I think it’s half because we wanted to watch our shows, and half because they were basically everywhere. Hell I swear zoobooks were part of the lineup every single commercial break.
I don’t know, I never found commercials back then annoying, could be because these days they’re just not fun to watch and everything either has no add or you can quickly skip them.
@@astrowolvez To each their own, but I know I wanted to watch my show right away and when their ads and especially duplicate ads that appear, frustration sets in until the show finally plays.
You drop cable tv, install multiple ad-blockers, even pay a few bucks to avoid advertisements. Then you watch twenty minutes of commercials just for fun.
Who else gets butterflies in their stomach watching these commercials? Time in so precious, isn't it? Here we are in our 30's with our jobs/kids/pets/etc... life has changed so much for all of us since the 90's and all of it feels like it was only yesterday! It's so sad but im glad these silly commercials can take us back to a special time in our lives that we'll never forget... virtual hugs my 90's brothers and sisters
SO well put!! I completely agree. I'm overwhelmed with sadness but also so much nostalgia. will definitely be bringing this up to my therapist soon. lol. hugs back atcha!!
Hugs to you, my friend! Take me back to the 2000s where I was playing RuneScape and running around with wooden swords. Just, for a day. I love my life as it is now, but man to be in my childhood home eating mac n cheese again 😌
Most definitely. I would back in time and win money for someone, if the reward for me meant that I could remain in a loop of the year 1994. Nothing else matters to me.
I can’t explain how important this is to my mental health right now. I’m remembering things I had forgot watching these. Memories of good moments with my parents I didn’t remember.
I still remember vividly seeing the pillow pet commercial with my parents and asking for one, and on Christmas I got one and I was so excited. I still have it.
@@Randomfactory56 i went to the website to see if they still made them, and they do. even bigger ones but they have almost doubled in price from the $20 commercial
This was both calming and extremely depressing. I miss my grandparents house and not being weighed down by the world. I haven’t felt that level of happiness in years. Every “happy” thing that happens to me now feels more like relief that something in my life didn’t go terribly wrong.
@@TEEANVEE I'm an adult. My childhood was terrible. I would never want to go back there again. These times may be a little hard, but I love it compared to my childhood
It's amazing how effective advertising was on us as kids. I haven't seen most of these or thought about them in 16 years or more, but they never really left my mind. I found myself remembering a unique phrase or manner of speech with no effort at all.
The entire Betty Crocker Bake'n'fill commercial was full of moments like that, but when they brought out the baseball cake it unlocked something within me. Something untapped for almost a couple decades. And it was surreal.
@@timofcent1 I knew the commercial even though I hadn't thought of it in years BUT THAT BASEBALL CAKE WAS LIKE UNLOCKING A MEMORY WITHIN A MEMORY AND SUDDENLY I WAS A YOUNGER ME, IN OUR OLD PLACE SITTING CRISS CROSS IN THE DARK ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP AT OUR OLD TV. IM ASTOUNDED
mhmm. jingles are the stickiest for me, even for products I didn't even want. baby born, ring pop, skip-it, hungry hungry hippos. WHY i heard my mom singing a fritos jingle that probably aired when she was a kid. i'm gonna be 80 years old singing the sock'm boppers song
Shows how insane marketing really is. The fact these are stored frame for frame in our minds 20 to even 30 years later.. is just insane. Psychology behind marketing is very real
That low quality camera just brings back this warmth and comfort that I cant explain and It makes me sad knowing it's something I'll never be able to experience again.
🥺 yeah I think it’s a bit ironic that kids use low fi camera quality for horror themed videos now like the Backrooms, but it just makes me think of when I was a kid
After months of research, I have come to the conclusion that 2005 is the last true year from the 90's culture era. This is around the time when cartoons such as Rugrats and Powerpuff Girls started to end. VHS and music cassettes were still being made. The 80's plastic box T.V. was still the most common type people had. Some kids had internet, but it was really only used for schoolwork at best. But one year later is when the Wii came out. In 2007, smartphones were being planned by Apple. VHSs became extinct due to DVDs, and HD flat-screen TVs became cheap. Rock Roll music such as Green Day started to become uncool around 2008. And the release of Netflix massacred my boi Blockbuster. The fall of the millienal era and the start of the iGeneration dawned at the end of 2006...
I remember the transition as well. It was a weird time where 90’s tech met modern tech. When the Xbox 360 came out, I was on Xbox live playing Halo 3 on my gigantic plastic box Panasonic lol. It had terrible lag because our internet was still crappy at that point. Technology was constantly improving to keep up with other tech, and it still is.
Huge Green Day fan (have seen them live + own most albums) and I totally agree they're music took a turn in 2008/2009. edit: Forgot to say your comment is 100% on point
@@davidlara4170 i remember TV was available to everyone, all you needed to do was buy a tv, until the Tv cable companies took over competing against one another, everyone having seperate cable service with different channels, where as back then everyone knew what the channels were, for Nickelodeon 36, Animal Planet 37, Cartoonetwork was 68, and channel 3 was for game consoles such as the Orginal Playstation, Ps2, Gamecube, N64, OG Xbox etc
If you had the privilege of growing up in this time period I hope you realize how amazing life really was, the perfect balance of technology before it got too big lol watching these commercials bring back amazing feelings, I will forever cherish this period of time in my life.
I know right even though I was born in 2005 I still remember waking up in the morning to watch chowder on the boomerang channel and seeing some of these commercials those were some good times
Wish I could go back :'( it's feels like a life time ago. I haven't felt the same since. Technology advanced too fast after like 2008. I would do anything to go back
When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies". It almost feels unreal to watch something as little as commercials resurface of what seemed like a forgotten memory.
I had to do sylvian and it was stupid, my worst memory from there was my teacher trying to put in her contact for 20 minutes and I was horrified. However, it did get me out of cleaning my flooded basement.
Nostalgia is the best and worse feeling ever. It feels good to relive the things you once took for granted but you know you’ll never get those moments back and things will never be the same as they once were.😢
Me in 2005: ugh god can i just skip these commercials and get back to spongebob Me in 2022: i want to watch a 12 hour video of every commercial from my childhood
there was one commercial I saw in my childhood- I only ever saw it ONCE. But even still today, I want that thing! But it was... it was like a full, complete, tiny kitchen set. It was so elaborate with everything you got with it... Ah. I don't know. These old commercials are filled with so much childhood memories, and they were just the filler for the good stuff.
7:10 What always stuck with me is how psyched that mailman was to deliver those Zoo Books. I imagine him saying something like "golly you're a lucky kid! Look at all these Zoo Books. This will be the greatest day of your life. You're a Zoo Book boy"
I hope you continue to enjoy your pillow pet for many years to come. And this is coming from a guy who always HATED that commercial whenever it came on.
I always remembered that Chef Boyardee commercial as a kid and I was always thinking to myself "Damn, her mom is gonna think she stole that." To this day I'm wondering what happened after the commercial ended...
Dude I thought the same thing when I watch that commercial lol as a kid I used to think that a rolling can of chef boyardee's was kind of cool and then I managed to get to her house safely without being damaged. But now watching that commercial I did not remember it being that long but now since that little girl got her chef boyardee's she will be accused for stealing it and her mom is going to be like mom: where'd you get that I told you that we're not having chef boyardies for dinner... Did you sneak it out the store? Lol
@@superomegax4199 I think this is like an extended version of the commercial. And yes, exactly! The mom definitely isn't Gonna forget a conversation she had probably only couple hours earlier, especially considering that she'd already served her Chef Boyardee every day that week! And what's she gonna tell her mom? That it just now magically landed in her hand just now? No matter what, a whooping is imminent! 😂😂😂
@@guitgodd what's even more funny that the people at the store didn't bother the look through their cameras and seeing a rolling can of Chef Boyardee going out the door by itself lol
I feel after the commercial is over the little girl definitely got grounded ‘Why did you take this from the store?! I told you no chefboyardee! Now I have to go back to the store and pay for this! That’s it, I can’t deal with this right, just go to your room until dinner is ready. No tv for a week young lady!’ Meanwhile the little girl is trying to get in how it just came to her and her sister is just clueless on the whole matter and how she could’ve snuck it home at all, but opts not say anything cause she doesn’t wanna get an earful and just lays there still watching tv herself, the little girl upset with tears in her eyes and pouting goes to her room
This was bittersweet. Took me right back to my grandparents kitchen table watching the small tv they had atop their fridge while eating breakfast. I’d give anything to be able to do that one more time.
