Friday Night Videos was a weekly dose of music videos for those without cable and, therefore, no MTV. I hadn't thought about it in years until this episode from 1984, complete with commercials, popped up on YouTube. It is pure 80s nostalgia with Tracey Ullman, who I honestly forgot had a music career, Rockwell, whose Somebody's Watching Me video still creeps me out, a "brand new video by John Cougar Mellencamp," and a talking head of Freddie Mercury smoking like a chimney in an intro to the Radio Gaga video. — Read the rest

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12 years ago, this funny and weird Japanese commercial for Chocoballs was uploaded to YouTube.

I enjoyed the total absurdity of the video, where a line of people with chocolate bodies and bird legs march around an animated cityscape, singing a song that mostly involves quacking. — Read the rest

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