# Holiday Commercials We Like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 5, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889 "2007-12-05T06:47:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/41 "2007-12-07T01:59:31Z")
carol of the bells can be laid at the feet of the ukrainians. i like the carol, so i like any commercial that uses it. there was that burger king one… ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/42 "2007-12-07T04:37:48Z")
My favorite is the Corona beer commercial that shows only a night view of a beach with a single tall palm tree that is suddenly covered in lights. The only sounds are crickets and someone whistling “O Tannenbaum.” ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/43 "2007-12-07T10:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=pepperlandgirl] I have always found **Carol of the Bells** really ominous. It’s become my favorite Christmas song recently because I still find it creepy and ominous–it’s a relief after all the other holiday music crap. My favorite commercial is one that probably annoys everybody else. It’s for the easy-to-make sugar cookie mix. the little boy comes downstairs and freaks out because he sees his dad eating Santa’s cookies. The father trying to explain, “But Santa is a good guy!” to his increasingly hysterical son cracks me up every single time. [/QUOTE] Actually, I named that above as one of my favorites- the look on that little boy’s face as he’s having his meltdown “He’s gonna leave! He’s gonna leave! He’s gonna leave!” and Dad’s panicked “Oh shit! I gotta do something fast!” look are priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/44 "2007-12-07T13:46:38Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Me, too. I think [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg) has something to do with that… [/QUOTE] Too bad one can’t _unclick_ links. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/45 "2007-12-07T14:08:15Z")
[QUOTE=Nzinga, Seated] Too bad one can’t _unclick_ links. [/QUOTE] Ia, ia, Sinterklaas f’taghn! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/46 "2007-12-07T15:41:12Z")
Geez, I can’t believe it but it looks like my favorite Christmas ad is now seven years old! That would be the [Staples Sno-bot](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qPzyuA2Tekg) commercial. “You can’t have her! I love her!” "Weeping . . . weeping . . . " > [@Cluricaun](#): > > It’s not the production of the visuals, which are fine if nothing remarkable, but I really like the song in this Target commercial. It’s probably going to get annoying, but right now I think it’s catchy and fun. When this came on, my friend Mike started dancing around the room, highstepping and shooting “pistol-fingers” at the floor to either side of his body, in time to the music. Now every time I see this ad I laugh my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/47 "2007-12-07T21:28:17Z")
I can not believe that I’m the only one that is a sucker for the Coca-Cola “Teach the World To Sing” Christmas commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/48 "2007-12-07T21:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=Rhythmdvl] Ok, so it’s only a holiday _song_, but I love love love love _love_ the Staple’s “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” commercial. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mPIIMbG9R4w/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/mPIIMbG9R4w?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] I can’t find it in a quick search on youtube but I always liked the Staples commercial with the gift-wrapped electric drill (plugged in), and gift-wrapped dog. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/49 "2007-12-09T07:35:12Z")
As one of the commercials before the Golden Compass, we saw a JC Penny commercial that was really good – a little girl with coke-bottle glasses is sketching something, then building something in her back yard under a tarp. She appears to be antagonistic toward an older, dorky boy, and recruits a couple of boys her age as guards/lackies. Eventually the entire neighborhood turns out to see the reveal of what is under the tarp (also behind the fence, to which barbed wire had been added, IIRC) – including mom & dad, and refreshments. Turns out to be a rocket; she’s heading to the North Pole, apparently to meet Santa. We were all commenting about how good it was, and someone else kinda wailed out “But! We didn’t see if it _took off_!” Really cute commercial. _And_ we got surveyed after the movie – it was the only commercial I could remember thing one about, so I gave it high marks in the survey. And then, got a free movie pass. Score. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/50 "2007-12-09T14:20:41Z")
Publix has some wonderful feel-good commercials. Over the summer they had one with a little boy, about five years old, playing his first soccer game. His father is stressing out as his boy makes mistake after mistake and Mom smiles wisely as she sets up the picnic table with Publix food. Anyway, there’s a break, the little boy has tried to score a goal and fell down. The whistle blows, the father runs out to check on his son. The boy asks his father if he saw him, and his father says yes, and asks how he’s doing. “I was AWESOME!” the little boy yells, as he runs off to mom. For Christmas, there’s a young doctor who won’t be able to make it home for Christmas. They show him leaving the hospital, riding the bus by himself, and as he walks into his apartment building he calls his mom and asks her to tell everyone Happy Holidays. She says she will, and as he walks into his apartment his whole family is there, making Christmas dinner. I get all schmoopy for Publix commercials. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/51 "2007-12-09T14:51:58Z")
[QUOTE=El Perro Fumando] I like the classic Folger’s ad, mostly because they’ve been running the exact same ad for years - poor quality and all. ([You Tube Extended Version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW1V1tFRcA0)) [/QUOTE] This is my top pick. The girl in the commercial is probably about the same age as me. The damn thing’s a part of my childhood now. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/52 "2007-12-10T13:32:36Z")
There’s one running here that it took me a few viewings to catch on, and I still don’t know what it is for. It starts with two people, a man and a woman, shown rushing separately to get somewhere fast. There are a lot of close up shots of their watches as they hurry to their appointment. The guy in the back says something about “today’s classic music.” Then they are shown meeting people and hugging them, only the man is meeting another man and the woman another woman. The idea is you think they are meeting each other, but they are really meeting the other half of the (gay) couple. I don’t know if it’s for music, watches, or some gay group. But it’s an incredible commercial. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/53 "2007-12-10T13:58:43Z")
Put me down as another fan of the old Norelco commercial, the Hershey Kisses bell choir and the Corona commercial. It ain’t really Xmas for me without those last 2. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/54 "2007-12-10T14:04:01Z")
Thought of another one I kinda like. It is for some kind of car. The guy buys a tree, straps it to the roof, and then drives home like hell, leaving a trail of needles behind him. When he gets ther, the tree is bare … Kinda cute. No idea what brand car they’re pushing. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/55 "2007-12-10T15:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Then they are shown meeting people and hugging them, only the man is meeting another man and the woman another woman. The idea is you think they are meeting each other, but they are really meeting the other half of the (gay) couple. I don’t know if it’s for music, watches, or some gay group. But it’s an incredible commercial. [/QUOTE] I listened to a debate between two friends on that one. I haven’t seen it, but one of my friends thought that the two were meeting their same-sex partner, and the other who’d seen it thought that they were meeting _themself_ (through the miracle of sfx). Neither one of 'em could figure out what the point was, nor what they were selling. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889/56 "2007-12-10T16:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] I listened to a debate between two friends on that one. I haven’t seen it, but one of my friends thought that the two were meeting their same-sex partner, and the other who’d seen it thought that they were meeting _themself_ (through the miracle of sfx). Neither one of 'em could figure out what the point was, nor what they were selling. [/QUOTE] I love the music in this add. It’s a Dolce and Gabbana watch add. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holiday-commercials-we-like/428889.md?page=2)