December 19, 1981 commercials

Taken from a block of ABC Saturday Morning programming.
1. ABC We'll Return After These Messages submarine bumper
2. Walt Disney's Cinderella theatrical re-release trailer (the next time the seven-year rule came into effect, it was for the VHS release)
3. ABC We'll Return After These Messages notepad bumper
4. Tonka Hand Command Turbo Prop toy plane
5. Cheerios
6. Bubble Yum with Six Flags sweepstakes plug
7. Short: Dough Nuts
8. ABC We'll Return After These Messages alarm clock bumper
9. Star Wars Darth Vader Collector's Case from Kenner
10. Kellogg's Banana Frosted Flakes
11. The Richie Rich Scooby-Doo Show commercial return bumper
12. ABC 1981-82 ID
13. Toys "R" Us
14. The Muppet Show promo bumper
15. (same as #11)
16. Burger King
17. Aim toothpaste
18. Another The Richie Rich/Scooby Doo and Scrappy Show commercial return bumper
19. ABC We'll Return After These Messages helicopter bumper
20. Post Super Sugar Crisp
21. A Chipmunk Christmas/Urban Chipmunk from RCA
22. Frosty's Winter Wonderland/Leprechauns' Christmas Gold promos
23. Richie Rich Zillion-Dollar Adventures commercial return bumper (the format typically presented for an hour was a Scooby short, followed by a Richie short (billed as "Riches"), then a Richie quickie (similar to those later seen on Garfield & Friends and billed as "Treasure Chest"), then another Scooby short, then a mini-Richie short (billed as "Gems" and is longer in length than a "Treasure Chest" but shorter than a "Riches" segment), then a third Scooby short, and then finally a Richie Zillion-Dollar Adventure which is the primary feature of the hour that lasts longer than a standard short but shorter than a full episode. Check out Dailymotion for all of the Richie Rich segments!).
24. (same as #1)
25. Purina Dinky Donuts cereal
26. Crest
27. The ABC Bod Squad nutritional message
28. The Richie Rich-Scooby Doo Show closing credits with Santa Claus is Coming To Town/Rudolph & Frosty's Christmas In July/Goldie Gold-Action Jack voiceover promos (note that these credits were specially made to combine both shows)
29. Schoolhouse Rock: "I Got Six"
30. (same as #3)
31. Post Super Sugar Crisp
32. School House Rock closing bumper
33. (same as #12)
34. WJZ The Kids Baffle promo (sort of like It's Academic, Jr.)
35. (same as #14)
36. (same as #8)
37. McDonald's
38. Goldie Gold and Action Jack commercial return bumper (see Dailymotion for the episode)
39. (same as #1)
40. An ABC Presentation: Snackin' in front of the TV
41. Another Goldie Gold and Action Jack commercial return bumper
42. (same as #3)
43. Blueberry Waffelos
44. Another Burger King
45. The Dough-Nuts short
46. Schoolhouse Rock: "Telegraph Line"
47. (same as #19)
48. Strawberry Shortcake Strawberryland Miniatures
49. (same as #32)
50. (same as #12)
51. Another McDonald's
52. (same as #14)
53. (same as #6)
54. Thundarr The Barbarian commercial return bumper
55. (same as #8)
56. (same as #43)
57. Fast 111's racing cars from Kenner
58. "Feed them Right" ABC bumper
59. Another Thundarr The Barbarian commercial return bumper
60. The Oak Ridge Boys for the Boy Scouts of America
61. The Goldie Gold-Action Jack and Thundarr The Barbarian Hour closing credits with Santa Claus is Coming to Town/A Muppet Christmas/Mayday, Mayday voiceover promos

[@davidwright4495]

Here i am 55 years old and I feel like a kid watching these commercials.....What memories!

[@mauromesa78]

me too i agree with you

[@josebro352]

​​@@mauromesa78Same. 1981 was a good year. I was twelve years old hanging out at the roller rink. Different world back then.

[@gspendlove]

There's another thing I find myself thinking, too: Now I want to collect the toys I couldn't afford to buy when I was a kid with a dollar a week allowance. A dollar a week and whatever I could scrounge up collecting cans would buy me one Star Wars figure every other week. Now I have money and I want 'em all....but Toys R Us is gone. 😭

[@mediasawdust2458]

The cereal I ate was never part of any nutritious breakfast and was fortified with 8 essential versions of sugar.

