December 17, 1987 commercials

[@sunfire29841]

a 976 number for either a wake up call or just a few encouraging words? and only $2 a call? damn, i miss the 80s

[@leelalo6625]

Nice, dreary day? Get a nice cup of coffee and a side of snack. Play oldie commercials all day. Yes!

[@wisdomgate3351]

Yes I day dream I'm there again and I wake up in my room I'm 6 again and this reality was just a really bad dream. Lord please bring back the 80:s lol

[@charlesjnbjbnbngb8518]

I was 12 years old living in Bensonhurst Brooklyn at the time

[@markjeffels3327]

2:10 Night Heat , watched the show all the time because it was made in Toronto,Ontario.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Multitech Warehouse Direct!

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

1:19 A young Jerry O'Connel in the Ritz Bits ad. :D

[@IIBNG76]

And Vicki Lewis as well.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

33:00 When they show the "Mineral Ice" container up close, it almost looks like it says "Funeral Ice"(?)--the first letter is apparently supposed to be an "M", but it looks kind of weird to me.

[@75aces97]

11:56 $499 in 1987 could get you a 25" TV with maybe 36 channels. In 2021 you can get a 50" with availability of nearly any movie or TV show from past 100 years, including this video.

[@davek12]

So much fur and 976.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

9:30 Duracell battery ad--"best if installed by Dec. '90". Hmm, I guess I'd better throw mine away then (or recycle them), LOL

[@derriusbranch8620]

Go Number ones. And good Fun and Smiles. And go good toys and go Great Electronics. And go great music.

[@RHGarciaApr85]

I like that technical difficulties bumper. I'd like that as a 10 hr loop and fall asleep to the white noise.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

RHGarciaApr85 Needs to have some "Beautiful Music" instead!

[@ybrix101]

It looks like it was created in the 70's.

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

37:49 I remember those guys, Vince and Larry. They had a brief sitcom and a toy line, that lasted into the early 90's.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

"37:49" is the end of the video, FWIW

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

3:10 A 27-inch TV for $570 (?!?) Imagine how much that would be in today's dollars...

[@pattibrooks1907]

Love commercials from every decade !

[@mammothfilms]

I remember copies of The New Yorker laying around the common areas of my grandmother’s retirement home back in the 90s. I never remember seeing a copy anyplace else. I remember an episode of the Simpsons where Marge says they got a rejection letter when trying to subscribe to it.

[@bobbler2]

I was a year old when this aired I remember it

[@mattmc5069]

And come January of 1988 many parents of teen girls are wondering why they have a three hundred dollar phone bill

[@leelalo6625]

4:45 hahaha 2001? Nope,’that was probably a date holder.

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

23:08 I'd forgotten all about the Kiplinger Report (or, the "privately circulated" Kiplinger Washington Letter). At the time, there were lots of magazines with similar content (as shown in this ad), the names of some of which ring a bell (Fortune, BusinessWeek, etc.), and some of those might still be in circulation for all I know. Of course, nowadays similar information is almost certainly available from various websites.

[@jamiewillkner8742]

5:28 LOL at re Technical Difficulties!

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

The crudely-drawn picture used there is funny, because if that's really how they "fix" their problems (just pulling nuts & bolts out of a TV camera), they're never going to get back on the air! ;)

[@shutterbug_713]

33:04 Been lookin 4 that ad! I remember and like that song @ 33:18!

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

"Krazy Glue--strong enough to hold this man suspended in mid-air!" Well, only if he maintains a firm grasp on that helmet...unless his head is glued to the helmet too, LOL

[@Wickerman7777]

4:45 someone thought we would have flying cars in the 80s? Where are these flying cars these days?

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

34:35 Anyone know who the woman in the "976-WAKE" ad was? ...Apparently, calling that phone # allowed you to set up a later "wakeup or reminder" call back to you at a designated time, to keep you from sleeping on the job, LOL

[@bobbler2]

The voice over guy in the New Yorker ad sounds creepy

[@brentmann2988]

0:14 W.B. Brydon speaks for Contac. You'll also recognize his very distinctive voice from the Oxy 10 commercials.

[@75aces97]

I always associate his voice with Renault.

[@brentmann2988]

@@75aces97 Yes, he did some memorable voice-overs for Renault, too.

[@yvonnerogers6429]

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[@derriusbranch8620]

Hello

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

27:18 Manhattan skyline, about 14 years before 9/11. :(

[@derriusbranch8620]

Go Kodak's and go RCA and LG and Intel and Sony and Bose and Phillips and go Logitech. And go A groups. And go Polaroids and go trapper keeper and post it's. And go Wards and Sears. And go tj Maxx. And go Crayola's and BICs and go Coke and pepsi

[@derriusbranch8620]

Hi Checking in after a little trip away from tv. Facial looks. Haha ha. .. but go good things and good times and go good items and good products. Go Safe things and Safe Computers and Safe Areas. And go A groups and desks and data and files. Go good things and machines and Amigas. Go H.P.s and good Computers. And go , VHS and go Sony's and go VCRs. And go Kodak s. And go good desks and go TVs. Go IBM s and go Amiga computers and go Memorex and Maxwell s.

[@bobmartin8377]

17:35

[@WildDiamond07]

5:28 LMAO

[@dalemulholland9114]

Hunter was horse hung

[@pattibrooks1907]

Love commercials of every decade !

[@not-so-smartaleck8987]

Your third comment (over 6 months) just to say the same thing? ;)

[@pattibrooks1907]

@@not-so-smartaleck8987 So what if I say the same thing youre the smart aleck

[@yvonnerogers6429]

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[@pattibrooks1907]

Love commercials from every decade !