80's Commercials Vol. 283

These commercials aired on ABC on September 9th, 1989. Thanks to Michael C. for sending these!
1. The Main Hobby Center (Secondary Hobby Center is way better, ladies)
2. Promo for "College Football Showdown At High Noon" (This is one of the worst gold prospector impressions I've ever heard)
3. "Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters" Commercial Bumper
4. Campbell's Soup
5. Dolly Surprise
6. "Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters" Commercial Bumper
7. "After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
8. Joking Around With The Little Clowns
9. Quaker Apple Cinnamon & Oats Oatmeal (With Popeye!)
10. Handi-Snacks (I kind of want that sleeping bag)
11. Promo for "Beetlejuice"
12. "Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters" Commercial Bumper
13. "After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
14. Chef Boyardee Tic Tac Toe's (I win!)
15. Robocop (Kids! Now you can reenact scenes from your favorite ultra violent, R-rated film!)
16. Oreo
17. Kool Aid Koolers
18. Computer Critters PSA (Wow...)
19. "Slimer And The Real Ghostbusters" End Credits
20. ABC Station ID
21. "After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
22. Bubble Yum (The taste that rocks my face)
23. Life Savers

[@Gardnertino]

Kids today will never know the pure bliss of a sugary bowl of cereal and blocks of the greatest cartoons and shows ever on a Saturday morning. THEE best.

[@U-rok]

I agree. Except if you look at cereal like Lucky Charms today, I think there's more marshmallow bits in it than there was 30 years ago.

[@viralshadow]

No doubt. Saturday mornings were like a ritual, a kind of reward for dealing with school the rest of the week. Now kids can just stream. Seems like something great was lost

[@QUAHOV1]

Thumbs up for "After these messages, we'll be riiiight back"

[@MarcusG1963]

The 1980's ROCKED!!! This was a time where cartoon's were played when you got up to go to school, and when you came home after school Monday - Friday and then SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON'S!!! This was a time where cartoons had awesome intros that jammed and the artist put effort into the drawing to make the character look like art! A time where MTV actually played music videos! I'm 39 and the 1980's will always live long in you tube and for everyone that experienced these great cartoons will live forever in our memories! Miss You 1980's and thanks for the wonder memories!

[@goldenboi778]

What a GREAT TIME it was being a kid in the 80's..

[@candygirl4357]

I miss my child hood 😭😭😭 good times 😍😍😍 had family members who were alive back then who aren't here now

[@justintahair9119]

ahh the memories i was a campbell soup with stars kid my grandmother use tomake themformefor lunch

[@ericmoore2047]

That's right me too😢

[@xXJohnBlazeXx]

candy girl best times got cousins no longer here we used to be at our granny’s house early Saturday morning cereal bowl cereal cold milk tv ready lol

[@Thunderdad974]

And today. We are watching these on hand held computers.

[@niabelizaire3596]

And watching these on hand held cell phones.

[@Gildedbutterfly1976]

God I miss my childhood. The 80's were the best!!!!!!!!!

[@martymcfly754]

Indeed Sheels1976 it was fun to be a kid in the 80s and it was a blast!!!!

[@maiajones9765]

Sheels1976 yes they were was an 80s child too

[@Gangularis]

Yes it was.

[@jartist2918]

Sheels1976 me too born in 75 grew up in 80s was fun

[@goldcherry103]

Me too.

[@Hugginsince79]

Best childhood ever. Saturday morning TV til noon then outside creative play until after dark.

[@fantasyqwest]

Back in the good old days when we HAD to wake up early if we wanted to watch cartoons on Saturday mornings :-) (sigh) i miss those carefree days. Thank you so much for this!

[@maiajones9765]

fantasyqwest me too I grew up in the 80s those were the days Saturday morning cartoons with cereal and then right after the cartoons went off it was outside time.

[@EdwardWeissbard]

Yes very true, I do remember. It seems things were a little more meaningful back then.

[@barbarahagan1757]

I love old commericals from the 80's and 90's. They bring back my child hood.

[@themusiclover30]

Love the commercial bumpers with the cowboy and horse and three man and women! Remember them like it was yesterday. I also love the oatmeal, computer critters and joking around with the little clowns. I don't recall the oreo one, but I the jingle I still do.

