Charge up the Rascal scooter, tidy up the mullet, and drop the teeth in the Polident – the Oklahoma State Fair is in town!
The theme for this year’s big extravaganza is “Let’s Go Again!,” which I assume is targeted toward people who survived their first trip to the fair or simply want one more buttered ear of corn for the ride home.
From the kid saying he wants “to eat an entire cinnamon roll” to the mom who wants to throw her child “on the Ferris wheel” to the man who says the first place he goes “is the livestock barn,” that may be the first State Fair commercial that warrants a DHS investigation!
It makes me think it’s probably time for the fair to bring back the old commercial jingle from the 1980s and 1990s. You know, the one we all remember from back when the State Fair was actually kind of cool, not a sterile enterprise, and actually went out of its way to target and appeal to its real demographic: