I think it’s half because we wanted to watch our shows, and half because they were basically everywhere. Hell I swear zoobooks were part of the lineup every single commercial break.
I don’t know, I never found commercials back then annoying, could be because these days they’re just not fun to watch and everything either has no add or you can quickly skip them.
@@astrowolvez To each their own, but I know I wanted to watch my show right away and when their ads and especially duplicate ads that appear, frustration sets in until the show finally plays.
Today I learned that my brain had been storing every word of the education connection song for twelve years, ready to unleash a flawless recitation at any time.
That commercial came out when I graduated High School in ‘07 but I always thought it was scam just like the overly pushy Everest college commercials lol
Who else gets butterflies in their stomach watching these commercials? Time in so precious, isn't it? Here we are in our 30's with our jobs/kids/pets/etc... life has changed so much for all of us since the 90's and all of it feels like it was only yesterday! It's so sad but im glad these silly commercials can take us back to a special time in our lives that we'll never forget... virtual hugs my 90's brothers and sisters
SO well put!! I completely agree. I'm overwhelmed with sadness but also so much nostalgia. will definitely be bringing this up to my therapist soon. lol. hugs back atcha!!
Hugs to you, my friend! Take me back to the 2000s where I was playing RuneScape and running around with wooden swords. Just, for a day. I love my life as it is now, but man to be in my childhood home eating mac n cheese again 😌
You drop cable tv, install multiple ad-blockers, even pay a few bucks to avoid advertisements. Then you watch twenty minutes of commercials just for fun.
7:10 What always stuck with me is how psyched that mailman was to deliver those Zoo Books. I imagine him saying something like "golly you're a lucky kid! Look at all these Zoo Books. This will be the greatest day of your life. You're a Zoo Book boy"
Most definitely. I would back in time and win money for someone, if the reward for me meant that I could remain in a loop of the year 1994. Nothing else matters to me.
I can’t explain how important this is to my mental health right now. I’m remembering things I had forgot watching these. Memories of good moments with my parents I didn’t remember.
I thought I was the only one who hated when that commercial came on and now I find myself singing with it. It borrowed and burned it's way into my memory xD
That low quality camera just brings back this warmth and comfort that I cant explain and It makes me sad knowing it's something I'll never be able to experience again.
Those jets and planes helped play a role in my enlisting in the Air Force. Its crazy how much simple commercials will influence your decisions as an adult. Oh the nostalgia
Something about that Chef Boyardee commercial brought memories flooding back and almost brought a tear to my eyes. Such a nice time to have been a kid. Innocent nicer times than the way the world is now. Some of these commercials would come on tv when I’d be watching Toonami after school. Good times.
I remember I would always start talking to my parents when the Sylvan commercial came on to distract them just in case they wanted me to go there over the summers.
I still remember vividly seeing the pillow pet commercial with my parents and asking for one, and on Christmas I got one and I was so excited. I still have it.
@@otakunation7625 i went to the website to see if they still made them, and they do. even bigger ones but they have almost doubled in price from the $20 commercial
This was both calming and extremely depressing. I miss my grandparents house and not being weighed down by the world. I haven’t felt that level of happiness in years. Every “happy” thing that happens to me now feels more like relief that something in my life didn’t go terribly wrong.
@@TEEANVEE I'm an adult. My childhood was terrible. I would never want to go back there again. These times may be a little hard, but I love it compared to my childhood
I had to do sylvian and it was stupid, my worst memory from there was my teacher trying to put in her contact for 20 minutes and I was horrified. However, it did get me out of cleaning my flooded basement.
Me in 2005: ugh god can i just skip these commercials and get back to spongebob Me in 2022: i want to watch a 12 hour video of every commercial from my childhood
there was one commercial I saw in my childhood- I only ever saw it ONCE. But even still today, I want that thing! But it was... it was like a full, complete, tiny kitchen set. It was so elaborate with everything you got with it... Ah. I don't know. These old commercials are filled with so much childhood memories, and they were just the filler for the good stuff.
I wonder how many of these commercials will be lost forever because nobody thought they would ever be worth saving, or that anyone would be nostalgic for them.
As a kid who spent nearly all his TV time on cartoon network and nickelodeon, these ads have been seared into my brain for years. Some of the As Seen on TV ads were so tantalizing when I was too young to have a bank account. But on the flip side, others like TimeLife's music albums have made it to Ebay, so that's no longer an issue.
Shows how insane marketing really is. The fact these are stored frame for frame in our minds 20 to even 30 years later.. is just insane. Psychology behind marketing is very real
If you had the privilege of growing up in this time period I hope you realize how amazing life really was, the perfect balance of technology before it got too big lol watching these commercials bring back amazing feelings, I will forever cherish this period of time in my life.
I know right even though I was born in 2005 I still remember waking up in the morning to watch chowder on the boomerang channel and seeing some of these commercials those were some good times
Wish I could go back :'( it's feels like a life time ago. I haven't felt the same since. Technology advanced too fast after like 2008. I would do anything to go back
I only speak for myself here. I love watching this. Come back to it every once in a while. Reminds me of such good times. No anxiety, no anger, hatred or rage. Just joy, no weight. Being greatful, and loving life everyday. Thats all changed now. Its the exact opposite of today, now its just misery, darkness and going to bed hoping I don't wake up in the morning.
I remember every morning I used to get ready for my dad to go to work during the summer, and the Tropicana Good Morning commercial came on, and we always sang it together, and I would beg my mom for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillow Pets, Zoo Pals and Silly Bands after watching the commercials. I remember getting that bee pillow pet, I was so excited.
It's amazing how effective advertising was on us as kids. I haven't seen most of these or thought about them in 16 years or more, but they never really left my mind. I found myself remembering a unique phrase or manner of speech with no effort at all.
The entire Betty Crocker Bake'n'fill commercial was full of moments like that, but when they brought out the baseball cake it unlocked something within me. Something untapped for almost a couple decades. And it was surreal.
