80's Commercials Vol. 100

These commercials aired on KTVU in June of 1984. Thanks to Paul for recording these and sending them my way. Also thanks to everybody for watching!
1. "Woody And Friends" Commercial Bumper
2. Fruit Roll-Ups (With Kirk Cameron and Jason Hervey!)
3. Golden Grahams (Another strange, failed animated cereal mascot)
4. Cap'n Jacks Pirate Ship at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (AMAZING! That swinging Pirate Ship ride is just an indelible part of my childhood)
5. "Woody And Friends" Commercial Bumpers
6. McDonald's (With Sam the Olympic Eagle!)
7. Cocoa Puffs (I've never really been "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs". I thought they were too sugary even as a kid)
8. Oakwood Lake Resort (Having fun in the 80's looked like so much more...fun)
9. "Woody And Friends" Commercial Bumpers
10. Cap'n Crunch Monster Phone Sweepstakes (I really want that Monster Button Phone, and no, I'm not 87 years old!)
11. Windsor Waterworks (Apparently, you're gonna get wet)
12. "Woody And Friends" Commercial Bumper
13. Super Sugar Crisp Solid Gold Sweepstakes (I wonder when they changed the name to Super Golden Crisp?)
14. Promo for "Solid Gold Hits" (Aired on 6/12/84)
15. E.T. Cereal (OMG shaped like E's and T's!)
16. Promo for "The Odd Couple"
17. Cinnamon Toast Crunch (No bakers? This is an outrage!)
18. Cheerios
19. Ringling Brothers Circus (I went to the circus only once when I was five, and from the little that I can remember, it was kind of overwhelming)
20. Trix (With Seth Green)
21. Fruit Roll Ups (I think by the time I started eating them later on in the 80's they were made by Betty Crocker)
22. Promo for "Solid Gold Hits" (Aired on 6/13/84)
23. "I'm Proud To Be An Italian-American" PSA
24. KTVU Station ID (The ending chord of this always makes me really nostalgic and wistful. *sigh*)

[@JamieGhione]

Solid Gold Hits--that brings back memories. I watched it on KSBW in Salinas, CA

[@tmlfan1977]

E.T. CEREAL!!!! I can still taste it! That and C-3PO's were my absolutely favorites as a kid. Thanks for the memories!!

[@80sCommercialVault]

@DanZero77 I appreciate that you take your time going through these and make consistently great comments. Not all "serial commenters" do. I had two strikes against my account a year ago, but I disputed them and won. I'm not really sure what I'll do if my account ever gets suspended, but you can bet that I'll put all of these up again, either on youtube or elsewhere.

[@BigBlueBeast]

June 1984. So many memories. I left 3rd grade. My uncle graduated from high school. Cinnamon Toast Crunch was invented. And these commercials!

[@PSYCHEDELICDAISY]

I grew up in the 80s in the bay area. Thanks so much for posting!

[@naeema]

Thank you so much for all posting these great commercials,brought my memory back to a wonderfull years!

[@Darkhall23]

Damn,cereal commercials in the 80s were so much more creative and fun,its just so crazy to see some of the best cereal commercials ive ever seen not even utilize their mascots-thats just crazy level creativity.

[@sddwtbnofather]

It IS Kirk Cameron. You're right about Jason Hervey. And the guy with him in the middle is one of the brothers from the Hogan Family.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Wasn't the middle kid Jason Bateman (David), Danny Ponce (Willie) or Jeremy Licht (Mark)?

[@daskinder]

I love these commercial volumes especially when you see some actors when they were young.

[@Whtxombi]

Nothing makes a party more fun than a big pitcher of beer :)

[@UncleRabbit1]

These commercials are from June 1984. In June of 1984 I was about to graduate from the third grade at Lafayette Elementary School in San Francisco but first my third grade teacher was gearing us up to take The Minimum Standards Test.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Thanks! The Italian American PSA was part of a series KTVU ran celebrating different ethnicities. That's the only one I've seen, but they had ones for Asian and Hispanic Americans too.

[@MissElectricCompany]

I just wanted to thank you for posting all these videos! I watch every one of them, and find nuggets of tasty memories every time! I'm a kid of the late 70's early 80's and these are priceless. Makes me want to get a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch and sit down Indian style in front of the glowing TV. Thanks!

[@kayandaeddings4803]

Thanks for these great memories. I was 5 years old growing up in alameda California. I remember watching solid gold hits as well.

[@Nickrj3]

Wow, Oakwood looks like a ton of fun.

[@pandaKrusher]

You've put a major effort into archiving and posting these videos and helped many of us relive forgotten, if ephemeral, moments. Who knows, I'm willing to bet many of these ads, especially during the local breaks, would otherwise be lost. Thanks for contributing and thanks for putting up with my stupid comments. As a kid we would go to Windsor Waterworks to celebrate our 100th something. But they tore the place down.

[@mefault]

Couple things: Love the Cinnamon Toast Crunch ad ( haven't seen it since it first came out), the italian-american PSA flooded me with memories...LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. And more importantly, thanks for sharing 100 volumes (so far) of your rockin' 80's gems, you're the best!!

