⚡ 87 Minutes of 1987 Commercial Nostalgia ⚡

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  • čas přidán 8. 09. 2022
  • 87 minutes of 1987 commercials... dream or nightmare??
    Retrontario’s primary mission is the preservation, research and exhibition of rare videotape recordings (1970s to 1990s) recorded off of any and all Ontario (and surrounding area) TV channels; footage which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. We also hope to create an ongoing oral history of this content through comments left below the videos. Please add to this evolving history, if you know more information pertaining to the clips, fondly remember them or have a modern thought all comments are welcome! For more information on how to help in our mission please visit us at: www.retrontario.com

Komentáře • 72

  • @SandiByrd
    @SandiByrd Před rokem +69

    It's hilarious. I spent my childhood waiting for these things to end - only to sit in front of my computer as an adult and wish I could watch them on my parent's old TV again. 😂 Humans are weird.

    • @mrwasi99
      @mrwasi99 Před rokem +9

      It's nostalgia baby! Pulls on the heartstrings

    • @daniellealessi1838
      @daniellealessi1838 Před rokem +5

      I couldn’t agree more. Well said 💯🎯

    • @frankbrazil7918
      @frankbrazil7918 Před rokem +4

      i always call the phone numbers on these commercials. if you call to order encyclopedias you get global payments

    • @johnphantom
      @johnphantom Před rokem +2

      @@frankbrazil7918 I hated that commercial.

    • @guntherbeckman1257
      @guntherbeckman1257 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Ain't it the best?

  • @tm100pct7
    @tm100pct7 Před 10 měsíci +9

    1987. When everyone I cared about was still alive.

  • @halon7476
    @halon7476 Před rokem +22

    Please take me back to 1987👍

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +23

    4:32 - Encyclopedia Britannica - This very-meta commercial was written, produced, and directed by the great Stan Freberg, who also provides the voiceover. The boy is his son, Donavan.

    • @doccyclopz
      @doccyclopz Před rokem +4

      Strange to think but that "computer" in a dozen or so years would go on to make Encylopedias obsolete.

    • @steadyc9277
      @steadyc9277 Před rokem +3

      My parents had a whole pile of Stan Freberg records! 😂

    • @IAmMisterD
      @IAmMisterD Před rokem +4

      You don't need all that, here, take a pile of books that never update! haha

    • @danacarter9147
      @danacarter9147 Před rokem +1

      I didn't know that!😀

    • @plateshutoverlock
      @plateshutoverlock Před 2 měsíci +1

      An Apple ][ (shown here) with a modem could dial into a service that had a text based interface like Compuserve and access an online encyclopedia in 1987. Problem solved, right? Actually no, because the pr. minute phone AND service charges were very high, and on top of that you had to pay a monthly fee. This was pretty.much the standard across "online services" back then. The internet was not yet really public and for the most part the only people that had access to that were people in government and those in university or research facilities.
      So this is why physical encyclopedias were still a big thing well into the personal computer age.

  • @seanhudsonforester
    @seanhudsonforester Před rokem +7

    The strange weirdness is that I am watching ad commercials from my childhood, while the video gets interrupted with modern ads that will one day be watched by people decades from now as nostalgia.....

    • @magamaga1827
      @magamaga1827 Před rokem +4

      except the 80s were authentic. 2020's are full of woke shoved down your throat diversity/inclusion nonsense. overtly political.

    • @matthewscherer9681
      @matthewscherer9681 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@magamaga1827 yep I think 20 years from now people will still watch ads/movies/music from the 80s

  • @RideAcrossTheRiver
    @RideAcrossTheRiver Před rokem +5

    Hey, that's Stephen Baldwin at 2:01 ... very telling start to his career
    8:19 Dire Straits

  • @brianmcg321
    @brianmcg321 Před 9 měsíci +3

    anyone else hit the "skip ads"" button before watching all these ads?

  • @Zoomer30_
    @Zoomer30_ Před měsícem

    That Encyclopedia Britannica commercial has been living rent free in my head forever. They must have played it alot

  • @jeffreybaker100
    @jeffreybaker100 Před rokem +7

    I remember that "Mac Tonight" commercial from the 1980s! I miss how great the Big Mac and fries tasted back then. Now a Big Mac at McDonalds tastes awful

  • @Jotinko
    @Jotinko Před rokem +3

    87 was the year I popped out of my mother. Good year. Awesome compilation.

  • @babyboy1971
    @babyboy1971 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I’m the encyclopedia Britannica guy at 4:33. Really! Great video!

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +2

    3:45 - Eggs - Michael Lamport as the ranting man.

  • @retroDave80
    @retroDave80 Před rokem +2

    Awesome collection Ed! Thanks for posting! Love the music and voice overs from '87. Takes me back to high school.

  • @ronaldmurray7416
    @ronaldmurray7416 Před rokem +2

    THIS IS THE BEST!! Thank you!!
    Do you have a compilation from 1988 and 89?? Would love to see that. Especially anything from City Tv

  • @damdarch
    @damdarch Před rokem +2

    This takes me back, thank you so much.

