80's Commercials Vol. 54

These commercials aired on local Fox affiliate KTVU on March 10th, 1989
1. "Punky Brewster" Commercial Bumper
2. Frosted Flakes (Anthropomorphic cartoon tigers are awesome at white water rafting! Also: Garfield magic tricks!)
3. Naturalizer Shoe Event
4. Promo for "Silver Spoons"
5. "Punky Brewster" Commercial Bumpers
6. Twizzlers (There's just something about the concept of floating mouths biting things that's always creeped me out. I wonder why?)
7. WWF at the Cow Palace (With Macho Man Randy Savage vs. The Ultimate Warrior! Also: The Fabulous Rougeau Bros., The Bushwhackers, Akeem and Big John Studd! I'm just going to pretend I know who all of these people are)
8. Ortho Mattresses
9. The Woodsy Team PSA (Hmm, I looked quite a bit like the kid at 3:25 as a four year old)
10. Grape Nuts (What's up with that tiny cereal box?)
11. Pepsi (This is actually pretty rare: this ad was pulled soon after Madonna's "controversial" music video for "Like A Prayer" came out)
12. Autowest Toyota Warehouse
13. Promo for "Three's Company"
14. Foot Locker
15. Foot Locker
16. TV Spot for "The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen"
17. NyQuil (Good god, what is that noise at 6:32? A wounded eagle?)
18. Clothestime
19. Missing Kid PSA (With John Walsh. Sad...)
20. Skyhawk At Great America
21. Pedia Care (These kids are cute. The animated boxes, however, are frightening)
22. Promo for "Legend" (Tim Curry is awesome)
23. Eureka! Lotto Scratcher
24. Promo for "Newhart" (I miss the days when "Nick At Nite" played this show)

[@holbrooke7]

Macho Man vs. the Ultimate Warrior, LMFAO Those were the days when I actually bought a lot of hat pro-wrestling stuff. It's not as good now.

[@silentbeast2350]

Holly Brooke 80s was the golden era 90s was great attitude era and now it's good again go watch

[@StormsongK]

You never realize how much you'll miss commercials for the most mundane stuff...women's shoes for instance...until you look back at them like this and realize how much they are a product of their time. They way they're shot, edited, the MUSIC they use...I'd prefer 10 drain cleaner commercials from the 80s over one modern ANYTHING commercial, cause they're an instant time machine. Thanks to 80sCommercialVault for being the pilot.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Hmm, the only truly scary Tim Curry thing I can think of is his Tour de Force musical number in "The Worst Witch".

[@80sCommercialVault]

I never watched Small Wonder, but me and my sister would watch "Saved By The Bell" and "Out Of This World" in the afternoons on KTVU beginning probably around 1991.

[@veelalynne]

I just figured people freaked out because of the black "Jesus" guy, the cross burnings, the fact that Madonna kisses the black guy (OMG, right?), and the overall "Catholic" overtone. LOL, if there's more, I'm dying to know! :D

[@RoxyAlexander]

I agree completely about the Twizzlers mouths. As soon as I saw that, I flashed back to this crazy show I used to watch all the time called "Puttin on the HIts". The beginning featured all these disembodied lips, and it was one of the most frightening things I have ever seen. That, and Alan Fawcett's permullet.

[@jwgreek8606]

Hell Mike, WGN America is airing it every Sunday Night on Outta Sight Retro Night. Also you can watch it online. WGN aired it before Nick at Nite did ya know.

[@burgernfries9720]

I went to the WWF event at the cow palace in 89

[@ptb267ii]

I think KTVU at this time did not have FOX programming 7 nights a week. Do you know when exactly when KTVU started to have FOX programming on all nights?

[@dignityshmignity]

Don't get me started on the Dead Wrestlers Society, but I miss the theatrics, back stories, and even the entrance themes of the 80's Superstars. Luke and Butch vs. Ramon and Jacque! One-Man Gang is now Akeem! Ultimate Warrior is my all-time favorite.

[@pika23]

I sent a picture I drew to soleil Moon Frye and she sent me an autographed pic. Not stamped it was definitely really written on with sharpie. I thought I was the shit! I thin it was 1987

[@berto1169]

Shocker. Most of the wrestlers in that WWF promo are actually still alive.

[@eefbeef09]

I said punky power as fast as I could, and they weren't back

[@timothysprengeler4071]

2:45--Although I was born in 1971, I love 60's music and was tickled to hear Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin' All Night" in the Ortho mattress commercial! I'm not familiar with that brand of mattress, but I'm a gardener, so I am very familiar with the Ortho brand of garden chemicals. 9:20--Antenna TV reran "Newhart" a few years back, and Me TV simultaneously ran the original "Bob Newhart Show." Neither show is currently on those channels' schedules; I hope they put them back on at some point.

