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The 1993 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!


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!

Posted by Matt on 11/23/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 112 comments

Thanks for the link, K-! I was going to watch that on one of my DVDs, but forgot what ep it was, then I found this!

I got off my KB job about an hour so, I’m I’m feeling pretty zzzzzz…..

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/24/2006 3:39 PM

Mars: CBS stuck to Macy’s this year. The only problem was they kept interviewing annoying soap stars. But they kept the interviews short and made sure to highlight all the important floats and balloons.

Kingklash: Yesterday I saw that ad with the Hershey’s kisses in different colored foil ringing like bells, and I literally almost squealed out loud.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/24/2006 5:03 PM

I was one of the six who read it on Thanksgiving, in fact I think I probably read it about an hour or so after you posted it, Matt! :D

Couldn’t afford to go anywhere this year, so spent it mostly online and with videos. The review was a nice replacement for missing the parade live. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Moony @ 11/24/2006 5:51 PM

Just for the record, I checked for a new Macy’s review on Thanksgiving morning!!! It wasn’t there yet, but I knew you’d come through. These have become a highlight of the holidays for me. Thanks for putting in the time!!

Chestnuts roasted by Domicinator @ 11/24/2006 6:27 PM

Mars,

I’m sure he tapes them himself…

Although it would be cool to buy one :D

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 11/24/2006 8:12 PM

I loved Triples Cereal! It’s wierd but I have some cognitive ache in my tougue from the sight of that box. I bit my tougue when I was a kid eating the damn stuff. Oh well. Still good.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/24/2006 8:31 PM

Cameron T, you’re not the only Broadway fan. I was disappointed I missed it before I headed out with my sister. Usually, that’s the only part of the parade I get to see before Dad says “get off, I have to watch the same DVD I’ve watched every day for the past month” or someone feels the need to play PS2.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/24/2006 9:48 PM

The Fisher Price 3-in-1 table gave me flashbacks. I think I saw it most during American Gladiators. Speaking of which, I lived in Germany for three years so when I first heard about the concept of American Gladiators I somehow thought that they had actually executed the concept of Arnie’s classic “The Running Man” in real life. I was a stupid lil kid. :)

Chestnuts roasted by 9Line @ 11/24/2006 9:53 PM

On a side note I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a great family T-Day and I hung out with my 6 year old cousine Kyle who showed me the way of Spongbob Square pants. We watched 3 hours of it on dvd and I have to tell you that’s the new favorite. That is the funniest cartoon i have seen in a while, or I had one too many Sam Adams Holiday brews. Any animated show that has music from Pantera and Ween gets an A+++++ in my book. Somtimes it takes the one person who’s career ambition is to become a Diver/Pirate astronaut to show you a new highlight of life. I can say that as a 28 year old because no one knows me here.
I think from now on I with chant my way to work saying, “I’m ready, I’m Ready, I’m Ready…”

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/24/2006 9:57 PM

Wasn’t Aaron Neville singing in those cotton commercials? I recall hearing some singing like his on those.

This is so fun to see all these old commercials after so long! I doubt you’ll want to see some of today’s commercials years from now though. (honestly, we could do without car insurance shilling amphibians and spy-type people)

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 11/24/2006 10:25 PM

Very nice article, Matt. This is the first of your Thanksgiving Day parade reviews I’ve read, and I must say it definitely ranks up there with some of the best articles on the site.

Chestnuts roasted by Retro Playback @ 11/24/2006 10:54 PM

Oh man this is the year that Katie wore that jacked up oddly shaped red hat. That’s my most vivid memory of that parade. And how much the 10 year old me wanted that hat.

Chestnuts roasted by Anita @ 11/25/2006 2:26 AM

Just a comment about the Broadway acts (since I’ve noticed a lot of people complaining about too much coverage)–the parade actually starts about 2.5 miles (I think) away from Herald Square (which is where the majority of TV crews film). The Broadway acts are performed in Herald Square until the parade actually gets to the Square. So if the TV stations didn’t show all the Broadway stuff they would only be able to air interviews and such for at least the first hour.

