80's Commercials Vol. 68

These commercials aired on August 4th, 1984 during the 1984 Olympics on local ABC affiliate KGO. Thanks to my Aunt & Uncle for recording these.
1. Sears
2. Converse
3. Double Mint Gum (What are the odds of two sets of attractive twins running into each other?)
4. Michelob Light
5. Century 21 (I love the gold coat)
6. Promo for "Jessie"
7. Stanley Tools
8. Unisom (Where's the minute long list of all the horrifying side effects?)
9. Miller High Life
10. Kodak Trimprint (There doesn't seem to be a digital-age equivalent to the instant camera)
11. Aetna (It's kind of hard to see, but the old guy on the boat has a pretty incredible mustache)
12. American Express
13. Motivator 650 Battery at Kmart
14. Drunk Driving PSA
15. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson. I love how he walks around other people like a ghost)
16. Minute Maid Orange Juice (I remember the packaging at the end so much. The black and orange carton always reminded me of Halloween)
17. Miller Lite (With former Olympian Bob Beamon. Carl Lewis never broke his long jump record BTW)
18. Lipton Tomato Onion Soup Mix
19. Coca Cola (With Dr. J and Bill Cosby!)
20. Pizza Hut

[@MikaelGuggenheim]

The don't drink & drive commercial was awesome and would work just as well today. Sad really that so many still haven't gotten that into their skull.

[@apachette07]

I was born in '85 but I love these commercials.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Wow; what a blast from the past! Some real classics in this volume. 1:00--I hadn't heard this Doublemint jingle in ages! Wrigley's has used a lot of great jingles over the years. 1:31, 4:02, and 8:06--Kind of funny how I seem to remember almost all the beer commercials from this period, because in 1984 I was 8 years too young to drink the stuff legally. 2:01--I liked the gold coats too, and the Century 21 jingle. 2:52--Back when all the major networks had gimmicky slogans: "We're with you on ABC with you," "N-B-See Us," and CBS had "We've got the touch" and later "Share the spirit." 4:33--Wow, this is my favorite Kodak commercial EVER! I love the catchy Trimprint jingle. Sadly, the Trimprint line was short-lived, because Kodak was forced to exit the instant camera business a couple years later when they lost that infamous lawsuit filed by Polaroid. 5:04--"Aetna, I'm glad I met 'ya." I don't know what insurance my parents had, but I loved that slogan so much I was almost begging them to get Aetna! 7:05--"Reach out and touch someone"--That jingle was all over TV in the late 1970's and 80's.

[@caesar349]

Nostalgia overload! Thanks for posting

[@irvinetustin]

This is the best collection of 80's commercials that I've ever seen! And thanks for posting the Bob Beamon commercial 8:08 because that was one of the most heart-touching commericals in history since it was played during the Olympics when Carl Lewis was attempting to break his long jump record.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Yes, despite what some hipsters would have you believe, Converse makes more than just Chuck Taylors. A quick look at their website shows they still make many models of track & tennis shoes that don't look much different than the "Jimmy Connors" model.

[@Orbot]

Loved the 80's because it was primative and advanced at the same time, lol! Long live the 80's........and Sears!! lol

[@timothysprengeler4071]

0:00--Kind of sad to see Sears going the way of the passenger pigeon.

[@worldofbong]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhh! love these old commercials, would love to see a "best of" saturday morning commercials

[@DanZero77]

2 Ernie Anderson sightings here! He might as well have been not only the voice of ABC, but the voice of the 1980s!

[@22centman36]

i think we all need to remember that each decade has its good and bad points. I was a child in the 80's and I admit that it was a relatively good period of time for me and my family.Was there a mystical element to the 80s? No,But were we still promoting happiness,at least in our commercials and product development like video games, toys,cars,etc,yes.These days there is an overload of self deprecation and reality shows that really just promote misery and pain.I think the 70's and 80s were great

[@Rorduruk]

I don't think there is a "digital" equivalent of the trim print, because its not needed. People don't keep little photo's like that, they don't need to, they are on their phone and in fb and the cloud, etc.

[@jwgreek8606]

the gold coat was used in the movie WarGames with Matthew Broderick his character's mother wore it.

[@80sCommercialVault]

@BallieBallBunny This is among the cleanest of my aunt and uncles beta tapes (not VHS) in regards to the tracking.

[@dignityshmignity]

3. As I've said millions of times, there's Double Mint commercials with twins wearing bikinis, then there's every thing else. 14. Love that PSA. 16. Misleading claims about orange juice: pulp fiction. 20. Two legends and one legendary soft drink!

