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THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES
Commercials of the 80's
A 10 hour collection on 5 DVDs!


You know, I don't remember very many He-Man episodes. Even when I watch old episodes nowadays, they don't really ring a bell. But the commercials are another story! Just a few of them, and I'm back in the days when the bowl cut was king, Fun Fruits didn't have any particular shapes, and Nickelodeon hadn't been torn apart by strife into Nick, Nick Jr, NickToons, and NickAtNight. Simpler times, they were. Well, now there's "THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES" - a series of five DVDs of great commercials!

Most of these commercials were shown during saturday morning cartoons, so, naturally, most of them advertise toys, cereal, games, snacks, and other things that sell to kids. Lots of things you can't get anymore, and things they no longer bother to advertise. I'll bet you can still sing a lot of the jingles! (Everybody now: "Transformers: More than meets the eye!")(or: "GI Joeee... a real American Hero - from Hasbro!")

Volumes 1-5 are available separately - or buy vols 1-3 or the complete, 5 volume set at special prices!



Many of the commercials appear more than once or on more than one volume, but, after all, what good is a commercial if it isn't repeated? Every time I turn it on, it seems like I run into something I didn't know was on the set!

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE that these commercials are 15-20 years old, so the quality may not be perfect, and can vary from commercial to commercial. The picture on some of them may be muddy, and the audio can be a little fuzzy, as can be expected on such recordings, and some commercials are in better shape than others. But I've sold many copies of this on tape in the past and never had a complaint! I've always found it to be perfectly watchable, except that no one can really watch more than 10 minutes worth of commercials in one sitting. Divide five hours by ten minutes, and you're looking at MONTHS of enjoyment from a single collection!

So, what's on it, you ask?

