1987 Commercials that will blow your mind 🤯 | Retro Commercials Vol 422 

It made me want pace

NEW YORK CITY?

It was originally New Jersey but there was backlash.

Remember Shazaam?

Every time I hear someone say new York City, I always think of the "get a rope" line in one of thoes commercials

Back then we hated watching commercials, now people watch the Superbowl to see the commercials and old commercials are sometimes better than whats on the tv these days, crazy times we are living in.

me too !!!!!! I literally wach on purpose makes me feel good 😀 & sad 😥 at the same time

Lol so true, wtf am I doing ..

HBO 🏅

Facts

You've gotta admit though, there'd always be that one commercial you looked forward to as much as any show. I remember loving the adventures of Toucan Sam and the Trix Rabbit.

You still hate commercials. Unless they are between 1950 and 1987

@@sideburn well you are right. Today you can stream almost everything without even seeing a commercial :)

@@BCScann or worse while streaming they play the SAME shorter length 30 second commercial every 5 minutes until you go insane.

@@sideburn I always pay not to hear adds

You are so right

Only for a day? Are you kidding?? I would go back and stay there, without even a second thought! I really can’t think of anything that is better these days verses back then! As a sidenote, I just saw something funny while watching this video… They showed a married with children commercial. I looked it up, and this commercial was airing for the very first year that the TV show came out! These commercials are all from 1987, and indeed, married with children came out in ‘87. That is hilarious how they advertised it as “This isn’t the Cosby family.” 😂😂😂

The 80s were the best . I was born in the 80s, and everything was just better. Kids weren't glued to devices or game systems, they actually had imagination and people were warmer friendlier. Family's tried to teach values. Now it just seems like people only care about themselves and stuff. It's just not the same at all. Progress and technology are over rated.

It's ok, I think most of us come here to escape 2021 for a little while to remember a time where we enjoyed life.

Same. What I wouldn’t give to go back, honestly

You know these past few years have been very bad but I feel like it's been crazy since 9/11

If I could live every year of my life in 87-88 I’d do it in a heartbeat.

🤣

Definitely

For sure

Yes and overall life was better. No doubt!

They weren’t as propagandized to think there’s something wrong with everything.

Happier and less racial tension

It was the staple of my elderly neighbor's tv watching experience.

It’s true. 80s was such a decade of optimism. When people were more like what you’d expect a normal person to be like. Not the freak show we have today.

Sad truth

Me too I was 9 also

I was a sophomore in HS. Yes everything was different... My wife and I could tell this by hothead early 2000’s and is one of the reasons we did not have kids. We did not want to raise them in What we felt was going to be a pos world. People expressed their feelings and did not get “offended” by everything.

Thanks to all the liberals trying to divide us with BLM and many other hate ideas.

ME2 I Agree - Being A Kid In The 80's Was Dam Near A Magical Dream - Compared 2What Kids Are Subject 2Now

No

Class of "89" here.

I remember that also😁

It was a better time but it wasn't cartoons were violent as hell and very militant like GI Joe Voltron s*** like that and now we have a generation of violent criminals I'm sorry but things were not better in the '80s they were just beginning to realize how bad things actually were the 70s much better much much better but still

Some are now on display in the Smithsonian.

Let me cry with you; I feel the same way. 😢😢

I can't imagine what would be comparable to a tv guide now a days?🤔

I do.

Ditto

it’s because we can see the genuineness in life back then even 20 years ago it was way more personal than everything now

I really feel ya' Norm. It hurts to know that the 70's and 80's are over😞😞😞😪😪😪

Amen 🙏

Bs

@@Randozyn4179 I remember them too.

The pharmaceutical commercials are out of control! they need a regulate that somehow every other commercial seems to be some kind of drug

@@Ludeboi420 "Ask your doctor if _______is right for you".

@@canuckprogressive.3435 of course! My doctor would have NEVER thought of that without my input 😃

@James 💀

@James I already know, it’s crazy

@James yes, what do u think that’s about?

