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More Commercials of the `80s!

Well, hello there. Long time no see. As a reward for your loyalty, I present another fine batch of `80s Commercials, including everything from a Mr. T doll to a radio controlled inflatable Hulk. Fer real. I've done this ten-commercials-in-an-article deal a few times before, but I must say, this may very well be the best batch yet. It's even got those Bad Case Of Worms toys I was asking about a short while back. Read the whole way through for a bonus section on "Freezy Freakies," the gloves that changed the world. Henjoy.

Adding a Survey: Well, what are your hobbies? Real ones, not ones that just sound cool in the retelling.

Posted by Matt on 03/06/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 135 comments

Say, Matt. You oughta hunt down that commercial. It’d make a great addition to your next installment of old-school ads.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/06/2005 11:38 PM

Hobbies? Well, my website.. first and foremost. Also; reading books, skateboarding, and checking out X-E. I also enjoy indulging in quality conversation in late night diners.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 03/06/2005 11:56 PM

Matt, please consider putting links for the commericial reviews in the 80′s Ad section.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/07/2005 12:05 PM

well SINCE Gerv asked…I have a question too.

There were these toys I used to covet when I was very small. Maybe around four. It would have been 1988 or ‘89.

They were stuffed animals, faintly popple-esq, and they had clear plastic domes for noses. (I think it was noses)
Inside the dome there was a toy or a mechanical thingamajig, and when you pressed on the nose, a mechanism would work the toy inside. Each stuffed animal had a different nose.
This is by far one of my earliest toy-related memories, so it might well be a hallucination. I Just wanted to make sure. It’s an absolutely retarded concept, but in the eighties they tried to sell stuffed animals with tear ducts, so I can’t quite dismiss it as a false memory.

Anyway. Been reading this site for almost a year, and it just gets better. BRILLIANT stuff.

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 03/07/2005 12:34 PM

Too bad I missed out on some of those toys (I spent ’85 being born and what not). Some of those look familiar, though. That Mr.T doll would have made a adequate Uncle Phil in a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air playtime re-enactment.

My Hobbies:
-Writing (I’d give an arm, an leg, or an ovary if I had one to write for television and film some day. For now, I keep the hope alive.)
-watching movies/tv (Look above. My humour is John Hughes/Wes Anderson-ish so I like, but don’t limit myself to those types of movies. For TV, think Arrested Development and Scrubs…making sweet monkey love to each other.)
-video games (Nintendo, ya heard?)
-retro/vintage things (Jukeboxes and pinball machines. I want them.)
-sports (Not so much now, but I like basketball. I’m not 20 feet tall, but I’m decent. Soccer too.)

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 03/07/2005 1:33 AM

I hope Freezy Freakies make a comeback sometime soon. I desperately need a pair.

Also, it sounds so geeky, but I crochet and knit. I also play the guitar and read. And I like freshly outdated things, like the song "Party like it’s 1999" and "Best of 19 blah blah’s" compilation CDs.

Chestnuts roasted by jc @ 03/07/2005 1:34 AM

There’s nothing on the planet that is cooler than Mr. T. It’s a scientific fact.

I’m going to grad school for my hobbies, heh. I’m an MFA student for fiction.

Sadly, I still have yet to completely break the nerd habit of magic. I still play in tournaments every couple months or so.

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 03/07/2005 2:05 AM

Nate: that version of the Ms. Pac-Man ad is already on the Internet; I downloaded it somewhere….wish I could remember where that somewhere WAS so I could link it to you.

"Fluid Fantasy" is just a freaky ad, and it’s made worse by being a lava-lamp ad viewed by bad TV reception seen through a pixilated internet video file. It just doesn’t work, but it’s probably here for the classic line at the end.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 03/07/2005 2:09 AM

Outside of reading and watching TV and internetting? I’m trying to learn crocheting. I write. I collect shot glasses and autographs (that last one’s slow getting started but I’m working on it). So far I’ve got Michael J. Anderson, Tim DeKay, Adrienne Barbeau, Clea Duval, Carla Gallo, Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown (all of Carnivale) Alton Brown (of Good Eats) and Jhonen Vasquez (of Johnny the Homocidal Maniac, Squee! and Invader Zim, though I didn’t get this one in person).

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/07/2005 2:29 AM

"Comes in it’s own garbage can, complete with two plastic eyeballs." BEST SLOGAN EVER.

