I still remember this creepy music. I was watching this other TH-cam video on Mars and started hearing this song in my head. I came here to look it up. Haven’t heard it since I was a child.
I like to think this book salesman just sat down at the table uninvited and swindled the day trader out of thousands of dollars by way of dozens of Time Life subscriptions.
Same! I remember a short time when every stupid question in HS was answered "Read the book!". I always remembers the various, pissed off "WTF!" looks people gave. :)
I used to sell these in the Time Life DC national sales office 1984 -1989. 10 free trial... about one every other month. When you like it , go ahead and buy it ok?
I was kinda creeped out by the eerie ones. But I remember "Read the Book" being the answer to ANY question in school for a while when this commercial came out :)
1:18 Only the '80s could make synth music that was pure Reagan-era nightmare fuel for us kids back then.
I'll say.
Yeah, as much as LOVE the 1980s, I don't care for that particular muzak segment either. 🤢
I still remember this creepy music. I was watching this other TH-cam video on Mars and started hearing this song in my head. I came here to look it up. Haven’t heard it since I was a child.
The whole reason I even remember this commercial is they used the sound bite in Weird Al's "Can't Watch This".
I used love these commercials and just had to see if they were on TH-cam.
You kind of wondered if you imagined them, didn’t you?
Haha hell yeah..Same, DanataD
I like how he was pushing the book like he was proselytizing. Still one of creepier ads from the 80s.
“You’ll receive psychic powers.” That’s hard to pass up
Also psychic voyages. Phantom encounters I could take it or leave it tho…
I like to think this book salesman just sat down at the table uninvited and swindled the day trader out of thousands of dollars by way of dozens of Time Life subscriptions.
LOL
I’ll always say “read the book” and no one ever gets what I’m referencing 😂
I'm in the same boat LOL!
Yup in HS 1989 everyone would belt out “read the book!”
Same! I remember a short time when every stupid question in HS was answered "Read the book!". I always remembers the various, pissed off "WTF!" looks people gave. :)
They definitely downgraded the scare factor the second time around. The first commercial from 1988 was horrifying as a kid.
Agreed! It's probably this one th-cam.com/video/v4zBYh2PUyk/w-d-xo.html
The piano music at the end was pretty terrifying.
@@Charles_De_Mar Yeah, odd.
Read the book.
ARE ALIENS REAL?
monster x read the book
Read about the shape of the planet.
Is it flat?
Read the book!
"every volume written by EXPERTS!"
You can decide for YOURSELF 😂
Lol anyone seen that Nirvana interview where they make a joke and say "read the book"
No, that would be hilarious
There was a spoof of these commercials that was done on SNL or In Living Color back in the day.
I used to sell these in the Time Life DC national sales office 1984 -1989.
10 free trial... about one every other month.
When you like it , go ahead and buy it ok?
@☠MrHairyNutz☠ The books are sold on eBay and other online auctions.
Soooo cool!!!!
WTF!!! Lmao. He had the damn 8 1/2 x 11 book with him at lunch with a friend?!?
Haha
@@boltzmannbrain8698 A real weirdo.
What, you mean you never do that? 😆
The guy on the left is my friend's dad, he made these commercials when we were in grade school. I used to always ask him if he'd read the book yet.
@@rebeccaschurwanz5679 has he?
They were all "dismissed as coincidence" hahahaha
I used to as a then 9yr old, I used to think these books held all the answers to every secret/wonder of the world 😂
Sounds like they used that first mystery in the last Indiana Jones movie.
This is mild compared to the first one lol they actually played this in the daytime 😂
I have to say this is just so cheesy. I love this series but this commercial is so eyeroll. I do truly love it, but I dig the eerier ones more.
I was kinda creeped out by the eerie ones. But I remember "Read the Book" being the answer to ANY question in school for a while when this commercial came out :)
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Sadly... Ive seen mormons use the comment read the book in connection to their book.
God this fkn God awful commercial was on for years and God damn it it was painful long
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