@James u don’t think it has nothing to do with the government?

@James there is, u gotta look more into it

There is nothing wrong with you. You are just longing for happier times. When things were bit simpler. Let's be honest the world is a big huge trash can right now. And when we were younger things were brighter and better. And Goofy and funny and everything in between. So there's nothing wrong with you my friend I'm right next to you.

@@themiddlekid1966 now I understand my self too. Thankyou

33 sir..im not that old lol

Long long ride

Long ride hell it was just like yesterday it goes by like a flash.

Ya 33... lol I’m not 35 yet

Same 48 now 15 back then and I remember most of these commercials. Lol

I thought of cocaine, but it was the 80's, there was nothing "anti" about it!

@@wavion2 You understand? Pee Wee did an anti-crack commercial. They were happening. There was nothing "anti" about my sucking on a crystal meth pipe for a year either. Yum Yum.

Just blakk people thought that

@@wavion2 Tell me about it; I went to my D.A.R.E class always rolling high as a kite on MDMA.

I'm not convinced he wasn't talking about cocaine.

I used to use dos 622 and was fulfilling learning on that and windows 3.11 was just 622 with UI oh such simple times.

Good on ya I was only like pre teens in the 80s but what a decade def will never be another like it

@cold h20 Who are you the black and gay spokesperson? Take your subjective oppressed minority ideology to some lefties who care.

I miss it too

100%

no it wasnt, only compared to the shit hold days we live in now could you ever call the 80's wholesome

I graduated high school in 1987. No way in hell I'd ever go back to that time period. It sucked.

57 channels and nuthin on 570 channels and nothing on 5700 channels and nothing on.....

Cable tv was still good up until about 2005, reality shows killed it after that. Got rid of cable years ago and never regretted it.

Commercial are so stupid now

@@tonyaberney156 Now, I agree with that! I think whoever makes them is on crack or was and their brains are gone. I can’t stand hardly any of them, I use the ‘ mute’ button a lot.

ive become a fan of Amazon Prime and Disney+ on my computer ....actually cant remember the last time i owned a TV per se

Same . Every time I see a Pace commercial , I always say to myself....New York City ?? Even if they don't mention it.

I forgot too , but every once in a while I'll say to myself , Get a rope . But that one is dwindling down as the years go by I'm afraid . 😟

Yes.

Yup hate them Yankees till this day

they got bought by new yorkers

Because it was. Back when life was much simpler, common sense ruled and no distractions from your cell phone and internet. I miss those days.

It was

We were just starting to go too far.with MTV 24/7 we were oblivious to heroin needle park extreme poverty 29% unemployment in the poor community 9% nation wide. hiv was not talked about the crack wars were ratings specials on weekends.advertising was God as a kid it was just movies and concerts it didn't hit me till I had to work in the world 18 in 1987 graduation and parents said college or army choose well no more. Pussyfooting funds over reality

@@thomasc6868 we knew when the party was over and it was time to get to work

Today we are dealing with leftist SJW and their insanity that has infiltrated everyday life.

right? lol.. talk about subtle innuendos. Like anyone in the 80’s needed even more persuasion to do coke😆

You guys obviously weren't there for "new coke"

@@user-lb8do4ew6k obviously? You don’t know how old I am. Born in ‘74. New Coke ‘85. Renamed Coke II ‘92 I remember. It blew.

Yes.

Think about it that’s about the time the crack epidemic hit the streets

Back when crack was introduced and destroyed generations…

@@youngreap1564 And still was a better happier country then. Says a lot about how horribly run the country is now.

@@T3MUwU says alot about where that leadership took us. Mis management takes time to rear it's ugly head. The problems we face now are built upon half a century of mismanagement by the elected class who represent the corporate class. The working class has been destroyed by them.

Back in the 80's, we were one mistake away from WW3. I used to have a bug out pack in my car at all times.

@@Survivalist-of-war The closer to socialism we get the more screwed up it gets.

