Retro Commercials

These commercials aired on NBC on January 17th, 1988. 1. Nut & Honey Crunch 2. Oil Of Olay (This lady is probably on her fifth facelift by now) 3. Vicks 44 (He called the front desk of a hotel for cough medicine?) 4. American Express (And what’s up with this dude? A little FYI…if your daughter breaks her wrist…call 911, not the number on your credit card) 5. Domino’s Pizza 6. Pine Sol 7. Magnavox (With the Smothers Brothers) 8. Joy (Best talking lemon mascot ever. I think there’s a brand of candy with a mascot that looks like this guy, but I can’t remember the name of it) 9. “NBC Sunday Night At The Movies” Commercial Bumper 10. Promo for “The 1988 Soap Opera Awards” (I can *kind of* understand watching soap operas…but when you start watching soap opera award shows…please seek help) 11. AT&T International Long Distance 12. AT&T International Long Distance 13. KNBC News Promo 14. Promo for “Noble House” 15. NBC News Digest 16. Mickey Thompson’s Off-Road Grand Prix 17. Hertz (With Jamie Lee Curtis, Arnold Palmer and OJ Simpson. I wonder if they still talk? Probably not…) 18. McDonald’s (I’ve concluded that food puppets are my favorite kind of puppet) 19. Promo for “Marblehead Manor” 20. “NBC Sunday Night At The Movies” Commercial Bumper

This is one of my favourite ads ever. Produced by a London agency in 1994 it was ground-breaking for it’s day in both concept and state of the art graphics. It also features Louis Armstrong’s classic song “All the time in the World”.

Fine makers of wonderful cookies and snacks.