madonna doing the halftime show. I'm fairly certain she won't be singing Justify My Love on Sunday.

The Bud Bowl--because beer bottles playing puntastic football only appeals to people of legal...

Given that the Busch family owned the Cardinals, aka the Cubs' most hated rivals, you'd think their beer wouldn't be all that popular in Chicago.

Speaking of MC Hammer, I once watched an episode of Amen (which I never watched) because he was guest-starring. Yes, I'm embarrassed.

Fantasia is ou...

Ahh...liking MC Hammer...were we ever that young?

The Mighty Bills were the AFC's best hope--too bad they lost 4 straight Super Bowls.

Maine got UConn to play them at home? Wow, that would never happen today!

I like Kindergarten Cop, but it's a wierd movie--violent cop action mixed with cute ...

The classic 5-Timers Club episode of SNL!

So what exactly do the RHCP have to do with tennis? Or tennis shoes?

I'm not sure if a store full of really old people is a good way to drive business, especially during Saturday Night Live.

Mermaids and Edward Scissorhands came out the same day, a ra...

I saw most of these specials as a kid, but I know I never saw The Christmas Toy. The good news is that it appears to be available in its unedited entirety on YouTube, so I'll watch it in 11 months or so.

Given that they're skating in a woods with animated animals, why were all the kids surprise...

A movie with hookers and Richard Gere or a very proper British comedy. Guess what film Michael Caine got an Oscar nomination for?

I've always felt my jeans would be so much more fashionable with stripes.

Hey, if burger places can sell chicken, why can't taco places sell burgers?

At first, I t...

Those Levis ads are so annoying, not only do they not make me want to buy Levis, they make me want to burn the pairs I already own!

I used to have family that lived in Freeport. Wonder if they used Water Treatment Systems?

There's never a good reason to go to Houston--unless you're trying to e...

So what did you get from the NKOTB hotline for your $2 for the first minute, 45 cents each additional minute?

That "exotic" cocktail looks incredibly unappealing.

Lyle Waggoner obviously hadn't done a good job saving his Carol Burnett money circa 1989.

I got a Turbo Graphx for Christmas that y...

A couple of days after this, Johnson & Johnson would issue a national recall of Tylenol. Given that the first death had happened only a few days before, that's remarkably fast.

I know when I go out for fine dining, I want to sit in a tiny closet.

I think the Mormon PSA is the only ad in this ...

@TheAngelicBytch The FCC loosened rules on tv advertising in 1984, allowing for the proliferation of infomercials and giving stations an incentive to not sign off overnight.

Wow...the Rangers' powder-blue uniforms were...not pretty.

The Angels would lose the ALCS to the Brewers in 5 games.

UCLA would finish the season 10-1-1, winning the Rose Bowl. USC finished 8-3, but was banned from going to a bowl.

Dan Lungren would be in Congress until 1989. He then spent m...

Between roving neighborhood burglars, formaldehyde, cyanide in Tylenol, street punks taking over schools, and people volunteeringly having breakfast at McDonald's, I'm amazed anyone lived to see 1983.

Nicolas Walker was apparently a regular on the CBS soap Capitol at the time. Speaking of CBS, ...

I like these Mini-Wheat ads so much better than the current campaign, with the talking mini-wheats.

Just how many inner-city schools are 100% white? And will that bearded teacher go on a murderous rampage?

I remember my grandparents taking 5-year-old me to see E.T. I'm pretty sure they never ...

Live on the Sunset Strip opened in March '82. I'm surprised they were still running ads for it in October.

It's lucky they bought all that beer. What they didn't seem to bring is any other food.

I loved Pitfall when I was a kid. I really sucked at it, though.

Do all cults have headquarters ...

Leon Isaac Kennedy and Jayne Kennedy together on screen? And Muhammad Ali acting? Let's get down to the nearest drive-in!

It seems odd that they only had a VO for the news update. Surely, there was someone hanging around they could have stuck on camera.

I vaguely remember Fight Back! I think...

