I have a question for the marketing team at JCPenney: Does Barry
Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? Or, to put it another way, do
you know how offensive it is that you are completely ripping off "The
Breakfast Club" in your latest back-to-school ad campaign? 
I'm
all for younger generations appreciating the masterful work of Molly
Ringwald, Emilio Estevez and co. Truly. Everyone should be exposed to
Anthony Michael Hall's "Chicks can not hold they smoke" speech, or the
elegant way Ally Sheedy flings a piece of bologna in the air. But
there's a difference between that and outright co-opting the
quintessential Gen X movie so you can sell some crappy American Living
sweatshirts. The fact that one of the undernourished teen girls in this
commercial is wearing a Nirvana T-shirt just adds further insult to
injury. (See video of the debacle at the bottom of this post.)
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