Remembering the 80s: The Year in Christmas, 1989

This is the year my big sister was born.

That Trent Reznor clip was cringy funny. 😂

Your video has filled my need for nostalgia. Liked and subbed. Also Merry Christmas.

1989. i was 33. interesting stuff that i mostly forgot happened that christmas

This was a very special Christmas, as a life long resident of Southeast Georgia, it was the only year I have ever seen snow and it was just in time for Christmas. I was only 13 and everyone I loved was still alive. Great memories I will always cherish. Thank you so much for allowing us to relive some great times, excellent job!

And they still play the Hershey Kisses commercial to this day

New subbie here. Love the nostalgia and looking back on Christmases 80s past. Reminds me of Timeline. Thanks for taking this footage and compiling it for us viewers.

These episodes are incredible and I can't wait for more years before and after 1989!

Yes 89 after a rough 88 I got my Gameboy via secret Santa and also lots of AA batteries 😂

Nice Christmas that year. I remember that I received my insect collecting kit from my late aunt.

Wow. Can’t believe the Hersheys Kiss bell caroling ad is that old. I just saw it this Christmas season again

I was born in 1989 cause it was a great year and I grew up in the 90"s with autism

New Kids on the Block’s Funky Funky Christmas: my favorite Christmas album ever! ❤

The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire was the only full length episode of the Simpsons to air in the 80's. Whenever I'm discussing/arguing the Simpsons with someone younger than me who asks me what I think the best episode that did not come out of the 90's was I cheekily reply the 1989 Christmas special.

I was 9 years old back in 89.
I remember went to go see Christmas Vacation at the movies.
For Christmas that year i remember i got clothes and Barbie Dolls a bottle of Exclamation purfume coloring book.

It’s nice to be reminded of good holiday memories from ‘89. I always associate that year with the Loma Prieta earthquake, as I was living in SF at the time.

Ahhhh to go back and be 9 again.. What a time.

That Hallmark Christmas planner was life changing. My 9 year old self tries to recreate that every year.

I remember Christmas of 1989. I was 12 years old. One thing I remember about it was how cold it was weather wise. A few weeks before Christmas, my family and I all went to the movie theater to see what my all-time favorite Christmas movie would be, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And we also saw Scrooged on video. I also remember us watching the Simpsons Christmas Special and the Married...With Children Christmas episode with Sam Kinison as they did a take on It's a Wonderful Life. Three nights before Christmas, I also watched A Very Brady Christmas.

That Christmas, I got a Batman doll, Batman figure, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figures and a carrying case, checkers game, two remote control cars, and clothes. The night before on Christmas Eve, we went to my aunt's for the neighborhood Christmas party. Not the best Christmas I ever had, but it was pretty good, nonetheless.

I was 12 years old and not knowing it would of been my last Christmas with my mom. She passed away in July of 1990 when i was 13 yrs old. But its nice to see all this and i remember all these commercials and shows from then. Its a good memory because i wish i could go back in time to then when everything was good, no worries at all. Christmas was definitely my favorite holiday as a kid.

Do you plan on doing the 90s and 2000s? I was born in 1990 and would love to see some nostalgia

Taylor was such a popular baby name in ‘89

Remember 1989 some more by looking up "Spitting Image - We're Scared Of Bob".

Yep this is my x-mas to the T. Someone has impeccable taste making this video! Life was fine in 89.

That Hershey kiss ad is the definition of timeless. I also have always loved the 7up cool spot ad, I love the lighting and sparkling snow.

No one told old Donny what funky really means in the way he said it?

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I don’t know about other countries but we’ve all lost that warm that used to be tv in the 80’s. Every tv show would do a Christmas themed special, Christmas movies were good and the messages would be about trying to be a better human being.
Now every year, your lucky if your favourite show bothers with a Christmas special and it’s not on every channel anymore. Like people on tv would wear festive clothes or a Santa hat or something and they’d seem genuinely happy….you don’t get that anymore 😢

So many wonderful memories. Please do the 60s,70s and 90s

❤

Rip hot rod

prancer is one my favorite holiday movies

i was a nonbeliever, my sister on the other hand

I distinctly remember my mom and aunt just constantly talking about how handsome macgyver was, I was 4 years old and loved the show.

