Incidentally at the time this commercial was made, Jackson sightings were just like that: Few and far between, charged with lots of excitement and very brief. Before you knew it, they were waving goodbye and running away and you weren’t quite sure it actually happened when it was over. For all the trouble the Pepsi commercials brought into the life of the Jacksons, I don’t recall them getting a whole lot of rotation on tv but maybe I watched a lot less tv in the 1980s, or maybe they didn’t blitz commercials over free tv at the time as they do in today’s cable and satellite tv packages. As a Jackson fan I loved the commercial of course, and I thought Alfonso Ribeiro was the cuteness. I didn’t recognize Siggy at the time (Jackie’s son) – he’s the tall kid wearing yellow. But I have to say, it didn’t make me want to drink Pepsi.
Filed under: Music, Michael Jackon, Pepsi Commercial, The Jacksons
