1980–1989

The 1980s

Half-hour toy commercials, neon citrus juice cans, and fog-machine board games.

'80s SatAM TV
★ 98

Pee-wee's Playhouse

CBS / Pee-wee Pictures • 1986–1990

For five glorious seasons on CBS, avant-garde punk puppeteers smuggled high art into 9:30 AM Saturday morning television.

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'80s Junk Food
★ 99

Hi-C Ecto Cooler

Coca-Cola Foods (Minute Maid) • 1987–2001

How a radioactive-green Ghostbusters tie-in outlived its own cartoon by an entire decade.

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