It was always there just more subtle humanity wasnt aware as now either. Fear of nuclear war was also loomiing in the back ground back then. I was born in 82 but was a strangely aware child.

@@leondight8162 i was born in 83 and i can resonate with you and say i was strangely aware too. Had dreams about what is to come

@@robertmoray988 born in 83 and had premonitions and dreams of whats to come. It aint pretty and its right around the corner

@@tdubbs934 I had a premition at the end of 2019 about the years that were ahead. I have had loads of little premitions over the last year and half about mundane things.

You damn sure got that right!

Same here

Damn i forgot about book-it!

Book-it!!!!!

Oh ya book it. And good old B.E.A.R.!

Lol, Book-it! Haven't heard that in a long time.

Last couple of nights these have been my saving grace to escape to what was for me a better time.

@Paul Smith Mervins, that's a blast from the past. I still have a gift card from that store.

The GAP sold Levi's in the '70s. I bought a pair of off-white, wheat-colored Levi's that puckered and became so misshapen after I washed them that I couldn't wear them unless I ironed them while they were damp. This was in '74.

Yeah when you make $5 an hour...

@@c.g.ryderii2405 who makes $5 an hour?

and they were USA made

Unless it's John DeLorean pulling up in his silver DMC DeLorean selling you the real coke.

unless it's *Marty McFly* as the dude playing the video game instead of the pretty-boy with the Duran Duran haircut! looool (the guy looks a helluva lot like Marty from the side though & not by accident I'm sure!)

no, Van Hagar selling you Pepsi Clear is.

@@cyberprompt Crystal Pepsi was 1992-1993

Coke could have kept Both formulas. Coke Mixer for Drinks may have been One angle. Since it was sweeter. Maybe increase the carbonation. Or the other direction Coke Jr. Since kids like a sweater taste. Increase the fizz factor and just maybe it would have lasted!?

You will go far Young Jedi! You REALIZE that it's normal and that we live in an alternate universe right now 👍

Right you are!

Not if you're an entitled millinial . 🤣

Indeed.

End days

@@Dirty_Dan02 That's what everyone was saying back in the 80s. The Russians were going to nuke us at any minute, there was acid rain, smog, and an ozone hole. We all thought we'd all be mutants scavenging the wastelands by now.

You ain't seen nothing yet

@@JoseRamirez-vz6zh Um kids had also done this in the 1960s and the 1980s as well you know? This isn't exclusive to just the 2020s nor is it only exclusive to just this generation. Kids in the past also wanted to do stuff that made them cool, edgier, and older. The 1960s was this for example and maybe even the 1980s as well. Even if there was no social media back then it doesn't mean that every kid once upon a time acted just as a kid until they were an adult. Kids want to do things that would make them look older so no this generation is not the only one that does this. Baby boomers and Gen X kids were doing this same exact thing both in the 1960s and in the 1980s. I'm not sure about the 1970s or 1990s though. But yes kids were indeed like this during the 1960s and the 1980s even without social media or other things that are similar to it.

@@JoseRamirez-vz6zh Okay well that's acceptable by me. I mean sure even if it wasn't seen as often as it is now it still happened back then. Do you know what trends are? Well it means that something is being popular. In the 1960s the counterculture movement was a trend because it was popular. In the 1980s heavy metal was a trend because it was popular. These were trends because younger people loved these things so much or that they wanted to get past a lot of government limitations and government regulations just because that they tried to replicate those things just for fun. This is what's happening now. Sure it may be dumb trends that are trending right now. However they're still trends alright and a lot of people would really want to do and try out those trends especially the younger folk

Wow.

Good old days I remember those days

cause the 80s and 90s were great kid.

That's what I felt like at that time as a kid. It was safe

The governments of the world happened.The few at the top drive the narrative of the entire worlds futures.When will the masses wake up and take control of their own lives and stop letting others pull the strings

Right.

Read the Bible, it tells the Truth.

