Jordache Basics - anyone remember their teen angst commercials in the 80s?

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I remember that girl in the first commercial from her brief stint on Melrose Place.

That is all.

A couple of years later Jordache made a new commercial using the infamous “I hate my mother” commercial, almost making fun of how most adults at the time loathed that commercial while teens liked it lol.

R4 she was also in Pump Up The Volume with Christian Slater

How do I not remember these?? I was 100% their target audience, but I don't think I've ever seen these before. They are hideous. The old man dying?!

They must have only bought spots on shows I never watched, like Kids, Incorporated or Silver Spoons.

What exactly was the idea here? To psychologically connect Jordache with the worst moments in a young person's life? Doesn't seem a winning strategy.

Wasn’t teen angst all the rage with Gen X in the 80s? R8 teen flicks like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller all became hits then. This is after all of those. I think they were just following the trend of teen angst to appeal to teenagers

I was a teen in the 80's and don't remember them either, R8 .

I do, however, remember the Bugle Boy Jeans commercial.

Bugle Boy were always marketed toward adults. Jordache, Guess and CK jeans were always marketed toward teens in the 80s.

The girl in the I hate my mother ones is a Molly Ringwald clone.

R12 I think that’s what they wanted. The setup of the 5 teens gives Breakfast Club vibes

PS while i think these are all awful, I do like the one at r6.

that WAS molly ringwald, they are on her CV

R16 no. It wasn’t

R16 he name is Cheryl Pollak. She was a model and did some acting and then vanished.

yes it was

R19 you’re a big retard. I’m so embarrassed for you.

As if you aren’t posting on the internet. Newsflash, THE INTERNET EXISTS.

Recently I've been wanting to go back to the 80's.

This makes me rethink things.

CRINGE!!!

Jordache by John Hughes.

I remember these. I remember a lot. Being asked to remember and shown an example is usually all it takes.

R10, Whenever I saw "Bugle Boy," my mind always read "Bulge Boy."

If they made that commercial today, the driver of the car would be another hot guy. Bulge Boy would get in and they'd go off to have hot man-on-man sex. Republicans would get their little red panties in a twist about promoting homosexuality but all the while furiously masturbating their puny little cocklets.

Another Gen-Xer who has no memory of these ads. But my family was stuck in the 1960s, with one tv and no cable until the early 90s.

I remember these ads but at the time didn't realize the advertisement were a parody of a teen film. Very irritating.

What's with your weird, oddly specific hatred for something that was on TV almost FORTY YEARS ago OP? Get a grip.

Don't get a grip, OP. Most DLers live for this shit.

r20 you appear on the surface to have a very difficult life and to be very easily triggered.......also, you seem to have lost control of your emotions and "embarrassment"........trust me, don't be embarrassed for me............

I preferred Jewess Jeans

Lmaoooo you’re on another thread pretending to have mental illness r29. You really should just stay quiet.

r31 what are you talking about,? you are so easy to trigger........

I like how in the first one the girl whining is made up to look as much like Molly Ringwald as possible.

I don't remember these either.

[quote]Gen X teen angst was very real, intense, and exhausting.

The Brat Pack movies were created by boomers like John Hughes, and so were these commercials. It was all projection. It's like assuming the creators of the Brady Bunch had their fingers on the pulse of 60s youth. I was in college in the mid-80s and don't remember these at all. Xers never even remotely got a say until the 90s, which is why the brief heyday of bands like Nirvana and PJ Harvey was so exhilarating.

[quote]Another Gen-Xer who has no memory of these ads. But my family was stuck in the 1960s, with one tv and no cable until the early 90s.

My parents were silents and didn't get cable until the late 90s. Crap mass culture like these commercials makes me glad.

For the most part, the John Hughes movies were raucous (sometimes raunchy) comedies with at worst a couple of moments of pathos. Yes, Molly Ringwald pouted her way to stardom, but many of us disliked her and watched those movies in spite of, not because of her - something that Boomers never seemed to get.

I don't remember these.

[quote] Guess and CK jeans were always marketed toward teens in the 80s.

Despite the Brooke Shields (as a teen) commercial, I think the Calvin Klein jeans were for older people. I remember the fit being for an older body. Guess was for younger people, though.

R36–thank you!! I could not stand Molly Ringwald. She always struck me as the teenager that grownups would call unique and adorable…but every real teenager would prefer someone like Kelly Preston

Many teenage girls loved Molly.

R36 never watched The Breakfast Club, the most successful of those movies. All 5 of them struggled with teen angst and had deep issues.

That was an outlier, R40. Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller, etc. weren't like that.

R41 but they were. They all had it. You need to watch them.

R41 teen angst was highly depicted in 80s teen flicks because this is what teens were beginning to act like at home. This is what gave Hughes the idea of these movies.

And here. If you think these movies outside of Breakfast Club didn’t have them, you weren’t watching.

Molly Ringwald’s character in Sixteen Candles is one big ball of insecurities throughout.