80's Commercials Vol. 1007

These commercials aired on CBS in June and July of 1985
1. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here aired on 6/15/85)
2. CBS Station ID
3. Jim & Dandy Action Swingset
4. WCAU News Bumper
5. Today on "Dungeons & Dragons"...
6. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
7. McDonald's (With Ship Shape Happy Meal Boxes)
8. Wet Banana Super Slide (This really should have ended with the giant St. Bernard going on the slide)
9. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
10. 3 Musketeers
11. Care Bear Cousins Action Figures
12. Promo for "CBS Storybreak" (Episode: "The Great Ringtail Garbage Caper". I can appreciate a cartoon about a bunch of raccoons looking for garbage. This episode can be seen here: • CBS Storybreak: The Gr... )
13. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
14. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here aired on 6/29/85)
15. "Muppet Babies" End Credits (I'm really not used to the music in these credits, as it's different than the credits music heard in syndication and on Nick Jr. later on in the 90's)
16. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
17. Star Fairies Lavender
18. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
19. CBS Station ID
20. Dutch Wonderland
21. Promo for "Quincy"
22. Today on "Dungeons & Dragons"...
23. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
24. Masters Of The Universe Bashasaurus
25. Rainbow Brite (With Heather O'Rourke)
26. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
27. Super Powers Collection
28. My Little Pony Megan & Sundance
29. Promo for "Land Of The Lost"
30. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
31. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper (Commercials starting here aired on 7/6/85)
32. Huggabunch (The girl at 9:15 is Staci Keanan who is best known for the sitcoms "My Two Dads" and "Step By Step". BTW these things seriously creep me out)
33. McDonald's (With E.T. Happy Meal Boxes and Posters)
34. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
35. Crest
36. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
37. CBS Station ID
38. Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom
39. Promo for "Quincy"
40. Today on "Dungeons & Dragons"...
41. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
42. TV Spot for "E.T." (Advertising the 1985 re-release)
43. Nestle Quik
44. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
45. Super Golden Crisp
46. Promo for "Land Of The Lost" (Everything about this show is cheesy but I just love the creepiness of the Sleestaks and the overall lore of the show is more interesting than it had any right to be)
47. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
48. Watermelon Bonkers
49. Super Powers Collection
50. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
51. "Dungeons & Dragons" End Credits
52. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
53. Milk
54. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
55. CBS In The News Intro
56. M&M's (You have to love the Howard Cosell impression)
57. In The News: India
58. CBS Station ID
59. Delaware Valley Scouting PSA
60. Don't Drink & Drive PSA
61. WCAU Fourth Of July Bumper (The 4th was on a Thursday that year so this might have just been a repeat of what happened that night or a separate celebration for the weekend)

[@yusakug]

Muppet Babies is one of the best 80s cartoons, and it’s a shame that the show can’t be released officially on streaming or physical media due to the complex copyright issues regarding the film and TV clips that was used throughout the series.

[@DGF2099]

"Jim & Dandy" sounds like an old vaudeville duo...

[@yusakug]

I remember my mom took me to E.T during its original release, and the alien scared me so much when I was 5 that when it was rereleased a few years later, I refused to watch it. It wouldn’t be until the movie hit VHS when I was 10 that I would watch it again.

[@pkretsch]

What a coincidence, I also got taken to see E.T. at age 5, and had a similar reaction. Also upsetting was Elliot cutting his finger on the sawblade, and his house being under quarantine with the creepy men in biohazard suits. And I didn't understand why people thought that wrinkled little troll was cute (and still don't). Still have yet to revisit it as an adult.

[@TTrigg]

Wet Banana-"we have Slip & Slide at home.." Muppet Babies End Credits-those bats know that cave belongs to Animal now Today on Dungeons & Dragons-Mr."Cavalier" once again is trying to get everyone killed Masters Of The Universe Bashasaurus-too bad he wasn't in the cartoon, would've been funny hearing characters dramatically shouting his name Huggabunch-its Dana Lambert! Rainbow Brite-R.I.P Heather

[@seibervideo]

So many of these commercials lived in my brain for years and years. Love this stuff.

[@rstyeast73]

Man, I used to watch Dungeons and Dragons every Saturday morning when it was on. When the series was released on DVD, there was a guide to include the characters from the TV series into any D&D campaign.

[@DV80s]

Two more openings for D&D that I can add, one I didn't have at all and the other was missing a few seconds where Venger says "Today in the realm of Dungeons & Dragons." Thanks.

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Muppet Babies End Credits- A clever and cute idea to have Baby Animal pretend to be a bat in the cave in that famous “Go Bye Bye!” Ending to the show. My Little Pony Megan And Sundance- The size of the eyes on the Megan action figure makes it look like her eyes take up half of the space on her face. Super Golden Crisp- I can imagine Sugar Bear appearing in this commercial and helping the military school kids fight off enemies using the power he gets from eating the cereal with his “Vitamin packed punch”.

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

1:34 Memory unlocked: I definently remember getting this Happy Meal toy. Man, I loved getting Happy Meals in the 80's. I remember collecting the Smurfs Happy Meal toys.

[@DanZero77]

Wow yes that Muppet Babies outro was the original one they used before they paired the show with the Little Muppet Monsters in the second season starting in the fall of '85!! That only lasted 3 episodes but the new outro music carried through the rest of the series as well as the reruns!

[@Theonetruewonderfly]

I definetly remember some of these commercials (like the Wet Banana Super Slide, for instance). It's funny, my memories of watching cartoons goes back to 1981 or 1982, but my memories of commercials themselves kicks in more around 1985 or 1986. Well. except I do seem to recall a few He-Man action figure commercials from 1983 or 1984.

[@blackmesacake5361]

Great upload, thanks!!!

[@WWJD85]

I'm shocked ET wasn't on VHS already around this time. I don't understand why wait 1988 to release it.

[@80sCommercialVault]

A VHS release would have cut into ticket sales for a theatrical re-release like this, which was still very common. Also, Spielberg seems to have been reluctant to release it on home video and required convincing: www.nytimes.com/1988/05/17/movies/wearing-spielberg-down-to-put-et-on-cassette.html

[@Starfox-xy7zb]

If you think the huggabunch toys are freaky, there is a whole live action movie where they come to life and take some kids into their puppet populated world. It's on KZbin.

[@BonusEggs4Sale]

CBS Storybreak had the best theme song.

[@danmccarthy4700]

I will never understand why Saturday morning cartoons became a thing of the past.

[@80sCommercialVault]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulations_on_children%27s_television_programming_in_the_United_States

[@kootybear]

After reading the regs, Saturday cartoons educated us. Its funny how those kids watching the so called educational programming of the regulations got more and more dumb. The shows now are completely stupid. Gives not 1 single ounce of educational learning.

[@80sCommercialVault]

I get that many parents and parents groups scoffed at much of the Saturday Morning fare during the 80's as being 30 minute TV commercials with no intrinsic educational value, but honestly what is wrong with escapist entertainment for entertainments sake? Do kids really have to be bombarded with educational programming 24/7, even on their days off from school? It's "think of the children" in action without actually looking at things from their perspective. And all they did was get the entertaining cartoons moved to cable where there are no federal regulations or educational requirements and kill the idea of the network Saturday morning cartoon in the process.