@@readthebible67 Written down lies bro.sorry

@@chillwill3351 Interesting you should say that. The former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune wrote a book with the results of persuing the truth. He names very high-profile people he questioned, catalogs his own research. He was determined to prove the Bible a collection of lies. Except, he could not. The book is exciting, especially if you have a questioning mind, and it sounds like you might. It is widely available, both new and used (I got a copy for 50 cents!). I challenge you to pick one up and read it. If you actually DO read it, not just skim it, I would be highly interested in knowing what conclusions you draw. Good luck, and I will be praying for you. The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel

Indeed

Nah, you weren't lucky !! I was the same damn age and their was nothing special about being 17 in 87 !!

17 in 97 was the shits

17 right now would totally suck.

Nope the best time to be 17 was 2014 -2015

For all the struggles of the decade Russia nukes, Crack etc. ppl were simply more happy and not harassed by online crazies projecting their anger on society..Like others have commented I would go back in heartbeat I hunger for fun and simplicity again.

Ironically, it is 1984 again. Just not in a good way.

prove it or it did not happen.

That’s cool. What else did you edit or work on ? Was it an advertising company?

@@WeFindSimpleSolutions DMB&B (Darcy Macius Benton & Bowles) was the New York ad agency. Our editorial company did a lot of P&G, like Charmin, Pampers and Bounty.

My Grandfather worked on the same project.

@@1rotbed that is Awesome ! I’ve always been interested in commercials, how they were made, who comes up with the idea. I went to school for sound engineering in the hopes of working for an advertising company doing commercials and with the ultimate goal of doing sound for cartoons

Wow That shits crazy

Exactly

"The toilet water has been swirling ever since." Well said, my friend. Well said.

@@theodorehuxtable6001 Thanks Theo!

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Sounds like you've acquired lactose intolerance in your old age

I was thinking the same thing...those Toyota trucks are still on the roads today....80s dodges suck so bad that needed Mitsubishi....

For hundreds more lol

Only a fool would take that bet lol

I was having the same thought. Look at how much an old Toyota is worth vs a an dodge Dakota

Right lol🤣🤣🤣

I agree. I was 11 in 1987.

The world has always been shit. It's just back then we were more shielded from it. Now, with the internet and 24/7 news networks, it's pulled back the curtain and we see it everyday....everywhere. if you listen to music lyrics from back then like Billy Joel's, we didn't start the fire, you realize it's always been shit, we just didn't see back then. We were young and naive. All generations think their time as a child was the best time and that means you had a great childhood, like all children should have.

It's because you guys are old

It seems that way because everything on the internet is controlled by computer AI algorithms, designed to keep people addicted to scrolling on their devices. People find conflict and drama entertaining so the AI learns to promote conflict and drama. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s a fact. The Internet is designed to keep people addicted to it for advertising money and so it creates conflict to keep people addicted. If you stop using social media, you won’t think everyone is so angry anymore.

True.

To add an interesting perspective to that, ever hear how people who travel internationally tell you that each country literally has its own vibe, and not in a new age way, like some literally feel calmer, busy, etc, I've heard America has an anxious type of vibe and angry too.

Same. I was also 5 years old

Were those happier times, or does the cynicism that comes to everyone as they experience life color your perspective? When you're 5 the simplest things impress you. I was 35 in '87, and things were only marginally better than they are now. Except for the music.

