80's Commercials Vol. 718 Thanksgiving Special!

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80's Commercials Vol. 718 Thanksgiving Special!

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Here are some highlights from the 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with all of the original commercials included of course. These originally aired on NBC on November 27th, 1980. Happy Thanksgiving!
1. Nestle Toll House Morsels
2. General Electric
3. Promo for "Godzilla Hong Kong Phooey Hour" and "The Flintstone Comedy Show"
4. Promo for "Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
5. Child World
6. Coleco Head To Head Electronic Football
7. Child World
8. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
9. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring The West Point Glee Club and Marilyn Michaels...who is totally not lip syncing)
10. McDonald's Gift Certificates (The boy at 7:16 is Kirk Cameron)
11. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Todd Bridges and the cast of Broadway Musical "Barnum". That is Glenn Close singing...this was about two years before she became a film actress)
12. Zales
13. The Generals (Reminds me of the internal speaker in old DOS computers)
14. Nestle Crunch
15. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
16. Nestle Toll House Morsels
17. Karen & Her Magic Carriage
18. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear Ed McMahon sing a song about Thanksgiving and would feel some genuine emotion toward it...I'm not sure I would have believed you)
19. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
20. Child World
21. Coleco Head To Head Electronic Baseball
22. Child World
23. Promo for "Intergalactic Thanksgiving"
24. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear Sister Sledge sing "We Are Family" while riding a giant Turkey...I'm not sure I would have believed you. And that appears to be actor Robert Vaughn in the crowd with the fancy camcorder at 22:22. Also featuring a rare glimpse of costumed characters from "The Aristocats")
25. Nestle Quik
26. GE Spacemaker Microwave Oven
27. TCR Slotless Racing
28. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ("Didja ever try stuffing an Eagle?" With Famous Amos, Scottish dancing, and the cast of "Brigadoon". If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear a couple sing while the Loch Ness Monster looked on...I'm not sure I would have believed you. And LOL at Ed McMahon's Budweiser plug..."I know those folks!")
29. Team America Super Stunt Dirtbike (♫America...F*** YEAH!♫)
30. McDonald's
31. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring the Happy Dragon balloon. This balloon was retired in 1981 and was brought back briefly in '91 and '92 before retiring again. Though it has been kept in storage since then it is currently the oldest surviving Macy's balloon)
32. Nestle Crunch
33. Rubik's Cube (First released by Ideal Toys in the U.S. that year, this was just before it became a national craze the following summer)
34. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Popeye. Out of all of the music to use from this movie they chose this? They should have had Harry Nilsson drunkenly slamming on a piano playing "Blow Me Down" or "I Yam What I Yam". Also Featuring Linus The Lionhearted balloon and terrifying Clown man)
35. Promo for "Dick Clark's Good Old Days"
36. Promo for "Number 96" (This was a remake of a popular Australian soap opera...it was cancelled after one season)
37. Child World
38. Coleco Electronic Quarterback (With Mike Starr)
39. Child World
40. Promo for "The Sound Of Music"
41. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
42. Electronic Detective (With Don Adams)
43. Ronald McDonald House
44. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Smokey The Bear balloon)
45. Flash (With Joe Namath and Jim Palmer)
46. Rubik's Cube
47. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Underdog, Lacey J. Dalton, Dean Butler, OH GOD that terrifying Clown man again and Danielle Brisebois)
48. American Tourister
49. Polaroid (With Mariette Hartley)
50. Bell System
51. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring The Lone Ranger)
52. Rayovac Batteries
53. Toss Across and Mouse Trap
54. Bell Phone Center Store (Giving someone a landline telephone screams "last minute gift"...but those kitschy 70's phones look pretty awesome)
55. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Casper the Ghost, the cast of "Sesame Street" and Kermit The Frog balloon)
56. McDonald's
57. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Featuring Stephanie Mills and Henrietta Hippo. If you had told me before watching this that I'd hear The Spinners sing a Sam Cooke song next to a giant moth...I'm not sure I would have believed you. Also featuring Mother Goose. "Nice going Mother G!" Unfortunately the end of the parade wasn't recorded so no Santa)
58. The Generals
59. Nestle Toll House Morsels
60. Bell System

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@colleencatalano3547 8 ай бұрын

The good old days. Who would have imagined we'd be saying that about the 80s.

