Wednesday, November 24, 2010
21 Ads That (Almost) Make You Miss The '80s
Grating jingles, DayGlo wardrobes, shrill child actors, cheesy dance montages. If you wanted annoying, you could find it in the TV-commercial breaks of the 1980s. But today, 21 years removed from that decade of regrettable advertising, a few spots from the era do manage to spark a glimmer of misty-eyed nostalgia.
These are just ads that, for better or worse, made us smile in looking back at them - a glimpse of a simpler time when, occasionally, it wasn't so bad when Knight Rider went to commercial.
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