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Your Hometown
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A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
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Styled like a luxury resort commercial, this ad urges holiday travelers to trade a beach getaway for a stay at their childhood home. A grown son finds his old bedroom taken over by his parents’ exercise machine and office, puts up with dated household comforts and chores, and tours the shuttered stores and familiar hangouts of his hometown, including an old friend’s hot tub. A drive past his former high school, a solo movie trip that ends in an awkward run-in with a former classmate at the concession stand, and a farewell armload of food from his mother round out the visit.
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Highly quotable.
Unwind in front of the deepest TV ever sold.
And pamper yourself with scratchy, bleach-stained towels from 1994.
We’d love you to stay for a week, but we’ll settle for three days.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
It's that time of year again, the holidays. But this season, don't waste your time on the white beaches of Hawaii. Instead, why not visit the sunny, paved streets of your hometown?
- 00:14
Speaker 1
There, you'll enjoy four-star accommodations at your childhood home.
- 00:20
Speaker 1
Featuring an all-access gym, located conveniently in your room. Along with a 24-hour business center, also in your room.
- 00:29
Speaker 1
Enjoy long, long continental breakfast. Unwind in front of the deepest TV ever sold. And pamper yourself with scratchy, bleach-stained towels from 1994.
- 00:47
Speaker 1
Your childhood home offers a wide range of on-site activity.
- 00:52
Mother
You could always clean out this box of stuff or it's going to be thrown away.
- 00:56
Father
Or pick up these sticks.
- 00:59
Speaker 1
and our attentive staff is there to assist you with anything that may come up
- 01:04
Speaker 1
who needs snorkeling and parasailing when you can check out the new Kmart and while you're at it check out the old Kmart which is now a closed Michaels
- 01:13
Speaker 1
or drive around listening to the only CD your mom owns
- 01:18
Speaker 1
plus your hometown offers exotic destinations for smoking weed like this swing the train tracks and and Matt's hot tub.
- 01:29
Speaker 1
If you're up for a day trip, drive on down to your high school to visit your old teachers. Then think, why would I do this? And leave.
- 01:38
Speaker 1
Or go see a movie, by yourself.
- 01:41
Speaker 1
Oh look, it's someone from your high school. How fun!
- 01:45
Speaker 1
So book your tickets to your hometown today. And bring home some souvenirs that you'll just have to leave at the airport.
- 01:53
Speaker 1
Your hometown. We'd love you to stay for a week, but we'll settle for three days.
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