retro ad: 1980s Polaroid commercial with James Garner and Mariette Hartley
One of the many ads that made people thing Garner and Hartley were actually married to each other…
1980s
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (retro trailer)
The general level of just barely contained family animosity and bad will is what makes this a classic…
Adventures in Babysitting (retro trailer)
Who’da thunk the 80s would ever look like a high point in cinema?
retro ad: 1980s Chevy Corvette commercial
Does your commute take you through a postapocalyptic runaway-greenhouse landscape of hellish skies and noxious gases?
retro ad: 1980s Met Life Charlie Brown Thanksgiving commercial
I presume that during the football game that followed dinner at Linus’s house, Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown, causing him to hilariously yet bittersweetly take an enormous flop on his back.
The Muppets Take Manhattan (retro trailer)
I can’t see The Muppets, so I’m consoling myself a bit by looking at old trailers.
retro ad: 1980s Sony Walkman “Meditating Monkey” ad
Remember this one, with the primate serenely enoying some music on a Sony Walkman? Ahhh… relaxing…
retro ad: 1980s NEC VHS-vs-Betamax ad
What a great way to move merchandise: by admitting that some people couldn’t give a fig for your selling points.
retro ad: 1980s Klondike Bar commercial with Gary Coleman and William Shakespeare
In honor of the release of Anonymous, here’s a slightly less outrageous theory about William Shakespeare…
