80's Commercials Vol. 103

These commercials aired on local ABC affiliate KGO on January 29th, 1987. Thanks to my Aunt for recording these.

1. Vaseline Intensive Care (Because sane, rational people write the word "dry" on their hand. Yep.)
2. Stouffer's Pizza (Ping Pong Pizza: the sport of the future)
3. Amtrak (This jingle is ridiculous. And I love the random Indian Headdress on the kid)
4. Van De Kampp's (Um, wow. Nightmare plutonium)
5. Ford Fever
6. MJB Mochas (When soap operas start talking to you through the TV, it might be time to cut down on the coffee)
7. Promo for "Our World", "The Colbys" and "20/20"
8. Levitz
9. Fiber One (With Maureen Stapleton)
10. TV Spot for "Outrageous Fortune"
11. Channel 7 News Update
12. Pacific Bell (Pretty awesome. Though it's a little strange how they leave out what happened to the woman)
13. Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom On Ice (With KGO weatherman Pete Giddings! Amazing!)

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[rlwieneke]

wasn't that music on the pacific bell commercial the same music on The Criterion Collection commercials now?

[80sCommercialVault]

@rlwieneke The music used in both is "The Aquarium" from Le Carnaval des Animaux' (The Carnival of the Animals) by Camille Saint-Saëns.

[MrBadAxe]

4:53 George Carlin?!?

[80sCommercialVault]

Yes. He acted occasionally.

[emily2500cfs]

I remember scratching DRY on my legs as a kid from that lotion commercial!

[philvanyam]

The woman in the pac bell ad was killed during a bust at a speak easy. Seems she was accidentally trampled to death, when the huge, jitterbugging mob rushed toward the front exit in an attempt to escape.

Sad story. It's what kept those guys friends all these years...

At least that's the back story I'm going with. Feel free to make up your own...

[scottsman137]

I get the feeling the stouffers pizza I bought at the grocery store yesterday is 30 years old....Same assortment of toppings, same box etc.

[davidknight4]

Ping Pong Pizza, Coming soon on ESPN!

[weEVILzLAIRS89]

@Irulan800 don't worry about it were all headed in that direction besides I wish I was my age back then regardless of how old id be now :D

[MattTheSaiyan]

That Van De Kampp's commercial is pretty clever.

[celticthistle619]

Cars for $6k? Holy hell.

[MeInTX]

@80sCommercialVault It's been years since I've seen it, but I remember Outrageous Fortune being pretty good. I'm surprised it was released in January.

[MeInTX]

I love how she never bothered to say exactly what was so horrible about dry skin.

It's a bit scary that the Stouffer's jingle included the lines "real cheese toppings, yes indeed" (and was that guy fishing in a swimming pool?).

Those kids brought up four boxes, and their mom is sending them down for more? Just how many people are coming over for frozen processed fish?

I can't ice skate under normal conditions. I can't imagine having to do it while wearing a big giant cartoon headpiece

[Irulan800]

You know you're old when you can sing along to a commercial from more than 20 years ago. damn! :'(

[Gaydar09]

wow car sales have changed since then. wiSH i could buy a brand new ford for 6k LOL!!

[BlankParty]

The Amtrak narrator sounds like the same guy who does Boars Head commercials today

[DanZero77]

That Amtrak ad is not as weird as the "Spirit Journey" ad you posted in an earlier volume.

I loved the description you wrote for the MJB Mochas ad. Nuff said.

I'm guessing the Pac Bell ads were part of a series? It's getting pretty epic, hope you post more (that, and so Philvanyam can continue to be inventive in his backstories!)

The V/O at the end of Outrageous Fortunes sounds like "Check newspapers for showtimes?????"

[Palacespot]

Something Creepy about the Van de Camps commercial, like maybe a Freddy Krueger shoud pop up somewhere.

[TheGreatMozeek]

@lisamaria1972 That looks like a Playboy he's got there. LOL

[GialloHorror]

@lisamaria1972 LMAO! I think you're right

[kari00ws6]

The girl playing ping-pong in the Stouffer's Pizza commercial looks familiar.

[kari00ws6]

@emily2500cfs I did the exact same thing.

[strph]

Freaky. How do I remember the "Help yourself to Stouffer's Pizza!" song?!

[MsStinkeye]

Pacific Bell commercial's message:

Bros before hos!

[jaimehatespapi]

Wow, I remember these commercials, gave me chills to see them again.

[jakobluke]

How and when did Maureen Stapleton die? And how old was she?

[lisamaria1972]

hahah! around 5:10 when the news anchor for Ch 7 is giving a news brief, check out the guy behind him. He looks like he is putting a dirty magazine in his bag and then he faces the camera and smiles....

[lisamaria1972]

I use to watch the tv show that he was in. I thought it was funny but I guess no one else did because it was cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons.

[TheAngelicBytch]

I think it's still around, but only for seafood products.