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New Article: More ’80s Commercials!

With just minutes to spare to ensure that I don't miss tonight's new Sopranos and thus rob myself of the opportunity to bicker about what a letdown it was around the water cooler tomorrow morning, I finish this weekend's new article: More `80s Commercials! Pretty awesome batch, I must say. See reggae fruit dance with Snap and Crackle as they usher in Fruity Marshmallow Krispies! See kids turn into Optimus Prime by way of underwear! See the McD.L.T.'s cool side stay cool! Win a Sony Watchman! All this and more! More! A dozen total, each reviewed, with video downloads.

Posted by Matt on 03/19/2006. E-mail me!

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Oh looky, my first post after reading the site for at least 5 years turns out to be a ponderous, talking-to-myself affair.

I wonder what exactly it is that led to the downfall of Saturday morning/afterschool kids’ shows? Did the kids change as the years passed, or was it more to do with those FCC requirements for "educational" programming?

Whatever it is, they’ve surely ruined an entire generation. Kids *need* constant marketing and cheap animation. It’s part of this balanced breakfast.

Chestnuts roasted by lugnut @ 03/23/2006 9:33 AM

Those miracle fat-burning pill commercials are the absolute worst. I can’t believe that those people get away with it, the claims are so ludicrious I can’t believe they are not arrested. The Kevin Trudeau informercials are also horrible. I also agree about those Larry The Cable Guy movie ads; seriously, anyone plan on seeing it? It looks totally horrible.

Speaking of informercials, anyone have any old favorites? I loved that bizarre "Santo Gold" infomercial they ran in the late 80s.

Chestnuts roasted by Destro @ 03/23/2006 7:53 PM

Thank you Thank You Thank You for posting these. You made my day today…

Chestnuts roasted by Shawn Robare @ 03/23/2006 10:42 PM

I loved that bizarre "Santo Gold" infomercial they ran in the late 80s.

I sadly hadn’t heard of Santo until Googling the name, and now that I’ve seen the two clips I could find…wow. Just…wow.

Words fail me.

And now I know my life’s mission is to find the complete program.

Chestnuts roasted by lugnut @ 03/24/2006 9:10 AM

Yo WHere you get that jake the snake vs kat Video you know where a video of the show is or any other rare WWF Videos you can watch? hitman

Chestnuts roasted by trav @ 03/25/2006 12:26 PM

Thank you for posting up more commercials, especially the Fruity Marshmellow Krispies one. I hope you put more up soon.

Chestnuts roasted by Bert Raccoon @ 03/25/2006 11:35 PM

That kid in the Jedi commercial sounds like Daniel from Transformers. I didn’t see Hotrod anywhere though.

Chestnuts roasted by Sir Jokesalot @ 03/26/2006 9:17 AM

This brings up an interesting memory from my childhood: That Empire was, by far, the last Star Wars movie I watched of the original trilogy by a mile. Why did it take so goddamn long for me to see it? Why did Saturday afternoon movies always seem to either show A New Hope (or as I knew it then, just plain ol’ Star Wars) or Jedi? Why did they only play the LOTR animated movie in its entirety once, to my memory? I don’t know, but goddamn did I love me some Saturday afternoon movie.

Chestnuts roasted by yode @ 03/29/2006 11:06 PM

i would like some new old commercials very soon on x-e take care of me twins skip-it zack the lego maniac blow pop and caramello

Chestnuts roasted by nick @ 04/01/2006 11:40 AM

Thanks for once again showing me why this is the greatest site on the internet. I love the old commercials. One thing though, I don’t mean to nitpick (ok yeah I do) but in your review of the Reeses commercial you mention that they are playing on a Colecovision. However those are most definately Intellivision controllers they are holding. Anyway I knew I would not be able to sleep until I posted that so there it is. Hope to see more of these great commercials soon, thanks!

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 04/05/2006 3:32 AM

Do you have a high rez copy of the Zips commercial?

Chestnuts roasted by Erizzle @ 04/06/2006 1:23 PM

Super Sunday and Super Saturday fans of Jem, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines, Robotix, and Inhumanoids, please vist this SUPER SUNDAY WEBSITE, and this site also contains commercials for Robotix and Bigfoot. You can also sign the "Super Sunday & Super Saturday Petition", by scrolling down the page of this website.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan Lepore @ 04/08/2006 12:04 PM

Ahhh, after nearly a year long exile I’ve spent the last two days re-immersing myself in the magic that is X-E. Thanks for all the great memories, Matt! I loved every single one of the commercials, and they brought a few things to mind that I hadn’t thought of in almost 20 years. I would appreciate a Mac Tonight commercial in a future entry though. I loved the Mac!

On a side note, I was also sad when Looney Toones would come on every Saturday. Nothing worse than the end of the cartoon goodness! I loved D & D, Kidd Video, Galaxy High, Pole Position, Laser Tag, Smurfs, and the Wuzzles…those were some good times.

Chestnuts roasted by Kieran Alexis @ 04/09/2006 12:38 PM

Hey Do you guys remember a comercial, I think it was a sunkist comercial that was some factory and a kid saying
“grandpa, tell me again how about Sunkist factory”
The comerical was an animated one that showed the “process” in which sunkist oranges went through before hitting the shelves. Iv looked for it but can find it. Do you know which one im talking about?

