Yup 51 here

I agree with you 110 percent I miss the 70s and 80s so much. The Old Days were the Best times when everything was normal.

43. Totally agree

I'm 41 and I'm the same so relxing and nostalgic

The best decade!

Best laugh I've had all day... What you wrote is true.

So very true. I’m a nurse and back then direct marketing of pharmaceutical drugs to consumers was against the law. I do miss those days too!

Me too😢

To me it's like the icing on the cake of modern advertising. Even those "homey voiced: narrators which were on EVERYTHING. Really indicative of the materialistic decade with the birth of the "family values" which have now morphed into a joke.

Yess

I know. I find myself escaping into the past more and more often. It's comforting. The world and life was just better then. And not just because I was younger. Things were just more positive. We are living in dark dire desperate times now.

Yes!

And my intelligence wasn’t constantly insulted.

i'm sure every generation does this. it does, of course, seem more "wholesome."

Commercials in the 80's felt like being tucked into bed by your grandparents after a bedtime story. 🥰🥰🥰

@@toddburgess5056 Best way to explain it.

Indeed it is!

Yeah, there was a lot of drugs/cocaine but for youngster like me it was being able to walk/bike to your friends out and hang out until dark as well as play outside and no social media. Innocent days.

@@MsTimelady71 Yes, same here. We were so lucky. Life was so good.

Daily cartoons, Saturday and Sunday morning toons on 3 to 5 channels and that was just on antenna tv, much more if you had cable.

yes

@@MsTimelady71 Agreed.

Huge facts!!! Makes you miss sooooo much and sooooo many!

11:39 tearing up now?

You're welcome

Same here great times …

The best. It’s amazing how many that remember these days want it back. We wanted the technology. We asked for the realistic VR. So much hoping for all the advancements that the future would bring but once it gets here, it’s kind of funny that all we want to do is go back, isn’t it?

ACK

Ironic, isn’t it?? Same here with me back in the 1980s my younger self would sometimes get slightly annoyed at these commercials but how I appreciate them and miss them so much in 2024 Because of the insane times we live in now it’s so bittersweet!

@@christianpatriot7196 Christ was a false prophet. He didnt unite the tribes of Israel / He didnt bring abt apeace on Earth. The Jews were Right to reject him as the Messiah!

Millennials can say the same about the 90s. Our two generations got the last of the "innocence" I think.

I would argue the best era ever. We had the grooviness and acceptance of the 70s. 80s fucking gold. Entered our high school/adult stage in the 90s and rode the best party horse until 2010 before technology took over and everything went to shit.

@@ninjacrumbs Exactly. Well said.

@@ninjacrumbs It wasn't technology, it was liberals.

My pops taught me how to drive a car when I was 12, after that I was hooked and kept telling him I can't wait till I'm 16 so I could drive. He used say, no you can wait time goes by to fast. Well now it's 35years later, hes dead, my moms dead, my daughter is 25, and I'm sitting here with 2 puppies watching 80s commercials on a Sunday afternoon 😑

Best decade

💯‼️

MAD was fun?

Mid life, eh? Me too. I would suffer the pains of Hell in the afterlife if I was given 10 hours every week in the 80s of my youth.

Which carries its own flavor of 80s nostalgia

That all depends on who you ask and if you've ever had a crack 🤷😂😂😂

Pretty close 🤷‍♂️

I love that old Folgers coffee Christmas commercial. It really takes me back 😔

Funny…I did crack most of the 1980s.

Only if I could keep some of the knowledge I have now.

😂 true. Up next - cold eternal death.

I can just watch it again......and experience it again.

Spooky times

Yeah...it’s called nostalgia. 😉

It makes me want to cry. My mid-life crisis isn`t a sports car or hanging out at clubs. Rather it is just wanting to go back to the 80s when I was a kid and just go trick-or-treating with my home made costume....ahh, fark...I`m crying now

Yes!! 😂😂😂😂

Me too

I still buy Fanta soda because of the 80s Fanta jingle

The 70s were even more jingle centric. Or famous taglines. I still remember some memorable ones from when I was like 5. Can still sing them word 4 word. Now that's effective advertising.

76 💯‼️

@@annissa5356 71 here :)

Great comment! The 80s were so innocent in comparison to the current era. Modern technology has made it so easy to keep in touch,but has made people so much more distant.

Born in ‘75, too. Definitely the best era!

Good points

Agreed. The technology got better, the people did not.

True

💯💯💯 yes.

I was 12 in 1980, so teenager throughout the 80's, I feel so lucky to have grown up in this era!!! If I ever get a time machine I will swing by and pick you up and we will both go back! Just kidding 😊. Where does the time go? I would go back in a heartbeat!

