Channel 2 Retro Christmas Commercials (1989) 🎅🌲

[@OofusTwillip]

6:59 - Canadian Tire - Voiceover by Carl Banas, the last surviving voice artist from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964).

[@j.hendrixx]

Amazing, please keep them all coming!!

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

11:39 1989 is when Nintendo really went off and dominated the world

[@misunderstood781981]

Oh yeah I never heard of a video game until 89 when I was 8 and my brother (RIP) got our NES with Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt after seeing commercials and our new school friends talks and shown us the Nintendo games

[@nathan00118]

Still dominates the world to this day with the Switch. Seems like every generation since has grown up with Nintendo in some way

[@OofusTwillip]

5:58 - McCain Super Chef - The man is Michael Lamport. The blonde woman is Megan Smith.

[@footwork216]

Oh man, TWO AM&A's Xmas commercials from that year but neither was the one I wanted to see, which was to the tune of "Carol Of The Bells" that went "AM&A's, AM&A's...". In December 1989 they used to show that ad on Channel 4 in the mornings because I used to record something every weekday morning and watch it when I got home from school. Lots of good stuff there though, from one of the more memorable times in my life.

[@RaveSacks]

What was it that you recorded to watch after school?

[@footwork216]

Syndicated episodes of Kate & Allie, which ran weekday mornings on WIVB from (at least) fall 1989 through spring 1991.

[@PugetSoundFlyer]

>>>>>And Don Paul with the weather!

[@StukInBuf]

(conclusion of Palmer package theme inserted here)

[@coyote520]

Don Paul IS WNY weather!

[@ItsThatRetro]

1989 actually. The Pepsi-Nintendo contest advertises Game Boy which came out in 1989.

[@Retrontario]

Thank you

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

Does anybody have the Taco Time (Seattle) commercial for Christmas in 1989? International Jewelers used it too. I wish I knew the name of the Christmas jingle!

[@sevenspec]

Pay close attention to the difference between now and then and the pro family content. How did we slide into such mediochrity?