# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**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, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/21 "2006-02-14T15:43:55Z")
_Give me a mountain Give me a Dew Give me some good friends Give me a Dew Give me something simple and smooth All I need is sunshine And smooth refreshing Mountain Dew, yeah! Give me a mountain Give me a Dew!_ ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/22 "2006-02-14T15:48:49Z")
Drug PSA: Don’t let a friend push you in to taking drugs You’ve got a riiiiiight To say ‘no’, ‘no’, right to say ‘no’ It seemed like this ran for eight or ten years, or at least my entire saturday morning cartoon-watching career. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/23 "2006-02-14T16:12:13Z")
The commercial for Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. It had this guy dressed as Link running around in a castle/dungeon, and showed Princess Zelda asleep on the platform, like at the start of the game. I remember it ended with him jumping down a pit and yelling, “Zeelllllllllldaaaaaaaaa!” ---
**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, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/24 "2006-02-14T16:15:43Z")
> [@RumMunkey](#): > > 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. It was new commercials kinda cool, they have the kid as a grown up. They used to play the old commercial right through my childhood so it was pretty interesting to see him all grown up. I still don’t like McCain french fries. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/25 "2006-02-14T16:21:29Z")
Max Headroom. Craftmatic Adjustable Bed: “I have trouble eating in bed. I spill stuff!” Dude, that’s what happens when you put popcorn in your eye. GI Joe, a real American hero. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/26 "2006-02-14T16:53:40Z")
I remember the anti-drug PSAs of the 80s. Probably from sitting up stoned late at night watching TV. “But I have to do coke. So i can work harder. so i can make more money. So i can buy more coke. So I can do more coke. So I can work harder. So I can make more money. So I can buy more coke. So I can do more coke. So I can work harder…” And IMO the most accurate one: _Early 30-ish guy_: (lighting a joint) Since I started smoking pot, i haven’t graduated to harder drugs. i haven’t started committing crimes. In fact, I’d say I haven’t really changed at all since I started smoking pot." _Voice off screen_: Son, is that you? Did you go out and look for a job today? _Early 30-ish guy_: No, mom. I was going to, but… ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/27 "2006-02-14T17:42:48Z")
A schoolmate was in a commercial for Polly-O String Cheese that we never let him live down. The one that had the kid ordering a pizza, “hold the dough, and hold the sauce”… “Hey Vinny, gimme a pizza with nothin’!” “Nothin’??” He was the kid who said, “C’est si bon!” at the end, with the little French kissy-gesture with the fingertips. How about those ads for MTV when they first came out, with the guy in sunglasses sitting in the recliner and a thin black tie blowing over his shoulder due to the waves of hipness emanating from his TV set? I still remember fondly the ads for a local discount electronics chain called “Crazy Eddie’s”, “with prices so low we’re practically GIVING it all away!”. They were doing pretty well, had stores all over the NYC metro area, until the owner embezzled a bunch of money and fled to Israel and the chain collapsed, or something like that. Still… You don’t forget seeing a guy in a Santa Claus suit shaking Christmas lights in an ad aired in the summer, advertising “Crazy Eddie’s Christmas Sale… IN AUGUST!!” (With “Joy To The World” playing in the background) ---
**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 15, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/28 "2006-02-15T00:36:13Z")
I liked the Apple ‘1984’ commercial. I’d just re-read the book. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/29 "2006-02-15T01:03:59Z")
No love yet for Where’s the Beef? Man, it brings a smile to my face and a song to my heart even now. Remember those PSAs about not electrocuting yourself they used to run during cartoons? “Now keys go here, and fingers go here, but smart little buddies know they don’t go here! (No, no, only plugs go here!)” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/30 "2006-02-15T01:08:27Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > How about those ads for MTV when they first came out, with the guy in sunglasses sitting in the recliner and a thin black tie blowing over his shoulder due to the waves of hipness emanating from his TV set? Itself a take-off on an earlier ad for (Maxell?) audio tape, wherein the hipster was being blown back by the sound from his stereo ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/31 "2006-02-15T01:10:21Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > No love yet for Where’s the Beef? Man, it brings a smile to my face and a song to my heart even now. See post #5 ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/32 "2006-02-15T01:13:30Z")
Oh, yes, and as for ads: background; the girls going doodo-doodo-doododoodoo-doodo-doodo… pan to the street corner: Lou Reed, leaning on a Honda scooter Lou: “Hey, why settle for walkin’?” ---
**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 15, 2006, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/33 "2006-02-15T04:24:59Z")
> [@drm](#): > > 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’m starting to remember this one. Oooh, the Crash Test Dummies! Those dumbass long distance spotss, like the one where the girl is in college, and she’s on the phone with her dad, and he tells her to put her arms around herself and squeeze. “You just got a big hug from Daddy.” Ugh. And just let the Trix Rabbit have some cereal, you selfish little bastards! ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/34 "2006-02-15T12:43:02Z")
You’re a woman of the 80’s! You’re a _SPA LADY!!_ ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/35 "2006-02-15T17:54:37Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > [the MTV ad was] itself a take-off on an earlier ad for (Maxell?) audio tape, wherein the hipster was being blown back by the sound from his stereo Hey, that reminds me of the “Is it live… or is it Memorex?” ads for Memorex tape. Especially the one with Ella Fitzgerald singing a note high enough to shatter a wine glass, then a playback of her singing (via Memorex) that did the same. ---
**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 18, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/36 "2006-02-18T18:20:12Z")
'I [insert amazing feat], and all you give me _lite beer?_ :mad: ’ (I recently found a cartoon book that I bought way back when: _I Survived World War Three, And All You Give Me Is Lite Beer?_ – or something like that. I’ve packed it away again.) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-80s-commercials/344366/37 "2006-02-18T18:58:23Z")
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