I've said it so many times it should be on my headstone, but: My bird _loved_ the Kisses commercial. For almost ten Christmas seasons, whenever it came on, you would hear his little "RAHR! RAHR!" when it came on.
Piper gave me some of my favorite holiday memories. Years later on Monday Nitro he'd give a promo reminding everyone 'don't ever forget, Christmas is someone's birthday'. The man truly had a heart of gold.
I was 12 years old and not knowing it would of been my last Christmas with my mom. She passed away in July of 1990 when i was 13 yrs old. But its nice to see all this and i remember all these commercials and shows from then. Its a good memory because i wish i could go back in time to then when everything was good, no worries at all. Christmas was definitely my favorite holiday as a kid.
@@bebout1978 I'm sorry you lost your grandmother at such a young age as well. And especially on a Christmas morning, too. It's never easy losing someone you're so close to and at a young age.
I remember Christmas of 1989. I was 12 years old. One thing I remember about it was how cold it was weather wise. A few weeks before Christmas, my family and I all went to the movie theater to see what my all-time favorite Christmas movie would be, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And we also saw Scrooged on video. I also remember us watching the Simpsons Christmas Special and the Married...With Children Christmas episode with Sam Kinison as they did a take on It's a Wonderful Life. Three nights before Christmas, I also watched A Very Brady Christmas. That Christmas, I got a Batman doll, Batman figure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and a carrying case, checkers game, two remote control cars, and clothes. The night before on Christmas Eve, we went to my aunt's for the neighborhood Christmas party. Not the best Christmas I ever had, but it was pretty good, nonetheless.
I was only 4 but i remember so many of these. So nostalgic! I'd really love to see the year 1993! Merry Christmas to all! ❤ it sure ain't what it used to be!🥺
This is about 3 months of work. Mostly research. There were so many conflicting dates on shows and movies about when they aired. The commercials were tough to nail down. I was originally going to choose random years, but I think I will be counting down the 80s so 1988 will be next. Then after that move to the 90s
This was a very special Christmas, as a life long resident of Southeast Georgia, it was the only year I have ever seen snow and it was just in time for Christmas. I was only 13 and everyone I loved was still alive. Great memories I will always cherish. Thank you so much for allowing us to relive some great times, excellent job!
wow thanks for the compliment. I enjoy remembering all of the movies and TV shows and hope to countdown the 80s. 1988 is also on the channel with 1987 coming in January!
I lived near savannah that year and I remember that we got snow! All the kids and many adults were outside playing in it most of the night. That was a great memory.
I forgot about these great shows! In 1989 we had 41 channels and all this to watch. I now have 866 channels and I’m watching a video about what 9 yr old me watched in 1989.
The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire was the only full length episode of the Simpsons to air in the 80's. Whenever I'm discussing/arguing the Simpsons with someone younger than me who asks me what I think the best episode that did not come out of the 90's was I cheekily reply the 1989 Christmas special.
Ah the memories. I remember so many of these shows and things, Prancer was one of my fave movies and that Simpsons episode still gives me joy to watch. I remember getting a little My Little Pony in my stocking that Christmas and I still have that little pony sitting on my bookshelf in my livingroom.❤
I don’t know about other countries but we’ve all lost that warm that used to be tv in the 80’s. Every tv show would do a Christmas themed special, Christmas movies were good and the messages would be about trying to be a better human being. Now every year, your lucky if your favourite show bothers with a Christmas special and it’s not on every channel anymore. Like people on tv would wear festive clothes or a Santa hat or something and they’d seem genuinely happy….you don’t get that anymore 😢
@@ChristmasAficionado in the Uk over the last couple of years, I’d say the last 10 at least, slowly they’ve taken Christmas out of tv shows. It’s no longer consistent either.
It’s nice to be reminded of good holiday memories from ‘89. I always associate that year with the Loma Prieta earthquake, as I was living in SF at the time.
New subbie here. Love the nostalgia and looking back on Christmases 80s past. Reminds me of Timeline. Thanks for taking this footage and compiling it for us viewers.
I was 9 years old back in 89. I remember went to go see Christmas Vacation at the movies. For Christmas that year i remember i got clothes and Barbie Dolls a bottle of Exclamation purfume coloring book.
