80's Commercials Vol. 509

These commercials aired on NBC on March 5th and 19th, 1989
1. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumper
2. Snickers
3. McDonald's Mickey's Birthdayland Happy Meal (I definitely had the Goofy and Donald toys)
4. Promo for "NBC Saturday Morning"
5. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumpers
6. Snickers Commercial Bumper
7. Snickers
8. Wendy's Chicken Parmesan Sandwich
9. Kellogg's Mini-Wheats
10. Promo for "ALF" and "The Hogan Family"
11. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumper
12. Double Mint Gum
13. Pepsi
14. Carnation Good Nature
15. Geo Prism (With Harlan Ellison. I have no horn, and I must honk)
16. Wrigley Gum (Partial)
17. Lays (Partial. Commercials starting here are from 3/19/89)
18. KNSD Weather Bumper
19. NBC Come Home To The Best Bumper
20. Promo for "Swiss Family Robinson"
21. "The Magical World of Disney" Intro (With Michael Eisner)
22. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumper
23. Kellogg's Raisin Bran
24. Maybelline Great Lash Mascara (Wow at that cat)
25. Wendy's Chicken Parmesan Sandwich
26. Promo for "ALF" and "The Hogan Family"
27. Ego Common Sense Oat Bran Waffles (Finally, waffles for straight edge yuppies)
28. Dentyne
29. Butter
30. Kodak Batteries (With Stevie Wonder)
31. Promo for "Highway To Heaven"
32. Promo for "Bob Hope's Easter Vacation in the Bahamas" (LUSCIOUS LATOYA JACKSON)
33. Bounty (Great job Rosie, you ruined one of the natural wonders of the world with your damn towels)
34. Quaker Oat Squares
35. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumper
36. Promo for "Family Ties" and "Return Of The Jedi"
37. Boat House Restaurant
38. KNSD Weather Bumper
39. "The Magical World of Disney" Commercial Bumper
40. FTD
41. Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo
42. Scrabble at McDonald's
43. Wrigley Gum (Still probably my favorite jingle)
44. Kellogg's Cracklin' Oat Bran
45. TV Spot for "The Rescuers"
46. Promo for "Super DuckTales" (I posted the ads from this in Vols. 421 and 422) and "The Last Electric Knight" (TAE KWON DO-LEMA!)
47. "Swiss Family Robinson" End Credits
48. Promo for "Peter Pan"
49. Vons (Their unethical genetic cloning practices were stopped later that year)
50. Foot Locker (Wow)

[@DanZero77]

There's a.... LOT going on in this video. - Harlan Ellison hawking cars - Pepsi in Russia - Oat Bran waffles for the "yuppies" - Stevie Wonder singing about batteries - The weirdest guest lineup in that Bob Hope Special - Merlin Olsen for FTD - America, hell yeah (Wrigley) - "Tae Kwon Do Lema" (seriously?) That's what made the 80s so great.

[@chrislang9442]

"You know I get hung over but a lot of times a Snickers bar holds me over through my next drinking binge, It really is satisfying."

[@TTrigg]

NBC Saturday Morning-just wasnt the same by the end of the 80s Hogan Family-i remember the friend in the gray jacket died of AIDS later on down the line after a trip to Europe.. was a sad episode :( Foot Locker-i'm sure you'll end up in the hospital after visiting Gargantuan Green's locker lol

[@shatterball]

8:39 Disney actually abandoned Discovery Island in 1999 after a controversy involving various birds on the island being shot at and beaten 10 years prior.

[@myst4hire1]

Even though I love Quaker Square Oats now, I would never touch the stuff back when I was a kid. Smurf Berry Cereal, Capn Crunch, Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops were my faves.

[@yusakug]

8:51 - How low must you view your own self worth to consider yourself unworthy of cereal?

[@darktetsuya]

wow I thought that looked like a young ernie reyes jr. ... amazing to see him before his debut in tmnt 2! another great collection of ads

[@80sCommercialVault]

Kinda goes without saying but TMNT 2 was not his debut. The first part of this video shows some of his scenes from "The Last Dragon" and "Red Sonja" (Both from 1985) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZSok6uLf85qq6M "The Last Electric Knight" itself was the pilot movie for a one-season TV series where he played the main character: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidekicks_(TV_series)

[@darktetsuya]

ah I stand corrected -- forgot he had other roles prior to that!

