80's Commercials Vol. 91

These commercials aired on USA on July 4th, 1988. Thanks to my cousin David for recording these.
1. USA Movie Commercial Bumper
2. Ambervision (Incredible sunglasses, and amazing music)
3. TV Guide
4. USA Movie Commercial Bumpers
5. Reebok (Finally, a commercial that uses the word "Hobgoblin")
6. Philadelphia Cream Cheese (For bagels only, please)
7. Encyclopedia Britannica (I remember these commercials airing ALL THE TIME on Nickelodeon in the 80's)
8. Promo for "Street Hawk" (Who cares about plot or story? If it's a guy riding a motorcycle at night, count me in!)
9. Promo for "The Brood" (Terrifying. I must watch it.)
10. Promo for "USA's Thursday Night Fights"
12. USA Movie Commercial Bumper
13. "Planet Of Dinosaurs" End Credits (Except for the kid, all of these people look like 70's porn stars)
14. USA Movie Commercial Bumper

[@docdoom187]

LOL yeah, I remember those Encyclopedia Britannica commercials from Nickelodeon! In fact, my mom bought the books for me. It's over 20 years old but it's still in wonderful condition. The set is at her house today, along with that same "three volume desk reference set"! A dictionary, thesarus, and quototation book. When I stop by I sometimes sit down and look at them. :-) and i just found out...the guy from the commercial has a channel on youtube. he's babyboy71!

[@docdoom187]

yeah, those sunglasses were everywhere back in the 80s.

[@dgwaters]

The kid in the Britannica commercial is Donovan Freberg. His father, the legendary Stan Freberg, is the voiceover.

[@skystarless]

Also, I love that the USA Movie bumpers look and sound like they're from the 70s even though this is 1988.

[@yohei72]

You never heard of the "The Brood"? You're missing out. One of the major cult horror movies of the era. The director, David Cronenberg, was the king of gross/disturbing/smart sci-fi/horror flicks, most famously "The Fly." He's more mainstream now - you probably know his last two movies, "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises." This has been Movie Geek Corner with Yohei72. Thank you for watching.

[@jwgreek8606]

thanks for posting these commercials from USA. Back when it was good. During the game show days and all

[@Boogeyman80]

The lenses are made of CR-39!!! The Reebok commercial seems kinda 90's to me for some reason. I really like it.

[@timbreljedi]

That sounds like Don Pardo in the TV Guide commcercial. He was the announcer for several NBC shows including SNL.

[@RaTTinvader]

I had absolutely forgotten about USA's Saturday Nightmares! Used to watch them all the time when I was a lot younger...used to scare the crap out of me. Miss those days...and we had the best commercials and toys!

[@cyrenafame]

britannica. i remember the sequel to this commercial. it's etched into my fricking brain. "remember me? i'm the kid who had the report due on space."

[@yillow1]

Wow, they had HD Vision Glasses 1.0 back then.

[@blugreen123]

wow! the Ambervisions commercial was 2 min. long. man, commercials were so long then. Those Encyclopedia ads are some of the most classic of all time. i remember that guy's high-pitched, almost cartoonish voice. he's kinda got bad teeth tho

[@joeuser66]

Even if you got the encylopedia britannica you would still have to go to the library. I remember in school when I had to do a report I was required to have several different information sources in my bibliography and only one or two could be from an encylopedia.

[@yohei72]

"I wouldn't have to worry about going to the library!" It didn't occur to me at the time (and, yeah, I remember that commercial, too), but that's hilarious. Any halfway-decent teacher would flunk a student for using just an encyclopedia as a source for a paper.

[@CC-Tron]

It's probably been 20 years but I remember the music for the Ambervision ad as if I saw it yesterday.

[@brightbite]

That TV Guide one always made me feel like maybe people were watching me, too. LOL It made me paranoid.

[@robotoboy5077]

Damn that Britannica commercial is meta af

[@EdTheBadass]

this makes me want to own Britannica encyclopedia collection..

[@pneumaticacutie]

I think the kid is wearing a white frame version of the AmberVision glasses

[@80sCommercialVault]

@TheSchoolWorld They actually still sell the glasses under the "Ambervision" name. The "HD Vision" glasses are produced by a different company.

[@skystarless]

Wow, I'm sold on those Ambervision sunglasses.

[@DanZero77]

Also, Street Hawk was a short lived midseason series on ABC that ran for the first half of 1985, Shout Factory releases the complete show on a 4 DVD box set tomorrow (7/13/10)!

[@aurosne]

While I am watching that Amber Vision commercial all I can think about is the movie Step Brothers. "WOW they make you see clearer and better. Oh Yea and they are barley noticeable on your face!" haha. F me I forgot how big glasses were back then.

[@Pam4Rob]

lol " i can't believe we look like Flys with these sunglasses dear" lol

[@c1catwoman]

those sunglasses are hot.

[@RoxyAlexander]

Not only do they still sell Ambervision sunglasses, but the 800 number still works. Call today! (LOL, they are 100% more expensive now)

[@DanZero77]

1-800-USA-1000 was like the number for EVERYTHING that you could possibly subscribe to or shake a stick at on USA Network in the 80s! Where can we get UV-400 and CR-39 glasses these days? Not with BluBlockers! Where does Encyclopedia Brown get off that a computer doesn't help with schoolwork? (Fast fact on that ad, famous adman Stan Freberg did the voice over, and his son Donovan is the kid and yes, they did appear on Nick like crazy)

[@alramone1]

awesome

[@tritan74]

I miss the USA Saturday afternoon movies

[@irrespondible]

Damn, I totally need those sunglasses myself! I mean, they are JAWESOME!

