I think it’s half because we wanted to watch our shows, and half because they were basically everywhere. Hell I swear zoobooks were part of the lineup every single commercial break.
I don’t know, I never found commercials back then annoying, could be because these days they’re just not fun to watch and everything either has no add or you can quickly skip them.
@@astrowolvez To each their own, but I know I wanted to watch my show right away and when their ads and especially duplicate ads that appear, frustration sets in until the show finally plays.
Who else gets butterflies in their stomach watching these commercials? Time in so precious, isn't it? Here we are in our 30's with our jobs/kids/pets/etc... life has changed so much for all of us since the 90's and all of it feels like it was only yesterday! It's so sad but im glad these silly commercials can take us back to a special time in our lives that we'll never forget... virtual hugs my 90's brothers and sisters
SO well put!! I completely agree. I'm overwhelmed with sadness but also so much nostalgia. will definitely be bringing this up to my therapist soon. lol. hugs back atcha!!
Hugs to you, my friend! Take me back to the 2000s where I was playing RuneScape and running around with wooden swords. Just, for a day. I love my life as it is now, but man to be in my childhood home eating mac n cheese again 😌
7:10 What always stuck with me is how psyched that mailman was to deliver those Zoo Books. I imagine him saying something like "golly you're a lucky kid! Look at all these Zoo Books. This will be the greatest day of your life. You're a Zoo Book boy"
Today I learned that my brain had been storing every word of the education connection song for twelve years, ready to unleash a flawless recitation at any time.
That commercial came out when I graduated High School in ‘07 but I always thought it was scam just like the overly pushy Everest college commercials lol
You drop cable tv, install multiple ad-blockers, even pay a few bucks to avoid advertisements. Then you watch twenty minutes of commercials just for fun.
I can’t explain how important this is to my mental health right now. I’m remembering things I had forgot watching these. Memories of good moments with my parents I didn’t remember.
Most definitely. I would back in time and win money for someone, if the reward for me meant that I could remain in a loop of the year 1994. Nothing else matters to me.
That low quality camera just brings back this warmth and comfort that I cant explain and It makes me sad knowing it's something I'll never be able to experience again.
I thought I was the only one who hated when that commercial came on and now I find myself singing with it. It borrowed and burned it's way into my memory xD
When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies". It almost feels unreal to watch something as little as commercials resurface of what seemed like a forgotten memory.
Those jets and planes helped play a role in my enlisting in the Air Force. Its crazy how much simple commercials will influence your decisions as an adult. Oh the nostalgia
This was both calming and extremely depressing. I miss my grandparents house and not being weighed down by the world. I haven’t felt that level of happiness in years. Every “happy” thing that happens to me now feels more like relief that something in my life didn’t go terribly wrong.
@@TEEANVEE I'm an adult. My childhood was terrible. I would never want to go back there again. These times may be a little hard, but I love it compared to my childhood
Something about that Chef Boyardee commercial brought memories flooding back and almost brought a tear to my eyes. Such a nice time to have been a kid. Innocent nicer times than the way the world is now. Some of these commercials would come on tv when I’d be watching Toonami after school. Good times.
I had to do sylvian and it was stupid, my worst memory from there was my teacher trying to put in her contact for 20 minutes and I was horrified. However, it did get me out of cleaning my flooded basement.
I remember I would always start talking to my parents when the Sylvan commercial came on to distract them just in case they wanted me to go there over the summers.
It's amazing how effective advertising was on us as kids. I haven't seen most of these or thought about them in 16 years or more, but they never really left my mind. I found myself remembering a unique phrase or manner of speech with no effort at all.
The entire Betty Crocker Bake'n'fill commercial was full of moments like that, but when they brought out the baseball cake it unlocked something within me. Something untapped for almost a couple decades. And it was surreal.
