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

Who the fuck thought this was a cool idea? These commercials were annoying, albeit I guess they stick out and were memorable for how ridiculous they were. But they sure didn’t make you wanna run out to buy Jordache jeans, you barely see the jeans.

These commercials were certainly no Brooke Shields Calvin Klein Jeans ads.

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

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by Anonymousreply 43December 5, 2022 1:45 AM

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

That is all.

by Anonymousreply 4December 4, 2022 10:06 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 5December 4, 2022 10:09 AM

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

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by Anonymousreply 7December 4, 2022 10:15 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 8December 4, 2022 11:24 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 9December 4, 2022 11:33 AM

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

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

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by Anonymousreply 10December 4, 2022 11:34 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 11December 4, 2022 11:35 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 12December 4, 2022 11:36 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 13December 4, 2022 11:38 AM

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

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by Anonymousreply 15December 4, 2022 11:43 AM

that WAS molly ringwald, they are on her CV

by Anonymousreply 16December 4, 2022 11:49 AM

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

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by Anonymousreply 18December 4, 2022 11:58 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 20December 4, 2022 12:03 PM

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

This makes me rethink things.

CRINGE!!!

by Anonymousreply 21December 4, 2022 12:09 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 23December 4, 2022 12:57 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 24December 4, 2022 1:22 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 25December 4, 2022 1:37 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 26December 4, 2022 2:04 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 27December 4, 2022 2:30 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 28December 4, 2022 3:41 PM

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............

by Anonymousreply 29December 4, 2022 8:05 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 31December 4, 2022 8:10 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 32December 4, 2022 8:37 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 33December 4, 2022 8:48 PM

I don't remember these either.

by Anonymousreply 34December 5, 2022 12:21 AM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 35December 5, 2022 12:54 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 36December 5, 2022 1:04 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 37December 5, 2022 1:13 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 38December 5, 2022 1:23 AM

Many teenage girls loved Molly.

by Anonymousreply 39December 5, 2022 1:36 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 40December 5, 2022 1:37 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 41December 5, 2022 1:39 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 42December 5, 2022 1:40 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 43December 5, 2022 1:45 AM

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