@@Xeonerable I feel like it has to be a riff on the guy who tightroped across them in the 80s, changed around to fit the Olympics theme they were going for. Still looks like a big visual metaphor for failure to me, I mean he's falling for most of the commercial
That wasn't even that long ago at all. I remember in 2016 you could still get a McDouble and McChicken for $1. It was a good way to save money on food. Now you're paying nearly 3 times that amount.
0:00 Bill cosby sex offender 0:30 Book from the creator of Scientology 0:45 reminiscent to the jumpers during 9/11 1:16 Halliburton used U.S. troops to get into Iraq oil fields 1:46 9/11 plane 2:15 Jared Fogel convicted pedo 2:45 Cluster bomb manufacturer 3:15 Enron scammed investors and collapsed as result 4:15 akward unwarranted kiss(even back then it was weird) 4:44 making light of cte 5:15 Steve Irwins passing from an animal attack 5:45 Depression doesn't go away buying a ford 6:15 😆 self explanatory 6:45 Round-up/Monsanto sued for hazardous toxic chemicals that don't just go away 7:14 Lance Armstrong caught doping 7:45 Super sizing bad for the average person (thanks Mike)
i think the point of the dream team commercial is the "super size for a puny prize" element. Since super sizing became a hot topic a few years later due to the documentary exposing the health dangers.
@@Akrafena If it helps with the last part, look up the entire Gulf War and the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Rest assured, the army wasn't in there to get WMD's.
@@billyrussell8684 Armstrong says this in his Rogan interview. He says they got to an event and didn't plan on juicing that much. Then he found out everyone was juicing as hard as they could. And there was no point in even competing if you didnt
Yo that commercial ran every 30 minutes on news networks in the year 2000. Being only 20 years old it was obvious that a company out of nowhere pumping ad nauseam was highly sus. Lo and behold. A group of man boob soft handed paper pushers running a scheme.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron was using thoroughly crooked accounting to cover for losses and make themselves look better than they did. If anyone had, for example, asked *why* the stock price and earnings were so high, looked at their SEC filings and asked the right questions, a lot of Enron folks could have gone to jail quite a bit sooner.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron collapsed because of massive accounting and corporate fraud. The numbers on their books were lies (also their business model caused major blackouts when they couldn't manage energy without losing money). So yeah people should have been asking why.
That AT&T Twin Towers pole vault commercial made my jaw drop to the ground... it's almost comical how eerie the foreshadowing is. Makes me wonder what commercials are on air now that will seem way outta pocket in next 25 years in a way that we couldn't possibly predict.
@@wildboy700Grandkids!? Thanks Me2, OF, TikTok, & the lack of a sustainable economy, whose having kids these days to make a future for grandchildren to be even a consideration!? 😂 We currently live in a Mouse Utopia. 😢
@@MarvelousButter Well, as a former educator who was scared along with other staff members every five seconds for possibly saying the wrong thing and losing our jobs, I guess you're right.
@@cantthinkofaname5046complete scam that didn’t really do anything useful and basically was a front for betting on things like the weather and paying themselves for it lol
At lot of these companies I can’t blame for their commercials not aging well. Halliburton, Raytheon, Enron, and Monsanto knew what they were doing and thought no one would ever find out.
at least I now know why my Amana fridge in the early 90s sucked so badly...do one thing, and do it well...turns out, making fridges wasn't really their thing
Since I've seen a bunch of people ask about the Ford commercial: A 16 year old boy named Kyle Plush was killed by one of those folding seats (in a Honda Odyssey) in 2018. He was crushed/pinned by the rear folding seat. Tragic case, especially considering he was able to use Siri to call 911 twice, only for police to fail to locate him. His family found him 6 hours after he made those calls.
i remember telling someone that I think lance was cheating. His shock and horror that I would ever question him makes me laugh to this day. This was well before it was proven but the evidence was there. I didn't really care so I didn't make a big deal about it.
@@LamelKendrick Bill Burr has a bit about this on Conan; they were all doping but Lance was the easiest fall guy because he was so famous and had propped up his career as a wholesome figure through all his commercials, sponsorships, biographies etc. So when the scandal came out, he was obviously the one they would choose to make the harshest example out of.
That AT&T not only aged poorly because of the Twin Towers which suffered the 2001 attack, but also the fact that the 1996 Atlanta Olympics ALSO had a terrorist attack, when someone detonated a bomb at Centennial Olympic Park. AT&T happened to mention both things that suffered terrorist attacks, which aged it really poorly!
what kills me is that the WTC had ALREADY been bombed in 1993, so as early as 1996 this would have made marketing executives beat their heads on their desks in shame
I was watching that one and thought, "OK, what's wrong with this? He's rehearsing. OK, the shooting gallery thing is a little weird, but --" and then it showed the company name. XD
@@michlo3393 The pole vaulter commercial is the World Trade Center, but the commercial with the plane flying close to the building is the AON Tower in Chicago (which looks very similar to the old twin towers).
To be fair there was a significant period of time where steroid use in sports was not as taboo because of its ubiquity in the body building and sport communities. Hollywood runs on cocaine, and for a while ‘roids ran sports.
The closer the house of cards came to collapse, the more they advertised. I actually thought they might be able to pull it out in bankruptcy. I bought 10,000 shares of Enron when they were at $0.03 a share...just in case. The stock was delisted a few days later. That experience was the main reason I didn't buy Bitcoin in the early days.
Funny that ad didn't bother me. They had no clue when they made that commercial that he was going to die in the same fashion. You could say funny but eerie at the same time.
@@rfe8nn2 I think it's because Steve was the man everybody wanted to know better. He was the surrogate friend, father, brother, and all-around nice guy that we just can't seem to find in the world anymore.
@@DonkeyKongBMAC That's the dumbest thing I've heard all week. He had absolutely no reason to fake his death. Moreover he loved his family and loved life. I would give my left nut to have a tenth of the life he had.
I'd say this commercial aged well because Steve Irwin's death might have been the most predictable of all time. He was risking death every time he got up close to one of those dangerous animals. The most unexpected part of his death was that he died from a stingray and not, say, a rattlesnake or tarantula.
Coach wasn't worried about the concussion, he was worried about getting a penalty for an illegal substitution. You can't add Batman to your team mid-game.
And life insurance and online casinos... "Oh My Gosh, you're still using Mom's old coffee pot!" "COME ON, GIVE FOX THAT KING, STEVE." "You won't be the bad guy, you'll be sympathetic..."
The prescription drug ads are just big pharma's way of driving up prices, and because prescriptions, life insurance, and reverse mortgages are the only things society thinks can be marketed to Boomers these days. (Also if you're over 18 and watching TV between the hours of 9a-5p, you're either a Boomer retiree, or unemployed & on disability...due to Camp Le Juene, Round Up, a medical error, a car accident, or something else that could be part of a class action lawsuit.)
