we stood in line at ellis island for this?

As we look back at our youth, we recall details that shape our character. The simplest events, objects and people stand out in memory for reasons sometimes unexplainable. To narrator Paul Feig's stroke god fortune, a popular, innocent commercial saved him the humiliation of a crude nickname. He remembers the commercial vividly and humbly. It is events such as these which can effect the way we react to certain situations.