[@dignityshmignity]

20. Skyhawk. He's the love child of Al Bundy and Super Dave Osborne. 24. Loved Newhart. It even had a lovely theme song. R.I.P.- Macho Man, Ultimate Warrior, Big John Studd.

[@kidmclain]

ricky from sliver spoons was so cute

[@80sCommercialVault]

I was basically forced to watch it, since my older sister had reign over the family room TV in those days. Each episode had the kids face some sort of horrible, depressing problem and learning some sort of lesson. Lessons aside, some of the issues tackled just seem incredibly intense and messed up for a kids show. The episode with the giant spider, "Perils Of Punky" is on youtube. It's seriously like highly concentrated nightmare fuel. +Recommended

[@80sCommercialVault]

@MeInTX We have Dairy Queen over here, but it definitely isn't advertised on TV.

[@apachette07]

I meant Pedia Care....lol.

[@RoxyAlexander]

I don't think anyone died on Skyhawk...Willard's Whizzer, Logger's Run, Yankee Clipper, Flight Deck, Drop Zone and Boomerang Bay are the only rides that have had deaths or serious injuries that I am aware of.

[@aoinatafanboy84]

Punky Power!

[@naeema]

Punky Brewster & Silver Spoons where among my favorite TV shows as a kid,thanks so much for posting.

[@rburton76]

Don't know about Skyhawk at Great America, but a ride exactly like it, at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, had a kid fall out of it not a week after I was on it.

[@holbrooke7]

And WOW yeah, that Pepsi commercial IS rare! You got lucky that you were able to get it on tape before the "Like a Prayer" video came out.

[@pika23]

I was wondering about that Ultimate Warrior match...then I realized savage was a heel by that point and lost the belt at Wrestlemania V

[@MeInTX]

For whatever reason, that Twizzlers ad was imprinted on my memory. I never did like the stuff (they tasted like slightly flavored plastic). I don't know if they have Dairy Queens on the west coast, but if you don't like disembodied lips, I'd avoid seeing their commercials. The reason that Grape-Nuts box was so tiny? It's because when you take your first bite and realize it's perhaps the worst cereal you've ever had, you won't have to waste as much.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

3:45--Geez; am I the only person on these threads who likes Grape-Nuts? When I was growing up, we always had Grape-Nuts on hand because it was the one cereal that everyone in my immediate family liked.

[@apachette07]

I remember Punky Brewster and Pedia Sure!!! Didn't they recently pull that off of the shelf? And that ClothesTime commercial was pure 80's! Love it!!!

[@Trainlover1995]

As someone who only started watching WWE in June 2015, the only names I recognize in that commercial are Randy Savage and Ultimate Warrior, both of whom are, sadly, now deceased. And it's a shame, because we could really use some new Slim Jim commercials with a professional wrestler. Ooh, I know! Who better than New Day?

[@eriksojka9209]

That's funny I just seen the movie legend last week. Have it on DVD. Great movie!!!

[@DanZero77]

Around the mid 90s, that NyQuil lady (or someone similar sounding) would return for a new set of ads with that same "wounded eagle" sound at the end!

[@Koide9]

I can remember that Frosted Flakes commerial as if it had aired yesterday, but I do not remember any of the others from this set.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

0:04--The Frosted Flakes commercial is the one I remember best from this volume also. It must have aired on "grown-up" TV also, because in 1989 I was 18 years old and had outgrown "kiddie" shows.

[@DanZero77]

Around the mid 90s, that "wounded eagle" NyQuil lady would return with a new set of ads!

[@jwgreek8606]

dang that Nyquill commercial has been going on for years!

[@simaodrew7589]

At 6:21 - is the guy wearing anything when he comes out of the bathroom?

[@TheArtHabit]

now they have the commercials all the time, at least in So Cal

[@alramone1]

in junior high, i watched ktvu everyday after school, too cool!

[@tlo65]

Hey that's my affiliate

[@whatevers31]

NOW PAY ATTENTION

[@armanddeblois463]

hey its thurl ravenscroff?

[@80sCommercialVault]

If you know his name it seems pretty unlikely that you wouldn't know he did the voice of Tony the Tiger

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Although uncredited, he also sang the "You're A Mean One" song in the animated version of "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

[@Thrillerlover96]

2:26 RIP Randy Savage =(