1985 - Rock Hudson \"Mystery Illness\" 1985 - Rock Hudson "Mystery Illness"
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Video duration: 170 seconds

It's useful sometimes to see history play itself out as it was happening. In this case, the news coverage of Rock Hudson's "mystery illness." As we now know, he had AIDS, but you can see the hedging that goes on about it.

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June 29, 2007 - Attempted Mic Theft June 29, 2007 - Attempted Mic Theft
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Video duration: 248 seconds

Outside the New York City Apple store, Fox News reporter Laura Ingle interviews people waiting on the line, and Steven Levy, a tech writer who was lucky enough to have an Iphone to demonstrate before its official on-sale time. The interview is interrupted by the attempted theft, not of the iPhone, but of Laura's microphone.

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Weird Al Live - Yoda Chant Weird Al Live - Yoda Chant
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Video duration: 120 seconds

Weird Al Yankovic live at the North Fork Theater, Westbury, NY, June 2, 2007. Amazing video and audio considering it was taken with a tiny little digital camera (Sony Cybershot DSC-W70, movie mode, 3x zoom). Also, notice Al moving slightly from left to right on the screen. The North Fork has an in-the-round stage, so all during the show the band was rotating!

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1991 - Thighmaster 1991 - Thighmaster
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Video duration: 60 seconds

Suzanne Somers presents the one, the only, the original, Thighmaster.

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1990 - Ginsu 2000 1990 - Ginsu 2000
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Video duration: 90 seconds

Behold the future! And you can tell it's the future, because the Ginsu Knife has the number 2000 in the LED font. All it lacked was a grid for extra future-icity.

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Weird Al Live - Ode to a Superhero Weird Al Live - Ode to a Superhero
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Video duration: 129 seconds

Sling us a web, you're the Spider-Man...

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1982 - Civil War Chess Set 1982 - Civil War Chess Set
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Video duration: 121 seconds

From the National Historical Society of Gettysburg, the commercial claims, the original Civil War Chess Set. If it really was as detailed as it appears to be, it looks like it was a nice set to own if you're into that sort of thing. I looked around and most of the other similar sets these days don't look as detailed.

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1985 - Calvin Klein\ 1985 - Calvin Klein's Obsession
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Video duration: 30 seconds

One of the original Calvin Klein's Obsession perfume ads that went on to be parodied so well on Saturday Night Live in their commercial for "Compulsion."

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1984 - Crazy Eddie 1984 - Crazy Eddie
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Video duration: 28 seconds

Beat the heat! One of the legendary Crazy Eddie commercials, and it can never be emphasized enough that this guy is not, in fact, Crazy Eddie. He's Jerry Carroll.

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1983 - Doug Henning in Merlin 1983 - Doug Henning in Merlin
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Video duration: 30 seconds

Doug Henning was a proto-New Age magician who became a huge hit on Broadway with "The Magic Show." This TV commercial was for his followup show.

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1987 - Isuzu I-Mark 1987 - Isuzu I-Mark
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Video duration: 30 seconds

You knew him, you loved him, you learned to live without him, but let's give a twentieth-anniversar y shoutout anyway to the man who gave the Isuzu I-Mark car its moment in the ad sun, David Leisure, a.k.a. Joe Isuzu.

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1984 - Levis Button-Fly 501 Jeans 1984 - Levis Button-Fly 501 Jeans
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Video duration: 30 seconds

One of a wonderful, wonderful series of ads from Levis for their assorted jeans variants. The music was always pleasant, the people were always pretty in a good way, and the look, even more than twenty years later, shows why Levis should rightfully be considered a fashion classic.

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1994 - Duracell Batteries 1994 - Duracell Batteries
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Video duration: 29 seconds

The Putterman family go golfing.

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1982 - Ayds 1982 - Ayds
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Video duration: 30 seconds

Yes, this is one of the famous TV commercials for Ayds, a simple diet candy that was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough to keep you from raiding the fridge and eating higher-calorie items. Unfortunately for the company's marketing department, AIDS was starting to become a name known to the public and, well...

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1982 - Ayds 2: Electric Boogaloo 1982 - Ayds 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Video duration: 29 seconds

Another commercial for Ayds, yes, there was more than one. Now with peanut butter!

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