80's Commercials Vol. 497

These commercials aired on ABC on December 19th, 1981. Merry Christmas!!!
1. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
2. Tonka Hand Command Turbo Prop
3. Cheerios
4. "Dough Nuts: Gordon Graham Gantz"
5. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" Commercial Bumper
6. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
7. Star Wars Darth Vader Collector's Case (With Peter Billingsly from "A Christmas Story")
8. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" Commercial Bumper
9. ABC Station ID
10. Toys 'R Us
11. Promo for "The Muppet Show"
12. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" Commercial Bumper
13. Burger King (With Holiday Magic Meals)
14. Aim
15. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" Commercial Bumper
16. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
17. "A Chipmunk Christmas" on LP (I had this on cassette tape as a kid)
18. Promo for "Frosty's Winter Wonderland" and "Leprechaun's Christmas Gold" ("Leprechaun's Christmas Gold" is one of the weirder Rankin Bass specials, I always liked it though)
19. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" Commercial Bumper
20. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
21. Dinky Donuts
22. Crest
23. The Bod Squad "Quickfast" PSA
24. "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show" End Credits ("A doomed circus" makes that Rudolph and Frosty special sound way darker and cooler than it actually is)
25. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
26. Sugar Crisp (Wow, another one of these insane ads with Sugar Bear transforming into a Were Bear)
27. Schoolhouse Rock Commercial Bumper (I had to edit the actual short out because the song was blocked for copyright, but you can watch it here: • I Got Six Schoolhouse ... )
28. ABC Station ID
29. Promo for "Kids Baffle"
30. Promo for "The Muppet Show"
31. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
32. McDonald's
33. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
34. Banana Frosted Flakes (Sounds disgusting, but I love this ad)
35. TV Spot for "Cinderella"
36. "The Best Things Come In Wrappers of Their Own" PSA
37. "Goldie Gold and Action Jack" Commercial Bumper (One of the more ridiculous cartoons in an era chock full of them: • Goldie Gold & Action J... )
38. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
39. Blueberry Flavor Waffleos (With free iron-on patch!)
40. Burger King (With Holiday Magic Meals)
41. "Dough Nuts: Jeffrey T. McPhail" (I wonder what they would have to say about online purchases)
42. Schoolhouse Rock: "Telegraph Line"
43. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
44. Strawberry Shortcake Strawberryland Miniatures
45. Schoolhouse Rock Commercial Bumper
46. ABC Station ID
47. McDonald's (With Ronald McDonald Coloring Calendar. That's Danny Pintauro from "Who's The Boss" at 19:14)
48. Promo for "The Muppet Show"
49. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
50. Bubble Yum Sweepstakes (With Jason Hervey)
51. "Thundarr The Barbarian" Commercial Bumper (Oooooh, "Valley of the Man-Apes"! I really need to watch this show someday lol)
52. We'll Return After These Messages Commercial Bumper
53. Fast111's
54. Beans and Rice PSA
55. "Thundarr The Barbarian" Commercial Bumper
56. TV Spot for "Cinderella"
57. Boy Scouts of America PSA (With The Oak Ridge Boys!)
58. "Goldie Gold"/"Thundarr The Barbarian" End Credits (Love hearing about all of the old Christmas specials airing)

[@davidsmith6997]

The toys r us commercial just killed me I still can't imagine this world without a true toy store or Saturday morning cartoons at that... I feel so sad for kids now a days

[@KatelynMatheson]

80s Commercial Vault, thanks. I love the chipmunks, I love the early 80s.

[@GreyBlackwell]

1:15 - "He was suave, debonair, he used oil on his air!" It's funny the lines that stick with you, even when you've long forgotten where they came from. Now I know!

[@DanZero77]

1981 was far out, man. Merry Christmas!

[@myst4hire1]

Man, do I remember this broadcast! I was in first grade and on Xmas break, of course. It was 6 days left until Christmas, and remember watching this while my Mom and Grandma were doing last minute shopping. This was the year that I first became familiar with the Christmas wish book and started pointing toys out to my Mom and Grandparents that I wanted for Christmas. One of my gifts was the Darth Vader Collector's Case, Star Wars action figures, Mini Pinball Machine, and few other things. Oh I got the C3PO Doll and R2D2 with a remote clicker. Yeah, Xmas 81 was definitely a memorable childhood for me.

[@leighburton832]

I remember all those commercials from when I was in the first grade.

[@miketroncin749]

02:32 "oh boy I finally got a full screen close-up!!! I'll be rich! I'll be famous! Everything's comin' up Dengar!!"

[@alskndlaskndal]

Wow, a holiday extravaganza of commercials! The Frosted Flakes was my favorite. Tony is usually so serious and competitive, it's fun to see him being a little silly here. I didn't know about that Chipmunks holiday special. I suppose it was the precursor to their 80s series.

[@jhutto1984]

Banana Frosted Flakes sound quite good. They ought to bring that back.