Chestnuts roasted by MJGRASS @ 08/25/2006 11:50 AM

I’m calling out all the aficionados of the great King Ayummayumma and the greatest cereal of all time, Fruit Islands cereal. EVERYBODY TOGETHER NOW: “Ayummayumma!…….You can say it too!!! If we all work hard together we can get the public to embrace and resurrect Fruit Islands cereal to its natural place at the top of all commercial products. King Ayummayumma is calling on you now, O trusty Fruit Islands diciple!

Chestnuts roasted by Josh Ednoff @ 10/02/2006 7:10 AM

Oh my God I love you.

Super naturals.. I had some of these. totally forgot about em.

Chestnuts roasted by AtomicPup @ 10/14/2006 11:40 AM

Love this site…..just love it!

Chestnuts roasted by Peter in Sweden @ 01/02/2007 3:35 PM

ah, old school memories…a transformer that’s a f**king *Fiero*! how awesome is that?

Chestnuts roasted by Rick @ 01/23/2007 3:36 PM

My loyal diciples, I need you! The all-mighty messiah King Ayummayumma and the Holy Grail known to us mere mortals as Fruit Islands cereal needs all of you to help roll back the stone and resurrect Fruit Islands cereal onto the online mainstream. My children, I call upon the divine souls to flood every website, blog, database, server, online community, boathouse, outhouse….(sorry Tommy Lee Jones!) with everything it takes to bring back Fruit Islands cereal. “Ayummayumma, you can say it TOO!”

Chestnuts roasted by Josh Ednoff @ 01/31/2007 3:21 AM

All of us who watched Saturday morning cartoons in the 80′s know that we were a part of the golden age of cartoons. Thundarr the Barbarian (all about Uklah the Mohk’s square horse), Shirt Tails, every 80′s video game as a cartoon, Muppet Babies, Hulk Hogan’s Rock and Wrestling, Land of the Lost (with the worst ever superimposed graphics), Ding Bat, Plastic Man, Shzaam, Fat Albert before he sold out (which I would like to ask, how come when they ran somewhere Fat Albert was always 20 steps behind, yet when they got somewhere they all got there at the same time?). Anyways, can’t we all agree that the WORST cartoon of them all was Mr. T? He’d be swinging the alligator by the tail in the opening credits, doing Olympic-caliber gymnastic stunts while wearing a denim cut-off shirt with jeans and Native American feather earings, and just hanging out with pre-teen kids in an abductor like van! Then the absolutely cheesy moral lesson at the end of the show with a real time shot of Mr. T preaching the gospel to us kids who were already so geetered out on sugar from the 5th bowl of cereal our parents had no intention of giving us anymore brothers or sisters (Blatant rip-off from a Calvin and Hobbes strip, but I just had to.) So lets hear it for Mr. T being the worst cartoon (or show on TV for that matter) of all time.

Chestnuts roasted by Josh Ednoff @ 01/31/2007 3:40 AM

Everybody, this wouldn’t be the 80′s without mention of the greatest innovation of the decade that makes nuclear power and the wheel look less important than a Lincoln log. The Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine!!! Come on everybody, “You put an ice cube in, pull a sno-cone out. Yumm-yumm fun is what its all about (Thanks Snoopy!). Its the Snoopy Sno-cone Machine!” How cheated did I get at Christmas? My sister…. Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine, me….coloring book!

Chestnuts roasted by Josh Ednoff @ 01/31/2007 4:02 AM

Thanks Matt for posting the Underoos commercial. I was absolutely convinced as a kid that you actually would turn into your favorite superhero. Of course I didn’t listen to my parents who kept telling me otherwise, so I got to live the disappointment when I threw on a pair and nothing happened. Of course having worked in retail and being older, I know how ridiculous that would have been, thousands of pairs of Underoos and every kid turning into SuperMan.

Chestnuts roasted by Mark @ 05/07/2007 7:23 AM

I *would* find this website this late in the game. I am LOVING this site. Anyways, I just watched the Watch N Play ad and realized that I have zero memory of that contest. Musta been playing Donkey Kong on the 2600 or something.

I did, however, own a Sony Watchman. Still do, in fact, and just pulled it out and put some batteries in to see if it still works. I’m getting a picture, but no sound. Not even from the earphone jack. I’m puzzled because I’m almost positive that the last time I tried it (a couple of years back) I got sound but no picture.

That thing went on a few family vacations with me and I actually managed to pull in signals in most places. Rural areas were impossible, of course. Never did figure out what kind of antenna would plug into that jack on top. Maybe a proprietary Sony gadget, I dunno.

Chestnuts roasted by ChrisC @ 03/07/2009 2:27 PM

In the 80s there was a commercial with a play on communism where a woman in all gray would walk like a model down a runway. Then they would show another woman exactly like her, and finally a third woman. I do not remember what they were advertising, I just know that I could use it as an example in school. Anyone know what I am talking about and where to get a copy of it?

Chestnuts roasted by Ann @ 03/12/2009 11:48 AM

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