This took me back to being at my grandmothers house after school while my parents were working. I miss both my grandmas. Never got to meet my grandfathers. Yeah. I’d do anything to go back to that too.
Feels like waking up at 3am after falling asleep with the tv on. Loved how some of those commercials were purposefully louder than what was actually being broadcasted.
They were, and intentionally so. Even then advertisers knew most people didn’t actually watch ads; we’d go off and get a snack or whatever. In 2012 the FCC passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to rein it in, but advertisers are always pushing the boundaries. And then along came streaming, where the FCC had no authority…
I’m convinced that however wrote the Education Connection song was a ghost writer in the industry, that shit’s a bop and will get stuck in your head for DAYS
I too am 30 and I just found myself here watching this while listening to Saint Pepsi's Chelsea... Idk what the fuck has happened with time but it's nice to know we were around during this time. I'm actually playing Sonic the hedgehog right now too. Sometimes you just gotta find something to take you back but I promise you you are not alone. I miss it too. :)
That moment when 20 minutes of 1990-2000's commercials is less annoying than even a seconds worth of current RUclips's ads. Like, I feel more rage waiting through 3, 4 second unskippable ads than I do watching these now of my own volition, let alone when I had to wait through these for my show to come back on as a kid XD
like i literally sat through this WHOLE video without skipping . not just because of how nostalgic it is , but because they're actually watchable . 🧘🏾♀️ '
It's because modern ads try to be funny to make themselves more appealing. Problem is, they haven't a fucking clue how to be funny so they come off as pandering at best and ear-gougingly annoying at worst.
I am 30 now, and i remember all of these commercials, then i thought they were horribly obnoxious and insulting and an annoying interruption of the cartoons but now i am voluntarily watching them on youtube.
Sometimes I put these on to sleep when things are stressful and I cannot sleep. Iunno, just something about these commercials bring me back to feeling secure and happy.
@@richardharris3295 of course it’s not the same guy lol the voice actors in the beginning all have the same tone seemed like they all sounded similar back in the day, super nostalgic to me 😂
I wonder how many of these commercials will be lost forever because nobody thought they would ever be worth saving, or that anyone would be nostalgic for them.
Ngl, I have one of those old sparkle plastic brief cases filled with them. They were dope af, and I wish they were still a thing because I would still get more of them
My school library had the whole set, they were the best. Easily the best thing in the library. While the whole school was losing their minds over Harry Potter and the series of unfortunate events books, I was having a blast learning about my favorite animals
Scary to think that since I "cut the cord" (cable tv) 5+ years ago, it felt strange watching REAL tv at a hospital. (Where I work at) Nowadays, the majority of society just watches stuff on their phone and thus youtube/some streaming service.. 🤨🤔
Take me back to those days in the mid/late 2000’s and beginning of the 2010’s where I had nothing to do after school except watching Nick/Cartoon Network/Disney, video games and playing with friends
These commercials are so special. Brings me back to a great time in my life I can vividly remember. Now I'm 28, married, have two amazing daughters and am overjoyed with the life I currently have. Yet, I somehow miss those good ol days
when I was a kid I had the urge to call the phone numbers displayed at the end of the commercials no matter the product. my older siblings always had to restrain me from the phone and my commercial privileges were taken away. the betty crocker cake set literally made me feral.
We all miss being younger. I miss the carefree life of the 90s, when I could sit all day and play N64 and watch Nickelodeon. I miss my dog, who I raised from a puppy. I miss my Dad, who died too soon. My life is great right now, but it's nice to remember when things were easier.
I have a question. How do so many people miss the 90s? I was born on January 10, 1980, and so I grew up in the 90s, and I always thought the 90s sucked. I think today's world is a lot better. There was no social media in the 90s, there was no Netflix and streaming services in the 90s, internet worked like crap in the 90s, there was no smart phones in the 90s, not many people had cell phones in the 90s, there was not many good movies in the 90s, and video games are a lot better today than they were in the 90s. Music today is also a lot better than it was in the 90s. I think today's world is a lot better than it was in the 1990s. I think the 1990s is very overrated.
Thing is, when i was a kid I kinda remember thinking, "Gee, I can't wait to be grown up and have my own money to spend, and make my own choices and drive everywhere, etc." Now, that I have all that, I never thought I'd be saying this, but I actually kind of miss being a carefree kid in the early 2000's.
I remember I would always start talking to my parents when the Sylvan commercial came on to distract them just in case they wanted me to go there over the summers.
As a kid I didn’t really care for most commercials because I just wanted to watch my cartoons. But now I’m 20 and missing being a kid and seeing these. Like I always wanted zoo pals. It’s all coming back to me
I remember when I was little, I really wanted the Floam because it reminded me when I had my bucket of Lego pieces and I wanted to customize my Lego sword.
@@bashura_0019 that's so sweet... I swear when the zoo pal commercial came on in this video I literally jumped out of my seat and I'm like holy shit I remember this! But the floam things kind of remember but I wasn't sure if I always wanted it but they look cool. But we cannot forget the chef boyardee's commercial with that little girl wanted I can but her mom would let her get it and then the can rolled all over the place lol. Yeah I don't remember it being that long though I remember like at the end she finally got her a can of it. As a kid I used to think it was cool that a can of food rolled to someone's house and I kind of wish that happened to me but watching it now as a an adult that kid would have been accused for stealing it because the weird thing is that the mom didn't ask her how did she get that after she told her that she's not getting any chef boyardee's lol.
As a kid who spent nearly all his TV time on cartoon network and nickelodeon, these ads have been seared into my brain for years. Some of the As Seen on TV ads were so tantalizing when I was too young to have a bank account. But on the flip side, others like TimeLife's music albums have made it to Ebay, so that's no longer an issue.
As a kid I always worried about the girl in the Chef Boyardi commercial because I always thought her mom would think she stole the can and would never believe it just rolled in.
Times were so simple back then. Cartoons and legendary commercials. I know I am not the first person to say this (nor will I be the last), but you never truly appreciate something until it's gone.
@@yovtobe The progression of time is rarely kind to most people. Being a child in the 90s-2000s teaches you to appreciate how easy life was, even if it was wasn't that long ago in terms of individual years. No bills to pay, jobs to be worked, school was a breeze. These commercials remind a great many of us of a time when life was simpler when compared to our adult lives. Make sense?
@@gowatchbsdpls Being a child back then was so easy compared to adulthood. I remember thinking about how much I disliked elementary and middle school, only to realize now how easy it was. Life was so simple. I had nothing to worry about. These commercials remind me of that.
I love how for these cake commercials they get a couple of professional cake decorators to make these crazy cakes and then are just like "You can do it too!"
I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with the tv still on and these commercials were always playing. I’d watch them till I eventually fell back to sleep cuz something about it felt so comforting lmao
I’m turning 18 this year I hate the person that made this video I feel old now I remember most of this stuff oh god the memories the thing with me is I was a as seen on tv kid and was just annoying enough as a kid to get the stuff
@@Valrax dude that's all want right now. All my favorite cartoons with the old ads especially during the holidays when the channel logos get a lil holiday makeover.
I think just about every kid takes their childhood for granted. when you're a kid you just don't really understand how much your going to miss those moments when you become an adult.
I learned at a very young age, to take all life has to offer. I have absolutely no regrets with the past, because whether it was good or bad, I learned from it. That's the take away. Do what you want, love what you do, have fun & do everything to live out your best life.
