# Your favorite 80's commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366 "2006-02-13T23:35:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/1 "2006-02-13T23:35:52Z")
As a spin-off of the [70’s commercial thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=358194). 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.” ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/2 "2006-02-14T00:25:20Z")
“I’ve fallen! And I can’t get up!” Mom used to fuss at me for laughing at that commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/3 "2006-02-14T00:28:23Z")
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](http://www.wild-onion.org/commercials/(tv)%20old%20tv%20commercial-heinz.wmv) ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/4 "2006-02-14T00:43:12Z")
I miss the Noid. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/5 "2006-02-14T01:16:25Z")
Where’s the beef? ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/6 "2006-02-14T01:27:57Z")
Apologies if this has been linked to before, but for a bunch of 80’s commercials check [here.](http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/7 "2006-02-14T01:33:47Z")
‘Hi, I’m Joe Isuzu.’ (He’s lying.) ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/8 "2006-02-14T01:41:17Z")
“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?_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/9 "2006-02-14T02:52:06Z")
> [@Amaranta](#): > > Was the McDonalds Moon Man an 80s thing? I clearly remember the piano-playing guy with a moon for a head. 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!_ ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/10 "2006-02-14T03:40:36Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/11 "2006-02-14T05:14:39Z")
Clap on! :👏: :👏: Clap off! :👏: :👏: 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](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: > **[Will Vinton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Vinton)** > > William Gale Vinton (November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018) was an American animator and filmmaker. He won an Oscar for his work alongside several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for his studio's work. > Vinton was born on November 17, 1947, to a car dealer father and a bookkeeper mother in McMinnville, Oregon. > During the 1960s, Vinton studied physics, architecture and filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was influenced by the work of Antoni Gaudí. During this time, Vinton mad... > [@](#): > > after Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, became the majority shareholder and Vinton was fired. Vinton later sought damages for this and sued for ownership of his name. In 2005 Will Vinton Studios was renamed Laika Entertainment House. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/12 "2006-02-14T05:32:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/13 "2006-02-14T05:37:48Z")
I remember that Pepsi ad; it became suddenly cool for people to do that little hand maneuver. _snap snap handonfist_ ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/14 "2006-02-14T05:41:50Z")
[More '80s commercials](http://retrojunk.com/list_commercials.php?era=1980) (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.) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/57b2e6/32.png) [@Quasimodal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/15 "2006-02-14T05:48:14Z")
What about ChChCh…Chia! Or was that in the 90’s? I Forget. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/16 "2006-02-14T13:24:40Z")
Wasn’t “Mac Tonite” originally the campaign for when McDonald’s started keeping their drive thru open past regular dining room hours? ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/17 "2006-02-14T13:25:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/18 "2006-02-14T14:03:20Z")
This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/19 "2006-02-14T14:28:39Z")
> [@qwest](#): > > This is your brain. > > This is your brain on drugs. [Adding onions, peppers and ham] This is your brain on drugs in Denver. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/20 "2006-02-14T15:29:52Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366.md?page=2)