As a spin-off of the 70’s commercial thread. What are some of the best from the 1980s?
-The milk ads where the kid is looking in the mirror and talking to their future selves. “Milk: it does a body good.”
“I’ve fallen! And I can’t get up!”
Mom used to fuss at me for laughing at that commercial.
Not my favorite, but for some reason this Heinz one always stuck in my head as “80s era defining”. I remember watching this as a little kid all the friggin time.
http://www.wild-onion.org/commercials/(tv)%20old%20tv%20commercial-heinz.wmv
I miss the Noid.
Where’s the beef?
Apologies if this has been linked to before, but for a bunch of 80’s commercials check here. I was but a wee babe in swaddling clothes for most of the 80s, but I do remember the Encyclopedia Brittanica commercials, and the California Raisins.
Was the McDonalds Moon Man an 80s thing? I clearly remember the piano-playing guy with a moon for a head.
‘Hi, I’m Joe Isuzu.’
(He’s lying.)
“Teen Steam” workout videos with a very cute young Alyssa Milano.
Toy commercials! The golden age of action figure commercials, especially when half the cartoons on TV were half-hour toy commercials themselves! Kids often had elaborate back yard settings for their toys, including sand and water traps, bridges, breakaway fences and walls, and more. G.I. Joe and Transformers were the best, with their rousing jingles:
Rip and roar,
COBRA Boar,
Gonna make trouble for –
G.I. Joooooooooe!
Micromasters, they’re smaller and faster
Transformer commandos that go where nobody else goes!
Micromaster Transfoooooormers!
The Animal!
The Animal!
Can anything stop –
The Animallllllllll?
You’re thinking of “Mac Tonight”, and yes it was an 80s commercial-one of my favorites as a kid.
My mom and I BOTH used to make fun of the “I’m fallen and I can’t get up!” Don’t forget the old guy-“I’m having…CHEST PAIN!!! AAAAHHH!”
Talk about memory for useless crap:
I don’t wanna grow-up I’m a Toys 'R Us Kid
There’s a million toys at Toys 'R Us that I can play with!
From bikes to trains to video games it’s the biggest toy store there is!
I don’t wanna grow up 'cuz baby if I did-
I couldn’t be a Toys 'R Us Kid!
“You, alright? I learned it by watching you!”
Drug PSA commercial. Come to think of it, I didn’t really like it all that much but wow, did it ever get stuck in my head.
Clap on!
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Clap off!
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The Clapper!
But seriously, my favorites were the ones for the California Raisins, especially the one were Ray Charles and Jimmy Hendrix (as a raisin!) appeared.
To check the ad (oh and the Noid too!) see here:
http://www.animateclay.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=printpage&artid=101
Their creator, Will Vinton, was one of the inspirations that got me into animation.
Sadly, Will Vinton In 2002 lost control of the studio he founded:
Michael J. Fox did a diet Pepsi commercial or two, I really liked one of them. I don’t remember a lot about it but I remember him having to find a diet pepsi for some rather attractive female. I remember it being a rather huge ordeal involving climbing on things. If someone could, perhaps, find me a downloadable copy that’d be really cool of 'em.
I remember that Pepsi ad; it became suddenly cool for people to do that little hand maneuver. snap snap handonfist
More '80s commercials (They’ve got stuff from the 70s and 90s, too.)
I was four years old in 1989 so I don’t remember much of them. I do remember the milk commercials. I have a very vague memory of the McDonalds moon man…I think I had a happy meal toy at one time. I still remember the Noid (as much as I’d like to forget.)
What about
ChChCh…Chia!
Or was that in the 90’s? I Forget.
Wasn’t “Mac Tonite” originally the campaign for when McDonald’s started keeping their drive thru open past regular dining room hours?
Oh, one other thing: any Canadian kid will remember the McCain french fry ad with the little kid with the the big glasses. They recently did a redux on that.
This is your brain.
This is your brain on drugs.
[Adding onions, peppers and ham]
This is your brain on drugs in Denver.
I always liked the Caramilk one with the devil.
“We’re prepared to pay, anything.”
“Anything?”
I also liked the juicy fruit commercials with the rope swing.