And I remember that commercial.
It absolutely is!
One of the best. Gee, is it really that old? The commercials that air today have got to be produced by drug addled kids.
I believe they still run this commercial, it is a classic, I could have sworn I saw it last year or the year before.
In 1996 it was my Dad’s favorite commercial
Great commercial from a time that is never coming back. Today, it would be about a gay, dark skinned Spanish-speaking muzzie bipolar left-handed vegan trannie with gluten allergies.
1996?
jeeezzzz.....seems like yesterday i saw that commercial.
That was 1996?!
I completely remember the ad, without even needing to click the link because I sill associate the music from it for this time of year more than Christmas because of it.
Great commercial - but - I personally feel the opposite. Maybe it’s because I didn’t get enough time with my father before it was all over, but I love spending as much time as I can with my kids.
There seems to be more time in the summer... But the truth is sometimes I wish the whole darned “system” wasn’t one in which, in order to afford a house, parents get only a few hours a day with their kids.
Thanks to Women’s Liberation now both parents work, and the kids have the advantage of daily indoctrination by bored, self-important homosexuals.
Oh, i can relate. Back in the 1970s when i was in grade school a local store (not a staples, just a small independent store) that sold school supplies, had a back to school sale close to the end of every summer vacation. I hated school with a red hot passion and so whenever i happened to be walking past the store when it was near the end of my summer vacation, i dreaded seeing their big “back to school” sales posters up in their windows.
And then when it came time to buy school supplies inside the store, my mother would take me and I’d spot many familiar faces of my schoolmates who were also accompanying their mothers who were also there for the same reason: to buy school supplies. I recall they all looked sad and sullen. Not a single happy face among my schoolmates. They were all miserable as i was at buying school supplies. At being reminded that summer vacation was almost over and school was about to begin again.
I was always ecstatic at school starting again, a bit sad that I couldn’t sleep in and have another lazy day, but overall happy to be getting back to learning and seeing friends and being around others.
My girls were a bit more mixed bag. I remember them having pictures outside the house on the first days etc but supply buying wasn’t something my wife planned for at the end of summer - it was more strategic than tactical. She waited until the end of school start season and then stocked up for pennies on the dollar for the next year instead. There were some clothes buying ventures but for the most part the girls saw the “plan ahead” approach instead of the “gotta go buy this” approach.
Wife used to get really upset when the supply lists would come out and something was on it she hadn’t planned for. The girls would be “it’s on the list, we have to have it”. Wife would be “for what?” I mostly noticed it with newer and newer calculator requirements. Basically new features they would never use in college let alone pre-college.
Those stony-faced kids are the best part of that commercial.