I’ve both given and gotten awesome gifts and I’ve been there when others have given and gotten awesome gifts. I’ve never seen anyone start acting the way that kid does.
Something about that kid just grates on me as well. I’m not exactly sure why. He just seems obnoxious.
If I had reacted to anything with that kind of banshee screaming as a kid, my dad would have belted me in the mouth.
The first Christmas that we had a camcorder (the camcorder was not a gift itself; my dad had gotten it earlier in the year), my mom took it upon herself to fake-squeal and shriek every time someone opened a gift. I would have preferred her to shut it so we could hear the genuine reactions. That’s what home video is supposed to be for: capturing real moments, not auditions for Fear Factor. (Actually…)
Yeah, but ivylad’s a grownup, right? And a football fan! 
I like that commercial. I can totally see myself or one of my cousins acting like that when we were kids. I think it wasn’t just the excitement of getting EXACTLY what you want-it’s the build up to Christmas morning, and all that pent up excitement that you’ve had for days and days, and it’s FINALLY HERE, and you’re just so wired. That and I imagine this was probably something the kids really really wanted, but Mom and Dad told them it was just too expensive or they just never figured that they’d ever get it.
When I was in high school, my best friend’s little brother didn’t start screaming, but when he was five and walked into the family room Christmas morning to see the ping-pong table set up there, he fell over. They had it on video-it was pretty cute.
Similar to Lynn Bodoni’s reaction, or to the kid’s.
:dubious:
I just saw (again) the Lexus commercial with the two women standing next to a new car with a bow on top and chatting about who it may be for.
They seemed friendly and calm enough. 
It’s a cute commercial.
I like how the mom says “I think he’s excited…”
Ya think? But how do you know?
All kids are drama queens-especially on Christmas morning. C’mon, don’t you remember how exciting Christmas morning was when you were a kid? All that pent up excitement, the long wait, and FINALLY the moment arrives?
I come from a family of six kids, Guinastasia, my cousins were seven. My sister has five. Me? Just two daughters. I have five grandkids. I’ve been around a lot of kids for a lot of years, and I’ve seen a lot of excitement at many a christmas.
It’s the screaming. The over-the-top screaming. I’ve never seen anything like that boy. Watch his sister. She even seems a little perplexed, not sure how to react. When he finally does that fist in the air thing, she seems relieved and does the same.
Since I’ve seen the unedited video years ago (also being passed around as “Jeebus, get a load of this kid shrieking”), before the likes of youtube sprang up, I’m pretty sure it’s genuine. Think of it. You’re six. It’s 1998, and on Xmas day you unwrap that present and staring out at you is:
“NINTENDO 64! AAAAAAAAAAH”
I’m just mildly insulted at how poorly the video was edited. That’s obviously a friggin’ N64 box, and no goofy 50’s-era windup robot is going to change that.
I can see the initial reaction, sure. I was much the same way when I was 13 and got a rabbit-fur jacket for Christmas (long time ago, I had never heard of PETA, gimme a break). It’s the prolonged reaction that seems unnatural. And the pounding on the box. C’mon, that kid is way too old not to know better than to risk damaging something he wanted so much. The first “AAAAAA!” is probably spontaneous, but the rest is more likely an attempt to get on AFHV.
Also, it seems that both Bud and Princess are already shrieking before Bud’s even pulled off all the wrapping paper. So perhaps they were coached to do this.
Hey guys, anyone know the answer to this question? If it’s a reak video, and was used in a BMW commercial, did anyone get royalties even though it’s been floating around the net?
The kid in question?
The parents who shot it?
Or does AFHV own the rights because this video was submitted to them?
This year all I’ve asked for from my parents (I’m 25), is the Blue Planet collection of DVD’s. I might be just as excited 
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That kid is obnoxious and needs to be tasered.
That’s what I thought.
As to whether the reaction was staged, genuine, over-the-top is open to interpretation.
But upon the x-teenth viewing of the commercial with a closer examination of the present which looked like one of those Rock’em-Sock’em Robots of days gone by, my only thought was, “What kid would go ape-shit batty over a crappy gift like that?”
I think the kid has cottoned to the concept that if you show that you like your gift, people will buy you more gifts in the future.
Eh, that does seem like a bit of prolonged insanity. However, when I was in high school, a friend and I went to Six Flags. She’d never ridden anything like the Cliffhanger and her response was much the same. Long after we’d been on the ground, you’d never believe that a 17 year old could carry on screaming like that. And she was the least drama queen-ish person I’ve ever known. But she just wouldn’t stop. I was afraid we were going to get thrown out of the park.
That said, I’m almost to 40 now and my mother still expects me to act like something approaching what that boy did. Otherwise, I’m an ingrate.
So they were not totally awesome.
I think it is an N64 but has been altered to avoid copywright issues.
It’s a Super Nintendo. The two kids are now in their teens, and they’re going to be on Good Morning America on Friday.
My guess is that after the first few seconds, yeah, the kid started hamming it up, but hell, that’s what kids do. Meh.