@@timofcent1 I knew the commercial even though I hadn't thought of it in years BUT THAT BASEBALL CAKE WAS LIKE UNLOCKING A MEMORY WITHIN A MEMORY AND SUDDENLY I WAS A YOUNGER ME, IN OUR OLD PLACE SITTING CRISS CROSS IN THE DARK ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP AT OUR OLD TV. IM ASTOUNDED
mhmm. jingles are the stickiest for me, even for products I didn't even want. baby born, ring pop, skip-it, hungry hungry hippos. WHY i heard my mom singing a fritos jingle that probably aired when she was a kid. i'm gonna be 80 years old singing the sock'm boppers song
I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with the tv still on and these commercials were always playing. I’d watch them till I eventually fell back to sleep cuz something about it felt so comforting lmao
When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies". It almost feels unreal to watch something as little as commercials resurface of what seemed like a forgotten memory.
Sometimes I put these on to sleep when things are stressful and I cannot sleep. Iunno, just something about these commercials bring me back to feeling secure and happy.
Ngl, I have one of those old sparkle plastic brief cases filled with them. They were dope af, and I wish they were still a thing because I would still get more of them
My school library had the whole set, they were the best. Easily the best thing in the library. While the whole school was losing their minds over Harry Potter and the series of unfortunate events books, I was having a blast learning about my favorite animals
After months of research, I have come to the conclusion that 2005 is the last true year from the 90's culture era. This is around the time when cartoons such as Rugrats and Powerpuff Girls started to end. VHS and music cassettes were still being made. The 80's plastic box T.V. was still the most common type people had. Some kids had internet, but it was really only used for schoolwork at best. But one year later is when the Wii came out. In 2007, smartphones were being planned by Apple. VHSs became extinct due to DVDs, and HD flat-screen TVs became cheap. Rock Roll music such as Green Day started to become uncool around 2008. And the release of Netflix massacred my boi Blockbuster. The fall of the millienal era and the start of the iGeneration dawned at the end of 2006...
I remember the transition as well. It was a weird time where 90’s tech met modern tech. When the Xbox 360 came out, I was on Xbox live playing Halo 3 on my gigantic plastic box Panasonic lol. It had terrible lag because our internet was still crappy at that point. Technology was constantly improving to keep up with other tech, and it still is.
Huge Green Day fan (have seen them live + own most albums) and I totally agree they're music took a turn in 2008/2009. edit: Forgot to say your comment is 100% on point
@@davidlara4170 i remember TV was available to everyone, all you needed to do was buy a tv, until the Tv cable companies took over competing against one another, everyone having seperate cable service with different channels, where as back then everyone knew what the channels were, for Nickelodeon 36, Animal Planet 37, Cartoonetwork was 68, and channel 3 was for game consoles such as the Orginal Playstation, Ps2, Gamecube, N64, OG Xbox etc
Watching stuff like this always reminds me of binge watching VCR tapes back in the day. I remember when Land Before Time was the greatest thing i had ever seen.
I always remembered that Chef Boyardee commercial as a kid and I was always thinking to myself "Damn, her mom is gonna think she stole that." To this day I'm wondering what happened after the commercial ended...
Dude I thought the same thing when I watch that commercial lol as a kid I used to think that a rolling can of chef boyardee's was kind of cool and then I managed to get to her house safely without being damaged. But now watching that commercial I did not remember it being that long but now since that little girl got her chef boyardee's she will be accused for stealing it and her mom is going to be like mom: where'd you get that I told you that we're not having chef boyardies for dinner... Did you sneak it out the store? Lol
@@superomegax4199 I think this is like an extended version of the commercial. And yes, exactly! The mom definitely isn't Gonna forget a conversation she had probably only couple hours earlier, especially considering that she'd already served her Chef Boyardee every day that week! And what's she gonna tell her mom? That it just now magically landed in her hand just now? No matter what, a whooping is imminent! 😂😂😂
@@guitgodd what's even more funny that the people at the store didn't bother the look through their cameras and seeing a rolling can of Chef Boyardee going out the door by itself lol
I feel after the commercial is over the little girl definitely got grounded ‘Why did you take this from the store?! I told you no chefboyardee! Now I have to go back to the store and pay for this! That’s it, I can’t deal with this right, just go to your room until dinner is ready. No tv for a week young lady!’ Meanwhile the little girl is trying to get in how it just came to her and her sister is just clueless on the whole matter and how she could’ve snuck it home at all, but opts not say anything cause she doesn’t wanna get an earful and just lays there still watching tv herself, the little girl upset with tears in her eyes and pouting goes to her room
It's moments like these that makes me wish we could go back and experience our childhood once again. No worrying about bills or money, just enjoying childhood.
The education connection commercial unlocked a lost memory when I was growing up in the 2000s. 9:13. I can’t believe how fast time could go when one is a child. It feels like yesterday when me and my childhood friends would get home and play Mario Kart Dash on GameCube all day at my house or at theirs.
I still got vhs tapes recording of 90s and 2003 2002 shows/ commercials it really does feel like not long ago but at the same time it does feel long ago i had a emotional response when i heard a theme from a old show because it instantly took to back to that time i remember every detail you dnt forget 💯
@@richardharris3295 of course it’s not the same guy lol the voice actors in the beginning all have the same tone seemed like they all sounded similar back in the day, super nostalgic to me 😂
This was bittersweet. Took me right back to my grandparents kitchen table watching the small tv they had atop their fridge while eating breakfast. I’d give anything to be able to do that one more time.
This took me back to being at my grandmothers house after school while my parents were working. I miss both my grandmas. Never got to meet my grandfathers. Yeah. I’d do anything to go back to that too.
As a kid I always worried about the girl in the Chef Boyardi commercial because I always thought her mom would think she stole the can and would never believe it just rolled in.
