A collection of television commercials aired on daytime TV in 1989 on WABC channel 7 New York, NY. Subscribe - / @arwuns #80s #80scommercials #80snostalgia
These commercials remind me of being home from school while faking sickness. I only pulled it off a couple of times. Daytime tv was like a whole new world of tv. lol
Absolutely!! My mom would very like "I got things to do. Don't touch the stove, don't answer the door, don't answer the phone" and be gone for a few hours. I had the whole house to myself for a bit. It was glorious 🤣
If you notice there's a stylistic theme to many of these commercials, they often employ natural lighting and feature warmer hues and make use of shadows and/or backlighting. Also most of the outdoor commercials are filmed during sunset. When I think of late 80s TV, I often think of those warm tones and sunset.
There’s something so magical about these commercials. I know that sounds cheesy but it’s true. The tone, the background music, so much about these are wholesome
Back in the late 80's and early 90's, with commercials, they weren't afraid to be ridiculous, they were filled to the brim with imagination, they were often loud, in your face, fun and colourful. They just had this cozy/comforting feeling, that you just don't get anymore. Current times straight up suck.
Current times suck for you because you are miserable. You have filled your life with bad choices and have been a failure at most everything you've done.
Okay! You really got me with the All My Children opening! It was a very special memory I shared with my Mom. She is gone but that was always something we could talk about. Catching up on the soaps ❤❤❤❤❤
These commercials remind me of staying home from school and watching daytime TV. It was so grownup compared to the stuff that came on after 3 in the afternoon!
The 80's were great...but they came at a massive cost which we're paying now. It was a "passing the buck" decade of indulgence with no thought of consequences.
@@jdb101585 This. This. This. More of this. You are absolutely right. I thought I was the only one who could connect the dots. We are paying for this now. Of course most watching this have warm fuzzy memories becuase they were kids/teens. Life was easier just because of that. The decade itself had a lot of warts.
For me personally….1989 (age 9 for me) was the start of the best stretch of years of my childhood (and possibly of my life) that lasted until 1994. In fall 1994 I started high school, and I hated high school lol. But during those years of 1989-1994 life was just so carefree and awesome. No real responsibilities, no financial worries, no heartache or BS from relationships, no regrets. Just happy fun times. If only I could just turn the clock back and be that 9 year old boy again and relive those years…..
same here, was 9 in 89 and those were the best days of our lives...ugh now i wake up groggy ol lady in her 40's just turned 42 on sunday and realized where the heck did my life go? lol
1989-1991 are weird years, the style of the 80s remains there, but somehow 90s is there too, but like a in particular way, it's like the morphing phase, the same happens with 1999-2001
Fashion doesn't change right after the decade it's over, it's step by step kinda, I used to think the same when I was younger but after some historical dressing videos I understood a lot about how fashion evolves throughout decades.
So much nostalgia! In my mind I'm putting together my Halloween costume, getting ready to go out trick or treating. Or it brings back the feeling of eating fruit pebbles on a Saturday morning, watching the smurfs with a whole weekend ahead of me. Oh, childhood, how I miss it.
A common misconception people have is that commercials on American television back in the 1980's did not show diversity. Minute 38: 43 --black grandfather black father and black grandchild Minute 44: 08 -black grandmother in different commercial than the commercial at 38: 43 Minute 49: 11 -black grandmother in different commercial than the commercials at 38: 43 and 44: 08 Minute 3: 46 -black teenage girl Minute 14: 44- Oprah Winfrey Minute 23: 19 - black woman Minute 38: 20 - young black mother Minute 48: 06 - black mother and black baby Minute 48: 29 - Hispanic woman Showing diversity in American commercials is not something that just recently happened.
Does anyone remember a yogurt commercial of a lady that had been jogging, and it’s freezing. She gets into her car and starts eating a yogurt? I loved that commercial for some reason and can’t find it anywhere! I know it was in the 80’s but don’t remember exactly what year.
Sure these commercials seem dated, but I notice two things: They are informative and they don't make their customers look like insane morons like modern commercials do.
Yes! I agree... most of it is just the pain of lost innocence and hope, then realizing how time has broken my soul with many marks of regret, remorse and despair... it's a mess to not become what your inner child wanted to be.
