The winter holidays are coming up, with family gatherings and parties that you don’t want to attend, but have to look nice for anyway. That means it’s time to go shopping for red sport coats and bow-bedecked blouses, to keep your family looking sharp! Because it’s always 1986 in my imagination, let’s go to…JCPenney.

Or maybe let’s not.

There’s not much to make fun of there…what about a toy commercial from 1978?

Ah, that’s more like it. (horrifying toy ad via CNN)

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