York peppermint patty commercial 1970s2/12/2024 ![]() ![]() Today’s sponsors prefer to beat us down through repetition, but I guess Ronald thought, “Well, I already shot all of these Chicken McNuggets out of a circus cannon, went to the gym with Grimace and then drove the Fry Guys around on my 1930s Super Goofy Bike, so I may as well get my mileage.” Amazingly, they aired a different McDonald’s commercial each time. Here you’ll see the first of many McDonald’s ads. The nostalgia will drown you, and then you’ll come back as a water ghost who can only haunt using obsolete ad slogans. So if you’ve lived my life, here’s a treat: Every commercial break from the 1985 broadcast of BOTH specials. They were shown back-to-back for so many sequential Halloween seasons that people anywhere near my age will forever associate childhood spooky times with fat cats and fit dogs. Immediately followed by It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, those two specials suddenly became the power couple of Halloween Toontown. I was six years old at the time, and I absolutely watched Garfield’s Halloween Adventure on that night. Getting the 1985 version was extra special, because that was the debut year of Garfield’s Halloween Adventure. I’ve only begun to sort through the goodies, but I already found one of my unholy grails: Halloween specials that aired on CBS back in October of ‘85. With all commercials intact. Schwing. ![]() I need three external hard drives and cake. My buddy Matt let me borrow some tapes that his family recorded back in the mid ‘80s, which is seriously the best thing anyone could let me borrow.
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