# It's just not Christmas until I see Santa riding an electric razor **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 25, 2018, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043 "2018-11-25T03:20:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/21 "2018-11-25T21:36:15Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > Scale. Children leave cookies every year and they know what they get from that. They expect _much_ more if leaving cheese, given the commercial. Ah, OK, I never saw the ad, and didn’t guess what happened. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/22 "2018-11-25T21:51:41Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > My parents said that one was a bad idea. Fun for adults, but still not good, because of expectations it might set in kids. My younger cousin did in fact want to leave Santa cheese one year. Am I the only one who had a house where santa preferred a dozen cookies a dime bag and and 40 of 8-ball or king cobra on Xmas eve? Of course I think the cookies were consumed after the dime bag tho…. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/23 "2018-11-25T21:56:20Z")
actually in la you knew it was xmas when KCOP 13 ran "yogis first xmas " the weekend after thanksgiving and KTLA ran the Hollywood xmas parade a week after that I don’t think Neither stations do it anymore ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/24 "2018-11-25T22:06:47Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > I also loved that Norelco razor ad. Something about the razor scooting along leaving a perfect trail behind in the snow. > > Here’s a [compilation of the Norelco razor ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888mx7hMZ0) over the years. All those ads show SAnta riding on a triple-headed electric razor, but originally he rode on a two-headed one. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/25 "2018-11-25T22:19:59Z")
That Campbell’s chicken noodle soup ad where the snowman becomes a kid after eating the soup. It was clearly made in the 80s but they were still running it in 2012 last time I watched network TV. You immediately knew what it was because on HD networks it still had the 4:3 presentation and that video hiss as it played. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/26 "2018-11-25T23:19:22Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > Here’s a [compilation of the Norelco razor ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888mx7hMZ0) over the years. I’m struck by how massive the handles / bodies were on some of those old-line Norelcos. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/27 "2018-11-26T00:42:07Z")
I drank Miller beer for a few years in appreciation of this [commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktw4J8kg3SE&index=5&list=PL3500D54BB34E84AD&t=0s) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/28 "2018-11-26T14:18:48Z")
Norelco! My favorite since I was a kid. (And for those that say advertising works, I’ve never bought one in my entire life.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/29 "2018-11-27T14:06:14Z")
**JAQ** is not the last person to post in this thread. Just sayin’. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/30 "2018-11-27T14:32:21Z")
It is not the holiday season until I hear the Hershey’s kisses commercial. That has to be the most effective commercial without any spoken dialogue. Of course, my favorite use of a holiday song in a commercial is Staples’ “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” Whoever thought of that one was a marketing genius. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/31 "2018-11-27T15:43:28Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I always associate the Norelco Santa commercial with the Rudolph special. I don’t know if that’s the only time it was shown, but that’s the association in my mind. Thanks for the memory! I agree! I think the elf riding the razor is one of the elves from Rudolph. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2018, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/32 "2018-11-27T16:59:16Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > …And let’s just go ahead and mention [everyone’s favorite creepy Christmas commercial - Folgers!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYoEmAo5BY) Ewww. Those extra few seconds make it even worse! ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/33 "2018-11-28T03:09:33Z")
In Nashville and environs, this is the iconic Christmas commercial [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Ka5G34yebAY/hqdefault.jpg "NewsChannel 5 Classic Christmas Commercial Toy Store") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka5G34yebAY) ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/34 "2018-11-28T13:11:34Z")
For my money, you can’t top hearing Big Daddy singing “Silver and Gold” instead of shouting about mendacity in the basement. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043/35 "2018-11-28T13:27:46Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > And let’s just go ahead and mention [everyone’s favorite creepy Christmas commercial - Folgers!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hYoEmAo5BY) Y’know, I understand that people think that one has a creepy incest vibe, but I just don’t see it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-just-not-christmas-until-i-see-santa-riding-an-electric-razor/825043.md?page=1)