40 minutes of mid 80s TV commercials 🔥📼 Retro TV Commercials VOL 484
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#retrocommercials #80scommercials #1980s
I'm 52. I cant believe I'm saying this but these commercials are relaxing to watch. Hated them as a teen. 80s was such a great decade.
Yup 51 here
I agree with you 110 percent I miss the 70s and 80s so much. The Old Days were the Best times when everything was normal.
43. Totally agree
I'm 41 and I'm the same so relxing and nostalgic
The best decade!
It really tells you something about modern times when you can watch commercials from 40 years ago and feel warm and fuzzy. I love escaping the now.
To me it's like the icing on the cake of modern advertising. Even those "homey voiced: narrators which were on EVERYTHING. Really indicative of the materialistic decade with the birth of the "family values" which have now morphed into a joke.
Yess
I know. I find myself escaping into the past more and more often. It's comforting. The world and life was just better then. And not just because I was younger. Things were just more positive. We are living in dark dire desperate times now.
I'm just going to come out and say it here, I miss everything from 1980 all up to 1999. These were some of the greatest years ever when it came to commercials, tv shows, cartoons, movies, games shows, music, music videos arcade games, clothing, jewelry,
Coloring books, holiday stuff and so much more. I am 100% completely proud to be an 80s kid. If I come relieve the whole entire thing over again, I most certainly would.
Is it just my nostalgia or were commercials much more wholesome and heart-warming back then?
Yes!
And my intelligence wasn’t constantly insulted.
i'm sure every generation does this. it does, of course, seem more "wholesome."
Commercials in the 80's felt like being tucked into bed by your grandparents after a bedtime story. 🥰🥰🥰
@@toddburgess5056 Best way to explain it.
I can't believe I enjoy watching compilations of old commercials I grew up with... Nostalgia is one hell of a drug....
Indeed it is!
Im sitting watching commercials I hated having to sit through now slowly tearing up wanting to go back to these times. Great compilation thank you for the memories.
Huge facts!!! Makes you miss sooooo much and sooooo many!
11:39 tearing up now?
You're welcome
Same here great times …
The best. It’s amazing how many that remember these days want it back. We wanted the technology. We asked for the realistic VR. So much hoping for all the advancements that the future would bring but once it gets here, it’s kind of funny that all we want to do is go back, isn’t it?
We couldn't wait until we grew up and watching these makes me want to be a kid again. No worries back then and no social media. We didn't know how good we had it. The 80s were definitely the good ole days for Gen X'ers.
Millennials can say the same about the 90s. Our two generations got the last of the "innocence" I think.
I would argue the best era ever. We had the grooviness and acceptance of the 70s. 80s fucking gold. Entered our high school/adult stage in the 90s and rode the best party horse until 2010 before technology took over and everything went to shit.
@@ninjacrumbs Exactly. Well said.
@@ninjacrumbs It wasn't technology, it was liberals.
My pops taught me how to drive a car when I was 12, after that I was hooked and kept telling him I can't wait till I'm 16 so I could drive. He used say, no you can wait time goes by to fast. Well now it's 35years later, hes dead, my moms dead, my daughter is 25, and I'm sitting here with 2 puppies watching 80s commercials on a Sunday afternoon 😑
i was born in 1995 but for some reason watching these is so calming its like a look into an alternate universe where all the terrible things in my lifetime haven't happened & everything is a little less stressful & everyone's a little more kind to each other
Such a comforting era. I will always look back at the 80’s with nothing but love ❤️
Best decade
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MAD was fun?
Everything was better back in the 80s, music, parties, concerts, and holidays. Wish I can go back
If you had told me in the 80's that I would be nostalgic watching commercials 40 years later I would have called you nuts!
Mid life, eh? Me too. I would suffer the pains of Hell in the afterlife if I was given 10 hours every week in the 80s of my youth.
I’m 52 now and am feeling pretty nostalgic watching these commercials. I can’t believe I’m saying this but it reminds me of a simpler time. Before cell phones were mainstream, no internet, etc. I loved growing up as a teen in the 80’s. I would have appreciated even more back then knowing what I know now. Good times!
Watching this is called the warm fuzzy feeling you'll never experience again
😂 true. Up next - cold eternal death.
I can just watch it again......and experience it again.