@GhoulishGrinMedia Жыл бұрын

1980. Reagan just came into office, inflation and the economy wouldn’t recover for another couple of years, and from the sounds of some of these musical selections there’s a Disco spillover. What a great video time capsule. ❤

@80sCommercialVault Жыл бұрын

Reagan had been elected but was not inaugurated until January, 1981.

@camoanddonuts7894 2 жыл бұрын

The Sesame Street float with Bob singing that wholesome song really got to me. 1980 was the first year I can remember, 77 baby, so seeing that cool float and the whole parade with MC Ed McMahon was really cool

@jacktrppr1 4 жыл бұрын

The Todd Bridges jam was 🔥🔥🔥 Happy Thanksgiving

@chrismusix5669 9 ай бұрын

I just watch these. I don't even watch modern television at all.

@toogeeky4u 4 жыл бұрын

Peter Panda and Child World! Brings back so many memories!

@DBlake864 4 жыл бұрын

I miss toy stores. I had so much fun shopping for my kids at Christmas. It makes me sad that my granddaughter will never know the fun of shopping in a toy store.

@decutta404 4 жыл бұрын

I remember these 😂😂

@macallingallkreepz9159 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving to you and everybody! Ya know, it's people like you that makes the world go round and the people in it happy even if it only lasts the length of your videos. Big thanks for the uploads of memories 😊🍻

@mjrleaguesweetie Жыл бұрын

14:57 I’m kinda fascinated by Ed McMahon’s Thanksgiving carol. I’ve Google’d several lines from it and the lyrics don’t appear to be anywhere on the internet, so I can’t find any information about it

@80sCommercialVault Жыл бұрын

Probably just an original song written specifically for the parade by somebody at NBC or Macy's. If this recording had included the credits there might have been a blurb about who authored it.

@jefferywilson1840 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading this it sure brings back memories.

@martinneosel3403 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was definitely Robert Vaughn in the crowd with the fancy camcorder at 22:22. I was wracking my brain trying to remember his last name. I knew he was Robert Something and even tried doing a Google Image search with a screenshot from your video but I think it was too small and got no results. Thanks for this upload. Great blast from the past.

@myst4hire1 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is gold right here, thank you! I see the Smurfs making their appearance at 10:09 on NBC ten months before the premier of the Smurfs cartoon series. I don’t remember the parade because I was in kindergarten at the time, but some of the commercials definitely rings a bell. Thank you again and Happy 🦃 day!

@mickeymouseproductions8977 3 жыл бұрын

The characters of the Smurfs existed before the cartoon series (first appearing in comics in the mid-50s)

@myst4hire1 3 жыл бұрын

@@mickeymouseproductions8977 yeah, I know

@jareddicarlo7816 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite part is the Sesame Street float. It’s interesting to see an early Telly Monster, as this was the year that he became a major character on the show. On a more grim note, David (the black dude who helped Mr. Hooper run his store) is noticeably absent. This aired a couple of months after he went on a drug-fueled rampage in Nashville. He remained on the show until 1989.

@gracemoriarty1867 4 жыл бұрын

I was born in the 1980's, Seeing These Commercials brought back memories during my childhood years living on a farm in Canton South Dakota.

@SmashAdams216 4 жыл бұрын

Great one! Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for continuing to do this!

@hopegrimsley3427 4 жыл бұрын

This is epic! Thanks for sharing. Hope you had a great holiday!

@TL_oS 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving! 🥂 Thanks for this, you gave me a great shot of nostalgia today💕

@kimmyymmik 4 жыл бұрын

4:51 lol Marilyn michaels was lip syncing :) but she’s so cute 😍🤣🤣

@Magna4k 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving!🦃

@bethdibartolomeo2042 3 жыл бұрын

Ed McMahon must have been prescient to call Diff'rent Strokes a "long-time running" sitcom when it was 2 years old at the time and would ultimately run for 8 years.

