I LOVE this, too! But he has enough supplies for an entire school in that cart! 😛 🎼 Just saw quick interview of John O'Hurley (Seinfeld, etc.). He was raving about Alice and Alice's family. Said they're really nice and very intelligent, just like everyone else here who had met them said. I never tire of this video, and wonder how loud it would have been hearing everyone's response to the commercial each time it played. ("He DID say schools out forever!!") Pure genius is right.
This was out around the time I saw him in concert for the second time. He was performing at the Arizona State Fair, and both of his daughters were there. His older daughter, Calico, was dancing in the band, and his younger daughter(About the age of the girl in the commercial) was there, too. He introduced her, she walked out, kicked him in the shin, and said "Next time I want to be in the commercial!" and stormed off. It was hilarious! I actually got to go backstage at this show, and met both of his daughters back there. They confirmed everything I'd been hearing for years about his kids, they were total sweethearts and couldn't possibly have been nicer. If I hadn't been backstage at a concert with Coop walking around, meeting folks, I would have forgotten that they were Alice Cooper's daughters. :-) Coop himself was also one of the nicest people I've ever met(Once again, confirming things I'd been hearing for years, the man truly 'gets it'.)
Every interview I have ever watched with him and his wife it just makes them seem like they are incredibly humble people who truly love their fans and the art the create. I wish all stars would act just half as nice as they appear to be
He played at the golf course I used to work at (this was in October 2009). He was so nice - he was there with his band, and they were playing with several groups of high rollers (casino-operated golf course near Atlantic City, NJ, now under private ownership). Alice Cooper played as the fifth in each group. I stood about 3 feet from him, and they were the nicest guys.
Now that really cracked me up. Alice Cooper has always been one of my favorite performers. I had never seen this before. On stage he is unique, and was very shocking in the 70's. In interviews, he is always a very nice person. He has done a lot to help others. There just isn't anything bad to say about him as a performer, or as a person.
Alice C. is hilariously funny. Loved him in Wayne's World. "Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?" "Yes Pete it is. It's pronounced Mi li wau ke which is Algonquin for The Good Land."
@@MJForever1999 - he’s joked about that - he says until they became widely known, a lot of people came expecting to see some blond folk singer with an acoustic guitar. They were in for an awakening...
@@sleep_sounds Wayne Campbell , Garth Algar : [to Alice Cooper] We're not worthy! We're not worthy! Garth Algar : We're scum! Wayne Campbell : We suck!
This is one of those commercials that will just always stick in my memory, I had forgot it was advertising Staples, but other than that it's imprinted in my memory word for word. The person that pitched the idea for that commercial was on top their game when they came up with the idea
Sam Sticka back to school is just a way for parents to dump their kid's asses to school. Let the school parent the little rodents for a few hours while the parents and oldest siblings work in some prison-like office.
...and anyone who knows the song by heart and can write, sing it or play the bass or drums, in their sleep, knows it goes School's out for summer...school's out forever! what a nice backpedal on Coop's behalf.
I was a high school secretary for almost 20 years, and I tried to get Admin. to play this at the end of each semester. Just twice a year! Nope, never would. Begged them to play Mellencamp’s Authority Song each morning, as a friendly reminder of just who really ran the place 😂, but alas, no luck. We were stuck with the Final Jeopardy theme. Bleeck! (It was cruel and unusual, and a clear violation of the Geneva Convention!) I have never hated a piece of music more, unless it was anything/everything Dan Hill sang.
Bravo to you Jan for at least being brave enough to TRY! That would have been SO cool to hear over the schools PA system! Your story brings back a tune - "Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock n roll"! As for me on my final day as a Senior I had "Schools Out" already queued up on my pickup trucks' cassette tape deck and I blasted it as I drove around my school for the last time ( and got a lot of fist pumping and yelling as I did!). I'm absolutely certain that I was never the only one to ever do the same!! 😉
@@donbaker5052 & Brady: Yes, it would have been great, as most of my ideas are. Both songs are harmless and fun. But I always got overruled. And at one particular school, the other administrative assistants (i.e. secretaries) wanted us to all assume a ‘Charlie’s Angels’ type of pose for the yearbook. You know, where we all stand in silhouette with our hands in an imitation hand-gun pose. As David’s Angels. So cute, so adorable, so ignorant of rising school violence. What a wonderful message for developing young minds. Note: I bought the album as soon as it was released. And I actually wore the disposable panties the records came wrapped in when my mom forgot to do laundry. Cheers from 🇨🇦
At our high school they let us have music in the cafeteria during lunch, with a student volunteer in the office making and playing the song selections. One day he said, in a very authoritarian voice, "May I have your attention, may I have your attention, please." Everyone got quiet, thinking it was the Principal. The student volunteer then played "The Fish Cheer" by Country Joe McDonald...and was promptly suspended!