Commercials were so cinematic back then. We had to know a lady’s whole life story for some furniture polish. And a wedding day montage for toothpaste! 😄
LOL yep, they had to have a whole firm to come up with Helen from suburbia and why she only uses chubs lmbo miss these commericals, and TV werent as full of sex and violence as it is today i miss my childhood
@@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 OOooh yea.. I used to sing the theme song of tv show "Step by Step" from start to finish and my sister would sing the female voice along. loooong intro compared to todays standards. Thank you for bringing back the long intro memory :D
These commercials are heartwarming and come with nice-sounding jingles. Commercials nowadays are annoying and loud and somehow manage to try way too hard and not hard enough at the same time.
This is patently false. Commercials today are very similar to the commercials back then. The difference is that the old commercials are what many of us remember in the context of our childhood which for many people, usually means "happy memories". The commercials today are contextualized by our less than happy lives today because we are older and have more problems. Plus, even if the old commercials seemed to be "happier", its still fake and superficial happiness which has never represented reality. That is why the culture and music are different in the 90s when people were largely responding to the extreme consumerism and fake happiness of the 80s. Just like the people in the 60s and the 70s were reacting to the "happy go lucky" false image of the world shown to us in the post war 40s and 50s.
It would be very cool to go back for a week or so. Life was so different, I had school and my friendships and relationships were so much different than they are now
One day there will be a video of 2020's daytime commercials. It'll be 50 minutes of "Ask your doctor", "You may be entitled to compensation", "clinically proven" or "don't take this drug if you're allergic to it". Why can't we go back to the days when commercials weren't so annoying?
One commercial I saw 6 months ago was a couple having a BBQ on the back porch when the wife sees a termite on the railing and tosses a pepper shaker at it then the whole porch collapses then the speaker tells us to buy a wood protector 😀
I was 8 years old in 89 and these commercials remind me of being at my paternal grandmother's house during the summer school break. I can see it. My grandmother is vacuuming the floor in her house coat. The small house way back in the Appalachain mountains smells like smoke from the wood cook stove. The tv was an antenna that only picked up a couple channels. My grandfather is sitting in his chair out on the covered porch preparing to take me to the river fishing. I miss this. Where did my life go? That was life. This daily grind now is not what life is meant to be.
We all bought the whole fat and cholesterol was bad crap back then....and helped type 2 diabetes become an epidemic. Still would take this era over 2021-2022
Some people in the medical field are still telling people to eat low fat foods (foods that have sugar added to replace flavor that removing fat caused).
@@benadams3569 people still believe calories can be eaten. If anyone looks up how calories are determined (by putting whatever food into a machine and using fire to burn it), and understanding that humans don't create fire in their stomachs...maybe they'd realize calories are a nothing thing. Carbs on the other hand, that's where the attention should be.
Exactly. And most people still believe this because their docs tell them and they don't research, prefer the 30 secs commercials as source of info, lol
Most of these ads have a "family" theme to them. I am thinking about the current ads, from Apple, Nike, etc... most of the ads today are about you personally looking good, cool, having new experiences.
Marketing changes along with the culture to which companies advertise. Back then, having a family was a necessity. Nowadays, it's all about independence, self-gratification, acceptance, and self-actualization. 🙂
It is not the 80s that you are missing. The 80s were not a good time. Most of that decade can be characterized by consumerism and fake outwardly appearances of the successful people while we didn't hear enough from the people who had suffered or didn't succeed. Thats why the 90s were a response to the superficiality and coke driven 80s. What you are really missing is your childhood because in most people's lives childhood was a happy time.
when i was a kid my dad had a dusty old water bottle in the garage with what looked like water in it. i was curious and opened it stuck my nose up to it and sniffed. was almost knocked unconscious. i had a controlled collapse to the ground so i didnt spill it. i never actually lost consciousness but it was close. and my lungs burned for a day or two. turns out it was hydrochloric acid used for the pool and it had set there a long time creating a heavy concentrated gas that just sat instead of escaping. been very careful sniffing bottles since.
same 12 year old who said that has been posting shit about his "demons coming out" and spamming "BLACK MONKEY" in replies to his comments on the fake video. hardly surprised it wasn't here
If only we could go back and slap every person that said "fat in food makes you fat" and tell them "no, sugar and carbs do", America would be a very different place today.
@@jcubedubs Yeah, it's marketing. After the FDA told everyone that fat in food was unhealthy and made you fat, then created that stupid food pyramid, people stopped buying fatty food. So producers took it out and put in suger. So yeah, it's marketing.. and government screwing things up like they always do.