[@someguy4911]

I was 10 when these aired. Funny how the mind works. I completely forgot about these commercials and the "we'll be right back right after these messages" segments, but as I watched this video, I actually recognized and remembered many of them.

[@stevewilson5749]

Cartoons in the 80's and even the commercials were the bomb!😁😃😊

[@luisreyes1963]

That's debatable. 😕

[@jeffryclaar8952]

Yes! Better than the crap they have on TV today!

[@mauromesa78]

true true i agree with you

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

It's funny how vivid your memory as a child is when you're an adult. We subconsciously engrained these moments into our memory. P.S. good way to spend quarantine.

[@stevewilson5749]

And School House Rock,just remember we will never see anything like this again 😢😥

[@bndkllr2763]

My. God. What I wouldn't give for a time machine! Until then, I think I get some Cap'n Crunch and have breakfast in front of my computer this weekend!!!!

[@tiffanycurtis4794]

Christopher Hogan ME TO 😂😂😂

[@freiza79]

nostalga is realizing the past wasn’t as unbearable as you thought it was at the time

[@freiza79]

these commercials remind me my of my past

[@DJaySplitSecond]

@@freiza79 totally agree, I’m very nostalgic it helps with me clinical depression I deal with. People are quick to say stop living in the past, they just do not understand how much the 80’s meant to us,

[@ToddLorencUkuleleMusic]

Those ABC bumpers bring back so many amazing memories to me!!!!!

[@goldenboi778]

A great time to be a kid..

[@ZacharyCusanelli]

I was 6 years old and remember these commercials, most of them anyway. Great video! Hits me right in the feels.

[@dkt1976dt]

Back in the day when Saturday Morning Cartoons made sense and there was always a lesson to learn from watching them and we had PSAs that taught us a lesson as well. Nowadays Saturday Morning Cartoons are a thing of the past, now that cartoons are on 24 hours a day. Saturday Morning Cartoons were a special treat and you had to wait all week, Fridays meant the weekend was coming and nobody missed Saturday Morning Cartoons, they started at 6 am and went off at 12 noon, then you went outside for the rest of the day and played with your friends til dark.

[@cynaptyc]

Those were the days!

[@stevewilson5749]

Yes,yes,yes a million thumbs up 😁🌞😀😅😍😁🤗👍👍✌️

[@guadalupebaptista9757]

@@cynaptyc Same here! Wake up in the morning, grab your cereal, and eat in front of the TV! Only thing that stunk was having good cartoons on at the same time, and switching back and forth.....the best memories sharing with my brother....

[@cynaptyc]

@@guadalupebaptista9757 heck yeah! I was the oldest so I made sure my brother remembered that! LoL! Because of course there were only 2 TVs in those days and mom and dad were not to charitable on Saturday morning! ;)

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

Yup!

[@jenniferboissonneault4831]

t hare was something so comforting about Saturday morning tv in the 1980s

[@jenniferboissonneault4831]

thanks

[@mixon270]

i swear it was i wanna go back

[@ellemjay]

I remember liking Schoolhouse Rock better than most of the other programs.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I got the DVD for my cousin's kids, but I don't think they watched them.

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

I never missed a Thundarr the Barbarian so there is a good chance I was in front of my TV when these aired.

[@mauromesa78]

i super miss these classic 80's commercials and the good old 80's saturday mornings they were cool back then they are treasures of my child hood from the good old days

[@thelastlibrarian]

Just a few days before Christmas and I was 11 years old... remember these like it was yesterday!!!

[@jenniferboissonneault4831]

I too was 11 years old were OLD!!😣😭

[@brooke050870]

I was eleven in December 1981 as well!

[@brooke050870]

I was in 6th grade, and for some reason, I am thinking that we got out of school the day before, on December 18. So I can imagine that I was very excited and counting down the days til Christmas, when these commercials aired. It really was a simpler time in a lot of ways.

[@berlinsaintclair9100]

I'm watching this on December 19th, 2020...AND it's a Saturday. Mind blown! Ha! I remember all these commercials and the ABC Saturday Morning bumpers like it was yesterday. Nostalgia.

[@sarakirkland1503]

I was 14 days old when these were originally shown on tv 📺

[@bryanparenteau374]

I was 18.And a month earlier, I almost got kicked out at halftime of a college football game....the Apple Cup.