These remind me of some of the greatest times in my life. I really didn’t know what I had until I started growing up. I couldn’t wait to get older, now I would give anything to go back to those days. Stay young guys !
when I was a kid I had the urge to call the phone numbers displayed at the end of the commercials no matter the product. my older siblings always had to restrain me from the phone and my commercial privileges were taken away. the betty crocker cake set literally made me feral.
@@Valrax dude that's all want right now. All my favorite cartoons with the old ads especially during the holidays when the channel logos get a lil holiday makeover.
These commercials are so special. Brings me back to a great time in my life I can vividly remember. Now I'm 28, married, have two amazing daughters and am overjoyed with the life I currently have. Yet, I somehow miss those good ol days
I love how for these cake commercials they get a couple of professional cake decorators to make these crazy cakes and then are just like "You can do it too!"
These commercials give me a 90s-early 00s American suburban life feel. I grew up in San Diego so I’ve always lived in an urban area but these commercials remind me of some quiet residential town somewhere in the middle of the country, kinda like Arlington from King of the Hill. I wish I could’ve experienced living like that growing up.
I’m convinced that however wrote the Education Connection song was a ghost writer in the industry, that shit’s a bop and will get stuck in your head for DAYS
Scary to think that since I "cut the cord" (cable tv) 5+ years ago, it felt strange watching REAL tv at a hospital. (Where I work at) Nowadays, the majority of society just watches stuff on their phone and thus youtube/some streaming service.. 🤨🤔
I entirely forgot about some of these but this brought so much back oh my god. I remember having my mom rewind some commercials cause I loved them so much. 🖤🖤🖤
That moment when 20 minutes of 1990-2000's commercials is less annoying than even a seconds worth of current UA-cam's ads. Like, I feel more rage waiting through 3, 4 second unskippable ads than I do watching these now of my own volition, let alone when I had to wait through these for my show to come back on as a kid XD
like i literally sat through this WHOLE video without skipping . not just because of how nostalgic it is , but because they're actually watchable . 🧘🏾♀️ '
It's because modern ads try to be funny to make themselves more appealing. Problem is, they haven't a fucking clue how to be funny so they come off as pandering at best and ear-gougingly annoying at worst.
I am 30 now, and i remember all of these commercials, then i thought they were horribly obnoxious and insulting and an annoying interruption of the cartoons but now i am voluntarily watching them on youtube.
I always hated how after a while they’d only show the shorter 10-sec ish version of the Chef Boyardee rolling can commercial when I wanted to watch it roll for at least 30 seconds.
I was scared of that commercial growing up. I was afraid I'd go to the store with my mom and one of the cans would follow me home just like the commercial.
Seeing as how we were all kids when we saw them I think 95% of the stuff in these commercials was stuff that we *wanted* to have but never actually got to have, stuff like Zoobooks, Floam or Zoopals are all things I look at now and just think to myself “Damn, I remember how much I wanted that as a kid”
You know adulthood is hitting you hard when it’s almost 1am and you’re watching this to try and remind yourself of easier times and temporarily forget your shitty office job and empty life…just me? Rip
Personally, I’m at a better spot in life now than then, but I still miss the culture of that age. I just don’t fit in with most people now and can’t stand mainstream media.
I was obsessed with baking as a kid because my sister who is 18 years older than me made it our bonding activity. So all those baking gadgets really got to me. And my parents bought some of them 😂😂😂. I feel like calling them now to apologize
Feels like waking up at 3am after falling asleep with the tv on. Loved how some of those commercials were purposefully louder than what was actually being broadcasted.
They were, and intentionally so. Even then advertisers knew most people didn’t actually watch ads; we’d go off and get a snack or whatever. In 2012 the FCC passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to rein it in, but advertisers are always pushing the boundaries. And then along came streaming, where the FCC had no authority…
Take me back to those days in the mid/late 2000’s and beginning of the 2010’s where I had nothing to do after school except watching Nick/Cartoon Network/Disney, video games and playing with friends
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The irony of how agonizing it was getting past these commercials only to find myself years later indulging in the same commercials.
This gave me a good chuckle. So true!
I think it’s half because we wanted to watch our shows, and half because they were basically everywhere. Hell I swear zoobooks were part of the lineup every single commercial break.
I don’t know, I never found commercials back then annoying, could be because these days they’re just not fun to watch and everything either has no add or you can quickly skip them.
@@astrowolvez To each their own, but I know I wanted to watch my show right away and when their ads and especially duplicate ads that appear, frustration sets in until the show finally plays.
Yea cause it was in the times where things were fun and not woke af
Today I learned that my brain had been storing every word of the education connection song for twelve years, ready to unleash a flawless recitation at any time.
@Buddy Lembeck yup
I literally spitted that whole thing at work yesterday
When I was a kid I thought the girl was a loser for not having enough money to go to school. Now I am that girl.
This is how I was with the ZooBook commercial! Somehow I just started unconsciously reciting every word along with the announcer🤣
That commercial came out when I graduated High School in ‘07 but I always thought it was scam just like the overly pushy Everest college commercials lol
Me as an adult rewatching the Floam commercial for the first time in decades: I want Floam.
The world needs floam back
Floam needs to come back immediately
Same
They're probably illegal now cause of microbeads
the commercials were entirely misleading. it dried out basically immediately. not worth it.
Who else gets butterflies in their stomach watching these commercials? Time in so precious, isn't it? Here we are in our 30's with our jobs/kids/pets/etc... life has changed so much for all of us since the 90's and all of it feels like it was only yesterday! It's so sad but im glad these silly commercials can take us back to a special time in our lives that we'll never forget... virtual hugs my 90's brothers and sisters
SO well put!! I completely agree. I'm overwhelmed with sadness but also so much nostalgia. will definitely be bringing this up to my therapist soon. lol. hugs back atcha!!
Brah u pushing 30 while im out here pushing 24
❤❤❤
Hugs to you, my friend! Take me back to the 2000s where I was playing RuneScape and running around with wooden swords. Just, for a day. I love my life as it is now, but man to be in my childhood home eating mac n cheese again 😌
Insanity haha. I used to hate commercials!!! Now I'm almost 35 and watching them on my couch, hoping it will make 5 tired... not!
