I hear you. Sometimes while I'm watching, if I close my eyes and let my mind go like you do when you're drifting off to sleep, I can almost feel my older brothers' and younger sister's presences the way we were back then. I can smell what our living room in the Air Force Base housing smelled like. I can hear our family dog Shadow licking the carpet and her paws. It's the fleetingest brush with those times, but it counts to me.
That Tic Tac commercial was burned in my brain for almost 40 years. It was another ad I thought I’d dreamt. I was 2 in 1985, so it has to be one of my earliest commercial memories, even if it played for a year or two.
I have that happen with a lot of the commercials in these collections. Really drives home the point about how they were always telling our parents in those days to monitor what we were watching, because we absorb whatever we're exposed to like sponges.
17. Empire Carpet- 9:07- “Come on, Call Us!” Must be desperate for business if they felt the need to insert a voiceover of their spokesman saying that at the end. Tic Tac- That clock pendulum that the woman is riding on throughout the commercial looks fun to ride.
Ah yes, the Cola Wars were really kicking in and adding 3-liter bottles was a part of it. I can't remember the last time I even bought a two-liter bottle of soda. While a fan of Cyndi Lauper and watching her on MTV, I did not keep up with wrestling so that involvement was a mystery to me. I only heard about it from other kids who watched. I have not eaten Tic-Tacs in many years. They always left a bad aftertaste. I don't remember ever seeing MTV promos outside of MTV. When I moved into a newly-built house in 1990, it had those closet shelves along with the folding doors. "Long John Silvers: Sounds good to me." Not if it had all that eating noise in it.
Almost 7 months to the day that I was born all the stuff going on in the world then it really has changed alot in almost 40yrs watching these commercials makes me feel nostalgic because I wasn't here just yet
Son of Svenghoulie is so good. Also weird, I was listening to Julian Lennon today after I was trying to remember who sang Too Late for Goodbyes. (I thought it might be McCartney or Wings, really has his sound)
Grape Nuts-a good way to torture someone..? Make them eat a bowl of these with no milk😂 Metromedia 32 Wrestling Contest-i believe this was"The Brawl To Settle It All" Solid Gold-good lineup Church's Fried Chicken-back when all the fast food places tried to get in on the chicken nuggets craze Too Close For Comfort- what their grandfather does is his business Empire Carpet-the three of them were like "..and we're also waiting for a straight jacket for Cindy." Fame-this episode probably ended the same way that classic Fresh Prince episode did😢
The Chicago carpet wars are heating up again! After Lincoln let the Empire guy down they go after them! (RIP Lynn Hauldren) Then we have the First METROPOLITAN Builders vs. the First CITY Builders!
The "Story Phone" ad is a reminder of a museum piece of the '80s and early '90s in the pre-internet era: the "976 number" fad, in which companies set up special toll phone lines you could call to catch up on the latest happenings on the soaps, or sports news, or to be connected to perfect strangers to chat, or to hear a story or talk to Santa...Of course these numbers charged by the minute and many a kid racked up a monster of a phone bill calling these numbers without permission...
Handy Andy… I remember them. It was like a fever dream. 😂 Grape nuts. Yuck. Still hate the cereal. 🤮 I miss long John silvers. They’re gone from my area.
God I love how some of these make me feel.
Me too
I hear you.
Sometimes while I'm watching, if I close my eyes and let my mind go like you do when you're drifting off to sleep, I can almost feel my older brothers' and younger sister's presences the way we were back then.
I can smell what our living room in the Air Force Base housing smelled like.
I can hear our family dog Shadow licking the carpet and her paws.
It's the fleetingest brush with those times, but it counts to me.
That Tic Tac commercial was burned in my brain for almost 40 years. It was another ad I thought I’d dreamt. I was 2 in 1985, so it has to be one of my earliest commercial memories, even if it played for a year or two.
I have that happen with a lot of the commercials in these collections.
