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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

Wow, I think I actually had a bootleg version of one of the fencing swords.

Chestnuts roasted by Ian, Just Ian @ 07/05/2004 10:10 AM

I’m a sad, sad, man. As soon as that Fry Guys commercial started I recited the whole song. Right down to the part where Ronald bellows, "Rock Rock Rock Rock," at the end. When I was young, I taped EVERY Disney Sunday Movie (still have them in fact), and watched them over and over, including the commercials. The McDonlads commercials were always my favorite. As a 4 or 5 year old kid I LOVED that song. What a memory.

Chestnuts roasted by T.J. @ 07/05/2004 10:14 AM

Great article as always. Those commercials were neat, especially that Andre the Giant commercial with Honeycombs.

80s commercials rule.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 07/05/2004 10:23 AM

CONGRATURATION! You deserve it.

Chestnuts roasted by Max Jenius @ 07/05/2004 10:27 AM

Great commercials. I remember the McRib. In the 90′s they would bring that thing back out with a movie promotion. They did it for the flintsones and a couple of other films. Those were the days. Back then, when a movie came out, you could always get a supersize tie-in meal, with a mcRib, and an overpriced plastic cup with images from the movie on it.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 07/05/2004 10:42 AM

The Halls of Medicine? Isn’t that in Epcot?

Chestnuts roasted by sweetie @ 07/05/2004 10:49 AM

Nickelodeon, cool! Even if nothing comes of it, it’ll still look great on your resume.
Make sure you sneak your camera into the studio for some behind the scenes stuff. Then post the pictures but mistitle them, so there will be no Nickelodeon Mafia banging on your door.

Does Ronald say something about stolen fries in that song? What the heck is he saying there?

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 07/05/2004 10:56 AM

Back when, the "fry Guys" were called "goblins" and their gimmick was finding and gobbling up any and all McD’s fries they could find. As time went on, they devolved into fry theives and then to "guys" and finally "kids." I miss the pirate captain.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 07/05/2004 12:01 PM

Wow…I had forgotten all about Nerf Fencing.. Thanks for the memories, Matt, and good luck with Nickelodeon…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 07/05/2004 12:10 PM

I’d like to expand on Max Jenius:

CONGRATURATION! A Nick employee is you! Yeah, that sucked.

Seriously, what’s with the astroturf background??? I swear to God in lieu of "Mac and Me", I WILL make this my new obsession!!!

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 07/05/2004 1:11 PM

Nickelodeon? That rules. Good luck with the job!

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 07/05/2004 2:24 PM

I’m not the only one that’s simply creeped out by that tree, right? IT’S A GIANT TREE ENDLESSLY HOHOHOING IN THE CREEPIEST VOICE EVER. Poor choice for a mascot.

And Matt, congrats. I’ll watch out for any of your ads that make it on the air when I watch Fairly OddParents.

Chestnuts roasted by Behonkiss @ 07/05/2004 3:03 PM

Actually, 1990 IS part of the 80′s… since the first decade AD had 10 years, it ran from 1 to 10. Therefore the 80′s started in 1981 and ran until 1990.

That’s why the REAL millenium was in 2001, not 2000.

Chestnuts roasted by Piscez @ 07/05/2004 3:14 PM

Wow that’s awesome news about the Nick job. That’s exactly the sort of thing I’d like to get into someday. Good luck, Matt. Let us know what to look for on the telly.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike Fireball @ 07/05/2004 3:16 PM

Great stuff! I remember almost all of thos ads, they make me so happy! and Congrats on the job! thats so cool!

Chestnuts roasted by Loozer @ 07/05/2004 3:16 PM

wow matt you have outdone yourself this week. rock on

Chestnuts roasted by ed @ 07/05/2004 3:28 PM

Matt Head to the tape archives on the 5th floor (where it’s earilly empty) and start grabbing tapes of You Can’t Do that on television. Then accidently go up 1 floor to VH1 and accidently slip them into the editing room. Maybe they’ll get some better Ideas than the crud they’ve been having lately. Oh and go to the 9th Floor and yell at the old guy who does reception for Sundance… That guy screamed on me once because I had a to get a tape from them, and I didn’t have the name of the person I was suposed to get it from, just the office number.

Chestnuts roasted by Trippy the 8th Dwarf @ 07/05/2004 3:31 PM

Matt – congrats.

Consider bringing back the "Nick Nick Nick Nick, na Nick Nick Nick, Nickelodeon!" jingle.

Chestnuts roasted by Chris @ 07/05/2004 3:34 PM

I remember Nickelodeon during the 80′s and early 90′s. I grew up watching Pinwheel, special delivery, Today’s Special and a bunch of other live action shows. I also remember the great gameshows like Double Dare, Nick Arcade, Legend of The Hidden Temple, GUTS, and a bunch of others.

Now I see it today and it’s all nicktoons now. I remember when that was a special thing for the weekends, Rugrats, Doug, and Ren and Stimpy, but now they’re all over the place. It’s such a shame there’s no variety anymore.

Anyway, congrats on the job Matt. I hope all goes well with it.

Chestnuts roasted by Number5 @ 07/05/2004 3:45 PM

We better SEE some of these new Nick promos. Actually, all I want to see is The Adventures of Pete and Pete. But that’s got nothing to do with this. ‘Grats’.

Chestnuts roasted by Shire @ 07/05/2004 3:51 PM

T.J., you should e-mail Matt about those Disney TV movies. Especially if you have the Mr. Boogedy movies, so I can relive my nightmares from childhood.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091566/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092696/

Trippy, you and Matt should plan the best way to get tapes out for copying. That is one of the things I like so much about Adult Swim is, starting with Space Ghost, they have given a second life to all of those characters that might not even be seen much on the Boomerang network. It would be great if eventually they let Matt program Saturday or Sunday mornings and he would have his pick of old shows.

Matt, I realize it is way too early in your new job, but please pass along the name of former "Beetlejuice" cartoon animator, Greg Hyland (I mentioned him before for an X-E book’s illustrations), sometime in the near future to your new boss(es) for at least promos: http://www.lethargiclad.com http://www.fbtb.net/greg/gregindex.asp
He would also be perfect for helping to adapt a certain website for a kid audience.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 07/05/2004 4:19 PM

I’m following the masses who say that late 80s early 90s Nick would definitly be sweet.
or even the old TGIF series.. I cant remember the original lineup but there was Family Matters, Step by Step, um, others..

Chestnuts roasted by ed @ 07/05/2004 4:52 PM

Congrats on the new job! Finally we have another reason to watch Nickelodeon. I had stopped after they pulled the Old School Pick with no explanation. Do us a favor and ask them what the hell they were thinking.

Those old shows need to be on the air, maybe a Saturday night block dedicated to nothing but old Nickelodeon. Bring back Inside Out Boy too.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt (#2?) @ 07/05/2004 5:04 PM

Matt, if you can convince them to bring back old Nick shows like You Can’t Do That on TV, Wild and Crazy Kids, Double Dare, and the like, tell the network TV execs that I would watch Nickelodeon a LOT more…Bring back the good stuff.

Count Duckula would be cool, too…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 07/05/2004 5:18 PM

Anyone else able to translate the Andre the Giant speak? I believe the line Matt quoted is "There were four horses Inigo."

Matt – Any prize if I’m right?

Chestnuts roasted by Dane Coffey @ 07/05/2004 5:23 PM

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