We really all 20-30 year olds watching old commercials, reminiscing on a better time
Right on
Not just reminiscing were also regretting how were no longer able to buy some of these things now that we have our own credit cards V.V
20 on the dot for me
I'm only 16 but I still remember a lot of these. Sometimes I don't know if memories of these commercials were real or if they're dreams.
I just turned 20 😭😭
You drop cable tv, install multiple ad-blockers, even pay a few bucks to avoid advertisements. Then you watch twenty minutes of commercials just for fun.
Sigma lifestyle
But nostalgic ones!
I shitt liquid Betty Crocker cake mix
Also UA-cam ads suck
These commercials aired during a simpler time for most of us within a certain age range so they get a pass lmao😭😂
Dude, zoo books will always live rent free in my head. I’ve seen this commercial EVERY NIGHT. The nostalgia is strong.
DARK depths of the ocean! Will forever live in my head rent free
Having Zoobooks was the 90’s equivalent of owning an IPad as a kid haha. They were so amazing
7:10
What always stuck with me is how psyched that mailman was to deliver those Zoo Books. I imagine him saying something like "golly you're a lucky kid! Look at all these Zoo Books. This will be the greatest day of your life. You're a Zoo Book boy"
Me too !!!!!
Bro I wanted that poster so bad
4:20 "tired of looking like a FOOL when your cakes arent COOL?"
that was bars 🔥
“Tired of looking like a fool when your cakes not cool?”
8 year old me: …….Yes
A problem all us 8 year olds suffered.
“Your kids hate your guts cuz you served them sad sandwiches!”
Four year old me: do I
(After my fifth juice box, rubbing my eyes) “….I’m so tired of this shit.”
I still have my first diary I was given, and in the front I wrote full page ads for things like oxy clean 💀 I was 6 or 7.
Never thought I'd willingly watch 20 minutes of commercials
Liar
Same
goes to show how bad we want to be living back in the GREAT old days
Most definitely. I would back in time and win money for someone, if the reward for me meant that I could remain in a loop of the year 1994. Nothing else matters to me.
True. But I'm still watching some of these on mute. No amount of nostalgia will get me to bring back the earworms.
I can’t explain how important this is to my mental health right now.
I’m remembering things I had forgot watching these. Memories of good moments with my parents I didn’t remember.
It's amazing how brains work.
That "education connection" commercial drove me nuts back then, and it still does alllll these years later. 😂
@JustForFun-bh7lni like the "con-nec-tion" part 😊
I thought I was the only one who hated when that commercial came on and now I find myself singing with it. It borrowed and burned it's way into my memory xD
That brought me back.
Never thought I'd see myself watching commercials I was mad at when they interrupted my shows
Despite how annoying it was at the time. We miss them so much
@@Kyle-fp5lm for real!
Bro what the fu** is life right now
@@carpelunam literally, I remember everyone of these and would get so annoyed but here I am 12 years later watching them hahaha
commercials were somewhat entertaining back then...
Even as a 20 year old adult I still want that cake thing.
Me too!
"even baked Alaska!" My 7 year old brain wanted to light a cake on fire so badly
Any chance they still make those?
I'm young but that cake thing was cool
I actually thought Betty Crocker was a real person and now these commercials hit harder knowing Betty White just passed away.
Sometimes, when my kid is at school, and my partner is at work, I turn these on in the other room. Makes me feel better.
This. This is what I want to do ❤
I still have my giant cupcake silicon mold!
Yes it works perfectly. Walking into a party with a giant cupcake never fails to bring smiles.
I’ll take one funfetti cupcake please 😊
Did you ever use the filling mold?
@@kaylachapman257 it costs extra they might not have bought it then
I still have my magic magnets but they’re dried out so glad you’re still getting used out of your gimmicky yet useful 90s product lol
The Sylvan commercial used to piss me off the most. Just the thought of having to do school work in the summer seemed criminal to me at the time.
Omg same
I would mute the TV when that came on, didn’t want my parents to overhear and get any ideas
That is criminal. You are right
@@TheTrueEvilSpud I have to admire the ingenuity in that.
I was always so worried that my mom would see it and make me do it during summer vacation
commercials had 3 criteria:
- $19.95
- some kind of bonus item
- end card with payment options + phone number
😂😂😂
Lol
But wait, there’s more!
“Call in the next fifteen minutes and we’ll throw in an extra [insert random item] for free! Just pay shipping and handling.”
The commercial meta
That low quality camera just brings back this warmth and comfort that I cant explain and It makes me sad knowing it's something I'll never be able to experience again.
And here I am… 32 years old rewatching commercials from the early 2000s… life is strange
Same I'm 33 years old I miss old days with super Nintendo and 64 and just using the pay phones
We’re all just remembering a better time. lol
Same here. The nostalgia is hitting me hard.
31 turnt may 30th I understand man.
the one guy that voiced so many of these commercials really carried the industry
@@Msangel06 nailed it
@@Msangel06 you forgot "but wait if you call now, we'll double your order!" lol
Must of made a fortune lmfao
in his bag
Omg...I never noticed that until you said that. Now I can't unhear it, jfc 😭
To this day, I still dream of two things:
1) About that Watermelon Cake
2) To have as good a relationship with my mailman as that kid does in Zoobooks
Lmaooo
That mailman is 100% railing his mom
Watermelon cake is okay but it gets old once you eat a slice or two
When I was a kid, I would wave and say thank you to the mailman if I was playing by the door XD
I never expected to see you here!
This hurt so much. Where has the time gone. Such good memories growing up with these commercials
Those jets and planes helped play a role in my enlisting in the Air Force. Its crazy how much simple commercials will influence your decisions as an adult. Oh the nostalgia
"Now you can make a cupcake that's 25 times bigger!"
--- Sir, that would be a cake.
