What were you doing in 1997? - Retro Commercials Vol 385 

Man, I felt that!

@@Thollis1987 Exactly!!!

We’ve arrived in the future and I am not impressed.

@@venom74799, Most of us are not impressed with the 2020's so far. Can someone bring back the 90's already please?

That’s basically every generation ever unless they’re blinded by nostalgia. The 2010s had a lot of good stuff, and most people I know took it for granted. Now look where we are lol. Just make the most out of what you have now and stop thinking about the past, you gain nothing from it

Sorry for your loss, but glad to hear it holds your best memories.

Hold onto those memories. She will live forever in that. Stay strong brother.

Out of the 4 decades i've lived so far, the 90s was my favorite

Good Bless you sir...cherish the memories

sending love 🤍🙏

Much appreciated!

I couldn't agree more 👍

forreal! a major service to our nostalgia

Right? I love these types of videos, brings me back to my childhood.

Seriously this gives me feelings of better times

America's last great decade.

"social media" existed, but not under that name. social media is a fancy politically correct term for online communities. there were still tons of people online then, but without all the CCP propaganda. i practically lived in AOL chat rooms.

Nah it's the 80s

Exactly!!!

Haha Malarky!

Agreed! I was born on Oct 7 '80, we're the last old school generation before social media

I'm actually jealous of y'all lmao I was born in 2000 so I'll never get to experience that time period for myself.

I was 15 as well.

I mean you had it in your 20s

@@JTCLAN1 same here, don’t get me wrong technology is a beautiful thing, and it’s crazy how we pretty much have mini computers in our pockets all the time, but too much of a good thing can backfire. I can’t even talk to my mom without her scrolling through her phone, my mom! Phones are the new addiction, the reason our entire generation is so anti social is because we just cant seem to spend two seconds without staring at the dam thing.

Welcome too the RU-vid life.

Thats exactly what im doing as I type this. Facts.

Me in '97: wish there was a way to fast forward through these damn commercials. Me in '20: watches a RU-vid vid of 90's commercials...

@@conductorquackers me too🤣🤣🤣🤣

Tmi

I feel like it's more with the general vibe of the commercials brings us back to when things were like that, not really the commercial itself.

I see the commercials.and i see like small sneak peaks of my past i completely forgot about not really the commercial its what i was doing when i saw it

It's a thing that will always hold people back too.

I did actually. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. Enjoy your cage thats coming.

Thats the same thing I always tell people! 25 years from now people will be having Covid-19 nostalgia talking about how covid -19 was nothing compared to 105 degree winter of 2045.

Those people are probably well into their late 40s or early 50s at this point...

I had my first guitar there for my birthday. Sad man!

Rest assured KayBee's prices were always better

@@bentonrp we didn't have a kaybees where Im at

Bad

Me too

It really was more the *experience* rather than the watching of the actual movie. I miss it too. There was the weekend buzz and excitement in the air, the unique smells of the video store mixed and mingled together--the smells of popcorn, carpet and something sweet like bubblegum, I recall. The feeling of browsing the cover art, plucking the ones that were the most eye-catching and had the most interesting cover blurbs. Even the movie-theatre type lights throughout the store that put you in the mind of a marquee a little bit. The whole thing was a fun experience.

@@RETROGEMS I can relate.

That was part of the experience , in my opinion it was the best part

I don't miss that one bit!

Just think, we will be watching *those* ads in a video much like this in 2047, skipping the new-age ads of that year.

Yep. I was pissed when that happened.

You should've learned from the back to the future 2015 scene and when 2015 actually happened lol . No flying cars lol

But the ads are only more commercials 😡

@@atg2727 well the Segway came out that year. They were tryna get close to back to the future. But only came as far as the Jetsons

Me too! :)

It was a good year.

Me 2

Lol. I was 5 and i really miss this time.

Not a bad choice.

LOL!!!!

This shit legit made me a bit teary eyed remembering

💯💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

Yep 😢

Same bro, same

Forreal.. im over here damn near crying watching this WOW life was life back then forreal. People were kind, and actually said thank you, you're welcome, excuse me, please,etc etc. 1997

Notice the pattern? 1920’s is so wonderful and magical until the Great Depression then WWII. 50’s and 60’s so great until JFK assassination, race riots then Vietnam war. 80’s and 90’s so great until the 9/11, War on terror, war on Iraq, recession, ISIS,

Or girls gone wild on channel 60 something at like midnight on the weekend haha

@@ChillVibezzzzz or, even better, the scrambled porn on channel 78.. or whatever it was, lol.

years and fees are just plural words, so no apostrophes.

