80's Commercials Vol. 1014

These commercials aired on CBS on September 22nd, 1980
1. Rubik's Cube (Partial. This was the year that this classic 80's puzzle toy was first released)
2. Downyflake Waffles and Pancakes
3. CBS Special Presentation Bumper
4. "SPFX The Empire Strikes Back" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Downy)
5. Downy (When you start being followed around by the ghost of yourself who scolds you for not using Downy...it's time to take your meds, Barbara)
6. Ivory Liquid
7. Promo for "The Magic Of David Copperfield"
8. Toyota SR5 Longbed Truck
9. Ragu Pizza Quick Sauce (3:55 I'm pretty sure that I once saw Scooby and Shaggy eat this exact sandwich on an episode of "Scooby-Doo")
10. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (Spoofing "The Barber of Seville" opera by Rossini)
11. "SPFX The Empire Strikes Back" Commercial Bumper (This is my favorite BTS documentary produced for the original Star Wars trilogy. It not only goes into the special effects of "The Empire Strikes Back", my favorite Star Wars movie, but also goes into the history of special effects in cinema and it's also hosted/narrated by Mark Hamill! The full documentary can be seen here: • Star Wars The Empire S... )
12. Promo for "M*A*S*H*", "WKRP In Cincinnati" and "Lou Grant" (This was actually promoting the shows that followed this special)
13. CBS Station ID
14. ARCO
15. McDonald's 25th Prize Celebration
16. C&C Cola
17. KNXT News Bumper (With Connie Chung)
18. "SPFX The Empire Strikes Back" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Camay)
19. Camay
20. Crest
21. Sure Roll-On Antiperspirant
22. U.S. Army
23. Maybelline Great Lash Mascara
24. Oscar Mayer Bologna
25. Promo for "A Rumor Of War"
26. Promo for "Papillon"
27. "SPFX The Empire Strikes Back" End Credits
28. Promo for "John Schneider...Back Home"
29. CBS Newsbreak
a. Iraq declares war on Iran (The Iran-Iraq war officially started that day and ended nearly 8 years later in August of 1988)
b. State Dept concerned for safety of U.S. Hostages held by Iran (Once the hostages were released in 1981 the Reagan administration supported Iraq in this conflict by providing them with intelligence, economic aid and equipment: • Video )
c. President Carter and Senator Kennedy unite in Beverly Hills (Ted Kennedy had challenged Carter for the nomination earlier in 1980 but failed to gain enough delegates to cause a brokered convention)
d. Cross Country balloonists bail out of balloon over Ohio (After another failure with the "Super Chicken II" later that year, balloonists John Shoecraft and Ron Ripps succeeded in crossing the country in the "Super Chicken III" on October 12th, 1981)
30. Campbell's Chunky Soup
31. CBS Newsbreak
32. CBS Station ID
33. Alphy's (Have I been to an Alphy's restaurant? I've never even heard of it! Apparently this was a chain of restaurants in the Los Angeles area owned and operated by the grocery store chain Alpha Beta)
34. Datsun 200-SX
35. Channel 2 News Bumper
36. Kellogg's (I would totally watch a Broadway style musical about breakfast cereal)
37. Ronald Reagan For President
38. Clorox 2
39. "M*A*S*H*" Commercial Bumper
40. Aunt Jemima Lite Syrup
41. Paul Masson Carafe (With the voice of Orson Welles...looks like they caught him when he was sober)
42. Promo for "John Schneider...Back Home"
43. Promo for "The Magic Of David Copperfield"

[@hopegrimsley3427]

My dad’s 19th birthday. How cool!

[@hrtvfan2870]

Downy ad: It would have been an interesting follow-up to see Judy, Alice and Marsha run into each other and realize they were unknowingly dating the same guy and confronting (and humiliating) him in public.

[@yusakug]

6:26 - I hate when people randomly come into my home and start pestering me about my brand of toothpaste…

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Ivory Liquid- I like how the VHS distortion in this commercial makes every item on the shelf at the store those people are in look very blurry. Kellogg’s- I almost expected Snap, Krackle and Pop to leap off of their cereal box and join those people in singing their song and dancing along. Clorox 2- The video game sound effects they used to make the Clorox 2 box shoot a laser at the stain on the shirt reminds me of old Atari video games.

[@80sCommercialVault]

The ivory commercial was shot on videotape and whatever distortion or blurring is there is almost certainly due to the limitations of that medium, not "VHS distortion". This is a very clean recording, about as close to broadcast quality as you could expect from this vintage.

[@cowmix]

This is a great cache of commercials.

[@WWJD85]

Bad optics having a downy commerical follow a downyflake commerical.

[@DanZero77]

The ESB special might have been awesome but geez the Darth Vader image was scary! Plus Orson Welles sounding.... normal in the Paul Masson ad!

[@hopegrimsley3427]

11:43-Shoot, I would love to have a fish and chips dinner for $2.99 (even with inflation, that’s only $11.14). You’d be hard pressed to get that for less than $15 nowadays, if you consider the soup/salad and the roll.

[@iscariot666]

Saw this first run that Monday night in September.

[@shoked99]

Never heard of the SPFX documentary. You need the 2011 BD sets.

[@hopegrimsley3427]

8:55- while the way that the announcer (who I am pretty sure portrayed one of the adults in “Rugrats”) pronounces the word “bologna” does match the spelling of the product and mirrors the pronunciation of the Italian city, I am pretty sure subsequent ads pronounced the product as “baloney.”

[@yusakug]

12:41 - Now this is a feel good epic that would never fly in today’s society.

[@yusakug]

That Downy commercial…If the mother is haunted by an image of herself nagging about fabric softness, her son is probably haunted by the numerous women he dates who scowl at him every waking moment.

[@mlsaulnier]

such a strange commercial hahaha

[@TTrigg]

Rubik's Cube-after like,ten tries is when you just get frustrated and do the"remove the stickers"move😂 SPFX The Empire Strikes Back-that Darth Vader bumper was kind of like a jump scare Downy-her son must be quite the ladies man Pizza Quick Sauce-those three at the end had a very good nap M*A*S*H-good episode..i believe it was in real time WKRP In Cincinnati-looks like Johnny Fever was getting electrocuted at the end Paul Masson Carafe-the bottle that the lid was being put on was the one that Orson drank from 😆

[@charliejoson9145]

So the Downy commercial must had been the inspiration for the "ghost" (in the Philippines, the "ghost" of the mothers was referred as "konsensya" ["conscience" in English] for the 80's Safeguard brand new soap variants haha

[@JepMasta]

Anyone here ever try Paul Masson wine?