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 03/07/2005 2:47 AM

adding hobbies:
Horror is my biggest; i have a website that reviews horror movies. Real Horror movies, like italian horror and exploitation.
Another hobby is i put action figures in cups of water then freeze em. When you take them out they look like they’re frozen in icebergs! Cereal is another big hobby, because its pretty much all i eat. Pets are kind of a hobby. I watch a lot of cartoons. I play DDR and paper mario 64. Sporadic girlfriends. Breathing. Guitar/Keyboard. I guess college fits in there, somewhere…

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 03/07/2005 3:40 AM

#@$*#*

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/07/2005 3:44 AM

When I saw that Fluid Fantasy commercial I remembered getting one for Christmas when I was little. So I rummaged through my old toys and sure enough there it was. Sadly, the liquid was all gone out of it, so I guess no $100,000 for me.

Chestnuts roasted by Simon @ 03/07/2005 3:50 AM

Hobbies:

My pets – fish, birds, dogs, ferrets
Reading – horror, sci-fi, historical
Movies – horror, sci-fi, comedy etc…
Outside stuff in summer – hiking n’ immature things like fort building, exploring the woods, tag in the dark (I should be too old for that shit – when is the official break for creepy old people playing kid games?)
Watching cartoons

Jeff – don’t be too harsh – I play Magic semi-regularly too. Nerd habits are hard to break (even for a girl)!

Chestnuts roasted by Ripley26 @ 03/07/2005 8:49 AM

My main hobbies are sewing and quilting, but I also love reading, baseball, and drawing. Hooray for articles!

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 03/07/2005 9:17 AM

I had a different pair of Robot Freezie Freakies that were much less cool than those. I think I still have them somewhere.

Chestnuts roasted by Lou @ 03/07/2005 9:19 AM

Katherine, those bears with the dome noses are called Nosy Bears by Playskool. I’ve got one with a basket ball game for a nose. Got him at the ol’ thrift store…which leads us to my hobby!

My hobbies are thrifting and making comics about fighting crime and solving artsy mysteries which I’m told are, allegedly, funny.

Chestnuts roasted by Kennef @ 03/07/2005 9:51 AM

Review the World Dude:

I don’t mean to bring negativity to the site, but man, you’re copying X-E — right on down to pagiarizing my most favorite X-E article ever: The amazing incredible bag-o-crap. Tsk Tsk

Great Article Matt. I love the looks back even though it makes me feel old.

Hobbies:

Collecting bootleg Cure concert CDs
The Icy Hot Stuntaz
Surfing
Reading/collecting Fantastic Four comic books
Visiting NYC dive bars
Campy 70s and 80s dubbed Kung Fu movies
Tobacco enthusiast
Watching Duke b-ball

Chestnuts roasted by Pedro @ 03/07/2005 10:25 AM

Hobbies
Wrestling tapes…seriously…waaaay too many wrestling tapes I can watch wrestling all day long and I don’t know why.
movies
everyone comes to me for what is good and bad
writing
live journal
midgets in my basement

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 03/07/2005 11:01 AM

Oh Yeah I had the robot freezie freaks…I dont remember them making me cool though…

Chestnuts roasted by LordSorrow @ 03/07/2005 11:43 AM

I had that Mr. T. It got thrown away one time when I was 5 or 6 and Mom decided I had too many toys, so grabbed some stuff at random and tossed it out. I got him out of the trash. ^_^ Then he got lost in a housefire with like… 100-bajillion He-man figures… now I’m sad… I miss it. *sobs*

Chestnuts roasted by Blaine @ 03/07/2005 11:50 AM

Oh BTW… When the themesong sang "Mr. Teeee!!!", am I the only one that follows it up with "I’m gonna liiiive forever!! I’m gonna learn how to fly!!" … thought so.

Chestnuts roasted by Blaine @ 03/07/2005 11:52 AM

Another sweet haul of ads.

Chestnuts roasted by Dragonrider @ 03/07/2005 1:18 PM

"Another hobby is i put action figures in cups of water then freeze em."–Eddie Lightning Frog

I used to do that all the time. Then, I’d unthaw them in the sink because I always forgot why I froze them in the first place. I was usually playing with toys, and the guy would get frozen, and I figure I was going to have him rescued later, but I’d forget.

Chestnuts roasted by Predacon Warlord @ 03/07/2005 1:23 PM

Didn’t the slime actually say this is a toy on it? always thought that was strange, but then again I bought several cups of that stuff, what did we do with it?

Chestnuts roasted by RAS @ 03/07/2005 2:23 PM

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