80's Commercials Vol. 500 Part 2 of 2

These commercials aired on NBC and ABC on February 28th, 1987. Continued from: • 80's Commercials Vol. ...
70. Hi-C
71. NBC Saturday Morning Interstitial
72. Nestle Quik (I love the animation style here)
73. MASK Bulldog, Iguana and Bullet
74. Trix (There was another channel change to ABC after this)
75. Cadbury's Creme Eggs
76. Anti-Drug PSA (I've posted a ton of variants of this ad, this is the shortest version I've seen)
77. Promo for "Disney Goes to the Academy Awards"
78. "The Real Ghostbusters" End Credits
89. ABC Station ID
80. Grandfather Clock Sale
81. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
82. Lego Solar Power Transporter
83. Captain OG Readmore PSA
84. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
85. Bonkers! Ugly Ball (Nightmare fuel)
86. Chewy Chocolate Bonkers!
87. Sunkist
88. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumpers
89. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
90. "Pound Puppies" Pet Care Corner/End Credits
91. ABC Station ID
92. Orbi (WOW)
93. "We'll Return After These Messages" Commercial Bumper
94. McDonald's McDLT
95. Skittles (One of those ads that feels like a well done parody of 80's commercials)
96. WPLG Station ID
97. "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" Commercial Bumper
98. Popcorn PSA
99. "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show" End Credits
100. ABC Station ID
101. Construx
102. WLPG Station ID
103. Closed Captioning Bumper
104. Campbell's Commercial Bumper (Partial)
105. NBC Interstital (Channel change back to NBC)
106. "Punky Brewster" Intro (Wow)
107. "Punky Brewster" Commercial Bumper
108. Furrever Friends (Amazing)
109. "Punky Brewster" Commercial Bumper
110. 3 Musketeers
111. Fruity Pebbles
112. Cheerios (Magic Kid at the end looks like Fred Savage)
113. "Punky Brewster" Commercial Bumper
114. NBC Interstitial
115. "Punky Brewster" End Credits
116. "One To Grow On" Intro (With Michael J. Fox!)
117. Lucky Charms
118. "One To Grow On" (We all knew that pyromaniac kid growing up)
119. Blaster Tag
120. WSVN News Bumper
121. NBC Intersitial
122. "Lazertag Academy" Intro (Incredible)
123. "Lazertag Academy" Commercial Bumper
124. Fruit Roll Ups (With Fred Savage again)
125. "Lazertag Academy" Commercial Bumpers
126. The Real Ghostbusters Action Figures (WOW, I've never posted this one, looks like this might have been the first ad for the action figures)
127. "Lazertag Academy" Commercial Bumper
128. Chef Boyardee Tic Tac Toe's
129. Pound Puppies
130. NBC Interstitial
131. 3 Musketeers (Partial)
132. "Sidekicks" Opening (Partial)

[@quicksilverbalt]

The punky brewster theme song maybe one of the most underrated 80s cartoon theme songs.

[@mercedesbrannigan9206]

The punky Brewster intro!! 😍 so many wonderful memories 😊

[@80sEric]

The intro sounds a lot like "Baby Don't Say Goodbye" by Dead or Alive.

[@prunesnjuice3945]

9:46 - I always loved that Skittle commercial. It brings a tear to my eye to see it again, reminding me of my old friends and our hangouts.

[@Tr0nzoid]

These commercials make me want to go grocery shopping. Now I get to pick out everything I want... almost, because now I try to be more health conscious. In retrospect, there were a lot of cartoons and they barely lasted two seasons. Some of this stuff I watched just because I felt like cartoons on Saturday morning was just what you were supposed to do.

[@andrejg4136]

That's how the medium is, if you look at most anime beyond the hits, they last 1 - 3 seasons on balance too.

[@pearlydae]

Brings back my childhood 😥

[@8543960]

They actually still air the Cadbury Egg commercial. 😆

[@vaultboy123]

Nice Cyndi Lauper impression in that Punky Brewster intro. Even got that Cyndi Lauper hiccup going on.

[@cartoonist1975]

nice catch brother! i know what you mean !!

[@jasonb4370]

So cool I'm crying I miss the 80s so much

[@beach_babe95]

Wow, takes me back.😄

[@gamophyte]

4:54 I know you can expect nostalgic attacks with this channel but man I had a lot of these and I totally forgot. We moved a lot and lost a lot. I transformed into 9 again.

[@miketroncin749]

18:38 - ok MJF, you asked for it: What's so hot about playing with matches?? The lit end!!! Waka Waka!!

[@DanZero77]

Things I'd thought I'd never see again The ad for ORBI (and me remembering it) That Closed Captioning bumper at 12:10 AND the intro to Lazer Tag Academy. That was my favorite Saturday Morning show in 1986. AMAZING.

[@jtb811]

A neat set of commercials. I remember enjoying that lazer tag academy show but then I was a sucker for anything with lasers and spaceships. I also find those 3 musketeers adds funny since they have a '57 Chevy and that was about the last point a young guy could hope to even come close to owning one without buying it as a junker and putting in massive amounts of hard work to get it,

[@DreamDancer82]

My sister and I had Furrever Friends. They were cats, and my sister and I love cats. We have a Ghostbusters action figures commercial on one of my own tapes, and it has always bugged me. It was the curlers and the woman screaming (I was a wimpy 4-5 year old girl, wasn't I?) I also have that Hi-C commercial on an old Beta tape (wow, I'm dating myself, aren't I?) 1987 was a good year for commercials.