😂😂😂😂
spaghettios was really out there acting like their spaghetti wasn’t just pasta in ketchup water
🤮🤮🤮🤮
shit slapped though
😂😂😂
Looking back after getting some sketti o's they arent as good as I remember
I ate so many cans of the ravioli...
Something about that Chef Boyardee commercial brought memories flooding back and almost brought a tear to my eyes. Such a nice time to have been a kid. Innocent nicer times than the way the world is now. Some of these commercials would come on tv when I’d be watching Toonami after school. Good times.
I wish my groceries would follow me home, but without rolling on the dirty ground.
I remember I would always start talking to my parents when the Sylvan commercial came on to distract them just in case they wanted me to go there over the summers.
😂😂😂 kid logic! Love it!
Not me as a whole adult thinking I absolutely need that Betty crocker pan.
All the cake pans and decorating shit.
im 18 years and older now, so i can call 😂😂😂 😭
100%. I am surprised there hasn't been any mock products of it. I seriously want one
Same
Not me as a whole adult thinking I absolutely need that Tiger Poster.
It’s funny how we’re all nostalgic for these ads but never owned any of the actual products
Idk I loved my pillow pet
@random boy hey you know I think they might still sell them I saw them in store a while back ago, worth a try lol
I had floam 😅
I still remember vividly seeing the pillow pet commercial with my parents and asking for one, and on Christmas I got one and I was so excited. I still have it.
@@otakunation7625 i went to the website to see if they still made them, and they do. even bigger ones but they have almost doubled in price from the $20 commercial
Even though we all dreaded watching these commercials hundreds of times, the nostalgia hits hard 20 years later
This is basically just all the commercials that constantly played on nickelodeon back then
This was both calming and extremely depressing. I miss my grandparents house and not being weighed down by the world. I haven’t felt that level of happiness in years. Every “happy” thing that happens to me now feels more like relief that something in my life didn’t go terribly wrong.
I feel this honestly
It’s your generation and shit. When we grew up we were optimistic about it all
God I'm glad I'm not like this
@@trevorperry11 yet. I’m just glad I’m not alone in feeling like this
@@TEEANVEE I'm an adult. My childhood was terrible. I would never want to go back there again. These times may be a little hard, but I love it compared to my childhood
Finally old enough to order myself a Betty crocker baking kit but no one answered :(
It's like $60 on amazon 😒😒😒 There crazy lol
wow i’m really glad Im not the only one that took a long shot and called the number
Lol I called the zoo book number just for kicks and I also got no answer lol
That commercial was the very first time I heard about Baked Alaska. I was so confused over the fact that a cake was set on fire sans candles.
I wanted one so bad 🤣🤣
Thank God for UA-cam, and God bless whoever archived all these seemingly useless commercials over the years. You are a real hero.
Man i miss those 19.95 days. Now everything is so high.
Shout out to the kid in the Sylvan commercial for hitting math right out of his head.
I actually thought that could happen to you and got nervous when summer came around
@@juanpablorobayo3437 same dude
I had to do sylvian and it was stupid, my worst memory from there was my teacher trying to put in her contact for 20 minutes and I was horrified. However, it did get me out of cleaning my flooded basement.
That's what I did as soon as I got my high school diploma
Me in 2005: ugh god can i just skip these commercials and get back to spongebob
Me in 2022: i want to watch a 12 hour video of every commercial from my childhood
Same
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I hate that I understand this feeling...
there was one commercial I saw in my childhood- I only ever saw it ONCE. But even still today, I want that thing! But it was... it was like a full, complete, tiny kitchen set. It was so elaborate with everything you got with it... Ah. I don't know. These old commercials are filled with so much childhood memories, and they were just the filler for the good stuff.
@@moondream6 Was it metal or plastic?
I wonder how many of these commercials will be lost forever because nobody thought they would ever be worth saving, or that anyone would be nostalgic for them.
As a kid who spent nearly all his TV time on cartoon network and nickelodeon, these ads have been seared into my brain for years. Some of the As Seen on TV ads were so tantalizing when I was too young to have a bank account. But on the flip side, others like TimeLife's music albums have made it to Ebay, so that's no longer an issue.
Shows how insane marketing really is. The fact these are stored frame for frame in our minds 20 to even 30 years later.. is just insane. Psychology behind marketing is very real
And why almost everything is 29.95-9 lol
@@abigailr1207 Wild right. Some of these I remember every detail of from literally when I was like 5 years old.. (26 now)
@@abigailr1207 Why were they marketing education connection to 10 year olds anyways lmao
They put subliminal messages in everything
And how incredible our brains really are
If you had the privilege of growing up in this time period I hope you realize how amazing life really was, the perfect balance of technology before it got too big lol watching these commercials bring back amazing feelings, I will forever cherish this period of time in my life.
I’m so grateful I didn’t grow up with a device in my hands. My kid sister makes fun of me for being born “in the 1900s” but I’m so proud!
Same
Agreed!
I know right even though I was born in 2005 I still remember waking up in the morning to watch chowder on the boomerang channel and seeing some of these commercials those were some good times
Wish I could go back :'( it's feels like a life time ago. I haven't felt the same since. Technology advanced too fast after like 2008. I would do anything to go back
I only speak for myself here. I love watching this. Come back to it every once in a while. Reminds me of such good times.
No anxiety, no anger, hatred or rage. Just joy, no weight. Being greatful, and loving life everyday. Thats all changed now. Its the exact opposite of today, now its just misery, darkness and going to bed hoping I don't wake up in the morning.
I remember every morning I used to get ready for my dad to go to work during the summer, and the Tropicana Good Morning commercial came on, and we always sang it together, and I would beg my mom for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillow Pets, Zoo Pals and Silly Bands after watching the commercials. I remember getting that bee pillow pet, I was so excited.
The ladybug was my favorite!
As kids we hated seeing these come on during a show.
As adults we're looking them up for nostalgia's sake.
