1988 commercials for WNYW broadcast of The Chinese Connection. Btw, Bruce Lee was super cute and had the best reactions. That's why he's the thumbnail. Just putting that out there. ;D
1. Lincoln Mercury dealer
2. Avia (This was oddly filmed like a PSA)
3. 40th Emmys (After 21 Jump Street)
4. Channel 5 Movie intro (which is mostly about the 40th Emmys)
5. A Golden Harvest Presentation logo
6. The Reporters promo
7. Midas
8. Bennigan's (aka Happy Hour for Yuppies)
9. Fortunoff (bath towels with free initial!)
10. Tide (Wow, you can't imagine a time without the see through cap!)
11. Tide ("It took Tide to top Tide!")
12. Channel 5 Movie bumper
13. Sprint (Frankly very little has changed, heh)
14. Centrum
15. McDonald's ("Now you're groovin'!")
16. Atlantic (This looks like a Room Plus commercial; did they share photos?)
17. Chrysler ("Who else?" Heh...)
18. Channel 5 Movie bumper
19. 40th Emmys
20. Equal (with a Joan Rivers impersonator? Odd.)
21. Walt Disney World (with the cool members of The Cosby Show ;D)
22. Jamesway (Back to School, booo!)
23. Nissan
24. Channel 5 Movie bumper
25. Roy Rogers (Our Lady of Perpetual Help, lol)
26. Seaman's (I guess Bruce Lee fans are big furniture shoppers?)
27. Meineke ("Don't give us no double tribble!")
28. Betty Crocker (I hear she's been dating Pop of Rice Krispies fame ;D)
29. NBO ("Except shoes!")
30. 40th Emmys
31. Channel 5 Movie
32. Intermission (I must be young, I've never heard of these movies...)
33. Slim Fast (I remember a mean girl using this slogan in school, sadly)
34. Intermission answer (Huh, now I know!)
35. Mott's (Why does the girl have no dialogue?)
36. Club Perillo ("And Don Ho will even sing for you!")
37. Channel 5 Movie bumper
38. Burlington Coat Factory (Man, can it get more 80s than this?!)
39. Volkswagen (Nice little folksy ad)
40. Grand Gourmet ("People food for dogs")
41. Jhirmack ("For soft sexy hair")
42. The Reporters promo
43. Channel 5 Movie bumper
44. Fox News Extra (Spy ring, Michael Dukakis, and a big jab at Dan Quayle, lol)
45. Fortunoff
46. Fox News Extra (Peace talks between Iran and Iraq, heh...and the Stock Exchange)
47. Con Edison (They always did have rather creative commercials)
48. Fayva's ("Well then do it...because they do...")
49. Fayva's (Well that was unsettling...)
50. Pizza Hut (with the John Williams' Super theme for some reason)
51. 40th Emmys
52. Channel 5 Movie bumper
53. Toyota (As President Biden would say, "Make my day..." :D)
54. Jordache (Apparently it CAN get even more 80s! :D)
55. Seaman's (The keyboard reminds me of Beethoven in the mall scene in Bill & Ted)
56. Cocktail TV spot (Did you know Dan Aykroyd was originally approached for this?)
57. Who Framed Roger Rabbit TV spot ("Most highly acclaimed movie of the year!")
58. Canada Dry ("For when your tastes grow up")
59. Channel 5 Movie bumper
60. 40th Emmys
61. Fox News Update (reputed drug den, Jack Kennedy, Lloyd Benson, Brooklyn psychiatric centers, noshing tour of the lower east side)
62. Waldbaum's ("We're gonna talk tomatoes")
63. Isuzu (featuring drag, try not to get triggered ;D)
64. Piedmont Airlines ("At prices you can take sitting down")
65. Lestoil (now with less blue filter)
66. Channel 5 Movie bumper
67. Bunch O'Crunch (this looks older than 1988)
58. NBO ("Including shoes!")
59. Colt ("It's all the Japanese you need to know" LOL)
60. Ragu ("A dramatization from an actual letter")
61. Broadway's Cats promo (Love this show, I even got to see a recording of the original cast at the NYPL Archives!)
62. End credits, announcing the 40th Emmys (naturally :P)
63. 10 O'Clock News promo (Long Island Railroad, Democratic candidate booed, kidnapped baby reunited, Mitch Green and Mike Tyson,
64. 40th Emmys
65. Honda (and something about a Car Book)
66. HeadStart Computers vs King Kong Bundy, RIP (partial)