Fell asleep with my laptop next to me and when I woke up I was confused in the nicest way. I felt like I was back in '83 for a split second when my head was full of sleep.
I listened to and watched this era TV as an infant. I love how relaxing it was back then. Long jingles, and soft focus. It still calms my nerves today. Sure it's an idealized world, but there's something satisfying about it.
STATIONS AND AIRDATES: 0:00 WBBM-TV2, Chicago, March 15, 1982 (yes, that really is Ebert's co-host in one of the news teases) 19:36 WJZ-TV13, Baltimore, February 15, 1983 24:12 WCBS-TV2, New York, December 12, 1982 28:34 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, January 28, 1981 34:23 KDFW-TV4, Dallas/Fort Worth, April 26, 1984 46:11 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 9, 1981 59:14 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 16, 1981
We did everything humanly possible to completely eliminate any commercials by paying for Netflix and other paid services, we only pay for internet and cut the cord on regular cable TV..... Yet we spend 2 hours watching ONLY commercials,, LMAO!!!!
@@jaydean5724 I get you... I skip ads,but these commercials are classics. Idk how anyone watches these and wants change. It's so sad...These were the commercials,and when i turn on the t.v now...it's all Political or riots. :'( I SO remember these commercials. I'm still looking for Breck Shampoo...lol. I'm 44 years old.
Have you ever rewatched any of your favorite old shows and they are not as good as you remember but then watch what your parents were watvhing and think this is better than I remember ?lol I am getting old ....I love Lou Grant and was not a fan at 10 lol
I've bought a whole bunch of DVD sets of older shows from the local thrift store. Rockford Files, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Soap, Hunter, Knots Landing, etc. It's true....most of them are a lot better than the stuff that's on today.
If I had been an American in 1982, I'd def have preferred watching CBS to ABC. Basing my opinion off these old commercials/trailers. 1982's CBS sounds like a lot more fun than 1982's ABC. 😉 (European here, been bingeing these for days now.) 😍
“Comedian John Belushi showed numerous signs of an oncoming drug overdose hours before he died. And one of those signs: the massive consumption of heroin and cocaine.”
Imagine 10:20, if someone had said, "25 years from now, Yellow and White Pages will no longer be printed; you'll use a phone you carry with you wherever you go. Cord? No, it won't have a cord like a home phone or a car phone." ☎️📱
Betty White at a much younger age! She was just a few years away from hitting it even bigger on Golden Girls when this aired and would go on to success up until her death late last year. We miss you Betty!
The Family which was created on The Carol Burnett Show. Eunice was a made for TV movie where as Mama's Family was the series. Occasionally Betty White and Carol would appear on Mama's Family. Harvey Korman did very early in the series as well.
I would love to climb thru my phone and stay in this time so many changes now and i dont like them times back then were so much simpler and yes i miss my childhood im so thankful i got to grow up in the 80s they were the best
GOD YOU KNOW THIS COMMERCIAL IS OLD WHEN THEY ARE AIRING COMMERCIALS FOR GEORGE RYAN 😂😂😂😂😂 that man was in jail for fraud and other major charges… he just got out in 2013.
Wow, 1981 I was 21, I don't like commercials but it's cool to see the hairstyles and clothes of my youth, the USA has changed big-time and not for the better, in public places I hardly ever hear English, but it's still my country and I'd do anything for it. God bless America. 🇺🇸
We don't have an official language. Somewhere in your family history someone emigrated to the US and their neighbors were probably just like you, complaining about "foreigners."
The gall of the Ford Company to have an ad that states “Quality is Job 1”, in reality the 80’s made Fords are the cars known for their atrocious quality.
It was a made for TV movie based on the characters in the "Family" sketches from the Carol Burnett Show. They played it in 1982, and it got good ratings because those characters were popular and funny. Vicki Lawrence was nominated for an Emmy! After it aired, they commissioned the series Mama's Family, based on the characters. BTW, if you're interested in seeing Eunice, it's included as a bonus feature on the Mama's Family second season DVD set.
Yeah the 80's had it's own share of problems. You just didn't hear about a lot of it as you didn't have the internet or social media to be further exposed to it. The 80's can be associated with many of today's financial struggles as the excess spending of the 80's helped to wreck the economy making more struggles for millenials and zoomers. Most of you just miss your youth and that's why you wanna return to the 80's. Your parents and grandparents probably share many "back in my day" stories with you when you were young. The 80's did have it's advantages with unbiased news, accountability for corrupt politicians, and people weren't so sensitive or easily offended by everything. Today politicians wear their corruption openly and proudly on their sleeves, news is just misinformation and opioned based reporting, and people are so sensitive they'll cancel you for the dumbest crap. Then you have forced inclusion in media and Netflix is the absolute worse for it. Corporations are more corrupt & greedy than ever with an ever increasing wage disparity.