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Funny because you’re wrong-the Dianetics commercial is from AFTER Scientology had a decade of bad publicity-but you couldn’t resist the chance to whiiiiiine
"We just needed to do something to pass the time while the rest of the jury are busy throwing up in the bathroom after reading your list of crimes you monster"
I know everyone is going to talk about the two WTC commercials for obvious reasons, but man that Crocodile Hunter commercials was pretty dang eerie itself. Rest in Peace Steve Irwin
That one was so sad as well, I agree. Had a similar feeling watching that as the AT&T wtc one. "Well, This isn't bad......oh." RIP Steve, a really sweet dude with a great legacy ❤❤❤🙏🏽
For me that was one of the ones that was less sad, and more of a facepalm. They took a guy with a dangerous job, and played up one of the job's most likely occupational hazards for laughs. I was alive at the time, I remember how everyone thought Steve was invincible... and this commercial suggests either he *also* drank his own Kool-Aid about this how this could never actually happen to him, or he just didn't really care how it would look in hindsight (understandable, since in that case he would already be dead anyway). It would be like having a famous stunt man get in a near-deadly accident as a commercial gag. Or a famous snowboarder getting caught in an accident. It's less "unforeseeable tragedy" and more "pretty likely scenario that they do their job in spite of."
@@geneparmesan8748Pretty sure Steve Irwin was acutely aware of the danger, danger, danger. But also things were different back then and people weren't so serious all of the time. So he was probably still able to joke about it, like dark humor
Honestly we could have predicted Enron's fall from the markets they thought would work. Weather prediction and reaction? Broadband brokering when everything internet was done by cable and modem? Nobody understood how to do these things even in theory.
At first, I thought this would just be the basic "oh, it's Bill Cosby, oh it's the Twin Towers, therefor it's poorly aged." Like, yes, they are, but just showing the Twin Towers by themselves isn't actually shocking or collar tugging...Then that commercial with the pole vaulter happened. My God
I understand the ATT commercial was during the Atlanta Olympics, but "Georgia on my Mind" with images of Lower Manhattan is simply bizarre. Stupid advertising
@@davita4436 I was watching the ATT commercial and scratching my head, "What's wrong with this commercial? Does it have something in it that looks racist?" : Oh I see.
That’s because 90’s commercials have better scripted character, & world development, & fewer plot holes in under 30 seconds than any current, hour long tv episode.
I'm right there with you I would even love to go back to school and I hated school when I was growing up lol. Only if I realized how good of times they actually where.
Honestly, it's not surprising. The house appliance to weapons manufacturer pipeline in a shellnut. GE makes the guns and engines used on most fighter jets and they still make fridges.
@@audiobotguy0357 Not quite anymore. The part of GE that makes fridges has been sold off to China and is a separate company from the GE that makes plane engines and guns.
I was trying to go to a few timestamps in a video after having watched it already and got an 8 minute unskippable commercial ( 1st of 2 ) in order to watch the video. UA-cam getting crazy with the ads.
My favorite 90s commercials are the ones that say "Get ready for back-to-back decades of financial prosperity and political unity!" in reference to the upcoming millennium. Oh how naïve everyone was back then lmao
us looking back on these days for the naivety of not knowing AI would take over the world... and pointless internet arguments like "those were the good ol' days"
Insurance companies spying on you to increase your payments, behavioral “nudging,” Google feeding you results AI chooses instead of letting you see them, etc.
6:15 This ad was a rollercoaster of emotions "Holy shit Trump and McDonalds go waaay back?!" " _Holy shit, it's GRIMACE!_ " "Holy shit inflation is out of control!"
Steve Irwin was a comedy genius just as well as a great and wonderful human being. Even in his "death video" supposedly he said to not blame the animal, that it was "just protecting itself/doing what its instincts told it" or something along those lines. Dont be sad that he's gone. Be glad he graced this world with his teachings and lessons in the time he did have with us.
@@MannuhFestItevery single person working in Houston downtown proper was shuttled out of there on park n ride coaches from Metro. Authorities were pretty sure it was a nationwide attack and seeing that Houston was a major terrorist target as it can cripple the nation if its huge port and starting point of all those huge petroleum and its products pipelines going out in every direction mainly to the eastern seaboard. Lots of military bases use lots of diesel and gasoline on top of jet fuel. Cripple the source of that juice and you have a crippled country with lotsa big toys and no fuel to properly play with them. I was sitting next to an elderly white lady that looked right at me and w all seriousness said "nothing like a war to keep this BOOMING economy going" since there were rumors of a major recession after the roaring 90s
I'd say the Donald Trump McDonalds commercial aged quite well. You know he actually eats what he is endorsing which is more than you can say for 95% of other celebrity cameos 😅
I think your leaving out the multiple criminal charges against him, election conspiracy theories, and the fact that he’s become one of the most controversial figures in American history
The Lance Armstrong one had it all. Crazy he would participate in that shot where the camera zooms into his face as he dismisses the possibility he was “on something”.
@@MTMProductionsidk those twin towers ones are pretty nuts, a eerie “falling man” visual and a plane flying between the towers like that definitely aged poorly
@@JediMaster362and that stupid loud thumping and clapping that’s in every other commercial today, as well as obnoxious people with stupid, pointless, pissed off facial expressions that have ZERO to do with the product or service randomly staring at you through the tv screen. As if any of that’s going to inspire me to patronize the company…NOT
I'd say the Steve Irwin one aged well, not poorly. It's a bit of black comedy about how dangerous it can be to handle venomous animals, presented by a guy who later died after a sting from a venomous animal. It would have aged badly if the joke was something like "Steve Irwin is so skilled at handling animals that he could never be injured by one."
When I saw Steve Irwin i smiled ear to ear. Can honestly say he was an integral part of watching tv growing up. But then at the end of that commercial...now im just sad...
@@dustux Aggressively handling animals, being loud around them, disturbing them in their homes, etc. He also jiggled his new born baby around a massive crocodile and it just went on and on. He was just an idiot. It was worse than when Michael Jackson dangled his son off his hotel balcony.
Taking an add from post-2000 (the subway one), slapping a filter on it, and putting it into a "90's" commercial compilation really adds to my theory that when people talk about being a "90's kid" and "90's culture" they're almost always actually talking about the early 2000s
They did the same thing with the minivan ad. The Ford Freestar was new for the 2004 model year. That stood out to me because we had one when I was growing up. I didn't realize the Jared ad was done similarly. I associate him with the early aughts, but, I guess I assumed maybe it was from 1999. I think OP has a really good point about early 2000s culture.
Enron- "Ask why?...we lied" Haliburton- " Proud to scam our Troops" Snickers- "You're not you, after a head injury, Snickers satisfies." Round up- "We said it was safe, but we never said how safe". Bonus. The diet Jared ate to lose weight was actually a "starvation diet" (dangerous!!) using Subway sandwiches. So for these commercials, Subway insisted Jared lie about how much he ate to avoid an embarrassing scandal.😂
The lance armstrong one doesnt really fit now that we know every pro cyclist of that era juiced. Pretty sure one of the medals that got stripped away ended up going to the 20th place guy all these years later, that many guys tested positive. It was like the maguire/bonds era of baseball
The ads that aged the poorest for me are 5. Round up being safe 4. Bill Cosby Jell-O 3. Steve Irwin Getting a venomous bite 2.Enron executive telling people honestly "Earnings are Down" 1. WTC Pole Vaulter falling 😬
@num1Jaysta Enron was responsible for the worst case of accounting fraud ever in the U.S. Multiple cases of corruption and employee fraud throughout its entire existence. The company sunk several companies with it, causing the largest known case of bankruptcy over the span of 5 years. This case was so bad that the "Enron Scandal" is taught across many Colleges and Business PHD's to make sure this terrible act of corruption doesn't take part again.
Wierd how Lisa Bonet his older "daughter" began to drift away after 3 4 seasons, then got NBC to create "A Different World" 📺. Cosby, I think out of spite wrote in the "new" oldest Huxtable girl.
