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These commercials aired on MTV on April 1st, 1990
1. MTV Promo
2. Geo Prizm
3. TV Spot for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (IMO probably the best TMNT adaptation there will ever be. It managed to perfectly blend the grittiness of the comics and mix in some of the silliness of the cartoon without going overboard with it. I'm also always impressed when watching it that they somehow managed to capture the feel of 80's NYC even though most of the filming was done in Wilmington, North Carolina)
4. Coors Light
5. Promo for "The Marshall Chronicles" (Lasted for only one season. I wonder if the title was a play on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"?)
6. Side 1 Shoes (Pretty sure the actor here is Billy Baldwin)
7. "120 Minutes" Commercial Bumper
8. MTV Station ID
9. Nike (With John McEnroe and Andre Agassi)
10. Pepsi (Still in the Bill and Ted era I see)
11. TV Spot for "The First Power"
12. The Looney Tunes Library on VHS (I always remember seeing these in the Kids section at the video store)
13. Lou Reed "The Dagger" Interstitial
14. Asics Gel Cross Trainers
15. Dentyne (With Rob Morrow)
16. Sprite (With Arsenio Hall)
17. MTV Station ID
18. Promo for "MTV News"
19. Side 1 Shoes
20. TV Spot for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
21. Sports Illustrated Video Collectors Series
22. MTV Act Now PSA
23. Nike Air Jordans (With Mars Blackmon aka Spike Lee)
24. TV Spot for "The First Power"
25. TWA
26. Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown (Back in the pre 9/11 days when you could talk to airline stewardesses about your kooky conspiracy theories for hours)
27. MTV Microtoons (By animator Bill Plympton)
28. Nintendo U Force (This was a controller made by Broderbund to translate hand movements to the NES using two IR sensors. It was ranked by IGN as the 8th worst video game controller of all-time)
29. Soloflex
30. MTV Microtoons
31. Playboy Magazine
32. Bop (This compilation is a bop...literally)
33. MTV Station ID
34. Levi's 501 Jeans
35. Lounge Lizards "Voice Of Chunk" (Bandleader John Lurie was unable to get their third album released by a record label so he sold it independently through advertisements like this, selling about 30,000 copies)
36. Time Life Books Understanding Computers (How DO icons work?)
37. MTV Station ID
These commercials aired on MTV on April 1st, 1990
1. MTV Promo
2. Geo Prizm
3. TV Spot for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (IMO probably the best TMNT adaptation there will ever be. It managed to perfectly blend the grittiness of the comics and mix in some of the silliness of the cartoon without going overboard with it. I'm also always impressed when watching it that they somehow managed to capture the feel of 80's NYC even though most of the filming was done in Wilmington, North Carolina)
4. Coors Light
5. Promo for "The Marshall Chronicles" (Lasted for only one season. I wonder if the title was a play on Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles"?)
6. Side 1 Shoes (Pretty sure the actor here is Billy Baldwin)
7. "120 Minutes" Commercial Bumper
8. MTV Station ID
9. Nike (With John McEnroe and Andre Agassi)
10. Pepsi (Still in the Bill and Ted era I see)
11. TV Spot for "The First Power"
12. The Looney Tunes Library on VHS (I always remember seeing these in the Kids section at the video store)
13. Lou Reed "The Dagger" Interstitial
14. Asics Gel Cross Trainers
15. Dentyne (With Rob Morrow)
16. Sprite (With Arsenio Hall)
17. MTV Station ID
18. Promo for "MTV News"
19. Side 1 Shoes
20. TV Spot for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
21. Sports Illustrated Video Collectors Series
22. MTV Act Now PSA
23. Nike Air Jordans (With Mars Blackmon aka Spike Lee)
24. TV Spot for "The First Power"
25. TWA
26. Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown (Back in the pre 9/11 days when you could talk to airline stewardesses about your kooky conspiracy theories for hours)
27. MTV Microtoons (By animator Bill Plympton)
28. Nintendo U Force (This was a controller made by Broderbund to translate hand movements to the NES using two IR sensors. It was ranked by IGN as the 8th worst video game controller of all-time)
29. Soloflex
30. MTV Microtoons
31. Playboy Magazine
32. Bop (This compilation is a bop...literally)
33. MTV Station ID
34. Levi's 501 Jeans
35. Lounge Lizards "Voice Of Chunk" (Bandleader John Lurie was unable to get their third album released by a record label so he sold it independently through advertisements like this, selling about 30,000 copies)
36. Time Life Books Understanding Computers (How DO icons work?)
37. MTV Station ID