[@jhutto1984]

The Magical World of Disney, always the best part of a Sunday night.

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

I can see why this is uploaded *now*. Because it has a few mentions of Easter. So, it's here in time for the Easter Weekend! 18:28 This was the first version of Peter Pan I've seen (I thought it was a '70s version because it was in that decade when I saw it. It was actually made in 1960!). It made me think that Peter Pan was a female! Well, ya know, I was only a little kid back then (and that Mary Martin played the part). Maybe a few years later, when I saw the Disney version, that was the time it became clear to me that the character is actually male. 19:19 Try playing that last segment at half-speed. :-D

[@MichaelMangi]

I remember my parents taping that broadcast of Peter Pan. We watched it for many years until the tape wore out.

[@SRHunt85]

I just watched the Super DuckTales story arc the other day in DVD. XD

[@jtb811]

Another great volume. I don't remember this one but I definitely remember that gizmoduck intro episode from the next week. I was so excited by that movie with ducktales being one of my favorite cartoons. I also love the promo for return of the jedi. I was mad about star wars as a little kid and always had to beg my parents to let me stay up and watch them until they gave me the original trilogy on VHS.

[@MrBoyYankee]

Gizmo Duckkkkk!!! And the last electric knight awesome!!!

[@cpowers94]

4:15 The Cold War ended when Kendall Jenner handed Mikhail Gorbachev a Pepsi

[@JT-sz7xc]

I remember when seeing a movie, like Star Wars on TV was something special, as a kid you counted down the days, and made sure you were planted in front of the TV 5 minutes early. Now days movies are on demand, and the time from theater to home viewing is weeks, not months or years, nothing magical or special about them anymore.

[@yusakug]

9:51 - Max Wright, the actor who played the father on ALF, apparently hated doing the show, because he was not fond of playing second fiddle to a puppet who got all the best lines.

[@Raffodude1992]

15:18 I remember this as a little kid when I used to watch Disney cartoons!!

[@Lurker1979]

RIP Harlan Ellison.

[@vicious-pi3rd]

Can this guy make it anymore obvious.In reading what to say for the product.Sheesh! 14:17

[@chrislang9442]

Why can't Wal-Mart take a tip from Von's?

[@FyberOptic]

Is that Robert Duncan McNeill, aka Tom Paris from Star Trek: Voyager, at 15:23? He woulda been about 25 at the time apparently.

[@Sean1983]

I like how the featured movie these commercials aired for is The Swiss Family Robinson, and then Alex Keaton says "What are we, the Swiss Family Robinson?" in the Family Ties commercial.

[@Boomska316]

Has Disney ever re-released any of these classic live action movies on DVD or Blu-Ray? If not they should.

[@80sCommercialVault]

+Boomska316 most of their big live action movies were released on DVD, with blu-ray they've released some through their mail order movie club.

[@newartmov]

This is so great. How can I play all of this through an old dusty tube tv?

[@luisgomez8774]

4:14 A curiosity regarding this commercial: Pepsi had been selling its soft drinks in the USSR since the 1960s and the Soviets exchanged Pepsi syrup from the US for bottles of Stolichnaya vodka. However, in the 80s during the last years of communism in Russia and in the midst of a terrible economic crisis, they came to exchange soviet warships and aircraft carriers for that syrup. It is for this reason that for a time PepsiCo had the fourth largest marine fleet in the world in the late 1980s.

[@teganlyons8169]

So is the dashboard computer in the Geo Prism run by AM?

[@philshaffer6219]

Pepsi ended the Cold War?

[@ronthatus]

What's the guy name at 10:47?

[@ChapBloke]

I hate to be pedantic, but shouldn't a Parmesan sandwich actually have Parmesan and not Mozzarella?

[@julianalvarez5198]

fattoler at least they told what is really included lol

[@stephanim2436]

Well..its called Chicken Parm not because of the cheese actually on the cheese but the fact that it originated in PARMA ITALY is where the name comes from..