@@Xeonerable I feel like it has to be a riff on the guy who tightroped across them in the 80s, changed around to fit the Olympics theme they were going for. Still looks like a big visual metaphor for failure to me, I mean he's falling for most of the commercial
Yo that commercial ran every 30 minutes on news networks in the year 2000. Being only 20 years old it was obvious that a company out of nowhere pumping ad nauseam was highly sus. Lo and behold. A group of man boob soft handed paper pushers running a scheme.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron was using thoroughly crooked accounting to cover for losses and make themselves look better than they did. If anyone had, for example, asked *why* the stock price and earnings were so high, looked at their SEC filings and asked the right questions, a lot of Enron folks could have gone to jail quite a bit sooner.
@@MEATBALLMAN3200 Enron collapsed because of massive accounting and corporate fraud. The numbers on their books were lies (also their business model caused major blackouts when they couldn't manage energy without losing money). So yeah people should have been asking why.
0:00 Bill cosby sex offender 0:30 Book from the creator of Scientology 0:45 reminiscent to the jumpers during 9/11 1:16 Halliburton used U.S. troops to get into Iraq oil fields 1:46 9/11 plane 2:15 Jared Fogel convicted pedo 2:45 Cluster bomb manufacturer 3:15 Enron scammed investors and collapsed as result 4:15 akward unwarranted kiss(even back then it was weird) 4:44 making light of cte 5:15 Steve Irwins passing from an animal attack 5:45 Depression doesn't go away buying a ford 6:15 😆 self explanatory 6:45 Round-up/Monsanto sued for hazardous toxic chemicals that don't just go away 7:14 Lance Armstrong caught doping 7:45 Super sizing bad for the average person (thanks Mike)
i think the point of the dream team commercial is the "super size for a puny prize" element. Since super sizing became a hot topic a few years later due to the documentary exposing the health dangers.
@@Akrafena If it helps with the last part, look up the entire Gulf War and the Afghan and Iraqi wars. Rest assured, the army wasn't in there to get WMD's.
@@cantthinkofaname5046complete scam that didn’t really do anything useful and basically was a front for betting on things like the weather and paying themselves for it lol
That AT&T Twin Towers pole vault commercial made my jaw drop to the ground... it's almost comical how eerie the foreshadowing is. Makes me wonder what commercials are on air now that will seem way outta pocket in next 25 years in a way that we couldn't possibly predict.
@@wildboy700Grandkids!? Thanks Me2, OF, TikTok, & the lack of a sustainable economy, whose having kids these days to make a future for grandchildren to be even a consideration!? 😂 We currently live in a Mouse Utopia. 😢
@@MarvelousButter Well, as a former educator who was scared along with other staff members every five seconds for possibly saying the wrong thing and losing our jobs, I guess you're right.
@@billyrussell8684 Armstrong says this in his Rogan interview. He says they got to an event and didn't plan on juicing that much. Then he found out everyone was juicing as hard as they could. And there was no point in even competing if you didnt
i remember telling someone that I think lance was cheating. His shock and horror that I would ever question him makes me laugh to this day. This was well before it was proven but the evidence was there. I didn't really care so I didn't make a big deal about it.
@@LamelKendrick Bill Burr has a bit about this on Conan; they were all doping but Lance was the easiest fall guy because he was so famous and had propped up his career as a wholesome figure through all his commercials, sponsorships, biographies etc. So when the scandal came out, he was obviously the one they would choose to make the harshest example out of.
Since I've seen a bunch of people ask about the Ford commercial: A 16 year old boy named Kyle Plush was killed by one of those folding seats (in a Honda Odyssey) in 2018. He was crushed/pinned by the rear folding seat. Tragic case, especially considering he was able to use Siri to call 911 twice, only for police to fail to locate him. His family found him 6 hours after he made those calls.
The closer the house of cards came to collapse, the more they advertised. I actually thought they might be able to pull it out in bankruptcy. I bought 10,000 shares of Enron when they were at $0.03 a share...just in case. The stock was delisted a few days later. That experience was the main reason I didn't buy Bitcoin in the early days.