I wouldn't want to go back, but would love to bring some pieces of that forward. For any faults, I still think most of us had a more honest(or maybe realistic might be a better word) childhood than those of the 2000's and especially now.

@@tommcdonough6086 Me too the 80s was the BEST!!

I definitely miss the 80s. Such a fun simpler time to grow up in!

His voice was perfect in many ways. Add in the familiarity of the always so good Mr. Cunningham; perfect.

Do you watch commercials anymore?

The '84 Chicago Bears were awesome. Remember The Super Bowl Shuffle?

@@swannoir7949 The highlight of my high school that year was having the 84 Bears at our assembly. QB McMahon was an a-hat but the rest were awesome and nice.

@@MsTimelady71 That's cool. I met Walter Peyton at the Park West and have a picture of him and me. I keep it put away so it doesn't fade (35 mm). It was taken shortly after his diagnosis. I'll always cherish that memory.

I didn't even remember the commercial, but I totally knew who they were going to show.

It was the '85 Bears.

Not to mention the ones that just show some lady in a random field saying, "Ask your doctor about Drugstolinebigpharmaspockets today!" but says nothing about it whatsoever.

am in the 80's forever. oysters for the locals only.

I really feel old now that 90s is retro and nostalgic. I'll take either the 80s or 90s over this new world era of dismal ness we are currently in.

The 80's were awful, especially the early years. Factories shutting down, high inflation, high gas prices, high unemployment, dreadful cars, etc. The end of the decade was ok.

@@robertd9850 I bet. For others it was the greatest.

@@robertd9850 In some things, but in many others it was when things started turning around and, as you point out, by the end many things were better. The sad thing is things kept turning and started slowly falling off the deep end. Thus proving the adage "Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." Its not that everyone was smarter, just were forced to be less dumb.

@@robertd9850 True, I bought my first house in 85 10% mortgage rate!

Hey, those high mortgage rates are good to keep prices down and the money in your savings account can actually grow, I bought a CD in the mid 90s that paid 10% interest.

IKR? I love that version. Had no idea so many people were in it.

I watched this exact Alice and Wonderland too as a child when it aired. So I watched all of these commercials! Good times 😊

Amen

PREACH!!!!!!!

@@ninjacrumbs You posted 11 days ago I see 11 Likes for @ALLMUTANTER posted 1month ago. The Universe has spoken I wished that I can go back in time when life was simple and kind.

​@@phillipbanes5484I'm with you. I was born late 65 so I'm same age as you. I remember the 70s too. Early 70s when I was like 5 and 6 were still very 60s ish in clothing, styles , attitudes car styles etc as I can remember. And early 80s still had late 70s vibes. I think us early Gen X really grew up at a special time. We had the childhoods even our parents didn't have.

And the Super Bowl Shuffle

That Superbowl I was a whopping 18 years young the Bears 🐻 kicked our ass! Lifetime Patriots fan. Man to be young again! I was a teenager practically the whole 80's decade, feel blessed to be young during this era!

Poor fridge is broke and even sadder Steve McMichael has ALS and I'd say less than a month to live

Let em have it. It's all they've got.

*one

Me to. Especially 80s music too.

And a person making minimum wage could afford health insurance and a used car.

Liberals and SJW roaches hadn't infected everything yet.

I wish I was born in the 80's or 70's. You guys had an era to be genuinly proud of. Meanwhile, I like in what is the laziest, whiny and entitled generation of all time! If there's anything I feel it's that I am ashamed to have grown up in such a shitty era.

The best Alice in wonderland ever made.

The jabberwocky freaked me out, haha!

Makes me miss my grandma. I went to her house for every TV special in the 80s and early 90s.

I'm weird. I never hated watching commercials the way most people do. Maybe I have a short attention span or something. I usually watched all the commercials. Even had favorites. 😅

You couldn't believe them then either! 😂

Not really.

@@jjw1072 don’t be such a fun sucker lol

Yes me too

the gov't people messed it up.

OMG YASSS AND BOOKIT AT PIZZA HUT

And many teens were wanting to put a Slayer tape in Teddy Ruxpin to see if it could handle it.

They still cooked their fries in beef fat for instance, so of course they tasted way better. I'd almost swear the lettuce on your burger was cooked in beef fat. I mean honestly that is kind of the theme. In the 80's they didn't try to pretend to be somewhat healthy food. Now all they do is pretend and are worse for you in some ways. Taco Bell used to taste better too. Not sure what happened there. Maybe their lettuce was cooked in beef fat.