You never realize how LONG ads used to be until you remember all of these played back to back in the middle of an episode of something. Drake and Josh had 15 minute episodes, but was slotted for 30 minutes. That means FIFTEEN MINUTES of ads, over 3/4ths of this entire video, would play throughout the duration of the show. In a SINGLE EPISODE. Y'all wonder how we never forgot the jingles or the tag lines of these commercials after all these years, its because you'd see them hundreds of times per week. I must have seen the Betty Crocker commercials over a thousand times, literally.
yea except even as a kid i learned add patterns were roughy 4 minutes and would just channel surf during them, make a snack, or take a piss. was pretty easy to time. even at a certain point id keep a video game on the other input to play during ad breaks lol
When I was a kid I hated these commercials so much and now that I'm an adult I miss it. I guess it reminded me of a simpler time when life wasn't so complicated.
The education connection commercial was great to see. Just lost my father. Sitting here bummed out watching and it came on. My dad strongly disliked that commercial when it would come on. It came on A Lot. Lol He’d talk trash to the lady on tv. Great memory. Made me laugh. I Really needed that.
This video lowkey makes me wanna cry. It’s crazy how we didn’t appreciate our childhood when were living it 🤦🏾♂️ our parents always told us how we didn’t wanna be grown and to enjoy being a kid, now we see .. 💔
Felt more simple. I’m strongly of the belief that “the simpler time” never existed. It’s just a fantasy us humans use to comfort ourselves. Life has always been dificult and complex. The particular complexities, and our awareness of them, is really the only thing that changes
@@ChiefTapion Very true. A lot of people insist that the world gets worse over time. It doesn’t get worse. Your perception of reality just changes as you get older. Today, adults are worried about COVID and Ukraine and politics. During the times these commercials were airing and we were all kids being happy, adults were worried about the Twin Towers collapsing and Iraq and the Great Recession. It’s all about how much of reality you process. And as kids, we didn’t process much of it. Now we do.
The fact that nearly 20 years later I still remember the zoo pals song word for word both amazes me and terrifies me. And I distinctly remember my mom refusing to buy them. But a friend in my kindergarten class invited me over once and we ate Tyson chicken nuggets on zoo pal plates. Ah the memories.
I don't know how to explain this intense feeling of longing watching these. Beyond nostalgia, I'm almost... sad. Like remembering a childhood best friend who you just stopped talking to one day whether because one of you moved away or just stopped going to the same after school activity. I really took these for granted.
The word I find describes this is hiraeth: a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or never was. In this case, longing for something that was and can never be again.
@@Alina-ci3fb yeah I don't know what led me to making these yesterday. It's just that I could never relate to this feeling you know. And it's kinda depressing when like everyone says they want to "go back" but you're absolutely fine. I understand your annoyance though. I'm sorry man or woman. I hope you're doing good
I remember being a kid watching tv all day and just switching between 2000’s Cartoon Network, Nickelodean, and Disney Channel, that was peak children’s television
That Sylvan learning commercial killed me as a kid. I always hoped that my parents would never see it. The thought of any summer school was my worst nightmare back then. I'm nearly 40 now and seeing that still made me think "Oh god no..." Thank god nothing ever came of it.
I got bamboozled into going to Sylvan because my mom told me I was taking a "study skills assesment" test or something. Next thing I know I was at Sylvan every weekend 😢
These commercials bring a kind comfort to me. They were actually entertaining unlike the ads you see EVERYWHERE on RUclips or whatever. These old commercials will have a special place in my mind lol.
Man, that Big Top cupcake kit looked like a really good deal. I wouldn't have cared about it back when I was a kid, but as an adult, $19.95 for all that stuff really catches my eye.
It's moments like these that makes me wish we could go back and experience our childhood once again. No worrying about bills or money, just enjoying childhood.
I remember seeing so many of these while watching cartoon network at my grandma's over summer vacation... It feels like its been a lifetime but mine has barely just begun
I always hated how after a while they’d only show the shorter 10-sec ish version of the Chef Boyardee rolling can commercial when I wanted to watch it roll for at least 30 seconds.
I was scared of that commercial growing up. I was afraid I'd go to the store with my mom and one of the cans would follow me home just like the commercial.
Did anyone else notice how 90% of the ad prices back then would cap at 19.99. Like anything after that they would say stuff like “only 2 installments of just 19.95 plus shipping and handling” I always found that interesting.
There’s a good reasoning for that. Think it might have been something like making consumes they are getting a good deal due to how the price is, or something. I don’t remember
@@MrProSnorkulus Yea, It’s all marketing psychology. Real interesting stuff. Most people are more willing to budget out 2+ payments of $20 over one mass payment. Also why they always say “you get all this, a $50 value, for only $20.” Your brain is tricked into thinking it’s a lower price or better deal if you get all that stuff. In reality? All that could have cost the maker only $17 and they just made a $3 profit.
its a marketing tactic. pennies are used for tax and capping a price just before xx.00 was used to get people to perceive prices to be cheaper than they actually were. *ONLY* two installments (purchases) of *19.95. plus shipping and handling. but you ( figuratively speaking: only old and gullible really fell for it but given the ammount of babyboomers thats actually quite a bit) only hear 19.95* often because its shouted and repeated multiple times in a commercial. still happens today. amazon purchase only $5.75. only when you go to checkout does it show tax and shipping cost.
I remember every morning I used to get ready for my dad to go to work during the summer, and the Tropicana Good Morning commercial came on, and we always sang it together, and I would beg my mom for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillow Pets, Zoo Pals and Silly Bands after watching the commercials. I remember getting that bee pillow pet, I was so excited.
I never realized how genius zoo pals were as a product. They’re cool, and encourage kids to eat so they can see the animal beneath. That’s pretty awesome
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The irony of how agonizing it was getting past these commercials only to find myself years later indulging in the same commercials.
This gave me a good chuckle. So true!
I think it’s half because we wanted to watch our shows, and half because they were basically everywhere. Hell I swear zoobooks were part of the lineup every single commercial break.
I don’t know, I never found commercials back then annoying, could be because these days they’re just not fun to watch and everything either has no add or you can quickly skip them.
@@astrowolvez To each their own, but I know I wanted to watch my show right away and when their ads and especially duplicate ads that appear, frustration sets in until the show finally plays.
Yea cause it was in the times where things were fun and not woke af
We really all 20-30 year olds watching old commercials, reminiscing on a better time
Right on
Not just reminiscing were also regretting how were no longer able to buy some of these things now that we have our own credit cards V.V
20 on the dot for me
I'm only 16 but I still remember a lot of these. Sometimes I don't know if memories of these commercials were real or if they're dreams.
I just turned 20 😭😭
You drop cable tv, install multiple ad-blockers, even pay a few bucks to avoid advertisements. Then you watch twenty minutes of commercials just for fun.
Sigma lifestyle
But nostalgic ones!
I shitt liquid Betty Crocker cake mix
Also RUclips ads suck
These commercials aired during a simpler time for most of us within a certain age range so they get a pass lmao😭😂
Who else gets butterflies in their stomach watching these commercials? Time in so precious, isn't it? Here we are in our 30's with our jobs/kids/pets/etc... life has changed so much for all of us since the 90's and all of it feels like it was only yesterday! It's so sad but im glad these silly commercials can take us back to a special time in our lives that we'll never forget... virtual hugs my 90's brothers and sisters
SO well put!! I completely agree. I'm overwhelmed with sadness but also so much nostalgia. will definitely be bringing this up to my therapist soon. lol. hugs back atcha!!
Brah u pushing 30 while im out here pushing 24
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Hugs to you, my friend! Take me back to the 2000s where I was playing RuneScape and running around with wooden swords. Just, for a day. I love my life as it is now, but man to be in my childhood home eating mac n cheese again 😌
Insanity haha. I used to hate commercials!!! Now I'm almost 35 and watching them on my couch, hoping it will make 5 tired... not!
“Tired of looking like a fool when your cakes not cool?”
8 year old me: …….Yes
A problem all us 8 year olds suffered.
“Your kids hate your guts cuz you served them sad sandwiches!”
Four year old me: do I
(After my fifth juice box, rubbing my eyes) “….I’m so tired of this shit.”
