I had strawberry shortcake EVERYTHING. The little dolls, the baby doll, and the room decor. And all the toys were scented. It gave my mom a headache 😂.
Saturday morning , kids were up early watching cartoons and eating cereal so advertisements were geared for the audience ( cereal, toys, McD, foods for kids, etc).
Others have said it, but for 70’s kids Saturday mornings were a major weekly event & ritual. You were up early (eating cereal) and watching cartoons. There was no streaming, no video tapes, no other time you could get your fill of media.
Alot of us stayed home by ourselves or with siblings all day during summer break. There were usually only 2 rules; get your chores done, and don’t turn on the stove. Cereal and peanut butter were staples if we got hungry while our parents were at work.
The best part of being a kid in the 70's and 80's was you and your friends would spend all of your time together having adventures unsupervised. I would come home from school, put on my play clothes, take off on my bike and my parents wouldn't see me until I came home for dinner. But at the same time we were completely accepting that grownups were in charge. Any adult could reprimand you for misbehaving and your parents would be so mad you made the neighbor's mom spank you.
Does anyone understand us? Not really. Our experience is unique and historical. There will never be another generation like us. We have brought alot of light into a very dark world.
16:59 back in the early 80s we had new cereals constantly but most did not make it, most would be the all new whatever and it would be in the stores for like a month and then you'd never see it again after that. Something it's kind of funny is I don't remember the powdered sugar donuts one from back then but in 2021 they came out with a powdered sugar donuts cereal and I tried it and it was just so much powdered sugar in there. One of the commercials that you said you didn't understand was the guy that was selling balloons and they were talking about sneezing and stuff there were a lot of commercials back in the late seventies early eighties that were about teaching and that bet you didn't know line of commercials taught you just generic stuff about science and such, like the first one was why donuts have holes and why they have a hole is because if they don't have a hole when they're frying in the grease the middle part of the dough doesn't cook so by punching a hole in it it allows the grease to get in there and the the donut cooks evenly, and the second one with the guy with the balloons they were telling you how a sneeze works, I didn't think that one did a very good job of teaching that but whatever. And honestly I don't remember the series of commercials that had Kim Fields, teaching general knowledge stuff. The ones that I remember the most were the, "Schoolhouse Rock" add "Time for Timer". Personally I think they should bring back the schoolhouse Rock series and put it back on between kids programs, it's actually amazing how much information does silly little songs and cartoons gave, Anne kids tend to remember it because of it being in a song.
Casey Kasem off the hop ❤ We lived off of cereal, and pb& j sandwiches❤ My bro had He-man❤ Inclusive society before the 2000's, imagine that😊 Thanks for the trip down memory lane❤ Funny i hit the red heart before you said it😂 ✌️🍂💞
During these days Saturday morning cartoons, the TV networks were mandated that 6 have some educational content in their programming blocks for kids, so they add the "Bet You Don't Know" or a PSA at the end of an episode to comply
He Man was a huge cartoon of the 80s to the 90s. There was at least one live action movie. There were several animated movies as well. Netflix also has a new He Man series running. As far as I know the toys have been in stores to this day
Regan changed the rules for broadcasting to kids, that's why cartoons like G.I. Joe, He-Man, Transformers, Go-Bots, Thundercats were basically 30minute commercials with a little PSA at the end to comply with minimum educational requirements and with those shows came all the toy ads and sugary cereals because kids were watching those shows.
Gen X here. I can reassure you, the 80s was a great time to be a kid. Indeed, we had plenty of cereals to choose from that are no longer around. Kool Aid was another 80s gem, we had tons of flavors that are no longer around, either. We had so much fun!
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 later 75% of those cereals where discontinued due to toxic chemicals in the dyes.. Btw Superman Peanut butter tasted like... peanut butter. They also made those nerf boomerangs, because kids were getting injured by the wood ones.. due to someone calling out to them upon the boomerang's return. Usually a parent or sibling. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
We got our own breakfast. Cereal was the easiest thing to prepare for ourselves. My own kids would not eat cereal, so i was making breakfast every morning.
