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Reliving the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades…

Well, it’s November – transition time for X-E, as I wash off the pumpkins and prepare for a holiday season I’m even more obsessed with. Still deciding what to cover exactly during the big Christmas month, but here’s an early request: if you have any taped-off-television Christmas specials, toy commercials, holiday commercials or anything else that seems X-Eish, shoot me an e-mail. Any old holiday toy catalogs, too. You know the drill by now.

On the way to work I pass the giant Macy’s on 34th, the soul of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They’ve begun lining the outside of the store with teaser posters for it. I’m so tempted to go…haven’t been to one live in forever. For those who’ve asked, YES, I’ll be covering at least one more Macy’s Parade this month. The later parades don’t pack as much fun kid stuff as the ones we’ve already looked at, so if you’re mildly new to the site, you should have hours of fun sifting through my reviews of the 1984 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the combined thunderpunch of the 1985 & 1986 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. Loads of shit to lift your spirits in each feature, enjoy.

I’m looking forward to doing some normal X-E articles this month before we head back to holiday land; hopefully, a new one this weekend that I’ve been waiting to cover for years.

Posted by Matt on 11/04/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 63 comments

I have a question for anyone out there who can answer it, it really has nothing to do with anything being said, I just didn’t know where else to ask. It’s about a movie that I remeber from when I was young. It was scary, and I believe there was a boy who was evil (no not dameon) I know there is a part where his sister is locked in a burning car, there is also a part where he and his sister (babysitter) are ordering pizza, and a pizza cutter gets thrown through the air and goes into the stair case. There is also a radio that gets dropped into a bath tub, and a little girl on a roof trying to get a ball and the windows open and knock her off. The little boy has something to do with all of this, like he makes it happen. I hope I made sense here and if anyone can make sense out of it and knows what I am talking about please post and let me know

P.S. I love your site matt, it always makes me laugh

Chestnuts roasted by gems @ 11/06/2004 1:26 AM

I miss Mare Winningham… and Frosty.

Chestnuts roasted by MaxJenius @ 11/06/2004 1:27 AM

http://www.thetf.net/uploads/starscream/fototopiame.wmv

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 11/06/2004 2:43 PM

Gems

I believe you’re thinking of the movie Mikey:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104870/combined

If that link doesn’t work, click on my name to go to the IMDB page fo rthe movie.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul @ 11/06/2004 5:03 PM

halloween spectacular was great -stop- ghost with the most cartoons were by far my favorite -stop- looking forward to christmas countdown -stop- wow am i bored at work.

Chestnuts roasted by VolklMonkey @ 11/06/2004 5:23 PM

p.s. along with all of the other readers, i too miss mare! really, i cant wait.

and just to share a little something, i was in nyc last saturday and stumbled across that hersheys smores maker with the expression of the "youth likening the cooking of s’mores to seeing Satan screwing his mother with the top of a broken wine bottle". i nearly peed my pants right in the hershey superstore. thanks for making a trip with my mom actually fun!

Chestnuts roasted by VolklMonkey @ 11/06/2004 5:27 PM

this year the sears wishbook normally a phone book sized tome of christmas knowledge has been replaced by a simple compact disc harboring nothing but flash animated magazine pages. damn you technology, damn you straight to hell

Chestnuts roasted by diarrhea dave @ 11/06/2004 8:08 PM

Matt, if I had an X-Entertainment wish it would be to read your reviews of old Sears Christmas Wishbooks circa 1985-1995. That would be an instant classic. :)

Chestnuts roasted by ChaosKitty @ 11/06/2004 9:38 PM

Paul, thanx I think that is it, i thought it was older then that, but that looks like it

Thanks!!!

Chestnuts roasted by gems @ 11/06/2004 9:54 PM

Chaos — you will have that wish granted, at least in part, next month.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/06/2004 10:01 PM

Matt, I’d love to see you review the classic pre-Elmo, pre-"adults knowing about Mr. Snuffleupagus" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006RJAK/102-6920780-6436900?v=glance">Christmas Eve on Sesame Street special from 1978, which I quite honestly put right up there on the same level as the Rankin-Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, for reasons I gave in http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=28061&entryid=18706&view=public">my list of the "Top Ten Christmas episodes":

I’m sorry, this is still one of my favourite, grossly underrated, Christmas specials. Ah, the memories… The characters (well, versions of the Muppet characters with slightly oversized heads whose mouths don’t move) skating around that rink with "Feliz Navidad" playing in the background, jumping barrels. Oscar asking Big Bird how Santa Claus, who’s built like a dump truck, can fit down that skinny little chimney, making Big Bird try to stay awake next to the chimney, as well as Oscar’s song "I hate Christmas", the song "Keep Christmas With You (All Through the Year)", and, my favourite bit, a version of http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html">O. Henry’s "Gift of the Magi" with Ernie trading his rubber duckie to get a cigar box (back when you could still say "cigar" on Sesame Street) for Bert’s paperclip collection and Bert trading his paperclip collection to get a soap dish for Ernie’s rubber duckie, and then they try not to act sad when they see each other open their presents until Mr. Hooper comes and makes everything alright.

You get to see much of the living cast as they looked when they were young, especially beneficial for those of us in Canada whom can’t watch Classic "Street" on Noggin, and it has Mr. Hooper (Will Lee, whom died in 1982) and David (Northern Calloway, whom was institutionalized for much of the 1980s and whom died of cancer in 1990), well, not to mention the voice of Jim Henson as Ernie and Kermit (he died of "flesh eating disease" in 1990). And no Elmo… well, Elmo wasn’t around until 1984.

Chestnuts roasted by Steve Brandon @ 11/07/2004 12:20 PM

God I love this site! I totally remember that damn Limon. Gave my parents a good laugh when I asked them if we could get some at the store….I was 16. hahahaha. naw I was like 5 but I remember that damn crazy hybrid. and why cant they make em? They make tangelos for cryin out loud!

Chestnuts roasted by Capt. Spacklepants @ 11/07/2004 3:11 AM

‘Night Court’ is rerun on A&E’s Biography Channel for some reason. So for those interested, check it out.

Chestnuts roasted by Mike M @ 11/10/2004 4:38 AM

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