VOLUME 1: Volume 1 sets the tone for the series, and is an excellent sampler of what's on the set! Buy Volume 1 now - Only 8.99 + s/h - special price! Volumes 1-3: only 24.99 + s/h! > Complete 5 DVD set, only 34.49 + s/h!	Among the many, many commercials in volume 1: He-Man (plenty of these to go around!) Evil Horde Slime Pit (Coolest. Toy. Ever.) Dreamglow Barbie Gummi Bears (stuffed) Popples Bedbugs GI Joe (many of these) Honey Nut Cheerios (featuring Hulk Hogan) Mr Potato Head Funny Face Car Fruity Pebbles Blueberry Newtwons Lucky Charms (far fewer marshmallow-types in my day!) Wrangles (featuring the world's most obvious indiana jones ripoff) Rainbow Brite Glowworm Trix (every child's intro to bigotry!) Peaches n' Cream Barbie My Buddy (gender roles aside, it's STILL disturbing that a doll is the kid's very best friend!) Cheerios (with the Peanuts gang) Hot Wheels Crack-Ups Operation Count Chocula (been awhile since there was a commercial for that!) Sectaurs Chatbot My Little Pony (less creepy-looking than nowadays) She-Ra - Crystal Castle Sweet Secrets Kenner Super Powers Capsela Bubble Yum (nope. no mention of spider eggs) Cadbury Cream Eggs Pop Tarts (well, they certainly make ME want to dance!) Fruit Bars - an early, long abandoned form of the fruit roll-up) Pac Man Cereal (this stuff was GOOD - and it came with cool toys. What more could we ask of a cereal?) Hello Kitty tub toys M.U.S.C.L.E. (wish I still had more of these) Bonkers (great for people who like to see old people getting creamed in the head by giant fruit. And who among us doesn't?) Transformers Wheeled Warriors S'mores Cereal (better then than it is now, that's for sure!) Fruit Roll-Ups (no tattoos, no wacky shapes, no color-change. But do you recall complaining? No? I thought not!) The Animal (nothing can stop it!) JEM (were you and your friends Jem Girls?) McDonalds Chips Ahoy Alpha-Bits Capn Crunch - feauting the Soggies! AND MANY, MANY MORE!
VOLUME 2 The journey continues on disc 2 of this trip back to bowl-cut country - more great toys, more wacky cereal, and more sugary snacks that brought us all to our first encounter with novocaine. Your ticket back to the days when the world revolved around coming home to get past that egg-shooting guy on Super Mario Bros. 2 and you didn't know that professional wrestling was fake. Disc 2 - 12.49 + s/h! Set of Volumes 1-3, only 24.99 + sh/! Complete 5 DVD Set - only 34.49 +s/h!	Among the many, many commercials on this volume: Trix (featuring Bugs Bunny!) Fat Albert Quik (another popula spokesrabbit) Rice Krispie Bar Muscle voltron Transformers patches (boy, are these kids excited!) GI JOE Soggies Evil Horde Fright Pop Tarts Robotech M.U.S.C.L.E. Ring (Fuzzball was the best in this, as I recall) Fun Fruits (no weird shapes in those early, carefree days) Fruit Loops Mcdonalds Apple Jacks (before they started apologizing for not tasting like apples) Levis Mickey Mouse Fun Phone Thundercats Rainbow Bright Movie Operation Glwo Worm Golden Grahams Simon (nobody beats simon!) Topple Capsela Corn Pops Care bears Glow Friends Super Powers Muppet Babies (stuffed) Go Bots Hot Stuff Skipper Capri Sun Rainbow Bright Cereal Cabbage Ponies MASK Connect 4 Protein OJs Wet Banana ( sorta like slip'n'slide) Green MnMs (green m&ms make kids hit home runs? that's all KINDS of disturbing!) Fruit Bars Spaghetti Os Light Brite Sweet Pickles Fraggle Rock Books (with that kid in the bowl cut with suspenders who LOOOOVES Fraggle Rock) Alvin and the Chipmunks (stuffed) Honey Smacks twizzlers (with rocky horror style lips) Cocoa Puffs Cap Blastin' He-Man He-Man Christmas Special Petster Circus Fun (one of the least creative cereals ever, but I can still sing the song!) Benji Kool Aid Koolers Micro Machine Man Show Biz Pizza Nintendo (8 bit, naturally) Double dare Thunder Road game Potato Head Kids Baby Grows Mike tyson's Punch Out for NES (admit it. You'd LOVE to punch Tyson out these days) AND MANY, MANY MORE!
VOLUME 3 On we go to Volume 3, which has a handful that I think may actually be the from the early 90's - it's hard to tell. In 1990, it was still really the 80's. Grunge rock had not yet hit mainstream America to wash away all that had come before. Volume 3 - 12.49 + s/h! Set of Volumes 1-3, only 24.99 + sh/! Complete 5 DVD Set - only 34.49 +s/h!	Among the many commercials on this volume: Ghostbusters Cereal Pinnocchio and the Emperor of Night ( a movie that looks so bad I almost want to see it) Corn Flakes w/ Captain Power Stickers Moon Dreamers The Clapper Action Max Trix (carmen miranda) Super Naturals (cool holographic figures) Barbie and the Rockers Quik Popsicles (those sound good - why can't i find them now?) Ice Cream Cone Cereal Chips Ahoy Pound Puppies (back before they could talk to you) Visionairies Heart to Heart Bears Lazer Tag (with a commercial almost exactly like the ones they used more recently) GI JOE Voltron Fruit Loops (w/ Garfield Reflectors for your bike!) Met Life w/ Peanuts Pizza Hut w/ Land Before Time Puppets (pizza hut was never the same without these to me) Keypers Flintstones Kids Cathedreal Talking Alf Dolls (before he only existed in Pog form) Casio Mr. Mouth Hot Looks Magazine Pound Purries DQ Blizzards Thundercats Nintendo Oreos Bugle Boy Jeans Nintendo Power Phone New Adventurs of He-Man Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Honeycomb (Andre the Giant finds the Honeycome Hideout!) Louie the Lightning Bug Real Ghostbusters Pac man pasta Meet He-Man at Universal Studios He Man Movie figures (Gwildor!) Alvin and the Chipmunks Glasses (how many "art glasses" are STILL in your cupboard?) Wuzzles McDonalds w/ Mayor McCheese Mork and Mindy two-badd AND MANY, MANY MORE!