@@TPRES_74 i still have at least 3 vhs in the blockbuster case i saw recently

OMEGA-P _74 Come on, man. We’re too old for that.

97.. all i think is window 97

Alex Ferreras how much did you pay Blockbuster for them? 😂

@EM lol

@Thy Staff the real question is where do you even find those anymore?

@@MeekMillisbendingoverrn I still own both of those items till this very day

9/11 and overpolicing sent us in the wrong direction.

@@solomontrump A lot of people don't realize that 9/11 is what did it. There's a distinct before and after. I've seen many people blame it on the internet, but 9/11 was the biggest factor.

God bless you two!!!☺ my granddaughter was born December of that year but she wasn't my GD yet until I got serious with my gf at the time who was the mom of the teen girl who gave birth to her. We're still going strong too.

I was 17 and met my wife in November of 97. We have 2 kids now and are still going strong as well.

Congratulations! U definitely have a soulmate!

@@dennismolina9033 Thank you Sir. I definitely appreciate that fact everyday! Also thankful everyday to whoever or whatever is up there watching over us for sending such an amazing woman and kids into my life!

@@freewillie26 ur very welcome! 😉👍

Mr. Charles Snippy it made no sense lol. Typical 90s

Right and to think that I thought commercials nowadays are dumb lol

AMC offered Levis interior packages in the 70's. The seats were covered in Levis denim.

I gotta say, I had no idea where that was going until the end!

I think they were selling their brand rather than their products, something companies still do today. Maybe now they do it slightly less weirdly though. Remember the old Cherry Coke ads with the weird song and the guys riding ostriches?

it's not the internet that ruined the world. What ruined the world ruined the internet, the world would have been ruined either way.

I mean the internet was already a thing in 1997, try again kiddo.

The boomers who preceded you: *sigh* simpler times, before the automobile ruined the world

You're damn right

Im from the 1800s. You damn kids and your electricity!

Me too

72

Eh, I spent much of the last 1/3 in Marine Corps basic training. Lol I don't wanna do that again.

I still remember, in September of 97 I was a senior in High School and my gf at the time when dump me right in front o f all my friends and all her friends at school! Good old days😁

Anything but the 2000s will do

Don't say that ...LOL

is 72 old

Nice I was 11. I feel ya.

@@aaronkirchdorfer7779 I was 11 too. At least we got to enjoy the last decent childhood decade.

@@jkllad The 2000s were hella cool too

I agree

I was 13 in 1997 and I feel the same way.

Thought I was the only one crying over 90's commercials 😛😜

Too late now 😂

@The Brooklyn Introvert I feel like that feeling is dead altogether. Convenience is a silent killer

That's honestly one of the things that I miss most about the 90s, going to the video store with my mom on Fridays after school. It was like our tradition when I was a kid. I would always get a movie or two as well as some video games and my mom would get a movie for her and my dad to watch over the weekend. Then, we would go home and order pizza and my best friend would usually come over and spend the night and we'd stay up all night watching movies and playing SNES games. It was a sign that the weekend was here. There was just something so magical about browsing the aisles filled with movies and video games. I think the novelty of it stemmed from the fact that you actually had to leave the house, get in the car, and travel somewhere to rent movies. There wasn't any way around it. Today, you don't even have to leave your couch or your bed to do that. There's just nothing exciting about it anymore because you know that all you have to do is hop on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. and watch practically any movie or TV show that you want without even budging. It's the same thing with photos. You used to have to buy film to take only a limited number of photos, then take the film to be developed, go back a day or two later and pick up your photos after anxiously waiting to see what your pictures looked like. Now, we all have phones with amazing quality cameras and can take as many pictures as we want whenever we want. Everything today is about instant gratification, which spoils the excitement of having to wait for results. I miss the good old days!

Apparently there is an air bnb in Oregon that's an old fully stocked blockbuster. So you just might be able to do that.

@@jrwheeler81 the saying "it's about the journey not necessarily the destination" has more meaning now

Makes me want to go on ebay and buy a Blockbuster card. Oh yes, they still exist. And some people on there will make you one with your name on it.

They actually printed good magazines with great pix and great insightful stories and that was the only way you got to find the 411 on your fave music artists like rolling stone mag and got in depth behind the scenes of tv shows movies in special editions life magazines.

