In 1999, this commercial exposed me to the song “Mellow Yellow” for the first time, leading me to later get it on Napster and make it a staple of my unique music library. In the commercial the song is sung by a group of young adults — among which were then-unknowns Alex Greenwald, Rashida Jones and Jason Thompson — in Gap’s “Everybody in Cords” commercial directed by Pedro Romhanyi. The music mix was done by the Dust Brothers.

I love all the Dr Seuss cartoons, but I hate the text of Green Eggs and Ham and the terrible message it sends about just harassing someone enough, constantly ignoring their protests, and eventually they will see that you are right and they were just being closed minded and afraid of new things the whole time.