{"id":20945,"date":"2020-12-02T13:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=20945"},"modified":"2020-12-23T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:40:55","slug":"madison-commercials-wmsn-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/madison-commercials-wmsn-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s watch some commercials from a Fox 47 broadcast in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am housebound<\/a> right now, so I have a lot <\/em>of time on my hands. In between attempts to bake, make crafts, and get my ass kicked by the tweens on Fortnite<\/em>, I\u2019ve been doing a whole lot of nothing. So why not watch a half-hour of TV commercials from the \u201980s?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certain charm in old ads, which manage to capture aesthetic better than a lot of major films and in a fraction of the time. They are time capsules of our wants and needs, and fond reminders of all the stupid fads that have long since gone out of style.<\/p>\n

Uploaded by YouTube user \u201cMitchell’s Video Vault,\u201d the kid-heavy commercials<\/a> from December 1986 aired during Scooby-Doo<\/em> on WMSN in Madison. (The station, which launched six months earlier<\/a>, is now colloquially known as Fox 47.) Some of my personal highlights are discussed below.<\/span>\n