80's Commercials Vol. 57

These commercials aired on Music Television in October of 1983.
1. Twix
2. Sansui (We had a giant stereo like that)
3. Star Trek (With Ernie Anderson's awesome voice)
4. Coty Wild Musk (Wow...)
5. Coffee Generation PSA (I refuse to believe this is real)
6. Baja by Murray
7. Galaxian (These video game commercials are pretty incredible)
8. Ocean Drive (Featuring "Beach Music" hits!)
9. Wrangler (This could be the intro to an incredible TV Series)
10. Raisinets
11. Hall & Oates Rock 'N Soul Part I (LOL)
12. "The Alarm" EP
13. TV Spot for "Deal Of The Century"
14. Hubba Bubba
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[@proeyebry]

Thank you for these gems, I am shooting for the whole collection. 80's Commercials are the best. We will never look back 30 years from now and watch any of todays commercials. Nothing will ever be Classic again.

[@hrtvfan2870]

Electric Light Orchestra, Kurt Vonnegut, David Bowie, Heart and then Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson. Pretty random collection of celebrities in the Coffee Achievers ad

[@grantchristopher6459]

I thought I recognized the guy from the bengals 😂😂

[@holbrooke7]

I heard the line "You can be a coffee achiever" in the Weird Al song "Dare To Be Stupid." Now I get it.

[@jamiewillkner8742]

My favorites were the music commercials and Wrangler jeans. The Hubba Bubba one was epic!

[@douglascatti]

That wild musk commercial i probably saw dozens of times. all the time i was watching MTV in those days....total Nostalgia

[@PowerGlove79]

I thought that was him as soon I saw him I was like "Holy Crap, thats Issac from Children Of The Corn"

[@eriksojka9209]

Love all the video game commercials!!!! When games were fun to play.

[@gleeb0278]

The coffee generation???Ha haaaaaaaaaa! That may be the single most amazing thing I've seen in almost 60 volumes...

[@ratanx]

Awesome Kurt Vonnegut cameo in the coffee PSA.

[@DanZero77]

Ernie Anderson would also later do ads for the Sega Master System! Never get tired of him! SAYGUHHHHHH....

[@karenobyrne8060]

The guy in the Wild Musk ad is Peter Tramm, who is also the main character in the ZZ Top video for "Sharp Dressed Man"

[@RoxyAlexander]

Because of these commercials, I would squeeze every piece of hubba bubba before I ate it. Weird! Oh, man, that Coty musk ad- was that like an SNL skit or WHAT?? Too funny!

[@pneumaticacutie]

I almost assumed Coffee PSA would be an anti-caffeine or anti-coffee ad or something

[@OzzieAstaroth]

So THAT'S where that one lyric in Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" comes from. When he says "You can be a coffee achiever." I always wondered. lol

[@Boogeyman80]

O.o The Murray bike commercial is awesome! Do kids even ride bikes anymore? We lived on our bikes as kids. Even ate while riding them. Least I didn't have to wear a helmet. Traumatic head injuries were just part of growing up.

[@clevelandsteemer]

LOL @ the Coty Wild Musk commercial at 1:36

[@TNTITAN]

Wow, I didn't recall that there were basicly Ax body spray ads in the 80s.

[@averagejustin]

the chocolate twix tastes so good

[@Gravidtron]

Years ago I described my then-girlfriend's shampoo as smelling like 'watermelon Hubba Bubba'. She laughed for about five minutes and said she would remember that one; it seemed like an odd comment. Then I realized she didn't know that Hubba Bubba had, at once point, been a real brand of gum-- she thought I was making it up. I only wish I were that clever.

[@catlover10192]

Hubba Bubba is sill an exant brand. There's Hubba Hubba Max and Bubble Tape, and I'm sure they have other products branded with it too.

[@badgersrule01]

I think the girl in the Coty Musk ad is Jill Schoelen from the original Stepfather , Cutting Class and Popcorn.

[@dignityshmignity]

3. and 7. Great commercials for average games.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

1:00--I had that "Star Trek" video game for the Atari 2600, and I actually liked it quite a bit. 3:07--I never had the home version of Galaxian, but I remember playing the coin-op version. 3:37--I wonder exactly how they're defining "beach music"? I love 60's music (despite being born in 1971), and I know almost all these songs, but when I saw that phrase, I was thinking more in terms of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and the like. 8:10--I mostly chew Wrigley's gum nowadays, but I loved Hubba Bubba and similar brands when I was younger. (And yes, Hubba Bubba is still around.)