I used to eat supersize fries literally every weekend when I was growing up and was still thin as a rail. I did fine. Thanks Morgan Turdcock for guilting an entire company into taking away something that I both loved and saved money on.
@@daltonfarrisI thought it was a pretty...uh...smart (I guess?) movie. You gotta remember; at the time, people didn't really think fast food was all that unhealthy (even doctors). It served a good purpose in waking the public up to the dangers of fast food. I would like supersizing things to be back, though. It was a pretty band-aid solution to a much broader problem, and I am a goblin for McDonalds' fries.
@@snkybrki well calorie contents weren't exactly hidden. Most people just didn't care, then when that movie came out. The blowback was exaggerated by the media which the companies caved to. It was like a modern day "the jungle", but instead of rats and fingers in the sausage it was high calories. I think the media is at fault, because they didn't point out that people need to be self accountable and not over eat, I just know I would not have to pay $15 to eat at McDonald's if super-size was still around.
@@alecboi777 Bill Cosby was a creep, but well known for being the jello pudding spokesperson. The Pole Volter though looked like the poor victims of 9/11 that jumped. For me that was more shocking.
Good question ? It’s possible, since I imagine stupid commercials are cheap and easy to make by comparison and not to much work has to be done, so the people behind the scenes are like “No need to start anything shady, it’s not that deep and we’re not gonna be here that long.”
The guy with his head underground says the product 'kills the roots', and sure enough, glyphosate attacks the brain and nervous system. They must have known from tests on animals
it's no where near as bad as people make it out to be; sure, if you drink pure glyphosate, it is; but as watered down as it is for consumer usage, it's no more toxic than inhaling bleach or ammonia...
@@wildbill6976roundup killed several dogs of my best friend's because her mother used Roundup and let them be around it. You don't know until you've seen it for yourself I guess
It has also been proven to actively Cause cancer so, research anything in depth about Monsanto and you'll see went cancer seems to be everywhere these days. Quite profitable
@sporer_ Please don't pretend like you don't know what he's talking about, it helps no one. Leftists always act confused in arguments, such an obvious and overrused tactic.
I think the budget/direction of ads was VERY different before the smartphone era. Companies used to actually have an opportunity to sell something with a captive audience back then. Now ads (which are predominately online) are basically viewed for >5 seconds so are more like animated billboards. And those that are aired on TV are solely viewed by the elderly.
Nah you just lived in blissful ignorance, as time went by and the internet jump started, your eyes were pried open and you were given a hard haymaker by an iron fist as you begin to realize the uncomfortable truth hidden under the bed, and have worse news for you: we most likely just removed the coverlet, we haven’t even seen what’s skeletons are hidden bellow.
I wish I could show this to someone in the 90s and watch them try to guess what wasn’t going to age well about them.
Apparently to predict the future you need to be incredibly dark and cynical
"Well that's Bill Cosby! Everyone loves Bill Cosby."
The snickers batman one wasn't in the90s
On the contrary, I think they got better with age.
Ah the Twin Towers. I wonder if they created a hotel at the top finally.
The Twin Towers one ended up being way worse than I thought it was going to be. I actually winced as the guy was falling down.
Same
That one made me audibly "oh no."
@@RankSarpac that shit was shockingly bad haha.
My eyes got so wide watching his body fall.
And plane flying by in another one. Oof.
I went from "Is the Twin Towers being in a commercial really poorly aged by itself?" to "oh my god" real fast.
Even back then I can't imagine who thought someone falling next to a skyscraper like that would look good at all.
Plus the second one with the towers had the plane fly past absurdly close. You have to wonder where the hijackers got their ideas@@Xeonerable
@@Xeonerable I feel like it has to be a riff on the guy who tightroped across them in the 80s, changed around to fit the Olympics theme they were going for. Still looks like a big visual metaphor for failure to me, I mean he's falling for most of the commercial
@@michaelm7299That's a very silly thing to wonder
@@ericlooney6089 That was in the 70s actually. In 1974 I believe.
The most shocking moment was seeing all the stuff you used to be able to afford with just $1 at McDonald's 😢🤣
"Back in my day we used to buy a super sized meal from McDonald's for only a buck."
"There's a reason you have liver cancer Grandpa."
That wasn't even that long ago at all. I remember in 2016 you could still get a McDouble and McChicken for $1. It was a good way to save money on food. Now you're paying nearly 3 times that amount.
@@DustinZilbauer
In France, you have a small menu with a sandwich, wrap, fries and drink for 5€
@@varoonnone7159Still expensive compared to the not so distant past
@@DustinZilbauer It's not food. You may as well eat cement
0:00 Bill cosby sex offender
0:30 Book from the creator of Scientology
0:45 reminiscent to the jumpers during 9/11
1:16 Halliburton used U.S. troops to get into Iraq oil fields
1:46 9/11 plane
2:15 Jared Fogel convicted pedo
2:45 Cluster bomb manufacturer
3:15 Enron scammed investors and collapsed as result
4:15 akward unwarranted kiss(even back then it was weird)
4:44 making light of cte
5:15 Steve Irwins passing from an animal attack
5:45 Depression doesn't go away buying a ford
6:15 😆 self explanatory
6:45 Round-up/Monsanto sued for hazardous toxic chemicals that don't just go away
7:14 Lance Armstrong caught doping
7:45 Super sizing bad for the average person (thanks Mike)
i think the point of the dream team commercial is the "super size for a puny prize" element. Since super sizing became a hot topic a few years later due to the documentary exposing the health dangers.
@@mikegribanov6105 hmm that could be
thank you for letting me know why its poorly aged and thank you for letting me now why there are "America when oil" memes came from
@@Akrafena If it helps with the last part, look up the entire Gulf War and the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Rest assured, the army wasn't in there to get WMD's.
@@Akrafena No prob, it's good that you and newer generations know. The adults fail and make mistakes but we must learn to do and be better.
A lot of people talking about the first Twin Towers commercial, but I think the second one at 1:44 aged even worse. That plane was way too close...
I noticed that too. I actually thought it was a collision course because of how bad special effects were back then
Im asuming the plane was to demonstrate how tall the towers were. Just goes to show how unexpected it wss
the first one was fine, the second one was crazy
But that's not the twin towers in the second one...
For me the first one is 3 times worse than the second one
I literally gasped involuntarily at the pole vaulter falling from the tower.
The Falling Man. He's been identified as one of two chefs at Windows on the World.
I gasped when I saw that plane barely fly past that tower
@@RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UKyeah they both were just as bad . I think the plane one was even worse like wtf
@@Bacopa68 he technically hasn't been confirmed. I think most believe it was Jonathan Briley.
same ☠
“You got any vanilla” NO BILL STOP IT 💀
0:24
“I can do that”
What's wrong with it? Is this some kind of sexual allusions that didn't exist in 90s yet?
@@SU76M Look up Bill Cosby
MCR PFP SPOTTED, MUSIC TASTE APPROVED.
Lance Armstrong: "This is my body, I'll do whatever I want to it."
He sure fucking did.
Waah Waahh....😭
"What am i on? Im on my Bike 6 hours a day!' on the roids on the bike more like lol
He went on JRE. Everyone was doping themselves up. Steroids aren't magic. You still need dedication and talent.
If you weren’t on the juice in sports in the 90s were you even trying? Cause you definitely wasn’t pro
@@billyrussell8684 Armstrong says this in his Rogan interview. He says they got to an event and didn't plan on juicing that much. Then he found out everyone was juicing as hard as they could. And there was no point in even competing if you didnt
That Enron commercial though. "Ask why" is an insane slogan for a company who really needed people to not ask too many questions.
