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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Beyond the toyline, dolls and seemingly everything else imaginable, the Rainbow Brite franchise expanded into this multi-colored rainbow shaped cereal.
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April 4, 2007 20:14:26
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This commercial had a lot of airtime during Saturday morning cartoons in 1985, and announced this orange flavored cereal.
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April 4, 2007 20:07:33
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A really cheesy rock performance starts off this Super Golden Crisp cereal commercial, followed up by a promo for free rock-themed stickers as a box prize.
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March 31, 2007 21:35:14
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The original commercial for "Donkey Kong Jr. cereal," which had crunchy fruit-shaped cereal pieces. It also advertised the Ralston baseball card set promotion.
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March 31, 2007 20:00:00
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March 31, 2007 20:06:20
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Another commercial that was influenced by early 90s hip hop style, it advertised Honeycomb cereal and the limited edition 1992 baseball card set that came with proofs of purchase.
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March 30, 2007 22:28:14
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This cereal was sold throughout the 1980s and notably featured its marshmallow "horses and hoops, balls and bears, elephants and lions."
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March 25, 2007 11:59:12
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A series of these unusually drawn commercials were seen in the mid 1980s. All of them featured some sort of rivalry or tension between Count Chocula and Frankenberry.
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February 28, 2007 21:01:11
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The official commercial introducing Batman cereal - following in the hype of the 1989 Batman movie, featuring Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger.
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February 26, 2007 22:01:54
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The Trix rabbit disguises himself as a detective, to take some kids' box of Trix as evidence.