[@tigermaximus8003]

ooohh i saw it maan!;) especialy the cowboy big hat. and hores falling on him jajaj nicee

[@ShyteKreek46]

Isn't it ironic that as kids commercials aggravated the crap out of us and now we watch compilations of them on KZbin? XD

[@80sCommercialVault]

Maybe it's just me but growing up commercials (especially those geared toward kids)!didn't really bother me. It was a way to see new toys, video games, movies etc. and they were well produced. Commercials these days on the other hand...

[@juliawhite7152]

And notice how the squirrel's name is hacker? Lmao

[@davidwilkins2955]

Julia White *raccoon

[@juliawhite7152]

Well they're all critters, lmao

[@juliawhite7152]

Yeah, we didn't realize how good we had it, lol

[@bagsnbistros3646]

Did Popeye just say "damn the spinach?" Haha

[@MrPepsidrinker22]

it sounds like that but he actually says "Can the spinach"

[@fernandorocha6486]

Popeye is no eat spinach, he in commercial Quaker

[@johnbockelie3899]

No Popeye said, " Can the spinach".

[@commercialmaniac3189]

Love these commercials, they take me back in the day when we asked our folks for whatever we wanted, get allowance and didn't have to worry a bout bills or taxes ;)

[@Astronopolis]

yes! the one ad for the doll, the girl was holding 2 of them and told the viewer to basically ask your grandma to buy you one she totally will buy you 2. would never work these days...

[@MrSilver2509]

I miss the `80 man

[@Halciett]

I've got a fragment of a commercial from the late 80's stuck in my head for about 10 years. A saxophone-like instrument is playing in the background, and some children yell "real kids rock!". I know I'll find it someday.

[@thomaswil8]

Damn this makes me miss my mom and dad.

[@benito0032]

I loved Handi-Snacks! Just not enough cheese but what a convenient little cheese spreader

[@jonmichaelhalsey6471]

I was 6 in 1989 and I clearly remember watching a big clunky swivel TV in my living room.

[@carla3180]

Saturday cartoons were the best back than every channel was filled with cartoons unlike today

[@jerryspann8713]

Today it is infomercial after infomercials

[@ladycplum]

I actually remember the little "after these messages" breaks more than the cartoons! I seriously miss the old Nickelodeon shows, You Can't Do That on Television, Pinwheel, Today's Special, Out Of Control, Mr. Wizard.......

[@jasetraber]

Great. It took over 20 years to get that "TIC TIC TIC TIC TIC TAC TOE's" jingle out of my head and now it's back in there. :P

[@jonmcalexander6475]

jasetraber the kid who acted in the commercial looks like a kid in my town who hung himself back in 88

[@truartist5379]

After these messages...*swaps heads* we’ll be riiiight back!

[@damienchance2622]

That the scary part

[@goldenboi778]

Thx for the AWESOME memories,,LONG LIVE THE 80's

[@80sCommercialVault]

@CarlD2 The Beetlejuce cartoon WAS a hit. It aired for four seasons on ABC and beginning in 1991 ran on the Fox Kids afternoon lineup...making it one of the few shows to air on two networks concurrently. I wasn't a big fan of it, but it was very popular during the early-mid 90's.

[@MrPepsidrinker22]

I liked it as kid and I got the DVD set at Wally World and my son loves it. He even gets the crude humor and the puns.

[@GokuMcDuck]

Thanks for showing these. I sure miss my childhood. I was just in first grade when these ads happened. Also with my mother recently passing... it gives me other things.

[@raspberrymuffin]

Lol I remember the bumpers from when I used to watch Garfield and Friends on Saturday mornings in the early and mid 1990s. It's also so weird to watch these commercials, and think all these children are now in their late 20s/early 30s like me. Trippy. O.o

[@laschan2001]

Wow, my eyes are tearing up with joy because I remembered these commercials. Oh what sweet memories:-) I just missed how each commercial do not have all those impossible to read "fine prints" compared to the commercials now.

[@tha8thof8]

These were the best days ever!! I miss the 80s and 90s soooo much!!

[@Stellaluna88]

I am from NEPA and remember shopping at The Main Hobby Center. Thanks for posting!

[@InfectedChris]

I remember that commercial from when I was a kid.

[@JJtoob]

Dat computer lol. Monochrome CRT monitors, 5¼ floppies, dot matrix printers... The only thing we went back to was mechanical keyboards.

[@sharjjahnaziz4122]

Oh my gosh I remember this..." After these messages we'll be right back."