[@jrswackhammer8205]

I was 1 yr and 16 days old.😁👍 It's interesting how young you are when you start remembering these commercials. I think the first ones I remember started around 3 yrs old.

[@bdbrooks]

I wasn’t even a month old 11/22/81

[@newromanticgal]

Wow!!! This was aired on my mom’s 28th Birthday! She recently passed away two months ago 😞! Thanks for sharing!

[@w1975b]

sorry for your loss

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

RIP

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

Sorry to hear about your Mom. Birthdays are always tough when they're not around to celebrate.

[@Starrgazed]

Sorry for your loss. I watch these and am always comforted by memories of my mom who passed a few years ago.

[@JennieBonbons]

😢My Mom passed away on 10/18 this year. I feel very sad.😭

[@TheErrorGrammatical]

I turned two years old on this day

[@Trav810606]

Even commercials were entertaining back then.

[@stevewilson5749]

Yes they were!😊😇

[@rosieschweebie]

I was a freshman in HS, and I think I remember every single one of these commercials!!

[@sid479]

1981! this is an artifact. Thank you!

[@timothyhanner8118]

Holy crap! School House Rock! I was in 2nd grade during this time. I cant beleive how much I remember the commercials and School House Rock songs shown here. Wow. Thanks for the upload.

[@DEER236]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭 I miss the 80s

[@stevewilson5749]

Me too😢

[@customerservicemanager7184]

Ah, the 80s! The taste of greasy pizza and the sound of arcade games...

[@crystalwaddell537]

Buuuut.... the pizza was awesome! Pizza hut was so good in the 70s/80s!

[@luisreyes1963]

Good Times. 😁🍕🕹️

[@lemonhead162]

I get such an overwhelming sense of nostalgia with these!!! I was seven, but remember very well!!

[@danielwebster8019]

PSA telling you not to buy useless crap, next commercial is trying to sell you useless crap.

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

Good lessons in making up your own mind.

[@strangenrare8663]

I STILL sing "Beaans and Rice, Beaaans and Rice" when I even think of Red Beans--and I'm from New Orleans, where I've used and heard the phrase in thousands of scenarios over actual decades of daily life--but this is my brain's automatic audio clip for just 'the concept of red beans' as such... Which is some NEXT-LEVEL marketing/advertising success! You have my respect, o writer of the Schoolhouse Rock 'Beans and Rice' segment. You successfully underscored my childhood through all the rough and lean Scrappy-Doo and Voltron years and landed with me on the other side. That's quite a reach of achievement (not just because I'm recovering from a TBI) :) Seriously--Good art 'lives' with us.

[@lemonhead162]

I'm 49 and still sing Beans and Rice too!

[@heidifedor]

I think the kid in the Bubble Yum commercial was Wayne from The Wonder Years.

[@johnpaulstez]

I don't know about that, but the blonde kid is Ralphie from the movie "A Christmas Story" filmed a year or two later. Watch his facial expressions.

[@judacia]

Jason Harvey

[@RazorFriendly]

Amazing the things my 8 year old brain tucked away in 1981 and is now unpacking as I watch this in 2021.

[@renevaldez5717]

Chilhood memories I'm 44 yrs old now i wish i can go back to the 80s again to be a 80s kid one more time before I died.😣😣😣😅

[@paulrickard-steelphantom4476]

Lol, no kidding. Imagine going back in time with the mind you have now into your kid body? 🤯

[@aaroncrawley5546]

I remember these. so cool ,,I was just 11 year old .miss the good ol days .

[@stevewilson5749]

Love those bumpers for the commercials breaks"we will return after these messages" they show a different piece 😊

[@brianhall9617]

Yeah. Me too. I remember almost all of these advertisements. I see from your logo that says "since 1970"...me too! I'm a 1970 (June) baby. MAN!!! Time flies!

[@thetreasurehouse1742]

I remembered many of those PSAs and commercials, even though I haven't seen them in 37 years. AND, I was able to sing along with the Oaks in that PSA for the Boy Scouts, just as I remembered!

[@robertathey8504]

I still sing that damn song. Along with so many other songs from 80's commercials.

[@deborahpellerito6117]

My kids loved schoolhouse rock my son is 40 and my daughter would be 35 great days

[@ellemjay]

Thanks for posting commercials from kids' programming so I can see some I remember well.