[@hazelwitchhazel]

Oh wow, I had forgotten about the yodeling Cheerios commercials! I was around 13 at the time these ads were on the air. Who'd ever thought that watching old commercials could be entertaining. Thanks for making the time to put these snippets together!

[@Idoljunky32]

First off, congrats on your 100th episode!!! Been loving everyone you put out! It's like stepping back in a time machine and reliving my childhood/teen years! Keep em coming! The Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercial takes me back, also the Coco Puffs one too. don't remember ET cereal. Fruit Roll-ups were the s**t back then! That was the big thing in our lunch boxes (I had a Strawberry Shortcake metal lunch box w/ thermos!) And yes family outings were way better in the 80's!!!

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

Those fruit roll-ups stuck to the roof of my mouth like a communion wafer!

[@MeInTX]

I'm a year and half late to the party, but congrats on your 100th 80s posting. I'm looking forward to tackling the next 120 (as of now), plus all your other volumes. They seem to have given Cap'n Jack a last name these days, one that's not any type of bird...I wonder why... Those Cap'n Crunch phones all looked so...adult. Spider-Man is friends with Woody? The Jagger-Midler video was for her cover of "Beast of Burden". Really, Seth Green? You're going to vote No? Jerk.

[@xavierbrenner4746]

Windsor Waterworks was closed in 2004 because of violating California state water clarity laws so it was impossible to see the bottom of the pool.

[@DanZero77]

@80sCommercialVault I try to make my comments relevant and factual, if only because we got many of the same commercials on the East Coast, and TV was all I really had to do in the 80s. Yeah I know about the strike system, many great channels fall after they "strike out", I'm glad that you disputed them and that you'll continue to provide us with great memories.

[@Jukesette]

YAY! We made it to video 100. :D All the months of watching has paid off.

[@DanZero77]

After nearly 2 years, I have successfully seen the first 100 80s breaks posted by 80sCommercialVault! Surprised you've stayed on YT for so long! Many other people with big ad break collections have come and gone (VampireHunterDVD one of them, sadly) but you remain! While I've seen more than 100 of your videos, I've been trying to watch them in order! Thank you for continuing to share your memories, from California and elsewhere! Can't wait to see more ads from New York! Here's to 100 more soon!

[@shamat001]

Those phones look so prehistoric compared to today's phones, but those were the wodnerful 80's

[@VCRchivist]

*raises glass* There's only one 2, and only one 80sCommercialVault! Here's to the first hundred, and many more glorious volumes and blissful nostalgia to come! A nice celebratory volume - the Fruit Roll-ups and waterpark/circus tickets are on me! Love the simplicity of the Cheerios spot, and I actually kind of like the Golden Grahams droplet mascot. But those Cocoa Puffs look nasty. And I had no idea WHERE they were going with that last PSA ... is this a church ad? travel? what?

[@tanquantwal]

Congratulations on 100 great videos. I was happy when I saw it on my homepage (yeah it's finally here). Lol Sad but true. These commercials are so great. E.T. cereal was so good. I'd forgotten all about it.

[@blugreen123]

I LOVED Woody Woodpecker. those were the days

[@MeInTX]

@TabiCB Kids in cereal commercials tended to be evil. The kids were endlessly tempting Sonny with Cocoa Puffs, and denying the Rabbit any Trix, and always chasing after Lucky and his Charms. Actually, I take that back. It's only the kids in General Mills commercials that were evil.

[@xavierbrenner4746]

I feel as if I can relate with all of you people!

[@dsl_media]

Wow. I wasn't expecting a commercial for Windsor Waterworks. I used to love going there and having fun on the slides. Unfortunately, it shut down a couple years ago due to the fact that someone died while riding on the slides, causing Windsor Waterworks to get sued and so they had no choice than to shut it down.

[@jnewboldlaw]

The girl at the end of the fruit roll ups commercial 9 or so minutes in, is now a commentator on CNBC- Her name now is Mellissa Francis- she used to go by Missy Francis. She was in a bunch of other things in the 80s :-)

[@disneyfan85]

I have just been watching some old cartoons recorded on tape and I saw that "Woody and Friends" bumper pop up between cartoons, along with similar bumpers featuring to Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry.

[@ilovethetampabaylightning92]

All those sugary cereals are a dentist's/oral surgeon's dream.

[@jwgreek8606]

the Fruit Roll-ups commercial. It has Kirk Cameron a year before he got his big break playing Mike Seaver on Growing Pains

[@80sCommercialVault]

@moxie96 When I was editing this volume together I really wanted to include the Spider-Man Theme Song, but I was pushing the length of this video already.

[@Strazman]

My childhood in 10 minutes and 23 seconds...

[@specterkev]

WOW I used to love ET cereal..sadly enough I had forgotten it even exhisted till now... wow i love the internet.

[@holbrooke7]

Wow, lots of cereal commercials!

[@bigmankralc]

whoo 100 episodes, Great job guys!

[@WVClaydawg]

Congrats on the 100th episode!!!!!

[@xheathermichelle]

haha that boy on the left in the last scene of the fruit roll ups commercial was on the wonder years!