Good day JayFlex at timestamp 16:21 you say a mouth full just by saying the words Saturday Morning Commercials because those commercials were designed to be played for the kids between their cartoons so the parents could do their own stuff and not be bothered by the kids
The fact that you're commenting on the editing 🤣 😂 . It's FILM ! They didn't begin using video tape till the 1990's. Yes we threw the boomerangs that hard, we made it a competition to see how far we could throw them. Then climbed the tree to get it back down 💞🤔😂🤣😲
Gen X bought this sheet and knew what is was. We loved our fantasies. In the end though, we knew we were being sold a dream. Now today, the latest election, you saw that Gen X wasn't buying what was being sold.
Blueberry Waffelos were so good… like a blueberry toaster waffle with maple syrup. We also had Dinky Donuts which tasted like glazed donuts. We didn’t have the powdered Donuts or Strawberry Shortcake cereals. Different parts of the US were test markets for these. If they sold well, they would end up on shelves nationwide. We had Crazy Cow cereal that came in vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. The idea was the cereal would flavor your bowl milk and then you drink it at the end. I didn’t eat chocolate cereal with the exception of Cocoa Puffs. My grandpa would buy Crazy Cow for us when we came to visit. He bought strawberry Crazy Cow just for me since I wouldn’t eat the chocolate one. I remember keeping Penny Racers and Hot Wheels in the same car carriers. We also had Matchbox cars. I still have a couple of my favorite ones. Who knew all this stuff we had as kids would be collectibles. My sister and I gave our stuff to our younger cousins or sold it at garage sales when we stopped playing with it.
There was He-Man and a separate but related line in the same storyverse: She-Ra, Princess of Power. I had She-Ra, her friends and a purple waterfall they hung out at. Toy stores back then were fun.
Not sure how it would work, but if you want to understand GenX, you should find a way to react to things like Star Wars fever, the Iran hostage crisis, Japanophobia and the corrosion of the Steel Belt into the Rust Belt, the Challenger disaster, the death of Ryan White, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the 1992 Gulf War. Universal formative events for American GenXers.
@@the_dog_says_mooI actually call my niece Tootie, but it had nothing to do with Kim Fields. Yet, I do sometimes think of her when I call my niece by that name.
You should cover Menudo. It usually came on before Action News for Kids in my area. Ricky Martin was in it when Menudo aired in my area. We’re the same age, so he was my favorite.
Im Genx but ive never seen any of these because they are all American. Some 80s vids from Australia or other countries would be good to see. I love seeing your reactions though.
I had strawberry shortcake EVERYTHING. The little dolls, the baby doll, and the room decor. And all the toys were scented. It gave my mom a headache 😂.
We ate those cereals in front of the tv!
13:20 🤣😂🤣 You are catching on! Why were the kids outside some random castle...oh yesh, its th 1980s!
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Saturday morning , kids were up early watching cartoons and eating cereal so advertisements were geared for the audience ( cereal, toys, McD, foods for kids, etc).
Others have said it, but for 70’s kids Saturday mornings were a major weekly event & ritual. You were up early (eating cereal) and watching cartoons. There was no streaming, no video tapes, no other time you could get your fill of media.
Alot of us stayed home by ourselves or with siblings all day during summer break. There were usually only 2 rules; get your chores done, and don’t turn on the stove. Cereal and peanut butter were staples if we got hungry while our parents were at work.
Woke up earlier for Saturday cartoon than for school.
Could barely drag my ass out of bed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday mornings.
Saturdays? I’m wide awake.
I'm so grateful that you do these videos. It always takes me back. ❤
Wonderful video - a major blast from the past. Such a different time that was.
I miss those commercials and Saturday morning cartoons were an awesome thing for kids.
The best part of being a kid in the 70's and 80's was you and your friends would spend all of your time together having adventures unsupervised. I would come home from school, put on my play clothes, take off on my bike and my parents wouldn't see me until I came home for dinner. But at the same time we were completely accepting that grownups were in charge. Any adult could reprimand you for misbehaving and your parents would be so mad you made the neighbor's mom spank you.
I loved Hot Wheels and I was jealous because my neighbor had the Hot Wheels garage w/ the gas station attached. 😂 He also had all the Star Wars toys.
If you just look at these videos and not truly experience any of it, you will never truly understand Gen X. Love seeing all these memories ❤
Does anyone understand us? Not really. Our experience is unique and historical. There will never be another generation like us. We have brought alot of light into a very dark world.
