1982 - Ayds
Yes, this is one of the famous TV commercials for Ayds, a simple diet candy that was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough to keep you from raiding the fridge and eating higher-calorie items. Unfortunately for the company's marketing department, AIDS was starting to become a name known to the public and, well...

1982 - Ayds 2: Electric Boogaloo
Another commercial for Ayds, yes, there was more than one. Now with peanut butter!

1984 - Crazy Eddie
Beat the heat! One of the legendary Crazy Eddie commercials, and it can never be emphasized enough that this guy is not, in fact, Crazy Eddie. He's Jerry Carroll.

1983 - Crazy Eddie Record & Tape Asylum
He didn't just sell consumer electronics, Crazy Eddie also had a pretty good vinyl and cassette business going, as you can see in this commercial. So very cheap, those prices.

1985 - Crazy Eddie
Just in time, celebrate the Fourth of July with Crazy Eddie and dynamite!

1985 - Crazy Eddie
Number two in a series of Crazy Eddie Fourth of July ads, and I'm getting the idea that the hat kept screwing up but the rest of the commercial was okay, so they figured, sure, let's go with it. Elsewhere, you'll see what looks like the third and final one in the set where it all comes together.

1985 - Crazy Eddie
Number three in a series of Crazy Eddie Fourth of July ads, and the hat delivers.

1986 - Crazy Eddie Christmas
Crazy Eddie's 12 Days Of Christmas Sale, featuring Jerry Carroll and the Crazy Chorale.

1987 - Crazy Eddie After-Christmas Sale
It's after Christmas, but why should you stop shopping for the best bargains at Crazy Eddie?

1985 - Calvin Klein's Obsession
So happy! Today I find one of my Holy Grail commercials I'd hoped to find. It's one of the original Calvin Klein's Obsession perfume ads that went on to be parodied so well on Saturday Night Live in their commercial for "Compulsion."

1991 - Carefree Gum
There are two ways to recover from a major gossip scandal; pretend it never happened or make fun of yourself. Milli Vanilli took the latter course, and in this case it worked.

1982 - Civil War Chess Set
From the National Historical Society of Gettysburg, the commercial claims, the original Civil War Chess Set. If it really was as detailed as it appears to be, it looks like it was a nice set to own if you're into that sort of thing. I looked around and most of the other similar sets these days don't look as detailed.

1987 - Eveready Energizer - Jacko
Mark Jackson. Australian Rules football player. The original...Jacko! From a time when it seems as if, all of a sudden, America realized that it hadn't gotten around to assimilating Australian entertainment yet, so it made Paul Hogan a star in Crocodile Dundee, put the name Yahoo Serious on people's lips, and brought us Jacko to yell "Oi!" at us, which was supposed to make us want to buy batteries.

1990 - Ginsu 2000
Behold the future! And you can tell it's the future, because the Ginsu Knife has the number 2000 in the LED font. All it lacked was a grid for extra future-icity.

1991 - Thighmaster
Suzanne Somers presents the one, the only, the original, Thighmaster.

1987 - Isuzu I-Mark
You knew him, you loved him, you learned to live without him, but let's give a twentieth-anniversary shoutout anyway to the man who gave the Isuzu I-Mark car its moment in the ad sun, David Leisure, a.k.a. Joe Isuzu.