@@Chaparral2004 I’m guessing your high-school days are just a speck in the rear view mirror of your life, as our mine. They might have played music at lunch, but our caf was so loud no one would have noticed.
The kid is right- the second chorus is "Schools out forever' Some of the actual lyrics: That's a drag School's out for summer School's out forever School's been blown to pieces No more pencils
Stabples back to school ads are WAY funnier once you don't have to go anymore
School's out completely XDDD
😖 that's just cruel dude
Does college count in this context? Stressed out, printer-wrestling sophomore here tuning in past midnight.
True 😂
IT'S STAPLES !!!!!!!!
I remember seeing this for the first time thinking "no, actually you DID schools out for ever. It's right there in the lyrics"
He also said school's been blown to pieces.
Only for the formerly high school senior graduates &/or GED undergrad teens who don't want to go to school or college anymore. Catchin' On?
It's called a joke.
@@reh3884 Theyre talking about the FIRST time they saw it
Didnt he actually say Both in the Song? Cause i wanna say thats what the joke is
I love how Alice said "Isn't this fun?"
and he's happy 😊
@Veronica A. Yeah XDDD
Aloce is a savage
Alice Cooper having to force his kids to go back to school is somehow a mighty big comfort.
Imagine school shopping with Alice Cooper as your dad
That would actually be pretty awesome
I would of had plenty of school supplies with the money he has
That would cheer me up for my elementary & middle school days.
It'd be better if we were shopping at Hot Topic, but yeah!
This is pure genius.
Agreed; sheer 'commercial' genius !
I LOVE this, too! But he has enough supplies for an entire school in that cart! 😛 🎼
Just saw quick interview of John O'Hurley (Seinfeld, etc.). He was raving about Alice and Alice's family. Said they're really nice and very intelligent, just like everyone else here who had met them said. I never tire of this video, and wonder how loud it would have been hearing everyone's response to the commercial each time it played. ("He DID say schools out forever!!") Pure genius is right.
This was out around the time I saw him in concert for the second time. He was performing at the Arizona State Fair, and both of his daughters were there. His older daughter, Calico, was dancing in the band, and his younger daughter(About the age of the girl in the commercial) was there, too. He introduced her, she walked out, kicked him in the shin, and said "Next time I want to be in the commercial!" and stormed off. It was hilarious!
I actually got to go backstage at this show, and met both of his daughters back there. They confirmed everything I'd been hearing for years about his kids, they were total sweethearts and couldn't possibly have been nicer. If I hadn't been backstage at a concert with Coop walking around, meeting folks, I would have forgotten that they were Alice Cooper's daughters. :-) Coop himself was also one of the nicest people I've ever met(Once again, confirming things I'd been hearing for years, the man truly 'gets it'.)
Every interview I have ever watched with him and his wife it just makes them seem like they are incredibly humble people who truly love their fans and the art the create. I wish all stars would act just half as nice as they appear to be
He played at the golf course I used to work at (this was in October 2009). He was so nice - he was there with his band, and they were playing with several groups of high rollers (casino-operated golf course near Atlantic City, NJ, now under private ownership). Alice Cooper played as the fifth in each group. I stood about 3 feet from him, and they were the nicest guys.
I’ve heard he’s the nicest man in the world and very down to earth and humble
I think he's brilliant
Oh I guess that wasn't her in the commercial.
Now that really cracked me up. Alice Cooper has always been one of my favorite performers. I had never seen this before. On stage he is unique, and was very shocking in the 70's. In interviews, he is always a very nice person. He has done a lot to help others. There just isn't anything bad to say about him as a performer, or as a person.
This is how I discovered Alice Cooper when I was a kid lol the look on my dad's face when I asked who that was and the smile on his face lit up
I just randomly thought of this commercial and had to look it up. It’s funnier now that I’m not actually in school 😂
Me too!
Alice C. is hilariously funny. Loved him in Wayne's World.
"Isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?"
"Yes Pete it is. It's pronounced Mi li wau ke which is Algonquin for The Good Land."
Sheriff Burford T. Justice Does this guy know how to party or what?! eh? ehh? oh.
That was my first time ever seeing him. I was 9 - thought his name and eye makeup were strange!!!
@@AllisonDancerChick1982 you can only imagine what people thought in the 70s lol
@@MJForever1999 - he’s joked about that - he says until they became widely known, a lot of people came expecting to see some blond folk singer with an acoustic guitar. They were in for an awakening...
