# "Tis the season for sickeningly sweet holiday commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [December 9, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790 "2021-12-09T19:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/21 "2021-12-13T17:54:05Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > long enough ago for a young woman who remembers it from her youth to be a rickety old grandma by now. Does “rickety old” really add anything to your point? Wouldn’t it have been just as good to say “long enough ago for a young woman who remembers it from her youth to be a grandma by now?” Not to make a big deal about it, but just to encourage a moment’s thought before posting such things. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/22 "2021-12-13T18:00:28Z")
This Publix commercial just puzzles me. Even after reading the description, I don’t understand it. > **[The Publix Christmas commercial is back, and so is the magic. Watch and cry...](https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/holiday/christmas/2021/12/09/publix-christmas-commercial-2021-the-attic-brings-tears-smiles/6440691001/)** > > Grab a Kleenex. The Publix Christmas commercial for 2021 is out. It's the commercial we need this holiday season. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/23 "2021-12-13T18:06:08Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I don’t mind seeing “touching” Christmas commercials. I like just about anything Christmas-y. But please no more Christmas commercials where the spouses give each other $80,000 vehicles. You know, I have seen a single “car as a gift” commercial this year, which I would expect to see 100 times during football. Maybe they finally caught on to the backlash. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/24 "2021-12-13T18:40:38Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > You know, I have seen a single “car as a gift” commercial this year, which I would expect to see 100 times during football. Maybe they finally caught on to the backlash. Nope, they’re still showing this truck one. You’re just lucky. I wish I were so lucky, too. I hate the both of the characters. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > This Publix commercial just puzzles me. Even after reading the description, I don’t understand it. That’s really dumb, though not quite as bad as the little girl that keeps her snowman in the freezer all year. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/25 "2021-12-13T23:26:30Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > The only Christmas commercial that ISN’T glurge is the decades old Hershey Kisses doing bells. What about the Duluth Trading Company “pass the pants, fork over the flannels” one? And is the M&Ms “he is real - they are real” one considered glurge? ---
**Author:** ![Redcanoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@Redcanoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redcanoe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/26 "2021-12-13T23:41:12Z")
The one where the book store burns down and the girl takes her red wagon door to door collecting books to restart the store.( I think the commercial is selling hemorrhoid\* cream or something.) How does that work for tax purposes? His whole inventory of books is donated, does he have to declare that somehow? \*maybe trucks actually, just makes me think of hemorrhoids ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2021, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/27 "2021-12-14T12:57:13Z")
I saw that one for the first time last night and I confess I teared up. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2021, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790/28 "2021-12-14T14:56:48Z")
So they’re donating his own sold books back. Does that mean they are going to re-buy them, as they no longer have them? Or is he just going to have lot of inventory that won’t sell because everyone’s already read them? Seems more cruel than helpful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tis-the-season-for-sickeningly-sweet-holiday-commercials/955790.md?page=1)