[@marvelmite1]

I miss seeing movies like Planet of Dinosaurs on tv, specially saturday afternoons and late night. Much better than constant reruns, found alot of crap movies that I've loved ever since that way

[@80sCommercialVault]

@MattTheSaiyan Planet Of Dinosaurs IS a lot of fun and has some really cool special effects. Highly recommended.

[@EdwR1]

0:18 Look at those fucking huge 80s sunglasses, fuck yea!

[@darktetsuya]

been slowly working my way through the archives this is the last one i've seen so far.... LOL! at the encyclopedia brittanica ad (and don't forget the desk reference set!) nowadays I'm sure wikipedia has guaranteed they stay out of buisness, though.

[@gmfd76]

Ha! I no doubt was watching "Planet of Dinosaurs" on this day :)

[@Rorduruk]

LOL at printed encyclopedias being the "key to the information age".

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Volumes 89, 90, and 91 air date is July 4, 1988 according to this guide: news.google.com/newspapers?id=WoZGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bzMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2433%2C279367 "Planet of Dinosaurs" is listed at 10 a.m. at the bottom of the third column in the Monday daytime movies section. "The Brood" can be found on p. 15 of the paper (p. 30 of the Google News navigator) at the top of column four. ETA: I corrected 80 to 90. Sorry for the typo.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Thanks for that info. I knew it was in the Summer of '88...just didn't know the exact date. I usually do research when things aired using old TV listings, but it can be a lot harder to find accurate cable listings from back then. "Planet of Dinosaurs" is somehow an appropriate movie to air on the Fourth of July.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

80sCommercialVault You're welcome. Yes, accurate cable listings are harder to find, although I haven't searched too often. Google had disabled the search feature for the News Archives but it can be searched from the Newspapers Index news.google.com/newspapers I tried too many keywords for the movie including year and network, so I just put the title and found it on the second page of results. I'll have to look for the movie,

[@KevDoy]

5:12 hahahahahaha. Now days he'd type it on wikipedia and get the information for free anytime hahaha.

[@Idoljunky32]

WOW! I remember that Britannica commercial like it was yesterday, and all the other Britannica commercials with that kid! I wonder if they still make those AmberVision glasses? Thanks for posting!

[@1weirdgurl]

LOL..NICE SHADES

[@bigdumbclown]

Oh good, the lenses are contructed of high-tech CR 39....whatever that is.

[@EdTheBadass]

got to love 80-ies .. at least they bullshited us directly. I hate that most modern ads are more concerned to give us subtle messages about products, focusing on something else (boobs, smiles, cuteness). We want straigt product advertisements. Stop wasting ours and your time with bullshit

[@Listersmate2]

I've always wondered what happened to that Encyclopedia Britanica kid!!!!!

[@docdoom187]

that's pretty funny because those quotes are from Ralph Waldo Emerson and he was a Unitarian.

[@aurosne]

I think the "Plant of Dinosaurs" was a movie that MST3K riffed on.

[@dcsmooth]

The USA Movie announcer sounds like Alan Kalter from the David Lettermen's show.

[@valerieeslick6324]

OMG I used to have a t-shirt that said "Reeboks Let UBU".

[@HamptonRoadsTVFan]

I've got that Encyclopedia Britannica spot uploaded on my channel. dgwaters Never knew that.

[@MeInTX]

Ahh, the 80s, when I had both a subscription to TV Guide and my own set of encyclopedias (World Book, not Britannica). Yes, I was a weird kid. I don't quite know how showing a bunch of surrealistic images sells shoes. Given how much encyclopedias cost, the kid really should have gotten his parents' permission first. Plus, bragging that your space article goes all the way up to the moon landing is probably the wrong track to take in 1988. And yeah, the kid still should go to the library.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

We had a Funk & Wagnall's encyclopedia set back then. My parents eventually got rid of them when they moved. I think they ended up throwing the set away because they couldn't find anyone interested in buying them!

[@80sCommercialVault]

Progress!

[@Jeff98177]

The sunglass lenses are made of CR-39? Well, why didn't you say so? CR-39... wow! In that case I'm definitely ordering! (WTH is CR-39???) "The Brood"? Looks more like "Night Of The Living Snowsuits".

[@TriplexBountyHunter]

I'm pretty sure I cocaine from the guy at the start of the Amber Vision ad. I only did coke once in the eighties though..for about 7 years.

[@VelvetCyberpunk]

@whackychannels considering there was no internet in 1988 to speak of how exactly would someone get any information from their computer?

[@corrupt200]

3:41 sit UBU sit. good dog!

[@Westsoid2009]

Andy Rooney at age 16 at 4:25. Dork hall of fame inductee.

[@jamiewillkner8742]

3:58. Start Spreading The News!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

Another thing that cream cheese is good for--homemade shepherds' pie! The topping in my recipe consists of hot mashed potatoes mixed with cream cheese and cheddar cheese.

[@docdoom187]

is it on youtube? i've gotta see it!

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@IamUberStein: That and Monday Night RAW each Monday.

[@jedipathworking]

they made better horror movie trailers back then now a days 3 different trailers show u the whole movie (that's what it seems like)

[@BoogsterSU2]

Brittanica, you looked like Wikipedia in book form! XD What does U.B.U. actually mean?

[@rburton76]

man, Planet of Dinosaurs looks like the shit :P