Yo that commercial ran every 30 minutes on news networks in the year 2000. Being only 20 years old it was obvious that a company out of nowhere pumping ad nauseam was highly sus. Lo and behold. A group of man boob soft handed paper pushers running a scheme.
Sorry I don't get this one
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron was using thoroughly crooked accounting to cover for losses and make themselves look better than they did. If anyone had, for example, asked *why* the stock price and earnings were so high, looked at their SEC filings and asked the right questions, a lot of Enron folks could have gone to jail quite a bit sooner.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron collapsed because of massive accounting and corporate fraud. The numbers on their books were lies (also their business model caused major blackouts when they couldn't manage energy without losing money). So yeah people should have been asking why.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 I don't get it either.
That AT&T Twin Towers pole vault commercial made my jaw drop to the ground... it's almost comical how eerie the foreshadowing is. Makes me wonder what commercials are on air now that will seem way outta pocket in next 25 years in a way that we couldn't possibly predict.
Ehhh, everything is so Politically Correct now, the grandkids in the next 25 years will be looking at us and begging for us to live a little.
@@wildboy700Grandkids!? Thanks Me2, OF, TikTok, & the lack of a sustainable economy, whose having kids these days to make a future for grandchildren to be even a consideration!? 😂
We currently live in a Mouse Utopia. 😢
Why? What did the commercials have to do with it? It was wayyyy before the incident even happened. Stop being a simp
@@wildboy700 "Political correct-ness" feels like something people like you force upon yourselves.
@@MarvelousButter Well, as a former educator who was scared along with other staff members every five seconds for possibly saying the wrong thing and losing our jobs, I guess you're right.
Holy shit. That frame at 0:51 looks EXACTLY like the Falling Man photo. That is eerie right there.
It's like the god of time is messing with us
I said the very same thing. Extremely eerie!
Exactly! Life is full of mystery!
I mean there are only so many poses in which a human can free fall, so...
@@jorgeamadosoriaramirez8953the commercial itself is still oddly specific and eerie soo
I paid for UA-cam premium just to wind up voluntarily watching ads.
😂😂😂
yup. me too
And I ain't mad about it either....same
It was worth it just for that tRump/Grimace spot
😂😂😂😂
The Enron one just being “why? Why? Why? Why?” Is just comedy gold
Based name and pfp
Yeah that’s classic in every wrong way
The Executive looking in the mirror, sweating, coming up with some excuse as why profits are down. Why. why? WHy.
What did Enron do? I’m not in the loop on them
@@cantthinkofaname5046complete scam that didn’t really do anything useful and basically was a front for betting on things like the weather and paying themselves for it lol
At lot of these companies I can’t blame for their commercials not aging well. Halliburton, Raytheon, Enron, and Monsanto knew what they were doing and thought no one would ever find out.
People still haven't found out that Roundup was turned into a boogeyman by political interests and scientifically illiterate courtrooms.
Pretty sure Subway was aware, as well.
Fogel and Armstrong also fall into this category oof
at least I now know why my Amana fridge in the early 90s sucked so badly...do one thing, and do it well...turns out, making fridges wasn't really their thing
I feel like I'm not american enough to understand any of these you mentioned
0:26 that was ominous 😨
Amazingly ominous, though.
I don't get how this one was poorly aged? Was this guy a pedo?
"you got any vanilla?" -
"i can do that" -
":o"
“Got any vanilla” to a little white girl followed by that expression is crazy
Since I've seen a bunch of people ask about the Ford commercial:
A 16 year old boy named Kyle Plush was killed by one of those folding seats (in a Honda Odyssey) in 2018. He was crushed/pinned by the rear folding seat. Tragic case, especially considering he was able to use Siri to call 911 twice, only for police to fail to locate him. His family found him 6 hours after he made those calls.
OMG 😢 Thanks for this info; I just thought the problem was the guy’s glib response to the woman saying she was depressed. 😳
@@InAHollowTree Same.
Honda. Figures
I remembered that case, I just couldn't make the connection. Thank you!
literally such a tragic story:/
That Lance Armstrong one was perfect. "What am I on? I'm on my bike" 😂😂😂
Okay Lance, Suuuure.
That one probably aged the worst. Of all of these, Lance knew that this wouldn’t age well beforehand.
i remember telling someone that I think lance was cheating. His shock and horror that I would ever question him makes me laugh to this day. This was well before it was proven but the evidence was there. I didn't really care so I didn't make a big deal about it.
@@miloyallnah definitely the Jared at Congress one
they all doped so it was a fair contest. same with baseball and other sport
@@LamelKendrick Bill Burr has a bit about this on Conan; they were all doping but Lance was the easiest fall guy because he was so famous and had propped up his career as a wholesome figure through all his commercials, sponsorships, biographies etc. So when the scandal came out, he was obviously the one they would choose to make the harshest example out of.
That AT&T not only aged poorly because of the Twin Towers which suffered the 2001 attack, but also the fact that the 1996 Atlanta Olympics ALSO had a terrorist attack, when someone detonated a bomb at Centennial Olympic Park. AT&T happened to mention both things that suffered terrorist attacks, which aged it really poorly!
A more or less blasé attitude towards it...
Yikes you're right it was a double whammy.
what kills me is that the WTC had ALREADY been bombed in 1993, so as early as 1996 this would have made marketing executives beat their heads on their desks in shame
It wasn't that the twin towers were in it.. it was the dude falling after his pole vault. He looked like the jumpers from that day.
Both of the actual events are hilarious 😂😂😂😂
The balls for ENRON to even have a commercial like this lmao
I was watching that one and thought, "OK, what's wrong with this? He's rehearsing. OK, the shooting gallery thing is a little weird, but --" and then it showed the company name. XD
@@daffers2345 That 'Ask Why' at the end was the icing on the cake, holy hell
"Oh come on, just because the world trade center is in it that doesn't mean it aged p...oh fuck, oh no they did not just do that!"
I thought the same thing!!
I don’t think that building is the WTC. I’m pretty sure that’s AON Tower in Chicago but I could be wrong.
@@danielmarreviews3947 I think you're right, but it still strongly resembles it lol
@@danielmarreviews3947 No, it most definitely is the WTC, the way the "tubing" facade comes together 3 to 1 at the plaza level is a dead giveaway.
@@michlo3393 The pole vaulter commercial is the World Trade Center, but the commercial with the plane flying close to the building is the AON Tower in Chicago (which looks very similar to the old twin towers).
Lance Armstrong was juicing in front of everybody and thought nobody would notice 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao the phrase "what am I on? I'm on my BIKE" had me rolling. My older brother used to wear his yellow wristband 24/7 in high school.
@@birdie8006 this and subway were pretty mind blowing once I got older
His was the best lol
To be fair there was a significant period of time where steroid use in sports was not as taboo because of its ubiquity in the body building and sport communities. Hollywood runs on cocaine, and for a while ‘roids ran sports.
@@naijahn13 he is losing more weight now on fiberglass and feces in his oatmeal than he ever did on those veggie footlongs
I never wanna hear Bill Cosby say "My own cup of rich creaminess" ever again. 😂
😂😂😂 it gave me chills
ESPECIALLY with a little girl present 😭
0:18
Chocolate!!!