Unbiased news was killed during the Reagan years. I forget the act, but it was repealed. Also the "ask your doctor" drug commercials, and lawyer commercials all came about under Reagan's years. Other than the massive spending spree (space and military) those three things still haunt our culture today.
I think the reason so many of us are nostalgic for the 70s and 80s is because we were blind to what was really going on, such as the big corporations gaining power and the destruction of the earth that we have knowledge of now. Social media has helped to expose so much of it currently. I know now that I am nostalgic simply because we were uninformed. Plus, I think that every generation is nostalgic, because things change so quickly and the "old ways" are gone forever...
I watch these to escape the 21 century....
You and me both
Me too😥
Me too ...I wanna go back to the 70s
You are not alone.
Same
Fell asleep with my laptop next to me and when I woke up I was confused in the nicest way. I felt like I was back in '83 for a split second when my head was full of sleep.
Remember when shoes were sold at shoe Stores? Made in the USA? And lasted a Long time.
Yes! I'm so sick of this disposable garbage that is junk when we buy it. I would love to go back to the 80's and shop for appliances!
I agree .
If they were made in the USA they would be VERY expensive and people would complain about that.
This is pure perfection! I was 16 in March 1982. Such great memories...it's all coming back to me. ❤
Me: annoyed with UA-cam ads interruptions.
Also me: watching ads
TRUTH
I listened to and watched this era TV as an infant. I love how relaxing it was back then. Long jingles, and soft focus. It still calms my nerves today. Sure it's an idealized world, but there's something satisfying about it.
Better than this lousy decade today...
STATIONS AND AIRDATES:
0:00 WBBM-TV2, Chicago, March 15, 1982 (yes, that really is Ebert's co-host in one of the news teases)
19:36 WJZ-TV13, Baltimore, February 15, 1983
24:12 WCBS-TV2, New York, December 12, 1982
28:34 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, January 28, 1981
34:23 KDFW-TV4, Dallas/Fort Worth, April 26, 1984
46:11 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 9, 1981
59:14 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 16, 1981
We did everything humanly possible to completely eliminate any commercials by paying for Netflix and other paid services, we only pay for internet and cut the cord on regular cable TV.....
Yet we spend 2 hours watching ONLY commercials,, LMAO!!!!
Yesteryear's commercials are more interesting & entertaining than Netflix.
My kid asked me why i pay for youtube premium so i dont have to watch commercials, then i go on youtube to watch commercials. Lol.
Cause it brings back fond memories. Trust me commercials interrupting your fave shows was just annoying then as it is today.
@@jaydean5724 I get you... I skip ads,but these commercials are classics. Idk how anyone watches these and wants change. It's so sad...These were the commercials,and when i turn on the t.v now...it's all Political or riots. :'( I SO remember these commercials. I'm still looking for Breck Shampoo...lol. I'm 44 years old.
Surprised flex mascara didn't take off! lol Sad when you're over 40 and still recall the jingles.
Sadder when you're over 50
Have you ever rewatched any of your favorite old shows and they are not as good as you remember but then watch what your parents were watvhing and think this is better than I remember ?lol I am getting old ....I love Lou Grant and was not a fan at 10 lol
I've bought a whole bunch of DVD sets of older shows from the local thrift store. Rockford Files, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Soap, Hunter, Knots Landing, etc. It's true....most of them are a lot better than the stuff that's on today.
LOVE your channel!!
If I had been an American in 1982, I'd def have preferred watching CBS to ABC.
Basing my opinion off these old commercials/trailers.
1982's CBS sounds like a lot more fun than 1982's ABC. 😉
(European here, been bingeing these for days now.) 😍
“Comedian John Belushi showed numerous signs of an oncoming drug overdose hours before he died. And one of those signs: the massive consumption of heroin and cocaine.”
Lies! Equal/nutra sweet "tasting" like real sugar straight 🤣🤣🤣
Omg lovin the knots Landing clip
8:36 I just had a vague memory of this ad and saw it referenced in MAD's "Star Trek 2" parody.
Aetna, wish I'd met ya. Except Aetna ain't around no more.
