Comments on: New Article: More ’80s Commercials! http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/ babblings! Fri, 25 May 2012 04:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ann http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-581921 Ann Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:48:01 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-581921 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? 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?

]]> By: ChrisC http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-581717 ChrisC Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:27:59 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-581717 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. 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.

]]> By: Mark http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-120038 Mark Mon, 07 May 2007 11:23:47 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-120038 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. 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.

]]> By: Josh Ednoff http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-91948 Josh Ednoff Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:02:36 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-91948 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! 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!

]]> By: Josh Ednoff http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-91947 Josh Ednoff Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:40:02 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-91947 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. 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.

]]> By: Josh Ednoff http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-91946 Josh Ednoff Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:21:32 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-91946 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!" 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!”

]]> By: Rick http://x-entertainment.com/updates/2006/03/19/new-article-more-80s-commercials/comment-page-6/#comment-89382 Rick Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:36:11 +0000 http://happysheepstudios.com/wordpress-1.2-mingus/wordpress/?p=749#comment-89382 ah, old school memories...a transformer that's a f**king *Fiero*! how awesome is that? ah, old school memories…a transformer that’s a f**king *Fiero*! how awesome is that?

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