I still have my first diary I was given, and in the front I wrote full page ads for things like oxy clean 💀 I was 6 or 7.
Never thought I'd willingly watch 20 minutes of commercials
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Same
goes to show how bad we want to be living back in the GREAT old days
Most definitely. I would back in time and win money for someone, if the reward for me meant that I could remain in a loop of the year 1994. Nothing else matters to me.
True. But I'm still watching some of these on mute. No amount of nostalgia will get me to bring back the earworms.
the one guy that voiced so many of these commercials really carried the industry
@@Msangel06 nailed it
@@Msangel06 you forgot "but wait if you call now, we'll double your order!" lol
Must of made a fortune lmfao
in his bag
Omg...I never noticed that until you said that. Now I can't unhear it, jfc 😭
I'm watching 90's-00's commercials, and my dad is in the living room watching 60's-70's era commercials.
Never thought I'd see myself watching commercials I was mad at when they interrupted my shows
Despite how annoying it was at the time. We miss them so much
@@Kyle-fp5lm for real!
Bro what the fu** is life right now
@@carpelunam literally, I remember everyone of these and would get so annoyed but here I am 12 years later watching them hahaha
commercials were somewhat entertaining back then...
Even as a 20 year old adult I still want that cake thing.
Me too!
"even baked Alaska!" My 7 year old brain wanted to light a cake on fire so badly
Any chance they still make those?
I'm young but that cake thing was cool
I actually thought Betty Crocker was a real person and now these commercials hit harder knowing Betty White just passed away.
As kids we hated seeing these come on during a show.
As adults we're looking them up for nostalgia's sake.
Funny how life works like that.
Simpler times…
Speak for yourself. I'm looking at all the cool stuff I could own now if not for my lack of a credit card and phone.
As a kid I loved some of these
Mind control , the constantly overused commercials payed off in the long run ig .
I hated zoo books commercials but now I love the nostalgia feels.
I can’t explain how important this is to my mental health right now.
I’m remembering things I had forgot watching these. Memories of good moments with my parents I didn’t remember.
It's amazing how brains work.
The Sylvan commercial used to piss me off the most. Just the thought of having to do school work in the summer seemed criminal to me at the time.
Omg same
I would mute the TV when that came on, didn’t want my parents to overhear and get any ideas
That is criminal. You are right
@@TheTrueEvilSpud I have to admire the ingenuity in that.
I was always so worried that my mom would see it and make me do it during summer vacation
It’s funny how we’re all nostalgic for these ads but never owned any of the actual products
Idk I loved my pillow pet
@random boy hey you know I think they might still sell them I saw them in store a while back ago, worth a try lol
I had floam 😅
I still remember vividly seeing the pillow pet commercial with my parents and asking for one, and on Christmas I got one and I was so excited. I still have it.
@@Randomfactory56 i went to the website to see if they still made them, and they do. even bigger ones but they have almost doubled in price from the $20 commercial
This was both calming and extremely depressing. I miss my grandparents house and not being weighed down by the world. I haven’t felt that level of happiness in years. Every “happy” thing that happens to me now feels more like relief that something in my life didn’t go terribly wrong.
I feel this honestly
It’s your generation and shit. When we grew up we were optimistic about it all
God I'm glad I'm not like this
@@trevorperry11 yet. I’m just glad I’m not alone in feeling like this
@@TEEANVEE I'm an adult. My childhood was terrible. I would never want to go back there again. These times may be a little hard, but I love it compared to my childhood
Sometimes, when my kid is at school, and my partner is at work, I turn these on in the other room. Makes me feel better.
This. This is what I want to do ❤
Play it with your partner around. I garentee they will love it.
commercials had 3 criteria:
- $19.95
- some kind of bonus item
- end card with payment options + phone number
😂😂😂
Lol
But wait, there’s more!
The commercial meta
And BLUE
It's amazing how effective advertising was on us as kids. I haven't seen most of these or thought about them in 16 years or more, but they never really left my mind. I found myself remembering a unique phrase or manner of speech with no effort at all.
Same. We were brainwashed XD
Not only that but they used to come on all the time 😂😂
The entire Betty Crocker Bake'n'fill commercial was full of moments like that, but when they brought out the baseball cake it unlocked something within me. Something untapped for almost a couple decades. And it was surreal.
@@timofcent1 I knew the commercial even though I hadn't thought of it in years BUT THAT BASEBALL CAKE WAS LIKE UNLOCKING A MEMORY WITHIN A MEMORY AND SUDDENLY I WAS A YOUNGER ME, IN OUR OLD PLACE SITTING CRISS CROSS IN THE DARK ON THE FLOOR LOOKING UP AT OUR OLD TV. IM ASTOUNDED
mhmm. jingles are the stickiest for me, even for products I didn't even want. baby born, ring pop, skip-it, hungry hungry hippos. WHY
i heard my mom singing a fritos jingle that probably aired when she was a kid. i'm gonna be 80 years old singing the sock'm boppers song
Shows how insane marketing really is. The fact these are stored frame for frame in our minds 20 to even 30 years later.. is just insane. Psychology behind marketing is very real
And why almost everything is 29.95-9 lol
@@abigailr1207 Wild right. Some of these I remember every detail of from literally when I was like 5 years old.. (26 now)
@@abigailr1207 Why were they marketing education connection to 10 year olds anyways lmao
They put subliminal messages in everything
And how incredible our brains really are
That low quality camera just brings back this warmth and comfort that I cant explain and It makes me sad knowing it's something I'll never be able to experience again.
Same as incandescent Christmas lights...
🥺 yeah I think it’s a bit ironic that kids use low fi camera quality for horror themed videos now like the Backrooms, but it just makes me think of when I was a kid
After months of research, I have come to the conclusion that 2005 is the last true year from the 90's culture era. This is around the time when cartoons such as Rugrats and Powerpuff Girls started to end. VHS and music cassettes were still being made. The 80's plastic box T.V. was still the most common type people had. Some kids had internet, but it was really only used for schoolwork at best. But one year later is when the Wii came out. In 2007, smartphones were being planned by Apple. VHSs became extinct due to DVDs, and HD flat-screen TVs became cheap. Rock Roll music such as Green Day started to become uncool around 2008. And the release of Netflix massacred my boi Blockbuster. The fall of the millienal era and the start of the iGeneration dawned at the end of 2006...
So true!
I remember the transition as well. It was a weird time where 90’s tech met modern tech. When the Xbox 360 came out, I was on Xbox live playing Halo 3 on my gigantic plastic box Panasonic lol. It had terrible lag because our internet was still crappy at that point. Technology was constantly improving to keep up with other tech, and it still is.
I was born in 2005
Same 90s died in 05 but the last of it lasted into late 08 early 09
Huge Green Day fan (have seen them live + own most albums) and I totally agree they're music took a turn in 2008/2009.
edit: Forgot to say your comment is 100% on point
These commercials are better than the ones we have now
Except the spaghetti-o's commercial. It was terrible.
@@caryhuffii7224 no rock is what's missing in today's world.
I don’t think i’ve seen modern commercials in a long time ? Not to sound weird but where do you even watch them nowadays ?
Dude seriously
@@davidlara4170 i remember TV was available to everyone, all you needed to do was buy a tv, until the Tv cable companies took over competing against one another, everyone having seperate cable service with different channels, where as back then everyone knew what the channels were, for Nickelodeon 36, Animal Planet 37, Cartoonetwork was 68, and channel 3 was for game consoles such as the Orginal Playstation, Ps2, Gamecube, N64, OG Xbox etc
This isn’t truly a collection of commercials until each commercial plays four times in a row one after another
Always during a show while having some kind of snack
I swear without fail at least 2 (usually zoobooks and one other) would play at least twice every commercial break.
Dude those were the days
HEAD ON APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
They forgot The Swibel Sweeper commercial or The Magic Bullet blender commercials 😂
I still have my giant cupcake silicon mold!
Yes it works perfectly. Walking into a party with a giant cupcake never fails to bring smiles.
