80's Commercials Vol. 797

[@kolbycarter357]

I love it how in the 3rd commercial they used John Carpenter’s Halloween theme song🎃

[@DanZero77]

I don't know what's worse - car dealers LAUGHING at our credit or creepy faux-cat robots out to scare us!

[@rsdaddy141]

I grew up on this station 😁 As far as the Cougar in #16, he always used that lol. So demented.

[@djmexicanodetx2195]

Monster movie marathon! 🎃

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Monster Movie Marathon Bumpers- Looks like somebody went on a huge shopping spree at various thrift stores.

[@hygge_angstrom]

It's so strange to see a clip from Re-Animator in that station promo montage, and it's a shot of Jeffrey Combs taking notes. Talk about "Great Times!"

[@Lurker1979]

I just looked it up. Contour Lounge Chair sill around.

[@tadool5352]

Salem’s Lot totally scary!

[@yusakug]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes the worst movie ever made? I think not. I can think of much worse. Heck, the Killer Tomatoes had a small resurgence thanks to (of all things) Muppet Babies I kid you not. That cartoon used clips of the film for a particular episode, and it somehow got such a huge response, that it convinced them to do a sequel (featuring a young George Clooney), and eventually a Saturday Morning Cartoon series.

[@martinacold9255]

Killer clowns from outer space 🤣

[@JepMasta]

10:55, allow the former call center operator for a jewelry company preach on it. in gem parlance, the word "point" is used to refer to 1/10th of a carat. so a "genuine 1/4 point" diamond is 1/40th (or 0.025) of a carat...meaning it's not even a diamond chip.

[@Lurker1979]

D.C. Follies kind of reminds me of Spitting Image from the UK.

[@yusakug]

Where the heck did they find this Monster Movie Marathon host? He barely seems to be trying. He comes across as a kid show host who got suckered into hosting these segments, and his heart just wasn't into it.

[@RHGarciaApr85]

That's most likely what happened.

[@iangraham9988]

Given that this was the tail end of the classic Ghost host era, my guess that the decades long host probably just retired or died and his/her replacements were just the weekend news crew

[@80sCommercialVault]

I don't think this was really intended to be a "horror host" type show...merely a marathon of Universal horror movies with some brief intros/outros and bumpers. It doesn't appear that WTIC ever had a mainstay horror host (there's a promo for Elvira's Movie Macabre here) so they probably did just rope in people who also worked at the station to in help out with this.

[@hygge_angstrom]

Another common practice for television stations was having popular radio DJs from sister radio stations host these special broadcasts. These guys may have been morning drivetime DJs or something.

[@ProfSaxby]

@@hygge_angstrom They were morning DJs in Hartford Ct. The figures they're using have been greatly updated and can be seen year round at the Witch's Dungeon in Plainville Ct.

[@osufan77]

I went as G.I. Joe for trick or treating this year. First time I used fake skin. Good times.

[@dinahkyle3196]

Stephen King's CARRIE

[@Lurker1979]

Quartz watch pendent, wow. That was thing? hehe

[@andrejg4136]

Ugh, there needs to be more werewolf/beast movies...