16:59 back in the early 80s we had new cereals constantly but most did not make it, most would be the all new whatever and it would be in the stores for like a month and then you'd never see it again after that. Something it's kind of funny is I don't remember the powdered sugar donuts one from back then but in 2021 they came out with a powdered sugar donuts cereal and I tried it and it was just so much powdered sugar in there.
One of the commercials that you said you didn't understand was the guy that was selling balloons and they were talking about sneezing and stuff there were a lot of commercials back in the late seventies early eighties that were about teaching and that bet you didn't know line of commercials taught you just generic stuff about science and such, like the first one was why donuts have holes and why they have a hole is because if they don't have a hole when they're frying in the grease the middle part of the dough doesn't cook so by punching a hole in it it allows the grease to get in there and the the donut cooks evenly, and the second one with the guy with the balloons they were telling you how a sneeze works, I didn't think that one did a very good job of teaching that but whatever.
And honestly I don't remember the series of commercials that had Kim Fields, teaching general knowledge stuff.
The ones that I remember the most were the, "Schoolhouse Rock" add "Time for Timer". Personally I think they should bring back the schoolhouse Rock series and put it back on between kids programs, it's actually amazing how much information does silly little songs and cartoons gave, Anne kids tend to remember it because of it being in a song.
Casey Kasem off the hop ❤
We lived off of cereal, and pb& j sandwiches❤
My bro had He-man❤
Inclusive society before the 2000's, imagine that😊
Thanks for the trip down memory lane❤
Funny i hit the red heart before you said it😂
✌️🍂💞
During these days Saturday morning cartoons, the TV networks were mandated that 6 have some educational content in their programming blocks for kids, so they add the "Bet You Don't Know" or a PSA at the end of an episode to comply
And don't forget the iconic "The More You Know" bumpers NBC ran. Geez, I almost forgot Schoolhouse Rock.
He- Man is still popular and is on Netflix, they are making a live action movie that's coming out next year.
He Man was a huge cartoon of the 80s to the 90s. There was at least one live action movie. There were several animated movies as well. Netflix also has a new He Man series running. As far as I know the toys have been in stores to this day
Regan changed the rules for broadcasting to kids, that's why cartoons like G.I. Joe, He-Man, Transformers, Go-Bots, Thundercats were basically 30minute commercials with a little PSA at the end to comply with minimum educational requirements and with those shows came all the toy ads and sugary cereals because kids were watching those shows.
Things from my childhood...lol😊
A lot of those cereal sweepstakes were Void in Wisconsin, which sucked for a Wisconsin kid like me. That started to change in the mid-80s.
Gen X here. I can reassure you, the 80s was a great time to be a kid. Indeed, we had plenty of cereals to choose from that are no longer around. Kool Aid was another 80s gem, we had tons of flavors that are no longer around, either. We had so much fun!
OMG THE VEIWMASTER PROJECTOR, HOW FUCKING KOOOOL
I remember having the red and orange Viewmaster and some Disney discs 🤓🤓🤓🤓
You should look up old Reece's and Life cereal commercials.The Chipmonks has a cartoon too.
This why we could stay out all day...sugar in cereal
And it used to say Sugar in the title.
Tyese are mostly from the 70s so end of the boomer era ...great memories of sat mornings ❤
Cosmic Ark was one of my favorite Atari 2600 games. Also Atlantis and Pinball.
Pitfall was my favorite
@the_dog_says_moo "Pitfall!" and "Space Invaders" was my favorites, but "Asteroids" was up there too 🤓🤓🤓🤓
I remember all of them!!!😊😊😊
Still have my little brother's He-Man and Man -E-Faces figures. Dont know how I wound up with them lol! Hes like 8 years younger...
My cousin had every He-Man character, vehicle, Castle Grayskull, & Snakemountain.
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂 later 75% of those cereals where discontinued due to toxic chemicals in the dyes.. Btw Superman Peanut butter tasted like... peanut butter. They also made those nerf boomerangs, because kids were getting injured by the wood ones.. due to someone calling out to them upon the boomerang's return. Usually a parent or sibling. 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
Most commercials I rememeber were for toys.
We got our own breakfast. Cereal was the easiest thing to prepare for ourselves. My own kids would not eat cereal, so i was making breakfast every morning.