[@mikelcarrow2787]

This video is pure gold. Thanks for the memories.

[@DreamDancer82]

Oooh goody! A Strawberry Shortcake commercial I haven't seen yet!

[@Sabrina79]

DreamDancer82 I still have most of my collection, I was addicted to those miniatures!

[@darktetsuya]

man I remember fast ones! I remember having one as a kid.... that's something you never see anymore die cast cars with real state license plates.... man toys were so much better back then! (in most cases, I'm sure there's toys that weren't quite there because of technology limitations)

[@glamourgirl2123]

I missed the '80s altogether (I was born in 1991), but I love both this collection and the '70s one... keep up the awesome work, 80sCommercialVault! Looking forward to your next entries!

[@yusakug]

Thank you for this entire Christmas set. I loved them all, especially the volumes set around the first airing of the Simpsons Christmas Special. Congrats on almost hitting 500 with your 80s videos. Looking forward to the memories the year ahead has in store!

[@jamesanderson228]

Holy crap I remembered that Boy Scout commercial vaguely but for some reason it looked different in my head from when I was a kid

[@Farzee49]

I grew up in the D.C. area with ABC affiliate WJLA channel 7 and sometimes we would watch the Baltimore ABC affiliate WJZ 13's Saturday morning programming because there would be local kid stuff on and I SWEAR I have not seen "Kids Baffle" since it aired all of those years ago! I was a bit ahead academically, as a child, and I loved to watch question and answer game shows THIS one escaped my mind completely and thought I remembered that kind of stuff! Again, so happy to see it.

[@KatelynMatheson]

Same here

[@cheryllridley6216]

I was 3 and a half when this came out. I loved the Richie Rich & Scooby Doo hour. I remember those strawberry shortcake minatures too. My cousin had them & I wanted them so bad.

[@stephs.8134]

Banana Frosted Flakes? I have zero memory of that.

[@MichaelDanilowicz]

Ronald sure had a rocking band.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

Wafflos was great! The maple flavored one came with a waffle syrup.

[@sirlordford]

2:59 Arte Johnson from Laugh-In. Verrrry Interesting

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

Holy Moly! I remember just about every one of these! Although, I don't think I've *ever* heard of "Leprechaun's Christmas Gold". But I could remember seeing commercials for cartoon shows I've never seen, such as "The Richie Rich Scooby Doo Show (and Scrappy Too)" and (maybe) "Goldie Gold / Thundarr The Barbarian". I can also remember when Tony the Tiger didn't say "They're GRRREAT!" Instead, it was... -> 11:19 I've actually eaten that cereal and liked the taste of it! The "Dough Nuts" segments I might have seen but I didn't think I was paying attention to what the narrator was saying. 15:05 I've seen that once while being busy with whatever the heck I was doing, which could explain why I don't know the song... until now.

[@Lurker1979]

The mail order add amuses me. As it has not changed a whole lot even online. Ever been on Wish? lol

[@TTrigg]

Knew i should have held on to my Vader Collector's Case,it probably wouldve sold well on Ebay.. Goldie Gold & Action Jack-with all the lame reboots Hollywood is planning down the line this would be perfect for Comedy Central Waffelos-Maple flavor would have you making a dentist appointment lol

[@glamourgirl2123]

Banana Frosted flakes? I don't remember that one growing up...???

[@deborahchapman8896]

Glamour Girl 212 I do,it didn't last long. They brought it back briefly in the 90s.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I remember Goldie Gold, she was a Barbie 007

[@renevaldez5717]

Man I was 5 yrs old now I'm 43 shit times go so fast.😭😭😭

[@meem7283]

Darn. I was born Dec.19, 1982. A year later than these. I was wondering why I had never seen these. Oh well. They are still awesome and not much different than the ones I remember years later.

[@PrincessofPower84]

My older brother was only eight months old and my older sister was eight.

[@Jeffdraws101]

Kids skipping breakfast was an epidemic. Or maybe they were just like tying to push breakfast cereal.

[@teaganisokey8190]

Jeffdraws I remember school starting earlier and earlier in the 80s...by the 90s my first class started at 7, and that was after an hour bus ride, so my day started at 5am. And that was after going to bed around 11-12 (Spending all night studying/doing homework) No time for breakfast. Kids today have it even worse...I don't know how they do it.

[@Jeffdraws101]

Makse sense. I hadn't thought of kids that live far from school or have a large workload.

[@masonhhoffman]

Super Bear makes me uncomfortable

[@ScratStitch]

Jeffery didn't make a bad purchase. At two dollars, that's a good price for a toy boat.

[@NJGuy1973]

But he apparently thought he was going to get a 60-foot yacht.

[@glamourgirl2123]

9:31 By Mt. Airy do they mean Mt. Airy NC?

[@80sCommercialVault]

No, it's referring to Mount Airy Middle School in Mount Airy, Maryland...the state where this was recorded