Spooky times
Yeah...it’s called nostalgia. 😉
It makes me want to cry. My mid-life crisis isn`t a sports car or hanging out at clubs. Rather it is just wanting to go back to the 80s when I was a kid and just go trick-or-treating with my home made costume....ahh, fark...I`m crying now
Ah, the 80s. To Gen Xers like myself that was our 1950s. The innocence, a warm comfortable home, the safety and care of your parents and the joys of being young with all life had to offer at the time. It was a good time to be a kid.
Yeah, there was a lot of drugs/cocaine but for youngster like me it was being able to walk/bike to your friends out and hang out until dark as well as play outside and no social media. Innocent days.
@@MsTimelady71 Yes, same here. We were so lucky. Life was so good.
Daily cartoons, Saturday and Sunday morning toons on 3 to 5 channels and that was just on antenna tv, much more if you had cable.
yes
@@MsTimelady71 Agreed.
80s commercial jingles were insanely effective. I still have jingles stuck in my head for items that have been out of production for decades.
I still buy Fanta soda because of the 80s Fanta jingle
The 70s were even more jingle centric. Or famous taglines. I still remember some memorable ones from when I was like 5. Can still sing them word 4 word. Now that's effective advertising.
I'm 53 now. I was 10 years old when the 80s started, and I graduated high school in 1989. It is only really set in in the last couple of years how long ago the 1980s were. I didn't really appreciate it as much as I should, and I also fully realize we all look at the past with rose colored glasses. But it was a special time in america. I know that the late 1980s and the early 1990s were really the Zenith of our wonderful country. I'm not saying I'm ready for the grave yet, but I I am a new grandpa, and there is a special Nostalgia for the 1980s that I will never lose. I was lucky to be a little boy in the 1970s and the Teen in the 1980s.
Oh how I miss the 80s. 💃🏻🕺🏻 I love the old commercials they make me happy and sad all at the same time. 🎭 I wish I had a time machine. 😔
💯💯💯 yes.
I was 12 in 1980, so teenager throughout the 80's, I feel so lucky to have grown up in this era!!! If I ever get a time machine I will swing by and pick you up and we will both go back! Just kidding 😊. Where does the time go? I would go back in a heartbeat!
I wouldn't want to go back, but would love to bring some pieces of that forward. For any faults, I still think most of us had a more honest(or maybe realistic might be a better word) childhood than those of the 2000's and especially now.
@@tommcdonough6086 Me too the 80s was the BEST!!
I definitely miss the 80s. Such a fun simpler time to grow up in!
I loved that McDonald's commercial with William "The Refrigerator" Perry and that Folgers Christmas commercial was so heartwarming. I wish I could go back in time and enjoy the '80s as an adult.
The '84 Chicago Bears were awesome. Remember The Super Bowl Shuffle?
@@swannoir7949 The highlight of my high school that year was having the 84 Bears at our assembly. QB McMahon was an a-hat but the rest were awesome and nice.
@@MsTimelady71 That's cool. I met Walter Peyton at the Park West and have a picture of him and me. I keep it put away so it doesn't fade (35 mm). It was taken shortly after his diagnosis. I'll always cherish that memory.
I didn't even remember the commercial, but I totally knew who they were going to show.
It was the '85 Bears.
The 80s was really a special era the more I get to see its commercials. Feels almost dream like
The 80's were awful, especially the early years. Factories shutting down, high inflation, high gas prices, high unemployment, dreadful cars, etc. The end of the decade was ok.
@@robertd9850 I bet. For others it was the greatest.
@@robertd9850 In some things, but in many others it was when things started turning around and, as you point out, by the end many things were better. The sad thing is things kept turning and started slowly falling off the deep end. Thus proving the adage "Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." Its not that everyone was smarter, just were forced to be less dumb.
@@robertd9850 True, I bought my first house in 85 10% mortgage rate!
Hey, those high mortgage rates are good to keep prices down and the money in your savings account can actually grow, I bought a CD in the mid 90s that paid 10% interest.
When commercials had catchy jingles! Watching these bring back so many memories!
I was a young adult in the 80's and I LOVE reminiscing about the good old days. They really were the BEST of times!
The narrators's voices and songs truly made these commercials amazing.
Is it weird that watching these commercials almost brings a tear to my eye? I was a child when these aired, and just seeing them again transports me back to a time when some of my departed loved ones were still around. There was always a TV on in the house, so I really associate it with family.