Three years later, I would wake up for school in October, like it was just any other day. The most normal family you could imagine, like out of sitcom on TGIF. That was the last time I saw my bedroom or anything in it, I was 14. Mom decided she didn't want to be married anymore and when I got out of school, my childhood was over. It's a long story and one I didn't know at the time but my mother had a past that made me, her son, something she didn't want either. My sister and her went on with life while I was told, "go live with your dad or on the streets, I don't care". I lost my mother, my family, my toys, my bedroom, my dog and my life that day. I'm 46 now and I can't remember one day of my life since 1992 where I was 100% calm, comfortable, felt safe and happy and I'm not sure I ever will be again. 1989 was a great year for me and for whatever reason, I remember more about year than most. Sitting with my family watch TV on a Friday night. Saturdays were spent at the beach or fishing ((I'm from Florida) and the evening spent watch my dad grill some steaks or burgers or whatever while my mother was in the kitchen cooking up the sides. I'd be outside on my bike exploring the same roads I'd been up and down a thousand times. After, it's time to eat and if we were good, we would have stopped on the way home before and rented some movies from Aardvark Video. Sometimes I wonder if any of that really happened, maybe I imagined it all or it was just a series of dreams. It doesn't seem like I could have ever been that happy looking around at my life today but I guess I was. Now I spend my free time looking for toys that I had when I was kid, even the NFL blanket I had on my bed. Avon items that my mother had sitting in the living room and things my dad had on the walls etc. I have spent the past 30+ years trying to find the end of my childhood and when I do, it's usually at a flemarket or yardsale. Ebay has been a great place to find things that I never thought I'd see again and even at 46, I sometimes pretend that the He-Man figure that I just bought on ebay is somehow THE ONE from my bedroom and I've finally found it! It's all gone though and honestly, it's not what I really want to find. I want my art pads back and all of the craft projects and model cars that I put together with my dad and mom. I'm stuck in a jail cell that my mother built for me in my head for whatever reason, it was a just a kid so I shouldn't have been involved in her issues but I was. That jail cell (only description I can think of...I guess a time warp, idk) is filled with nothing but the first 14 years of my life while I wonder what my life would be today if I could have come home from school that day just like any other and continued to do so until I was 18 and started my own life, like normal people.
Sadly no, had it until around 2010 and got offered more than it was worth so I sold it. Still have my rc10 that I got 2 years later when my dad wanted all these cool upgrades like a sprint car chassis kit, but everything was based around the rc10. So he upgraded me. My dad was the greatest.
0:00 - 0:05 Well you started off bad from the beginning, for one thing A) That film is from 2003 and B) I'm a Child of the '80's so and admitly I know this is only my opinion, but in my case we are probably thinking between 1977 and around 2003 and onward
@ChristmasAficionado Elf, I might be in a minority but seeing images from it when ever Christmas is mentioned on the Tv, regardless of what ever channel my wife and I are watching, is seriously p***ing me off, and I can't escape from it on TH-cam either
@@ChristmasAficionado Oh, I was unaware of that, therefore I retract my earlier comment, changing the subject slightly, the year 1989 was a good one, perfect for someone who would have been about the same age as I was back then, I personally got my own bedroom, which was a big deal being the seventh child of what would have been a one sided list of children for my late great Mother, Mum had three sons, then was overjoyed to get a daughter, only to be told she'd had twins, one of each, so now five boys and one girl, then ten years later, another little lady, followed by two miscarriages and then five years after that, another little boy (me). That year was when I stopped getting things passed down by my relatives, I was the youngest and I was having a fuss made of me.
I would personally be _overjoyed_ if someone adopted a whale or elephant in my name...and over the moon if it turned out to be legitimate. The thought of nature going extinct has always troubled me, and to know that someone has done something about it, for me, would be a gift beyond compare.
@@ChristmasAficionado WOW REALLY.... you must watch Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson killed it in that movie that is where I belive a lot of us picked up saying I"M BATMAN lmao
And they still play the Hershey Kisses commercial to this day
That is good marketing!
I've said it so many times it should be on my headstone, but: My bird _loved_ the Kisses commercial. For almost ten Christmas seasons, whenever it came on, you would hear his little "RAHR! RAHR!" when it came on.
Watching my life flash right before my eyes looking back at this program.I really miss that world.
It's a great way to relive it. Merry Christmas!
Piper gave me some of my favorite holiday memories. Years later on Monday Nitro he'd give a promo reminding everyone 'don't ever forget, Christmas is someone's birthday'. The man truly had a heart of gold.
He was one of the best talkers
The Maniac!