Yes you do! Liar! 😅
"Together, Grimace... we could own this town." I would not have believed it if I didn't just see it LOL
The Enron one became so bitterly ironic it’s almost perverse.
The closer the house of cards came to collapse, the more they advertised. I actually thought they might be able to pull it out in bankruptcy. I bought 10,000 shares of Enron when they were at $0.03 a share...just in case. The stock was delisted a few days later. That experience was the main reason I didn't buy Bitcoin in the early days.
dafuck is Enron?
@@texaswunderkindtough luck, man. damn.
@@Tay-xj5udone of the biggest examples of what not to do while running a financial business
"why... is the money gone?"
Steve Irwin still hits in the feels. RIP legend.
Yeah, that one was just sad 😞
Funny that ad didn't bother me. They had no clue when they made that commercial that he was going to die in the same fashion. You could say funny but eerie at the same time.
@@rfe8nn2 I think it's because Steve was the man everybody wanted to know better. He was the surrogate friend, father, brother, and all-around nice guy that we just can't seem to find in the world anymore.
@@DonkeyKongBMAC That's the dumbest thing I've heard all week. He had absolutely no reason to fake his death. Moreover he loved his family and loved life. I would give my left nut to have a tenth of the life he had.
I'd say this commercial aged well because Steve Irwin's death might have been the most predictable of all time. He was risking death every time he got up close to one of those dangerous animals. The most unexpected part of his death was that he died from a stingray and not, say, a rattlesnake or tarantula.
That Snickers commercial is actually ahead of its time. They pulled a player with a concussion
Coach wasn't worried about the concussion, he was worried about getting a penalty for an illegal substitution. You can't add Batman to your team mid-game.
Very inaccurate. They would still have put that guy back in. 😅
@@lpr5269 Inaccurate yes, but moving in the right direction.
TOO THE BAT CAVE!!!!
@@CaptDesmo *to
"SIR, TURN ON THE NEWS, THERES BEEN A SECOND POLE VAULTER"
*A POLE VAULTER HAS HIT THE PENTAGON!*
lol damn yall :D
You found a way to make me laugh at the worst, most tragically aged commercial lol
A second pole vaulter has jumped over the building
lol superman
Bill Cosby got serious when asking 'got any vanilla?'
Even the sound effect they add on that part
whats so bad about it? genuinely asking.
@@uniserenity1414if yk yk.
You don't know? Lol
i know that he was a creep, but I don't get the reference. @@timmy18135
Still better than being bombarded by Car Insurance & Medication Ads
And life insurance and online casinos...
"Oh My Gosh, you're still using Mom's old coffee pot!"
"COME ON, GIVE FOX THAT KING, STEVE."
"You won't be the bad guy, you'll be sympathetic..."
And the camp lejeune ads like bro c'mon nobody on the entirety of the planet cares about the one military camp except for like 2 people
@@Nitrosaltacc8761tens of thousands of people have been based at Camp Lejeune over the years. That's a lot of money.
The prescription drug ads are just big pharma's way of driving up prices, and because prescriptions, life insurance, and reverse mortgages are the only things society thinks can be marketed to Boomers these days.
(Also if you're over 18 and watching TV between the hours of 9a-5p, you're either a Boomer retiree, or unemployed & on disability...due to Camp Le Juene, Round Up, a medical error, a car accident, or something else that could be part of a class action lawsuit.)
None of that is as bad as the honey pimento chicken chick fil a commercial and the iPhone 15 throat gargle song.
I love how these are actually “poorly aged” instead of something like making a slightly problematic joke
right
Some more candidates too
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Funny because you’re wrong-the Dianetics commercial is from AFTER Scientology had a decade of bad publicity-but you couldn’t resist the chance to whiiiiiine
@@MegaZeta i couldn't give less of a shit about scientology, plus the average person wouldn't have known what it was at the time
@@MegaZeta sounds more like you couldnt resist the chance to whine. get out of here crybaby
Jared: "Am I free to go?"
LMAOOOOOO!! Not quite buddy! Got another 10 years to serve!
Pretty sure he's getting out for good behavior.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
AWWW MmANNN!!!!
@franciasi😂😂😂😂😂i2435
2:40: "Am I free to go?"
Um, no Jared, you are not, lol.
Jared Fogle facing a trial, oh the irony. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Look. He was just trying to give everyone Aides. You know, for weight management
Turns out he wanted to get into a smaller pair of pants in more ways than one
"We just needed to do something to pass the time while the rest of the jury are busy throwing up in the bathroom after reading your list of crimes you monster"
@@torstenscholz6243
That's not a trial but a Congress hearing
I know everyone is going to talk about the two WTC commercials for obvious reasons, but man that Crocodile Hunter commercials was pretty dang eerie itself. Rest in Peace Steve Irwin
That one was so sad as well, I agree. Had a similar feeling watching that as the AT&T wtc one. "Well, This isn't bad......oh." RIP Steve, a really sweet dude with a great legacy ❤❤❤🙏🏽
He died at 44. That's a ripe old age for a crocodile hunter.
For me that was one of the ones that was less sad, and more of a facepalm. They took a guy with a dangerous job, and played up one of the job's most likely occupational hazards for laughs. I was alive at the time, I remember how everyone thought Steve was invincible... and this commercial suggests either he *also* drank his own Kool-Aid about this how this could never actually happen to him, or he just didn't really care how it would look in hindsight (understandable, since in that case he would already be dead anyway).
It would be like having a famous stunt man get in a near-deadly accident as a commercial gag. Or a famous snowboarder getting caught in an accident. It's less "unforeseeable tragedy" and more "pretty likely scenario that they do their job in spite of."
@@geneparmesan8748Pretty sure Steve Irwin was acutely aware of the danger, danger, danger. But also things were different back then and people weren't so serious all of the time. So he was probably still able to joke about it, like dark humor
He should have used FedEx.
2:40 No jared😭 You're not...
And the "S-Cam"......crazy work.
The subway court case is HILARIOUS for soo many reasons
"I'm free to go?" - LOL
New York judges, no doubt about it lol.
Besides the obvious of it being Pedo Fogle, the “S-CAM” is what got me 😂
It's not a court case. It's "testimonial" before some sort of congressional committee....
@@darrenrobinson9041Nope.
Developed chest pain watching the UPS jet fly past the World Trade Center. No way can anyone see anything else but 9/11.
I looked away just expecting the worst. The trauma of watching 9/11 unfold in real time never leaves you.
@@cheesecake134 you were there in 01?
Dramatic
@@user-vi4xy1jw7e These people are super dramatic, unless they were there.
Maybe thats how the terrorist got the idea of doing that..
OMG the Enron one! 🤣🤣
That would be like Chernobyl making a commercial about nuclear reactor safety.
Why 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Honestly we could have predicted Enron's fall from the markets they thought would work. Weather prediction and reaction? Broadband brokering when everything internet was done by cable and modem? Nobody understood how to do these things even in theory.
@@mikevanroy9356 Not to mention the outright lies to the investors.
#BlameKremlinforChernobyl
😅 С Чернобылем я знаком, а вот, что такое Енрон не знаю. Расскажите?
At first, I thought this would just be the basic "oh, it's Bill Cosby, oh it's the Twin Towers, therefor it's poorly aged." Like, yes, they are, but just showing the Twin Towers by themselves isn't actually shocking or collar tugging...Then that commercial with the pole vaulter happened. My God
I love God!