@@timofcent1 I knew the commercial even though I hadn't thought of it in years BUT THAT BASEBALL CAKE WAS LIKE UNLOCKING A MEMORY WITHIN A MEMORY AND SUDDENLY I WAS A YOUNGER ME, IN OUR OLD PLACE SITTING CRISS CROSS IN THE DARK ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP AT OUR OLD TV. IM ASTOUNDED
mhmm. jingles are the stickiest for me, even for products I didn't even want. baby born, ring pop, skip-it, hungry hungry hippos. WHY i heard my mom singing a fritos jingle that probably aired when she was a kid. i'm gonna be 80 years old singing the sock'm boppers song
I still remember vividly seeing the pillow pet commercial with my parents and asking for one, and on Christmas I got one and I was so excited. I still have it.
@@otakunation7625 i went to the website to see if they still made them, and they do. even bigger ones but they have almost doubled in price from the $20 commercial
I wonder how many of these commercials will be lost forever because nobody thought they would ever be worth saving, or that anyone would be nostalgic for them.
As a kid who spent nearly all his TV time on cartoon network and nickelodeon, these ads have been seared into my brain for years. Some of the As Seen on TV ads were so tantalizing when I was too young to have a bank account. But on the flip side, others like TimeLife's music albums have made it to Ebay, so that's no longer an issue.
I always remembered that Chef Boyardee commercial as a kid and I was always thinking to myself "Damn, her mom is gonna think she stole that." To this day I'm wondering what happened after the commercial ended...
Dude I thought the same thing when I watch that commercial lol as a kid I used to think that a rolling can of chef boyardee's was kind of cool and then I managed to get to her house safely without being damaged. But now watching that commercial I did not remember it being that long but now since that little girl got her chef boyardee's she will be accused for stealing it and her mom is going to be like mom: where'd you get that I told you that we're not having chef boyardies for dinner... Did you sneak it out the store? Lol
@@superomegax4199 I think this is like an extended version of the commercial. And yes, exactly! The mom definitely isn't Gonna forget a conversation she had probably only couple hours earlier, especially considering that she'd already served her Chef Boyardee every day that week! And what's she gonna tell her mom? That it just now magically landed in her hand just now? No matter what, a whooping is imminent! 😂😂😂
@@guitgodd what's even more funny that the people at the store didn't bother the look through their cameras and seeing a rolling can of Chef Boyardee going out the door by itself lol
I feel after the commercial is over the little girl definitely got grounded ‘Why did you take this from the store?! I told you no chefboyardee! Now I have to go back to the store and pay for this! That’s it, I can’t deal with this right, just go to your room until dinner is ready. No tv for a week young lady!’ Meanwhile the little girl is trying to get in how it just came to her and her sister is just clueless on the whole matter and how she could’ve snuck it home at all, but opts not say anything cause she doesn’t wanna get an earful and just lays there still watching tv herself, the little girl upset with tears in her eyes and pouting goes to her room
I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with the tv still on and these commercials were always playing. I’d watch them till I eventually fell back to sleep cuz something about it felt so comforting lmao
Sometimes I put these on to sleep when things are stressful and I cannot sleep. Iunno, just something about these commercials bring me back to feeling secure and happy.
As a kid I always worried about the girl in the Chef Boyardi commercial because I always thought her mom would think she stole the can and would never believe it just rolled in.
I remember every morning I used to get ready for my dad to go to work during the summer, and the Tropicana Good Morning commercial came on, and we always sang it together, and I would beg my mom for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillow Pets, Zoo Pals and Silly Bands after watching the commercials. I remember getting that bee pillow pet, I was so excited.
The education connection commercial unlocked a lost memory when I was growing up in the 2000s. 9:13. I can’t believe how fast time could go when one is a child. It feels like yesterday when me and my childhood friends would get home and play Mario Kart Dash on GameCube all day at my house or at theirs.
I still got vhs tapes recording of 90s and 2003 2002 shows/ commercials it really does feel like not long ago but at the same time it does feel long ago i had a emotional response when i heard a theme from a old show because it instantly took to back to that time i remember every detail you dnt forget 💯
I only speak for myself here. I love watching this. Come back to it every once in a while. Reminds me of such good times. No anxiety, no anger, hatred or rage. Just joy, no weight. Being greatful, and loving life everyday. Thats all changed now. Its the exact opposite of today, now its just misery, darkness and going to bed hoping I don't wake up in the morning.
