80's Commercials Vol. 17

[@ahart86]

It's not easy when you're new in town. Except when you have something that makes huge bubbles! AMAZING bubbles!

[@pLAST3RdISAST3R]

Such a treasure trove, I forgot about Heathcliff & The Honey Comb Hideout song, I saw Willow in the theater with my mother, ate cereal out of that Willow bowl & spoon I had for years! That Barbie Ferrari was a '84 288 GTO, my favorite Ferrari, well maybe in the top 3!! So many things to even be able to remember to mention, incredible!!!

[@ultramoya947]

80s commercials were really emotional wit their music lolz

[@sandygurley]

I definitely agree...I MISS THE '80s Best decade EVER!!!!!!

[@kimsy520]

Holy....the Nosy Bears!!! I have been into retro commercials for years, and I'm just now remembering them after all these years!!! Wow! :)

[@darkseidx20021]

Gonna be 40 in a week,watching these takes the sting out a little lol

[@nostalgiadad7137]

Omg. The 900 number crazy. So many patents got blindsided by those bills. Lol!

[@jordana4910]

I had the basketball Nosy Bear. Completely forgot about it until now. Thanks for bringing a major smile to my face :)

[@Shenruss]

Wow. DUDE....you kick ass. THIS is a small piece of a good childhood! Kudos

[@LenaAndreia]

WOW. I had one of those Nosey Bears (the popcorn one), and totally didn't remember until I saw this commercial again.

[@jartist2918]

I still remember the Just Say No commercial word for word after all of these years.

[@everettcraigmusic]

nothing wrong with a grown man riding a motorcycle and eating cereal in the middle of the woods with some kids ... seems legit..

[@80sCommercialVault]

Psychologically, Sonny wants to eat Cocoa Puffs very much. He is, as he says constantly, "cuckoo" for them. His want, nay need, for them is tantamount to the plight of the drug addict. Notice you never see Sonny's friends or family. No doubt they were driven away by his cereal addiction. His only "friends" are the children who taunt him with cereal. Friends indeed!

[@nativegamer756]

I remember going see Willow in downtown Minneapolis Theater Great Memories!!!

[@OBSZIDIAN548]

Im so mad that its not the 80s anymore.........how sad..........every day were a lil further away! The 80s werent a decade they were a childs heaven, a destination, a place I hope to return to some day....whos with me on this one?!

[@butlertoburg]

I loved and miss the 80's so much! I remember waking up early to catch all my favorite shows. I used my imagination when I was bored. I was taught that drugs were bad and not to litter. My kids are constantly claiming to be "bored" if they are not sticking their noses in a smart phone or video game. They demand things instantly and they've never had to adjust an antenna to get a better picture! It's difficult to teach patience when everything is at the tip of our fingers.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I kind of remember when Atari revived the 2600 system in the late 1980's after its initial decline. I seem to recall that they abandoned the "classic" 2600 design, and the new units being produced at that time looked more modern and streamlined, like a smaller version of the Atari 5200.

[@MrBamaDave]

That M&Ms commercial takes me back to my childhood.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Back when M&M's came in just 2 varieties--"Plain" (now called Milk Chocolate) and "Peanut."

[@jayjaybee]

It's funny because I was just idly searching for old toys online. I forgot that two of the dolls I owned were Wish World Kids (one named Shelby who came with a refrigerator/ice-cream parlor and Cassie who came with a radio/stage with musical equipment). It always bothered me that all the play pieces were the same color of bright orange.

[@disneyfan85]

Heathcliff is voiced by none other than the great Mel Blanc!

[@rocklobsterjwt]

When Atari had raps in their 2600 ads, you knew they were giving up.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I wonder what ever happened to Kenner? That was one of the big toymakers during my childhood in the 1970's and early 80's. Apparently they were still around in the late 1980's, because their name appears in one of these commercials, but you never hear that name anymore.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Kenner was bought by Tonka in 1987, and then Tonka was bought by Hasbro in 1991. Hasbro permanently dissolved the Kenner brand in 2000.

