80\'s

A bunch of commercials that aired on NBC primetime on September 7th, 1986. 1. Hi-C (Featuring a young Alyssa Milano on the right) 2. Grape Nuts Cereal (THE Yuppie cereal of choice) 3. Hanes Underwear (They don't make commercials like this anymore!) 4. AT&T (With Cliff Robertson and Kristine Sutherland) 5. Red Lobster 6. Promo for "Smurf Quest" (I want to watch this now, damn it!) 7. Weight Watchers (Featuring Lynn Redgrave) 8. Sticklets Gum (Hilariously awful) 9. Promo for "Going Ape" (Starring Tony Danza, Danny DeVito and Jessica Walter! Arrested Development fans should love this) 10. Promo for "Amazing Stories" 11. Burger King Chicken Tenders (These look more like real chicken strips than the pieces of crap they sell today) 12. Generra Clothes (God please kill me now) 13. Promo for the weather on WBZ-TV Boston (Fighting the frizzies, at eleven) 14. Duracell Batteries (Cool puppets!) 15. Hillshire Farm Sausage (Hilarious!) 16. Extra Sugar Free Gum 17. Kool Aid Koolers (What a catchy jingle!) 18. Florida Frozen Orange Juice (The freeze is the reason!) 19. Nabisco Shredded Wheat Cereal (This used to scare me as a kid, don't ask why. Maybe it's the deadly amount of salt and sugar deposited on the cereal) 20. "Captain EO" (Awesome 3-D attraction at Disneyland and Epcot Center starring Michael Jackson)

Ladies and Gentlemen .....Rock and Roll.... On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., MTV: Music Television launched with the words "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by John Lack. Those words were immediately followed by the original MTV theme song, a crunching guitar riff written by Jonathan Elias and John Petersen, playing over a montage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. With the flag having a picture of MTVs logo on it. MTV producers Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert used this public domain footage as a conceit, associating MTV with the most famous moment in world television history.[5] Seibert said they had originally planned to use Neil Armstrong's "One small step" quote, but lawyers said Armstrong owns his name and likeness, and Armstrong had refused, so the quote was replaced with a beeping sound. At the moment of its launch, only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it.