I love the '80s

THUNDER, THUNDER, THUNDERCATS! THUNDERCATS! HO!

Aryeh Jay said:

After reading all these posts I am hungry for some Smurfberry Crunch Cereal. I wonder if there is any left in the cabinet.

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I used to have so many of the cereal commercial jingles from the 80's memorized...THEY'RE GRRRREAT! Tony the Tiger thought so, so did I.

Aryeh Jay said:

After reading all these posts I am hungry for some Smurfberry Crunch Cereal. I wonder if there is any left in the cabinet.

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Just follow your nose...

Apologetic_Warrior said:

I used to have so many of the cereal commercial jingles from the 80's memorized...THEY'RE GRRRREAT! Tony the Tiger thought so, so did I.

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And who didn't own (or at least know a child who owned) one of these?

(Yes, I know this was more '70s, but I also recall that these dolls stayed popular partially through the '80s as well. Therefore, it counts, IMO.)

Another cartoon I enjoyed on Saturday morning was The Shirt Tales. Why can't they make them like this anymore?

Here is the first season theme.

Other underrated cartoons from the early '80s:

I remember when cartoons used to teach a lesson. At the end of some of them they would a short clip about the "moral of the story." They don't do that anymore. There's a lot of them that don't even really seem to have a plot or an ongoing story line.

Another great memory: When vocal ensemble groups would actually sing the radio station call letters!

(Might try to find examples of this later. It's really surprising in the big world of Youtube why I can't find good clips of this kind of thing. It would be great for the sake of nostalgia, which is what this thread is all about!)

I've also mentioned this in similar threads, but who can forget when TV stations signed off at night (actually, very early in the morning), then back on a few hours later?

Here are some examples of some nice ones I've found (now those seem to be all over Youtube!), plus, a Website I found a couple of years ago with quite a sizable collection of TV signoff clips of the past from all over the United States.






http://www.tv-signoffs.com/

Apologetic_Warrior said:

THEY'RE GRRRREAT! Tony the Tiger thought so, so did I.

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grew up on Frosted Flakes
seems that was only cereal ate as a child

there were different cereals in cupboard but I always picked FF

We ate a lot of Frosted Flakes, too. I still love them. I've been into the cinnamon one lately.

i loved the 80's too back then there was no Pandemics happening like there is now, there was a lot of good music back then, there was neat toys like really cool Barbie dolls & Cabbage Patch Kids, there was a lot of good cartoons & good T.V. shows on too, there was the Atari Game system, The walkmans, the big boom boxes, break dancing,, also Candy was good too

You guys are taking me back to my childhood! Funny how some of the 80s toys, etc., are making a comeback...