@@budlewis721 Marginally better?! What an absolute joke! Who are you trying to fool, dude? Those were the days that families could still live on one salary, buy houses easily in their 20s (in nice safe suburbs to boot), afford some vacations and hobby lessons for kids, and so on. I remember my mother going to college back then, in her 30s, and it was _DIRT CHEAP!_ Hell, iirc, community college was even free or damn near free. Most moms still cooked healthy meals every night where the whole fam would sit together at the dinner table (our boomer parents generation had been taught to cook good healthy but affordable meals from scratch), and unfortunately a lot of that essential skill has been lost in so many homes). It’s crazy how mega rare it was to go out to eat or get fast food back then, but today it’s the exact opposite! And we can visibly see it everywhere around us with the obesity epidemic!! People are so unwell today. It was viewed as a huge treat/special occasion to eat out back then - even just going to McDonald’s was a treat lol (ofc McDonald’s quality was much better back then too). Families and neighbors were closer - playing cards and board games at get-togethers after supper - talking/sociaIizing and joking/laughing together the whole time - instead of today where families mostly sit comatose in silence in front of a large screen tv, or family members are glued to their smart phone while a movie plays. Our food was healthier in general (no GMO crap, just for starters), communities were tight knit (everyone knew everyone, and the amount of projects/gatherings/parades my town used to do together in the 80s was insane and soooo much fun), Boy Scouts was just for boys, the news anchors weren’t acting like activists and they actually reported on important events happening around the entire world, instead of the absolute nonsense they pump out today; there also wasn’t yelling/arguing/shouting going on news channels - or any other channel for that matter), and kids played outside all the time in the dirt/climbing trees/riding bikes/going to creeks and under the healthy sun - gettin’ their vitamin D and making strong immune systems. Now they are mostly inside playing video games and glued to screens, etc. Not that we didn’t have our Atari, Nintendo, and Apple II e’s and shit, but kids would spend such a minor amount of time on that compared to playing games together, swimming, doing crafts, etc.. Hell, I remember my brother and I would love to play a game that used nothing more than a piece of graph paper and a pencil, that was called “War.” Idk where he learned it from, but it was awesome! Much simpler and healthier times. Playground equipment and toys sold on the market were waaayyyy more fun then - there wasn’t the insane lockdown from regulating them to death that we see today with fun ruiners demanding that there shouldn’t be _ANY_ risk whatsoever for a child to possibly hurt themselves (and we honestly didn’t mind hurting ourselves here and there when having the time of our lives with kick ass toys and playground equipment back then!). We weren’t inundated with peeps south of the border yet - we would wash our own cars, our teen kids were still mowing their own family lawns and getting hired to mow neighbors’ lawns and such - and there wasn’t any sociaI cohesion problems or Ianguage barrier issues just ordering food at a fast food joint ffs, etc etc etc... Cars today are intentionally made so that people can’t fix/maintain anything themselves anymore with all of it’s high tech BS that makes everything way overcomplicated. It costs waaaayyyy more to fix/maintain them now. It’s a bIoody scam. Just like “planned obsolescence” with all the shit we buy today. Back in the 80s, things were still built to last, and were still overwhelmingly made in the USA (the cheap imported crap products didn’t start ruining everything until the 90s). If by chance a product failed on you for some reason back then, it was nearly always easily repairable for a cheap price, unlike so much of the products we buy today! _I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS due to how much better the 80s were compared to today._

Omg yes!!!! I would get lost inside it. Mesmerizing lol

Good.

@@tarotdreamseverythinginbet350 omg me too

There was an earlier HBO intro where you're riding round & round inside the O of the logo. I haven't seen that since probably 84-85.

All the people were eating pasta salad watchin the world go by back then.. now they're taking jabs wearing masks and watching the world die. Wild shit

86 here and I like them too!

Sames

I graduated in 86! ( Lol-OLD COMMERCIALS😂) You’re correct 80-90’s were the best!

Same

89. I got about 6 months of the 80’s lol

Indeed, I haven't seen that since the early 90's.

You got it! :D

@@DavesArchives 👍🏻

I got chills

It was like stepping into a time machine!! I’m glad someone has archived all of this!

The commercial was better

Same here! Came to the comments looking for this lol

It wouldn't have to because "get a rope" is never uttered.

@@user-lb8do4ew6k Its more to do with while we know it means frontier justice, or quick deadly justice by law when not the mob, but the nearest even more negative thing to that is, unlawful lynchings and mainly that was of, black people

You and me both

No, we had the crazies we had then, not the ones we have now.

