375. Super Bowl Commercials, 1989
Everyone here should know by now that I’m not the sports type, ok, figure skating and gymnastics, but not much else. So what is a non sport tv watching person to do tonight last night. Do what I do every night, watch old commercials:
Watch my boo Jon Lovitz and Dana Carvey in an American Express commercial where they go to the Super Bowl in Miami but Jon’s boring ol Visa card doesn’t work.
This is the closest thing I found to the commercials shown that night, I believe that’s all of them. My internet is being a jerk as I write this so, gifs will be sparse. That’s also why this entry is the night after the super bowl. Thanks, internet.
Hold up, though. I didn’t know that 1989 was the first year for the Bud Bowl! You know, the Bud Bowl where Bud and Bud light beer bottles waddle across a mini field. Or, from the Simpsons episode, “Lisa the Greek”:
PSA: don’t forget about CPR Saturday next weekend.
These dumb dumbs think this car is Japanese. Girl, its a Plymouth Shadow. Or was that a Dodge Spirit?
Smash that unsub button!
It wasn’t interesting enough to make a screen cap of, but there is this overly sappy commercial around 10:36 that at first you think its about like, jewelry because its a married couple in the beginning of the commercial and then kids and then old people. NOP. It’s about Nabisco products. Wasn’t Nabisco in a heap of trouble around this time because of RJ Reynolds buying them or something? That book, Barbarians at the Gate? I need to read that book. I wonder if this awful ad is mentioned.
Oh! The Diet Pepsi ad with the chimps who can’t say please and thank you to their scientist premiered too! Dumb Dumbs commenting on YouTube are saying that Travis the chimp who mauled Charla Nash’s face is in this commercial, but it is impossible because Travis was born in 1995.
More places need a steak and enchilada combo.
This “greatest hits” Night Court commercial is insane (18:23)
I adore these Oldsmobile commercials with celebrities’ kids in them, this one changes it up and has a celebrity’s mom as the star of the commercial. There’s also a Johnson & Johnson contact lens commercial with the Bengals and Ickey doing his signature shuffle. And a Diet Coke commercial with the Bengals. They didn’t even win!
WOAH, WAS THERE AN EPISODE OF HOGAN FAMILY WHERE AUNT SANDY “WHEAT THINS” DUNCAN POSED NUDE.
This is what a bag cell phone looked like in use. In case you were wondering.
There’s those poppin’ Nightingales again. Watching the commercial for this you would have no clue it was just a show about ladies in nursing school.
One of these days I really need to sit down and take note of commercials that had Soviet Union themes. They all follow a “oh look, they’re learning Western things for the first time!” kind of plot. For example, these Soviet kids think they’re cool because they drink Pepsi.
Speaking of Pepsi, Michael J. Fox’s clone gets to go out with Aunt Becky.
Arm Wrestling over flowers in a diner? It happened. This was part of a string of out there commercials. To a faux Super Bowl crowd singing happy birthday to the Big Mac, to a Delta worker using his football skills in the airport, to this Master Lock ad where thieves beat up Master Locks.
Tom Brokaw reports from down in Miami. George Bush [just being sworn in days prior] asked for prayers for the new administration.
The 3-d Diet Coke commercial comes on after this, which I’ve brought up before. This copy didn’t have that dripping with sarcasm Bob Costas intro though :(
“PUNCH IT, MARGARET!”
A sign you’ll never see on the fridge at my house.
Rigged! Rigged! I call shenanigans!
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