2004 McDonalds Chicken Selects Commercials.

Wow, culture is very static compared to how frequently and drastically it used to change. These ads are twenty years old but they don’t feel all that dated. If the resolution were higher that could be be right now.

Imagine watching McDonald’s ads in 2004 from 1984 (same time separation). Back then, 1984 already seemed like a different world.

So for comparison, here are McDonald’s commercials from 1984-1985. Wow, that’s a whole different, weird universe there¹.

Even I had kind of forgotten, though, how heavily McDonald’s ads were aimed at kids back then.

1. And I was alive in both eras, so don’t even argue here.