90's Commercials Vol. 519

[@yusakug]

I remember my two older brothers and I enjoyed that Mighty Mouse cartoon from Ralph Bakshi and John K when it originally aired in the 80s. My brothers used to say that the best thing about having a kid brother in the 80s was that as teens, they had an excuse to watch cartoons like Muppet Babies and Real Ghostbusters with me.

[@ken_danerdiest1]

I saw Mighty Ducks on October 3, 1992 and saw Home Alone 2 that January of '93. Great underrated 90s flicks!

[@DanZero77]

I never noticed the Ren & Stimpy connection with Mighty Mouse until now! And I used to watch MM on CBS in the 80s! I saw Home Alone 2 the weekend these commercials were out! I didn't see many movies in the theater so this was special!

[@TerrickTerran]

Ahh Joker's Favor. HQ was definitely one of the highlights of the show as well as the reimagined Clayface and Mr. Freeze.

[@yusakug]

Though I do have a soft spot for the first two Home Alones, I do regard them as the moment we lost John Hughes. He was one of the more reliable and original comedy writers in film when I was growing up, and after he broke the bank with the original, he kind of sold out and just kept on repeating the same formula and doing remakes of kids films. The guy who brought us Ferris Bueller and Planes Trains and Automobiles should not have had to put out Home Alone 3 or Flubber with Robin Williams. The sad thing is he apparently kept writing after he left Hollywood in the late 90s, and had some brilliant scripts from people who read them that sadly could never get made.

[@joemoorman9103]

What makes you say that about his later works? I loved Flubber; while it is a remake of an earlier Disney movie, it's better than the original. Baby's Day Out, very underrated IMO, feels like an homage to Three Stooges shorts and has some of the funniest slapstick we've seen in the last 40 years.

[@yusakug]

@@joemoorman9103I just never found the value in those films that you obviously did. More power to you, and glad they spoke to you, but I found a majority of Hughes’ work in the 90s mediocre to bad.

[@oakT800]

​@@joemoorman9103 Baby's Day Out was great, I agree it's one of the most under the radar Hughes' movies.

[@oakT800]

I wonder if Macaulay gets royalties from Home Alone 2? Ive heard him say in interviews that he doesnt for the first one but im thinking his people had to set him up for the 2nd one... Also. I find it funny that Coca-Cola was able to be featured in part 2 instead of Pepsi so Fuller has to be shown with a Coke can 😅

[@WilfredCthulu]

First, there was 80scommercialvault. Now... there's laser 80scommercialvault!

[@80sCommercialVault]

Fact: everything is improved with lasers

[@WWJD85]

Got GiJoe Earthquake and Fort America for Xmas that year along with HQ

[@oakT800]

I got a question for you, I grew up with GI Joe but by 88 I had already outgrown it, when did you start with GI Joe and did you incorporate the cartoons into the toys? Like were the old sunbow/marvel cartoons still playing at this time or was it just the DIC version? The toys themselves look pretty cool but the DIC cartoon was such a poor version of GI Joe compared to the ARAH era, so just curious how you viewed it at the time?

[@WWJD85]

@@oakT800 Started out by watching Sunbow stuff on vhs in late 80s.

[@Iron-Van]

is that JEJ on the fox action bumpers?

[@80sCommercialVault]

No

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Cocoa Puffs- Seeing the kids play with the fold out factory at 0:59 and watching the cereal fall down the chute brings a smile to my face every time. Baby Alive- I always wondered what kind of food you are provided to feed this toy like the girl is doing at 7:44. It looks like some gelatinous substance.