I’ll take one funfetti cupcake please 😊
Did you ever use the filling mold?
@@kaylachapman257 it costs extra they might not have bought it then
I still have my magic magnets but they’re dried out so glad you’re still getting used out of your gimmicky yet useful 90s product lol
If you had the privilege of growing up in this time period I hope you realize how amazing life really was, the perfect balance of technology before it got too big lol watching these commercials bring back amazing feelings, I will forever cherish this period of time in my life.
I’m so grateful I didn’t grow up with a device in my hands. My kid sister makes fun of me for being born “in the 1900s” but I’m so proud!
Same
Agreed!
I know right even though I was born in 2005 I still remember waking up in the morning to watch chowder on the boomerang channel and seeing some of these commercials those were some good times
Wish I could go back :'( it's feels like a life time ago. I haven't felt the same since. Technology advanced too fast after like 2008. I would do anything to go back
When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies". It almost feels unreal to watch something as little as commercials resurface of what seemed like a forgotten memory.
Perfectly said. "When you finally understand the cliche saying that "time flies"...
❤
I'm 22 now, these really don't feel like that long ago 😔
Shout out to the kid in the Sylvan commercial for hitting math right out of his head.
I actually thought that could happen to you and got nervous when summer came around
@@juanpablorobayo3437 same dude
I had to do sylvian and it was stupid, my worst memory from there was my teacher trying to put in her contact for 20 minutes and I was horrified. However, it did get me out of cleaning my flooded basement.
That's what I did as soon as I got my high school diploma
That’s what happened to me one summer and now I can’t long divide 😔
Nostalgia is the best and worse feeling ever. It feels good to relive the things you once took for granted but you know you’ll never get those moments back and things will never be the same as they once were.😢
Me in 2005: ugh god can i just skip these commercials and get back to spongebob
Me in 2022: i want to watch a 12 hour video of every commercial from my childhood
Same
😢🥺
I hate that I understand this feeling...
there was one commercial I saw in my childhood- I only ever saw it ONCE. But even still today, I want that thing! But it was... it was like a full, complete, tiny kitchen set. It was so elaborate with everything you got with it... Ah. I don't know. These old commercials are filled with so much childhood memories, and they were just the filler for the good stuff.
@@moondream6 Was it metal or plastic?
Dude, zoo books will always live rent free in my head. I’ve seen this commercial EVERY NIGHT. The nostalgia is strong.
DARK depths of the ocean! Will forever live in my head rent free
Having Zoobooks was the 90’s equivalent of owning an IPad as a kid haha. They were so amazing
7:10
What always stuck with me is how psyched that mailman was to deliver those Zoo Books. I imagine him saying something like "golly you're a lucky kid! Look at all these Zoo Books. This will be the greatest day of your life. You're a Zoo Book boy"
Me too !!!!!
Bro I wanted that poster so bad
To this day, I still dream of two things:
1) About that Watermelon Cake
2) To have as good a relationship with my mailman as that kid does in Zoobooks
Lmaooo
That mailman is 100% railing his mom
Watermelon cake is okay but it gets old once you eat a slice or two
When I was a kid, I would wave and say thank you to the mailman if I was playing by the door XD
I never expected to see you here!
"Kids of all ages love their pillow pets!"
I am 20 years old and I still love my purple unicorn pillow pet.
Squishmallows predecessor
I hope you continue to enjoy your pillow pet for many years to come.
And this is coming from a guy who always HATED that commercial whenever it came on.
spaghettios was really out there acting like their spaghetti wasn’t just pasta in ketchup water
🤮🤮🤮🤮
shit slapped though
😂😂😂
Looking back after getting some sketti o's they arent as good as I remember
I ate so many cans of the ravioli...
I always remembered that Chef Boyardee commercial as a kid and I was always thinking to myself "Damn, her mom is gonna think she stole that."
To this day I'm wondering what happened after the commercial ended...
Dude I thought the same thing when I watch that commercial lol as a kid I used to think that a rolling can of chef boyardee's was kind of cool and then I managed to get to her house safely without being damaged. But now watching that commercial I did not remember it being that long but now since that little girl got her chef boyardee's she will be accused for stealing it and her mom is going to be like mom: where'd you get that I told you that we're not having chef boyardies for dinner... Did you sneak it out the store? Lol
@@superomegax4199 I think this is like an extended version of the commercial. And yes, exactly! The mom definitely isn't Gonna forget a conversation she had probably only couple hours earlier, especially considering that she'd already served her Chef Boyardee every day that week!
And what's she gonna tell her mom? That it just now magically landed in her hand just now? No matter what, a whooping is imminent! 😂😂😂
@@guitgodd what's even more funny that the people at the store didn't bother the look through their cameras and seeing a rolling can of Chef Boyardee going out the door by itself lol
I feel after the commercial is over the little girl definitely got grounded
‘Why did you take this from the store?! I told you no chefboyardee! Now I have to go back to the store and pay for this! That’s it, I can’t deal with this right, just go to your room until dinner is ready. No tv for a week young lady!’
Meanwhile the little girl is trying to get in how it just came to her and her sister is just clueless on the whole matter and how she could’ve snuck it home at all, but opts not say anything cause she doesn’t wanna get an earful and just lays there still watching tv herself, the little girl upset with tears in her eyes and pouting goes to her room
Let’s just say things spiraled downward for her, after a stint in juvy. Chef really messed her life up
This was bittersweet. Took me right back to my grandparents kitchen table watching the small tv they had atop their fridge while eating breakfast. I’d give anything to be able to do that one more time.
Me too sadly all of them are now dead
Sane
@@djmars1983 same. I miss those times.
This took me back to being at my grandmothers house after school while my parents were working.
I miss both my grandmas. Never got to meet my grandfathers. Yeah. I’d do anything to go back to that too.
Same bro….
Even though we all dreaded watching these commercials hundreds of times, the nostalgia hits hard 20 years later
Feels like waking up at 3am after falling asleep with the tv on. Loved how some of those commercials were purposefully louder than what was actually being broadcasted.
That’s exactly what it feels like
They were, and intentionally so. Even then advertisers knew most people didn’t actually watch ads; we’d go off and get a snack or whatever. In 2012 the FCC passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act to rein it in, but advertisers are always pushing the boundaries. And then along came streaming, where the FCC had no authority…
@@Magic_beans_ I was so happy about that, some were unbelievably loud.
@@Magic_beans_ holy shit what!? A) I didn't know that but B) I WAS FUCKING RIGHT EVEN THO I WAS LIKE 10!
Dude absolutely
I’m convinced that however wrote the Education Connection song was a ghost writer in the industry, that shit’s a bop and will get stuck in your head for DAYS
I know, right? That song hits me on so many levels.
I haven't heard that song in years and somehow I STILL know all the lyrics
237 likes in 2 days.🔥
I remembered EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THAT DAMN SONG!!!, HOW DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT?!!
Yes!!
Mostly everything used to cost $19.95 back then lol
Nah it was 19.99 or 29.99 rarely was there 95
Word, Now $50 or $100 for a Light up Tooth brush
@@AyooMuzz WHAT?
100
Plus shipping
And here I am… 32 years old rewatching commercials from the early 2000s… life is strange
Same I'm 33 years old I miss old days with super Nintendo and 64 and just using the pay phones
We’re all just remembering a better time. lol
Same here. The nostalgia is hitting me hard.
31 turnt may 30th I understand man.
Also 32. What is life
Not me as a whole adult thinking I absolutely need that Betty crocker pan.
All the cake pans and decorating shit.
im 18 years and older now, so i can call 😂😂😂 😭
100%. I am surprised there hasn't been any mock products of it. I seriously want one
Same
Not me as a whole adult thinking I absolutely need that Tiger Poster.
I'm 30 and I can't decide whether I find this soothing or depressing. Where has my youth gone? 😭
The world you were born in no longer exists
@@everythingjuliaa Yes, that's painfully obvious.
new normal world
I too am 30 and I just found myself here watching this while listening to Saint Pepsi's Chelsea... Idk what the fuck has happened with time but it's nice to know we were around during this time.
