Fell asleep with my laptop next to me and when I woke up I was confused in the nicest way. I felt like I was back in '83 for a split second when my head was full of sleep.
We did everything humanly possible to completely eliminate any commercials by paying for Netflix and other paid services, we only pay for internet and cut the cord on regular cable TV..... Yet we spend 2 hours watching ONLY commercials,, LMAO!!!!
@@jaydean5724 I get you... I skip ads,but these commercials are classics. Idk how anyone watches these and wants change. It's so sad...These were the commercials,and when i turn on the t.v now...it's all Political or riots. :'( I SO remember these commercials. I'm still looking for Breck Shampoo...lol. I'm 44 years old.
I listened to and watched this era TV as an infant. I love how relaxing it was back then. Long jingles, and soft focus. It still calms my nerves today. Sure it's an idealized world, but there's something satisfying about it.
Have you ever rewatched any of your favorite old shows and they are not as good as you remember but then watch what your parents were watvhing and think this is better than I remember ?lol I am getting old ....I love Lou Grant and was not a fan at 10 lol
I've bought a whole bunch of DVD sets of older shows from the local thrift store. Rockford Files, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Soap, Hunter, Knots Landing, etc. It's true....most of them are a lot better than the stuff that's on today.
STATIONS AND AIRDATES: 0:00 WBBM-TV2, Chicago, March 15, 1982 (yes, that really is Ebert's co-host in one of the news teases) 19:36 WJZ-TV13, Baltimore, February 15, 1983 24:12 WCBS-TV2, New York, December 12, 1982 28:34 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, January 28, 1981 34:23 KDFW-TV4, Dallas/Fort Worth, April 26, 1984 46:11 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 9, 1981 59:14 KMBC-TV9, Kansas City, March 16, 1981
“Comedian John Belushi showed numerous signs of an oncoming drug overdose hours before he died. And one of those signs: the massive consumption of heroin and cocaine.”
If I had been an American in 1982, I'd def have preferred watching CBS to ABC. Basing my opinion off these old commercials/trailers. 1982's CBS sounds like a lot more fun than 1982's ABC. 😉 (European here, been bingeing these for days now.) 😍
Imagine 10:20, if someone had said, "25 years from now, Yellow and White Pages will no longer be printed; you'll use a phone you carry with you wherever you go. Cord? No, it won't have a cord like a home phone or a car phone." ☎️📱
Betty White at a much younger age! She was just a few years away from hitting it even bigger on Golden Girls when this aired and would go on to success up until her death late last year. We miss you Betty!
The Family which was created on The Carol Burnett Show. Eunice was a made for TV movie where as Mama's Family was the series. Occasionally Betty White and Carol would appear on Mama's Family. Harvey Korman did very early in the series as well.
I would love to climb thru my phone and stay in this time so many changes now and i dont like them times back then were so much simpler and yes i miss my childhood im so thankful i got to grow up in the 80s they were the best
GOD YOU KNOW THIS COMMERCIAL IS OLD WHEN THEY ARE AIRING COMMERCIALS FOR GEORGE RYAN 😂😂😂😂😂 that man was in jail for fraud and other major charges… he just got out in 2013.
The gall of the Ford Company to have an ad that states “Quality is Job 1”, in reality the 80’s made Fords are the cars known for their atrocious quality.
Wow, 1981 I was 21, I don't like commercials but it's cool to see the hairstyles and clothes of my youth, the USA has changed big-time and not for the better, in public places I hardly ever hear English, but it's still my country and I'd do anything for it. God bless America. 🇺🇸
We don't have an official language. Somewhere in your family history someone emigrated to the US and their neighbors were probably just like you, complaining about "foreigners."
It was a made for TV movie based on the characters in the "Family" sketches from the Carol Burnett Show. They played it in 1982, and it got good ratings because those characters were popular and funny. Vicki Lawrence was nominated for an Emmy! After it aired, they commissioned the series Mama's Family, based on the characters. BTW, if you're interested in seeing Eunice, it's included as a bonus feature on the Mama's Family second season DVD set.
Yeah the 80's had it's own share of problems. You just didn't hear about a lot of it as you didn't have the internet or social media to be further exposed to it. The 80's can be associated with many of today's financial struggles as the excess spending of the 80's helped to wreck the economy making more struggles for millenials and zoomers. Most of you just miss your youth and that's why you wanna return to the 80's. Your parents and grandparents probably share many "back in my day" stories with you when you were young. The 80's did have it's advantages with unbiased news, accountability for corrupt politicians, and people weren't so sensitive or easily offended by everything. Today politicians wear their corruption openly and proudly on their sleeves, news is just misinformation and opioned based reporting, and people are so sensitive they'll cancel you for the dumbest crap. Then you have forced inclusion in media and Netflix is the absolute worse for it. Corporations are more corrupt & greedy than ever with an ever increasing wage disparity.
Unbiased news was killed during the Reagan years. I forget the act, but it was repealed. Also the "ask your doctor" drug commercials, and lawyer commercials all came about under Reagan's years. Other than the massive spending spree (space and military) those three things still haunt our culture today.
I think the reason so many of us are nostalgic for the 70s and 80s is because we were blind to what was really going on, such as the big corporations gaining power and the destruction of the earth that we have knowledge of now. Social media has helped to expose so much of it currently. I know now that I am nostalgic simply because we were uninformed. Plus, I think that every generation is nostalgic, because things change so quickly and the "old ways" are gone forever...