Chestnuts roasted by snowfire @ 11/25/2006 2:51 AM

So Black Friday is over and done. How were the crime reports in everyone’s neighborhood?

We only had one shooting over a PS3. I was surprised.

Chestnuts roasted by ColonelCatsup @ 11/25/2006 4:11 AM

I have that Fisher-Price Tournament Table, it sits in my basement.

It doesn’t glow in the dark, though.

Chestnuts roasted by MJK @ 11/25/2006 12:14 PM

Matt, please don’t read this post.
(Right and who am I kidding, exactly?)

Anyway… Given the interest expressed in the previous thread, I’ve taken it upon myself to compile the Photog/Bitner thread into book form, whose file I will then send to Matt as a gift. He can then choose to publish and sell, or ignore. The choice is his. The reason I mention it here is that if anyone has any related material saved from that thread (pix, screencaps, etc…) please send it to me if you would be so kind. You can click my name for my e-mail. Thanks ever so.

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 11/25/2006 1:07 PM

Ok, I guess I’m a spaz. Mail me at bboyelwood@aol.com

Chestnuts roasted by Rhino @ 11/25/2006 1:11 PM

Let me just say Black Friday sucked hard. I ended up punching someone myself, as some big gangster-type charcter thought he could just push through the line that was waiting outside of the store effectively skipping EVERYONE in line AND knocking my wife and my daughter up against the wall. When I saw that, my Incredible Hulk side came out and I knocked this guys teeth down his throat. I was kindly asked to leave the store… amidst cheers from all the downtrodden meek people who would never have dreamed doing something like this could happen in real life. I felt like a hero, I felt totally vindicated, and I felt like my hand was broken. The local Mall, however, was desolate. We were able to visit 7 different stores, pose with Santa, and gulp down a couple Orange Juliussesseses in under 2 hours. I would love to know what story that “gangsta guy” is gonna tell all his home-skillets about the no doubt gaping hole in his front teeth.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 11/25/2006 1:18 PM

We saw Casino Royale. GAWD IT SUCKED!!! I mean, it really didn’t even feel like a Bond flick. Plus, I could’ve cut a whole hour out of that film. The lovey dubby scenes made me wanna puke!

Oh yeah, and dinner sucked too. We just ordered the thanksgiving dinner from Marie Callender’s, since the only member in my family who could ever cook (my grandmother) is no longer capable of doing so.

Plus, two family members I was once very close to totally blew me off.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 11/25/2006 2:21 PM

It’s Charles Grodin, not Judge Reinhold in Beethovens 2nd…jeez man…apologize to Grodin.

Chestnuts roasted by Nick @ 11/25/2006 2:27 PM

Bullshit, apologize to Judge Reinhold!

Chestnuts roasted by Vanbilderass @ 11/25/2006 2:35 PM

Loved the review of the parade Matt, you are such a unique writer. Have you thought about writing a book of some sort? Maybe you already have and I am just out of the loop!

Chestnuts roasted by Heather @ 11/25/2006 2:40 PM

Played the new Nintendo Wii. Got to say I like it. I just can’t wait for a local TV station to do a story on a catastrophic injury from some kid throwing his arm out or smacking his younger sister in the eye with a simulated motion from a samari sword. Can not wait for a Jedi lightsaber battle on Wii.
http://www.threebrain.com/weeeeee.shtml
This is a perfect Wii theme song!

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/25/2006 5:50 PM

That song sounds like it was sung by Err.

Not that that is a bad thing in anyway shape or form. I just kept waiting for him to praise the Moon or something.

“That ain’t no school you’re writin’ on. That’s a damn rock. I like to rock. I will rock your face!!!!”

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 11/25/2006 6:22 PM

“Gonads and Strife” always sounded like a old hygiene film I might have seen in high school.

This is a film about Billy. Billy is reading a so-called “Tijuana Bible.” Billy’s “friend” Frankie gave it to him. Billy is about to learn a lesson about….
GONADS AND STRIFE

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 11/25/2006 6:52 PM

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