I'm actually playing Sonic the hedgehog right now too. Sometimes you just gotta find something to take you back but I promise you you are not alone. I miss it too. :)
I'm 26 and I'm having a similar dilemma lol
That moment when 20 minutes of 1990-2000's commercials is less annoying than even a seconds worth of current RUclips's ads. Like, I feel more rage waiting through 3, 4 second unskippable ads than I do watching these now of my own volition, let alone when I had to wait through these for my show to come back on as a kid XD
I miss when commercials were actually entertaining or had cool products.
like i literally sat through this WHOLE video without skipping . not just because of how nostalgic it is , but because they're actually watchable . 🧘🏾♀️ '
It's because modern ads try to be funny to make themselves more appealing. Problem is, they haven't a fucking clue how to be funny so they come off as pandering at best and ear-gougingly annoying at worst.
That's cause today's ads are pozzed and have no soul
I am 30 now, and i remember all of these commercials, then i thought they were horribly obnoxious and insulting and an annoying interruption of the cartoons but now i am voluntarily watching them on youtube.
Sometimes I put these on to sleep when things are stressful and I cannot sleep. Iunno, just something about these commercials bring me back to feeling secure and happy.
Finally old enough to order myself a Betty crocker baking kit but no one answered :(
It's like $60 on amazon 😒😒😒 There crazy lol
wow i’m really glad Im not the only one that took a long shot and called the number
Lol I called the zoo book number just for kicks and I also got no answer lol
That commercial was the very first time I heard about Baked Alaska. I was so confused over the fact that a cake was set on fire sans candles.
I wanted one so bad 🤣🤣
I like how all these companies hired this one guy to voice all their commercials 😂
Ik its so nostalgic now! 🤣
It wasn’t one guy you sound crazy
@@richardharris3295 of course it’s not the same guy lol the voice actors in the beginning all have the same tone seemed like they all sounded similar back in the day, super nostalgic to me 😂
@@richardharris3295 r/wooosh
And everything cost $19.95 🤣
I swear I wanted that cake thing when I was younger 😩
We all did, bro. We all did.
I swear omm I tried to make her get it Bc I thought we’d just automatically know how to make cool cakes
I wanted to touch the education connection bitch when I was younger...
@@artistwithouttalent fr fr! 😭😂😂
I was never been so offended with something that I agree with the most
I wonder how many of these commercials will be lost forever because nobody thought they would ever be worth saving, or that anyone would be nostalgic for them.
Zoobooks were the shit, never had any, but they just look like theyre the shit
Facts. I always wanted them.
Ngl, I have one of those old sparkle plastic brief cases filled with them. They were dope af, and I wish they were still a thing because I would still get more of them
I had them & I loved it
Ugh I want them so bad 😓😩
My school library had the whole set, they were the best. Easily the best thing in the library. While the whole school was losing their minds over Harry Potter and the series of unfortunate events books, I was having a blast learning about my favorite animals
I can't believe I haven't seen normal TV for like 7 years and I still remember these commercials like it was yesterday
Scary to think that since I "cut the cord" (cable tv) 5+ years ago, it felt strange watching REAL tv at a hospital. (Where I work at) Nowadays, the majority of society just watches stuff on their phone and thus youtube/some streaming service.. 🤨🤔
was thinking the exact same thing
I watch normal tv every night, the commercials suck now.
@@Zoinkin89
You see the Lebron Ruffles ad lol
Take me back to those days in the mid/late 2000’s and beginning of the 2010’s where I had nothing to do after school except watching Nick/Cartoon Network/Disney, video games and playing with friends
Man those were the days..
@@JimmyStruthers1000 😭
Welcome to the club kid
ugh i remember so fondly watching arthur before elementary school back in those days... god where has the time gone
Literally my life in a nutshell. Miss those days and am sad kids nowadays don’t see things like this anymore.
These commercials are so special. Brings me back to a great time in my life I can vividly remember. Now I'm 28, married, have two amazing daughters and am overjoyed with the life I currently have. Yet, I somehow miss those good ol days
when I was a kid I had the urge to call the phone numbers displayed at the end of the commercials no matter the product. my older siblings always had to restrain me from the phone and my commercial privileges were taken away. the betty crocker cake set literally made me feral.
im rlly bad abt this now watching these, i have my own phone number now and i REALLY wanna call these numbers
I called one of the late night lawyers that advertised on one of the local channels when I was like 7 years old lol.
I always called the number even had a full blown convo with the sell’s guy at 12 lmao dude thought I was a women😭😭😅
This is my favorite comment.
i once called in an infomercial cause it was playing for Hours on the one kids channel my grandma got and wanted it to stop
We all miss being younger. I miss the carefree life of the 90s, when I could sit all day and play N64 and watch Nickelodeon. I miss my dog, who I raised from a puppy. I miss my Dad, who died too soon. My life is great right now, but it's nice to remember when things were easier.
I have a question. How do so many people miss the 90s?
I was born on January 10, 1980, and so I grew up in the 90s, and I always thought the 90s sucked. I think today's world is a lot better. There was no social media in the 90s, there was no Netflix and streaming services in the 90s, internet worked like crap in the 90s, there was no smart phones in the 90s, not many people had cell phones in the 90s, there was not many good movies in the 90s, and video games are a lot better today than they were in the 90s. Music today is also a lot better than it was in the 90s.
I think today's world is a lot better than it was in the 1990s. I think the 1990s is very overrated.
@cK S I believe that the 90's has a certain pre-9/11 charm to it. I was born in '93 so I can barely remember any of it.
Thing is, when i was a kid I kinda remember thinking, "Gee, I can't wait to be grown up and have my own money to spend, and make my own choices and drive everywhere, etc." Now, that I have all that, I never thought I'd be saying this, but I actually kind of miss being a carefree kid in the early 2000's.
Facts!! I miss growing up in the 90s!
@@cks7548You obviously never really EXPERIENCED the 90s
These commercials are the closest thing we have to time travel
What, don't you have a time capsule?
A history book. Lol
@@kingiknanithruthkear7118 Doesn't hit the same man...
I remember I would always start talking to my parents when the Sylvan commercial came on to distract them just in case they wanted me to go there over the summers.
😂😂😂 kid logic! Love it!
Their secret was just adderall
As a kid I didn’t really care for most commercials because I just wanted to watch my cartoons. But now I’m 20 and missing being a kid and seeing these. Like I always wanted zoo pals. It’s all coming back to me
Also now 20 and want zoo pals because my parents never got them. Ugh. Time flew.
I never been so infendet at something that I 100% agree with
All I wanted was raggedy Ann and antique dolls
I remember when I was little, I really wanted the Floam because it reminded me when I had my bucket of Lego pieces and I wanted to customize my Lego sword.
@@bashura_0019 that's so sweet... I swear when the zoo pal commercial came on in this video I literally jumped out of my seat and I'm like holy shit I remember this! But the floam things kind of remember but I wasn't sure if I always wanted it but they look cool. But we cannot forget the chef boyardee's commercial with that little girl wanted I can but her mom would let her get it and then the can rolled all over the place lol. Yeah I don't remember it being that long though I remember like at the end she finally got her a can of it. As a kid I used to think it was cool that a can of food rolled to someone's house and I kind of wish that happened to me but watching it now as a an adult that kid would have been accused for stealing it because the weird thing is that the mom didn't ask her how did she get that after she told her that she's not getting any chef boyardee's lol.
It's wild watching this 20 years into the future as a 28-year-old adult. I remember nearly ALL these commercials.
I'm 38 and definitely miss these commercials
Im 28 to holy shit im feeling what your saying man, things were so simple back then
29 and in the same boat
Damn and here I am thinking that I was only the 29 year old re-watching old commercials. Lol glad to see I’m not the only one.
I’m 28 and I remembered every word to education connection lol
How do you know when you’re old?
When you find a RUclips video showing all the commercials you hated as a kid and actually enjoy it.
