Category Archives: Videocracy

My Favorite Video of the Year

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

In the giving spirit of the season, I want to share you my favorite video of the year. If you read this site, you know the kind of videos I gravitate toward, and so you’d probably think I’d pick some … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Smurfs Pasta

Posted on March 5, 2012 by

Time was, you were nobody unless you got your own canned pasta. In the days of my kid-dom, every cartoon character was immortalized in semolina form by Chef Boyardee or Franco-American. Any resemblance between the pasta and the character(s) they … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Chef Boyardee

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

This Chef Boyardee commercial is an amusing artifact from the 1980s, and typical of a certain genre of ad seen at this time. You see, by mid-decade, people were starting to be more health conscious, as exemplified by the aerobics … Read on! —->

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Internet Gauntlet Answered: Heinz Homestyle Gravy

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

Almost a year ago, I threw down an Internet Gauntlet demanding to see the original version of a Heinz Homestyle Gravy commercial from the mid-80s. As you may recall–look, I know you don’t, but just say you do–there were several … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Rhyming Fries

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

It seems we just keep coming back to McDonalds, don’t it? Ads for this obscure family restaurant make up a healthy percentage of my YouTube haul, because their commercials were even more ubiquitous back in the 1980s than they are … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment(s) of the Week: News!

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

The vast majority of my YouTube collection is made up of random ads. I don’t think there’s anything particularly special about most of them; I’ve just placed them there because I found them on old VHS tapes and want to … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Z. Cavaricci

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

If you’re not of a certain age, “Z. Cavaricci” probably sounds like the name of a pasta sauce or a striker for Inter Milan. It’s actually a brand of clothery that was quite popular in the late 1980s/early 1990s, right … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Westchester County Fair

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

For this edition of YTCOTW (that’s what the kids call it, yo), we look at another ad that ran completely unchanged for my entire childhood and adolescence and a small portion of my adulthood, too. It’s a commercial for the … Read on! —->

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YouTube Comment of the Week: Toys R Us

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Today’s installment of YouTube Comment of the Week comes from a Halloween-themed ad for Toys R Us that ran for approximately 900 years. At the end of the commercial, you can see a little “(c) 1983″ in the lower left-hand … Read on! —->

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My Own Personal Viral Ad Infection

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Last night, while trying to complete one of my eight million different projects/assignments/schemes, I had this sudden vision. It was more a memory, really, but it hit me like a bolt from the blue. It came to me like one … Read on! —->

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