thehausghosts:

Today I talked to a girl, a teenage girl old enough to drive and contribute to society with a job, who did not know what a house hippo is. She had no fucking clue. I tried to tell her how much they like the crumbs of peanut butter on toast but she didn’t understand. And in that moment I realized I was fucking old.

 

thehausghosts:

I realized this is such a Canada specific post omg. If you don’t know about the house hippo, please enjoy this one minute video that almost every Canadian alive in the 90s can recite verbatim.

 

etriva:

 

thewinterotter:

Okay I thought this was adorable and then I got to the end and it’s a commercial about… teaching people critical thinking skills and healthy skepticism and like… fact-checking? This is amazing. The House Hippo needs to come to America.

 

tzikeh:

Tumblr needs to adopt The House Hippo as its mascot. Instead of Snopes, we should just respond to bullshit posts with “PLEASE FEED YOUR HOUSE HIPPO. HOUSE HIPPO NEEDS FOOD BADLY!”

 

perfmisha:

I just want to say, as a kid I always saw this commercial and I was too busy flipping shit about a house hippo that I never payed attention to the last bit and I thought house hippos were real until I was like 8.

 

justice-turtle:

frankly until I scrolled down I thought house hippo was gonna be some Canadian term for a roomba

…90′s? I didn’t move to Canada until 2007 and I saw the house hippo commercial.

(Although I suppose the math still checks out, since if you haven’t seen the commercial since you were, like, eight, you might not remember it. Much like how the parents of a given generation are much better at making references to that generation’s children’s media than the kids are.)

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#our home and cherished land #house hippo #amnesia cw #(I know it bothers *me* when people wax nostalgic about things I technically experienced but no longer recall) #(there’s some shows and movies I can’t watch because it’s too painful to watch something #–as the Men in Black commercial I mentioned recently put it– #”again for the first time”) #(so you know) #(if you’re a young Canadian who can’t bear to watch this again for the first time) #(I understand) #(but if not I recommend it)