@ChristmasAficionado like Dusty Rhodes you believed what he said. He was genuine
I was 12 years old and not knowing it would of been my last Christmas with my mom. She passed away in July of 1990 when i was 13 yrs old. But its nice to see all this and i remember all these commercials and shows from then. Its a good memory because i wish i could go back in time to then when everything was good, no worries at all. Christmas was definitely my favorite holiday as a kid.
I'm sorry to hear about your loss so young. I am glad this video brought back some good memories. Thanks for watching
I lost my Grandmother on Christmas morning 92. I was 14. 😢
@@bebout1978 I'm sorry you lost your grandmother at such a young age as well. And especially on a Christmas morning, too. It's never easy losing someone you're so close to and at a young age.
Thats tough I'm sorry you lost your mom at such a young age
I remember Christmas of 1989. I was 12 years old. One thing I remember about it was how cold it was weather wise. A few weeks before Christmas, my family and I all went to the movie theater to see what my all-time favorite Christmas movie would be, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And we also saw Scrooged on video. I also remember us watching the Simpsons Christmas Special and the Married...With Children Christmas episode with Sam Kinison as they did a take on It's a Wonderful Life. Three nights before Christmas, I also watched A Very Brady Christmas.
That Christmas, I got a Batman doll, Batman figure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and a carrying case, checkers game, two remote control cars, and clothes. The night before on Christmas Eve, we went to my aunt's for the neighborhood Christmas party. Not the best Christmas I ever had, but it was pretty good, nonetheless.
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation was THE MOVIE to see. People were raving about it.
I was only 4 but i remember so many of these. So nostalgic! I'd really love to see the year 1993! Merry Christmas to all! ❤ it sure ain't what it used to be!🥺
Merry Christmas
That Hershey kiss ad is the definition of timeless. I also have always loved the 7up cool spot ad, I love the lighting and sparkling snow.
I love revisiting the commercials
AMEN YO
They changed Hershey kisses now made with genetically modified whatever's. Apparently they don't melt now.
Great work! This was a fun ride back to a great year. This looks like a lot of work, but I would love to see other years.
This is about 3 months of work. Mostly research. There were so many conflicting dates on shows and movies about when they aired. The commercials were tough to nail down. I was originally going to choose random years, but I think I will be counting down the 80s so 1988 will be next. Then after that move to the 90s
Yep this is my x-mas to the T. Someone has impeccable taste making this video! Life was fine in 89.
I started with 1989 as it was the year I remember!
This was a very special Christmas, as a life long resident of Southeast Georgia, it was the only year I have ever seen snow and it was just in time for Christmas. I was only 13 and everyone I loved was still alive. Great memories I will always cherish. Thank you so much for allowing us to relive some great times, excellent job!
wow thanks for the compliment. I enjoy remembering all of the movies and TV shows and hope to countdown the 80s. 1988 is also on the channel with 1987 coming in January!
I lived near savannah that year and I remember that we got snow! All the kids and many adults were outside playing in it most of the night. That was a great memory.
I forgot about these great shows! In 1989 we had 41 channels and all this to watch. I now have 866 channels and I’m watching a video about what 9 yr old me watched in 1989.
I don't think I had that many channels in 89. I have been watching 80s Christmas episodes all week
Would love to see this continued and to do the 90's. I was born in 80 and equally loved the early to mid-nineties
That's the plan. I hope to finish up the 80s and start with 1990 next year!
@@ChristmasAficionado Excellent, look forward!
Wow. Can’t believe the Hersheys Kiss bell caroling ad is that old. I just saw it this Christmas season again
I think they may have "remade" it but I may be wrong.
@@ChristmasAficionado there have been variations but I forgot the theme went back that long.
The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire was the only full length episode of the Simpsons to air in the 80's. Whenever I'm discussing/arguing the Simpsons with someone younger than me who asks me what I think the best episode that did not come out of the 90's was I cheekily reply the 1989 Christmas special.
I had forgotten when I made that episode and remember watching the debut and getting my Don't have a cow man t-shirt
I remember it and I was 14
Ah the memories. I remember so many of these shows and things, Prancer was one of my fave movies and that Simpsons episode still gives me joy to watch. I remember getting a little My Little Pony in my stocking that Christmas and I still have that little pony sitting on my bookshelf in my livingroom.❤
I don't think Prancer gets enough love.
@ChristmasAficionado nope! I don't even think you can find it anywhere.
Christmas Vacation and Scrooged, best ever!
AMEN
I distinctly remember my mom and aunt just constantly talking about how handsome macgyver was, I was 4 years old and loved the show.
