June 2022 – saleintothe90s

(the big list of favorite commercials archive)

“Mr Delicious TV Ad 3 ( The one where he talks about his vasectomy)“

So, we all know the story about Mr. Delicious from Rax Roast Beef from the Vlog Brothers video and how the promotion was a total flop and Rax went into bankruptcy. I had to share him, though. This lil dude was way ahead of his time, I think if he had come out in about 1996 or 2003 people would’ve “gotten” him.

1987 Sears Retail Testing “Pete Menagin is a happy man” TV Commercial

First person in to be on the chopping block when Sears discontinued their catalog in 1993? Pete.

MERCK commercial featuring Scott Lowell (1999)

You ever wear the wrong thing, and you feel like everybody is looking at you? This commercial is that entire feel.

L’oreal Exuberance Werbung 1995

This outfit. THIS OUTFIT.

Subaru Justy commercial

Take your little tiny Justy and drive far way from your nosy ass family!

RC Cola & The 3 Bears Commercial | 1999 [Israel Subtitles Version 2]

This commercial is absolutely bonkers.

1998 Garden Burger “Paul is shining shoes” TV Commercial

What happened to Garden Burger?! They were white hot in the late 90s and then they disappeared. Loved their fake ribs. I think Kellogg’s only offers them to food service companies like cafeterias?

1998 Tostitos Nachos “Chris Elliot & The Beverly Hillbillies” TV Commercial

Remember when this was a trend? Putting dead celebrities in commercials and editing them to make them sell stuff? I gotta touch base more on that later. I also got to throw Chris Elliot a bone. I like his work on that one year he was on Saturday Night Live. That nacho topping looks gross tho.

Pillsbury Flour Funny 80s Commercial (1988)

Maybe because we didn’t bake much growing up, but a 25 pound bag of flour?!

Food Emporium commercial (1988)

Okay, so #1 the lady in the commercial twirling around the store and being scared of a lobster looks exactly like the lady from the cover of that Yuppie Handbook. #2: Evian cameo. #3: someone in the comments said:

this is what you hear when you die and go to heaven

Some things never change. While we didn’t get to 100 exactly last week, it got pretty close.

Woah, so that’s a big correction.

Chris got probation in August:

Rock singer Chris Robinson, 24, was sentenced to six months’ probation when he pleaded no contest to a charge of disturbing the peace during a late-night beer run. The court dismissed an assault charge.
Robinson’s group, the Black Crowes, had played a May 29 concert in Denver, when he went to a 7-Eleven for beer and was turned down because it was after midnight. He allegedly spit on another customer, Elizabeth Juergens, who asked, “Who are the Black Crowes?” 1

Whitney’s concert at the Hampton Coliseum was canceled on July 2nd due to “sluggish sales”:

The July 5 concert was killed Tuesday by promoter Dimensions Unlimited of Washington, D.C. Only 2,500 of 10,000 tickets had sold, said Alysia Taylor of Dimensions Unlimited. Even additional television advertising failed to sell the show.
Taylor said a mutual decision to cancel was reached by Houston’s New Jersey-based management company and promoters. It was the first cancellation of an East Coast appearance by the singer.
“It’s horrible,” Taylor said. “I think it hurt us really badly that people got to see Whitney for free a few months ago.”
Houston’s Easter Sunday concert at Norfolk Naval Air Station aired for free on the Home Box Office cable network. 2

What exactly is a dinette? There were stores devoted to them back then, but all I’m seeing is a dining room set. Webster’s says a dinette is a “small dining table and chairs” 3

The Bushes had Graves Disease, which is a thyroid disorder. Millie had lupus.

That motorist was Rodney King. 4

Tops reached their highest in 1991. They’ve never been that high again.

This is messed up. You know how years ago I would share the bottom 100 from Spy magazine? Well, in the 1991 edition, there was an entire section of ridiculous murders : 5

I’m sure that kid is wearing cutoffs that original said “Colonial” but now they just say “COLON”. Colon shorts.

Okay, so here is the thing, the newspaper’s microfilm copy that is on ProQuest is missing the Lifestyles section. I’ll try to fill in the pieces.

There was supposed to be an article about how the Virginia Living Museum built a dinosaur exhibit in the old Miller & Rhoads department store at the Newmarket Fair Mall. I found this article from a special insert from the day before.

My dad took me to this while mom shopped at Sears. I wish I remembered more from it, I just remember that it was at the mall, and I got a cardboard dinosaur pencil case afterward. I wish I had more memories of going places with my dad, he doesn’t like me anymore.

WOAH WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS ARTICLE AND THIS AD RUNNING TOGETHER.

I used the Eugene Register-Guard to fill in the comics page:

oh, this was a couple of months after Elly had April, the accident baby.

You know how the strip has been in reruns since 2008? They’re currently running strips from 1993. The original strip ended right when I transferred to another college in 2008 when I was 25. We’re getting old.

Don’t ya just want to slap Jeffy sometimes?

Staff. ‘ROCK SINGER GETS PROBATION’. Buffalo News. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://buffalonews.com/news/rock-singer-gets-probation/article_ee81dda5-27d2-5820-91df-5e9d00d0e0b2.html.
Daily Press. ‘WHITNEY’S CONCERT CANCELED’. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19910703-1991-07-03-9107030079-story.html. https://archive.ph/dcx7Q
Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, s.v. “dinette set,” accessed May 30, 2022, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinette%20set.
UPI. ‘Attn: Editors and Publishers Reporter Fined for Refusing to Identify Source in King Case’. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/30/Attn-editors-and-publishers-Reporter-fined-for-refusing-to-identify-source-in-King-case/3514675576000/.
Spy. ‘Ten Most Senseless Murders in New York City This Year (so Far)’, October 1991. https://books.google.com/books?id=66y_cHgHTYYC&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1&hl=en#v=twopage&q&f=true.

Month: June 2022

Big List of Favorite Commercials part 14

461. Daily Press, June 1, 1991