80's Commercials Vol. 16

A bunch of commercials that aired on local CBS affiliate KMST on July 4th, 1986 and on NBC on November 13th, 1988.

1. Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital (I'm not sure about these newfangled MRI do-whatsits...)
2. Lewis Volkswagen (Low prices again...ouch)
3. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (I wish they still had freakin' Popeye walking around. I want my grandfather clock to be punched into a hundred pocket watches so bad!)
4. 1-800 OFF COKE (Cripes! These people remind me of my parents! Were all office parties in the 80's like this?)
5. Classico Pasta Sauce (Reminds me of these modern Olive Garden commercials where Italian Natives praise their authenticity)
6. Cadillac (Really going for the yuppie market here, I see)
7. Pantene Hair Products (With Kelly LeBrock from "Weird Science")
8. Downy
9. Levi's 501 Jeans (What an awful commercial)
10. Promo for "Too Good To Be True" (With Patrick Duffy and Loni Anderson! I'm pretty sure this is the sort of programming they have in Hell)
11. Beef (Only Madeline Kahn could've made singing about eating pot roast with a spoon look so easy)
12. Promo for "The Karate Kid Part II"
13. Macy's Casio Week
14. Taquitos at Jack in the Box (Funny how their logo hasn't changed at all)
15. Kellogg's Nut & Honey Crunch (That's the golden voice of Gary Owens announcing)
16. Cadillac
17. Grape Nuts (This one is from 1981 according to the date at the bottom)
18. U.S. Armed Forces (We can all take the evil forces of Cobra out together!)
19. Bacon Swiss Burger at Wendy's (I sincerely apologize for the lack of Dave Thomas here. Apparently he didn't grace Wendy's commercials until '89)
20. Promo for "Too Good To Be True", "Unsolved Mysteries", "Night Court" and "Baby Boom"
21. PG&E (Installing braille marked oven dials since 1988)
22. Arrow Shirts (Gotta love those loud 80's shirt designs)

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[1975Zantar]

Does anyone know why Grape nuts was called Grape nuts? I remember reading he label when I was a kid and found absolutely no trace of grapes

[80sCommercialVault]

@1975Zantar From Wikipedia:

Grape-Nuts is a breakfast cereal developed by C. W. Post in 1897. Despite its name, the cereal contains neither grapes nor nuts. Mr. Post believed that sucrose (which he called "grape sugar") formed during the baking process. This, combined with the nutty flavor of the cereal, is said to have inspired its name. Another explanation originates from employees at Post, who claim that the cereal got its name due to its resemblance to grape seeds, or grape "nuts."

[liteskinnededgal]

WTF @ the cocaine commercial? These days if they showed a person sniffing up coke in a commercial, FCC would be all over that!

[80sCommercialVault]

They probably would've back then too, but remember it was just a local ad. And the commercial being for drug rehab probably helped too.

[jwgreek8606]

how could Patrick Duffy play on Too Good to be True when he was working for CBS at the time?

[80sCommercialVault]

??? Unless he signed some sort of ultra-exclusive contract, I'm not sure why it would be impossible for him to appear on other networks. According to his IMDB, he also made a TV movie for ABC that same year, and also did a ton of hosting gigs for a variety of specials throughout the 80's...all on different networks.

[BiffWebster100]

Its funny to think that an 18 year old who joined the army after watching this commercial would have been eligible for retirement last year.

[ukendcx2000]

That anti cocaine commercial was awesome!

[weEVILzLAIRS89]

Ewww grape nuts lol

[Nox0verstreet]

I love Kelly LaBrock. Weird Science ruled, baby!

[humhunny]

"If she can't have him, no one else will"? No man is worth it! Cheesy

Karate Kid II-The best KK movie :)

Grape Nuts...hot? I've never tried it...better for the teeth that way I'm sure

[MattTheSaiyan]

That Volkswagen Scirocco looks pretty cool.

[LenaAndreia]

We got to hear like 5 seconds of it, but MAN to I miss that old Unsolved Mysteries theme!

[LenaAndreia]

@liteskinnededgal

I dunno if you remember, but in the 90s there were a LOT of pretty racy anti drug PSAs. The one I remember best (and I only saw it once, it was probably pulled) was a girl giving herself an injection and then falling through the floor. She kept crashing through the floors of the building until she was IMPALED on a giant syringe. It actually made my little sister cry.

Then there was the one with the kid huffing aerosol cans. His room fills up with water and the kid DROWNS.

[sorshavampyr]

I can't stop watching these! Oh the nostalgia!