YouTube: TV commercials from first "Simpsons" episode (1989)

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  1. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Want to feel old?

    Check out this series of ads from a Providence, RI FOX affilate on the night of December 17, 1989, during the premiere of the very first Simpsons episode (the Christmas special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire").

    As a bonus, we get a promo for the Married: With Children Christmas episode, "It's a Bundyful Life" (guest starring the late Sam Kinison), which premiered on the same evening.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFX9SuXByoo

    Jeez, how time flies. I can remember watching this as a 16-year-old and thinking it was the greatest thing ever made; but who ever would've dreamed then that The Simpsons would *still* be on the air?
     
  2. Dragun

    Dragun Forum Resident

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    The commercials are usually the most entertaining part of watching old tapes recorded from TV. Thanks for posting that video!
     
  3. Plan9

    Plan9 Mastering Engineer

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    Toulouse, France
    I was 6 when I saw that first episode and I remember thinking more or less "that's the most original cartoon I've ever seen". I liked the drawing style. Never seen anything like that then.
     
  4. Chip TRG

    Chip TRG Senior Member

    Somewhere I have the original broadcast from the New York affiliate, WNYW-Channel 5. It would be interesting to dig it up and compare the local inserts.

    PS: GREAT "MArried...With Children" spisode!
     
  5. Ryan

    Ryan That would be telling

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    Wow...check out the Leiser ad for "cellular telephones"...why are the phones connected to a lunchbox??? :)

    Leiser is long gone, at least in RI.
     
  6. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    My wife and I were living in a group house in DC, when this was shown. As the oldest 'kids' in the house (me 21; my wife 23), we were chastised by the 'intellectual- pot smoking' kids we were living with, for wanting to watch a cartoon! We BOTH knew we were watching history! Though we only watched the "Tracey Ullman Show" once or twice, we did see a couple of "Simpson shorts" at the Tourney of Animation, eariler that year. I STILL say they are my generation's BEATLES! It was like our "Ed Sullivan Show"!!!!
     
  7. Ryan

    Ryan That would be telling

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    New England
    Agreed; I don't know if it was all the TV hype or what, but even then, I (and my friends) knew this would be a great show.
     
  8. Bertly

    Bertly Senior Member

    'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' vhs for $20.00, no thanks.. ;-)
     
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