90's Commercials Vol. 186

These commercials aired on VH1 on December 24th, 1994
1. United We Stand PSA
2. Take A Bite Out Of Crime PSA (With Bill Clinton)
3. Promo for "Mariah Carey's Christmas Interview"
4. De Beers
5. Sony
6. Alka Seltzer
7. Discover
8. Juicy Fruit
9. Duracell (I posted this way back in Vol. 10 but I wanted to ensure that more nightmares were caused by spreading these ads across the internet)
10. Sunflowers by Elizabeth Arden
11. Clorox Toilet Cleanser
12. The Beatles "Live At The BBC" (Great archival release)
13. Greenhouse Crisis Foundation PSA (Very topical stuff, but OMG this reminds me of the over-the-top promo at the beginning of "Scrooged")
14. Environmental Defense Fund PSA
15. VH1 Christmas Bumper
16. 1-800-COLLECT (With the voice of John Cleese)
17. Subaru All-Wheel Drive
18. R.E.M. "Monster"
19. Wrangler Jeans
20. Salon Selectives
21. Flix Year End Special
22. TV Spot for "The Jungle Book"
23. Martini & Rossi Asti
24. L'eggs Sheer Energy
25. English Leather
26. "The Best of Garth Brooks"
27. Brita
28. Norelco Speedrazor (Go speedrazor...)
29. Milk (Damn it, I'm gonna have to bake some sugar cookies before Christmas now. Thanks Milk!)
30. Partnership for a Drug-Free America PSA
31. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence PSA (Stark, depressing ad, but this coalition was spearheaded by singer Harry Nilsson, who was a close personal friend of John Lennon so it makes sense)
32. VH1 Christmas Bumper (All I get out of their logo is "Van Halen is #1")
33. Eckerd
34. Head & Shoulders
35. Renewal (Yeah man, gotta keep my portable boombox charged while I'm bladin' around the globe in front of Universal Studios with my friends)
36. Vidal Sassoon Protection System
37. Frank Sinatra "Duets II"
38. Visine
39. Partnership for a Drug-Free America PSA
40. "Beethoven's 2nd" on VHS (I don't think I've ever actually seen a Beethoven movie, and I'm really OK with that)
41. Pantene Pro-V
42. DayQuil
43. Eric Clapton "From The Cradle"
44. Ballatore

[@yusakug]

1:53 - Sony: Our products will scare the ever-loving crap out of you and your loved ones!!

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

I recall when people were asking what was the music in the De Beers diamond commercial. Someone mentioned that it was a tune called "Shadows". Another said that it was based on Vivaldi's concerto RV 93. Although with my experience in listening to classical music, and whenever I listened to that RV 93 concerto, I wouldn't notice any hint of that "Shadows" tune from the commercial. Another thing I recall about that tune was hearing it during the Local Forecast on The Weather Channel.

[@ThisGuyFrritz]

Oh yes, here's a Wikipedia link to an article about the music: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Music

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Whoa... I never had VH1 during this time (I think our cable company added it to our channel listing sometime in 1998 or 1999.

[@plushbatfan]

DeBeers diamonds commercial is a true classic in my opinion.

[@miketroncin749]

You can smell the Christmas is getting close.

[@f1guremeout]

@16:45 honestly, the most memorable commercial in my life. Beautiful

[@DreamDancer82]

I like the first two Beethoven movies. I like Beethoven's 2nd a little better, though. Puppies! Squeeeeeee!!!!!! Sorry, I went away for a minute, but I'm back now.

[@TTrigg]

VH1-forgot they used to do that whole"Flix" thing on Sundays Partnership For a DFA commercial-hopefully Kevin Scott stopped taking "the long way home" from school(kind of creepy how that dealer turns his head @17:03 )

[@f1guremeout]

Mostly young dudes, reckless and rough with even younger children to muscle them into hustling drugs..., the kid says "they might be scared of the police, but they're not scared of me and won't back down from 'No'" *(Referencing D.A.R.E and the subsequent years of apparent failure to American youth)...absolutely moving

[@miketroncin749]

The 'pistol hater' edition...

[@yusakug]

8:05 - You sicko!!!