I would think that that guy's voice didn't get anywhere near high enough to shatter a glass.

That Magic Johnson would be hanging out in a middle-class neighborhood doesn't surprise me. The fact there's a guy with a 7Up cart is what pushes that ad into Fantasyland.

Can Victory Outreach help me ...

@rockergirl83 It's still around. It has awful, awful food, but it's still around.

@80sCommercialVault Yeah, sadly, Termite Terrance wasn't the most enlightened place in town. "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" is forgivable, since it was made during WWII, but I don't think there's any excuse for "All This and Rabbit Stew".

So, by merely swatting at a fly, he managed to knock all the power out to the motel? Instead of him paying, he should be suing the motel owners for having a deathtrap!

I'm curious just how expensive the voice technology was in 1994.

I love how cashback cards always make it seem like you're goi...

OK, riding on the cables I could see, but how exactly did the motorcycle leap over the top of the pilings?

Both With Honors and PCU opened on April 29, so it's possible this collection might be from early May 1994. It's unlikely either movie was running ads by mid-May.

The MCI ads remind me a ...

Clean Slate--Groundhog Day in reverse. Or a less funny Memento.

Warning: If you don't call your friends frequently, they'll get elaborate back tattoos. Don't say we didn't warn you.

I know, when I'm computer shopping in the mid-90s, I want my new expensive desktop to primarily be an answering...

Anyone else wondering how coked up Charlie Sheen was during the filming of that movie?

I don't think I ever tried Mint-a-Burst, but I did chew a lot of Cinn-a-Burst around that time. Do they even still make that?

I'm not a Pantera fan, even if they are from my hometown, but I would have liked ...

The Fisher King is a pretty fantastic movie, but that commercial makes it look awful.

Looks like Suzanne Somers was trying for an Emmy there. I don't think it worked.

Jones had won an Emmy about that time for Gabriel's Fire, a serious detective drama where he played a former cop who had been w...

@Inediblehulk Both Sibs and Good & Evil were gone by Halloween, though Sibs had some remaining episodes burned off the following spring. Anything but Love, which was somehow in it's fourth season, lasted until May when it was also cancelled and forgotten.

So what will the winning team get in that vote? The right to have the loser move to Baltimore?

That Bud Light ad reminded me of the Futurama episode where the crew lands on the all women planet and the males are sentenced to death by "snu-snu".

What exactly does ghostly Pat Morita have to do w...

Wow...an entire news brief from Columbus that didn't mention Ohio State football even once.

An Innocent Man (the Tom Selleck film they're previewing) freaked me out as a kid, before I realized that movies tend to exaggerate the likelihood of events like that happening.

I remember thinking the h...

@VCRchivist On the next 80sCommercialVault...the Vault consults the Bob Loblaw Law Blog to research copyright infringement.

If these promos did indeed air on 1/17/77...well, these are the first clips I've seen from my actual birthdate.

Was that the most pretentious ad for sunscreen lotion ever?

That cheeseburger looks really good, but I wouldn't eat it just for that obnoxious ad.

"I look at Davey; I think I'm looking at you!" "I think it's time, Mom, that we put you in a nice home".

So, was the bad guy in the Jesse Hawkes a...

"Say no to crack...so there is more of it for me!"

Whoever wrote the script for the Midnight Caller pilot must have watched When a Stranger Calls once too often.

I have a feeling the percentage of time women spent in bras in Favorite Son was considerbly less than the percentage of time they spe...

Granted, this was only a couple years after Top Gun, but it's still odd seeing Kelly McGillis get top billing over Jodie Foster.

The Fumigator might kill more roaches, but I do enjoy not having everything I own contaminated with insecticide.

Stephen Collins looks far younger than Blythe Danner ...

Roger Rabbit is a good movie. Cocktail...not so much. I never realized until I saw it just how much of a hierarchy bartending was.

That Dynamo ad reminds me a lot of the All ads where the stains just lift off the shirt.

"Cost to acquire ownership: $1100" I wonder how much that TV really cost...