I understand the ATT commercial was during the Atlanta Olympics, but "Georgia on my Mind" with images of Lower Manhattan is simply bizarre. Stupid advertising
No it’s not if you look into conspiracy lore… NWO did 9/11 - Georgia guide stones 👀
When I think of a rich city skyline I always think of the peach state
The Olympics were in Atlanta.
The sight of the pole vaulter "falling" through the sky in front of the twin towers was indeed jarring.
@@davita4436 I was watching the ATT commercial and scratching my head, "What's wrong with this commercial? Does it have something in it that looks racist?"
: Oh I see.
Funny when I was a kid in the 90s I hated commercials. Now I’m watching commercials missing the 1990s 😢
That’s because 90’s commercials have better scripted character, & world development, & fewer plot holes in under 30 seconds than any current, hour long tv episode.
I'm right there with you I would even love to go back to school and I hated school when I was growing up lol. Only if I realized how good of times they actually where.
Yep me too reminds me of a similar time
Same 😢😢
Nah, this shit's still annoying and dumb. I had to turn the video off after Trump's McDonald's commercial.
Raytheon originally making fridges was something that I was NOT expecting.
Honestly, it's not surprising. The house appliance to weapons manufacturer pipeline in a shellnut.
GE makes the guns and engines used on most fighter jets and they still make fridges.
Back in the 40's they made radar equipment. So I think it's more of a case of why did they get into the civilian sector.
You're not gonna believe what Honeywell and Samsung also make...
an alarming number of unassuming companies are also producing weapons for the worlds militarys
@@audiobotguy0357 Not quite anymore. The part of GE that makes fridges has been sold off to China and is a separate company from the GE that makes plane engines and guns.
I never thought I would willingly watch commercials for 8 minutes
Before UA-cam and any major internet streaming services. Ads and commercials were creative and fun to watch.
Classy commercials with actual good advertising scripting, died out in this generation
I was trying to go to a few timestamps in a video after having watched it already and got an 8 minute unskippable commercial ( 1st of 2 ) in order to watch the video. UA-cam getting crazy with the ads.
@@onradioactivewaves sure
@@uberzaxormon3y22 to be a bit fairer, advertisers of the past did not have to contend with smartphones stealing everyone’s attention
0:46
“Just cuz it has the Twin Towers in it doesn’t mean it aged poorly”
…
*oh*
r/yourjokebutworse
😂😅 My exact reaction
Shut Up
Lovely comment ☺️
Exactly my thoughts and then....yeah 😬🥺🙏🏽💔
My favorite 90s commercials are the ones that say "Get ready for back-to-back decades of financial prosperity and political unity!" in reference to the upcoming millennium.
Oh how naïve everyone was back then lmao
Not naive, just hopeful. We'd already had back-to-back decades of economic rollercoasters and political strife and lies of politicians coming out.
@@rudra62yep, and unfortunately it looks like the 2020s will the a third in a row
@@diablo55 And I will remember it.
No that came true, just not about *us*.
Phony optimism. Typical boomer bullshit.
"Together Grimace, we could own this town."
And yet we never saw Grimace run as Vice President, what a shame.
Replace “Town” with “Country”
There’s time don’t worry
Vivek (or Vance) 2028 with Grimace as VP would see 512 electoral fr fr
@@yourlocalidiot4085 I want Grimace to run independent
In the 70s there was Ayd's appetite supressant candy. The commercial said, "Lose weight deliciously. With the aid of Ayd's"
OMG. I just looked that up. It's real. Holy ****!
Jared Got Aides to lose weight.
My favorite thing was when the company saw the AIDS epidemic unfold in the 80s and refused to change the name of the product.
2020's poorly aged commercial compilation is going to be f-ing EPIC!!!!
us looking back on these days for the naivety of not knowing AI would take over the world... and pointless internet arguments like "those were the good ol' days"
Insurance companies spying on you to increase your payments, behavioral “nudging,” Google feeding you results AI chooses instead of letting you see them, etc.
We already have one: the Super Bowl FTX commercial with Larry David
2040s called, watch out for space turtles.
Never would have guessed Bluey was behind all those gangland slayings
Snickers: CTE from football ended up not being a joke
RoundUp: Glyphosate ended up being quite unsafe
wtf it's you
Chocolate rainnn! 🍫 🌧️
MAN, YOU ARE EVERYWHERE MY DUDE…..😂
Hey it's the "comment on every UA-cam video" guy.
Chocolate rain
6:15 This ad was a rollercoaster of emotions
"Holy shit Trump and McDonalds go waaay back?!"
" _Holy shit, it's GRIMACE!_ "
"Holy shit inflation is out of control!"
Imagine you travel back in time, and while taking a break from trying to get back to the future, you turn on a TV and this is the commercial break.
Hahahaha, that gave me a good laugh.
🤯🤯😂
Get the thought, Why am I trying to go back?!
Chrononauts are not supposed to partake in media of the frametime if at all possible
Especially the ATT one if you turn on at just the right moment you'll think you're in 2001
Literally anything involving Cosby hasn't aged well.
fr
Cosby to white child: Got any vanilla 😢😮
Literally or actually? Very bad language!
@@petecotter6790 people have been using literally figuratively for many years so
@everafterhighgirlie saying something is "literally" to describe something that is actual - is not correct. Usually said by dumb millenials
One of the more shocking items to me is the fact that you get a Big Mac for a dollar.
Yeah the dollar menu used to hit really hard
underrated comment
That was a Big 'n Tasty, not a Big Mac, two different sandwiches.
I remember when you could get a full on lunch for you and a friend from McD's for about $5. Couple burgers, couple drinks, and share some fries.
It's now $18 before tax now!
6:40 "Together, Elon, we could own this nation."
The Steve Irwin one broke me in a way I wasn’t prepared for
Yeah, it really stung me right in the heart.
It stung my funny bone which I hate it did
I remember SEEING that one shortly before it happened. It was funny. Then it wasn't.
@@valkyrie1066then it was again
Steve Irwin was a comedy genius just as well as a great and wonderful human being. Even in his "death video" supposedly he said to not blame the animal, that it was "just protecting itself/doing what its instincts told it" or something along those lines.
Dont be sad that he's gone. Be glad he graced this world with his teachings and lessons in the time he did have with us.
Just so everyone knows, in the second “9/11” commercial at 1:44, that’s the Aon center in Chicago. Still poorly aged, but not as much as you thought.
yeah, I wasn't sure what it was but it was clearly only a one tower building
Idk, I mean I get that’s not the same building but I feel like every building would be paranoid since the WTC
It doesn't much matter if it's Chicago, the visuals of a plane flying that low by towers is it right there
It’s still hilarious 😂😂
@@MannuhFestItevery single person working in Houston downtown proper was shuttled out of there on park n ride coaches from Metro. Authorities were pretty sure it was a nationwide attack and seeing that Houston was a major terrorist target as it can cripple the nation if its huge port and starting point of all those huge petroleum and its products pipelines going out in every direction mainly to the eastern seaboard. Lots of military bases use lots of diesel and gasoline on top of jet fuel. Cripple the source of that juice and you have a crippled country with lotsa big toys and no fuel to properly play with them. I was sitting next to an elderly white lady that looked right at me and w all seriousness said "nothing like a war to keep this BOOMING economy going" since there were rumors of a major recession after the roaring 90s
I'd say the Donald Trump McDonalds commercial aged quite well. You know he actually eats what he is endorsing which is more than you can say for 95% of other celebrity cameos 😅
I think the commercial aged poorly because as another commenter said, the burger isn't on the Dollar menu anymore.
