90's Commercials Vol. 479

These commercials aired on NBC on December 14th, 1994
1. Whitman's Sampler
2. Polaroid Captiva
3. "Speed" on VHS
4. Radio Shack
5. Promo for "One Christmas"
6. "Sea Quest DSV" End Credits
7. Next on NBC/Happy Holidays Bumper
8. NBC Sunday Night Movie Intro: "Take Me Home Again"
9. Ford Taurus
10. Stetson Preferred Stock Cologne
11. KFC Mega Meal (With Looney Tunes Mugs. I'm pretty sure we had the Wylie Coyote mug. Also the infamous "Diddy laugh" sound effect at 4:15: • Diddy Laugh Sound Effe... )
12. AT&T (Pretty much everything depicted in these "You Will" ads came true in some form by the 2010's)
13. Lady Stetson
14. Visa
15. Promo for "NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw"
16. Promo for "Dateline NBC"
17. Promo for "Mad About You", "Friends", "Seinfeld" and "Mad About You"
18. Promo for "ER"
19. Campbell's Soup
20. Braun Oral B Plaque Remover
21. Kellogg's Cherry Pop Tarts
22. Hallmark Shoebox Greeting Cards (The main actor here is Brian Stack, who is best known for his writing and acting work on Conan O'Brien's talk shows from 1997-2015. He now writes for Stephen Colbert: • CONAN - The Best of Br... )
23. CK One
24. Pace Picante Sauce (NEW YORK CITY?!?)
25. NBC Sunday Night Movie Commercial Bumper
26. Promo for "One Christmas" (This did end up being Katherine Hepburn's final acting role before her death in 2003)
27. Farmers National Bank
28. Bridal Expo '95
29. Chia Pet (That feeling when you're looking for last minute Christmas gifts at the drug store and suddenly that Chia Pet of Mr. T seems like the perfect gift)
30. Chia Herb Garden
31. KWQC Happy Holidays Bumper
32. NBC Sunday Night Movie Commercial Bumper
33. Toyotathon (With Squire Fridell aka Ronald McDonald)
34. 1-800-CALL-ATT
35. Energizer (With Darth Vader vs The Energizer Bunny)
36. Tylenol Sinus Geltabs
37. Gravity Fragrance For Men (I'm not certain because it's photographed in silhouette, but I'm pretty sure that the wooden roller coaster seen at 13:43 is the Giant Dipper at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk)
38. Burger King Disney Glasses (We had a bunch of these. They all featured the VHS cover art used for each movie at the time except for the glass of “The Lion King” as that movie wasn’t released on VHS until 1995)
39. Promo for "Today" (RIP to Mel Torme, Tony Bennett and Lou Rawls)
40. NBC Sunday Night Movie Commercial Bumper
41. Promo for "All I Want For Christmas" (This is pretty much a forgotten Christmas movie these days, but I remember going to see it in the theater with my sister when it came out)

[@yusakug]

4:18 - I remember thinking these commercials seemed impossible at the time. It certainly seemed far off in 94.

[@TerrickTerran]

Radio Shack, Cameras and 1-800 Wars definitely gives that feel of 90s things that were finished before the decade was done for the most part.

[@fossefan]

Fitting that "All I Want For Christmas" aired on NBC, as it was one of the first projects Brandon Tartikoff was responsible for during his time at Paramount.

[@DanZero77]

At least those "You Will" AT&T ads correctly predicted a lot of technologies we had today! Charlie O'Donnell from Wheel of Fortune doing the NBC movie voiceover! IT'S SNOWING FOR YOU BUDDY!

[@WilfredCthulu]

Iconic devious chocolate box that makes it look like you're getting way more than you actually are >:(.

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

Polaroid Captiva- 0:37- “Where’s my picture?! I want my picture!” I’m sure that’s the last thing you would hear a kid say about getting their picture taken. They likely would be avoiding getting their picture taken. Radio Shack- The sequence where they depicted the teenage boy growing in the beginning of this commercial reminds me of the growth sequence of Daryl Hannah in the remake of the movie, “Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman”.

[@TheRealPentiumMMX]

I remember that KFC ad as a kid, mostly because Taz was my favorite Looney Tunes character

[@yusakug]

12:31 - A better Star Wars than most of the new stuff coming out today.

[@80sCommercialVault]

In 1994 a real Star Wars movie hadn't been released in 11 years and even a little taste of Darth Vader in an Energizer commercial felt like the closest thing to a sequel/prequel you could get at the time. Star Wars still had this elusive magic quality to it. None of the backstory of the prequels had been filled in yet and you only had your imagination to dream of what a prequel/sequel trilogy would be like. Lucas and especially Disney have completely oversaturated the market with mediocre movies/TV shows, and even though I've begrudgingly watched most of them the magic is gone. Star Wars has become an on-demand commodity with new product every few months rather than being something you had to wait *years* to see more of. I honestly think only Andor and parts of the Mandalorian have done justice to the franchise since the OT.

[@NA8C]

I'll take the "AGGGHHHHHHHH" over the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" we got in Episode 3, lol.

[@blackmesacake5361]

8 year old me begging for someone to come down to the basement and play 3DO with me 😂

[@brokencigarette3017]

When that Star Wars energizer commercial first came on everyone's head snapped to the TV.

[@WWJD85]

That thumbnail lol.

[@feverspell]

That sounded like Whitney Houston singing the jingle at the end of the AT&T commercial.

[@80sCommercialVault]

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