Funny how life works like that.
Simpler times…
Speak for yourself. I'm looking at all the cool stuff I could own now if not for my lack of a credit card and phone.
As a kid I loved some of these
Mind control , the constantly overused commercials payed off in the long run ig .
I hated zoo books commercials but now I love the nostalgia feels.
It's amazing how effective advertising was on us as kids. I haven't seen most of these or thought about them in 16 years or more, but they never really left my mind. I found myself remembering a unique phrase or manner of speech with no effort at all.
Same. We were brainwashed XD
Not only that but they used to come on all the time 😂😂
The entire Betty Crocker Bake'n'fill commercial was full of moments like that, but when they brought out the baseball cake it unlocked something within me. Something untapped for almost a couple decades. And it was surreal.
@@timofcent1 I knew the commercial even though I hadn't thought of it in years BUT THAT BASEBALL CAKE WAS LIKE UNLOCKING A MEMORY WITHIN A MEMORY AND SUDDENLY I WAS A YOUNGER ME, IN OUR OLD PLACE SITTING CRISS CROSS IN THE DARK ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP AT OUR OLD TV. IM ASTOUNDED
mhmm. jingles are the stickiest for me, even for products I didn't even want. baby born, ring pop, skip-it, hungry hungry hippos. WHY
i heard my mom singing a fritos jingle that probably aired when she was a kid. i'm gonna be 80 years old singing the sock'm boppers song
I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with the tv still on and these commercials were always playing. I’d watch them till I eventually fell back to sleep cuz something about it felt so comforting lmao
I'm watching 90's-00's commercials, and my dad is in the living room watching 60's-70's era commercials.
When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies". It almost feels unreal to watch something as little as commercials resurface of what seemed like a forgotten memory.
Perfectly said. "When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies"...
❤
I'm 22 now, these really don't feel like that long ago 😔
"Kids of all ages love their pillow pets!"
I am 20 years old and I still love my purple unicorn pillow pet.
Sometimes I put these on to sleep when things are stressful and I cannot sleep. Iunno, just something about these commercials bring me back to feeling secure and happy.
Zoobooks were the shit, never had any, but they just look like theyre the shit
Facts. I always wanted them.
Ngl, I have one of those old sparkle plastic brief cases filled with them. They were dope af, and I wish they were still a thing because I would still get more of them
I had them & I loved it
Ugh I want them so bad 😓😩
My school library had the whole set, they were the best. Easily the best thing in the library. While the whole school was losing their minds over Harry Potter and the series of unfortunate events books, I was having a blast learning about my favorite animals
After months of research, I have come to the conclusion that 2005 is the last true year from the 90's culture era. This is around the time when cartoons such as Rugrats and Powerpuff Girls started to end. VHS and music cassettes were still being made. The 80's plastic box T.V. was still the most common type people had. Some kids had internet, but it was really only used for schoolwork at best. But one year later is when the Wii came out. In 2007, smartphones were being planned by Apple. VHSs became extinct due to DVDs, and HD flat-screen TVs became cheap. Rock Roll music such as Green Day started to become uncool around 2008. And the release of Netflix massacred my boi Blockbuster. The fall of the millienal era and the start of the iGeneration dawned at the end of 2006...
So true!
I remember the transition as well. It was a weird time where 90’s tech met modern tech. When the Xbox 360 came out, I was on Xbox live playing Halo 3 on my gigantic plastic box Panasonic lol. It had terrible lag because our internet was still crappy at that point. Technology was constantly improving to keep up with other tech, and it still is.
I was born in 2005
Same 90s died in 05 but the last of it lasted into late 08 early 09
Huge Green Day fan (have seen them live + own most albums) and I totally agree they're music took a turn in 2008/2009.
edit: Forgot to say your comment is 100% on point
This is incredible how nostalgic this is. Reminds me of being a little kid just watching TV at home when i was sick.
Man seeing these commercials reminds me that being a 90s kid was the best!
These commercials are better than the ones we have now
Except the spaghetti-o's commercial. It was terrible.
@@caryhuffii7224 no rock is what's missing in today's world.
I don’t think i’ve seen modern commercials in a long time ? Not to sound weird but where do you even watch them nowadays ?
Dude seriously
@@davidlara4170 i remember TV was available to everyone, all you needed to do was buy a tv, until the Tv cable companies took over competing against one another, everyone having seperate cable service with different channels, where as back then everyone knew what the channels were, for Nickelodeon 36, Animal Planet 37, Cartoonetwork was 68, and channel 3 was for game consoles such as the Orginal Playstation, Ps2, Gamecube, N64, OG Xbox etc
Now I am an adult and no one is stopping me from buying Zoo Pals plates.
Different animal for each day of the week. Heck yeah
Your mother called me. She said that you don't need Zoo Pals plates because we have perfectly good plates at home
@Arkunus Stilshire they sell them on amazon….
I begged my mom for them. I don’t think we ever got any
My childhood... It's so nice to see all the people here who saw these too as kids. I do miss these times sometimes.
Watching stuff like this always reminds me of binge watching VCR tapes back in the day. I remember when Land Before Time was the greatest thing i had ever seen.
I always remembered that Chef Boyardee commercial as a kid and I was always thinking to myself "Damn, her mom is gonna think she stole that."
To this day I'm wondering what happened after the commercial ended...
Dude I thought the same thing when I watch that commercial lol as a kid I used to think that a rolling can of chef boyardee's was kind of cool and then I managed to get to her house safely without being damaged. But now watching that commercial I did not remember it being that long but now since that little girl got her chef boyardee's she will be accused for stealing it and her mom is going to be like mom: where'd you get that I told you that we're not having chef boyardies for dinner... Did you sneak it out the store? Lol
@@superomegax4199 I think this is like an extended version of the commercial. And yes, exactly! The mom definitely isn't Gonna forget a conversation she had probably only couple hours earlier, especially considering that she'd already served her Chef Boyardee every day that week!