[@blind_t2]

DreamDancer82 don't say that, nostalgia is a good thing LOL! we sure had it good back then!

[@DreamDancer82]

Yes, nostalgia is a good thing. I agree. I mainly said it to get a laugh, though. I have a weird sense of humor.

[@Lurker1979]

Wow, Lazer Tag Academy? Not even trying to hide that it was a half hour ad.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Produced by Worlds Of Wonder (which made the Lazer Tag toy) in conjunction with Ruby-Spears. They also had a cartoon for their Teddy Ruxpin toy (animated by DIC).

[@MDetector5]

That Lazer Tag Academy intro is incredible, indeed. Based on the episodes of the show that I managed to find on here, the series had inconsistent writing at best, and the heroes (Jamie in particular) came off as slightly aggressive. As for this video, congrats for reaching Vol. 500!

[@timallenbrown]

Wow, Alf sounds kinda depressed, like "ugh, I don't want to be here" haha

[@80sCommercialVault]

Imagine having to stay after work with your annoying child co-star and intro a bunch of Saturday Morning cartoons. Alf had places to be, parties to go to!

[@miketroncin749]

10:06 - they really angered me when then changed lime for sour green apple- they have sour skittles, and that is where that flavor had damned well ought to be. I can no longer make the flavor combo 'berrylimor ', and this sickens me.

[@myst4hire1]

I like to mix grape and lemon in memory of the Kool-Aid Purplesaurus Rex flavor.

[@franzchick66]

that plot of lazertag academy was so confusing!

[@SpiderKnight]

Nice. The real ghostbusters

[@SpiderKnight]

I know I preordered the box set when it was first announced

[@JMFabiano]

And the proper closing logos! But no sound!!!

[@yusakug]

7:35 -This Pet Care segment is kind of evil. These dogs are being tortured (especially the one trapped in a hot car), and the Pound Puppies do jack-all to help them.

[@RHGarciaApr85]

yusakug That's exactly what I thought.

[@myst4hire1]

lol! Just want to say that I read your post almost every Saturday when watching the Pet Care segment on this video. I do agree, they should've helped them poor dogs out instead of telling us how to care for your pet.

[@YokozunaNumber1]

19:02 - Okay, lemme get this straight: he yells at his friend for playing with matches, saying it's dangerous, but he suggests they instead "go see the creature that ate Ralph." Am I missing something? Assuming Ralph is another kid, wouldn't the creature be exceptionally more lethal than matches?

[@80sCommercialVault]

+Cold And Ugly Ralph could be a pet mouse for all we know

[@YokozunaNumber1]

I think Ralph was a kid at school. "It" probably killed him.

[@bluejaymama9252]

Ralph was a kid I went to school with, and his tragic death still haunts those of us who knew him. My dad was one of the detectives at the crime scene. He said that it looked like a bear had ripped him open. There are no bears, or forests, near here. To this day, they say the field where Ralph was found is tainted by the presence of something old, something evil, and something very angry. I don't like it here.

[@YokozunaNumber1]

!!! That's horrible, Itty Bitty. I'm sorry to hear that.

[@AlanEricFan]

I always assumed it was the name of some fake movie they were going to see.

[@gamophyte]

Sweet, the natives use a 808 machine 15:36

[@earthindanger]

We''ll at least Tony Danza had job opportunities...

[@80sCommercialVault]

He was also on a very successful sitcom on ABC at the time...

[@optimusprimefan84]

I'm surprised no one here mentioned seeing a young Eli Manning in that McDonald's DLT commercial.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Because it's not him? He was only 6 years old when these aired.

[@optimusprimefan84]

oh... OK, must be a look alike, then.

[@SiccDeville]

ha. that does look like him but like 80'sCommercialVault says its not. Eli was waaay much younger at the time of the commercial.

[@TTrigg]

One To Grow On-bet he was a pain to deal with at school.. LazerTag Academy-at first i thought the concept would be similar to the commercials(i.e different teams of players facing off against each other..at least the Photon live-action series was truer to the game in a way)

[@yusakug]

2:16 - Is it me, or does the rabbit look like he has some kind of rare disease with all those colored spots on him?

[@jemm113]

These are really fun commercials to put on and watch through, but the only ones that concerned me in any reply capacity (aside from the fun fruit trees, those are their own weird... thing) were the ones from McDonald's and how they seemed to target kids. Now a LOT of commercials obviously target kids, but McDonald's is just so unhealthy that I can't help but feel wrong, especially when they were doing the morning exercise one cause it seems so damn hypocritical! Granted some where nicer to watch than others but it still really peeves me especially when looking at US health statistics. I honestly love the toy commercials though.

[@80sCommercialVault]

It's possible for kids to eat McDonald's every now and then and not become morbidly obese. It's this extreme, over-reactive way of thinking that makes the modern world feel like such a drag.

[@UTTuba]

Exactly, at one point (around this time) Mcdonalds was responsible for putting more playgrounds in cities than anyone.

[@jennypatterson5889]

Back then the food was way healthier in regards to quality. Real meat, better fries. Mass manufacturing hwas just beginning in 70s.