I mean the hair! Epic mullet
Your video has filled my need for nostalgia. Liked and subbed. Also Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas. If you liked this one make sure you watch 1988 and hopefully 1987 in January!
I don’t know about other countries but we’ve all lost that warm that used to be tv in the 80’s. Every tv show would do a Christmas themed special, Christmas movies were good and the messages would be about trying to be a better human being.
Now every year, your lucky if your favourite show bothers with a Christmas special and it’s not on every channel anymore. Like people on tv would wear festive clothes or a Santa hat or something and they’d seem genuinely happy….you don’t get that anymore 😢
I disagree. I love some of the more modern shows and movies. Some are silly comedies, but there is a lot of good message Christmas shows and movies.
@@ChristmasAficionado in the Uk over the last couple of years, I’d say the last 10 at least, slowly they’ve taken Christmas out of tv shows. It’s no longer consistent either.
That Hallmark Christmas planner was life changing. My 9 year old self tries to recreate that every year.
That's great
It’s nice to be reminded of good holiday memories from ‘89. I always associate that year with the Loma Prieta earthquake, as I was living in SF at the time.
oh wow. This was the first video I did in the series. That year was special for me
Loved watching Tales from the Crypt especially that Christmas episode..I feel so old now lol
Loved that show.
These episodes are incredible and I can't wait for more years before and after 1989!
I'm working on 1987 for a (late) January release and continue throughout the year. After that I am moving on to the 90s counting up! stay tuned.
New subbie here. Love the nostalgia and looking back on Christmases 80s past. Reminds me of Timeline. Thanks for taking this footage and compiling it for us viewers.
Thanks for subscribing. 1988 is also available and 1987 is coming in January!
prancer is one my favorite holiday movies
I often forget to revisit it.
I got Ninja Turtles that year. I remember being so hyped.
So many wonderful memories. Please do the 60s,70s and 90s
after the 80s the 90s are next
I was 9 years old back in 89.
I remember went to go see Christmas Vacation at the movies.
For Christmas that year i remember i got clothes and Barbie Dolls a bottle of Exclamation purfume coloring book.
I remember being in history class and my teacher came in to tell us how funny Christmas Vacation was. That night I begged my parents to go see it.
My first Christmas away from home as i was stationed on Okinawa
Oh wow. How was it different besides being away from your family?
Three years later, I would wake up for school in October, like it was just any other day. The most normal family you could imagine, like out of sitcom on TGIF. That was the last time I saw my bedroom or anything in it, I was 14. Mom decided she didn't want to be married anymore and when I got out of school, my childhood was over. It's a long story and one I didn't know at the time but my mother had a past that made me, her son, something she didn't want either. My sister and her went on with life while I was told, "go live with your dad or on the streets, I don't care". I lost my mother, my family, my toys, my bedroom, my dog and my life that day. I'm 46 now and I can't remember one day of my life since 1992 where I was 100% calm, comfortable, felt safe and happy and I'm not sure I ever will be again. 1989 was a great year for me and for whatever reason, I remember more about year than most. Sitting with my family watch TV on a Friday night. Saturdays were spent at the beach or fishing ((I'm from Florida) and the evening spent watch my dad grill some steaks or burgers or whatever while my mother was in the kitchen cooking up the sides. I'd be outside on my bike exploring the same roads I'd been up and down a thousand times. After, it's time to eat and if we were good, we would have stopped on the way home before and rented some movies from Aardvark Video. Sometimes I wonder if any of that really happened, maybe I imagined it all or it was just a series of dreams. It doesn't seem like I could have ever been that happy looking around at my life today but I guess I was. Now I spend my free time looking for toys that I had when I was kid, even the NFL blanket I had on my bed. Avon items that my mother had sitting in the living room and things my dad had on the walls etc. I have spent the past 30+ years trying to find the end of my childhood and when I do, it's usually at a flemarket or yardsale. Ebay has been a great place to find things that I never thought I'd see again and even at 46, I sometimes pretend that the He-Man figure that I just bought on ebay is somehow THE ONE from my bedroom and I've finally found it! It's all gone though and honestly, it's not what I really want to find. I want my art pads back and all of the craft projects and model cars that I put together with my dad and mom. I'm stuck in a jail cell that my mother built for me in my head for whatever reason, it was a just a kid so I shouldn't have been involved in her issues but I was. That jail cell (only description I can think of...I guess a time warp, idk) is filled with nothing but the first 14 years of my life while I wonder what my life would be today if I could have come home from school that day just like any other and continued to do so until I was 18 and started my own life, like normal people.