@@sleep_sounds Wayne Campbell , Garth Algar : [to Alice Cooper] We're not worthy! We're not worthy! Garth Algar : We're scum! Wayne Campbell : We suck!
Seriously my favorite commercial ever when it came out
This has to be the best commercial to ever hit the air
This is probably the only back to school ad I’ve ever actually liked, even now as an adult
This is one of those commercials that will just always stick in my memory, I had forgot it was advertising Staples, but other than that it's imprinted in my memory word for word. The person that pitched the idea for that commercial was on top their game when they came up with the idea
Alice: Isn't this fun?
For him, but not for her.
Sam Sticka back to school is just a way for parents to dump their kid's asses to school. Let the school parent the little rodents for a few hours while the parents and oldest siblings work in some prison-like office.
I wish I could go back to school...
@@tmwk__ Please do.
My first date with my girlfriend Julie was to Alice Cooper's School out concert in 1972. He came to the IMA Auditorium in Flint, MI.
...and anyone who knows the song by heart and can write, sing it or play the bass or drums, in their sleep, knows it goes School's out for summer...school's out forever! what a nice backpedal on Coop's behalf.
The kid national anthem every year on the last day of school!
@@Someguy-my3he sung or played on most buses going home, proudly, since the last day of school, 1972
This and his Waynes World cameo are so funny. Cooper is the man!
His cameo on monk was great
Also a little childish, but also the Muppets!
@@professorpsoopany Cameo he does is awesome! Because he's an awesome guy!
Are we going to ignore the fact that Alice Cooper did say "School's out forever" in his song?
😁
"Yes, because I said so!" -- every parent ever
For as if you don't get to college or anything else after you graduate high school that is.😉
I was a high school secretary for almost 20 years, and I tried to get Admin. to play this at the end of each semester. Just twice a year! Nope, never would. Begged them to play Mellencamp’s Authority Song each morning, as a friendly reminder of just who really ran the place 😂, but alas, no luck. We were stuck with the Final Jeopardy theme. Bleeck! (It was cruel and unusual, and a clear violation of the Geneva Convention!) I have never hated a piece of music more, unless it was anything/everything Dan Hill sang.
If I was the principal I would of played it on the last day of school
Bravo to you Jan for at least being brave enough to TRY! That would have been SO cool to hear over the schools PA system! Your story brings back a tune - "Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock n roll"! As for me on my final day as a Senior I had "Schools Out" already queued up on my pickup trucks' cassette tape deck and I blasted it as I drove around my school for the last time ( and got a lot of fist pumping and yelling as I did!). I'm absolutely certain that I was never the only one to ever do the same!! 😉
@@donbaker5052 & Brady: Yes, it would have been great, as most of my ideas are. Both songs are harmless and fun. But I always got overruled. And at one particular school, the other administrative assistants (i.e. secretaries) wanted us to all assume a ‘Charlie’s Angels’ type of pose for the yearbook. You know, where we all stand in silhouette with our hands in an imitation hand-gun pose. As David’s Angels. So cute, so adorable, so ignorant of rising school violence. What a wonderful message for developing young minds. Note: I bought the album as soon as it was released. And I actually wore the disposable panties the records came wrapped in when my mom forgot to do laundry. Cheers from 🇨🇦
At our high school they let us have music in the cafeteria during lunch, with a student volunteer in the office making and playing the song selections. One day he said, in a very authoritarian voice, "May I have your attention, may I have your attention, please." Everyone got quiet, thinking it was the Principal. The student volunteer then played "The Fish Cheer" by Country Joe McDonald...and was promptly suspended!
@@Chaparral2004 I’m guessing your high-school days are just a speck in the rear view mirror of your life, as our mine. They might have played music at lunch, but our caf was so loud no one would have noticed.
I REMEMBER THIS AD!!! we laughed at this lol
Just heard School's Out on the radio and had to come check out this commercial.
This was way too funny! Damn don't have a cow!
I still love this commercial.
I remember how much I felt that little girl 😂😂
I love the fact that the jingle in the story is his song
Uh, Alice... That's one of my favorite songs, you DID say "School's out forever!"
parent logic
Nice try but we're still going back to school shopping
You got to love Alice !!🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm pretty sure this commercial is the reason I became a huge Alice fan
I love the School's Out elevator music.
Barney Calhoun, what are you doing here, aren't you supposed to be on shift?
Catch me later, I'll buy you a staple
Barney is on a supply run for those ornery scientists back at Black Mesa. How else would they be stocked up on both pencils and paper?
