90s mascots were so random. Like why an owl with a graduation hat? He just graduated, so now he is wise, and can offer insight into lollipop licking? Was that his major?
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"Until the second half of the twentieth century, mortarboards were often worn by schoolteachers, and the hat remains an icon of the teaching profession." [source]
So they weren't saying that he just graduated, they were saying that he was learned (the tortoise even says, "he is the wisest of us all").
And owls being symbolic of wisdom is at least as old as as the Greek gods - Athena's symbolism included owls.
That's how it used to be. You asked questions to people who were believed to be wise, and then their answer was what the truth was. And most of the things we "knew" were just wrong.
Not that it's less complicated now...
You're focused on that? Why was the boy naked with only a tootsie pop, and talking to an owl?
I had no idea what this was until I read your comment. Apparently Lemmy does skew old enough to get this reference.
This commercial aired during the Superbowl in 2006, which was like... 5 years ago... right...?
The original commercial aired in 1968
https://popicon.life/5-sweet-facts-mr-owl-tootsie-pop-mascot/
I remember the 06 Superb Owl game! The Great Horns vs The Screeches! What a wonderful time! But the commercial has been around since 69.
Buddy, I've been asking the same question for a while now, and as a far as the youth is concerned, we're ancient.
I would hope so, GenZ would have seen that commercial growing up. Edit: Actually isn't it still being aired?
I haven't watched a TV commercial in probably over a decade, but I guess I kind of assumed that they were still showing these.
I miss Saturday morning cartoons. Sure, looking back, a lot of those cartoons sucked, (quality is on average much higher these days) but it was more about the ritual and the expectation. Saturday morning TV was for me.
As a parent of young children I've learned that Saturday morning cartoons are actually for my wife and I to have a moment to ourselves.
Yeah most of those used to be shit but it was like a ritual every weekend. Are Saturday morning cartoons not a thing anymore?
They got replaced by 24 hour dedicated children's channels, which in turn got replaced by streaming.
I'm not that old! I had Nickelodeon and Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, but there were still Saturday morning cartoons on WB and PBS. The Saturday morning cartoons weren't as good as the others but it was still something special about the mornings.