[@80sCommercialVault]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_music

[@timothysprengeler4071]

@@80sCommercialVault Interesting! Although that music came out a bit before my time, I'm a big enough fan of that period of popular music that I feel I should have known that.

[@nelson4568]

damn times have changed since then

[@80sCommercialVault]

I don't know about the quality of that game, but the main reason behind the video game crash of '83 and '84 had to do with a flood of crappy licensed movie cash-in games that nobody bought.

[@mikeynike81]

holy shit children of the corn

[@80sCommercialVault]

If it weren't for the "sponsored by the national coffee association" caption at the end, I'd think that it was some ironic PSA that MTV aired for laughs. "Because coffee helps you calm yourself down..." What.

[@MeInTX]

With the coffee ad, I just can't help but think "I'm so excited! I'm so excited I'm so...scared!" What music connoisseur is going to buy "beach music", Hall & Oates, and The Alarm? That's an awfully random collection of record ads. It's been years since I've seen it, but I recall "Deal of the Century" being pretty awful. You can probably make a pretty good satire about an amoral arms dealer. You probably shouldn't hire Chevy Chase to play him.

[@timbreljedi]

Was there ever a Part II of Hall & Oates Rock 'n' Soul?

[@averagejustin]

Well what I meant to say is the Twix Peanut butter ones taste good but the regular twix is fine too

[@mst3k4evr]

0:31 - 1:01 "It's the 80s. Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan."

[@80sCommercialVault]

It's because at that point the video game market simply wasn't big enough to support an avalanche of crappy product. There are enough idiots buying video games these days to support a system where quality is the exception and not the rule. Someone needs to hit the reset button.

[@DanZero77]

@80sCommercialVault HEAR HEAR!

[@jpowell180]

He was apparently 24 years old when he filmed that commercial...also per IMDB he appeared in an ep of ST: Voyager (I did not like Voyager).

[@NoctemOUT]

Did that Twix commercial seriously put "a mix of ingredients" as the selling point? Don't most candy bars have at least that many elements to them or more? Also, the only way drinking coffee calms you down is if you're addicted to caffeine- hardly a good thing. Same thing with cigarettes.

[@tumest]

The irony being that we're now in a similar situation with boatloads of crappy licensed and lazily made cash in games that are somehow bolstering the gaming economy.

[@kerberos623]

mm, but when I was a kid here in Sweden it's name was Raider. Much better name in my not so humble opinion.

[@Scoth3]

As licensed games go, it's not that bad. There are far worse ones. It was mostly just kind of dull and repetitive as there was only two different kinds of levels (blow up all the Klingons and avoid asteroids). It's entertaining for a play or two now and then..

[@MsRT76]

The Coty commercial...."use it before you stalk"...ummmm......

[@80sCommercialVault]

The word "stalk" did not have the same connotation back then that it does today...the word "stalker" not commonly used until the early 90's. The commercial in question is comparing the male and female to predatory animals.

[@MsRT76]

Except..."stalking" was also used back then to refer to the activities of "prowlers" which was a label frequently used for people who engaged in behaviors like burglary or assault. So still not the best connotation to attach to your product.....

[@80sCommercialVault]

They are clearly connecting it to stalking in an animalistic sense. But please, go ahead and take the 30+ year old commercial out of context and redefine a word to suit your argument.

[@Desslar]

@@80sCommercialVault Richard Ramirez, called the "Night Stalker" by the press, was out on his killing spree in 1984.

[@80sCommercialVault]

@@Desslar The press called him that because he stalked people like a predator stalking prey and literally murdered them. The term "stalker" as it is used today in a non-violent sense, i.e. a sex pest or nuisance was *not* in the common vernacular back then. Most people would have just called someone like that a "creep" or some other derogatory name. BTW "The Night Stalker" nickname was derived from the popular 70's TV movie "The Night Stalker" about a Vampire murdering people in Las Vegas and later spun off in the "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" TV series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Stalker_(1972_film) Again, not connected to the modern definition of "stalker".

[@Boogeyman80]

Well is WAS the cocaine decade

[@kiminokami]

The coffee ad sounds like they are selling drugs.

[@alramone1]

that star trek game looks really lame, even for atari.

[@jwgreek8606]

Coffee is overrated anyway!