I feel ya man. I didn't get a cell phone till 99' when I was 16. I went outside and played all the time. Now I'm 37, and rarely leave the house

Honestly, I think technology has made a lot of people introverts who were once very extroverted. I'm guilty of it myself. I, too, was an extremely social, outgoing person who loved to go out and loved talking to friends on the phone; however, technology has changed me. Sometimes when people call me now, I think to myself, "Why couldn't they have just texted me instead???" It's a VERY different world.

I thought that was him!

I turned 16 in 1997! Best decade EVER to be a teenager in!

Just born in 1997 hello world

Class of 97! Turned 18

99 jersey/ny was it also I will go to my grave with social media killing the world the way we think communicate use our natural skills you had privacy real privi

Deftones and Korn

I got down there in 99. San Diego state. Seems like yesterday

I graduated on May 27,1997. Seems like it was yesterday.

1997 was an awesome year! I didn't graduate from high school until 2000, but I LOVED being in high school in the late 90s! I had the best time ever!

That's because commercials today suck and dont really mean anything they aren't exciting and enjoyable to watch like they were back then I remember growing up thinking alright commercial break let's see which commercials are going to play lol

I just watching what the world is doing when i was born

I bet in 20 years you’ll be saying you miss 2020 comercials

@@Greatwealthgentleman Correction nobody is going to miss 2020 trust me nobody.😂😂😂😂

All I watch is RU-vid and I can some up the commercials in two sentences: “rise of kingdoms... start now for free” and “are you still working a 9 to 5 job when you could be making passive income with Amazon drop shipping”

97 was bliss

Cade Absolutely!

Loved kenan and kel!!! Never missed it!

Awesome

NY in the 90s was the best!!! I miss being a little kid back then!

So all black stuff then. It's a shame you were isolated from white culture. Consoles are a joint white and Japanese culture as we are closer culturally. I can see why so many blm bad people now. I hope you aren't one of them. RU-vid officer Tatum. He's a great guy. Good luck. And Jesus is all that matters my friend

Most definitely, Johnny!

Are you the 1992 WWF Champion?

@@PhantomOSX Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhyeahhhhhhhhhhh!

Now a Amazon Grown up!

I'm a 45 year old toys r us kid :D

I just turned 35 a few hours ago, and still, 34 seems so long ago.

I sing “ I don’t want to grow up, I wanna be a Toys R Us kid” all the time as I’m getting ready for work. Ohhh, where has the time gone 😭

@@kendrajones9708 I do to. I sing it to my kids and they look at me like I'm crazy. Good to know I'm not the only one.

i still ahve thoose nostalgia trips when i was a kid being outside, digging in the dirt trying to find dinosaur fossils after watching jurassic park as a kid...

Amen

I was outside all the time, watched and played sports, or playing SNES, NES, or my PS1 haha

Its getting dark. Time to come in and watch SNICK

Same here! In the 90s, if you wanted to talk to somebody, you either had to pick up the phone and call them, page them, or wait until you saw them in person. Now, all you have to do is send a totally impersonal text message or Facebook message. I remember my parents getting so annoyed with me for tying up the phone line every night when I was in middle school and high school in the 90s. They finally had to put in a second phone line so I wouldn't constantly tie up the main line by endlessly talking to my friends or wasting time in AOL chat rooms! I am just SOOOOOOOOOOOO glad that social media didn't exist when I was growing up! I can't even imagine being a kid nowadays and having to deal with all of the bullying, harassment, and humiliation that goes on via Facebook, Instagram, etc.

I'm with ya brother. Calling a friend to meet up instead of texting. The era felt more genuine somehow. Unfortunately, there's no going back.

At least you're not working fast food

What's wrong with being a security guard actually it's pretty good job. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Actually sir you would have did worse if you would have stayed in school.Then you would have had a whole bunch of student loan debt.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Either because I'm in Canada and didn't see as many American commercials, or possibly my misspent youth, I don't remember any of these lol

At least you partyed young

Smiling bob from enzyte .

These were my favorite shows also

All That is such an underrated show. Snick was the best.

@@WCCXtra Oh yes, Saturday nights were the best

Damn! I was in college! Now I have a Masters Degree!

I was 4. Now I'm 27. Lol I was big chillin in 1997.

That explains why my dad keeps settling his speakers to full blast of that song every day

Because in the 90s it was. Except for a few wars and genocides going on around the world. If you were in America though, times were great!

Those were the days. Back when pagers were the life lines and com links. That was the form of communication we had back then. They were real distractions back then.

It was simpler times. Back when no one gave a shit about us blowing shit up in the middle east, and the only gripe about our president is he wasn't honest about getting head from an intern...

