Is 1984's "The Jordache Look" the most 80s commercial?

Aerobics, people, aerobics!

https://youtu.be/WWl-nfNQliw

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I’m a Bugle Boy type of guy, actually

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The commercials I most think of that say 80’s are the Joe Sedelmaier classics:
Where’s the beef?!

and Federal Express:

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wow - the commercial was actually awesome - when is the last time I’ve seen something so straightforward and non-self referential or non-cynical. they are happy and dancing and like clothes…I wish I could feel like that for a couple minutes a day.

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There’s a horribly evocative moment here where 80’s demin posing meets goatse.

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I thought that the Eighties sounded more like this…

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I have no idea because every time a commercial comes on TV my mind replaces it with this: Velkan Dances and I sit there slack-jawed like some eejit for the next 30 seconds.

Wait! So the entire plot of Breakfast Club was extrapolated from the first 5 seconds of this Jordache commercial?!

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What I remember most about the 80’s was that chewing Juicy Fruit would make you ski like a total badass!

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VW Golf, circa yuppy era. Post garish colour era.

Definitive.

And at the other end of the decade, one of the keystones of commercial … er … pitches:

And to cap it:

Underwear was never the same again.

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You can – you just have to buy Jordache! This is what I learn, watching ads.

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