the sense of smell
These commercials aired on local NBC affiliate KRON on January 25th, 1986. Thanks to my Aunt & Uncle for recording these. 1. Chili Cheese Fritos (This is actually a stealth ad for New Jersey tourism) 2. Coty Wild Musk Patchouli (Not enough cheesy saxophone. And Patchouli? Really? REALLY?) 3. TV Spot for “Murphy’s Romance” 4. Sprite (With Barret Oliver from “The Neverending Story”) 5. Selsun Blue 6. Twix (Featuring Puddles the dancing police horse) 7. A1 Steak Sauce (I wonder how much cocaine was involved in the creation of this ad) 8. Miller Lite (With “famous bouncer” Duke Valenti) 9. TV Spot for “The Clan Of The Cave Bear” (WTF) 10. King Cobra (OMG AMAZING! With Fred Williamson) 11. Antioch/KC Dodge 12. Nestle Crunch (With Pete Rose!) 13. Volvo 14. Lee Press On Nails 15. Crunch & Munch (That girl scares me) 16. Moss Lighting (Very easy parking) 17. Secret 18. Coloralls (Amazing animated logo there LOL)
MattTheSaiyan
January 6th, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Cheesy saxophone FTW!! Also, I’ve never had “Crunch & Munch”, and as such my life is incomplete.
megamanmaniac
January 6th, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Is that the girl from “My Two Dads” in the Crunch and Munch commercial?
MeInTX
January 6th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
It’s not a good sign that Fritos (which is based in my suburban Dallas hometown) had to use New Jerseyites to authenticate the chili taste.
Murphy’s Romance bought James Garner his only Oscar nomination.
What kind of school do you have to drink Sprite to be cool? And these days, what kind of school has soda machines?
I wasn’t aware there were famous bouncers outside of Road House.
It’s not the Crunch that’s distracting Pete Rose. He bet heavily that he’d hit a home run on an 0-2 count.
vnisanianisback
January 7th, 2012 at 12:48 am
Barret Oliver sounded noticeably younger in that Sprite commercial, than he did in that Gramma episode of the New Twilight Zone.
Jeff98177
January 7th, 2012 at 1:10 am
Am I crazy or is the little girl in the Crunch commercial the same one that was in that Folgers Christmas ad where “Peter” comes home and makes coffee for his family on Christmas morning? I must’ve watched the Crunch commercial 10 times because she looked familiar and I couldn’t place her. This is gonna bug me. It’s gonna bug all of you now too, huh. Sorry. hehe
gayskunk
January 7th, 2012 at 2:06 am
King Cobra was pretty funny, as well as seeing Pete Rose in a candy bar commercial. That was before he got into trouble.
blufish44
January 7th, 2012 at 2:07 am
LOL my Neighbor has that EXACT SAME Volvo – color and all!
DanZero77
January 7th, 2012 at 2:09 am
@80sCommercialVault Ah, cool. At least we had legendary spokespersons like Billy Dee Williams for Colt 45, and now Fred Williamson for King Cobra.
80sCommercialVault
January 7th, 2012 at 3:02 am
@DanZero77 When the big ad agencies finally began courting the African American demographic in the mid-60′s, studies were done to see which products they already preferred. According to those studies, they made up a third of the entire malt liquor demographic, which had previously been marketed towards suburban white males. Not idea if those studies were accurate, but they definitely had their reasons for moving towards that market.
DanZero77
January 7th, 2012 at 3:11 am
One of the greatest mysteries of life will always be why MALT LIQUOR was always marketed to African-Americans.
The KC/Antioch Dodge ad has the same background music as that infamous Baltimore car dealer spoof, “Big Bill Hell’s Cars” (look it up here on YT, NSFW!)
Very easy parking in SF?!
StormsongK
January 7th, 2012 at 3:15 am
Also: “Press on! Apply directly to the fingernail!”
StormsongK
January 7th, 2012 at 3:48 am
Don’t let the smooth taste fool ya…this stuff’ll knock you on your ass!
BreezyLotus
January 7th, 2012 at 3:53 am
I *had* to have those Lee Press-On Nails when I was a kid!
The Nestle Crunch commercial is cute. I miss that jingle!
jwgreek8606
January 7th, 2012 at 4:29 am
I remember the coloralls commercial being used as a fee plug on game shows like TTD, TJW, J!, and $100k Pyramid
SaraBellRock
January 7th, 2012 at 5:21 am
king kobra is the shizznit!!!!!
MsStinkeye
January 7th, 2012 at 5:54 am
“There’s nothing two sticks of Twix can’t fix?” Well… it didn’t fix my parents’ marriage.
MsStinkeye
January 7th, 2012 at 6:28 am
Smells like hippies.
holbrooke7
January 7th, 2012 at 6:33 am
Ew, somehow I don’t get the feeling that smelling like Coty’s Wild Musk Patchouli will get the guys running into your bed. I don’t even WANT to think of what that must smell like. UGH.
cmmolthr
January 7th, 2012 at 6:58 am
@cheffy84 I couldn’t have said it better myself….probably why I don’t watch much TV anymore
orion5175
January 7th, 2012 at 7:50 am
“with all the crap on television now days, if you were to put all of these commercials onto a DVD
seriously I would buy that.”
and how do you become a famous bouncer?3:34
blugreen123
January 7th, 2012 at 8:50 am
those guys in the Frito’s ad are a little “guido-esque”
“lymon” hmm…interesting
i love, love, loved “Neverending Story”
coloralls are amazing!
“glamour length nails” otherwise known as “hooker claws”
Boogeyman80
January 7th, 2012 at 9:24 am
Yeah. That’s the best part about this channel! Stick around an it’ll happen a lot. I had the same feeling about the Nestle’s Crunch commercial.
troodon311
January 7th, 2012 at 9:54 am
I really like that “Clan of the Cave Bear” ad, and I’m not sure why.
TakumaMimura
January 7th, 2012 at 10:12 am
For a second I thought I was watching commercials from Kansas City during the car commercial. KC Dodge, we actually have (or had I don’t know if it’s still around) a dealership of the same name here. Antioch Dodge made me think of the street, Antioch Rd, although there are no dealerships on the road that I know of.