80's Commercials Vol. 69

These commercials aired on August 9th, 1984 during the 1984 Olympics on local ABC affiliate KGO. Thanks to my Aunt & Uncle for recording these.
1. Kmart (We've got all of your yuppie clothes here!)
2. Fruitful Bran (Psychedelic, man)
3. New Freedom Thin Super Maxi (I think that's Rene Russo at the end)
4. Endust
5. Promo for "Call To Glory" (The ads worked. I want to see this now)
6. Special K (Amazing jingle and incredible mustache)
7. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson)
8. Promo for "All My Children" and "One Life To Live"
9. Macy's (With Joe Montana...I think)
10. Taco Bell
11. Saab
12. KGO Bumper
13. McDonald's (Epic)
14. TV Spot for "Revenge Of The Nerds" (The summer of '84 was like summer movie heaven. I wish I had been old enough to experience it)
15. Sears Kenmore Appliances ("I am the Mom")
16. Arco
17. Lipton Sun Tea
18. Promo for "General Hospital" ("Welcome back to the real world, baby! What took you so long?")
19. Macy's (Talk about being a ham for the camera)
20. Safeway (For some reason, "food store" makes me LOL)

[@BigBlueBeast]

These commercials bring back memories!

[@jasoncraddock2940]

I'm burning through every video you've uploaded...thank you. Also, the guy delivering the fridge in the Sears commercial is Spencer Milligan who played Rick Marshall in the original Land of the Lost TV show.

[@80sCommercialVault]

A land of both shadow and substance...of things and ideas.

[@masapell]

Hey, that is Stephen Durst (Animal House's Flounder, Midnight Madness..) in the Taco Bell commercial at the lower, right hand corner! And the delivery guy on the Sears commercial is Marshall from Land of the Lost!!!

[@80sCommercialVault]

"Paris Hilton: Time Traveler"...coming this fall to NBC!

[@michelleheil8995]

Hah! I love watching these commercials. I am pretty sure that paris hilton look alike is her mom :). Or at least, someone related to her? Dang, its pretty damn close!

[@CarlD2]

Really enjoyed the soap ads.

[@WiseAilbhean]

Oh damn, we still got one of those washers!

[@80sCommercialVault]

That doesn't change the fact that nobody calls the 80's "The Me Decade". That term is always used to describe the 70's. Look it up.

[@80sCommercialVault]

That's what the 70's were called...not the 80's.

[@LoonyLuna48]

In twenty years...someone is going to upload commercials of the 2000s. I am kind of glad I wasn't born that year now.

[@livinginhawaii1971]

For some reason the first commercial reminds me of the Hardy Boys/Nance Drew Mysteries opening... :D

[@evildeadfan123]

Stephen Furst (Flounder) is in the Taco Bell Commercial.

[@holbrooke7]

1:17 Wow, it's the 80s version of Paris Hilton!

[@brightbite]

He's having a McWetDream. :)

[@jwgreek8606]

I agree with Revenge of the Nerds and Ghostbusters.

[@orcrush1]

the guy seemed really shocked when he opened the door. Maybe he thought he'd be vaporized

[@Daeymien]

Music in the beginning of the McD's ad sounds more like "Take Me Home" to me.

[@Tre404]

I was just thinking along those same lines! I'm watching these, thinking, "Commercials weren't that bad!" Because in my adult life, TV and Radio ads are the very BANE of my existence! They're just exceedingly AWFUL! Pre-90s, advertising was actually tolerable! I mean, why else do we remember so many of them, and come to KZbin to watch them?

[@NLind]

the first part of the McDonald's commercial sounds like Phil Collins'In The Air Tonight, probably 'cause the drum machine they're using has nearly the same pattern and sound.

[@skystarless]

It's bizarre to think of the taco salad being a new item at Taco Bell.

[@StormsongK]

4:21 "The BOWAL? Shut yo' mouf!"

[@timbreljedi]

I'd swear if I didn't know any better that the narration for the "Revenge of the Nerds" trailer was being done by Orson Welles?! It would have been one of the last things he did...

[@orion5175]

so... when you buy a kenmore appliance at sears all the food and contents come with it? i'm inspired now I'm going to grow a mustache

[@RoxyAlexander]

7:17 Why did this not catch on????

[@Rorduruk]

It's hard to believe, listening to ATT, that there was a time, not that long ago, that you would get poor service calling a small town, because it was a small town.

[@catlover10192]

The small town I live in still has it's own shitty phone company. The big guys aren't let in. Of course, this only really matters for internet nowadays.

[@dignityshmignity]

16. Lousy elevator music version of Chariots Of Fire.

[@DanZero77]

Because someone had to find a way to make "bran" exciting in the 1980s....

[@Tre404]

I was always mystified by that saying. The 80s were NOT the "Me" decade at all! Have you looked around you lately? Today selfishness reigns as never before! People demand to be catered to and satisfied NOW. If our needs aren't met in 5 seconds, the world falls apart! Kids today are the worst offenders. It's all about 'them' and their 'feelings' and 'self esteem.' The 80s were a paradise compared to now! Stop kidding yourself & look around you. Tell us, where in these ads do you see selfishness?

[@PuglyDigger]

I imagine someone has pointed this out by now, after nine years, but just in case... 7:35 music in Arco commercial is a blatant rip-off of Chariots of Fire.

[@80sCommercialVault]

It's a cover version...not a "rip-off". They almost certainly paid to use it.

[@pvtpyle74]

That dude in the Mcdonalds commercial is having a McOrgasm. btw i miss those styrofoam containers the burgers were in, who cares if they're not bio-degradable?

[@MeInTX]

I'm fairly certain putting ground beef (or, since this Taco Bell, ground "beef") on your salad negates it from being a salad. Especially since the "salad" seemed about 1/10th veggies and 9/10th "beef". General Hospital had an odd start time (2:20 Eastern). I'm guessing they were doing shortened eps during the Olympics, but why not just do half hour episodes? I'm sure it was to piggyback on the Olympics, but it's still seems odd that ABC rolled out a big fall show in August.

[@catlover10192]

A taco salad is something you can get at any Mexican restaurant. By definition, it has some sort of taco meat. Maybe not a healthy salad, but certainly a real thing.

[@Ravenheart1611]

I seriously want to watch "Call of glory" now. Isn't it funny how AT&T is no longer the phone service that wants to "reach out and touch someone" anymore? Now they are probably afraid that will get all the stalkers going because AT&T told them to actually reach out and touch someone. ;)

[@jwgreek8606]

Did Taco Bell come up with the Taco Salad first or did Wendy's?

[@coolmack24]

dose anyone else think that the at&t slogan sounds "wrong"?

[@Bcoble003]

not to be a smart ass but I thought the 50's was the baby boom era due to world war 2... I may be wrong...

[@80sCommercialVault]

I don't think he was referring to "children of the 60's" as people who were literally born in the 60's, though the baby boom following WWII is generally considered to mark the period of post-war development between 1946 and 1964.