--- title: Watch This Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School description: It's like a ballad music video spliced with outtakes from Monsters, Inc. canonical: https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-07T14:55:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:47.929Z og:title: Watch Old Navy's Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School og:description: It's like a ballad music video spliced with outtakes from Monsters, Inc. og:url: https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Old Navy's Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School twitter:description: It's like a ballad music video spliced with outtakes from Monsters, Inc. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Aug 7, 2014 2:55 PM CUT  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Aug 7, 2014 2:55 PM CUT Old Navy’s latest back-to-school ad is like a ballad music video spliced with some weird outtakes from _Monsters, Inc._ The four-minute musical features a teenage girl imagining all of the possibilities for her future on her first day back to class while batting away a lumpy, hairy and vaguely purple creature named “Womp Womp,” who tries to bring her down. It’s no shocker she doesn’t want to be seen with him in front of the cool kids. Watch the whole thing to see a duet with her adorable friend on a school bus. (Or is it her boyfriend? At their age, we may never know.) Then cue Womp Womp, running awkwardly after them. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/"},"headline":"Watch This Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School","datePublished":"2014-08-07T14:55:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:47.929Z","description":"This school has some ugly monsters","url":"https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/","keywords":["Living","Advertising","Musical","Monsters","singing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3088947/old-navy-ad-school-education-summer/","name":"Watch This Amazing Musical Ad About the First Day of School"}}]}] ```