That Macy’s commercial is a LIE!!!! and yes Andrew McCarthy is part of it

Many people have opined that the new Macy’s commercial, celebrating their place in pop culture through the last century, was the highlight of a lackluster Emmy’s night.  Others have pointed out that they paid for their appearance in those reality show so they shouldn’t count, which isn’t really fair, since they paid for the parades too, and they most likely paid for most of their mentions.

My problem with the commercial (and I do like the concept) is the use of a clip from Mannequin.  You might have missed this clip, because it is the only clip that does not have it’s own audio.  It is just a second of the late Estelle Getty walking with Andrew McCarthy down an aisle.  Mannequin (a truly bad movie) did not take place at Macy’s (so, obviously there would be no clip of Macy’s being mentioned), it took place at a fictional store, called Prince and Company, and was filmed at the department store Wanamaker’s (where my great grandparents had their first date, btw), in Philadelphia.  The store became a Macy’s in 1995, but it was not at the time of filming.  It has no real, pop cultural connection with that terrible, terrible movie at all.