Man, I was a Smurf fan, and loved Smurf Berry Crunch cereal. Man, I wish they would bring Saturday morning cereal commercials back -- along with School House Rock.
The smurfs rock!!! I had smurfettes pink lunch box, and I had figurines and I used to trade smurf cards, collect the stickers and had the old shrinky dinks smurf edition.. I wasn't obsessed or anything .. hahaha
Hearing these animated voices in that hissing, analog audio…. The reminiscent nostalgic memory puts my being right in my parent’s house sitting on the floor, even smelling the air, the texture of the shaggy carpet… the memories physically ache in my throat, choking me up, like activating a shakra, some shock-sense of knowing ill never, ever be able to return to these days. But hearing “Milk-a-does-body….” Hits me like it was just yesterday, yet so long ago. 😢
This is Gold. THANK YOU for this upload; such value. This is lost, rare stuff, a frequency for a nostalgic journey back through time. Hearing 80s songs doesn’t do it anymore because those songs today are overplayed by oldies stations; but this…. THIS rare gold connects you ONLY to those days. This upload is a ticket to a Time Machine.
I was 4... and yes, it was a great time to be a kid in 1981... unless your name was Adam Walsh. Then you had a bad time. Fun fact, that happened 2 miles from where I lived then.
Ahhhh, I was born in the glorious year of 1983! Thank you for these nostalgic adverts! Especially on a Saturday morning as is today! #MissSaturdayMorningCartoons!
I was a kid during this era. Does anyone else remember memorizing a set of commercials at a specified time and then reciting them with your friends at school during recess? Am I just imagining that this was some sort of recess game? It’s possible watching these commercial whilst high isn’t a good idea 😅
I remember certain commercials catching on, and we'd imitiate or mock some of em...though I dont remember us doing whole blocks of em 🤣 but it might have been a thing at your school. 😎🤘
Wow! James Ingram with the appearance in the milk ad at 10:23 lol! Wish these were the Saturdays I woke up to today but... adulting. Thanks for the upload!
Dan, Dude. Thank you endlessly for putting these up. I grew up in L.A. and watched the Smurfs religiously so I can guarantee I saw these *actual* broadcasts on channel 4 as a six thru eight-year old kid (born in '75) Like someone else said in the comments I can clearly remember sitting on the green shag carpet in our living room when everyone else was asleep. Those were the days. Plus the little NBC 4 ads/bumpers and movie ads mentioning the L.A. area theaters at the end really rev up the nostalgia meter, too. Again, many thanks! Liked and subbed!
Ya know how they take core samples of glacial ice to see how much c02 is in them? These are core samples of pop culture that future sociologists and historians will issue to understand why our generation was so fucked up
I'm so grateful to those of you who felt the desire to pop a tape in the VCR (or beta) and record these commercials on Saturday mornings in the 80s. Did you just know that one day you'd want to watch them and reminisce? Or was it all just a happy accident? Either way, I'm so grateful you did it!
While my childhood was more in the 70's. The 80's or early 80's I was still a "kid". In 1983 I was preparing for high school. In 1985 I got my first car. A 1970 Dodge Dart Swinger POS....LOL.1982 was one of those years that you'll never forget. It had some really huge events, and some really tragic days as well. I was a HUGE ⚾️🧢Baseball🧢⚾️fan and my favorite team, the Milwaukee Brewers had won their division, and were in the playoffs. Then they WON and were headed to the World Series!! I was going nuts!! My Parents and I had gone to well over 100 games from 1977 to 1982. It was really amazing! Then they lost to the Cardinals in the World Series and I was crushed! However what happened the following month, made everything else seem like it was nothing. As a young boy growing up as I said in the 70's, my family was NOT the typical "Leave it to Beaver" household. We had some issues. I'm not disrespecting any of my parents at all. For one reason the issue I am referring to is a disease. We had to deal with alcoholism. Now the one thing that wasn't excused was infidelity. There were arguments, many of which scared the heck out of me. So my Grandparents helped raise me. They were amazing! They sold their home in order to be closer to the family, and they got real close, they bought the place across the street. So during any bad times, fights, or other issues, my Grandparents would take me in. In the end they helped raise me. My Grandpa was the most amazing man I've ever known. Same with my Grandma. They were married at 18 and they stayed married for 67 years, until 1982. November 13, 1982 to be exact. My Grandpa had started to get chest pains and within 20 minutes he had a massive heart attack and died. He was ALWAYS there for me. It didn't matter if I called them at 2am, 3am, or 4am. He'd get dressed and he'd come and get me. He was the most gentle and caring man I've ever known. Yet he had a strength that while hidden, if and when it did show itself, you KNEW for a fact that he was like a bear protecting his young. My Grandma was the same way. Sweet, caring, and never ever said no to taking me in. She was maybe 5'1", but as she got older she shrunk to barely 5'0". Probably 4'11", but again she was also like a mama bear protecting her baby. I can remember being there on 🌄🌄Saturday🌄Mornings🌄🌄, Grandma in the kitchen making us breakfast. The smell of freshly 🍞🍞baking🍞bread🍞🍞 in the oven, 🥓bacon🥓 sizzling on the stove top,🥚🍳eggs🍳🥚 frying up too. Maybe 🥞🥞pancakes🥞🥞, 🧇🧇waffles🧇🧇,🥯bagels🥯, or a 🥐crossiant🥐? NAH, I LOVED 😍Grandma's😍 fresh bread! Warm out of the oven. The 🧈butter🧈 melting into the bread from the warmth. Ooh 😋drool😋😋drool😋! The a big glass of fresh 🥛milk🥛, and some 🧈butter🧈 & syrup for either the pancakes or the waffles. Then it was time for the Saturday morning CARTOONS!! These commercials bring back so many wonderful childhood memories. There were some bad times, but I prefer to stay focused on the special times, the better days. I really miss them more than I can say. My parents had some issues but there were plenty of really good times, many awesome memories. Especially during the Holiday season. The JC Penny's Christmas Catalog and the Sears Wish Book were two things that I so looked forward to! Thank you again for sharing these clips with us! I can't tell you how much I appreciate them and how much they mean to me. God Bless you and again THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Takes me back to being a kid. Getting up every Saturday morning to watch cartoons while eating a bowl of Cap'n Crunch or Cocoa Pebbles. Or if my dad had to go in to work on Saturday he'd make us kids some pancakes.
