In this week’s Flashback Friday Mark Ferree takes us back to 1987, for a look at one of the first VHS tapes to contain ... there’s a commercial at the beginning of it.

The skirmish between Betamax and Video Home System (VHS) began brewing in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until commercial videotape players became affordable to the general public that the war erupted.

The revelation comes during an intimate moment between adult Taissa and Van (Lauren Ambrose), as they share a cozy evening watching old VHS recordings ... shattered when a commercial break reveals ...