Edit: as I watched more of this I realized even more why it is so familiar to me. This particular series of commercials appears to have been taped from a broadcast of Alice in Wonderland that I also had taped and watched repeatedly as a kid. This is such a specific time capsule for me, and I can't believe it exists on UA-cam for me to watch so many years later. Thank you for preserving these tapes and uploading them!
I watched this exact Alice and Wonderland too as a child when it aired. So I watched all of these commercials! Good times 😊
I was born in 1970 and these commercials bring back the memories.😎
76 💯‼️
@@annissa5356 71 here :)
I remember the Folgers commercial. Got me in the holiday spirit for some reason
Retro is my medicine
Amen
during a time where there wasnt anyone on phones... where you actually had to interact with people and call them to talk to them... i truly miss the 80's
Me too
I love this. Christmas in August is okay... It reminds one of how the 80s are the good old days. Ugh.
The 80’s were my fav decade! Born in 75. So glad I was around to experience a childhood with no social media, a town that was safe to walk around in, for hours at a time, during the summer. Having to go to the library and find books for science projects, and hard working, patient people…..slamming the phone down. Not knowing who was calling you before picking up. And having to be home, to get someone’s phone call! I’d go back in a heartbeat!
Great comment! The 80s were so innocent in comparison to the current era. Modern technology has made it so easy to keep in touch,but has made people so much more distant.
Born in ‘75, too. Definitely the best era!
Good points
Born in 76’ and I agree with every word of your comment.🙋🏻♀️❤️💯
Wow, nostalgia hitting really hard right now. These commercials bring back so many memories. I can't believe all of these years have flown by. I really wish a time machine existed so I could go back and experience everything again. I truly miss the 80s. AWESOME TEENAGE MEMORIES ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My grandmother recorded both parts of that Alice in wonderland special. we would watch it every time we went to her house. I did not recall that this aired around Christmas time. This brings back so many great memories thank you for posting!
The best Alice in wonderland ever made.
The jabberwocky freaked me out, haha!
Makes me miss my grandma. I went to her house for every TV special in the 80s and early 90s.
I'm 55. These commercials bring back so many great memories. And you're right, 80s was a great decade.
Damn it! Seeing that Folgers commercial, with Peter sneaking home for Christmas surprise.... got me all teary eyed again -- 36 years later! Well done.
The 80's were great, Saturday morning cartoons were the highlight of the week.
Happy Hump Day Retro friends!
I miss a time when you could give a child a stuffed animal, and they truly felt utter joy and happiness to have received it.
I do, too. Innocence is long gone.
Wow what a walk down memory lane!!! I remember so many of these commercials and shows
Thanks for putting this together! 😢makes me miss some of family members and all the great memories we use to create together!! Life sure does go by in a flash! Unfortunately, as kids we don’t tend to recognize it until we’re Adults 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️!
The holiday commercials really hit me in the feels.
40 minutes of pure 80’s gold 💯🙏📼📺🧈 Thank you Sir Dave!
I'm 41, so I was just a little kid thru much of the 80's but I still remember some of these commercials and I certainly miss all the boxy cars.
Good old memories. Crazy that we can feel comfort from old commercials. Times have changed, right? Miss those times.
Dave i’m really loving how you have a bunch of old 80s VHS from the Bay Area 💯
These commercials are magic from the past.
40 mins?! Yes! I’m all in for this episode!
I'm enjoying watching those old commercials I'm 50 and my wife is 33 getting to share this with her is totally awesome!
I’m watching this while eating a bowl of cereal. For a second I forgot it was a UA-cam video, got absorbed into it and thought it was an actual live broadcast. I do miss the ‘80s. I have little kids now, and today are the ‘80s for them, so I’m enjoying today just the same.
80's Nostalgia is a better drug than crack.
Which carries its own flavor of 80s nostalgia
That all depends on who you ask and if you've ever had a crack 🤷😂😂😂
Pretty close 🤷♂️
I love that old Folgers coffee Christmas commercial. It really takes me back 😔
Funny…I did crack most of the 1980s.
Gotta love the 80s!
Not really.
@@jjw1072 don’t be such a fun sucker lol
Yes me too
the gov't people messed it up.
