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What is wild to me is how many of the commercials I nearly instantly recognized, or at least have some partial recollection of. Pocahontas movie promos like mad. Bac-O Bacon bits. That car commercial with the 'Dooby-dooby-doo' part of Sinatra's Strangers in the Night. That fancy sounding 1992 Acura commercial with the classical music.

Maybe it's just weird confirmation bias but I felt like as soon as some of them start airing I'm like "yep... I remember seeing this." Whereas I don't feel that about much of the shows or newscasts. Maybe just shows how impressionable repetitive advertisements are on young minds.

>>mk_stj+(OP)
Incredibly well stated. This was the comment that convinced me to check out the link and, man, what a blast from the past. So many of those commercials I literally haven’t thought about in decades and couldn’t have told you a thing about them beforehand, but sure enough, many of them tickled a little spot in my brain and I knew I had seen them before.

That early ‘90s commercial aesthetic is something else.