You know you're an 80's kid if you know what "Sticklets" are.

And a $6.95 Red Lobster dinner? Those were the good ol' days. *sigh*

Sadly, being from Australia, and these being from the 80s during the time when US commercials weren't allowed on our tv (which was a great thing btw), I don't know any of these, but these are gold:

* Grape Nuts : You know when you've got it good... grape nuts? Dear god, who thought that was a good name?

* Ahh you Americans, it continues to amuse me that you call a main meal an entre... you must get awfully confused when dining overseas. "Why are all the entres so cheap here?" "And what are all these other 'mains' that are more expensive?"

* Mmmm, why can't the fashion of t-shirt, shirt, jacket and jumper casually thrown across the shoulders not come back into style, it's both stylish and practical... ooh, look, it's Amanda Pays... nice

* Just because I like pointing these things out, you see the slogan of Duracell? "No Battery Lasts Longer"? What does that actually say? It actually says "Our Battery lasts the SAME as other batteries" It doesn't say it lasts the longest, it says no other one lasts any longer than them, but you can be sure there are plenty that last just as long for less money... the "No X does Y any longer/faster/cheaper/etc" line is used ALL over the place.. a perfect example is in Panadol, It's just regular paracetamol, ANY brand paracetamol is EXACTLY the same (500mg per tablet/capsule, whatever), but they use the 'Nothing works faster or is more effective' tagline... which is to say it's EXACTLY the same as every other one out there.

* Hillshire Farm: Oh come on, that's got to be a gay ad surely He wouldn't change a thing...

* Frozen concentrate orange juice tastes fresh? *shudder* (And gee, it meets standards even higher than the Federal government... Wow, you mean you actually adhere to the law that you're bound to... congrats!)

yea, this is the type of rich, thick, cheesy advertising we were exposed to here in the states. As a child it really separates the skeptics and the easily fooled at an early age.

where did you learn this from??? who taught you about this stuff??
Tell me!! You dad I learned it by watching you!!!!

Funny thing.. looks like taken from a Boston MA area station (WBZ). As a kid I probably watched that same damn station after school. I think that weather man is still in weather broadcast here too.

Cap'n Eo. I saw that at Disney some ~25 years ago. Everyone thought it was cool at the time. Interesting 3D effects in the theater for the time. But CHEEZY as can be for sure.

What a world-class manipulator. Rottenseed must work for the television industry given the way he just tricked us all into watching a 9 minute long commercial break.

I'm betting a couple decades from now most of today's kids won't remember any of the commercials from their youth since their Tivos help them pretty much skip them all.

Where's the beef?

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Really takes me back. Agreed on the where's the where's the beef. But I like how this series was trying to give us a typical slice of commercials, complete with promos for crappy Tony Danza TV movies. It was a good time machine.

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