80's Commercials Vol. 1041

These commercials aired on WNYW on December 18th, 1986
1. 7up
2. Twix (With George Newbern. The end was cut off by the station)
3. Ritz Thrift Shop (This ad is originally from the early 70's and aired for a long time on local NYC television. I posted an airing of it from 1980 back in Vol. 423: • 80's Commercials Vol. 423 )
4. Isotoner Leather Gloves
5. New York Telephone (Most likely conceived by/directed by someone with a foot fetish)
6. Casino Yahtzee (Looks fun)
7. WNYW Channel 5 News Update
8. Os-Cal Calcium Tablets
9. Nerfuls
10. Sunny Delight (Life sucks, drink Sunny Delight)
11. Baby Talk (5:21 FEED ME MORE! MY HUNGER IS NOT YET SATIATED, MORTAL!)
12. Krakus Polish Ham (Ham Polish sold separately)
13. "The Year Without A Santa Claus" End Credits (It's a shame that they replaced the classic Rankin Bass logo at the end of these)
14. Crabtree Nissan (The way she's pronouncing it "Niss-an" is bugging me way more than it should)
15. Alpo Puppy Food
16. Rolex Tourneau
17. Promo for "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" (Even if it is technically not a Christmas special, this is probably my favorite Rankin-Bass special and basically involves Rudolph traveling through time to different eras in history to save the space time continuum from an immortal vulture!)
18. Old Spice Commercial Bumper
19. 7up Commercial Bumper
20. Old Spice
21. Toys R Us (Featuring She-Ra Princess of Power toys)
22. Crazy Eddie (It just wouldn't be Christmas without a visit from Crazy Eddie!)
23. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson)
24. Nerfuls

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Isotoner Leather Gloves- Gorgeous animation of the hands at the beginning of this commercial. Sunny Delight- For all that the kid dealt with throughout his day in this commercial, he deserves better than a Sunny Delight, which is essentially just colored sugar water.

[@CMmeows]

Crazy Eddie never disappoints

[@hrtvfan2870]

Funny that this group includes a Rudolph's Shiny New Year promo. A little under two weeks ago I uploaded the lone commercial block from a recording of that special from WNYW that I got from eBay.

[@DanZero77]

No joke about that Ritz Thrift Shop ad - even when the ad was modernized in the 90s you could never forget that ad from the 70s! WNYW seemed to show it more than any other station in New York at the time.

[@yusakug]

7:14 - It’s depressing I know, but whenever I see an old commercial with cute animals, I can’t help but think they’re all gone by now. I can only hope that they had great lives from their owners or trainers.

[@brokencigarette3017]

I'm sure they all had long, wonderful lives. ❤

[@yusakug]

Baby Talk…Seriously, was there a contest between toy companies over who could make a more nightmare inducing talking doll? No wonder there was a slasher film made about them…

[@pkretsch]

Holy heck, here I was thinking I'd seen all my childhood toy commercials on this channel, and then the Nerfuls light up some new synapses. The Twix commercial too.

[@yusakug]

2:13 - The woman must be hearing about her friend’s date with Weird Al Yankovic…

[@DaysNightsForest]

I remember so well, I was about eight when this commercial aired, relating to the poor Sunny Delight kid. As an adult watching this now I find it a little insulting that his problems can be alleviated, even slightly, by this crummy drink, which we did indeed have in our fridge at the time.

[@MLaker221]

That twix is huge!!!

[@80sCommercialVault]

Another candy bar that has been the victim of downsizing, they are definitely smaller today.

[@samanthab1923]

Crazy Eddie!

[@daintybeigli]

These Isotoner gloves commercials really stand out to me … I think one year around this time I spent my allowance to buy my grandma a pair of their gloves.

[@markzim178]

Those Crabtree commercials freak me out. I believe the lady who pronounces "Nissan" weirdly was involved in a murder/suicide type thing after the male Crabtree passed away young.

[@blackmesacake5361]

Oh Lord to be a baby again 😂

[@MarleHunter85]

3:16 What happened to girl's face?

[@80sCommercialVault]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Hanson He literally says "the slashing of Marla Hanson"

[@gooniesgirl1979]

I remember that 7UP commercial. I was 7.