@@manhphuc4335 that’s silly. Inflation doesn’t make a commercial age poorly. $1 back then is $2 now, so it scales appropriately
Right... because if he ate anywhere the food wasn't already prepared before he got there, he'd be poisoned in a second.
@@jonathanpusar5931$1 seems like $5 these days 😅
I think your leaving out the multiple criminal charges against him, election conspiracy theories, and the fact that he’s become one of the most controversial figures in American history
1:38 Guy has PTSD
There is something so charmy about old ads that none of these youtube ads can do.
it's called nostalgia
@@SemperFine no cuz i was not alive shit was wholesome and not obviously trying to compete in intense segments.
It’s just the way audio was recorded back then. It sounds more natural
I get you. But I'm sure today's kids will say the same about UA-cam ads 30 years from now when they're middle age.
.. yeah, misplaced nostalgia
"Am I free to go?" I'm fucking dead
not until 2029.. at the least 🤣🤣🤣🤣
𝐋𝐦𝐚𝐨
Exactly 😅🤣😂
The Lance Armstrong one had it all. Crazy he would participate in that shot where the camera zooms into his face as he dismisses the possibility he was “on something”.
They’re all evil, they know what they’re doing. Stop pretending otherwise!
0:01 well it started real strong
The rest are fine. Just a bunch of woke babies crying about small things
@@MTMProductions?
Several months ahead of the trend I see…
@@MTMProductionsidk those twin towers ones are pretty nuts, a eerie “falling man” visual and a plane flying between the towers like that definitely aged poorly
@@MTMProductionswell that’s true but u shouldn’t say that
The Enron one, "you can't predict the weather" but they sure found a way to create it.
They were a Fortune 5 company (based on reported data) before they went under.
Ah yes, the ol' Enron Evil Weather Machine.
What exactly was that Enron commercial advertising?
AT&T should have left that landing pad there.
well fn played sir
Alright, this made me laugh more than I care to admit.
It's feels so strange watching commercials not be obnoxious and in-your-face
We'll they're genuinely lying to your face 😂
That’s different from today’s commercials how again? 🤔
@@bryanmiller8604 They're Acting has now become obnoxious due to drugs
The ads back then were FAR MORE tolerable than today's "HEY! BLAH-BLAH-BLAH! (Insert predictable idiotic scenario), DUH-DUH-DUH!" kind of shit.
@@JediMaster362and that stupid loud thumping and clapping that’s in every other commercial today, as well as obnoxious people with stupid, pointless, pissed off facial expressions that have ZERO to do with the product or service randomly staring at you through the tv screen. As if any of that’s going to inspire me to patronize the company…NOT
The tic tac commercial is even more awkward when you realize the guy says that it's over “for now” when she clearly tells him to back off.
Poor Steve Irwin, when he joked about getting bitten by a snake he probably wasn't expecting to get killed by a stingray
No fucking shit
@@xanderwallace6511 Rude
As an Aussie myself my reaction was "this aged poorly on multiple levels"
should have went with fedex...
I'd say the Steve Irwin one aged well, not poorly. It's a bit of black comedy about how dangerous it can be to handle venomous animals, presented by a guy who later died after a sting from a venomous animal.
It would have aged badly if the joke was something like "Steve Irwin is so skilled at handling animals that he could never be injured by one."
When I saw Steve Irwin i smiled ear to ear. Can honestly say he was an integral part of watching tv growing up. But then at the end of that commercial...now im just sad...
In real life he died from getting stabbed by a stingray, not bitten by a snake.
He harassed animals for a living. I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
@@bingonamo7520 What do you call "harassment"?
@@dustux Aggressively handling animals, being loud around them, disturbing them in their homes, etc. He also jiggled his new born baby around a massive crocodile and it just went on and on. He was just an idiot. It was worse than when Michael Jackson dangled his son off his hotel balcony.
@@bingonamo7520Bro has NO CHILDHOOD. Not only that you have no idea who HE EVEN WAS.
Enron sure did know how to make inadvertently creepy commercials. "Why? Why? Why? Why?" Jeez. I regret watching this at 2AM.
as someone who is obsessed with creepy/offputting psas like this, what are some more from them??
To this day an SEC investigator is probably is still asking “Why? Why? Why?” about Enron’s collapse at 2AM every night
Taking an add from post-2000 (the subway one), slapping a filter on it, and putting it into a "90's" commercial compilation really adds to my theory that when people talk about being a "90's kid" and "90's culture" they're almost always actually talking about the early 2000s
The description clearly says "and some from the 2000s", stfu.
But the 90's were only ten years ago, right. Right?
They did the same thing with the minivan ad. The Ford Freestar was new for the 2004 model year. That stood out to me because we had one when I was growing up. I didn't realize the Jared ad was done similarly. I associate him with the early aughts, but, I guess I assumed maybe it was from 1999.
I think OP has a really good point about early 2000s culture.
Genuine question but there doesn't seem to be a distinctive separation between late 90s to early 2000s?
This is basically a documentary about the history of irony.
Best comment
Very shrewd ❤
Why the fuck is this not the top comment?
Not really, since most, if not all, of these aren't ironic. They're essentially just odd coincidences.
@danman6669 NO sh1t......ya think?? Good one, captain obvious .
What in God's holy name was that Enron commercial!? Regardless of what happened with Enron that commercial was a fever dream
Those were the 90s.
@@torstenscholz6243 was 100% the 90s
Its like you've never seen that era's Playstation commercials with crying baby dolls and Irish alien girls.
Enron was corrupted and thought it was the top player
Lol exactly!
I started going "nononono" the second I saw Bill Cosby.
I lost it when I saw happy music playing while someone was falling off the WTC.
0:51 oh my God. That's bone-chilling.
Enron-
"Ask why?...we lied"
Haliburton-
" Proud to scam our Troops"
Snickers-
"You're not you, after a head injury, Snickers satisfies."
Round up-
"We said it was safe, but we never said how safe".
Bonus.
The diet Jared ate to lose weight was actually a "starvation diet" (dangerous!!) using Subway sandwiches.
So for these commercials, Subway insisted Jared lie about how much he ate to avoid an embarrassing scandal.😂
Honestly, these were the quiet years
A "starvation diet" with proper medical support is not dangerous at all lol
I think the Jared thing is more along the lines of him actually eventually being on trial for something truly heinous
To quote someone much wittier than me:
"Jared's career ended the same way it started - trying to get into smaller pants."
It was. Maybe both
1:46 has to be the CREEPIEST moments in American commercial history
Besides the plane and the tower, that Ups ad had a very modern vibe. I'm impressed.
I thought so too!
maybe so, but it is very difficult to look past that “besides”
That Trump one has now aged amazingly well.
The lance armstrong one doesnt really fit now that we know every pro cyclist of that era juiced. Pretty sure one of the medals that got stripped away ended up going to the 20th place guy all these years later, that many guys tested positive. It was like the maguire/bonds era of baseball
All Olympic sports, baseball, football, cycling. Is there any sport that doesn't have massive doping?
@@texaswunderkindgolf
Lance was on theat commercial doing some blood work. 😂
So what if they all juiced, they juiced. If everyone does something bad, it's still bad.
The ads that aged the poorest for me are
5. Round up being safe
4. Bill Cosby Jell-O
3. Steve Irwin Getting a venomous bite
2.Enron executive telling people honestly "Earnings are Down"
1. WTC Pole Vaulter falling 😬
I dunno, Jared Fogle in court aged pretty damn poorly too.
