Memorable TV Commercials from 1988 🔥📼 Retro TV Commercials VOL 480 

These were great, thanks for sharing them! I loved seeing Joe Isuzu!

Just what I needed to unwind, a little of Dave's Archives

1950’s nostalgia was going HARD in ‘88. Kind of makes sense. Typically nostalgia runs about 25-30 years behind, and nowadays, 90’s styles are coming back.

The 80's when $80 a month got you a car. Now I need more than that just for Groceries, for a WEEK!

Tracey Ullman! I used to watch her all the time.

Interesting how during the mid 80s to early 90s many commercials, TV shows and movies featured natural lighting and made heavy use of shadows. That aesthetic always comes to mind when I think of that era.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane '88 Dave 😀

I certainly do miss the year 1988.

I turned 7 in 88, and man the 80's sure loved their anti-drug PSA's.

You knocked it out of the park with these commercials Dave!!!!

Thank you for finally including local commercials from the Bay Area! As a Bay Area native, I definitely recognized a lot of these commercials from my youth (Tri-City Sporting Goods, Circuit City, Emporium Campbell) among others. This was an extremely nostalgic video for me!

TIL Garfield was an incredible crash test dummy.

Loved the ads Dave! My husband and I were talking as we were watching this. The PSA on anti-drug war was strong then. He remembers his school brought in a local K9 and planted a bag of marijuana in the gym somewhere to show how easy it is to find it. Buttons at my school were handed out with JUST SAY NO printed on them. Also we were talking the ads of today are mostly electric cars and pharmaceutical ads which identifies the mental health crisis of today. Also the grocery food ads (a.k.a the Duncan Hines cake ad for example) aren't around much unless it's a really big name. It's mainly electric cars and pharmacy meds. A few McDonald's and fast food. That's about it. This collection brought back some memories. See ya tomorrow night!

John Davidson doing The Music Man that’s incredible!

My sister was 8 years old in 1988, I was -2 LOL Thanks again for the retro goodness!

i remember 1988 very well! sure the world has changed, notice the dude writing with a typewriter in the Duncan Hines commercial? but our media landscape is still saturated with car, food, & perfume ads! what changes stays the same! oh, i also had a typewriter in 1988! thanks for the memories, Dave!

Your intro is the best... Close my eyes and it's like 1989. I paid 75.00 for my first car a 1972 Ford Maverick

1988 was a very great year! These commercials reflect that….

I grew up half way in the 80s it takes me back when I was 4 years old back in 1988

They'll forever be the #2 soda, but you gotta give Pepsi credit for their aggressive marketing in the 80s vs. Coca-Cola

That was the most extreme jingle I've ever heard for water.

That contour chair looks comfortable.

My favorite ad was for the Westinghouse Phased Plasma Rifle in the 40 watt range.

"I wish I'd never seen cocaine", *chef's kiss*

It's very interesting seeing ads from a decade I wasn't born in everything seems so wholesome😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

19:33 choose your own adventure on what you think she says

!988!! sweet spot of the late 80s

Emporium Campbell-loved those ads like this one which used downtown L.A as a backdrop

HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Gr8 1988!📼💥

So the Home Club commercial said it did it's survey on "July 13", and this video was uploaded on July 13. As I sit here at home on my bday of July 13. That's rad!

Was that George Costanza in the Coke Pepsi commercial 🤔

Wow Tri-City Sporting goods, they had the best selection of snowboards. Classic ❤️

Its time its Dave's archive time

Always good, love the intro on the videos too!

9:11 - 10:08 It must've have been the music, but just *knew* that was going to be a anti-drug ad. "When you don't say 'no' to your kids about drugs, it's the same as saying 'yes'", isn't supposed to be funny, but it's damn hilarious. They went unnecessarily hard on commercial jingles in the 80s and I respect it. 12:24 Bro, that's a parrot not a goddamn red-tailed hawk. 18:18 - 18:32 As soon as I saw the innocent little kid's drawing I knew it was going to be something bad, but, Jesus, that got dark. 22:49 - 23:13 Yet another unintentionally hilarious anti-drug PSA. That's the funniest shit I've seen all day.

Great upload Dave ! Awesome they aired To Live And Die in LA on tv ! Cheers Dave 🍻

18:14 - First time ever seeing this PSA before and it's certainly one of the more effective one's I've seen yet.

Thanks again, Dave.