Shows how insane marketing really is. The fact these are stored frame for frame in our minds 20 to even 30 years later.. is just insane. Psychology behind marketing is very real
@@davidlara4170 i remember TV was available to everyone, all you needed to do was buy a tv, until the Tv cable companies took over competing against one another, everyone having seperate cable service with different channels, where as back then everyone knew what the channels were, for Nickelodeon 36, Animal Planet 37, Cartoonetwork was 68, and channel 3 was for game consoles such as the Orginal Playstation, Ps2, Gamecube, N64, OG Xbox etc
It's moments like these that makes me wish we could go back and experience our childhood once again. No worrying about bills or money, just enjoying childhood.
@@richardharris3295 of course it’s not the same guy lol the voice actors in the beginning all have the same tone seemed like they all sounded similar back in the day, super nostalgic to me 😂
when I was a kid I had the urge to call the phone numbers displayed at the end of the commercials no matter the product. my older siblings always had to restrain me from the phone and my commercial privileges were taken away. the betty crocker cake set literally made me feral.
Watching stuff like this always reminds me of binge watching VCR tapes back in the day. I remember when Land Before Time was the greatest thing i had ever seen.
Me in 2005: ugh god can i just skip these commercials and get back to spongebob Me in 2022: i want to watch a 12 hour video of every commercial from my childhood
there was one commercial I saw in my childhood- I only ever saw it ONCE. But even still today, I want that thing! But it was... it was like a full, complete, tiny kitchen set. It was so elaborate with everything you got with it... Ah. I don't know. These old commercials are filled with so much childhood memories, and they were just the filler for the good stuff.
Ngl, I have one of those old sparkle plastic brief cases filled with them. They were dope af, and I wish they were still a thing because I would still get more of them
My school library had the whole set, they were the best. Easily the best thing in the library. While the whole school was losing their minds over Harry Potter and the series of unfortunate events books, I was having a blast learning about my favorite animals
These remind me of some of the greatest times in my life. I really didn’t know what I had until I started growing up. I couldn’t wait to get older, now I would give anything to go back to those days. Stay young guys !
These commercials are so special. Brings me back to a great time in my life I can vividly remember. Now I'm 28, married, have two amazing daughters and am overjoyed with the life I currently have. Yet, I somehow miss those good ol days
I love how for these cake commercials they get a couple of professional cake decorators to make these crazy cakes and then are just like "You can do it too!"
I entirely forgot about some of these but this brought so much back oh my god. I remember having my mom rewind some commercials cause I loved them so much. 🖤🖤🖤
This was bittersweet. Took me right back to my grandparents kitchen table watching the small tv they had atop their fridge while eating breakfast. I’d give anything to be able to do that one more time.
This took me back to being at my grandmothers house after school while my parents were working. I miss both my grandmas. Never got to meet my grandfathers. Yeah. I’d do anything to go back to that too.
I still don’t know why 90s commercials, infomercials, documentaries, educational videos, etc… are so good at calming my anxiety and making me feel completely at home. Specially the ones featuring music with keyboard/synth piano thing
I’m convinced that however wrote the Education Connection song was a ghost writer in the industry, that shit’s a bop and will get stuck in your head for DAYS
@@Valrax dude that's all want right now. All my favorite cartoons with the old ads especially during the holidays when the channel logos get a lil holiday makeover.
You know adulthood is hitting you hard when it’s almost 1am and you’re watching this to try and remind yourself of easier times and temporarily forget your shitty office job and empty life…just me? Rip
Personally, I’m at a better spot in life now than then, but I still miss the culture of that age. I just don’t fit in with most people now and can’t stand mainstream media.
If you had the privilege of growing up in this time period I hope you realize how amazing life really was, the perfect balance of technology before it got too big lol watching these commercials bring back amazing feelings, I will forever cherish this period of time in my life.