You realize the Round Up verdict was overturned, right?
The Enron ad was the worst kind of foreshadowing imaginable. Lmaooo
It’s almost as they knew what would happen 😂
I dont get IT at all
What happened?
@num1Jaysta Enron was responsible for the worst case of accounting fraud ever in the U.S. Multiple cases of corruption and employee fraud throughout its entire existence. The company sunk several companies with it, causing the largest known case of bankruptcy over the span of 5 years.
This case was so bad that the "Enron Scandal" is taught across many Colleges and Business PHD's to make sure this terrible act of corruption doesn't take part again.
@@num1JaystaI think it's because the company went bankrupt it isn't that crazy
6:44 this one might be the worst. Blatantly lying about a chemical that decimates the local ecosystem and causes cancer.
Bill Cosby was once someone I respected. Looked up to when I was a kid.
same very sad how he truly is
Amazing actors in their way to commit multiple felonies
Wierd how Lisa Bonet his older "daughter" began to drift away after 3 4 seasons, then got NBC to create "A Different World" 📺. Cosby, I think out of spite wrote in the "new" oldest Huxtable girl.
Most people looked up to him….
As they awoke from a mysterious drink induced sleep 😮💤💤💤💤🍸
Someday soon, he will be looking "up" at us
“What am I on? I am on my bike 6hrs a day”
Sure that’s all you’re on, Lance :)
Oh good for a second I thought you were on Steroids 😂
Steroids and hookers
90’s: $0.39 to supersize
2023: regular price, half the fries
I used to eat supersize fries literally every weekend when I was growing up and was still thin as a rail. I did fine. Thanks Morgan Turdcock for guilting an entire company into taking away something that I both loved and saved money on.
It's cause that stupid movie super-size me
@@daltonfarrisI thought it was a pretty...uh...smart (I guess?) movie. You gotta remember; at the time, people didn't really think fast food was all that unhealthy (even doctors). It served a good purpose in waking the public up to the dangers of fast food.
I would like supersizing things to be back, though. It was a pretty band-aid solution to a much broader problem, and I am a goblin for McDonalds' fries.
@@snkybrki well calorie contents weren't exactly hidden. Most people just didn't care, then when that movie came out. The blowback was exaggerated by the media which the companies caved to. It was like a modern day "the jungle", but instead of rats and fingers in the sausage it was high calories. I think the media is at fault, because they didn't point out that people need to be self accountable and not over eat,
I just know I would not have to pay $15 to eat at McDonald's if super-size was still around.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia accurate
"I'm Batman".... still kills it to this day.
Right😂
Why didn’t that one age well?
@@jaredf6205 It's joking about footballers getting concussions. That's considered a much more serious topic these days.
@@TheEndKingoh I thought it was bc the one guy was like well I’m bubba 😂
@@TheEndKingYeah but it's still really funny.
Trump worked at McDonalds a few weeks ago
Strangest fucking timeline
Armstrong getting paid to say he isn't doping while simultaneously showing how he dopes!! 😯 The team must have laughed at that for whole decade!
I wasn’t sure why these didn’t age well.. until the AT&T commercial 😳😱
Thats the only one that stood out to you???
@@CinematikNupe yes, that was the First one that stood out to me as shocking.
Bill Cosby was in the first one
@@alecboi777 Bill Cosby was a creep, but well known for being the jello pudding spokesperson. The Pole Volter though looked like the poor victims of 9/11 that jumped. For me that was more shocking.
@@alecboi777 why did this commercial aged poorly?
So basically, the more wholesome and unifying a commercial is, the more horrible the shit going on behind the scenes is.
Seems so.
Guess it’s just like they say.
“If something is too good to be true, it usually is.”
Just like how news, tv, & movies desensitize you do when SHTF, no does much more than…🤷♂️ 🤷♀️
The only thing they care about is taking your money, anyway.
So does this mean if we start getting the most idiotic and annoying commercials, it means everything's going just fine?
Good question ? It’s possible, since I imagine stupid commercials are cheap and easy to make by comparison and not to much work has to be done, so the people behind the scenes are like “No need to start anything shady, it’s not that deep and we’re not gonna be here that long.”
That McDonald's ad with Trump aged perfectly! He still loves those hamburgers 😂
1:45 My heart skipped a beat when I saw the plane heading towards that building. Gosh, even in the '90s that should've been illegal.
No one imagined such a thing would happen. Even after the first plane hit the building everyone assumed it was an accident.
It should have been illegal to fly planes towards buildings? That happens rather a lot around the world, every single day.
Same! 😂
It was just making an exaggeration about how tall the tower is, that it is so tall that planes don’t even fly over it.
Why
the grimace one aged VERY WELL.
The Roundup one got me. Safe around kids and pets. ☠️
The guy with his head underground says the product 'kills the roots', and sure enough, glyphosate attacks the brain and nervous system. They must have known from tests on animals
it's no where near as bad as people make it out to be; sure, if you drink pure glyphosate, it is; but as watered down as it is for consumer usage, it's no more toxic than inhaling bleach or ammonia...
Ahh yes, nice tasty bleach 💀
@@wildbill6976roundup killed several dogs of my best friend's because her mother used Roundup and let them be around it. You don't know until you've seen it for yourself I guess
It has also been proven to actively Cause cancer so, research anything in depth about Monsanto and you'll see went cancer seems to be everywhere these days. Quite profitable
lol I’m shook 1:00 was straight predicting what would come, literally telling us! The image of the dude falling COME ON!
Honestly a lot of these are still better commercials than they air today. They’re actually fun to watch and don’t just put you asleep.
@@sporer_ ratio uninformed L
@sporer_ Please don't pretend like you don't know what he's talking about, it helps no one. Leftists always act confused in arguments, such an obvious and overrused tactic.
@sporer_ lol was it supposed to be a fad? He's not wrong either, someone isn't informed.
I think the budget/direction of ads was VERY different before the smartphone era. Companies used to actually have an opportunity to sell something with a captive audience back then.
Now ads (which are predominately online) are basically viewed for >5 seconds so are more like animated billboards. And those that are aired on TV are solely viewed by the elderly.
You fall asleep to commercials from today? How? They’re so bombastic and in your face
Oh my god, the AT&T one is absolutely horrifying ☹️
The UPS one is even worse💀
I think AT&T wasn't aware of the terrorist plans beforehand...
Other than the choice of towers, it kind of is still okay?
Man I didn't even know which one was the AT&T one because I looked away during the 2nd half of it. Yikes
I paused at it and it was similar to the "Falling jumper" photo
The Halliburton/UPS transition was not lost on me. 😵💫 Well played.
Yeeeeeeeeeep
I don't get it
I think the Donald Trump McDonald’s ad aged pretty well now in 2024 lmao
I miss the innocence of the 90s and the commercials. So crazy how bad the next few decades have been.
The main difference is the widespread use of the internet. It’s hard for companies and politicians to keep secrets.
Nah you just lived in blissful ignorance, as time went by and the internet jump started, your eyes were pried open and you were given a hard haymaker by an iron fist as you begin to realize the uncomfortable truth hidden under the bed, and have worse news for you: we most likely just removed the coverlet, we haven’t even seen what’s skeletons are hidden bellow.
@@matthew8153 sshhhh, it was the... INNOCENCE!!!!
@@xBINARYGODxScientologist ad innocent? WAT?
I think it's more ignorant than innocent.