Most Insufferable Big Three TV Network Promo Mugfest (1989 Edition)

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It's hard to believe that there was a time when these star-studded fall TV preview commercials could've possibly been an effective marketing tool. I picked '89 because that seems to be the year all three networks finally got on the same page with producing promos that showcase their talent hamming it up in front of neon lights and whatnot. Many, many more of these horrors can be found on this wonderful YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tixg4-3Yg3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SLsfiwzj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G2blQdOKfo

Poll Results

Option	Votes
CBS	2
ABC	1
NBC	1

― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:12 (nine years ago)

And now I feel like a fool because of course Fox also had one of these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD2zyyJVRFc

― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:17 (nine years ago)

CBS one is amazing. "Here come the 90s!" "The 90s are coming!" it's almost indistinguishable from a South Park parody in places.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 April 2016 18:22 (nine years ago)

These are some of the most cheesiest 90s things I have ever seen though! Highly indicative of how the 90s actually started in the late 80s.

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 24 April 2016 18:23 (nine years ago)

My lifelong dream of seeing Bob Hope interact with ALF has finally been realized.

― Your Ass Is Grass And I Will Mow It With My Face (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:01 (nine years ago)

You know, nothing better said that a major television network was ready for the 90s than to have Bob Hope and an alien puppet bond together.

― pplains, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:07 (nine years ago)

Had to turn off the Fox one as soon as Bud Bundy started to read viewer mail.

― pplains, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:07 (nine years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

So. . . many. . . MULLETS.

― Austin, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 01:42 (nine years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 00:01 (nine years ago)

Those really capture why I have so much affection for the '80s.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 00:23 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

Get ready for magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdemLRfh48s

― all lite up and very romatic (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:20 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

There are innumerable threads filled with broken links but these poll options are clearly the ones most urgently in need of addressing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpCUojyXxCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6klB1LtnBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktBvKKLnHJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0fOur3y1Rk

But really I came here to address the magic of 1985's ABC 'We Love It' campaign, which somehow feels spiritually akin to the Turner Doomsday Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMVOCNINKeM

― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 February 2024 14:56 (one year ago)

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