0:38 Cool jazz and atmospheric lighting is the ideal way to sell chicken fajita pitas. 😉 3:26 Alex Rocco and his Boston accent.

Jason Alexander sighting in the 1st Pepsi commercial

I was 12 and living in Fairfield, CA (Travis AFB) when these aired on KTVU. I probably watched a lot of these live.

Who was the actor in the Isuzu commercial? His voice was in so many things from the 1980s and 90’s.

Here I thought seeing those drunk driving ads with the state trooper visiting the parent's residence and telling them the bad news that their son/daughter getting killed in a drunk driving related accident got me.

I love chicken fajitas bobeatas with señorita tortilla sauce

Love these videos buddy, takes me back to a simpler time

Thanks for another trip back 🙏💯📼📼📼📺🧈🧈🧈 Dave

12 min mark. I don’t ever remember the coach taking us to get water, wth? Dairy Queen!

9:13 no matter how much I've seen this very PSA on a lot of Anti-Drugs PSA compilations it still freaks me out and the other PSA 18:15. Did anyone also freaked out at the face at the end of "the bedroom" ad...ugh

Just what the world was waiting for, a John Davidson musical…

24:30 "Old age is not for sissies" 😂😂😂. Art didn't have to go that hard with a title like that 😂. Also you can see the 90s slowly creeping into these ads. Times were changing and the 80s was shifting. I was 5 about this time

I was 11

2:04 Best Commercial FTW... :)

Shampoo and Conditioner we're a thing in the 80's😆

99 cents for a burger, in 1988? It's like $20 now.

David Leisure, Joe Isuzu. Loved him on Empty Nest and so many other shows. Always playing the same character. 2:15 That upstart cola sure needed to advertise a lot. Is that the same orca that dragged a trainer to the bottom of the pool and held her there until the trainer was dead? Don't play with your food! 12:12 So long and thanks for all the fish.

I could really use a Contour Chair right about now, I"m past the age requirement, quite a bit past

One of those Crash Test Dummies must have been voiced by Lorenzo Music. He sounds just like the original Garfield.

JACK IN THE BOX CHICKEN FAJITA PITA 0:38 0:57 R.I.P CIRCUIT CITY 4:07 21:18 ESTEE LAUDER PAULINA PORIZKOVA 16:14 EMPORIUM CAMPBELL 18:45

Still 30 frames 5 times in a row.

I miss my Isuzu truck.

The Foldgers ad didn't age well. xD

22:54 I wish I'd never seen a cocaine, now I have to walk to Pak-n-Save

Was the flavor strawberry and banana created in 1988? Seems like every product came out with something.

man the 80s loved pepsi

way cool

That Isuzu commercial!! Dave's Archives is the best...*ding* See, you can trust me....😵

Who's the guy in the Isuzu commercial? I know I've seen him elsewhere but can't place him

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I wish I could have raised my kids in the 80s rather than now. I was born in the wrong generation for sure 😂

Musicals are horrible on the face of it..but John Davidson in one???a colossal joke....

sad commercials arent memorable now

Dave, thanks for all the late 80s Molly McButter retro goodness 🧈🧈🧈🧈 1:41 THE TRACEY ULLMAN SHOW promo. THE SIMPSONS started as short animated segments on her show in 1987. KTHU was one of the original FOX O & O stations and still is. 2:05. David Leisure for Isuzu as Joe Isuzu . He was a regular on NBCs EMPTY NEST ( 1988-95) which starred Richard Mulligan ( SOAP) & Kristy McNichol ( FAMILY). 3:05 Character actor /voiceover artist Alex Rocco known for his role as a casino owner in the original THE GODFATHER, also recurring as Nancy McKeon's ( Jo) father on THE FACTS OF LIFE and later recurring as the voice of Roger Myers Jr the head of Scratchy Studios on THE SIMPSONS is the grifter gentleman in the Wendy's ad. 5:07 Jack Burns ( original partner of George Carlin) later replacing Don Knotts on THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW also voiceover artist/ writer/ director. And Lorenzo Music known as the voice of Carlton the doorman on RHODA ( which he wrote for) and the original voice of GARFIELD. As the voices of the crash test dummies ( Vince & Larry) in the long running safety belt PSAs. 5:38 Christie Brinkley for Prell shampoo and conditioner. 6:08 Mike Tyson for Diet Pepsi 24:20 Art Linkletter for the contour chair.

Lisa Rinna in that Pepsi commercial