I was watching that one and thought, "OK, what's wrong with this? He's rehearsing. OK, the shooting gallery thing is a little weird, but --" and then it showed the company name. XD
At lot of these companies I can’t blame for their commercials not aging well. Halliburton, Raytheon, Enron, and Monsanto knew what they were doing and thought no one would ever find out.
at least I now know why my Amana fridge in the early 90s sucked so badly...do one thing, and do it well...turns out, making fridges wasn't really their thing
To be fair there was a significant period of time where steroid use in sports was not as taboo because of its ubiquity in the body building and sport communities. Hollywood runs on cocaine, and for a while ‘roids ran sports.
Coach wasn't worried about the concussion, he was worried about getting a penalty for an illegal substitution. You can't add Batman to your team mid-game.
That AT&T not only aged poorly because of the Twin Towers which suffered the 2001 attack, but also the fact that the 1996 Atlanta Olympics ALSO had a terrorist attack, when someone detonated a bomb at Centennial Olympic Park. AT&T happened to mention both things that suffered terrorist attacks, which aged it really poorly!
what kills me is that the WTC had ALREADY been bombed in 1993, so as early as 1996 this would have made marketing executives beat their heads on their desks in shame
Honestly, it's not surprising. The house appliance to weapons manufacturer pipeline in a shellnut. GE makes the guns and engines used on most fighter jets and they still make fridges.
@@audiobotguy0357 Not quite anymore. The part of GE that makes fridges has been sold off to China and is a separate company from the GE that makes plane engines and guns.
Honestly we could have predicted Enron's fall from the markets they thought would work. Weather prediction and reaction? Broadband brokering when everything internet was done by cable and modem? Nobody understood how to do these things even in theory.
The Lance Armstrong one had it all. Crazy he would participate in that shot where the camera zooms into his face as he dismisses the possibility he was “on something”.
Some more candidates too m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Van5Gv6lbY4.html&pp=ygUZb2ogc2ltcHNvbiA5MHMgY29tbWVyY2lhbA%3D%3D m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ficzGPWoM1U.html&pp=ygUbamltbXkgc2F2aWxlIDkwcyBjb21tZXJjaWFs m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fGX72FtsJSw.html&pp=ygUUeXVnb3NsYXZpYSB0cmF2ZWwgYWQ%3D
Funny because you’re wrong-the Dianetics commercial is from AFTER Scientology had a decade of bad publicity-but you couldn’t resist the chance to whiiiiiine
The ads that aged the poorest for me are 5. Round up being safe 4. Bill Cosby Jell-O 3. Steve Irwin Getting a venomous bite 2.Enron executive telling people honestly "Earnings are Down" 1. WTC Pole Vaulter falling 😬
At first, I thought this would just be the basic "oh, it's Bill Cosby, oh it's the Twin Towers, therefor it's poorly aged." Like, yes, they are, but just showing the Twin Towers by themselves isn't actually shocking or collar tugging...Then that commercial with the pole vaulter happened. My God
Funny that ad didn't bother me. They had no clue when they made that commercial that he was going to die in the same fashion. You could say funny but eerie at the same time.
@@rfe8nn2 I think it's because Steve was the man everybody wanted to know better. He was the surrogate friend, father, brother, and all-around nice guy that we just can't seem to find in the world anymore.
@@DonkeyKongBMAC That's the dumbest thing I've heard all week. He had absolutely no reason to fake his death. Moreover he loved his family and loved life. I would give my left nut to have a tenth of the life he had.
I'd say this commercial aged well because Steve Irwin's death might have been the most predictable of all time. He was risking death every time he got up close to one of those dangerous animals. The most unexpected part of his death was that he died from a stingray and not, say, a rattlesnake or tarantula.
That’s because 90’s commercials have better scripted character, & world development, & fewer plot holes in under 30 seconds than any current, hour long tv episode.
