The decade of excess, the "Me" decade: no matter what you called it, the 80s was a peculiar decade packed with flavor and originality. Cranking out more icons and memories than you can shake a stick at, revisit the 80s here with tons of 80s TV commercials and show intros, from a time when imagination had no limits.
The decade that introduced a whole new generation of slackers and lazy Gen-X'ers: the 90s had attitude; breaking free from New Wave to embrace grunge, hip-hop and techno. See the progression of pop culture and values in the many commercials and TV shows displayed in this section.
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This "Million Color Drawing Set" of crayons featured fingertip crayons, a multicolored crayon bar, and a lipstick shaped crayon that drew multi-colored patterns.
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As usual Bubble Yum is a sign of the times with its very retro 80's commercials, featuring another two-in-one flavored gum.
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Kool Aid man crashes a ball game, featuring former Reds player, Pete Rose.
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February 11, 2007 12:27:15
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This is an early promotion for Visionaries vehicles and action figures - each with their own distinctive holographic emblem.
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February 11, 2007 12:21:33
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A promotion for the Sunday morning animated series, "Inhumanoids," which was shown as short segments of Super Sunday, later running separately, altogether.
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February 11, 2007 12:18:41
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Based upon the animated series, "Rambo: Force of Freedom," this action figure line featured all main characters of the series.
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February 11, 2007 02:10:13
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The Transformers toyline introduces the aerialbots - a new group of transformers that join together to form the giant robot, Superion.
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February 11, 2007 02:06:32
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The movie trailer for Big Trouble in Little China, a great sci-fi action thriller starring Kurt Russell as Jack Burton, and directed by John Carpenter.
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Another commercial that typically ran between weekday and Saturday morning cartoons, this one proclaimed Polly-O's string cheese as "the best part of the pizza," as a boy and his friend...
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February 11, 2007 01:53:42
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A commercial introducing a new set of additions to the Madballs line.
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February 11, 2007 01:49:38
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The very first half animated, half live-action commercial for Ghostbusters cereal.
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February 11, 2007 01:45:31
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This commercial for Lazer Tag's #1 competitor is comical in the sense that it immaturely touts itself as "the only one that really works." Photon light guns also came with helmet and ch...
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February 10, 2007 13:09:03
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The season 2 show opening of the animated series, "Ewoks."
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February 8, 2007 20:44:23
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Macho Man Randy Savage, Dracula, Mount Rushmore, and a host of other random guests join Erno Rubik to announce this new addictive puzzle game.
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February 8, 2007 19:00:41
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Twizzlers made a series of stop-motion commercials featuring singing lips to promote their theme, "Makes Mouthes Happy."
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