90's Commercials Vol. 537

These commercials aired on NBC and A&E on January 20th, 1993
1. Pizza Hut
2. Diet Pepsi (With Ray Charles and Andy Dick)
3. Prudential
4. Promo for "Almost Home" (Originally titled "The Torkelsons" for its first season, the show was retooled for its second season by moving the titular southern family to Seattle and having the mother work for a rich family and adding several characters, most notably Brittany Murphy and Jason Marsden as the spoiled rich kids and their father played by Perry King. This show later re-aired on The Disney Channel after it was cancelled)
5. "Seinfeld" Commercial Bumper
6. TV Spot for "Used People"
7. Diet Coke
8. Lexus LS 400
9. Promo for "Mad About You"
10. Promo for "Homicide: Life On The Street" (Aired for seven seasons and often ranked on lists as one of the best TV shows of all time)
11. Buick LeSabre
12. Diet Dr Pepper
13. Gillette Sensor Razor
14. NyQuil LiquiCaps
15. Promo for "A Different World"
16. Promo for "Cheers"
17. 1993 Toyota Camry
18. "Spies" Commercial Bumper (Channel changes over to A&E, also from 1/20/93)
19. Ford Probe GT
20. Ricola (The footage here seems like it was shot in the mid-late 70's)
21. ACE Hardware (With John Madden)
22. Promo for "The Real West"
23. Promo for "Investigative Reports"
24. TV Spot for "Sniper"
25. "Spies" Commercial Bumpers
26. Ford Taurus
27. Nuveen
28. DHL
29. Arts & Entertainment Magazine
30. Promo for "Time Machine" (I can't see Jack Perkins without thinking of the episode of MST3K that featured Mike Nelson playing him: • MST3K: Ladies and gent... )
31. Ford Escort
32. "Spies" Commercial Bumper
33. "Spies" End Credits
34. Kinko's Commercial Bumper
35. Kinko's (I believe the actor here is Cliff De Young)
36. 1993 Ford Ranger
37. Promo for "At The Improv"
38. McCotter Ford
39. Drexel Heritage Furniture at Fitzgerald's Fine Furniture
40. Promo for "Biography"
41. Promo for "Michael Palin's Pole To Pole" (Brought to you by Jeep/Eagle and Sprint)
42. "Michael Palin's Pole To Pole" Intro (Originally aired on BBC1 in the UK in late 1992)

[@yusakug]

0:18 - While I don’t remember Pizza Hut having a party atmosphere, I am sure if the chain ever returned to its classic pizza recipe from the 80s, there would be celebrations.

[@yusakug]

2:14 - While Used People did get a couple Golden Globes nominations, it received no Oscar nominations and has a 44% at Rotten Tomatoes.

[@DanZero77]

Back when A&E was... what it used to stand for! It was also cool to see an ad for Sniper! It was on quite a bit on the WABC late movie later in the 90s. Then they showed the trilogy one night on Spike TV in 2007 but I still enjoyed just the original. ONE SHOT, ONE KILL.

[@Misfit_Kitten]

1:32 They also dumped two of the original five Torkelson kids: the punk older son and the forgettable middle sister. As for Almost Home, Alyson Hannigan would later co-star on a few episodes as a friend of Marsden's character.

[@mst3kanita]

Dang it, prudential, we don’t have $300 a month!

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

NyQuil LiquiCaps- I remember seeing this commercial as a kid and I thought that the NyQuil LiquiCaps had liquid inside of them, moving like ocean waves like at 5:24.

[@TTrigg]

Pizza Hut-music at the beginning was a sample from the score for Excalibur(1981) Almost Home-r.i.p Brittany Murphy Seinfeld Commercial Bumper-apparently captured as Jerry was ending his routine Used People-poor kid at @2:30 will be forever scarred for life Diet Coke-"What do you call a surfing pastor,a surgeon who's a part-time sculptor,and a motorcycle racing insurance agent..? Television's newest unlikely mystery-solving trio!" A Different World-episode falls into the "She Cleans Up Nicely" category on TV Tropes Sniper-good film...the most recent one in the series,Sniper:The Last Stand,is so-so(looks like a video game adaptation)

[@80sCommercialVault]

The score for "Excalibur" is basically a collection of adapted classical pieces, mostly by Wagner. The piece in question is "Siegfried's Funeral Music" from "Die Götterdämmerung" composed by Wagner in 1876: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWbdf3tsh5atqac It is not original to the film, nor should it be attributed as such.

[@KratostheThird]

Ray Charles was awesome. Had blindness, but with immense talent. Still a little sad he is long gone. He was proof you can be permanently disabled in some category and still be beloved and cherished. Today we have countless so called entertainers (including social media influencers) who cannot do their one profession well, or not at all in some cases. They all have their humanly assets (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc).

[@MyMelodyOfTheHeart]

5. Seinfeld Commercial Bumper- 2:01- Jerry Seinfeld looks ashamed in this image that was selected for this commercial bumper.

[@BB..........]

3:06 I really doubt anyone would use a Nagra D digital recorder in the back of a car.

[@BrandonPenson]

I get it that the long boxes are meant to fit in the fridge, but remember when soda came in those big rectangular boxes?

[@tishauna777]

Homicide was good when compared to its contemporaries, but The Wire is FAR superior with it's depiction of the politics of law enforcement. Homicide was still good tho especially compared to Law & Order which had very simplistic politics and often glossed over nuances. In fact I thought it was a insult that they had a crossover with Homicide since both shows had VASTLY different sensibilities lol.

[@80sCommercialVault]

Homicide had to work within the confines of Network TV and was basically under the threat of cancellation during its entire run due to low ratings.

[@Tishauna7]

​@@80sCommercialVault Sure, But even The Wire had the same issue and it was on HBO. I always assumed that the subject matter was just too grim and downbeat. I especially thought season 4 was brutally heartbreaking. But David Simon really understood the assignment ngl.