[@shacks29]

Back when the coolest thing in store,was a Commodore 64!!! ;)

[@001GenLee]

That Barbie Ferrari was / looked like an exact 308 Ferrari that Tom Selleck drove in Magnum, P.I. Some of those toys i had never heard of back then, like Hooks...never heard of that one, that's a new one on me.

[@BabyLouie22]

8:33 mins in...is that Danielle Harris from the Halloween movie franchise??

[@LenaAndreia]

Wow, I had that "Wishroad Kid" set, and I had nearly forgotten it. What I haven't forgotten is getting up every morning to watch My Little Pony before school when I was in Kindergarten (88-89). It must have run earlier on the east coast as I had to catch the bus around 7:30.

[@mammothfilms]

I wonder how long the He-Man story lasted.

[@quavosmotorola5577]

You know this shit is old when you see a freaking atari 2600 commercial

[@80sCommercialVault]

Landen Brock The 2600 would have been considered an old console back in 1988 too.

[@quavosmotorola5577]

i didnt know that thanks @80sCommercialVaul

[@thomasvanboening4829]

Well, I think Atari 2600 had one of the longest lifespans for a system. It officially ended in the early 1990s. Crazy to think. That would be like if they still made games for the Dreamcast.

[@wazzock999]

they do lol

[@nicollestallkamp3655]

Im surprised Atari still advertised the 2600 in '87, the NES was on the market and the 2600 was released in 1978, making it 9 years old back then.

[@80sCommercialVault]

It was sold as a lower budget alternative to the NES, which was around $100 at the time.

[@carolynargabright8132]

Sugar Bear was supposed to sound like Bing Crosby.

[@sweetjoey2]

this shows how far games have come :)

[@caimbus]

I can honestly say I have never heard of Nosy Bears 1:03

[@laichi16]

I had a Nosy Bear!!! Too bad my mom got rid of it... -_-* The one doll I still have from the 80s is a Kid Sister.

[@greyfox37]

My Little Pony... If only they knew what it would become today.

[@frstwhsprs]

3:06 I love its transition flipping and resizing

[@foxxyloxx]

The Cocoa Krispies ad is ART! You get that trippy animation AND rhymes like "chocolat/pop a lot." Aww, that's nice that He-Man and She-Ra donated a portion of the proceeds to local Science museums, even though it was probably a penny. Nosy Bears is literally a toy inside another toy. That's brilliant.Cheerios - So, you're telling me a 2 inch cartoon bee comes up to you wanting to talk, and you tell him, "Not now?" Wth, kid?I totally wanted Bubble Thing! Thanks for reminding me.Ho. Ly. Shit. I just now realized that Mel Blank was Heathcliff. 7:13 the one girl's covering the other's ears? Anyone else notice that?

[@munch0357]

LOL... I remember having a Super Golden Crisp ringing Christmas ornament...

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I can tell this was after I had pretty much outgrown "kiddie" shows because when I was watching them, it was called "Super Sugar Crisp."

[@80sCommercialVault]

$50 in 1988 is more like $90 today.

[@weedipikia]

Heathcliff was awesome!

[@beza511]

the bubble thing commercial is ridiculous and I totally forgot about Heathcliff!

[@Handlethis81637]

Is it just me or is Sugar Bear a little too relaxed?

[@micks336]

I want whatever Sugarbear is smoking! I noticed too

[@leonserya720]

I had that stupid Sugar Bear toy!😎

[@MrDiechi01]

Well, I'm sure that the kids from the '80's have no idea that there was even a person called Perry Como. If you don't know who he was, he was a crooner popular in the 1950's, had a television show, and his voice is sort of like the voice of that of the Sugar Crisp Bear.

[@80sCommercialVault]

A marketing campaign for a blockbuster film often consists of a series of ads that focus on specific characters rather than the film as a whole...largely to appeal to as many demographics as possible. (And he did have top billing ;) )

[@80sCommercialVault]

@StormsongK Hard to believe, but besides being a source of entertainment, food is also a common source of nutrition too.