And what's she gonna tell her mom? That it just now magically landed in her hand just now? No matter what, a whooping is imminent! 😂😂😂
@@guitgodd what's even more funny that the people at the store didn't bother the look through their cameras and seeing a rolling can of Chef Boyardee going out the door by itself lol
I feel after the commercial is over the little girl definitely got grounded
‘Why did you take this from the store?! I told you no chefboyardee! Now I have to go back to the store and pay for this! That’s it, I can’t deal with this right, just go to your room until dinner is ready. No tv for a week young lady!’
Meanwhile the little girl is trying to get in how it just came to her and her sister is just clueless on the whole matter and how she could’ve snuck it home at all, but opts not say anything cause she doesn’t wanna get an earful and just lays there still watching tv herself, the little girl upset with tears in her eyes and pouting goes to her room
Let’s just say things spiraled downward for her, after a stint in juvy. Chef really messed her life up
These commercials are the closest thing we have to time travel
What, don't you have a time capsule?
A history book. Lol
@@kingiknanithruthkear7118 Doesn't hit the same man...
It's moments like these that makes me wish we could go back and experience our childhood once again. No worrying about bills or money, just enjoying childhood.
The education connection commercial unlocked a lost memory when I was growing up in the 2000s. 9:13. I can’t believe how fast time could go when one is a child. It feels like yesterday when me and my childhood friends would get home and play Mario Kart Dash on GameCube all day at my house or at theirs.
I still got vhs tapes recording of 90s and 2003 2002 shows/ commercials it really does feel like not long ago but at the same time it does feel long ago i had a emotional response when i heard a theme from a old show because it instantly took to back to that time i remember every detail you dnt forget 💯
I like how all these companies hired this one guy to voice all their commercials 😂
Ik its so nostalgic now! 🤣
It wasn’t one guy you sound crazy
@@richardharris3295 of course it’s not the same guy lol the voice actors in the beginning all have the same tone seemed like they all sounded similar back in the day, super nostalgic to me 😂
@@richardharris3295 r/wooosh
And everything cost $19.95 🤣
This was bittersweet. Took me right back to my grandparents kitchen table watching the small tv they had atop their fridge while eating breakfast. I’d give anything to be able to do that one more time.
Me too sadly all of them are now dead
Sane
@@djmars1983 same. I miss those times.
This took me back to being at my grandmothers house after school while my parents were working.
I miss both my grandmas. Never got to meet my grandfathers. Yeah. I’d do anything to go back to that too.
Same bro….
7:30 DUDE I SMILED THE ENTIRE COMMERCIAL! THAT IS ACTUALLY SO FUCKING WHOLESOME AND AMAZING, NOW THATS HOW YOU MAKE A COMMERCIAL!
I’m 30 now, watching these commercials makes me want to cry. I really miss my childhood!
I, always, wish I could go back. I'm 40. 😢
How do you know when you’re old?
When you find a UA-cam video showing all the commercials you hated as a kid and actually enjoy it.
Omg
I was so pissed whenever these commercials came up, but education connection was a bop tbh lol
I’m dead
Simpler times.
As a kid I always worried about the girl in the Chef Boyardi commercial because I always thought her mom would think she stole the can and would never believe it just rolled in.
Calm down bro lol
Same, I was worried about her too
Yeah i thought that too 💀
@@maurice2014no i also wondered why tf a can followed her home and her mom wouldn’t question it lol
I'm glad I'm not the only one
These remind me of some of the greatest times in my life. I really didn’t know what I had until I started growing up. I couldn’t wait to get older, now I would give anything to go back to those days. Stay young guys !
Back in the 2000s, we all wondered what the future would hold.
Now that the future is here, we all wish we could go back to the 2000s.
when I was a kid I had the urge to call the phone numbers displayed at the end of the commercials no matter the product. my older siblings always had to restrain me from the phone and my commercial privileges were taken away. the betty crocker cake set literally made me feral.
im rlly bad abt this now watching these, i have my own phone number now and i REALLY wanna call these numbers
I called one of the late night lawyers that advertised on one of the local channels when I was like 7 years old lol.
I always called the number even had a full blown convo with the sell’s guy at 12 lmao dude thought I was a women😭😭😅
This is my favorite comment.
i once called in an infomercial cause it was playing for Hours on the one kids channel my grandma got and wanted it to stop
Thank god for all the VCR-DVR bros for holding onto this shit for us for 25 years
Dang. When’s the last time we saw someone with a VCR lol
I wish I had all my old dvd recordings of Cartoon Network. Mainly for the commercials
@@Valrax dude that's all want right now. All my favorite cartoons with the old ads especially during the holidays when the channel logos get a lil holiday makeover.
These commercials are so special. Brings me back to a great time in my life I can vividly remember. Now I'm 28, married, have two amazing daughters and am overjoyed with the life I currently have. Yet, I somehow miss those good ol days
as someone who was born in 1993 the nostalgia hit hard.
hello fellow 30 year old
Here to join the '93 club. But not to stay out too late because we're aging Millennials and we want to get home by 9pm.
Mom: "Not tonight sweetie"
Chef Boyardee: "And I took that personally"
😂😂😂😂
That can literally rode all the way from the grocery store back to the house now that is g shit
**in Italian accent**
I love how for these cake commercials they get a couple of professional cake decorators to make these crazy cakes and then are just like "You can do it too!"
Like instagram🤣
Right 😂😂😂😂
The numbers for the cake commercial is a car warranty/life alert number now 🤣🤣🤣
We actually bought this and tried to make an ice cream cake for my birthday as a preteen.
You can probably imagine how that turned out lmao
@@emilyofjane how'd it turn out 👀
These commercials give me a 90s-early 00s American suburban life feel. I grew up in San Diego so I’ve always lived in an urban area but these commercials remind me of some quiet residential town somewhere in the middle of the country, kinda like Arlington from King of the Hill. I wish I could’ve experienced living like that growing up.