I'm right there with you I would even love to go back to school and I hated school when I was growing up lol. Only if I realized how good of times they actually where.
I know everyone is going to talk about the two WTC commercials for obvious reasons, but man that Crocodile Hunter commercials was pretty dang eerie itself. Rest in Peace Steve Irwin
That one was so sad as well, I agree. Had a similar feeling watching that as the AT&T wtc one. "Well, This isn't bad......oh." RIP Steve, a really sweet dude with a great legacy ❤❤❤🙏🏽
For me that was one of the ones that was less sad, and more of a facepalm. They took a guy with a dangerous job, and played up one of the job's most likely occupational hazards for laughs. I was alive at the time, I remember how everyone thought Steve was invincible... and this commercial suggests either he *also* drank his own Kool-Aid about this how this could never actually happen to him, or he just didn't really care how it would look in hindsight (understandable, since in that case he would already be dead anyway). It would be like having a famous stunt man get in a near-deadly accident as a commercial gag. Or a famous snowboarder getting caught in an accident. It's less "unforeseeable tragedy" and more "pretty likely scenario that they do their job in spite of."
@@geneparmesan8748Pretty sure Steve Irwin was acutely aware of the danger, danger, danger. But also things were different back then and people weren't so serious all of the time. So he was probably still able to joke about it, like dark humor
@@MTMProductionsidk those twin towers ones are pretty nuts, a eerie “falling man” visual and a plane flying between the towers like that definitely aged poorly
I was trying to go to a few timestamps in a video after having watched it already and got an 8 minute unskippable commercial ( 1st of 2 ) in order to watch the video. RU-vid getting crazy with the ads.
I understand the ATT commercial was during the Atlanta Olympics, but "Georgia on my Mind" with images of Lower Manhattan is simply bizarre. Stupid advertising
@@davita4436 I was watching the ATT commercial and scratching my head, "What's wrong with this commercial? Does it have something in it that looks racist?" : Oh I see.
@@michlo3393 The pole vaulter commercial is the World Trade Center, but the commercial with the plane flying close to the building is the AON Tower in Chicago (which looks very similar to the old twin towers).
And life insurance and online casinos... "Oh My Gosh, you're still using Mom's old coffee pot!" "COME ON, GIVE FOX THAT KING, STEVE." "You won't be the bad guy, you'll be sympathetic..."
The prescription drug ads are just big pharma's way of driving up prices, and because prescriptions, life insurance, and reverse mortgages are the only things society thinks can be marketed to Boomers these days. (Also if you're over 18 and watching TV between the hours of 9a-5p, you're either a Boomer retiree, or unemployed & on disability...due to Camp Le Juene, Round Up, a medical error, a car accident, or something else that could be part of a class action lawsuit.)
Steve Irwin was a comedy genius just as well as a great and wonderful human being. Even in his "death video" supposedly he said to not blame the animal, that it was "just protecting itself/doing what its instincts told it" or something along those lines. Dont be sad that he's gone. Be glad he graced this world with his teachings and lessons in the time he did have with us.
