Late Night Commercials from ’86!

Here’s another batch of late night TV commercials, this time from 1986:

Most of the commercials are dreadfully boring, but that’s the point!

I loved staying up late for as long as I’ve been alive, so ads like these — mostly promoting local businesses that could only afford to advertise during off-hours — take me back to the days when staying up past 2AM made me feel like I was getting away with murder.

Only in the wee hours could I putz around in my bedroom (my favorite pastime) without fear of being called upon for any chores, errands or other to-dos.

It’s weird: When you’re a kid, you have so much free time, but very little of it is actively “yours.” Imagine a ten-year-old boy telling everyone in a busy house not to bother him for 3-4 hours. It didn’t really work that way.

So, god bless those old late nights. Commercials like these scored ‘em.