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80s Commercials, Volume 404040-ASKSK.

V8 has 70 calories.In a shocking twist, this week I start a new job at Nickelodeon writing commercials with their promo department -- a dream come true, at least for the next few weeks. If any of my stuff lands on television, I will tell you 400 times. It'll be a temporary thing at first; might be a month or two before I have Final Word. I'll tell you more about it later, but the gist is, don't expect X-E to explode with new articles for the first half of July. This being the kind of job I'd kill your parents for and all, it's going to take priority over everything else, including showers. But! I've set shit up for more easily produced articles during the course of this, like the latest one...

80s Commercials, Volume 404040-ASASK! Yes, ten more 80s commercials, reviewed, with video downloads. This lot includes such classics as the McDonald's McRib, Fun Fruits, Nerf Fencing and the Atari Lynx. We've had a lot of "new stuff" articles lately, so it seemed like a good time to head back to happyland. Speaking of which, the next feature is another volume of 80s commercials -- look for it on Wednesday or Thursday, time permitting. Thanks to Randy for the Ghostbusters Hi-C pic shown above. Juice enthusiasts got a free backpack or something. Anything to justify buying the hideous grape flavor. Hope everyone had a nice 4th...ours was boring.

Posted by Matt on 07/05/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 148 comments
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cool comercials and i loved the firework article

Chestnuts roasted by Woodennikle @ 07/05/2004 12:15 PM

The commercial section is one of the best on the site…keep it up!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. King @ 07/05/2004 12:42 PM

McRibs…those are almost as good as thos elittle biddy burgers. I think those were Burger King though. What were there names? Bitty Burgers? Burger Buddies? I don’t know…

Chestnuts roasted by Teh Travo @ 07/05/2004 12:44 PM

If memory serves, "Burger Buddies." If memory serves, I ate them as a child and got violently ill.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/05/2004 12:46 PM

Yea, I had that before a Mardi Gras parade one year….and since I live in Louisiana I proceeded to make sex with my cousins after.

Chestnuts roasted by Teh Travo @ 07/05/2004 12:50 PM

At least you’re honest.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/05/2004 12:51 PM

Oh man that honeycomb commercial was one of my absolute favorites when I was a kid and I’ve tried to remember the specifics many times. sweet.

Chestnuts roasted by Emmaaaaa @ 07/05/2004 12:51 PM

A job at Nick? That kicks ass. Congrats!

Chestnuts roasted by marioshoku @ 07/05/2004 1:20 AM

Good luck on your new job, Matt. Great article, as always, but what’s with the astroturf background? Am I missing something? (Probably. :P )

Kudos on the Elecman appearences, too, since I just got Mega Man Anniversary Collection a week ago (yeah, it kicks ass!).

Man, an article with two McD’s ads, and I don’t even mention…uh, I won’t go there.

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 07/05/2004 1:23 AM

Boy who changed into car? TEEN TURBO!!

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 07/05/2004 1:27 AM

It’s the fifth already? weird.

Chestnuts roasted by hjgjdhj @ 07/05/2004 1:29 AM

I was gunna make a lame joke about me misreading "com" as "corn", but instead I’ll congradulate you on that great news!

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 07/05/2004 1:33 AM

I love Mc Ribs. I hoard them when they are on sale. To me a Mc Rib tastes like one of those rib tv dinner patties and put it in a bun. I remember that old gremlins 2 ad with the puppet.

Chestnuts roasted by piachulover @ 07/05/2004 1:33 AM

I had one hell of a 4th. My family all live near Indiana, the ass end of the American backbone. Fireworks of all kinds are legal there, and four guys (uncles, cousins, + my dad) all bought about $400 worth of the ka-boom stuff each. Our display lasted for two hours. My ears are ringing, I’m covered in black, charred crap, and I’m coughing up stuff that tastes like gunpowder, but it was great.

One of the 15 pound big ones my dad got was called Megatron 2. I got a kick out of the name. It had a label that said something like "For the Maxaminum ejoymant, face this side towareds specators". What it did was shoot about 300 golden, flaming, exploding rockets about 30 feet above my entire family’s head. In the true spirit of Megatron, it was trying to kill my family.

I have a video me me being chased by about 50 bottle rockets I’m going to post on my site when I get back home tomorrow night.

Chestnuts roasted by Rayzak @ 07/05/2004 1:44 AM

Congrats and good luck with the new job Matt! Woohoo!

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 07/05/2004 1:49 AM

It WAS Burger Buddies BTW. I remember them being stuck together in a line of 4. Meaning you could only buy a minimum of 4 burger buddies.

FYI- PoPs cereal is still on top for best toys. This month you get a neato spidey laser wristband. No need to send in cupons, it’s right there in the box!

Chestnuts roasted by Novaximus @ 07/05/2004 2:05 AM

God I love this site more every time I come here.

Chestnuts roasted by Jesus @ 07/05/2004 2:08 AM

Ever have certain movies bring out some sort of inner depression when you watch them for no particular reason?

Well, Gremilns have always had this effect on me. Sorry Matt, but watching those movies totally throws off my Chi

Chestnuts roasted by Novaximus @ 07/05/2004 2:09 AM

NERF FENCING! I loved that! Whee!

Chestnuts roasted by Evin @ 07/05/2004 2:40 AM

Hey Matt, congrats on the job. If you ever have the need for a fat guy, I’m your guy ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Will @ 07/05/2004 2:58 AM

Cool, I was just hoping for some new 80′s ads. Where did those trees go anyway? And what did they have to be jolly about?

Not to toot my own horn, but I just completed a page for my site on "Garfield and Friends" that’s packing more information than anywhere else. And I took all the screenshots, made all the videos and gathered all the info myself. If you miss "Screaming with Binky" or want to know the truth behind "the Klopman Diamond," follow my name’s link….

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 07/05/2004 3:49 AM

Finally, the Bitner Holiday Special will see the light of day! Nickelodeon is the perfect place to start your dominance over television.

See if after a while you can work you way into their vaults and review their older shows.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 07/05/2004 4:14 AM

HOLY CRUD THE STARBOTS!

I used to have so many of those things. Brings back memories of orange juice flavored cereal conveniently enough called "OJ’s." I mean Jesus immagine if those things came out now. Anyway, OJs had those things in em way after every other cereal had dropped the promotion, so I just racked up my robots that looked like vaccume cleaners with pitchforks attached to them.

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 07/05/2004 8:07 AM

Everytime I try to write a post, it sounds stupid, especially when I’m trying to make it Nick-related :(
I even dropped a ref to the Archie Comics version of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ because one of the artists works for Nick now. Personally, it’s probibly better that they are, that comic hasn’t been wonderful lately.
Anyway… so, you’re workin’ for Cosmo, Wanda and Spongebob now, eh?

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 07/05/2004 8:10 AM

Good luck with the new job, Matt. Just dont forget all of us little people.

Chestnuts roasted by pulseczar @ 07/05/2004 9:02 AM

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