[@SMAXZO]

As a person who is a)Not born in the 80's and b)Not even an American, I would like to thank you for this. I see this as a time capsule of stuff from the 80's and I wanted to know why folks loved the 80's so much.

[@cheloperez-sl2br]

good god its like im in a time machine of 1980 bliss!!!!! holy shit i wish there was such a thing

[@zombighoulfriend]

My brother had that robocop action figure. Those caps he shot kinda hurt!! Haha ahhhhhhhhhhh those were the days

[@katienchris4ify]

Man the 80's were awesome.

[@erieschneiter2279]

Some 80s commercials were terrifying. The Noid and California Raisins scared the hell out of me as a child.

[@audieme]

"Word processing really helps!" lol, i love these commercials

[@kippaseo8027]

Oh my God I'm 39 and can still remember these commercials and most of the jingles. Is that sad or what?

[@myst4hire1]

Not at all!

[@juliawhite7152]

God these were some good days :'-D

[@apachette07]

I remember some of these commercials lol. Like the "After these Messages, we'll be right back". As for the Chef Boyardee, what exactly do you win for getting three in a row? Lol. And I forgot the Kool-Aid Jammers use to come in the cardboard boxes. How could I forget? I use to inhale those things after school lol.

[@80sCommercialVault]

@Custom09 FCC restrictions on children's programming imposed in the late 90's are what killed Saturday morning cartoons for the most part.

[@BlackMambas82]

Thank God I'm an 80s baby!! These were the best times to be a kid! Things were so simple back then! How did we not notice the 80s and 90s leave? If I could only hop in a time machine! 😪😪😪

[@c-mac]

Don’t you just miss when things were fun back then.

[@joker092510]

Miss the 80s when it was great to wake up Saturday mornings and watch cartoons , can't watch these cartoon these days

[@barbarahagan1757]

I, miss the 80's and 90's childhood it was the best ever. We ,had cool toys ever better than now days toys. Love it very much 80's and 90's we rock!!!!

[@antisoul82]

LITTLE CLOWNS OF HAPPY TOWN!!! No one remembers this show? I used to have ABC Saturday Mornings on VHS, but my stupid sister chucked them!! Great memories

[@vicious0111]

What a shame how much things has change. I miss the 80's so much.

[@BlueAshes]

suddenly..I felt 3-5 years again....:')

[@bufordmaddogtannen514]

I have the Tic Tac Toes commercials on a vhs tape I made in the 80's :)

[@nickabenson]

2:21 Popeye said Damn in an Oatmeal commercial

[@bartman1238]

They used the bumper for abc kids in the 90s

[@celticthistle619]

That computer PSA was amazing.

[@CaptainAshSpearow]

Robocop. A movie that almost got an X rating for its violence naturally has a line of action figures and vehicles out.

[@Aestros909]

No. 16 "Oreo action" is one of my favorite jingles!!! I'm hunting for the quality jingles. I love it.

[@thebyronicheroine]

thank you i feel happy when i watch this

[@happydragonpictures]

Which onset the era of bland cartoon shows we have today. Thanks a lot, FCC

[@DeAngeloStevens]

16 years before Smackdown changing into Friday Nights on UPN

[@ScratStitch]

I've seen Popeye advertise oatmeal, chocolate cereal, but not spinach for some reason.

[@Idoljunky32]

I'm 38 and I remember these!! I come from a big family (I'm the 2nd youngest) so I had nieces and nephews around my age, and I'd use to babysit one of my older sister kids every Saturday Morning while she worked and Saturday Morning Cartoons were big in her house. These commercials and cartoon shorts bring back fond memories. I really remember Computer Critters skit!! Great Job as always!!

[@MastaGambit]

Okay. That kid on the fucking tictactoes commercial is fucking AWESOME XDDDD

[@Jensuarezgonzalez]

Pure nostalgia.

[@JoshuaSmith99]

the track on that first commercial is straight 🔥🔥

[@DanZero77]

I believe that was a Robocop animated series, if it was on TV it was more than likely syndicated.

[@AllieRX]

3:25 - 3:31 The best bumper.

[@DanZero77]

Didn't matter how violent the source material was, that was what was cool about the 80s, you can still get them as action figures (with cap guns!) "Hacker Critter" ? Was ABC telling us to invade systems in 89? The taste that rocks my face -- only 25 years ago TV was better!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Some of us have to be reminded surely.

[@GokuMcDuck]

@madgang201 lol I sure miss that. How such things were adapted for young audiences. 9/11 and the Timberlake/Jackson thing sure have changed things for worse. But I had no idea the same thing happened in the 70's. Nowadays everything is terrible, specially the music.