I said the very same thing just the other day, but I'd like to go back at about 30 years old knowing then what I know now with my loved ones. Life really was better back then no doubt about it.

I wouldn't want to be an adult back then. Imagine the work place... Sexual Harrasment was probably ignored

@@trevortomei2793 sexual harassment does exist but for the most part it's a figment of people's overactive imagination. You mean like if a woman is scantily clad and the wrong man looks at her not the selected man... I guess you consider that sexual harassment?

Right?? I loved traveling because I knew we were going to get a room that had HBO

EXACTLY

Son?

Motel rooms were probably nicer, too. Nowadays you don't know what you can catch.

Nice.

And that dinosaur show.

Cause it was just fun times💯

Still watch it 😂

It was! Did you see the one when the neighbor girl (Marcy) walks in, and Al says.." Hey aren't you Bruce Jenner?"

@@NorthernAzCards So many great Al one-liners.

in a heartbeat

Yes definitely

no, im not renting vhs porn from the local video store again

Past lives

Me to. I feel like I actually lived it. It's like I connect to those times

@@Harry-Sachs I agree I don't fit in this generation but born in 90. Why do I connect to the 80 and 70 lol

@@ccb.8603 Just like he said, past lives. I'm 34 born in 87, lived in America my whole life and I get a strong sense of being home when I hear ancient Japanese music from like early 1900s.

I never thought I’d turn into al bundy. Never in a million years.

Simpsons!

Ikr

Iconic but strange sometimes

It did have a cigar lighter 😂

Yep! The Dog is dead, and the TACO probably has 500,000 miles on it now. Rusted miles, but miles nonetheless.

But the dodge comes with Wheel COVERS!!

You got it, C64!

Same here. That used to be the mark of a well-to-do family. In fact, it was such a status symbol that people who couldn't afford it would actually bust their monthly budgets and go into the red just to have it so they could appear high class.

We just stole our cable by climbing the poles and removing the filters on the cable boxes. Back in about 1982 we had basic cable and one day my brother and his friend used a laddr to climb the telephone pole and remove the filters that scrambled the signal. When the cable dudes in the trucks figured out what was going on, and replaced the filters, my brother just went back up, removed the inside electronics of the filters, then placed the empty metal filters back in place. Back then the cable guys sould tell what filters were suppossed to be on the box by different coilored tags that were placed on the lines. For example if you had 3 red tags, that meant you should have 3 filters in place to block, HBO, Cinemax and Prism. I was too young to understand any of it, and all I remember was getting to see R-rated movies like Stripes, Poky's or Fast Times at Ridgemont High and I got to see some TITIES!

Right! We had to wait for the free 3 days of Disney to watch “premium cartoons “ on a black and white tv.

@@JubeProductions you're awesome! Sounds like we were surrounded by some of the same people got to love it.

Like what

@@MutedAds I graduated, started really going out to the bars, did cocaine for the first time, started a serious crime spree that I wrote a published book about.

@@johnphantom what’s the book called? Was you a yuppie like Ferris bueler or wolf of Wall Street American psycho?

@@MutedAds Neither. The book is "THE REAL PARADISE Diary of a Modern-Day Caribbean Pirate" and can be found on Amazon. It covers just 3 years.

@@johnphantom you shidding me

How did they know there'd be a you tube?

@@YellowWalkman idk man

taped, lol

Alright.

​@@YellowWalkmanit was for memories but as a few decades passed the internet became real huge and the time came for when these memories were transferred onto the internet for archiving

Amen

Like "No graven images", and then carry around a graven image of a cross, and worship it? I am not saying God is bad, i am saying humans did bad with it to mislead us into hypocrisy. I do not trust the bible, or religion.

@@daveidduha congratulations on being so much more enlightened than everyone else. You are truly a shining beacon for us all to aspire to become.

Couldn't agree more!

I agree! I was 15-25 during that decade!! its my favorite! The 80’s! I enjoy the 90’s also but I will never change my core belief that the 80’s were the best!