[@robaxl3088]

Brings back memories being a 40 something man lol

[@ibnhakedonline1309]

Robert Despaw, I'm 55 and i miss those times when we ate Captain Crunch peanut butter on a rainy saturday and watched these shows all morning . Then after lunch a good kids movie would come on better times for sure.

[@ToddLorencUkuleleMusic]

I hear you Robert I remember watching these on Saturday mornings every week!! I am so glad these are on here!!! Great memories!

[@JonathonWoodgate]

December 19th 1981 was a Saturday, so the ad promoting the cartoons for the following Wednesday were for December 23rd

[@ssgusa]

I had both of those Chipmunk albums. Loved ‘em!

[@de3182]

Banana Frosted Flakes? I didn't know those ever existed!

[@stevewilson5749]

And after the cartoons were over, we got a treat to see American Bandstand 😍😃

[@aestroai8012]

When I was a kid that beans and rice song got stuck in my head. I ended up singing it in middle school Yeah, I was weird!

[@atant2]

I was 9. And my dad watched along with me! 😂

[@scottakanumba1heathen379]

3:23 I need that Darth Vader action figures case for my Kenner collection!

[@kellyluck1626]

@3:25 Yes, it's the "We can't use the actual music music". Also, forgot about the Dough Nuts. Great stuff.

[@kalevala29]

I want banana frosted flakes and dinky donuts. Dang

[@loris466]

Another commenter said they're selling Banana Frosted Flakes again this year (2019). I live in Europe now, so I can't confirm, but take a look next time you're at the store!

[@janellirving4625]

My sister and I used to have that McDonald's calendar.

[@bertmustin]

Isn't Dinky Donuts where Kramer saw Joe Dimaggio?

[@wandaperi]

A nation turns its greedy eyes to donuts!

[@w1975b]

shocked there would be a PSA advising people to "NOT" buy stuff!

[@karlstuber6399]

Me too. I missed that the first time around.

[@jarvissdot7700]

i was 12 days old when these came on

[@guadalupebaptista9757]

5 yrs old and my weekly highlight was waiting for the weekend to come and watch cartoons.

[@Musicradio77Network]

10:40 is a segment of "Schoolhouse Rock" featuring "I Got Six". This segment was from the VHS release of "Schoolhouse Rock's Multiplication Rock". I hope "DefenseFan345" is watching this if you have not seen it before.

[@mitzithompson6585]

I remember so well. I was 12 years old

[@billybarnett2846]

I click on this not knowing its was my local tv station. I probably was watching this when it originally aired.

[@scottkalinowski1326]

what a time to be 10 yrs old, ahhhh

[@pskila]

Geeez I'm old I remember all these commercials

[@richerDiLefto]

I was barely a month old when these were on.^^

[@ajaded1]

Imagine being a parent on December 19, 1981, when you assume the Christmas shopping is done, and then the kids see all these extra toy commercials hopped up on Blueberry Waffelos or Dinky Donuts. I forgot those cereals. I had both. They were okay. Nerds cereal was good too. It had two different flavors in separate bags in the same box. My favorite cereal of all time was Strawberry Shortcake. I tasted it once at a friend's house.

[@Martymooseyepthatsme]

Corn syrup is the main ingredient in a lot of these commercials.

[@UFOsAreRealArea51]

If they played these retro ads. I would watch every one of them and even take surveys. Hope y'all are reading this comment. Retro ads is the way to go....hint hint!!!!

[@brooke050870]

AGREED!

[@luisreyes1963]

I remember those wacky Cheerios ads with the yodeling. 😁

[@nathanielsibley5710]

Its funny, i remember hating these commercials as a kid. Now that im in my forties im watching them on my spare time remembering how good life was then.

[@tj921able]

If you eat all the candy from School House Rock, you will need a tube of Crest and Aim!!

[@dobbins2550]

Hahaha, this is my birthday! I turned 6 on this day, cool.

[@Tonia682]

This is my birthday too...I turned 13!

[@wandaperi]

@@Tonia682 ♐ +dobbins2550 ♐

[@KellsSmith1244]

Good one! I really miss sugar cereal with cool surprises. Now if I eat cereal it's because I'm on a binge.

[@AsYourCruiseDirector]

“Kids Baffle” must have been Baltimore’s answer to D.C.’s “It’s Academic.” I was 16 in 1981 and grew up in northern Virginia.

