1980s Nickelodeon commercials

[@violinplayer101]

I don't know why, but the 1970s-1980s seemed to have more awesome commercials than we do today...

[@TheDonnyCraft]

That's true. But some of them lacked the pizzazz. Watch 0:30 to 1:00

[@cbsteffen]

Because technology was not as advanced back then. Therefore, people focused more on talent. If we don’t want to get dumber while technology keeps getting wiser, we have to know what should and should not have to do with technology.

[@wizardmix]

Definitely more crass and sappy. The 80s knew no shame when it came to advertising to kids.

[@violinplayer101]

@@wizardmix No, they certainly didn't

[@StormsongK]

All of us who grew up with Nick in the 80s and 90s had the best of it. That will always live on with us, and we can see a lot of the best of it here. So despite the crap they're airing now, all is not lost.

[@wizardmix]

I never get tired of thinking about something completely random from something 37 years ago and then finding it on youtube. My 5 year old self remembered that chrome sphere logo and I have not seen it since. Never ceases to amaze me how much of this randomness is on youtube.

[@imunchienandalusia]

we had it good.... i remember all of this clear as a bell

[@Jensuarezgonzalez]

This was a time when Nickelodeon has gone from being in the cellar to becoming a key player in the kid's TV business.

[@airaero5473]

The 80s was the decade that made Nickelodeon. The 90s was just the hangover decade.

[@sabrinalou1]

It was totally cool growing up in the beginning of nickelodeon, mtv etc. Kids today don't realize what they are missing!!

[@MagnaderAlpha]

I agree. I actually started watching Nick very early(caught the end of the Silver Ball era), and generally grew up on both PBS and Nick. I miss everything Nick in the 80s. They SHOULD create a new channel and dedicate it to showing nothing but 80s Nick!! I totally miss it!

[@Higolmon]

i bet that pinball logo would look so cool with the modern graphics

[@bndkllr2]

Wow. I miss the days when they actually had commericials for toys, food, candy and fun things. Now it's nothing by Drug Companies, Law Firms and 24 hour useless "news".

[@areformingamadon]

Christopher Hogan And Car Insurance. We need more commercials with jingles like they had back then.

[@chadmania7241]

+Christopher Hogan That's only because you watch adult channels now. Tune into any kids channel, you'll see everything on your list.

[@kjemradio]

Thank Reagan for the lawyer commercials and drug commercials. Of course toy cartoons (like TransFormers, My Little Pony, Jem, He-Man etc) were part of that bill. So to be certain it was a double edge sword.

[@SunuAkkad]

THE THIRD EYE!!! YES!!!! I haven't seen that in sssoooooooo long!!!! I even remember that M&M's commercial...lol:)

[@Dunes]

WOW! That's a lot of memories from the 80's! Man,do I miss the old Nick.

[@TheSaneHatter]

I'm going to pin this down to late 1983, based on "the Third Eye" (started that year), the breakdancing, and the Wargames & Star Wars imagery.

[@mecha7419]

I also noticed that there was a scene for a split second in one of the commercials of the millennium falcon going through the Death Star.

[@RockinDaBoombox]

1984 as the Cars, You Might Think, didn’t come out until then and you see a clip of that video twice during this video.

[@realJoshiBOI]

Not to mention the Kool-Aid commercial at the beginning actually says ©1984 at the beginning

[@wizardmix]

I think that "The Third Eye" ad is the missing link to a nightmare I had when I was 3 or 4 years old.

[@100percentSNAFU]

Definitely 1984, because Nickelodeon was commercial free prior to that. Only PSAs and bumpers prior to '84.

[@100percentSNAFU]

Ah, 1980's M&Ms. I remember them well. Green, yellow, orange, brown, and tan. No red because the dye was toxic so they discontinued them. And blue M&Ms didn't yet exist. Obviously in the time since they figured out how to make red food coloring safely and reintroduced the red M&Ms at some point in the 1990s. I remember them making a big deal out of it.

[@dgwaters]

Right around 4:00 there was a very brief clip with the Red and Blue clay figures. I thought those films were HILARIOUS! Does anyone know where I can find more of them?

[@TokyoXtreme]

The Third Eye intro is SICK. Tim Burton only wishes he could do something so creepy and sinister.

[@kjemradio]

You can still watch The Children of the Stones on KZbin. That was one of The Third Eye's biggest hits from the UK. Back when Nickelodeon had taste :-)

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

All that wonderful, worthless, color, sound, and music, still deep in my subconscious from watching Nick in the 80s. :)

[@johnpriceprice6860]

I miss the old Nick at Night. Some of those old black and white shows were pretty good, a lot better than most of the garbage written today.

[@NepperCat]

Wow, Fred Newman...the poor man's Steve Martin. Funny as hell too.

[@RaveSacks]

The view master light up lightstick commercial has the same soundtrack/background music as Giggles Cookies commercials circa 87-88. Loved those cookies back then.