  • @hotel283
    @hotel283 Před rokem +3

    jfc Canadian beer ads were so painfully maudlin

  • @Hulk2k6
    @Hulk2k6 Před rokem +1

    *hums "When Will I be famous?"*
    Taking it back to an era when 20 million brits watched Kylie and Jason in Neighbours, An Elderly Duck and his great nephews went on adventures and Thatcher got her Hat trick victory!

  • @shortattentionspan_1
    @shortattentionspan_1 Před rokem +3

    OV and Export, whatever happened to Molson Golden?

  • @jeffreybaker100
    @jeffreybaker100 Před rokem +4

    I think some of these commercials were from American TV stations

  • @JMDogg
    @JMDogg Před rokem +1

    That music at 44:42 was used many places.
    WWF during the Undertaker/Jake Roberts vignettes, them old NWA (Jim Crockett Promotions) wrestling tape promos, and Unsolved Mysteries during the Tallman's Ghost segment, among other places.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +1

    37:11 - IDA - starring Robert Young. Carolyn Scott (Mrs. Sarnicky on "Frantic Times", and Bill Needle's wife on "SCTV") as the customer. John Davies (Canadian Tire's Scrooge, and veteran of many "Wayne & Shuster" specials) as the pharmacist.

  • @steadyc9277
    @steadyc9277 Před rokem +3

    Jesus. I'd forgotten how annoying - almost aggressive - 80s commercials used to be! 🤣 I'm tired.

    • @micai.j8920
      @micai.j8920 Před rokem +3

      Never annoying to me. I find 80s-early to mid 90s commercials to be relaxing

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +2

    10:04 - McDonald's Bacon - sounds like Cal Dodd singing & doing the voiceover.
    11:35 - Zellers - Meghan Smith as the mother.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +2

    12:11 - Harveys - voiced by Don Francks.

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +1

    31:59 - The Bay - with Don Lake, who also does the voiceover on the next commercial.

  • @rwcrsarrc
    @rwcrsarrc Před rokem +2

    EX says it allll 🎶 🍻

  • @dariawells7438
    @dariawells7438 Před rokem +3

    Baby Jerry O'Connell at 1:26:14

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +1

    58:29 - Green Giant - voiceover by John Stocker.

  • @avian1971
    @avian1971 Před 7 měsíci

    One of the Baldwin bros was in the 7UP commercial. He was so young.

  • @inversion66
    @inversion66 Před rokem +2

    Vivarin are caffeine tablets, and are still being made.
    I think the drummer in the Seagram's Wildberry ad might be Owen Tennyson, who was a member of Blue Peter and Rational Youth in the mid '80s.

  • @AckzaTV
    @AckzaTV Před 2 měsíci

    i was born sept 23 1987 i day after full house aired. man im pretty lucky to get to have grown up at the very last bit of the real free western world basicaly before 9/11

  • @Oppeldeldoc1
    @Oppeldeldoc1 Před rokem +1

    Vicky Lewis of NEWS RADIO etc. in the York Peppermint Patty one.

  • @massimoesposito7014
    @massimoesposito7014 Před 8 měsíci

    A golden era for the west country.

  • @AckzaTV
    @AckzaTV Před 2 měsíci

    ?" they get a blast of nostalgia and ask how thehell im watching tv from 1987. then i bring up commercials from the 60s and they freak out

  • @OofusTwillip
    @OofusTwillip Před rokem +1

    1:04:33 - Bounce - Eva Almos as the mom.

  • @dariawells7438
    @dariawells7438 Před rokem +2

    Fetal Keanu Reeves sighting at 31:43

  • @A1collect
    @A1collect Před 4 měsíci

    I was born in 1987

  • @bigperm4119
    @bigperm4119 Před 6 měsíci

    I like the 80's Canadian flavor

  • @benjaminsmith3151
    @benjaminsmith3151 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Wow! Sincere enthusiasm for products and services that mostly do what you expect, with little or no fine print. No wonder people are so F'ed up these days.

  • @silverblack8312
    @silverblack8312 Před rokem +1

    :52 lil Brad Pitt

  • @allstardemon
    @allstardemon Před rokem +2

    funny how government sponsored commercials about talking to your kids about drugs and alcohol no longer exist...wonder why?

    • @jC-kc4si
      @jC-kc4si Před rokem +1

      They do, there is a recent one about vaping, but it's not a parent.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver Před rokem +1

      Mulroney-Reagan majority era

  • @AnthonyBialy
    @AnthonyBialy Před rokem +1

    I was like number 88. Sorry to ruin the theme.

  • @MrElwoodjayblues
    @MrElwoodjayblues Před rokem

    Why does the kid at 5:58 look like MrTLexify, if he was a teenager, with a mullet?

  • @JonathanLeon
    @JonathanLeon Před rokem +4

    That bill cosby one is cringe

  • @latashaharvin618
    @latashaharvin618 Před rokem

    I miss the McDonald's characters.