# What's your favorite holiday commercial? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805 "2016-11-23T14:25:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 23, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/1 "2016-11-23T14:25:58Z")
[Hershey’s kisses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtSLF4vlrk). Until I hear that commercial, it is not holiday time. Of course, the BEST use of a holiday song in a commercial is Staple’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/2 "2016-11-23T14:31:46Z")
My current favorite is one for Petco that ends with the little kid saying: “Guinea piiiiiiiiiiig!!” Cracks me up every time! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/3 "2016-11-23T14:37:38Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Of course, the BEST use of a holiday song in a commercial is Staple’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Which, technically, is a back-to-school commercial, not a Christmas commercial, but, yes, it is very good. I especially love the deadpan expression on the two kids’ faces, as opposed to the joyous face on the dad, both in reaction to the idea that the kids are going to be back in school (and out of the house). ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/4 "2016-11-23T14:57:08Z")
I like when they parodied [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuY7PF_o6EM) commercial with [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcDyvzJRC4) commercial. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/5 "2016-11-23T15:14:56Z")
I’m not hating that hippopotamus commercial. Yet. ---
**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 23, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/6 "2016-11-23T15:20:27Z")
As a kid, I liked the Norelco one with [Santa riding an electric razor through the snow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718DpmQrPbg). As an adult, I was fond of the Hyundai commercials with [that cute chick from that band Pompous Moose](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=587230), or whatever they were called. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/7 "2016-11-23T15:33:20Z")
I get a kick out of this [Temptations Cat Treats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOjKEHUn7k) commercial. I also appreciate how Campbell’s Soup has been using the [“melting snowman”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUYaUArDqs) commercial for over 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/8 "2016-11-23T15:46:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > As a kid, I liked the Norelco one with [Santa riding an electric razor through the snow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=718DpmQrPbg). Agreed. Close thread. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/9 "2016-11-23T16:36:24Z")
This short [Ohio Lottery scratch-off commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjehk4d8RzI) is my favorite so far this year. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/10 "2016-11-23T16:58:14Z")
The [M&Ms commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6fvmjuyiLc), in which the M&Ms characters meet Santa. “He does exist!” “They _do_ exist!” “Uh, Santa?” ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/11 "2016-11-23T20:11:16Z")
In the 90s, Japan Railways made an annual remake of their Christmas commercisl, which everyone looked forward to, and it’s still a classic. Here is a montage of six of them: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SMhzQW54UKM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/12 "2016-11-23T21:16:02Z")
Some good ones above - a fun thread! I like the cute car commercial where the parents are the early-rising rambunctious, excited kids, and the kids are the groggy parents being dragged out of bed. At the end, the sister (mama) says to the brother (papa), [“It’s the look on their faces that makes it all worthwhile.”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i4tnhX9jQOU) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/13 "2016-11-23T22:11:07Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Of course, the BEST use of a holiday song in a commercial is Staple’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. I thought you were talking about this Staples – Mavis Staples, singing the closing title to the Chevy Chase picture. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0dLH8HxPA) ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/14 "2016-11-23T23:17:18Z")
Coca-Cola: The Holidays Are Coming. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr7h8crYAYQ) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/15 "2016-11-24T00:42:40Z")
I don’t get regular TV anymore, but I always loved the Coca-cola polar bears. There was a commercial here in Texas years ago for Whataburger, a fast food company founded in Corpus Christi with HQ now in San Antonio. It was beautiful–can’t find a video. There were no voices, only music. I was probably Christmas music, mostly strings, serene and gentle. A lone cowboy on a horse rides at dusk through a snowy landscape with lots of trees. (Yes, it does snow in Texas.) As the music reaches a crescendo, and it’s now full on night, he comes into a clearing and there is a huge, tall, Christmas tree decorated with lights. He pauses to look at it. Very simple, but for some reason, quite moving. Do any Texans remember that one? It might have been as long ago as 15 years… Time flies like the wind…fruit flies like bananas. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/16 "2016-11-24T01:32:37Z")
Corona beer has been running [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xSrXpYGXCg)for a long time, and it always makes me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/17 "2016-11-24T01:37:32Z")
The Macy’s one. You know, with Martha Stewart and Donald Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/18 "2016-11-24T01:45:38Z")
For Pittsburghers, it’s usually Eat 'N Park’s [Sparkle, the Christmas Star](https://youtu.be/P3NhDtfZmd0) that warms our cockles. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/19 "2016-11-24T02:36:23Z")
When I was kid in the late 70s, I loved watching this [Kmart ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNLYE2VM1Ho) and listening to its jingle. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805/20 "2016-11-24T18:27:10Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I get a kick out of this [Temptations Cat Treats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUOjKEHUn7k) commercial. Love that one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-commercial/772805.md?page=2)