Amazing how commercials back then actually talked about the product and gave you information on it. Today you can see a commercial for a car and not learn one thing about it other than dogs can drive.
Not to mention the ones that just show some lady in a random field saying, "Ask your doctor about Drugstolinebigpharmaspockets today!" but says nothing about it whatsoever.
This is the first time I actually like commercials
The 70’s and 80’s commercials are so relaxing. Always helps me fall asleep. Thank you for these.
Mervyns! What a great place to shop for good quality inexpensive clothes!!!
What I wouldn't give to be a kid again in the 80's...
Only if I could keep some of the knowledge I have now.
What’s ironic is people will pay for UA-cam Premium to avoid current commercials while watching vintage commercials 😅
I loved "The Equalizer"!!!!
Oh my, I think I have some of these on VHS still. As I clicked the play button, I instantly thought about the old two vhs tapes with Alice in Wonderland pt 1 and 2. I sincerely did not expect to see it here and thought it was pretty obsolete. But I still have it somewhere in my Mom's attic and have thought about going over there to retrieve it just to document all the commercials during that time. I used to have nightmares of that dang dragon and remember the first time I saw one of those front lawns with the really small grass, that kind that is commonly used on golf courses. When I moved into a new area, one of my neighbors had grass like that and as a 5 year old (35 years ago) I have a clear memory of going to that house and knocking on the grass. Fully expecting it to be hard like on Alice In Wonderland. Dang the plethora of memories this just unlocked is a freaking gift, thanks for sharing this.
1980s me: leaves the room at every commercial break
2020s me: purposely watching them on UA-cam
ACK
Ironic, isn’t it?? Same here with me back in the 1980s my younger self would sometimes get slightly annoyed at these commercials but how I appreciate them and miss them so much in 2024 Because of the insane times we live in now it’s so bittersweet!
@@christianpatriot7196 Christ was a false prophet. He didnt unite the tribes of Israel / He didnt bring abt apeace on Earth. The Jews were Right to reject him as the Messiah!
That Alice in Wonderland movie cast was freaking stacked Ernest Borgnine Harvey Korman holy smokes
IKR?
I love that version. Had no idea so many people were in it.
When it sez this is CBS. Makes me go back to my mom's house. So warm just like these commercials. How times have flown by.
I miss the 80s. If only I could go back 🥰
I cant stop watching, Every minute brings a smile to face!!! Thank you❤
I never thought the 80s would ever be thought of as retro.
am in the 80's forever. oysters for the locals only.
I really feel old now that 90s is retro and nostalgic. I'll take either the 80s or 90s over this new world era of dismal ness we are currently in.
Thank you for these wonderful archives, these commercials bring back great memories.
I truly believe this is the best generation I was born in the mid-70s basically grew up in the '80s and '90s those times are truly the best in history ✅🤪
@@phillipbanes5484I'm with you. I was born late 65 so I'm same age as you. I remember the 70s too. Early 70s when I was like 5 and 6 were still very 60s ish in clothing, styles , attitudes car styles etc as I can remember. And early 80s still had late 70s vibes. I think us early Gen X really grew up at a special time. We had the childhoods even our parents didn't have.
does anyone get the upbeat feel from these ads that we dont have anymore
Do you watch commercials anymore?
I miss how almost every announcer had nice deep smokers' voices back then
Yes!! 😂😂😂😂
YEAH...IM 49....GOD..IM 49 !... LOL....BUT WHO WOULD'VE EVER THOUGHT. THAT COMMERCIALS, COMMERCIALS, WOULD BE SO COMFORTING AND PRICELESS
'80s are the pinnacle of human kind
PREACH!!!!!!!
@@ninjacrumbs You posted 11 days ago I see 11 Likes for @ALLMUTANTER posted 1month ago. The Universe has spoken I wished that I can go back in time when life was simple and kind.
Wish i woke up from todays nightmare on a couch as a kid under the blankets on a couch with homework to finish with these commercials blasting in my ear with the scents in the kitchen from my mom cooking dinner😢
Me too
Great assortment of 80s commercials
OMG that Alice in Wonderland movie I really loved and had it on VHS, but then lost the tape! Looks like I found it archived online. Thanks for the 80s memories!
CLUE to this day will always be my fave movie.
Another great ad compilation! Thanks for sharing this with us, Dave. God Bless You and stay safe.