[@otengammai]

@mamagirlsc: The tune from 1:02 to 1:31 is called "Rollercoaster" by Network Music Ensemble.

[@randibornstein-sb1mp]

Fun fact - the same song was used for the overnight programming crawl when A&E would sign off and switch back to Nickelodeon

[@VINCENTDARKLY]

I feel high after watching this. Was that the point of the 80s?

[@wizardmix]

LOL What was the point of the 2010s?

[@Bstone2018]

wow this brings back so many memories.

[@StarKnight1Sunshine]

Wow... this brings me back SOOO many years... LOL!! I love this!!

[@hunterhellfire848]

I wish life were still like 1981.

[@essjay8296]

me too

[@wizardmix]

@@essjay8296 Until you realize what was going on in 81 from an adult's perspective.

[@kjemradio]

Sigh. My childhood so far away. I'm so lucky I grew up with Nickelodeon in the early 80s.

[@Rudziewicz]

Wow. This is amazing! I was born in '82, therefore I have no memories of the Silver Ball era. BRING BACK OLD SCHOOL NICK!!

[@wizardmix]

79 and I just remember it. I literally hadn't thought about it until this moment and looked it up. Amazing what you can find on here that zaps 37 year old memories back into present day.

[@freepatriot1776]

wow c3po ceral was my favorite. tripped out to see this.

[@Missemilymalfoy]

wow thoese commercials are better then todays bullshit nickeloden

[@KageMaxwell]

Whoa! A bunch of that stuff was new to me. Never heard of most of the shows. Guess this was either before my time or I was too young to remember.

[@hendog3894]

it looks and sounds so retro... scary how time flys!

[@grimmviper]

3:02 Bubble Magic comes with magic solution, dipper cup, blower, and 3 budweisers.

[@pinmike8666]

Who knew Donald Trump was host of a Nickelodeon show?

[@23Skiidoo]

haha pensé la misma wea

[@marije8517]

+Music Lovesyou wow. chill?

[@TheSaneHatter]

More likely, Fred Newman was picked for his resemblance to Phil Donahue, who was still a major public figure at the time, and the KING of daytime talk.

[@alexisbv7094]

C mamut xd

[@Donkey_Lips]

and 10 years later, Fred Newman would become the voice of Skeeter and Dr. Dink.

[@jcchavez2009]

i wish i was born so i could witness the nickelodeon of the 80s i only got to witness the nickelodeon of the 90s which for me was a great time nick shows now a days piss me off D:

[@MagnaderAlpha]

Hehe, cool to see Fred Newman prior to doing the voices of Skeeter and Mr. Dink on Doug!

[@jennyfromtheblock2705]

Wow this aired before my time. My brother and sister was like in preschool

[@imimmune2gravity]

the kool-aid guy had some tech ass shoes! haha

[@benjafisha1]

I was born in 1988 so of course I grew up with the 90s Nickelodeon. Obviously I don't remember most of this stuff, but it seems a hell of a lot better than the garbage they play today.

[@novemberunderground]

I saw Matt Dillon, Adam Ant and the Cars in those montages. Nick was pretty hip back then.

[@nancyking]

Watching these commercials makes me wish there was such a thing as time travel so I could go back and watch these shows. TV nowadays is just junk for kids.

[@heathers2706]

Oh that's neat and love the memory lane ❤️❤️❤️❤️.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

_Jenna_ is #1, _You Can't Do That on Television_ without _Standby Lights Camera Action_ *OR* _The Third Eye_ all with _Mr. Wizard_ - Nick on with us at Nickelodeon!

[@StormLaker]

Nick Rocks- our cable provider didn't have MTV...so for us rural kids, Nick Rocks was our way to see videos. What was the show that had Matt Dillon on it???

[@MGG75]

The host of Livewire reminds me so much of Billy Crystal's SNL character "Fernando" of "Fernando's Hideaway"...LOL

[@BadGurl404]

Also, check out Fred Newman on "A Prarie Home Companion" and "Between The Lions".

[@FelisDestructicus]

A glowing frisbee that whistles when you throw it? That sounds awesome! And also a great way to scare the crap out of a caveman.

[@StormsongK]

At least we were well out of our teens when that happened. (I'm assuming you were watching Nick during this time period like I was. Damn fine days.)

[@byronicman]

Damn, the Third Eye promo always scared the piss outta me when I was little..

[@nancyhicksgribble9799]

aww fred was the host of mmc

[@pika23]

I always wondered...what is that little beepy-tone thing that sounds like an old fashioned touch tone phone...they played it during commercials or in between.

[@TejasRCpilot]

yeah Donald Duck presents, Mousterpiece theater, dumbos circus, DTV just to name a few of the classic shows

[@DaveLister360]

Nostalgia is a powerful thing...

[@ツツ]

2007 posting 1980. Wow.