[@80sCommercialVault]

That uncredited, non-speaking cameo at 5:21 is *not* OJ Simpson, BTW. He was a national celebrity at this point and was doing commercials for Hertz with Arnold Palmer.

[@RoxyAlexander]

ah, back when we honored our tennis stars with namesake shoes...god, we loved tennis stars back then!! "Jessie"...a little ahead of its time. Psychological profiler show? Innovative for 1984! 9:46 welcome to the best parts of my childhood.

[@MeInTX]

I'm pretty sure I've seen an ad where Dr. J now endorses Dr. Pepper (as part of their "Trust me, I'm a doctor" campaign, which is kind of similar to this ad). Given Cosby's long ties to Coke, I'm betting we won't see him switch over. That family lost a lot of their bargaining position when the little girl screamed "That's our house!" Probably shouldn't say you want it before you hear the cost. Thanks to that drunk driving ad, I was scared to clink glasses for years.

[@theOnlyMrTummy]

I don't want any PULP IN MY ORANGE JUICE!!!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

7:36--I prefer pulpless OJ too.

[@acceptthis01]

Coca-Cola and Kodak Film. All you needed was Jell-O pudding to complete the Cosby trifecta.

[@ohyaimcoolest]

minute maid orange juice, nobody squeezes juice the way we do

[@blugreen123]

in the michelob ad, it sounds like he says "sun, sand and sex." but it's "check" lol

[@jbs2763]

wow, i remember that DUI PSA

[@franvdf]

The Other Camera like no other camera???? What genius came up with that??

[@BallieBallBunny]

Your VCR head needs cleaning! lol! I miss the 80's!

[@byrn]

5:21 O_O Is that..the Juice?! Kudos to Mr. Beamon at 8:32 for being a wonderful sport. Something a lot of athletes seem to have lost these days, I fear.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Don't worry. I'll be posting two volumes a week for at least the next six months... And there's a lot of stuff I haven't even gone through yet.

[@maggielicious14]

dude this is great haha

[@80sCommercialVault]

Yeah, I've thought about doing "best of'" volumes before. Maybe once I run out of new material to post...

[@MSgtSlaughter]

@kari00ws6 Yes. In 1982, the first player in the market was in Japan and in 1983 they were available in the U.S. and other countries.

[@macboss88]

damn! Dr. Jay!

[@orion5175]

7:09 This is so strange I did the exact same thing. It didn't end very well, first there was no camera and the people throwing the party didn't know me I was asked to leave.

[@Reborn8303]

hey every body its uncle Ben ! 7:08

[@kerberos623]

@kraftdinner18 Then you good sir/mam/other don't know what you are missing,. A great thincrust baked in a stoneoven is truly something to enjoy.

[@gluteous5]

i miss spunky landline phones

[@blugreen123]

"tomato onion soup mix" sodium overload

[@aurosne]

1:27 There are SEVEN sticks of gum in the pack of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Was that just for the ad? Or were there really that many sticks in each pack back then? Today there is only five I think and it cost more.

[@ericbrork]

HUGE-ASS Walkman, uh man. It musta had auto-reverse ;-) that's why!

[@cowboyrealtor]

Doublemint without aspartame. When realtors wore funny jackets. Unison... Where the list of side effects?

[@Vebinz]

@texacobigred42 I think this was back before Walmart began to make head-way into their markets.

[@ericbrork]

...so i get to more balls with ease...and do more when i get there....hahahahahaha

[@aurosne]

Was that Kodak camera, the one they stole from Polaroid?

[@wookiedestroyer101]

LOL!

[@MeInTX]

@RoxyAlexander A little too ahead of its time. Apparently, it was cancelled by November.

[@deemann123]

8:38 is that James Gandolfini?

[@GenoSkill]

3. BILL HICKS

[@d0ntl00kb4ck]

@MattTheSayan On the camera part I COULD NOT agree more. We wouldn't have to pay extra money to get the photos out of the camera! People are asses. They just want us to pay more so they dismissed instant cameras :(

[@710blodgett74]

@armuan1 I agree, now there are seems like every where you go there are lawsuits.

[@Bk4334]

Jason Blodgett I

[@variousiroiro]

these are cute lol

[@martyJJ]

Liptom Make soups in my country we pnly have lipton teas

[@sweetbilly]

Drinking and driving ...will get you home drunk as fuck ....the farther away you live!

[@hopegrimsley3427]

Even Pizza Hut pizza looked better in the 80s...

[@80sCommercialVault]

No

[@Winterheart786]

God whats up with the hair in the 80's.....

[@NihilisticRobot]

What the heck is wrong with Chris Everett's hair? Yuck.