i swear there used to be a comment going over why each commercial aged poorly, but i can't find it so i'm going to remake it here 0:00 most of you probably know this by now but Bill Cosby is a convicted sexual predator 0:31 Dianetics is one of the founding texts of Scientology, possibly the single most dangerous cult in the US 0:45 references to the WTC and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, both of which were targets of terrorist attacks (the falling man visuals don't help) 1:16 Halliburton massively defrauded the DoD during the first years of the Iraq War 1:45 i don't even need to explain this one 2:15 Jared Fogle is also a convicted sexual predator 2:45 Raytheon is another Iraq War profiteer, they're infamous for producing cluster bombs 3:14 Enron completely imploded in a Ponzi scheme covered up by fraudulent accounting, and yes they did try to "predict the weather" by selling 'weather futures' (look it up, CNN covered it in 2009) 4:15 this one is just sexual assault, even back when the commercial first released it was iffy 4:45 in the 90s they didn't really know how bad sports-related concussions were 5:15 Steve Irwin would later die by being attacked by a stingray 5:44 the 'convenient' folding seat design killed a teenager who got wedged in the back of a car and suffocated to death 6:14 if i listed the criminal charges against this man, this comment would be longer than the bible (update: he’s now a convicted felon) 6:44 RoundUp turned out to be massively carcinogenic 7:14 as it turns out, Lance Armstrong was on a few more things than his bike 7:44 the 'supersize' meal would become the poster child for how unhealthy fast food is
@@HaloofBlood1the imagery of a plane almost flying into a building that looks exactly like the old WTC2 (it’s the Aon Center in Chicago, but the same architect designed both buildings)
us looking back on these days for the naivety of not knowing AI would take over the world... and pointless internet arguments like "those were the good ol' days"
Insurance companies spying on you to increase your payments, behavioral “nudging,” Google feeding you results AI chooses instead of letting you see them, etc.
@num1Jaysta Enron was responsible for the worst case of accounting fraud ever in the U.S. Multiple cases of corruption and employee fraud throughout its entire existence. The company sunk several companies with it, causing the largest known case of bankruptcy over the span of 5 years. This case was so bad that the "Enron Scandal" is taught across many Colleges and Business PHD's to make sure this terrible act of corruption doesn't take part again.
My favorite 90s commercials are the ones that say "Get ready for back-to-back decades of financial prosperity and political unity!" in reference to the upcoming millennium. Oh how naïve everyone was back then lmao
@@MannuhFestItevery single person working in Houston downtown proper was shuttled out of there on park n ride coaches from Metro. Authorities were pretty sure it was a nationwide attack and seeing that Houston was a major terrorist target as it can cripple the nation if its huge port and starting point of all those huge petroleum and its products pipelines going out in every direction mainly to the eastern seaboard. Lots of military bases use lots of diesel and gasoline on top of jet fuel. Cripple the source of that juice and you have a crippled country with lotsa big toys and no fuel to properly play with them. I was sitting next to an elderly white lady that looked right at me and w all seriousness said "nothing like a war to keep this BOOMING economy going" since there were rumors of a major recession after the roaring 90s
I'd say the Steve Irwin one aged well, not poorly. It's a bit of black comedy about how dangerous it can be to handle venomous animals, presented by a guy who later died after a sting from a venomous animal. It would have aged badly if the joke was something like "Steve Irwin is so skilled at handling animals that he could never be injured by one."
I worked there. I LOVED those long elegant windows. There were for lack of a more appropriate name, air vents that were about two feet high just under the windows which created a window seat. I sat there and leaned into a column and looked out over NYC
Enron- "Ask why?...we lied" Haliburton- " Proud to scam our Troops" Snickers- "You're not you, after a head injury, Snickers satisfies." Round up- "We said it was safe, but we never said how safe". Bonus. The diet Jared ate to lose weight was actually a "starvation diet" (dangerous!!) using Subway sandwiches. So for these commercials, Subway insisted Jared lie about how much he ate to avoid an embarrassing scandal.😂
Taking an add from post-2000 (the subway one), slapping a filter on it, and putting it into a "90's" commercial compilation really adds to my theory that when people talk about being a "90's kid" and "90's culture" they're almost always actually talking about the early 2000s
They did the same thing with the minivan ad. The Ford Freestar was new for the 2004 model year. That stood out to me because we had one when I was growing up. I didn't realize the Jared ad was done similarly. I associate him with the early aughts, but, I guess I assumed maybe it was from 1999. I think OP has a really good point about early 2000s culture.