Because people rediscovered the gem that is Good Morning Vietnam as Robin Williams gained superstardom, was also rebooted as a music video for MTV and such

Cryptic Writings I'd a fantastic album. I'm not a huge Megadeth fan but that one hits just right. Except for Spanish Trust. Like couldn't he have sang the entire song in Spanish? Brb gonna fight Dave Mustaine.

What about Blink 182?

R.I.P BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO HOLLYWOOD VIDEO TOYS R US

Well blockbuster still exist in Oregon and toys r us did come back last year

Funcoland

Hollywood and Blockbuster especially were a few of my favorite hangouts as a kid. The weekends meant maybe a pizza and swinging by Hollywood or Blockbuster for video rentals, where I'd explore the horror movie aisle, soaking in all of the creepy and fantastic VHS cover art. Great times! It really made me sad when the last Blockbuster in my area folded. :(

@@RETROGEMS - The kids today will NEVER know the joy of foraging the aisles for the perfect pick.

Just wait for that same thing to happen 20-30 years from now and we're nostalgic for 2020 commercials

@@JackTheripper911 2020 will always be gay af

@@kreeperfrm559 You know i honestly wasnt thinking of any Covid commercials or shit like that 😂 you're right fuck 2020, 2017, 2018 and 2019 will be looked back on with nostalgia

@@JackTheripper911 lol

Lol

Found it....that's the comment I was lookin for...hahahaha

Al bundy's brand of choice

"I HATE YOU... BOTH"

Actually I do....2002 with over 230,000 miles, bought it three months before I went to Iraq, it's got a lot of memories.

Inflation. 9$ then was worth more than 9$ dollars now. Plus everyone now is doing $5 ultra crappy pizzas now. Pizza quality from these places has gone way down the toilet compared to then. They take out all of the trans-fats and bad stuff that made it taste so good back then.

Pizza hut use to be goodback in 90 and 2000 and now it taste like crap so i still go domino pizzza but im not a fan of pizza so i dont eat pizza.

I think the quality took a nosedive. But maybe I'm misremembering. I was 7 in 1997 so all pizza was good pizza

I dunno man. I worked at Dominos in high school and college, 2000 through about 2006. Their pizza has really improved. Wasnt very good when I worked there lol

@@christophersuswal9544 Loved Dominoes before they completely re-invited their pizza recipe. You either loved it or hated it. Since the change it's just another "eh" brand that it's nobody's favorite, but nobody hates it either. Tastes like everything else.

Same

The 90's were special, no way to forget them.

@@kevincampbell5785, Yeah let's just forget the 2000's, the 2010's, and the year 2020. The 90's are all the way baby hell yeah gotta love that decade man.

@BrooklynEagle In addition to voicing Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure on The Simpsons, he was also Henry Mitchell in Dennis the Menace (1986), and Ted Maltin in Jingle All The Way. A lot of people say the decline of The Simpsons began after the death of Phil Hartman.

I wonder how many people actually remember him! I haven't heard his name in probably a good 20+ years, but as soon as I saw that commercial, I immediately remembered him! That was such a sad situation. :(

Do you know anyone who still had late fees, and never had to pay them since corporate closed down. (Just yes or no, don't call them out by name).

Keaton0801 ha! No!! But I do know people who’s late fees got sent to collection. I also knew of a couple people who had warrants out for their arrest for theft for never returning a movie!

Me too

Same yr I graduated too🙃

No shit? I graduated in 97 and worked at blockbuster 😂

remember, they were just another megacorporation only concerned with profit

@@ThommyofThenn Isn't the point, despite that, the memories associated with the place, going there are overwhelmingly positive for those who were kids anyway, likely more negative for parents because begging, tantrums, prices, carrying the thing

Right

Turn it around then!

Alex P 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Motivation of the Year

As long as your breathing you can change your life

Yep. I had an 82 TA, 86 Firebird and a 64 Chevy truck and a house. All paid for. Now I ride a bicycle and barely make rent. Im pretty sure I fucked up.

Thank you and much appreciated, Curtis!

Your a 90s baby , 2000s kid / teen and 2010s adult / 20 something.

That was Idris Elba in that commercial too 😁

I was 15 too but back then I always wished to have lived in the 70's. Now I miss the 90's the most!

@@veeeeediots LOL I always wanted to be a teenager in the 80s

Yeah but my circle were all glued to our Nintendo 64 or Playstation. But at least we actually hanging out together.

Back then we were all glued to the TV. And the older generation kept complaining about it lol

@@BDLforever24 and our parents all watched TV as well and the old folks complained about them...some things never change....

@@BDLforever24 now we the older generation