*** Note: As Jessie is in sunny Florida, Eric will be guest-blogging today and tomorrow***
I was born in 1978 and grew up in the age of the VCR. In what must have been December, 1987, my mom, demonstrating fantastic foresight, committed to video cassette a series of Christmas classics that, along with Christmas Vacation, defined the season in our household for years to come: Garfield's Christmas, Alf's Special Christmas, and A Claymation Christmas Celebration.
In the days before TiVo, if you wanted your commercials edited out, you of course had to do it the old-fashioned way: with the pause button. This was a risky move - if you were too slow, you'd miss something when the show came back - but at my house, at least, it was the thing to do, and usually things went off without a hitch.
The exception? "Hard-nose Mrs. Hatcher," a McDonald's-sponsored tribute to every teacher who ever pushed her students to their limits. 35 seconds of Mrs. Hatcher made it onto tape before we got to the pause button during a commercial break in Garfield. And now, after years and years of repeat viewing, this teacher, who so clearly meant so much to so many, is as ingrained into my memory as those claymation camels or the moral of Alf's Special Christmas (which is, of course, that sometimes girls die.)
I probably hadn't seen the last 25 seconds of the commercial, however, since Garfield's Christmas first ran... until now.
God bless you YouTube.
Enjoy this one Sarah and Andy:
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3 comments:
I was just thinking about renting Garfield Christmas for the kids but then was thinking what about that commercial! Amazing that you found it!
i enjoyed the "guest blogger's" story.
i doubt if you'll find this as amusing as i did, but as i'm waiting for YouTube to buffer after the first 4 seconds of "Hardnosed Mrs. Hatcher . . ." i watched the little "buffering balls" (yes, that's right, i said little buffering balls--and what's really wierd about this is that you all knew exactly what i was talking about! Would you have 5 years ago?) circle around the very tip of Mrs Hatcher's nose.
Nope. Wrong. I think I found this as amusing as you did! :) Must be that whole Newton's apple not falling far from the tree...
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