Omg
I was so pissed whenever these commercials came up, but education connection was a bop tbh lol
I’m dead
Simpler times.
As a kid who spent nearly all his TV time on cartoon network and nickelodeon, these ads have been seared into my brain for years. Some of the As Seen on TV ads were so tantalizing when I was too young to have a bank account. But on the flip side, others like TimeLife's music albums have made it to Ebay, so that's no longer an issue.
As a kid I always worried about the girl in the Chef Boyardi commercial because I always thought her mom would think she stole the can and would never believe it just rolled in.
Calm down bro lol
Same, I was worried about her too
Yeah i thought that too 💀
@@maurice2014no i also wondered why tf a can followed her home and her mom wouldn’t question it lol
I'm glad I'm not the only one
Times were so simple back then. Cartoons and legendary commercials. I know I am not the first person to say this (nor will I be the last), but you never truly appreciate something until it's gone.
How was it simpler? It's not that long ago
@@yovtobe The progression of time is rarely kind to most people. Being a child in the 90s-2000s teaches you to appreciate how easy life was, even if it was wasn't that long ago in terms of individual years. No bills to pay, jobs to be worked, school was a breeze. These commercials remind a great many of us of a time when life was simpler when compared to our adult lives. Make sense?
@@EdwardBrown77 its makes sense to those who know what you are talking about. I get it .😔I wish to be back in those simpler times again
@@gowatchbsdpls Being a child back then was so easy compared to adulthood. I remember thinking about how much I disliked elementary and middle school, only to realize now how easy it was. Life was so simple. I had nothing to worry about. These commercials remind me of that.
@@EdwardBrown77 but it's nothing specific to the time. Nothing was inherently better about being a kid in the 2000s than now. You just got older.
I love how for these cake commercials they get a couple of professional cake decorators to make these crazy cakes and then are just like "You can do it too!"
Like instagram🤣
Right 😂😂😂😂
The numbers for the cake commercial is a car warranty/life alert number now 🤣🤣🤣
We actually bought this and tried to make an ice cream cake for my birthday as a preteen.
You can probably imagine how that turned out lmao
@@emilyofjane how'd it turn out 👀
I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid with the tv still on and these commercials were always playing. I’d watch them till I eventually fell back to sleep cuz something about it felt so comforting lmao
The zoopals commercials just brought back some serious childhood memories for me. To be a 00s kid again.. 🥺
I’m turning 18 this year I hate the person that made this video I feel old now I remember most of this stuff oh god the memories the thing with me is I was a as seen on tv kid and was just annoying enough as a kid to get the stuff
I actually remembered randomly during *Nov 2021* at random, that and Danimals Crush Cups- *XD*
@@brian0902 You're not even 21 yet and you feel old? Seriously?
@@sb37654 yes not normally but this video makes me it’s sad to me
Thank god for all the VCR-DVR bros for holding onto this shit for us for 25 years
Dang. When’s the last time we saw someone with a VCR lol
I wish I had all my old dvd recordings of Cartoon Network. Mainly for the commercials
@@Valrax dude that's all want right now. All my favorite cartoons with the old ads especially during the holidays when the channel logos get a lil holiday makeover.
I took my young child hood for granted. It all went so fast. Now I’m old enough to understand how terrible life can be. I wish I could go back
I think just about every kid takes their childhood for granted. when you're a kid you just don't really understand how much your going to miss those moments when you become an adult.
I think we’re all learning together and we have the power to bring back our inner child by staying strong
I learned at a very young age, to take all life has to offer. I have absolutely no regrets with the past, because whether it was good or bad, I learned from it. That's the take away. Do what you want, love what you do, have fun & do everything to live out your best life.
Furbys have that effect
Now it’s time to go to war. Say grace and godspeed.
I’m 30 now, watching these commercials makes me want to cry. I really miss my childhood!
I, always, wish I could go back. I'm 40. 😢
You never realize how LONG ads used to be until you remember all of these played back to back in the middle of an episode of something. Drake and Josh had 15 minute episodes, but was slotted for 30 minutes. That means FIFTEEN MINUTES of ads, over 3/4ths of this entire video, would play throughout the duration of the show.
In a SINGLE EPISODE.
Y'all wonder how we never forgot the jingles or the tag lines of these commercials after all these years, its because you'd see them hundreds of times per week. I must have seen the Betty Crocker commercials over a thousand times, literally.
Holy shit. I never knew that show was only fifteen minutes of actual show
@@ShellShock794 no. They play 2 episodes. The shows play for 22/30 mins. Each episode is 10-12 minutes with 3-5 minutes of ads for each episode.
2 episodes per 30min slot boss
yea except even as a kid i learned add patterns were roughy 4 minutes and would just channel surf during them, make a snack, or take a piss. was pretty easy to time. even at a certain point id keep a video game on the other input to play during ad breaks lol
This isn't even true lol. Episodes are 22-24 min of content. Pick a few on Hulu and check.
I work at a donation center and I see these products at my job all the time. It makes me so happy knowing they still exist.
Same here lol Was just stuffing some pillow pets onto our pillow cages today 🤣
@@SpicePrincess1890 aww😊
@@SpicePrincess1890i still own a mini pillow pet!
Many millions more are clogging landfills. All this ugly commercializing and consumerism has all but destroyed the earth.
Nostalgia ❤
When I was a kid I hated these commercials so much and now that I'm an adult I miss it. I guess it reminded me of a simpler time when life wasn't so complicated.
The sylvan one used to piss me off when I was a kid bc math made me angry
I loved these commercials back then, all the things I could ask my parents for and never get
You miss it because of its conditioning imprint in the mind.
The education connection commercial was great to see.
Just lost my father. Sitting here bummed out watching and it came on. My dad strongly disliked that commercial when it would come on. It came on A Lot. Lol He’d talk trash to the lady on tv. Great memory. Made me laugh. I Really needed that.
yeah, and now the commercials i have to grow up with are shitty insurance commercials. no intresting ads.
i forgot how committed we were to innovating the cake baking process back then
This video lowkey makes me wanna cry. It’s crazy how we didn’t appreciate our childhood when were living it 🤦🏾♂️ our parents always told us how we didn’t wanna be grown and to enjoy being a kid, now we see .. 💔
I feel you man
These nostalgic commercials are only in two decades.
no bc im crying rn
@@almondbl0ssom Are you sad? Did I break your heart?
@@nabilabsood6967 stfu pussboi grow a pair
It’s so strange how this puts you right back into your childhood. We grew up in the best era, I miss those simple times.
agreed
That’s how most people feel about their past 😅, but I agree.
Felt more simple. I’m strongly of the belief that “the simpler time” never existed. It’s just a fantasy us humans use to comfort ourselves. Life has always been dificult and complex. The particular complexities, and our awareness of them, is really the only thing that changes
@@ChiefTapion No matter what the world is like, everything seems simpler when you're nine years old than it does when you're thirty
@@ChiefTapion Very true. A lot of people insist that the world gets worse over time.
It doesn’t get worse. Your perception of reality just changes as you get older. Today, adults are worried about COVID and Ukraine and politics. During the times these commercials were airing and we were all kids being happy, adults were worried about the Twin Towers collapsing and Iraq and the Great Recession. It’s all about how much of reality you process. And as kids, we didn’t process much of it. Now we do.
The fact that nearly 20 years later I still remember the zoo pals song word for word both amazes me and terrifies me. And I distinctly remember my mom refusing to buy them. But a friend in my kindergarten class invited me over once and we ate Tyson chicken nuggets on zoo pal plates. Ah the memories.
@@elkforests Lucky you! I'm actually jealous 😹
Me, too! As soon as that came on, I sang along! *falls over* I never had a zoopal plate, either. Sad times, my friend.
That's awesome.
@@ohkaygoplay maybe if all 90s and early 00s kids petition we can get them back 🥺
@@sladewilson3259 it felt awesome 😎
This is incredible how nostalgic this is. Reminds me of being a little kid just watching TV at home when i was sick.