@JulesBhm 4 жыл бұрын

You’re the best! Happy Thanksgiving!

@hrtvfan2870 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving, first of all! 4:52 Call it a hunch, but I'm pretty sure the sound guy got yelled at for starting the tape late (also, "there's gotta be somebody watching the show" - on NBC in the late 1970s/early 1980s; not many) 9:34 As it happened, at least Bryant Gumbel would have a little bit of time for his day job hosting NFL '80 since NBC had the late Thanksgiving game 21:35 An off-model Mickey Mouse balloon sighting 43:35 An equally off-model Bullwinkle balloon In addition to the rare non-New Zoo Revue sighting of Henrietta Hippo and Freddy the Frog (I guess Charlie the Owl declined to appear); I saw a couple of Smurfs in the background (I wonder if NBC had already secured the rights to begin airing the Saturday morning cartoon for the 1981-82 season) as well as Daffy Duck.

@darktetsuya 4 жыл бұрын

huh never heard of 'The Generals' I just know the analog version 'Stratego' seemed like a neat take on that game though! I was probably far too young to remember most of this stuff, was not even two at the time! But even still thanks for sharing this!

@hgftrew1992 4 жыл бұрын

You know you're a fan of "Friends" (like I am) when all you can think about during the Tollhouse cookie commercial, and the recipe on the back, is Phoebe and her grandmother's cookie recipe!

@hgftrew1992 4 жыл бұрын

Also, I'm a mega "Sound of Music" fan, so that promo was perfect!

@JJ-gf5qs 4 жыл бұрын

Ideal made some awesome toys and games

@jamesanderson228 Жыл бұрын

32:51 YAY FOR PAW PIIE !! lmao I don't know why that shit sounds so funny to me 😂

@marryannlamb9853 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving Thanks

@ThisGuyFrritz 4 жыл бұрын

11:47 I remember a different voice when I first heard saw that commercial. It made me think that first voice was more fitting when he said "Hmmm...". 17:37 I recall an earlier Child World commercial with a cartoon bunny. 17:47 I've played almost 9 innings of that game in a store. No employee stopped me (thank goodness), but my parents told that me we were leaving. 18:46 Gee! I don't recall ever hearing about that Thanksgiving special. 27:52 I've seen these commercials as an Evel Knievel lineup (with the same music). The one I got was a stunt-n-crash car. 30:47 This was some compilation of commercials made into one. One of these was with that baseball player chewing gum, maybe *that* was my first time seeing a Rubik's Cube. 31:17 I remember when that live-action Popeye was being released in theaters, people were making a big deal about it. In my opinion, the movie is fairly good. Maybe a fairly good movie wasn't enough to make a follow-up. 32:56 Linus the Lionhearted was canceled by the time I was born (but you can *now* see it on KZfaq). I wouldn't have thought he would make such an appearance by 1980. 34:10 I have the one on the right and it still works! 37:43 Smokey Bear is his name. Leave out the "THE". 40:13 When Lacey J. Dalton sings, it's like she's-a-shakin' real fast! 45:11 I recall when "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" was advertised. I wonder how it compares to the one with Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp.

@gargantuaism Жыл бұрын

Wow Willis can move!!! 7:38

@pika23 3 жыл бұрын

We had child world in NY NJ

@mst3kanita 4 жыл бұрын

aw, ed. I didn't know that Bryant Gumbel did parade commentary back in 1980!

@80sCommercialVault 4 жыл бұрын

Bryant Gumbel co-hosted the parade from 1977-80 and hosted from 1982-84.

@mst3kanita 4 жыл бұрын

80sCommercialVault he always looked so bored and I love every second of him being bored.

@Sincopare 4 жыл бұрын

7:45 'tomorrow dancing' by Todd Bridges is especially cheesy.

@80sCommercialVault 4 жыл бұрын

Sincopare The title is “Summer Dancing” not “Tomorrow”

@ADHD_Samurai 2 жыл бұрын

45:26 The Lone Ranger and his trusty sidekick donuts.

@DBlake864 4 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad to see these videos. Will there ever be another Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC?

