Family Ties

Family Ties ran from 1982-1989. It was based in Columbus, Ohio and explored the relationship between Steven (a public television station manager) and Elyse (an architect) Keaton and their three children, Alex, Mallory and Jennifer.

Steven and Elyse were two hippies with liberal viewpoints who had married during the 1960s. The young couple had hoped their children would adopt the same values.

Alex (who usually went by his full name, Alex P. Keaton), who had extremely conservative viewpoints, was an avid Reagan-devotee and card-carrying Young Republicans Club member who sauntered through the house in a shirt and tie.

Mallory was an underachiever and slacker and was more into shopping and cute guys.

Jennifer was the precocious youngster who just wanted to be a normal kid

Skippy Handleman, one of Alex's best friends, was a geeky next-door neighbor with an unrequited crush on Mallory.

Simon Electronic Game

Simon was an electronic game of rhythm and memory skill manufactured and distributed by Milton Bradley in 1978. The game unit has four large buttons, one each of the colors red, blue, green, and yellow. The unit lights these buttons in a sequence, playing a tone for each button; the player must press the buttons in the same sequence. The sequence begins with a single button chosen randomly, and adds another randomly-chosen button to the end of the sequence each time the player follows it successfully. Gameplay ends when the player makes a mistake or when the player wins (by matching the pattern for a predetermined number of tones).

I personally never beat the game... but spent many hours trying.

Here are a couple of 80's commercials for Simon

1983 Hershey's Chocolate Bar Commercial

Here is a 1983 commercial for Hershey's Chocolate Bar.

"The Great American, Great American Chocolate Bar... Hershey is!"

"A Loaf of Bread" Sesame Street Segment

"A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter" -- From 1972, the classic animated segment about memory, which has done a pretty good job of sticking in the memories of a generation of Sesame Street viewers.