[@invisiblerevolution]

Wooooow...... I forgot all about those *Tonka AIRPLANES* 😮!!!!!

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

super bear has no clothes.... LOL

[@jbray34]

Thanks for this

[@nthisday3184]

My born day🎉🙏

[@usa02]

The upcoming promos heard at the closing credits for all shows and the ABC ID were v/o by former ABC announcer, Ed Jordan.

[@toniboyer3322]

I think I saw Danny Pintauro on here and Jason Hervey but the girl in the strawberry shortcake commercial looked familiar too...cant place her though

[@berlinsaintclair9100]

Sugar Bear's flexed body at 6:30 🙊

[@aaroncrawley5546]

miss my childhood days 81 I was 11 years old

[@mr.reconstruction3593]

Is everyone else watching these commercials in a mental hospital passing time?

[@KevinMartinez-fb1xn]

9:40 The Richie Rich Scooby-Doo Show and Scrappy Too

[@impalaman9707]

Those were the days when advertising aimed at kids was shameless: 'Hey, kids---get your parents to buy you____". Just came right out and said so! On the other hand, I'm proud to be a Gen Xer! Our generation in the 70s and 80s had the best toys, the best cartoons, and the MOST FUN of any generation in American history!!!

[@pannoni8449]

It's ironic since HBO and VCRs went in tandem for many, since the thought of taping a movie to watch over and over was novel. But HBO was like $5/month, so for many, it was one or the other.

[@impalaman9707]

@@pannoni8449 Are you sure you're responding to me with that comment?

[@johnpaulstez]

Star Wars at 3:30, blonde kid is "Ralphie" from "A Christmas Story"

[@sandal_thong8631]

I had that Star Wars figure holder. I used to put my stickers on the back. I thought I had a lot of figures but I didn't get the ones in the front row, except for two. Maybe they released the figures in stages?

[@stevewilson5749]

This is ABC!

[@tj921able]

I was a Crest kid! 😍

[@ellemjay]

Aim toothpaste *does* taste good...so does Close-up!

[@captnquazar2153]

I wasn’t born yet but I enjoy these commercials

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Kids Baffle? Never heard of it, but the team on the left are from the town Mayberry is based on. Andy Griffith was from Mt. Airy. Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn) actually lives there now.

[@Jnt2252]

Oooo bubbleyum. Was an awesome gum

[@luisreyes1963]

Arte Johnson in the Toys R Us ad. 😁

[@JennieBonbons]

🧖‍♀️These commercials were fun when I was a child; even Schoolhouse Rock was pretty entertaining. Today, I couldn't stand watching Schoolhouse Rock, concerning math, because my Mom recently died. She was my elementary math tutor. Thanks, Mom. May God Rest Your Soul.😭❤

[@ir10031981]

14:31 closing to Schoolhouse Rock only used 81-82. different music would be used 82-83 on a background slowly scrolling down depending on what type of "rock" episode. i.e. grammar rock, etc.

[@ir10031981]

color background with shorter closing music began in 1983. with respective custom music used for i.e. grammar rock or america rock, etc.

[@icpspmethong5430]

lol I was 2 days old

[@meatyflappers]

Thank goodness I was born early 70s

[@lisabrogan5941]

I feel 12 thanks for time machine

[@Strawberryfearsforever]

Banana Frosted Flakes are back in 2019.

[@tha8thof8]

3 days before I was born!❤ #80sBaby

[@kayandaeddings4803]

My favorite McDonald’s commercial at 15:19.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

The "Gems" are the "Quickie" segments. They are shorter than either the "Riches" or "Treasure Chest" segments.

[@spottedsaint957]

I believe that these commercials are from 1982 and 1983 rather than 1981.

[@angelamagruder5911]

Schoolhouse rock was right on time the lessons helped me to do better in school by me being a D,F grades to B,C a few As,it helped me to inderstand much better,too bad it did not start being more accessible to home viewing until after 1983-85,because of videos.

[@derikdragon80]

19:00, of course you could always save up the UPC symbols from cereal boxes.

[@joyharwood3787]

Jeffrey T. McPhail? (18:21) I've been looking for this one for years.

[@stephanieallen6406]

I felt 11 again...omg I forgot about some of these❤

[@robertwhite88]

Merry melodies

[@seibervideo]

Was that Jason Hervey in the Bubble Yum commercial?

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

Yup.