Also you probably recall, "Punky Brewster" was a classic 80s sitcom about a spunky young orphan girl who gets adopted by the Commandant from Police Academy and together they get into primarily low-stakes hijinks.
For example, how about a simple shopping trip for groceries? Low stakes, yet ample opportunity Punky to get up to shenanigans. But what's most interesting for me is to check out the retro 1984 foodstuffs. Like most TV shows they needed to hide specific logos and brands but it's always fun to try to ID some of your favorites.
In order to hide logos, it looks like the production team mainly just turned items backwards and upside down. In the circled box behind Punky you can see a cereal box with a free coupon for a Dairy Queen sundae. This was a promotion by Kellogg's around this time. But take a look at the box next to it. Recognize it?
What we have here is a box of Star Wars C-3POs cereal with a special offer on the back for "Sticker Trading Cards." A quick Google search tells me that most of the time, the back of C-3POs had a cut-out mask of one of the characters but I guess at some point Star Wars fans demanded more and they got it.
Cap'n Crunch was on fire at this time, so much so that he could just give away fistfuls of cash. Not enough to get Punky's attention though as she passes right by the "Win $1,000 Cash" promotion on this box. Not sure what variation of Cap'n Crunch it was but I'm pretty sure it would have stopped the 1984 version of me dead in my tracks if I had been there.
And finally we get a look at some classic, square yellow Oscar Mayer lunch meat packaging. They've changed their look over time and you can still find some similar packages in stores today but there's no yellow like "80s yellow."
There also may or may not have been some Ecto Cooler in the background at one point but this was well before 4K video so we may never know for sure. Mysteries of the grocery aisle abound so it's important to stay vigil.
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