That's alot to deal with
Can we get a remembering the 90s edition? 😇
Coming after I finish with the 80s!
Nice Christmas that year. I remember that I received my insect collecting kit from my late aunt.
Did you have a favorite movie or TV show?
New Kids on the Block’s Funky Funky Christmas: my favorite Christmas album ever! ❤
I remember someone got me this for Christmas. I don't think I ever listened to it. LOL
@@ChristmasAficionado oh that makes me so sad!
I grew up loving the hair metal. I'm sure the boys did ok. lol
Ahhhh to go back and be 9 again.. What a time.
Do you plan on doing the 90s and 2000s? I was born in 1990 and would love to see some nostalgia
I am. I am counting down the 80s and then plan on starting the 90s! I would look for it sometime next year.
11 years old, got a Tamiya Hornet that year and kicked off a love of RC
Do you still have it?
Sadly no, had it until around 2010 and got offered more than it was worth so I sold it. Still have my rc10 that I got 2 years later when my dad wanted all these cool upgrades like a sprint car chassis kit, but everything was based around the rc10. So he upgraded me. My dad was the greatest.
Merry Christmas Eve, everyone...
Merry Christmas Eve!
Remember 1989 some more by looking up "Spitting Image - We're Scared Of Bob".
I loved Spitting Image
Sad that 89 was that much shorter than the 85 one.
That's more on me. 1989 was the first one I made. I later expanded them to include more. I have been toying with the idea of reworking 1989
This is the year my big sister was born.
I was 14 and remember that year fondly
Wow me to what was she into in 90"s was she a huge fan of anime to
Rip hot rod
Yes
1989. i was 33. interesting stuff that i mostly forgot happened that christmas
1989 was the year I remember fondly
Taylor was such a popular baby name in ‘89
I think you're right
Where are the videos for 1980, 81, 82 and 83 ?
I'm counting down the 80s. 1983 is coming in the new year!
I was born in 1989 cause it was a great year and I grew up in the 90"s with autism
Have you ever relived the 80s tv shows?
@@ChristmasAficionado sometimes and as a kid i watched doug gumby rugrats as a kid
11:41 bring the peppermint sundaes back pleeeeeeease. The orange sauce was actually good too.
No one told old Donny what funky really means in the way he said it?
It’s so cringe. 🤣
i was a nonbeliever, my sister on the other hand
No way in hell I will ever watch Prancer 😢 lol😂
It’s so good but so sad
0:00 - 0:05 Well you started off bad from the beginning, for one thing A) That film is from 2003 and B) I'm a Child of the '80's so and admitly I know this is only my opinion, but in my case we are probably thinking between 1977 and around 2003 and onward
What movie is from 2003?
@ChristmasAficionado Elf, I might be in a minority but seeing images from it when ever Christmas is mentioned on the Tv, regardless of what ever channel my wife and I are watching, is seriously p***ing me off, and I can't escape from it on TH-cam either
That is part of the intro for the channel and not about 1989
@@ChristmasAficionado Oh, I was unaware of that, therefore I retract my earlier comment, changing the subject slightly, the year 1989 was a good one, perfect for someone who would have been about the same age as I was back then, I personally got my own bedroom, which was a big deal being the seventh child of what would have been a one sided list of children for my late great Mother, Mum had three sons, then was overjoyed to get a daughter, only to be told she'd had twins, one of each, so now five boys and one girl, then ten years later, another little lady, followed by two miscarriages and then five years after that, another little boy (me).
That year was when I stopped getting things passed down by my relatives, I was the youngest and I was having a fuss made of me.
Yes 89 after a rough 88 I got my Gameboy via secret Santa and also lots of AA batteries 😂
I had the same issue with batteries a few years earlier when my brothers and I got Lazer Tage guns
I would personally be _overjoyed_ if someone adopted a whale or elephant in my name...and over the moon if it turned out to be legitimate. The thought of nature going extinct has always troubled me, and to know that someone has done something about it, for me, would be a gift beyond compare.
That Trent Reznor clip was cringy funny. 😂
That's why I used it ha ha ha ha
❤
only down fall to all of these,.. 😢is most that was around is no longer R.I.P. to them all
We can always remember them
@@ChristmasAficionado amen
@ChristmasAficionda You forgot one Batman the movie I'm BATMAN ROFL
I'm not familiar
@@ChristmasAficionado WOW REALLY.... you must watch Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson killed it in that movie
that is where I belive a lot of us picked up saying I"M BATMAN lmao