Christmas Vacation and Scrooged, best ever!

Ah the memories. I remember so many of these shows and things, Prancer was one of my fave movies and that Simpsons episode still gives me joy to watch. I remember getting a little My Little Pony in my stocking that Christmas and I still have that little pony sitting on my bookshelf in my livingroom.❤

Loved watching Tales from the Crypt especially that Christmas episode..I feel so old now lol

My first Christmas away from home as i was stationed on Okinawa

Three years later, I would wake up for school in October, like it was just any other day. The most normal family you could imagine, like out of sitcom on TGIF. That was the last time I saw my bedroom or anything in it, I was 14. Mom decided she didn't want to be married anymore and when I got out of school, my childhood was over. It's a long story and one I didn't know at the time but my mother had a past that made me, her son, something she didn't want either. My sister and her went on with life while I was told, "go live with your dad or on the streets, I don't care". I lost my mother, my family, my toys, my bedroom, my dog and my life that day. I'm 46 now and I can't remember one day of my life since 1992 where I was 100% calm, comfortable, felt safe and happy and I'm not sure I ever will be again. 1989 was a great year for me and for whatever reason, I remember more about year than most. Sitting with my family watch TV on a Friday night. Saturdays were spent at the beach or fishing ((I'm from Florida) and the evening spent watch my dad grill some steaks or burgers or whatever while my mother was in the kitchen cooking up the sides. I'd be outside on my bike exploring the same roads I'd been up and down a thousand times. After, it's time to eat and if we were good, we would have stopped on the way home before and rented some movies from Aardvark Video. Sometimes I wonder if any of that really happened, maybe I imagined it all or it was just a series of dreams. It doesn't seem like I could have ever been that happy looking around at my life today but I guess I was. Now I spend my free time looking for toys that I had when I was kid, even the NFL blanket I had on my bed. Avon items that my mother had sitting in the living room and things my dad had on the walls etc. I have spent the past 30+ years trying to find the end of my childhood and when I do, it's usually at a flemarket or yardsale. Ebay has been a great place to find things that I never thought I'd see again and even at 46, I sometimes pretend that the He-Man figure that I just bought on ebay is somehow THE ONE from my bedroom and I've finally found it! It's all gone though and honestly, it's not what I really want to find. I want my art pads back and all of the craft projects and model cars that I put together with my dad and mom. I'm stuck in a jail cell that my mother built for me in my head for whatever reason, it was a just a kid so I shouldn't have been involved in her issues but I was. That jail cell (only description I can think of...I guess a time warp, idk) is filled with nothing but the first 14 years of my life while I wonder what my life would be today if I could have come home from school that day just like any other and continued to do so until I was 18 and started my own life, like normal people.

I got Ninja Turtles that year. I remember being so hyped.

Where are the videos for 1980, 81, 82 and 83 ?

Sad that 89 was that much shorter than the 85 one.

Piper gave me some of my favorite holiday memories. Years later on Monday Nitro he'd give a promo reminding everyone 'don't ever forget, Christmas is someone's birthday'. The man truly had a heart of gold.

No way in hell I will ever watch Prancer 😢 lol😂

@ChristmasAficionda You forgot one Batman the movie I'm BATMAN ROFL

only down fall to all of these,.. 😢is most that was around is no longer R.I.P. to them all

Would love to see this continued and to do the 90's. I was born in 80 and equally loved the early to mid-nineties

Can we get a remembering the 90s edition? 😇

I was only 4 but i remember so many of these. So nostalgic! I'd really love to see the year 1993! Merry Christmas to all! ❤ it sure ain't what it used to be!🥺