I really wish they invent the time machine so I can go back to the 80s and experience everything again..
It was nice to be able to watch TV back then without big pharma constantly trying to shove something in my body.
Best laugh I've had all day... What you wrote is true.
So very true. I’m a nurse and back then direct marketing of pharmaceutical drugs to consumers was against the law. I do miss those days too!
Is it sad that I would rather watch ‘80s commercials than the latest show on Netflix?
Thanks for the awesome feel good time capsule Dave 👍, and I seriously don't remember AT&T long distance gift certificates, but that sure would have been a nice gift from someone, as back in the day in my area even calling the next town over only a few minutes away was considered long distance.
Tom Bosley voiced a bunch of those commercials!
His voice was perfect in many ways. Add in the familiarity of the always so good Mr. Cunningham; perfect.
Thanks to everyone who donates these priceless gems blast from the past
Fabulous memories! I feel sorry for ppl who didn’t know the 80’s…
Me to. Especially 80s music too.
I missed most of these because i was partying a lot then. Now i am catching up! Lol.
I don't need a tv in my room...listening to these on my iPhone as I drift off to sleep is just as good.. The world was a better place. Full of hope... lacking so much of the division and hate that permeates everything now.
Nothing but the good old 80s.
This was the season they brought back the early 80s movie intro, still used the 82 movie intro and debuted a new movie intro.
For those wondering why a bunch of suburban housewives were making enchiladas and why Cambells soup was making nacho cheese dip: The 80s was a time where Latino / Mexican foods finally became popular with the mainstream, but the old guard food companies didn’t know how to market it yet. A few years later was when all the salsas, dips, and whole aisles of Latin/Mexican/Hispanic foods became commonplace at the grocery store. Before the 80s, if you weren’t Hispanic, those foods weren’t on your average American’s radar much. I was born in 1973 and I didn’t know what salsa was until the 80s.
You're totally right. We never had Mexican food growing up. It wasn't around and wasn't a thing. Don't think I had my first taco til I was a mid teen in early 80s. Then all of a sudden it all became very popular. Rightly so. I love it. Except I do remember mom making a tamale casserole once in a blue moon in the 70s. Sliced tamales layered with stewed tomatoes, corn , cheddar cheese and Frito chips on top. That was good.
I bet that yummy looking Campbell’s nacho cheese soup/dip was a gateway food for suburban housewives to get into Mexican food.
Almost 4 decades later and Bears fans are still Milking that won Super Bowl win
And the Super Bowl Shuffle
That Superbowl I was a whopping 18 years young the Bears 🐻 kicked our ass! Lifetime Patriots fan. Man to be young again! I was a teenager practically the whole 80's decade, feel blessed to be young during this era!
Poor fridge is broke and even sadder Steve McMichael has ALS and I'd say less than a month to live
Let em have it. It's all they've got.
*one
Not to mention, that CBS extended movie intro!! Brings back the memories!!
That Folgers coffee Christmas commercial really takes me back! 😔😔😔
Really excellent compilation! One of the best I’ve seen. It feels strange watching these, seeing if I remember each one and what was happening in my life at the time. It’s so cool. Thanks for the memories, literally.
I'm 43, brings back some memories. I do recall some of these commercials.
Watching these commercials made me feel like an American again...that was trippy
LOL That 3rd commercial, the one for Minolta, had the same voice over guy who was the narrator for the 1986 Transformers movie. He was saying auto-focus, auto-everything, but all I heard was Autobot, Autobot.
That McDonald's refrigerator commercial was so good, big macs were so good and bigger in the old days...
there were no microwaves at mcdonalds.
80's Classic
80's may have been one of the great decades we had just right amount of technology and world was safe for most part
Wellllll...not quite safe. The USSR hadn't fallen yet so we were in a cold war nuclear stand off with them. Boy that was a day when the Berlin Wall came down.
1980’s: Damn I hate commercials, why do they have these?
Present Day: Oh how I miss the 80’s commercials. Nothing like the 80’s 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm 46 these commercials were my childhood and bring back so many memories.
omg thanks for making me feel like a young guy again, this brings back a lot of good memories. wow
Me in the 80s: Turn the channel, it's commercials. Me now: Where can I watch some of those 80s commercials?
Look at all those kind faces and happy people/families. America needs to go back to this. Great times!