[@Stellaluna88]

I also recognized Miss Judy from Hatchy Milatchy doing the voice over for WNEP.

[@pneumaticacutie]

The girl walking with a cow must really love her Oreo's enough to get milk for me :P. I wonder: if the voice of the Raccoon in the Computer Critters PSA voiced by Rob Paulson?

[@myworldproductions]

The commercial at 3:28 was scary to see back in the day.

[@spindalis79]

Oh yeah...Don't Forget about What Would You Do, Don't Just Sit There, Hey Dude, Noozles, and Dr. Snuggles!

[@michaellanej]

Awesome memories!

[@myst4hire1]

The 80's in its final days 😢

[@jillthinksimabreakfasttaco4904]

I need a time machine. I'd much rather be living in the 80s than today. No smartphones, no internet, no social media. Saturday morning cartoons. Life was simpler back then.

[@japaneseninjaguy]

lol, rated R movies promos on children advertising.... i remember child's play as well with all that voodoo crap that haunted children who went to the theaters with the toughts just to see a ''playful'' dolly

[@ChanguitaLove]

I miss my childhood. 2020 it’s full of chaos

[@TuxedoKnox]

I think he said "Can the spinach" lol

[@AKcharger]

Go 80's!

[@silverose1209]

@GokuMcDuck Ha its not so bad. I am 31 now. Watching these comercials sure do take me back to my childhood though.

[@CarlD2]

"Taste that rocks my face"? Is that all they came up with?

[@ANDREW__AA]

i remember when i had toys from rated R movies ...

[@raspberrymuffin]

@GokuMcDuck 30 in November. I'm feeling it too.

[@TheAmerind]

These aren't that old are they, they seem like I just watched them yesterday

[@mefault]

Whoa...forgot all about that Life Savers ad (wow, what memories : D) I used to love those Computer Critters PSA's. I believe there was about 3-4 of them... BTW, I've come to the conclusion that Popeye must be a vegan, lol

[@blugreen123]

that computer PSA was so delightfully retro. esp. the giant floppy disc is it just me, or does "Dolly Surprise" just look like she has a giant mullet? How awesome would it be to still have one of those Handi-Snacks sleeping bags?

[@madgang201]

How did they promote R-rated films to kids at the time? First I see 70s toy ads for "Alien" and then "Aliens" and now "Robocop"? What was up with that?

[@413slim]

I had that robo cop toy. I noticed back then a lot of toys had the exploding caps involved. That would never float today, parents would be too afraid to buy them and the kids would find some way to injure themselves.

[@AllieRX]

Who's the Ultra Police? I don't remember them in the RoboCop movies.

[@CelesteK]

I was 13 and there wouldn't be any way that I would stick stickers like that on my bike helmet. :P

[@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate]

The Chef Boyardee tic tac toe commercial reminded me how much better they tasted back then. They taste like garbage now because the sauce at some point was made stronger.

[@Donflorgon]

Did Popeye say "Damn the spinach"?????

[@CarlD2]

@80sCommercialVault Thanks for letting me know. I didn't remember it. I mostly just remember the X-Men cartoon from those years, and the Batman animated series. I just remember the movie being such gallows humor, it's strange to see it translated to a Saturday morning cartoon.

[@CarlD2]

Beetlejuice was a very adult movie - I'm not too surprised the cartoon version wasn't a hit. I'm surprised the Popeye people let them do a commercial where he isn't interested in spinach, since it's a big part of the character's brand. I remember those Robocop commercials.

[@SMAXZO]

Also..what is with the 80's with taking movies known for very high body count and marketing to kids?

[@cirulis37]

I enjoyed the memories but when "The Real Ghostbusters" became "Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters" the show turned to crap. Lol

[@WeerdMunkee]

Tim Cirulis Yes it did. Real Ghostbusters and Transformers were my two cartoons, and I remember not being happy at all when they changed it. I felt cheated. Lol

[@videodoe]

Wow... was that Adam Sandler doing the voiceover on that promo for "College Football Showdown At High Noon???" LOL!

[@murrishmo]

What were these restrictions? I didn't know anything about them! I just assumed there were still Saturday morning cartoons :(

[@STEFAZON500]

Thousands enter hundreds win XD

[@MissLeigh78]

This is depressing and makes me feel really old. Thanks!