The fries back then were greasy and good for a snack themselves.😅

@@TrackMediaOnly I’ll never understand why Taco Bell got rid of their cinnamon crispas. Man I loved that treat so very much! I began making them at home when Taco Bell took them off of the menu, but to be honest with you… They don’t taste the same, even though they’re yummy too. 😢 I don’t know if it’s because they used a different type of oil, or their tortillas are made different than the ones I get in the store, or what. I do know thought that their replacement cinnamon twists suck! Also, I became a vegetarian at 16 years old (in 1992), but before that happened, I used to _LOVE_ Taco Bell’s taco salads. I don’t understand why they got rid of them either (and I honestly can’t even think of one other restaurant that has ever had a taco salad on their menu before or since Taco Bell sold them)… Some years ago I got to thinking about that meal for some reason, realizing that it had been about a quarter of a freaking century since I last ate one! I missed that dish so dang much, so I went on a journey to create my own kick-arse vegetarian version of a taco salad... And wouldn’t you know, I mastered that shit! Even down to making the fried tortilla shell bowl perfectly, sans professional equipment! Sooo damn good. It was very interesting to see how much I progressed too... I started out by making a very bare-bones salad at first, with minimal ingredients (even including the taco shell part... because instead of making a tortilla shell bowl, I would use pre-made Ortega corn taco shells, toast them up a bit in my toaster oven to heat the shells up, and then break ‘em up & mix that into my salads). But then I began getting more and more creative and adding more and more ingredients... I made it absolutely packed full of protein, despite the fact it had zero meat in it. If anyone wants to learn how I make mine (or perhaps just get ideas/inspiration from mine to be creative with making your own vegetarian/vegan taco salad), here’s how I do it: __________________ Instead of ground beef, I make the base with a package of vegetarian ground beef (Trader Joe’s is my favorite brand - just use w/e is your fav brand 🙂), green/brown lentils, a mixture of sautéed diced green bell pepper/white or yellow onion and finely diced or minced garlic, a can or two of black beans (sometimes I substitute in a can of pinto beans instead of that second can of black beans), and a can of corn. Of course you want to season to taste as you cook it up (I just use garlic salt and lemon pepper, but feel free to use whatever you’d like - including taco seasoning of course [I’m just not a fan of taco seasoning is all]). That base mixture can all be stored by itself in the fridge to be used for multiple meals over a week’s time (just heat some of it up in the microwave when using as leftovers). To compile your salad: Take some of that fresh hot base mixture, and mix it up with a bunch of freshly shredded cheddar cheese to melt the cheese (never use pre-shredded from the store because of the anti-caking crap they put in it, as it prevents the cheese from melting properly), and then add one avocado (diced), diced tomato, sliced black olives, shredded iceberg lettuce (made by finely slicing the lettuce with a chef’s knife), sour cream, La Victoria red taco sauce, and mix it all up in a flour fried tortilla bowl shell that I make by frying the tortilla in a bit of oil for 50 seconds on each side, then immediately molding it into a oven safe saucepan or bowl with a potato masher to push the tortilla down into it to shape it, and sticking that tortilla in the bowl/saucepan into the oven on 350°F for around 12 minutes to bake. And FYI, it took a _LOT_ of time/research to find that method! Every other method out there that doesn’t use professional equipment absolutely *SUCKS,* and is _NOTHING_ like what the shell bowl should look and taste like - the texture from other methods is always a total fail. This method makes the shell 100% _PERFECT!_ It’s just like what you remember from Taco Bell. :) Doesn’t that sound delicious? That’s because it fucking is! And the cool thing too is that you really can make _MANY_ nights of leftovers from that first night’s work you put into making the base mixture. This meal is soooooo filling too! No joke. Enjoy!

Probably because the ingredients weren't maximized for profit and Probably qualified as "food".

@@trendel13 Yep, and they fried the french fries in formula 47 which was a mixture of beef tallow, and oil for maximum flavoring, now it's just a proprietary salt seasoning that they don't let you fully know what's in it, calling it a trade secret. I blame the environmental, and health wackos for taking away the good things in life. Fast food was not ment to be eaten all the time, just something you ate as an occasional treat, and that's the way my parents treated it growing up, where we would get it maybe a couple of times a month at most.

Beef fat and not pretending to try to be healthier.

​@@TrackMediaOnly Key word: pretending.

Wellllll...not quite safe. The USSR hadn't fallen yet so we were in a cold war nuclear stand off with them. Boy that was a day when the Berlin Wall came down.

Sarcasm ☝️

there were no microwaves at mcdonalds.

You're totally right. We never had Mexican food growing up. It wasn't around and wasn't a thing. Don't think I had my first taco til I was a mid teen in early 80s. Then all of a sudden it all became very popular. Rightly so. I love it. Except I do remember mom making a tamale casserole once in a blue moon in the 70s. Sliced tamales layered with stewed tomatoes, corn , cheddar cheese and Frito chips on top. That was good.

I bet that yummy looking Campbell’s nacho cheese soup/dip was a gateway food for suburban housewives to get into Mexican food.

Nutrasweet was everywhere

ya, the current stuff is not all that