@@Datan0de I always say that I need to get the tobacco lawyers working on this for me. I am still addicted (54 years old) to a harmful product that was purposefully and unceasingly marketed to me as child. Edit: I successfully quit smoking after 20 years of a pack a day. Still can't kick sugar.
These commercials are definitely nostalgic to me, but in a different way than what you would expect. I was born in 1991 and grew up in a small Midwestern town during the 90s and 2000s, but even though I loved a lot of what was being currently shown at the time, I wound up developing quite the fascination with retro pop culture. During the early 2000s, I saw some 80s commercials on the website X-Entertainment (this was all before RU-vid became a thing,) and was fascinated by how different they were from commercials that were then currently airing. I loved the vibe and the aesthetics of these commercials, and some of them were pretty enjoyable as well. This led to me finding a website called Videomercials that was selling 70s and 80s commercials on home video, and I got three volumes on VHS. This collection of commercials was on the first cassette. I have no idea what happened to Videomercials or the person running it, for all I know, they could be out of business, likely because classic commercials and older video recordings can be uploaded onto RU-vid now and there doesn't seem like much of a demand to buy video copies full of old advertisements these days, but I still have a fondness for 80s commercials like the ones featured on those tapes and for retro ads in general. They're a fascinating window into a different era, one that was very different but still familiar at the same time. It probably feels weird for me to feel longing and nostalgia for a time I never really knew, but from what I've seen and heard, it seems like it must have been quite the experience to be a kid at that time. From a big fan of 80s and 90s pop culture, especially, thank you for uploading these, man.
51yr old Gen X from '72 here. As kids, we crazy loved our sweet cereals & for a good reason: Non-Sweet box was more tasty than the cereal itself, which left for 2 options: Sweet Cereal or use table sugar. Marketing really knew how to talk to kids, & it worked. Watching such as THIS is like watching a window in time of sunshine & smiles all around...with Cap'n Crunch, Alpha Bits, Honey Smacks, Smurf Berry Crunch to name a few fueling Us. I still can't help but love Honey Nut Cheerios still. The McDonaldLand Gang these days unfortunately😭...would be perceived today as the equivalent of Joe Camel...only for Fast Food. In moderation, such fast food is fine. Everyday...😑Not so much.
In case you didn't notice The Kids Superpower Hour with Shazam was included in the Hero High The Complete Series DVD set uncut and unedited including the NBC Saturday commercial bumpers .
First, it was 1982. 2nd, that "worst game ever" stuff has been soooop overblown. I had ET as a kid. I loved it, still do. And I got pretty good at it. For the time, it was no worse than most Atari games. If kids coudlnt figure it out, it's because they didnt read the instruction manual.. which you kinda had to do back then. Since the late 90s there's been this bandwagon people jump on to dump on this game even though 99% of people doing that have no context for what it was like to be an Atari gamer.
Being 8 years old, I'm pretty damn sure I was watching this. And I'm blown away by the Man-E-Faces commercial. But now I'm confused... Was he supposed to be a Limited edition figure? I dont remember the "while supplies last" text.
This is only the half of it. The shows these aired with were usually 23 minute commercials. This is what I was bombarded with as a kid.. and while I'm sorta nostalgic for it, enough to upload this stuff... it was fucking gross too.
Yeah.. in the 80s, we let toy companies, network executives, ad agencies, and cheaply animated cartoons tell us what imagination was. "Use your imagination, with the plastic crap we sell you from the cartoon shows you watch".
Yeah they were everywhere... between those ads and the "got milk" campaign... I've had a my fill of Milk propaganda. It's one reason I drink almond milk now.
One thing I always wondered, is where are any of these kid actors today? Do they ever acknowledge to themselves, they were part of pop culture for a generation?
