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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

Jeez, king, where would we be w/o the Patented Trans-Dimensional Portal/Soft Serve Ice Cream Maker with Pizza Oven attatchment? The world would be an entirely different place.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 11/04/2004 6:55 PM

this’ll be my first X-E Christmas….I can’t wait!

I think I just peed a little.

Chestnuts roasted by Method @ 11/04/2004 6:59 PM

Maybe Ralphie should invite Pinhead over for Christmas this year. It would only be fair since Pinhead was nice enough to have him over earlier this year. Or perhaps Ralphie could bring his madcap wackiness to Hell this year. Christmas in Hell, I know it sounds kinda like a rip-off of the song from South Park but its totally different, trust me…of course the playmobil gang could tage along and eat Christmas Crunch all day long, especially is it’s from 1988. Maybe they could eat some Chef Boyardee Fettecine(sp?) and wash it down with fruity bubblegum Hi-C. Then they would become super mutant playmobil dudes/dudettes. Sorry, i’ll stop referencing past articles.

-Kevin

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 11/04/2004 7:29 PM

I appologize for all the typos.

-Kevin

AIM: phunqsauce
Yahoo: phunqtroniq

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 11/04/2004 7:32 PM

method’s first x-e christmas? geez

i cant count how long ive been coming around this site…

i feel old =/

Chestnuts roasted by DantheApe @ 11/04/2004 7:47 PM

/me throws away pumkins and bones

/me puts lights, fake snow and strange-looking, red-dressing fat guys all around…

ah, the time goes by :)

Chestnuts roasted by melonian @ 11/04/2004 8:42 PM

I hate Chucky, that damn doll scares the shit out of me.

Anyways, I think you should go to the parade, Matt. Some of us can’t go. Some of us live in Minnesota.

Chestnuts roasted by Walks @ 11/04/2004 9:36 PM

i just came across this site today, and i feel like it completes me. i laughed my ass off in the math lab. seriously dope.

Chestnuts roasted by insidertraders @ 11/04/2004 10:06 PM

Ahh, yes, I’ve been looking forward to the annual X-E Christmas Advent Calendar, since last year’s ended up being one of the highlights of my holiday season. Santa, Reindeer, Baby Jesus, and Mare Winningham. My Christmas is complete now.

The other thing I’m majorly looking forward to is more of the Macy’s parades. Both of your parade reviews last year were classic, and if I get kicked off the family’s TV by overzealeous DVD watchers on Thanksgiving morning again, this may end up being the only Thanksgiving parade I see.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/04/2004 10:54 PM

seed of chucky -brilliant concept.movie opens soon…. ;P

Chestnuts roasted by danoslayer @ 11/04/2004 10:58 PM

Matt, please do another review of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. Nothing strikes fear in my heart more than a family of wookies. Or at least something featuring Yoda Claus.
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Chestnuts roasted by bob genghis khan @ 11/05/2004 12:08 PM

The mention of a holiday catalog above struck a chord with me. I don’t know if you shared this experience, Matt, but when I was little I LOVED the Christmas Wishbook catalog. I’d spend hours looking at it from the first day it arrived in August. A review of some of the classic catalogs of yesteryear might make a nice feature….

Chestnuts roasted by Josh @ 11/05/2004 2:02 AM

Matt can I send you some old Christmas clippings by snail mail? Matt are you going to review that Mc Donalds Christmas special about that girl who wanted a Christmas doll?

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 11/05/2004 2:11 AM

Excellent, I can’t wait for the Macy’s article(s). Truly, the 1984 Parade is only eclipsed by the Hungryman All-Day Breakfast as my favorite article. Just thought I would say so.

Chestnuts roasted by Live from Japan @ 11/05/2004 6:52 AM

I accidentally started watcing Halloween 3 last night. What the..? I can’t believe that movie ever even got made. They should have called it something else. That name is tricky. "Eitht more days ’til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween…" Der.

Chestnuts roasted by trajeal @ 11/05/2004 7:15 AM

yea, how can you try to grab a hold of a blossoming franchise by removing the key player? by itself, halloween 3 is not terribly bad, but it’s not terribly good either. it should’ve been called mask of death or something.

Chestnuts roasted by big jerm @ 11/05/2004 7:28 AM

Yo, Matt! Just wondering if you’ve ever seen em or have any on tape…but for the Xmas season, there’s been numerous Canadian Tire commercials which feature the slogan "Spend Like Santa, Save like Scrooge." These commercials (especially in the early 80s) used to be pretty funny, from what I remember. But then again, I was just a little kid and my Han Solo figure swimming in my bowl of Rocky Road cereal was pretty funny, too. It would make Canadian readers happy!

Chestnuts roasted by Pete @ 11/05/2004 7:39 AM

han solo swimming in rocky road ceral is still funny!

Chestnuts roasted by big jerm @ 11/05/2004 8:32 AM

What we need this year is a investigation into holiday specials where it is obvious that the effort is a attempt to create the next Rudolph or Charlie Brown classic, and failing in spectacular fashion. The Star Wars Holiday Special is a great example. (Now, when you say "special"….) The inspiration is that every year, the Dr. Demento show has a medley of weird songs that somebody thought were good ideas for Christmas. At least two where Santa got stuck in the chimmney. A mystical impossibility, I know, but written anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 11/05/2004 12:05 PM

Yeah Matt,review old Christmas catalogs! The ones out nowadays have jack in the way of toys. I guess that’s to be expected,with the rise of Wal-Mart and all.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 11/05/2004 12:37 PM

Well Matt dont know how much of a fan you are of Nightmare Before Christmas…Although If you ever wanted to do a review of it now would be a great time. You know good transition from the halloween to christmas time joys. It just an idea…

Chestnuts roasted by LordSorrow @ 11/05/2004 12:40 PM

I love X-E Christmas!

Can’t wait!!!

Chestnuts roasted by SuperStar @ 11/05/2004 1:47 PM

LordSorrow: GOOD call on Nightmare Before Christmas! I back that idea. Matt, please review that movie–it’s amazing!

Chestnuts roasted by 1drland @ 11/05/2004 8:11 PM

Yay for Canadian Tire Christmas commercials! I have some old ones on tape. Yeah, I guess that’s not too relevant but meh.

Chestnuts roasted by Aubrey @ 11/05/2004 8:18 PM

Even the ads are better on this site…just thought I’d mention that. I’ve been playing the Bart Simpson thing for a while now. And the Seed of Chucky thing had me laughing for hours. Why can’t other sites use that, instead of "shoot the duck, win an Ipod!"?

Chestnuts roasted by Mara @ 11/06/2004 12:57 PM

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