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The 1989 Parade & HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

And here you thought I forgot about you. I totally did not -- I just had zero time and hated every second of having zero time, but the review is done, at the zero hour. Get your Turkey Day Hooray on with the two page review of the 1989 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, starring ALF! The Joker! Spider-Man! Ronald McDonald! MELBA MOORE! Yayyyayy!

Fessing up, the review was originally intended to be much longer, but time wasn't on my side, and it got to the point tonight of either having to trim the turkey fat or do my big blogpology post about how woe is me and how I wasn't going to provide a parade review this year. I think you'd rather have the two pages. They're a good two pages, full of fun and video clips, and did I mention ALF? I've included a few downloads of commercials that aired during the parade in the review, but here's a few more...

Fruit of the Loom, starring giant fruit people.
A Back To The Future Part 2 ad, starring smaller Marty people.
The Typhoon Hovercraft toy, you so wish you had one.
The "Mickey Look," a toy that looks like Mickey!
Lost 'N Founds dolls, which were almost vaguely popular!

I don't know how many of you are around this Thanksgiving, but if you're here, have a good one, and if you live somewhere that isn't celebrating anything today, whooooops. I'm thankful for many things this year, and that very much includes the lot of you who choose to make this site a stop, to read and to join in the discussions, to have and to hold, yadda. You're all great, unless it's the wine and coffee and need for sleep talking. I leave you with this:

It's gonna be a good Thanksgiving.

Posted by Matt on 11/24/2005. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 132 comments
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First comment? Yay!

Chestnuts roasted by Karen @ 11/24/2005 12:48 PM

YEAH! A Parade Review! You Rock, Matt! Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/24/2005 1:05 AM

Thank you so much for this, Matt! It will definitely make my day so much better. Thanks, and a happy Thanksgiving to you.

Chestnuts roasted by Chad Mosher @ 11/24/2005 1:09 AM

Unfortunately, that Joker song is better than anything off of Prince’s BATMAN album.

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving, Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Akbar @ 11/24/2005 1:09 AM

The lowest number I will ever be. Thanks matt, happy day to all especially Fred Travana.

Chestnuts roasted by Ryan B. @ 11/24/2005 1:40 AM

I was just about to reread the previous Macy reviews to get into the Thanksgiving spirit when I saw that holyshitthere’sanewone. Thanks!

Chestnuts roasted by mushroom @ 11/24/2005 1:47 AM

Hurrah! Hooray! Yippee! You didn’t let us down!! Though it has one mistake…..why does the button say "1987" when the parade is from 1989?

Right now, I’m freezing my buns off because my mother has the bathroom window open and it’s cooling the entire house. She has it open to offset the stink caused by the fact that she’s painting the cabinet doors in the bathroom at 11 at night.

She thought the bathroom remodeling job would be done by Thanksgiving, and she worries excessively about the house looking nice when people come over. She definately bit off more than she could chew this time. In the meantime, I’m freezing to death.

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 11/24/2005 1:53 AM

Awesome Matt, Just awesome. I couldn’t open any of the movies because:

1) i’m lazy and didn’t want to look at em now
2) 20.?? MB?! That’s a hell of a lot of wmv.
3) my compy still hasn’t uploaded the Bugs Bunny Balloon exploding clip

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/24/2005 2:02 AM

Gotta love the parade reviews!

Chestnuts roasted by D-Roc @ 11/24/2005 2:05 AM

I’m torn about Empty Nest. I remember hating it back in the day, and yet I also remember seeing an obsene number of episodes.

Also for some reason, in one issue of Nintendo Power as a kid they had an interview with David Leisure about what games he liked to play.

Hmmm, Empty Nest indeed…

Chestnuts roasted by Johny Popalis @ 11/24/2005 2:18 AM

basically…I love you guys….cyalatabuuuy!

Chestnuts roasted by Kevin @ 11/24/2005 2:22 AM

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Chestnuts roasted by eyeless @ 11/24/2005 2:23 AM

Yay and hooray, a Macy’s parade! Does this mean Chex Mix duties have replaced stuffed mushroom detail?
Thanks to you, Matt, for having such an awesome site where we can all go crazy and for keeping it going strong for so long with the diminishing freebie time and all. I love coming to this site and blog and I’d just be lost without. You all everybody have safe and happy Thanksgiving/regular old Thursdays.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 11/24/2005 2:43 AM

you should work in advertising, i totally wanna watch this tomorrow

Chestnuts roasted by justin @ 11/24/2005 2:51 AM

happy thanksgiving

Chestnuts roasted by yow @ 11/24/2005 3:00 AM

That’s totally Karl Malone doing the McRib commercial.

Chestnuts roasted by aliendave @ 11/24/2005 3:04 AM

"Wow Mickey Wow!"

Chestnuts roasted by G'Tron @ 11/24/2005 3:54 AM

going to read this tomorrow (this) morning when the real parade is on. cant wait! :D

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 11/24/2005 4:43 AM

It’s not 6 am and I’ve already had one Thanksgiving dinner.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/24/2005 5:14 AM

im so jealous you have the parades on tape, thanks for the childhood memory flash back ;p

Chestnuts roasted by skins @ 11/24/2005 5:38 AM

The joker is totally the hottest Batman villian. Jack Nicolson is way hotter than any of the original Batman actors. Especially that douche George Clooney. I try not to get into these conversations with my boyfriend, though. He has the Batman logo tattooed on his fucking arm. I still remember him showing it to me when we met that night at the club. God were we drunk.

It’s 6am and I haven’t gone to bed yet and have Thanksgiving dinner at 3pm. I can’t wait to pig out, I’ve been dieting my ass off lately. My mom’s making a ton of food. Turkey, stuffing, pineapple stuffing, candied sweet potatos, green bean casserole, lettuce with bacon dressing, corn, cranberry sauce, mashed potatos, rolls. Then dessert we have 2 pumpkin pies, cheese pie, 2 pumpkins rolls (I made those), and mashed potato candy. I know mashed potato candy sounds weird, it’s a PA Dutch thing. I assure you, you can’t taste the 1 spoonful of mashed potato over the 1lb of powdered sugar.

Man. I remember that Little Lost and Founds commercial. I posted the same one on my site about 2 weeks ago. Shit, I’m never going to get ahead. XE is always going to be 250x popular than my site. :P

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/24/2005 6:08 AM

"I’m going to hug you and we’re going to do arts and crafts." will be my new response to the question "What’s up?". Thanks Matt.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I celebrated it last month, but still. Hope your turkey is… turkeylicious.

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 11/24/2005 6:15 AM

Thanks for the review, Matt. As of this writing they’re still not sure if the balloons will fly this year, but even if they don’t, it was cool taking a look back at past years.

I wonder if future generations of kids will think as highly of the balloons as ours did… Somehow the ‘crouched down’ balloons they’ve been forced to make after the Cat in the Hat incident somehow just dont seem as impressive as the oldschool vertical Pink Panther type balloons.

Chestnuts roasted by GarrisonSkunk @ 11/24/2005 6:24 AM

CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING!!! Popcorn and jelly beans. Need I say more?

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 11/24/2005 6:36 AM

Oh yeah, it’s on ABC tonight. Apparantly I did need to say more. ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Ed @ 11/24/2005 6:38 AM

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