I'd say the Donald Trump McDonalds commercial aged quite well. You know he actually eats what he is endorsing which is more than you can say for 95% of other celebrity cameos 😅
I think your leaving out the multiple criminal charges against him, election conspiracy theories, and the fact that he’s become one of the most controversial figures in American history
@@JediMaster362and that stupid loud thumping and clapping that’s in every other commercial today, as well as obnoxious people with stupid, pointless, pissed off facial expressions that have ZERO to do with the product or service randomly staring at you through the tv screen. As if any of that’s going to inspire me to patronize the company…NOT
I didn't know why that Dianetics ad was poorly aged, I didn't even read the author....then I decided to look it up and yeah....let's just say tom cruise probably would have endorsed it given the chance
When I was a kid, I asked my mom what those commercials were for because they were so mysterious & looked cool. She said, "ughgh yuck, it's some weird fake religion." I was really disappointed.
I used to eat supersize fries literally every weekend when I was growing up and was still thin as a rail. I did fine. Thanks Morgan Turdcock for guilting an entire company into taking away something that I both loved and saved money on.
@@daltonfarrisI thought it was a pretty...uh...smart (I guess?) movie. You gotta remember; at the time, people didn't really think fast food was all that unhealthy (even doctors). It served a good purpose in waking the public up to the dangers of fast food. I would like supersizing things to be back, though. It was a pretty band-aid solution to a much broader problem, and I am a goblin for McDonalds' fries.
@@snkybrki well calorie contents weren't exactly hidden. Most people just didn't care, then when that movie came out. The blowback was exaggerated by the media which the companies caved to. It was like a modern day "the jungle", but instead of rats and fingers in the sausage it was high calories. I think the media is at fault, because they didn't point out that people need to be self accountable and not over eat, I just know I would not have to pay $15 to eat at McDonald's if super-size was still around.
When I saw Steve Irwin i smiled ear to ear. Can honestly say he was an integral part of watching tv growing up. But then at the end of that commercial...now im just sad...
@@dustux Aggressively handling animals, being loud around them, disturbing them in their homes, etc. He also jiggled his new born baby around a massive crocodile and it just went on and on. He was just an idiot. It was worse than when Michael Jackson dangled his son off his hotel balcony.
I was a sophmore in high school when the Steve Irwin commercial aired. I remember it so well because I literally used the line "If you're not absolutely sure, your absolutely dead" as a joke on my biology class report on king cobra snakes. Now feel bad about it. But I did get a perfect score on the report.
The lance armstrong one doesnt really fit now that we know every pro cyclist of that era juiced. Pretty sure one of the medals that got stripped away ended up going to the 20th place guy all these years later, that many guys tested positive. It was like the maguire/bonds era of baseball
I remember the old sports videogames making jokes about concussions, like "Haha, his ears are gonna be ringing after that hit" and "Haha, that guy looks like just spent a night out on the town"
I winced at the plane flying by the WTC Twin Towers in the UPS one. That one was harder to watch than the pole vaulter one because I remember those ads for the 1996 Olympics and with the singers singing "Georgia on My Mind." The plane one felt like I was witnessing the attack again.
*Family Guy, Bill Cosby:* "Now, you will get ready for the zim-zam and the babbity-bibbity! And get ready for the most splendiferouos pudding-pop you have ever seen!"
The guy with his head underground says the product 'kills the roots', and sure enough, glyphosate attacks the brain and nervous system. They must have known from tests on animals
it's no where near as bad as people make it out to be; sure, if you drink pure glyphosate, it is; but as watered down as it is for consumer usage, it's no more toxic than inhaling bleach or ammonia...
@@wildbill6976roundup killed several dogs of my best friend's because her mother used Roundup and let them be around it. You don't know until you've seen it for yourself I guess
It has also been proven to actively Cause cancer so, research anything in depth about Monsanto and you'll see went cancer seems to be everywhere these days. Quite profitable
Wooow, that AT&T commercial with the pole vaulter at the WTC. _Especially_ that shot at 0:51. I know there's that famous quote about life imitating art, but this is ridiculous...
wow, you got me with both the thumbnail and first second of the video LOL and there's one specific frame of the guy polevaulting upward that shows him upside down against the backdrop of the building, and my heart actually skipped. I didn't think I could still be so viscerally affected after this much time