Imagine 10:20, if someone had said, "25 years from now, Yellow and White Pages will no longer be printed; you'll use a phone you carry with you wherever you go. Cord? No, it won't have a cord like a home phone or a car phone." ☎️📱
Betty White at a much younger age! She was just a few years away from hitting it even bigger on Golden Girls when this aired and would go on to success up until her death late last year. We miss you Betty!
Alright a Chicago one! Do you have the entire broadcast of Eunice? I have alot to trade.
Who is the lady in the title picture? I know but I can’t remember
Dyan Cannon
Yes!!! Thanks! She was always so hunky and funny on Carson
Wow, David Copperfield was so creepy....even more so in these reruns. 😖🥴🥴
Now I want Fayva shoes ....
Escort and EXP were the same car
I wish Ford still made the Courier .
Debra Sheldon @10:40 Body Double
And Dallas
I still remember the SOAP character El Puerco pronouncing Connecticut how it is spelled
Ron Paul for senate. 👍🏻
So, was Eunice a backdoor pilot for Mama's Family?
The Family which was created on The Carol Burnett Show. Eunice was a made for TV movie where as Mama's Family was the series. Occasionally Betty White and Carol would appear on Mama's Family. Harvey Korman did very early in the series as well.
The guy in the Macho razor commercial was one of the substitute Dukes of Hazzard.
Christopher Mayer is who that actor is. He was also in Liar Liar with Jim Carrey.
Mc Donald's commercial , the actor was on Greatest American Hero !
William Katt
And unwatchable.
I would love to climb thru my phone and stay in this time so many changes now and i dont like them times back then were so much simpler and yes i miss my childhood im so thankful i got to grow up in the 80s they were the best
46:05
"Right here where we live"....
Until you get killed in the nuclear blast 😂
GOD YOU KNOW THIS COMMERCIAL IS OLD WHEN THEY ARE AIRING COMMERCIALS FOR GEORGE RYAN 😂😂😂😂😂 that man was in jail for fraud and other major charges… he just got out in 2013.
Wow, 1981 I was 21, I don't like commercials but it's cool to see the hairstyles and clothes of my youth, the USA has changed big-time and not for the better, in public places I hardly ever hear English, but it's still my country and I'd do anything for it. God bless America. 🇺🇸
We don't have an official language. Somewhere in your family history someone emigrated to the US and their neighbors were probably just like you, complaining about "foreigners."
The gall of the Ford Company to have an ad that states “Quality is Job 1”, in reality the 80’s made Fords are the cars known for their atrocious quality.
48:15 Alan Bleviss on the voice-over for Schick.
I do not remember Eunice ....not at all
It was a made for TV movie based on the characters in the "Family" sketches from the Carol Burnett Show. They played it in 1982, and it got good ratings because those characters were popular and funny. Vicki Lawrence was nominated for an Emmy! After it aired, they commissioned the series Mama's Family, based on the characters. BTW, if you're interested in seeing Eunice, it's included as a bonus feature on the Mama's Family second season DVD set.
@@gspendlove I knew what it was derived from but had no recollection of this spinoff
Who wants bones in a sandwich? Are you crazy boy?
Yeah the 80's had it's own share of problems. You just didn't hear about a lot of it as you didn't have the internet or social media to be further exposed to it. The 80's can be associated with many of today's financial struggles as the excess spending of the 80's helped to wreck the economy making more struggles for millenials and zoomers. Most of you just miss your youth and that's why you wanna return to the 80's. Your parents and grandparents probably share many "back in my day" stories with you when you were young. The 80's did have it's advantages with unbiased news, accountability for corrupt politicians, and people weren't so sensitive or easily offended by everything. Today politicians wear their corruption openly and proudly on their sleeves, news is just misinformation and opioned based reporting, and people are so sensitive they'll cancel you for the dumbest crap. Then you have forced inclusion in media and Netflix is the absolute worse for it. Corporations are more corrupt & greedy than ever with an ever increasing wage disparity.
The 80’s was the start of a materialistic generation. We see it today, just exponentially more.
Unbiased news was killed during the Reagan years. I forget the act, but it was repealed. Also the "ask your doctor" drug commercials, and lawyer commercials all came about under Reagan's years. Other than the massive spending spree (space and military) those three things still haunt our culture today.
I think the reason so many of us are nostalgic for the 70s and 80s is because we were blind to what was really going on, such as the big corporations gaining power and the destruction of the earth that we have knowledge of now. Social media has helped to expose so much of it currently. I know now that I am nostalgic simply because we were uninformed. Plus, I think that every generation is nostalgic, because things change so quickly and the "old ways" are gone forever...