@superbowlofselfabuse 4 жыл бұрын

Heyyy Head to Head baseball at 18:00 has another Friday the 13th franchise alum! (Enos, the oil truck driver in the beginning played by Rex Everhart) 🙂

@TTrigg 4 жыл бұрын

Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey-wouldve made for a interesting crossover McDonalds-Its Mike Seaver! Intergalactic Thanksgiving-if this were remade today the Beastie Boys would be doing the theme song Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade- 1) Ed shouldve gotten a Grammy nomination. 2).Vaughn looked like he was stifling a laugh 3)Now we know what Ed's favorite beer is.. 4)Who let Pennywise out of the sewer? 5) At least that wasnt Mothra the Spinners were performing near..

@quicksilverbalt 4 жыл бұрын

Geez I was negative three when this aired. But OMG that Todd Bridges song was just god awful.

@kimmyymmik 4 жыл бұрын

Hahah I thought it was catchy 🤷🏻‍♀️💃🏻

@DBlake864 4 жыл бұрын

He makes Leif Garrett sound good.

@theohiostate1653 2 жыл бұрын

I was negative 2

@brianbuchmeier 2 жыл бұрын

Ouch. The chick at the end of the Zales commercial did not want to kiss that guy on the lips.

@maxxt3916 3 жыл бұрын

At 17:56 the truck driver from Friday the 13th part one. He gave Annie a ride before she was murdered.

@bladecastlevania3653 Жыл бұрын

This aired a few days before the Lennon assassination.

@80sCommercialVault Жыл бұрын

November 27th - December 8th = 11 days, nearly two weeks later.

@chrislang9442 4 жыл бұрын

Happy Thanksgiving! 1:29 To make you feel nostalgic in case you’re missing the mediocre USA Network’s Cartoon Express. - *looks up Child World in Wikipedia* Huh... you learn something new everyday... 4:50 not lip-syncing? I’m not sure I believe you. ;) 7:41 “longtime running series ‘Diff’rent Strokes’”. I’m not sure if being in a third season makes it a “long time”. I guess maybe if you’re comparing it with other shows introduced in NBC around this time... 11:49 “This sucks. Let’s play Stratego.” 15:43 I admire him in being a good sidekick to Carson. But the only genuine emotion I feel when hearing Ed McMahon sing is scoffing laughter. 21:00 ...but they DON’T “have all their sisters with” them. They are missing a sister. Liars. 27:04 The couple remind me of Wayne and Wanda from “The Muppet Show”. In fact, if it WAS “The Muppet Show”, the Loch Ness Monster would swoop his neck down and eat them. 31:58 You’re right... not rousing AT ALL. 43:07 If you put up a picture of Danielle Brisebois when she was with the New Radicals, and said it was the same person, I’m not sure I would have believed you. 50:43 Oscar not being a grouch about Christmas? Is he not feeling well? 56:38 Later on, Mother G had a failed rap career.

@recaptchapt.221 4 жыл бұрын

Chris Lang thanks for posting bro 👍🏻🤘🏻

@MichaelTischers 3 жыл бұрын

lip syncing at 4:52

@80sCommercialVault 3 жыл бұрын

All of the singing here except for Ed McMahon's song was lip synced.

@love2craft545 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@chimpinaneckbrace 3 жыл бұрын

I like her delayed reaction when the music started.

@goforho7257 2 жыл бұрын

42:35 gorgeous Danielle Brisebois

@jamesanderson228 Жыл бұрын

is he drinking ? I've just kinda noticing he seems kinda boozy throughout this video? this seemed to confirm it for me 31:33. maybe I'm just looking to deep into it

@CircaMay85 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that chick most definitely got exposed right there lip syncing in front of the whole country, how embarrassing.

@80sCommercialVault 3 жыл бұрын

Every song in this entire broadcast was lip synced except for possibly Ed McMahon's song. It was standard procedure back then.

@80sCommercialVault 3 жыл бұрын

@@sdmurphy20 It honestly makes no sense for someone to be singing the same song live for over two hours as their float slowly makes its way around the parade route. Lip syncing is fine.