Good day JayFlex at timestamp 16:21 you say a mouth full just by saying the words Saturday Morning Commercials because those commercials were designed to be played for the kids between their cartoons so the parents could do their own stuff and not be bothered by the kids
❤❤❤ Saturday mornings were made for cartoons and sugary cereals!!
The fact that you're commenting on the editing 🤣 😂 . It's FILM ! They didn't begin using video tape till the 1990's. Yes we threw the boomerangs that hard, we made it a competition to see how far we could throw them. Then climbed the tree to get it back down 💞🤔😂🤣😲
Yeah I was gonna say that’s how they work and how they go, fast and loopy.
Gen X bought this sheet and knew what is was. We loved our fantasies. In the end though, we knew we were being sold a dream. Now today, the latest election, you saw that Gen X wasn't buying what was being sold.
The Nerf boomerang actually worked.
Blueberry Waffelos were so good… like a blueberry toaster waffle with maple syrup. We also had Dinky Donuts which tasted like glazed donuts. We didn’t have the powdered Donuts or Strawberry Shortcake cereals. Different parts of the US were test markets for these. If they sold well, they would end up on shelves nationwide. We had Crazy Cow cereal that came in vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. The idea was the cereal would flavor your bowl milk and then you drink it at the end. I didn’t eat chocolate cereal with the exception of Cocoa Puffs. My grandpa would buy Crazy Cow for us when we came to visit. He bought strawberry Crazy Cow just for me since I wouldn’t eat the chocolate one. I remember keeping Penny Racers and Hot Wheels in the same car carriers. We also had Matchbox cars. I still have a couple of my favorite ones. Who knew all this stuff we had as kids would be collectibles. My sister and I gave our stuff to our younger cousins or sold it at garage sales when we stopped playing with it.
Alvin and the Chipmunks were a musical act. Christmas is coming up. You should react to some of their Christmas songs
Alvin?...ALvin?!...ALVIN!!...OKAY DAVE!
There was He-Man and a separate but related line in the same storyverse: She-Ra, Princess of Power. I had She-Ra, her friends and a purple waterfall they hung out at. Toy stores back then were fun.
Omgggg the memories
Not sure how it would work, but if you want to understand GenX, you should find a way to react to things like Star Wars fever, the Iran hostage crisis, Japanophobia and the corrosion of the Steel Belt into the Rust Belt, the Challenger disaster, the death of Ryan White, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the 1992 Gulf War. Universal formative events for American GenXers.
I would love to see a video like this from a Gen X perspective
Noooooooo. Our music is what explains us the most.
Definitely had them cereals and toys 😂 and that’s not even the half of it, a decade is a long time to crank out new products non stop back to back .
It seemed like a new cereal came out each week.
Jay flex! You the man
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Damn… at 07:34 that’s a young Kim Fields. Us 90’s kids remember her from the TV show Living Single.
I remember her from The Facts of Life in the 80s
@@the_dog_says_mooI actually call my niece Tootie, but it had nothing to do with Kim Fields. Yet, I do sometimes think of her when I call my niece by that name.
You should cover Menudo. It usually came on before Action News for Kids in my area. Ricky Martin was in it when Menudo aired in my area. We’re the same age, so he was my favorite.
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please do schoolhouse rock
Gen x here. Freakies was the best cereal
Superman peanutbutter was the best
Im Genx but ive never seen any of these because they are all American. Some 80s vids from Australia or other countries would be good to see. I love seeing your reactions though.
Waffelo's was my all time favorite cereal as a kid. still today, i remember the taste. the waffle cereals that came later still don't have that taste.
You guys don't have Reeses Peanut Butter Cups over there? You need to get someone to ship some to you. Only one of the best candies out there
Think of your thoughts about the commercials as a Jeopardy category.The answer? would be what is the perfect thing to sell to the target audience kids
Scooby Doo and Tom and Jerry.
Casey kasum!
Yes Star Wars was popular until Disney ruined it for everyone!
WHAT AN INSULT YOU ARE do you think BOOMERS ARE DEAD AND GONE? 😎😎 HEY WE HAD THAT COMMERCIAL in the 60's you know... way before gen X were born
Lol, the educational adverts were to hopefully look further in their parent's " encyclopedia collection " 🤣