I don't know how to explain this intense feeling of longing watching these. Beyond nostalgia, I'm almost... sad. Like remembering a childhood best friend who you just stopped talking to one day whether because one of you moved away or just stopped going to the same after school activity. I really took these for granted.
The word I find describes this is hiraeth: a homesickness for a home you can't return to, or never was. In this case, longing for something that was and can never be again.
God I'm glad I'm not like this
@@trevorperry11 lmao are you commenting this under everyone
@@trevorperry11 we get it, you had a terrible childhood. 🙄
@@Alina-ci3fb yeah I don't know what led me to making these yesterday. It's just that I could never relate to this feeling you know. And it's kinda depressing when like everyone says they want to "go back" but you're absolutely fine. I understand your annoyance though. I'm sorry man or woman. I hope you're doing good
Who else remembers staying up late as a kid during the weekend & watching the TV on the couch & hearing these headache ads but now misses them ✨👏😔✨
Right here
Howwww am I SUPOSER TO LIVEEE WITHOUTT YEWWWW
Oh gosh yes I remember!! ❤️
I remember being a kid watching tv all day and just switching between 2000’s Cartoon Network, Nickelodean, and Disney Channel, that was peak children’s television
Facts
Omg same here
Yeah pretty much
Don’t forget PBS Kids and WB Kids!
@@tpfang56 That bring me back so many childhood
Man i miss those 19.95 days. Now everything is so high.
Agreed
but wait! theres more! call in the next 20 minutes blah blah blah
That Sylvan learning commercial killed me as a kid. I always hoped that my parents would never see it. The thought of any summer school was my worst nightmare back then. I'm nearly 40 now and seeing that still made me think "Oh god no..." Thank god nothing ever came of it.
U must be a fuggin idiot then😂
Broooooooo fr, shit had me scared straight 😳
I got bamboozled into going to Sylvan because my mom told me I was taking a "study skills assesment" test or something. Next thing I know I was at Sylvan every weekend 😢
Same. As an adult I saw that commercial again and got anxiety 😂
That one always just made me chuckle. I was homeschooled so we schooled year round and just took breaks whenever it was convenient.
That baseball cake was an absolute revelation to me as a child.
Lol still remember that baseball cake all these years later after not seeing it in like 20 years
RIGHT?!?!
I thought it was the most amazing thing ever!
I didn't even remember the commercial until I saw that baseball cake
Betty Crocker was poppin back then
Do they still sell it cuz I’d def buy it! 😂
These commercials bring a kind comfort to me. They were actually entertaining unlike the ads you see EVERYWHERE on RUclips or whatever. These old commercials will have a special place in my mind lol.
i never thought in my life I'd ever enjoy watching these commercials ever since i was a kid
I still have the Betty Crocker cake set. It was too complicated as a kid but now it’s time to crack it open 😂
Omg, I'm so jelly! (✷‿✷)
Is it actually a good product?
I want to try it lmao
@@ChellyBean after using it recently yes I recommend it. It cooks just like it says and it’s super easy to clean. It’s very simple and I love it.
Will you bake me a cake?
Man, that Big Top cupcake kit looked like a really good deal. I wouldn't have cared about it back when I was a kid, but as an adult, $19.95 for all that stuff really catches my eye.
That's what I said about the ZooBooks! Lmao
I had it and used it twice maybe 😂
We got it and it was as good as they made it look :)
To be fair, with inflation and lower purchasing power that's like $40-$50 today
My gramma had it. Didnt tell us the thing was rubber, also the inside wouldn’t cook so much
That Sylvan kid straight up knocked NOUNS out his brain, god damn.
LMFAOO
Omfg I never noticed that xD
i still think of that scene every time i/something hits my head, even if its just a light tap lol
@@heyfindmenoob So I'm not the only one...
Poor bastard's gonna talk like Joe Biden the rest of his life unless he gets into Sylvan
It's moments like these that makes me wish we could go back and experience our childhood once again. No worrying about bills or money, just enjoying childhood.
Listening to this and my wife two rooms away peaks in and says, "is that, that weird cake thing? ...I still want that."
Hint, hint
You know what you must do.
That zoobooks tiger poster is still super rad 17 years later...
Amen
138!
I owned one as a kid
As a child I shit myself when the commercial mentioned the dark depth of the ocean with that creature swallowing the fish whole.
Now I am an adult and no one is stopping me from buying Zoo Pals plates.
Different animal for each day of the week. Heck yeah
Your mother called me. She said that you don't need Zoo Pals plates because we have perfectly good plates at home
@Arkunus Stilshire they sell them on amazon….
I begged my mom for them. I don’t think we ever got any
I remember seeing so many of these while watching cartoon network at my grandma's over summer vacation... It feels like its been a lifetime but mine has barely just begun
I always hated how after a while they’d only show the shorter 10-sec ish version of the Chef Boyardee rolling can commercial when I wanted to watch it roll for at least 30 seconds.
I was just thinking this. I loved that commercial though
That mom pissed me off.
I always pictured her mom screaming at her for stealing the can lol
It's interesting, because this was my first time seeing the full version. I only ever saw the short one🤷
I was scared of that commercial growing up. I was afraid I'd go to the store with my mom and one of the cans would follow me home just like the commercial.
does anyone else want a betty crocker bake 'n fill? my young baseball hero deserves a celebration he'll never forget.
😂😭😂
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Y3s I desperately want one
Did anyone else notice how 90% of the ad prices back then would cap at 19.99. Like anything after that they would say stuff like “only 2 installments of just 19.95 plus shipping and handling” I always found that interesting.
There’s a good reasoning for that. Think it might have been something like making consumes they are getting a good deal due to how the price is, or something. I don’t remember
@@MrProSnorkulus Yea, It’s all marketing psychology. Real interesting stuff. Most people are more willing to budget out 2+ payments of $20 over one mass payment. Also why they always say “you get all this, a $50 value, for only $20.” Your brain is tricked into thinking it’s a lower price or better deal if you get all that stuff. In reality? All that could have cost the maker only $17 and they just made a $3 profit.
its a marketing tactic. pennies are used for tax and capping a price just before xx.00 was used to get people to perceive prices to be cheaper than they actually were. *ONLY* two installments (purchases) of *19.95. plus shipping and handling.
but you ( figuratively speaking: only old and gullible really fell for it but given the ammount of babyboomers thats actually quite a bit) only hear 19.95* often because its shouted and repeated multiple times in a commercial.
still happens today. amazon purchase only $5.75. only when you go to checkout does it show tax and shipping cost.
I remember every morning I used to get ready for my dad to go to work during the summer, and the Tropicana Good Morning commercial came on, and we always sang it together, and I would beg my mom for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillow Pets, Zoo Pals and Silly Bands after watching the commercials. I remember getting that bee pillow pet, I was so excited.
The ladybug was my favorite!
The education connection commerical still SLAPS hard. It's catchy and fun just as I remember!
It had no business slapping as hard as it did
My sister and I would literally run to the room whenever that commercial came on so we wouldn’t miss that “con-nec-tion” part 🤣😂
It's a fun song, but college is NOT worth it.
It has no right to be a bop, but it is and I love it.
Can someone remix that shit? I'll be complete that way.
Is it just me or is something about these old commercials kinda comforting? I guess it's because life was more simple back then ..
Yes and I guess memories of dead parents
@@magicalindigoadult3838 damn bro u good?
@@rooroomiri I she is alive now I’m just manifesting
@@magicalindigoadult3838 O K A Y 😱
Me too. Those nostalgic commercials are very amazing
I never realized how genius zoo pals were as a product.
They’re cool, and encourage kids to eat so they can see the animal beneath. That’s pretty awesome
Yall needed encouraged? I was a black hole as a kid lmao
@@juliuskingsley4434 you ain’t ever had my mom’s salmon patties.
My stomach was an endless void but I still would always try to avoid those days
I never had an issue clearing my plate lol. However my niece would just dump the food onto the table so she could see the plate
@@OnceUponLater modern problems require modern solutions it seems
I like that they have compartments, I hate when my food mixes together on regular plates and condiments need a separate dish to clean 🙄🙄