[@dp100eboggan]

Sugar Bear was a pimp! He was cooler n hell! No kids chasin him, no psychotic episodes when he got a taste of his cereal, he never tried to steal any cereal either! Sugar Bear was the pimp of cereal box characters!

[@PetProjects2011]

That Heathcliff ad is interesting... Heath actually acknowledging Riff Raff.

[@NerdAtHeart1]

I had the Mapletown school!!! It was the best!

[@fhumperdink8897]

Wow. The days where we were humans.

[@rickyfan3956]

Oh wow! Now I know how to make friends with all the new people at work! All I have to do is go on ebay and get one of those gigantic bubble thingies! Thanks, 80'sCommercialVault!!!

[@elineff5941]

I had Artari, but thankgoodness technology changed since then!!

[@TehKitteh01]

Ahhhh, the Nosy Bears are soooooo cute!!!

[@StormsongK]

A fair and valid point. Certainly parents are responsible for ensuring that TV doesn't become babysitter/programmer. Hey, TV's doing what it has to do...sell product. We are the final arbiter/filter. I have a friend who's done a remarkable job educating her daughter about how to tell when TV's manipulating her. I'm also not quite as fatalistic these days as when I wrote that comment. Nice talking to you!

[@MissMovieMontage]

Dammit! I just wanna eat a bunch of yummy cereal now!

[@80sCommercialVault]

KBHK is now a CW station.

[@micks336]

Damn! These commercials used to be my babysitter. They raised me!

[@BoredGamer]

I think that was around the time I got an Atari 2600 for Xmas with Desert Falcon and Ms. Pac-Man. Ahh... I miss that system.

[@alyfan1]

if i remember correctly that was also the last "new" season of the jetsons. oh and they still make the maple town dolls but you can only find em in specialty stores, my pal worked at one last year that sold em. hey val kilmer, the original arigorn! lol, i love W.i.l.l.o.w.!

[@TheMoogleMaster]

I love Maple Town, i wish it was on DVD! Wow they were still selling the Atari 2600! After the NES came out that thing was a dinosaur.

[@adamv242]

That giant bubble thing @2:35 is too hilarious. Friggin' gay! That toy is probably responsible for more wedgies that anything.

[@vicious-pi3rd]

Popeye had his spinach to get himself out of jams. Sugar Bear had his cereal to get him out from a whales mouth..interesting.

[@vicious-pi3rd]

Remember the cereal Kabooms

[@saibasabu]

I'm almost certain the brunette girl from the Wish World Kids commercial is Danielle Harris from "Halloween" and "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" fame!! :D

[@RyelSteele]

Quote: (I wish I were old enough to have seen this in the theater) I did see this in the theater. Now I feel positively ancient. And I'm not even 40 yet.

[@micks336]

I feel the same about Batman with Michael Keaton. It was one of the three movies we went to as a kid. Your really old when you remember standing in line to see ET! Lol. And it's sold out!!

[@wildsmiley]

So did I. A couple of times in fact. I was 9.

[@MeInTX]

I wonder just how much of that $2.35 from the He-Man phone calls actually went to local science museums? I wonder if each state's attorney general's office sponsored the "Just Say No" ad in their own states, since I'm fairly certain that the California attorney general wasn't all that concerned about keeping Dallas/Fort Worth kids off drugs, and yet I saw that ad many, many, many times growing up.

[@tanquantwal]

Kids don't have to get their parents permission nowadays to run up outrageous phone bills. They have their own cellphones. Even in kindergarten! God bless the 80s. Glad to have lived in it.

[@wiseowl2323]

To add insult to injury, KBHK 44 was my hometown station. 😣

[@brian85013]

I remember fighting over Surfin Sugar Bear with my brother and sisters when we found him.

[@amberjohnston5733]

Maple town seems like calico critters

[@adogg619]

Remember, get your parents permission before you call.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

I can't help wondering how many kids got in trouble with their parents for calling those numbers without permission?

