80's Commercials Vol. 30

These commercials aired on NBC during the 1988 Olympics on September 17th, 1988. Thanks to my aunt and uncle for recording this!

1. Bud Light (With Spuds MacKenzie!)
2. McDonald's (I bet none of those babies turned out to be Olympians. What failures!)
3. GTE
4. John Doolittle for State Senate (I can't believe this is a real campaign ad)
5. Chevron ("Here's your Bullwinkle, Miss Change!")
6. No on Proposition 99
7. Florin Road Toyota Warehouse (Whoa, awesome graphics!)
8. Gatorade (I like the commercial from '84 better)
9. AST Computers (I love any commercial that references 2001: A Space Odyssey)
10. Pennzoil (With Arnold Palmer)
11. Canon Sure Shot Supreme (With Grant Shaud! Old man covered in spaghetti is awesome)
12. Socrates (There goes Socrates, corrupting the youth again)
13. Coca Cola Classic
14. Pontiac Bonneville (What a sugar daddy!)
15. United Airlines
16. Promo for "The Magical World Of Disney" (You have no idea the extremes I would go to for this to come back on the air. No idea)
17. Promo for "Unsolved Mysteries" (I love that theme so much)
18. Jeep/Eagle
19. Pacific Bell (They seem to be dealing well with the fact that their daughter is a hippie)
20. Promo for KCRA 3 News (Look at the mustache at 9:32! That thing is out of control!)

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[jbracer86]

03:01 right a street gang is selling Cigarettes, more like hard street drugs.

[80sCommercialVault]

@jbracer86 They sell cigarettes too. Gangs & traffickers buy cigarettes by the carton in states with low tax rates and re-sell them in states with high ones.

"According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States loses $5 billion in tax revenue every year from the trafficking of illegal cigarettes." -CNBC

[TNTITAN]

For no4. Have you not seen the campaign ads today or something.  I wish campaign ads of today were that simple.

[80sCommercialVault]

@TNTITAN Did you miss that the ad strongly implies that the other candidate is a communist? I agree that campaign ads today are out of hand, but that doesn't really make this one any less ridiculous.

[xContaminatedx]

5:09 Ned Ryerson!

[80sCommercialVault]

Not the same guy.

[cskamoskva]

Wow I wish it was the 80s again.

[pandaKrusher]

That Doolittle ad is goddamn ridiculous, especially considering what he's been up to since that hamfisted thing was produced. I guess bribery never goes out of date, either.

Completely unrelated - adding a 25 cent tax to a pack of cigarettes = gangs selling cigarettes = gangs buying guns and KILLING CHILDREN. Even the most hardline smoker could find that refuckingtarded.

I fucking love this vid!

[Piledriver86]

God I want a Quarter Pounder now

[MattTheSaiyan]

Part of what makes watching a randomly selected bunch of old commercials so much fun is seeing what brands/products are still around and which are not.

[cfamick]

Some of the Magical World of Disney clips were for Earth Star Voyager.

[cfamick]

I now want to own an old school Bonneville SSE in mint condition.

[StormsongK]

"A shiPload of savings!" Whew, close one!

[texasghost]

It's such an oxymoron...

McDonalds and athletes...like what athlete before competing for an event was gorging on McRibs?

[MeInTX]

According to Wikipedia, Prop 99 was to raise cigarette taxes. How was that supposed to lead to the murder of every child in California? And, since it passed, did gangs go on a violent rampage with all their new guns?

Today, that track ad would probably involve the heroic (white) American competing against someone sinister-looking from a Middle Eastern country.

I wonder if McDonald's ran that baby ad in future Olympics. I know it's been less than 22 years since I last saw it.

[xxplosiv88]

Mmmmmm.... '88. The year I was born. Ads were awesome back then! Cheesy as all hell but much better than the shite they play today