[@RoxyAlexander]

Like, totally rad 100th edition!!

[@80sCommercialVault]

@SyrupPiratesdotcom Those were actually very good odds for that type of contest.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Right before Sugar Crisp became Golden Crisp officially....interesting.

[@punkroxs]

Wow These all take me back

[@BoogsterSU2]

Let's go up to 200 everybody! WOOT! Great vid 5/5

[@oaklandlatinosunited]

at 9:14 i remember that Commercial the Italian American commercial looks like it was shot in North Beach . bit i wish you had the i'm proud to be a Mexican American Comercial it was shot on Fruitvale ave in East Oakland . also remember the psa about the Girl having a fantasy about her carreer goals she was a cop and a FireFighter . i miss the old Kyvu brings back a lot of nostalgia of being a kid in the Bay Area in the 80s .

[@ptb267ii]

This video is also credited to me since I found these tapes when I moved a while back in 2002. I only discovered them after I saw what the content of the tape was. I really did not know that I would have this until now. But anyway's please give me your best thanks.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

_Super Sugar Crisp_ was changed to _Super Golden Crisp_ in 1985.

[@mefault]

I know what you mean. I never quite got the whole tattoo-on-a-fruit-roll-up-for-your-tongue deal.

[@ToadenK]

darn the phone monster game is over :(

[@Wamdeb]

OMG, this brings back SO many memories of my childhood!!! I especially love the commercial of "Oakwood Lake Resort" (2:45 - 3:15). I have so many memories and good times of that place and was really sad when they closed it down. My girlfriends and I would often go there frequently at a spare of the moment, removing our shoes, letting out hair down and take on the waterslides and other water rides FULLY CLOTHED - WOO HOO!!! Those were good times!!! :-)

[@stupidmonkey121]

my drama teacher is in the pirate ship one lol

[@catlover10192]

8:13 there's already a Betty Crocker logo on the box. Fruit Corners must have just been a brand owned by them.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Yep, it was just branding.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Fruit Roll-Ups have always been made by General Mills. At some point they phased out the Fruit Corners brand and rebranded them as a Betty Crocker product.

[@SyrupPirates]

1 in 19,000 wins! Oh boy, I only have to buy more boxes of cereal than I'll ever consume in my life time to insure my victory!

[@BeyondTheAlbumCover]

Happy 100th and keep em comin'

[@BrianKelly1979]

So I guess "Jersey Shore" would be the Proud to be Italian-American PSA of today?

[@jeremylater]

@AmericanVideoGames actually the rv camp was always right next door to the windsor water works. it's mostly just a lot now, i think.

[@MissElectricCompany]

OMG, that was Seth Green in the Trix commercial? Wow, how do you find out all this stuff! Epic!

[@ShaunCollins]

Little Seth Green in the Trix Commercial

[@deyoungparker]

I don't see Kirk Cameron but I do see the older brother from the Wonder Years...he's the kid on the left swiping bites from the kid in the middle 00:28.

[@moxie96]

Oh my god I was Six years old then! that came on around @2pm after the dialing for dollars movie (which numerous times the random number was ours but neither of my parents would answer the phone!) I'd watch this then switch to channel 36 for the Fantastic four and Jackson five cartoons then switch back to KTVU for the Spiderman cartoon at 4pm and then either Odd couple or Gilligan's Island would be on at 4.30

[@80sCommercialVault]

Kirk Cameron is seen tearing apart the fruit roll-up at 0:11.

[@blugreen123]

that "captain jack's" ad is awesome that's some pair of hotpants in the background there @ 4:02 what's the deal w/ that PSA? I always thought the 3-ring circus immensly confusing. my eyes didn't know where to land. not my thing, even in 3rd grade.

[@sddwtbnofather]

That's Missy Francis from "Little House On The Prairie and "Something About Amelia" at 8:33/4.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

She also played a very young Mindy in what IMHO is a very memorable scene from "Mork and Mindy." Mindy's widowed father has just remarried, much to Mindy's surprise. When Mindy goes to bed, in her dream she is taken back to the day when her mother passed away, and the much younger Mindy in the dream sequence is played by Missy Francis.

[@UmbrellaAl]

Wow! look at that lil' Ginger! He's still the same height!

[@sddwtbnofather]

Yep.

[@specterkev]

lol Wayne!

[@Wamdeb]

@abehammy Yeah, that was another place I loved to visit in the summertime. I miss it as much as Oakwood Lake Resort (see my comment above). -Diane

[@specterkev]

seriously though he was in ALOT of stuff lol

[@ghostbusterguy20011]

was that a young tonie saprano?

[@TabiCB]

Poor Sonny, trying to stay clean. Those kids are evil.

[@xheathermichelle]

oh yeah i know, it's just funny because he's so little there.

[@ShY1CAS]

i won willy wonka.....

[@cyrenafame]

ET cereal is just lazy alphabits.

[@edogg2832]

you're gonna get wet!

[@chicksheldon]

Really excellent choice for your 100th. So many "oh my god YES!" moments. Well done. My sincere thanks for all the great memories.