This is like, one of 3 back to school commercials that I've actually liked. lol!
Gosh remember this commercial! I feel old lol
Dominick Moyer Yeah I was a kid in the 90s now in my early 30s I hated going back to school had that same look like that little girl!!!
I remember on my very last day of high school I wrote some of the lyrics of School's Out on the chalkboard.
My last day of high school I rolled my truck’s windows down and blasted this as I drove away!
Nowadays if you wrote the "blown to pieces" bit Homeland Security would have been all over your ass.
"I hope you won't forget me or nuthin'... Remember the Coop, huh...?"
Alice is king!!!
WE'RE NOT WORTHY !
WE'RE NOT WORTHY!
I love this commercial!
The next line does say forever.....
So weird that this commercial is considered retro now
I came here from Black Mesa to support my pal Barney
ive always hated back to school commercials... except this one
Best Staples commercial EVER!!!
I'd like to dedicate this video to all of my nieces and nephews and my kids enjoy
Him with Pat Boone was genius :)
Great commercial. He does say forever, and at the end of the song he say, School's out completely.
Thank you Staples for school supplies for the kids ; having Alice is so so figging kool dudes and lady's!!!
Remember the Coop!
Alice, i love you!!
the narrator owes me a beer
"Isn't this fun?"
"NO"
But...the song says both "for summer" AND "forever"...
He's just being a parent.
@@cannedmusic A parently so.
Thats what makes this commercial so great. Parents logic.
For the kids only for summer & the seniors & undergrad adults if not college students it's forever. Catch my drift?
This is GOLD!! I can't believe I'm only finding it now.
The kid is right- the second chorus is "Schools out forever'
Some of the actual lyrics:
That's a drag
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
No more pencils
"We can't even think of a word to rhyme!"
But a kid will lose to parents logic every time. See?
Only good back to school commercial
The way he talks to her is funny
This is beyooondd underrated
The Great Alice Cooper
School is out for summer but it is out forever when you graduate
I saw this as a kid years ago and didn't get it. Now that I know who Alice Cooper is, it's one of the funniest things I've seen!
Interesting that they'd play "School's out for summer" but then mute the VERY NEXT VERSE "School's out FOREVER"
I like when he sings schools out on the muppet show
I like to think that his daughter in the commercial is Wednesday Addams.
this is so iconic
The girl looks like "One of these days, Alice...."😜😝
I was literally just thinking about this today. Made me laugh
Lmao Barney as a narrower
The Isn't wrong though he does say that somewhere in the song XD
It’s “forever” in all three choruses but it also says “for summer” in all three. So, they’re both right! 😁
But parents win every time. Get it now?
0:21 his face is so funny lol
He did say school out for ever
Oh how great advert this is great song
Just watched this for the first time since it first aired and realized that the girl is Hank Moody's daughter from Californication. 😂😂😂
i am watching this every end of summer 1 summer
That is a good one too. Lol!
Alice also did a commercial for British cable "SkyTv" with Ronnie Corbett. look it up, it's classic
Love Uncle Alice, but to be fair the song also says” School’s out forever”
Bet you're the life of the party rodney.
Only for adult undergrads or college students.
That's Californication kid I think
Is that Donald Trump in the background right there at the beginning?
nah, Trump is uglier
Hey, you're very sharp eyed to notice that! But yes, it does look like Donald Trump.
Yeah i think it is!!
Nope
That was ABC 13
I used to live in Houston
akirak Weird it does look like him.
I adore this commercial
I remember this commercial
I love this commercial
Imagine parent, teacher night with Alice Cooper as your dad?
Or field trips if he was a volunteer?
Or career day?
Love Alice Cooper! 🕸😎😜😱🤣👍
The kid is right though LOL
Listen to your pop kid.
How cute.
if you live in a big city with tracks, imagine being off school for the summer?
Love it....LOL!
Awesome
This is funny
But...but it does say forever lol
Lol I loved that funny Cheeks
0:11-0:14
0:28
is my favorite 🤩 part of the video
It so funny she looks like she could really be his kid.
I bet she is his child or its his Nease
This is so my mom every time, she loves doing that with me too 😅😂😭
She lies to you about her song?
@@Someguy-my3he my mom has a song??😮
I remember this commercial as a kid. Did I see 5¢ for folders and 19¢ on Crayola? Inflation fr.
alice cooper is cool on stage or shopping at staples
If you go out looking like a goth with your child or grandchild, you are a certified ratchet!
(Just kidding! We loves you, Alice Cooper!)
what year was this? 2004?
Jordan Hanson yep
Jesus, just look at those prices.
No melhor espírito Alice Cooper!