Really drives home the point about how they were always telling our parents in those days to monitor what we were watching, because we absorb whatever we're exposed to like sponges.
That Sears air conditioning commercial from the 90s is the one for me. That one and the “greatest love songs” and “pure moods” commercials.
5:17 - In the immortal words of JFK, "Ask not what Grape Nuts can do for you, ask what you can do for Grape Nuts"...
Random shot of Bill Cosby in the thirst busters Coke commercial. I appreciate leaving Svengoolie in, he's still a legend around here
Svengoolie - With the little tastes provided in this aircheck, it's easy to see why! XD
17. Empire Carpet- 9:07- “Come on, Call Us!” Must be desperate for business if they felt the need to insert a voiceover of their spokesman saying that at the end.
Tic Tac- That clock pendulum that the woman is riding on throughout the commercial looks fun to ride.
The description ripping on Bill Cosby never gets old.
30:40 - To celebrate the great deal they got on carpeting from Empire, the Lincolns decided to take in a show at the Ford Theater...
Ah yes, the Cola Wars were really kicking in and adding 3-liter bottles was a part of it.
I can't remember the last time I even bought a two-liter bottle of soda.
While a fan of Cyndi Lauper and watching her on MTV, I did not keep up with wrestling so that involvement was a mystery to me. I only heard about it from other kids who watched.
I have not eaten Tic-Tacs in many years. They always left a bad aftertaste.
I don't remember ever seeing MTV promos outside of MTV.
When I moved into a newly-built house in 1990, it had those closet shelves along with the folding doors.
"Long John Silvers: Sounds good to me." Not if it had all that eating noise in it.
21:24 - It looks like Mrs. Applegate is going to get an unexpected visit from a knife-wielding Cindy, no extra charge from Empire...
Almost 7 months to the day that I was born all the stuff going on in the world then it really has changed alot in almost 40yrs watching these commercials makes me feel nostalgic because I wasn't here just yet
Lincoln & Empire, no two legendary carpet companies in Chicago are alike.
I did not discover Svengoolie until a few years ago. I don't think his show ever aired on the West Coast back in the day.
It also aired on WFLD's sister stations in Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. It aired on KBHK in San Francisco/Oakland.
Son of Svenghoulie is so good. Also weird, I was listening to Julian Lennon today after I was trying to remember who sang Too Late for Goodbyes. (I thought it might be McCartney or Wings, really has his sound)
Funny...I always thought Julian Lennon sounded more like John Lennon...go figure.
17:48 - Top Job sure was lucky to find this woman who was so obsessed and overjoyed to talk about the greasy dirt in her kitchen...
Grape Nuts-a good way to torture someone..? Make them eat a bowl of these with no milk😂
Metromedia 32 Wrestling Contest-i believe this was"The Brawl To Settle It All"
Solid Gold-good lineup
Church's Fried Chicken-back when all the fast food places tried to get in on the chicken nuggets craze
Too Close For Comfort- what their grandfather does is his business
Empire Carpet-the three of them were like "..and we're also waiting for a straight jacket for Cindy."
Fame-this episode probably ended the same way that classic Fresh Prince episode did😢
Good memories
The Chicago carpet wars are heating up again! After Lincoln let the Empire guy down they go after them! (RIP Lynn Hauldren) Then we have the First METROPOLITAN Builders vs. the First CITY Builders!
The "Story Phone" ad is a reminder of a museum piece of the '80s and early '90s in the pre-internet era: the "976 number" fad, in which companies set up special toll phone lines you could call to catch up on the latest happenings on the soaps, or sports news, or to be connected to perfect strangers to chat, or to hear a story or talk to Santa...Of course these numbers charged by the minute and many a kid racked up a monster of a phone bill calling these numbers without permission...
Handy Andy… I remember them. It was like a fever dream. 😂
Grape nuts. Yuck. Still hate the cereal. 🤮
I miss long John silvers. They’re gone from my area.
$289 for 3 rooms of flooring?! [cries in Millennial]
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