Early 2000s infomercials were something else man
I’m convinced that however wrote the Education Connection song was a ghost writer in the industry, that shit’s a bop and will get stuck in your head for DAYS
I know, right? That song hits me on so many levels.
I haven't heard that song in years and somehow I STILL know all the lyrics
237 likes in 2 days.🔥
I remembered EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THAT DAMN SONG!!!, HOW DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT?!!
Yes!!
Mostly everything used to cost $19.95 back then lol
Nah it was 19.99 or 29.99 rarely was there 95
Word, Now $50 or $100 for a Light up Tooth brush
@@AyooMuzz WHAT?
100
Plus shipping
Nostalgia outranks everything!
The Betty Crocker one unlocked a memory. I totally forgot about it but it alllll came back to me. I feel like crying haha.
I can't believe I haven't seen normal TV for like 7 years and I still remember these commercials like it was yesterday
Scary to think that since I "cut the cord" (cable tv) 5+ years ago, it felt strange watching REAL tv at a hospital. (Where I work at) Nowadays, the majority of society just watches stuff on their phone and thus youtube/some streaming service.. 🤨🤔
was thinking the exact same thing
I watch normal tv every night, the commercials suck now.
@@Zoinkin89
You see the Lebron Ruffles ad lol
I swear I wanted that cake thing when I was younger 😩
We all did, bro. We all did.
I swear omm I tried to make her get it Bc I thought we’d just automatically know how to make cool cakes
I wanted to touch the education connection bitch when I was younger...
@@artistwithouttalent fr fr! 😭😂😂
I was never been so offended with something that I agree with the most
I entirely forgot about some of these but this brought so much back oh my god. I remember having my mom rewind some commercials cause I loved them so much. 🖤🖤🖤
That moment when 20 minutes of 1990-2000's commercials is less annoying than even a seconds worth of current UA-cam's ads. Like, I feel more rage waiting through 3, 4 second unskippable ads than I do watching these now of my own volition, let alone when I had to wait through these for my show to come back on as a kid XD
I miss when commercials were actually entertaining or had cool products.
like i literally sat through this WHOLE video without skipping . not just because of how nostalgic it is , but because they're actually watchable . 🧘🏾♀️ '
It's because modern ads try to be funny to make themselves more appealing. Problem is, they haven't a fucking clue how to be funny so they come off as pandering at best and ear-gougingly annoying at worst.
That's cause today's ads are pozzed and have no soul
I am 30 now, and i remember all of these commercials, then i thought they were horribly obnoxious and insulting and an annoying interruption of the cartoons but now i am voluntarily watching them on youtube.
I always hated how after a while they’d only show the shorter 10-sec ish version of the Chef Boyardee rolling can commercial when I wanted to watch it roll for at least 30 seconds.
I was just thinking this. I loved that commercial though
That mom pissed me off.
I always pictured her mom screaming at her for stealing the can lol
It's interesting, because this was my first time seeing the full version. I only ever saw the short one🤷
I was scared of that commercial growing up. I was afraid I'd go to the store with my mom and one of the cans would follow me home just like the commercial.
Seeing as how we were all kids when we saw them I think 95% of the stuff in these commercials was stuff that we *wanted* to have but never actually got to have, stuff like Zoobooks, Floam or Zoopals are all things I look at now and just think to myself “Damn, I remember how much I wanted that as a kid”
Crying from nostalgia 😢
Same
You know adulthood is hitting you hard when it’s almost 1am and you’re watching this to try and remind yourself of easier times and temporarily forget your shitty office job and empty life…just me? Rip
Lololol not just you
Personally, I’m at a better spot in life now than then, but I still miss the culture of that age. I just don’t fit in with most people now and can’t stand mainstream media.
Not just you I promise but I don’t have an office job… I work in a factory 😭
This comment hurt. I miss being a kid so much
Replace the office job with a warehouse job for me and that’s describes me perfect 🙃🙃🙃
Listening to this and my wife two rooms away peaks in and says, "is that, that weird cake thing? ...I still want that."
Hint, hint
You know what you must do.
I was obsessed with baking as a kid because my sister who is 18 years older than me made it our bonding activity. So all those baking gadgets really got to me. And my parents bought some of them 😂😂😂. I feel like calling them now to apologize
That Chef Boyardee commercial is the best one, they should bring it back. If I saw that ad on tv I’d buy a can.
Feels like waking up at 3am after falling asleep with the tv on. Loved how some of those commercials were purposefully louder than what was actually being broadcasted.
That’s exactly what it feels like
They were, and intentionally so. Even then advertisers knew most people didn’t actually watch ads; we’d go off and get a snack or whatever. In 2012 the FCC passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to rein it in, but advertisers are always pushing the boundaries. And then along came streaming, where the FCC had no authority…
@@Magic_beans_ I was so happy about that, some were unbelievably loud.
@@Magic_beans_ holy shit what!? A) I didn't know that but B) I WAS FUCKING RIGHT EVEN THO I WAS LIKE 10!
Dude absolutely
Take me back to those days in the mid/late 2000’s and beginning of the 2010’s where I had nothing to do after school except watching Nick/Cartoon Network/Disney, video games and playing with friends
Man those were the days..
@@JimmyStruthers1000 😭
Welcome to the club kid
ugh i remember so fondly watching arthur before elementary school back in those days... god where has the time gone
Literally my life in a nutshell. Miss those days and am sad kids nowadays don’t see things like this anymore.
We used to complain about commercials, and now we are watching a video of only commercials. Appreciate the small things while they are around
The four horsemen of informercials:
- Billy Mays
- Vince Offer
- Anthony Sullivan
- Phil Swift
?
I remember Anthony Sullivan 😭
RIP Billy Mays🙏🏾
I still want them damn zoobooks
Same bro
I used to have them when I was in elementary school and would read them nonstop! I wish I still had them :(
Shits were trash asf 👎🏼
With *The* Tiger Poster
It was manufactured by Nickelodeon