90's Commercials Vol. 147

[@TTrigg]

that Partnership for a Drug-Free America PSA looked like a deleted scene from a episode of Cop Rock lol

[@drsnowmon]

Dick Tracy was so big back in the day, it was literally everywhere

[@DanZero77]

I don't comment on video thumbnails often, but that kid looks like something out of a horror movie! Dick Tracy certainly was everywhere in the summer of 1990, even the old animated series from the 60s was re-packaged and syndicated around the same time as the movie. It was on WNYW in New York. Now I never heard of Where's Rodney but you'd think with Aaron Spelling involved it might have lasted a season or so.

[@80sCommercialVault]

+fattoler I was a very naive six year old at the time, so I doubt I even knew about the double connotation of that word

[@jason4275]

WOW a $ 7 thousands dollar car, i'm looking for a used car now and they all cost $ 7 thousand and up, I still remember how cool it was to own a Kodak camera, and having to walk to the save on's photo shop store to get them printed and almost half of them come out undeveloped or smudge.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

I miss NBC of the 90's: NBA Finals, Fresh Prince, and the memorable commercials, like these, in the video.

[@JamieOrlando]

+Matthew J. Boone I almost forgot about the NBC chimes!

[@TheRadioga]

the nurse in the nut and honey was played by Nancy Parsons who played Beulah Balbricker in the movie Porky's in 1982.

[@ScratStitch]

"It's about a 14 year old boy who can inexplicably summon Rodney Dangerfield at will to give him advice about his pathetic teenage existence." I'm having a very hard time processing that this actually could've been a "thing"...

[@80sCommercialVault]

+ScratStitch I'm sure that weirder TV show pilots have been made. The only reason why this one was even aired was because of the star presence of Dangerfield and because it was the summer when they had no new shows to air.

[@MarcAquino1095]

STRAIGHT UP! STRAIGHT UP!

[@robcamp9260]

+Marc Aquino FREEZE

[@Boomska316]

I remember the Dick Tracy movie well because of all the hype. I'm surprised no one's tried making a new one given Hollywood's fondness for re-using old franchises. That drug PSA was speaking to me in my own language so I've decided to give them up!

[@80sCommercialVault]

+Boomska316 Dick Tracy was considered a flop for Disney, making $162 Million worldwide when it cost $100 Million to make. Add whatever they spent on all of the advertising that summer and it probably did not turn much of a profit. It's a good movie with great design that is painstakingly faithful to the source material, but they wanted it to be as big as Tim Burton's Batman...which it never could be. Most people have forgotten about it, but it's a fun comic book movie. I doubt a reboot will ever happen, but you never know with Hollywood these days.

[@oakboyh]

Checking in as always. Faithful viewer.

[@Skull10]

I remember those Dick Tracy-McDonald's commercials well.

[@ChapBloke]

"I had Dick Tracy toys, trading cards and even dressed up like him for Halloween that year" Heh, just like James Rolfe, did you also annoy your parents by repeating his name all the time?

[@RawDawg903]

I was born in 1987 and I don't remember ANY of these commercials...I see they're from 1990, so I was only 2 1/2 (born in December).

[@80sCommercialVault]

+RawDawg903 Ok

[@wrathofpaulii]

My first car was a Hyundai excel lol. Hyundai has come a long way

[@roxannalopez1796]

LOL Oh my God this is soo 80's LOL.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Aired in 1990. The early 90's were just an extension of the 80's until around Nirvana came around.

[@roxannalopez1796]

80sCommercialVault Oh okay.

[@f1guremeout]

If you lived through the 1990s, pretty much so until 1993. Computers, consumer electronics (think: walkmans), and an increasing amount of sugar in EVERYTHING. Now is more like an extension of those very objects into the alternate 1980s (think: cyberpunk novella)

[@Zanaaa50]

I was 15 in 1990 and that Partnership For A Drug Free America PSA was horrible and embarrassing to watch even then! I guess this spot was a ploy to attract a "broader" mainstream audience that had begun to listen to rap. Now all these years later people will think that kids thought that was "cool" lol Funny thing is that it was set in a dark alley in the "hood" somewhere and THAT was not an environment that a broad audience of kids could even relate to.