Happy Thanksgiving, folks! This year has really flown by -- tough to imagine that come tomorrow, we're officially in the Christmas season and totally allowed to cover everything we own in blinking lights and baubles. I'm excited, but I'm also very busy today, so let's make this quick. Yes, there's a new Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade review. It's true, I didn't let you down. It's also true that approximately six people read the site on Thanksgiving, but whatever. Finished writing this baby at like 5 in the freakin' morning, and didn't have enough gas to copyedit until just a few minutes ago.
It's the 1993 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade! And what a disaster it was! See the drama unfold as criminally powerful winds rip balloons to shreds! There are a lot of words, pictures and videos in this two page feature, which I hope you'll enjoy, because the fact that I stayed up so late to write it spells a very cranky Matt for the remainder of the holiday. Hey, Aunt Mary? I am going to punch you in the tits and stab you if you take just one more slice of turkey with your god damned fingers.
Use the comments space to talk about your Thanksgiving adventures, thoughts on this year's parade, Black Friday bullshit and/or what have you. Have a good one!
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I waited patiently for his appearance in the 1994 parade, but got hosed.
Holy crap, I remember mosto f those ads, especially the ones for the FP Tournament Table!
Count me in who also saw “We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story” in the theaters.
Denise, sorry to hear about you and your stomach virus. I have to work at both of my jobs tomorrow, for a grand total of 14 hours!! 4:30am-1:30pm at KB, and then 5-10 at CVS. So I’d have to go to bed…now. I win.
I don’t remember which Thanksgiving Parade I saw first, but this one seems oddly familiar. I remember most of those balloons, including Spider-man. And I haven’t watched the parade in a good 3 or so years, because I’ve been asleep through them (today I woke up at 1:30pm!)
I do remember Izzy, and I remember the one-shot cartoon promoting him airing only once I think in 1996 on Cartoon Network. I believe it was about Izzy trying to get to the olympics and crossing over to our world from his own world of Torch World by earning the 5 rings in the Olympics logo, but some villains try to stop him because they don’t know what will happen if he succeeds, such as believing that Torch World will blow up. I have no idea if he succeeds, because I remember only watching half of it!
I just had thanksgiving dinner, so I’m both full, and buzzed on Tryptophan. So here’s my poll: Since Charlie Brown Thanksgiving already came on monday, and I don’t have the dvd for it, what should I watch? I already saw the Garfield one…On Halloween, so that one’s fresh in my mind.