90's Commercials Vol. 417

These commercials aired on FOX on May 22nd, 1995 1. "Melrose Place" Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Coors Light and "Apollo 13") 2. TV Spot for "Apollo 13" (Great movie, but I probably haven’t seen it since the mid 2000’s) 3. Coors Light 4. Hanes 5. Kentucky Fried Chicken (With Jake Lloyd) 6. Secret (With Elizabeth Mitchell from "Lost") 7. Extra Sugar Free Gum (Interesting to hear a 90's version of this 80's jingle) 8. Pepsi (With Casper. The 1995 live-action movie was released four days after this) 9. Promo for "White Dwarf" (This was intended to be a pilot for a TV series and starred Paul Winfield and Neal McDonough. It received negative reviews from critics and a series never materialized) 10. Monopoly Game at McDonald's (This was at the height of the corruption surrounding this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonal...) 11. Tropical Freezes 12. Sprint Sense International (With Candice Bergen) 13. Fruitopia 14. Promo for "Beverly Hills, 90210" 15. KTVU 10 o'clock News Promo (James Nichols was the brother of Terry Nichols, who was an accomplice to Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing one month prior. No evidence directly linking him to the bombing was ever produced and he was cleared of all charges. He died in 2017) 16. Tylenol Severe Allergy 17. 1995 Chevy Camaro 18. Blockbuster Video 19. "The Shawshank Redemption" at Blockbuster Video (A box office bomb when originally released to theaters, it became one of the top rented films of 1995) 20. KTVU 10 o'clock News Bumper (Pat McCormick was the weatherman for KTVU for many years and was also known as a puppeteer, performing on "The Charley and Humphrey Show" from 1972-76 and produced a number of PSAs that aired on KTVU for years:    • 80's Commercials Vol. 51  ) 21. FOX Cold Hard Facts Intro (Brought to you by Butterfinger) 22. Butterfinger 23. FOX Cold Hard Facts (With Mike Richter of The New York Rangers) 24. Promo for "White Dwarf" 25. Excedrin 26. Maybelline Lash By Lash Mascara 27. Red Lobster (From what I could find, there is no such thing as "National Lobster Month" and it was just a marketing gimmick for this ad. In 2021 the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring September 25th as National Lobster Day, finally ending our long national nightmare) 28. Payless Shoe Source 29. Diet Dr Pepper (You wouldn't download a soda…) 30. Promo for "My Wildest Dreams" 31. TV Spot for "Johnny Mnemonic" (Weird that the far-off futuristic year of 2021 is now in the past) 32. Coors Red Light 33. M&M's (With Daisy Fuentes) 34. Playtex 35. Taco Bell 36. Longs Drugs (A west coast based drug store chain bought out by CVS in 2008 that is sorely missed) 37. General Motors Value Pricing (I really remembered this one for some reason, especially the shot with the dude falling into the giant airbag) 38. Motorola Pagers at Circuit City 39. L'oreal Exuberance 40. JCPenney Window Covering Sale 41. JCPenney White Sale 42. Fruitopia 43. TV Spot for "Die Hard With A Vengeance" (Such a great movie) 44. Huggies Pull-Ups Training Pants 45. Burger King Whopper Jr. Value Meal 46. Certs (With the voice of Don Pardo) 47. 1995 Ford Probe GT 48. KTVU 10 o'clock News Promo