[@louie77]

@ 2:07, REALLY? damn kid just wants to build his castle and the freakin honey nut cheerios bee decides to be creepy and sneak up on the kid. damn 80s

[@megamanxtc]

WILLOW! That movie is one of my favorites! Seen it soooo many times! I can't believe it only got PG though. Would've thought PG-13.

[@80sCommercialVault]

A boy eats cereal and is whisked away to magical cartoon world with crazy animals. Clearly not your common breakfast table experience. Hence...Hallucinations.

[@sweetjoey2]

ONE more comment i believe big bad moe is also known as nord the barb. and was a wrestler for the wwe. and also i'm still waiting for the now IMFAMOUS andre the giant honeycomb ad. he did love kids and i've heard had a heart as big as he was

[@orion5175]

LOL I had four of the maple town bears that were given to me by my aunt. I remember fighting them with my G.I joe in a massive battle some of the maple bears didn't make it.....R.I.P :-(

[@mikekaraoke]

i remember when my dad got the Amiga in 85 then got Amiga 500 in 87:]

[@PrincessofPower84]

Those He-Man voices are "effed" up. I so miss Mel Blanc, and Lorenzo Music as well. And am I the only one that has never seen Willow? I mean it NEVER comes on! >:(

[@UltimateThanos]

Say no to radioactive grbleclplatx! Because intergalactic crack is wack!

[@st4ngeI2]

funny you mention Willow - I did see that movie in the theater! Great flick too

[@aurosne]

Thanks for uploading all of these. One question, how did you get all of these?

[@Aestros909]

Sweet commercials. I love all the jingles. Those stuffed animals are disturbing. I loved Moondreamers when I was little. That one deserves a reboot if Rainbow Bright and MLP got one.

[@dp100eboggan]

And the 2600 was under $50! Fifty bucks back then was like a hundred-fifty today!

[@RusefoxGhostArchives]

Good... Commercials I can dance to... Wait, THEYRE NOT ON TV NOW?!?!? Dang it.......

[@jedipathworking]

rainbow brite had a phone number thing before too and me and my sister got our stuff like 8 months later and when it got to the house the kites were broken

[@Brayds2006]

Alright, another volume! Thanks for this. :)

[@katrus]

@Cambria2007 It was a trash can lid. Not-so-subtle way of equating drugs with garbage.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Nah, these are edited together. Typical breaks usually last around 2 minutes.

[@NoxHardigan]

Nosy bears eh? Now there's one thing about the 80's I missed.

[@kj232009]

Man why did I have to grow up!

[@staticmunk7777]

oh nosey bears where have you gone to and miss watching care bears and my little pony n friends back to back on channel 11 back in the day

[@brucesv912]

"bubble thing"? and that's as creative a name as whammo could come up with?

[@badbadworld00]

i live in the 80's when i was in my 1 1/2 years those days are the bomb bring back the 80's ill b happy as a kid ooops i mean adult lol

[@rubberguard83]

nice judo wrestling throw he-man @ 0:42

[@glovesies]

Sugar Bear was such a smarmy jerk.

[@ketaburgess1505]

these old commercials bring back childhood memories ...#gilmorest

[@Angela-sv2vg]

My fav were 2. 8. And 9.

[@WastedPo]

The Willow ad is interesting in how they clearly tried to make Val Kilmer look like the protagonist. (Although, he is in the movie for quite a bit, so I guess it's not that outrageous a deception.)

[@turquoise15]

i love the bubble thing comment!

[@wildsmiley]

I saw Willow in the theater back in '88...multiple times. Remember the toys? More like little lead figurines. But hey.

[@wildsmiley]

That same theater I first saw Willow, I had also seen The Black Cauldron a few years earlier.

[@craig29t]

I saw Willow at the theater

[@juleshitchin1906]

fuck that He-Man hotline at $2.35 a minute for a recorded message really is criminal. - Corey - Story - Allegory - Montessori