Volume 4 Volume 4 is a bit of a departure - there are several commercials that came from Nickelodeon, circa 1987 or so - in those innocent times just before the great artistic strides brought forth by the likes of Pete and Pete. Lots of great bumpers and promos that remind me more my youth than actually SEEING The Little Koala ever could. Also, there's a large chunk of Christmas commercials - enough that you could, in theory, show it at a Christmas party (I'm pretty sure that celebrating Christmas by watching commercials, some for things you can't even buy anymore, probably symbolizes something, but I'll let you worry about that for yourself). Volume 4 - 12.49 + s/h Set of Volumes 1-3, only 24.99 + sh/! Complete 5 DVD Set - only 34.49 +s/h!	Among the commercials on this volume: Goonie's Glasses (at Godfather's Pizza) Levi's Jeans and Cords Dragon Blaster Skeletor Colgate Pump L'eggo My E'ggo! Hershey's Granola Bar(doesn't look too granola-ish to me) Oreo Big Stuff (think what these would do to one's teeth!) Quackers chips Reese's Pieces (watch them try to cash in on E.T.!) Milk - It Does the Body Good (why did they advertize this so much? We'd all heard of milk!) Hug-a-Bunch Bonkers (new watermelon flavor!) Cabbage Patch Kids Cereal Pizza Hut - Makin' it Great Rainbow Brite Sprites (with a song lifted from Wizard of Oz) Choco Bliss Fruit Island Cereal (a yumma-yumma!) The Heart Family (so sweet it kinda makes you throw up a little) Bubble-Eez OJ's Cereal (with kids who are WAY too excited about getting a free frosty) Three Musketeers (with those three cool guys) Pee-Wee's Playhouse Playset Fun time Barbie Kool Aid Man vs. Scorch (which is what I thought Satan looked like for years) Mr. Wizard Fruit Swirl Bars Mademoiselle Magazine (with free fashion watches that surely were never REALLY fashionable) McDonalds Menu Song (I can still sing it!) Snuggles Soft Bear Pat Sajak tells you not to drink and drive Captain Power Care Bears Movie California Raisins (with a claymation Ray Charles!) Dolph and Company (a local show from Des Moines) Smurfs Cereal (with election stuff from either the 88 or 84 election - I'm pretty sure it's 4) My Little Pony Waterfalls Hi-C (remember when it made kids sing doo-wop?) The Land Before Time Domino's Pizza (featuring the Noid) Dino-Riders The Star Stage (a microphone with lights to make you more like Bruce Springsteen) Real Ghostbusters Firehouse Playset Bouncin' Babies Reynolds Wrap continues its domination of the foil industry Smurf Spinaround (a game with a spinning smurf!) Rice Krispies (with a pirate!) Dr. Fad Fruity Pebbles (see Barney rap - and just TRY to recover) Zack - Leggo Maniac! Star Wars - Wednesday, on CBS! Radio Shack's ColorComputer3 He-Man: Roboto The Evil Horde: "Coming soon. Very soon." Firffels (similarities to Wuzzles are purely intentional) McDonalds (that holiday ad with the ice-skating kids that they showed year after year after year - but, alas, is no more) AND MORE!
Set of Volumes 1-3, only 24.99 + sh/! Complete 5 DVD Set - only 34.49 +s/h!	A couple more from the early 90s may sneak in on volume 5: Among those appearing: Twirly Curls Barbie M&Ms (holiday) McDonalds - meet the Professor! Crayola Caddy Angel Face Barbie Burger King The Evil Horde Transformers Corn Pops Super Powers Castle Greyskull Rainbow Bright's Dog, Puppy Bright A desinger ring set for 12.95 Care Bears Cousins Honeycomb GI Joe Apple IIe (under $1300!) Lucky Charms Oreos/Oreo Double Stuff Fluffy Puppies (how many kinds of cute toy dogs did they MAKE, anyway?) Perfection Toys R Us Ertle Ice Cream Cones Cereal (chocolate chip spinoff!) The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (syndicated on some poor, unsuspecting station) Fruit Wrinkles (sorta like Fun Fruits) The Animator Cabbage Patch Kids Ishtar - one of the most expensive movies ever to flop N'air McDonalds - with the old guy who gets a job GI JOe Mobile Command Center Sega Kenner Starting Lineups 1990 British Knights Shows Freakies Cereal JEM Just Say No! Canada (yep. a commercial for Canada) Nerf Ewoks and Droids Ovaltine Captain OJ Readmore Crest(joining the ranks of toothpastes with claymation ads) Smurfs Pasta Protein GI Joe Stars Cereal Construx Rolo Teddy Ruxben Hershey's Syrup Cookie Crisp Care Bears Clothes (care Bears are back, but bears like Do Your Best Bear and Harmony Bear had not been discovered by scientists back in the 80s) AND MORE!

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