@@jcubedubs exactly dirt trends and ideas these days are just as silly. Besides it’s really not about diet it’s about eating way too much and not moving around enough. Go look at high school kids these days, many are overweight and that’s a shame
Good Lord I remember each and every one of these commercials. This has brought me to such a wonderful and comforting place right now. I had such a bad day today and this helped soooooo much ❤️
LOVE these, not sarcastic, ironic or snarky. They are wholesome and family friendly. Yeah, they can be cheesy (but that is what these great and easy to watch)
@James ,I wasnt sure how to word my comment because of the opinion police out there, but you said it correctly 'Agenda'. This agenda is trying to do away with certain people who still happen to be the majority.
@James , yes my family are originally from Mexico, i was born in Los Angeles. My father was citizen when I was born, my mother became a citizen after, and all my family Love The United States! I'm married to a man of British and German decent, and his family emigrated from these countries about 100 years ago. None owned people if you catch my drift. My son is of Austrian Spanish German and Mexican decent likde his father my first husband. This is why I get upset at what's happening on tv and in general, because am I supposed to cancel my family because they are not as some say melanin enough? Are they supposed to cease to exist? I'm dark skinned, but that doesnt entitle me to anything including hating people for the color of their skin light or dark, but whoever is running the advertising industry in America seem to think its ok to do so.
In 2022 my Jif jar looks exactly the same... advertising done right... LOL!!! Product of the 60's, matured in the 70's, young adult in the 80's... would re-live it all in a heart beat... modern society SUCKS!!!
Sadly social media and technology has ruined the family unit.. growing up in the 80s we had quality family time together there definitely was more focuse on family unity, we ate meals together..home cooked from scratch meals not drive thru or door dash dropped off food either lol but yeah we sat at the table together as a family everyday same time usually and we had and shared conversations about our day and talked about any problems we had however today kids are being thrown bags of drive thru food late in the evening in their rooms while being on their phones or iPads.. It's sad. I was watching my grandchildren one evening 3&5 and both were eating McDonald's and on their iPads 8:30pm on school night for my 5yr old granddaughter and it took me back to my childhood I was thinking wow things have really changed.
@@melaniebrown7703 Exactly, i was born in 1983 so my childhood was spent outdoors having adventures with friends, fast food was a treat that my siblings and I only had maybe once a week if that, and on rainy days we sat and watched TV and played a few video games but we preferred being outdoors. People seemed more social too. I remember our neighbors always sitting outside on the front stoops of our apartment complex. They all looked after each others kids and everyone knew everyone. Nowadays my own son is about to turn 8, and despite there being plenty of little kids on our block, I never see them outside. Quite a few have tablets or smartphones so now my son wants his own. I personally would hate to look back on my childhood and see that I wasted it away staring at a smartphone. Things have definitely changed. I remember it being a treat in the 80's and early 90's to go to the mall or movies or even McDonald's. We even had a bunch of indoor amusement park type places with rides, arcade games, laser tag and food courts that were perfect for rainy days or if our parents wanted us out of their hair for a few hours, lol. Now they're all closed:(
@@melaniebrown7703 yep I’m so glad I grew up without social media and iPads and smart phones. As cool as they are for some things they have a pretty big overall negative impact on our lives. It makes people much less social and connected .
I don't! The 80's were hell for me. The late 70s were pretty good, the few years I remember before grade 1. The mid-90's were my favourite years. Not everyone has fond memories of the 80's!
I'm good. Rather stay adult and be responsible for myself instead of parental rules. But would not mind taking a visit back to the '80s as someone nearing the 5-0.
You probably were! All that shit is poison lol the FDA approved everything and the effects weren't known until people started dying. It's crazy looking back and feeling sorry for the people back then
@@arcengelraphael1082 the FDA is still approving poison today, and it's gotten much worse. Think MSG, sodium nitrite, yellow #5, red #40, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, glyphosate, polyethylene glycol, hydrogentated oil, and potassium bromate. Pick up any packaged food in the US and you're going to see at least one of these dangerous ingredients. And this doesn't even include GMOs introduced in the '90s. There's a reason more people are fat today and there's a rise in heart disease, cancer, strokes and diabetes. In 1980, there were 40% more smokers, yet rates in cancer and heart disease were much lower. This points to our food supply. All thanks to the FDA.