I know right even though I was born in 2005 I still remember waking up in the morning to watch chowder on the boomerang channel and seeing some of these commercials those were some good times
Wish I could go back :'( it's feels like a life time ago. I haven't felt the same since. Technology advanced too fast after like 2008. I would do anything to go back
These commercials give me a 90s-early 00s American suburban life feel. I grew up in San Diego so I’ve always lived in an urban area but these commercials remind me of some quiet residential town somewhere in the middle of the country, kinda like Arlington from King of the Hill. I wish I could’ve experienced living like that growing up.
I always hated how after a while they’d only show the shorter 10-sec ish version of the Chef Boyardee rolling can commercial when I wanted to watch it roll for at least 30 seconds.
I was scared of that commercial growing up. I was afraid I'd go to the store with my mom and one of the cans would follow me home just like the commercial.
Scary to think that since I "cut the cord" (cable tv) 5+ years ago, it felt strange watching REAL tv at a hospital. (Where I work at) Nowadays, the majority of society just watches stuff on their phone and thus youtube/some streaming service.. 🤨🤔
I was obsessed with baking as a kid because my sister who is 18 years older than me made it our bonding activity. So all those baking gadgets really got to me. And my parents bought some of them 😂😂😂. I feel like calling them now to apologize
Feels like waking up at 3am after falling asleep with the tv on. Loved how some of those commercials were purposefully louder than what was actually being broadcasted.
They were, and intentionally so. Even then advertisers knew most people didn’t actually watch ads; we’d go off and get a snack or whatever. In 2012 the FCC passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to rein it in, but advertisers are always pushing the boundaries. And then along came streaming, where the FCC had no authority…
I too am 30 and I just found myself here watching this while listening to Saint Pepsi's Chelsea... Idk what the fuck has happened with time but it's nice to know we were around during this time. I'm actually playing Sonic the hedgehog right now too. Sometimes you just gotta find something to take you back but I promise you you are not alone. I miss it too. :)
Seeing as how we were all kids when we saw them I think 95% of the stuff in these commercials was stuff that we *wanted* to have but never actually got to have, stuff like Zoobooks, Floam or Zoopals are all things I look at now and just think to myself “Damn, I remember how much I wanted that as a kid”
That moment when 20 minutes of 1990-2000's commercials is less annoying than even a seconds worth of current RU-vid's ads. Like, I feel more rage waiting through 3, 4 second unskippable ads than I do watching these now of my own volition, let alone when I had to wait through these for my show to come back on as a kid XD
like i literally sat through this WHOLE video without skipping . not just because of how nostalgic it is , but because they're actually watchable . 🧘🏾♀️ '
It's because modern ads try to be funny to make themselves more appealing. Problem is, they haven't a fucking clue how to be funny so they come off as pandering at best and ear-gougingly annoying at worst.
I am 30 now, and i remember all of these commercials, then i thought they were horribly obnoxious and insulting and an annoying interruption of the cartoons but now i am voluntarily watching them on youtube.
As a kid I didn’t really care for most commercials because I just wanted to watch my cartoons. But now I’m 20 and missing being a kid and seeing these. Like I always wanted zoo pals. It’s all coming back to me
I remember when I was little, I really wanted the Floam because it reminded me when I had my bucket of Lego pieces and I wanted to customize my Lego sword.
@@bashura_0019 that's so sweet... I swear when the zoo pal commercial came on in this video I literally jumped out of my seat and I'm like holy shit I remember this! But the floam things kind of remember but I wasn't sure if I always wanted it but they look cool. But we cannot forget the chef boyardee's commercial with that little girl wanted I can but her mom would let her get it and then the can rolled all over the place lol. Yeah I don't remember it being that long though I remember like at the end she finally got her a can of it. As a kid I used to think it was cool that a can of food rolled to someone's house and I kind of wish that happened to me but watching it now as a an adult that kid would have been accused for stealing it because the weird thing is that the mom didn't ask her how did she get that after she told her that she's not getting any chef boyardee's lol.