[@davidbreen6335]

Does anybody have the nickelodeon commercial from the 80s with George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson where Thomas Jefferson says the declaration of independence due today my dog ate it

[@XxAngiexXRPI]

Aw was that the Beatles doing the buble magic commercial? (I would've loved that as a little kid)

[@GamingPalooza]

C3PO cereal lol

[@outland2442]

Third Eye always creeped me out.

[@austinreed7343]

I wonder why there are few to no throwbacks to 1980s Nickelodeon?

[@lambertman]

If you were to put up some clips of "What Will They Think of Next!", especially the opening sequence... I'd see about having a statue of you put up.

[@davoid96]

world trade center at 0:10 on the wall, ahh the good old days...

[@XxAngiexXRPI]

I agree, Kool-Aid: OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[@1982ktown]

I think they should come up with a classic nickelodeon channel.

[@johnpriceprice6860]

It looked like Hey Koolaid was doing some sort of Crip walk.

[@StormsongK]

@playhouserage Being a photographer, I can tell you it's probably because a glowing lightstick would only show up well on camera in total darkness. You couldn't show everyone having fun in the backyard in that case.

[@queenanthai2]

GODDAMN that's a huge bag of M&M's!!

[@BlackPopeye44]

Nick was great in the 80's the only great thing about nick today is well nick@nite but I wish they would make a classic channel for the shows we just saw in this video

[@larainesmith7156]

Heaven!

[@dgwaters]

Right around 4:00 there is a brief clip of the Red and Blue clay figures. I thought those were hilarious! Does anyone know where I can find more of them?

[@zadovoljan78]

Ahh, the memories. Does anybody else remember that the red M&M's were off the market back then?

[@75aces97]

Yes. Till 1987 I think.

[@102metal]

It is at least the first Kool Aid ad says 1984 at bottom.

[@slipknot789able]

they always melted in my pocket i would eat half the bag and put the other half in my pocket to save them for later and i would always forget

[@samuriguy909]

thank god they still play invader zim

[@trapadoored]

wow that bubble magic commercial was up to date. Even in the 80's that probably looked dated.

[@utopiapraxis]

that "3rd eye" segment was creepy. lol

[@gaialanzer81]

I totally hear you! I think the problem is that grown ups let their childhood stuff grow up with them to the point that the kid friendly stuff of yesteryear has become more adult/tongue-in-cheek jabs at nostalgia. Let the kids have their stuff and let it remain unadulterated. It's kinda pathetic when you see adults trying to mature property they loved as kids because they can't let it go. Kids already have it worse than we did, just throw them a bone. Let them live in child-like whimsy.

[@moccalou]

Changed my mind. It's April or May of 1984.

[@moccalou]

Late 1983.

[@BlackHomerSimpson]

PLAN M&Ms

[@riceboy1701e]

How many commercials/product manufacturers used that same annoying jingle? The one for the glowsticks and the song for Nabisco's Giggles cookies (in another 1980s commercial sequence posted by WREYNetwork) have that same song in the backgorund...go figure.

[@102metal]

Dang I miss the 80s.

[@mominator822]

@zadovoljan78 and you could get light brown ones in the bag too.

[@sebasyjorge1571]

Star Wars Ya Esta Viejo

[@awesomenoe]

OMG... M&M's were fucking huge

[@kermitthefrog76]

Holy crap!!! Bubble magic!!

[@gunniesack]

Its a play on the fact that chocolates melting point is 98* the same as the human temperature.

[@102metal]

It started about 1979.

[@brianidman1639]

c3po cereal must be worth a lot now to day!

[@jennymarie3645]

They came back with it but it's now just Star Wars cereal

[@ShogunX11]

+Jenny Marie and not by Kellogg...

[@giselletorres788]

I was born in the late 1990's and I like this A LOT more than the shit my younger siblings and relatives watch.

[@1dbedfo]

C-3po had a cereal? Get out of here!

[@1dbedfo]

that dude from live wire looked like a Ken Doll.

[@harisbegovic]

2:09 The guy from Livewire looks like Donald Trump XD

[@danmccarthy4700]

C3P0 cereal was the shit!

[@winec00ler]

and a classic disney channel

[@xreddragonx]

Sorry, I'm the same exact age as you and I have to HIGHLY doubt if you're able to recall the Nickelodeon pinball era of 1981-'84. It's highly improbably for you to have TV viewing memories dating back to your infant years (if many infants even "watch" TV). Seriously you don't have to pretend. Sure the Gen X stuff is awesome, but there are plenty of clips here on KZbin from our early Gen Y childhood which are finely old-school in their own right.

[@ashland1977]

Awesome!

[@102metal]

True words u speak.

[@wildsmiley]

Breakin' 3: Electric Kool Aid Man

[@maximumjesus]

I started watching nick in 86 but this seems like it's a few years before that, like 82 or something? What's the deal with that third eye show? it sounds pretty trippy

[@realJoshiBOI]

1984

[@junipree]

is that harry nilsson singing the m&m commer.?

[@airaero5473]

1:05 Canada's Wonderland?

[@BadGurl404]

Prairie. My bad.