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The 1991 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!

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Ha ha ha ha ha! Technically, I am NOT late! Up now, with like 10 minutes to spare before it's actually Thanksgiving, is my review of the 1991 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, filled with words, pics and video clips!

I must be honest with you: It's the least interesting of the parades I've reviewed, and nothing exciting happens. In fact, after struggling to make the article go for at least two pages, I ultimately consolidated it into one longer page. There just wasn't enough there. Next year, perhaps I should investigate things like this before it gets too late to pick a different parade.

On the other hand, it had Captain Planet, The Addams Family and, uh, Kelsey Grammer, and that's at least good for something.

A Happy Thanksgiving to all who will be celebrating it tomorrow. Eat the food, drink the drinks and bask in the glow of a holiday season officially begun. Now that the bird parade is out of my hair, it's time to paint this sum'bitch town red...and motherfuckin' green. Holla.


While I'm here, I might as well knock this out of the way. I'm not sure if there's anything to dislike about these neat little Play-Doh stocking stuffers, except for the fact that they're sold together in really ugly plastic bags. If you're able to convince yourself that they didn't come in such ugly, useless bags, they become flawless.Each pack comes with two holiday-themed Play-Doh containers. One is shaped like an undecorated Christmas tree, while the other is a rather befuddled and egg-shaped snowman. You get white and red Play-Doh, while the containers themselves each host a small Play-Doh "cookie cutter".

More interesting than any of this is the warning sticker on each container, alerting parents with allergy-laden children that Play-Doh contains wheat. This seems like a bold admission that most kids enjoy eating Play-Doh. Someday, they should just make outright edible, flavored Play-Doh and be done with it. We're going to eat it anyway...it might as well have a hint of cherry and an ad campaign behind it.

Posted by Matt on 11/21/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 254 comments
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Did I just trip out or were scary cartoon creatures singing queen ?

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 11/22/2007 12:12 PM

There IS a recipe for flavored play-doh! It’s called “peanut butter play-doh” and my mom used to make it for me when i was a kid. Here’s the recipe: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,167,152164-224196,00.html

I remember my friends and I would play with it outside and then eat it with dirt and leaves mixed into it cause we were like 3 and didn’t know any better.

Chestnuts roasted by Casey @ 11/22/2007 12:18 PM

“Last Christmas” butchered. George Michael must be spinning in his grave.

Well, I’m off. HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL.
*in John Ratzenburger voice* “I’m giving thanks, for all things bright and beautiful…”

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/22/2007 12:23 PM

Hello Kitty balloon?

I need to start watching the parade.

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 11/22/2007 12:35 PM

Willard Scott!

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/22/2007 12:39 PM

Flippin awesome as usual. May your Turkey Day be filled with deflated turkeys, drunken uncles, and bad commercials. Keep it up!

Chestnuts roasted by illinijake @ 11/22/2007 12:40 PM

Wooo! Skating Care Bears!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/22/2007 12:44 PM

Willard Scott yessssss. We’re making 25 (!!!) full-sized artichokes while watching the parade. Must say, that Care Bears float looked purdy good.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/22/2007 12:46 PM

That Foster’s Home float was the most spectacular thing I’ve witnessed in a long time. I nearly peed myself.

Did anyone else get really emotional over the Virginia Tech marching band, or am I just a sap?

Were it not for a renegade sweet potato that refuses to get done, we might have had dinner ready before the parade was over. That isn’t allowed to happen or the world will explode. Thank you, rogue tuber.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/22/2007 12:48 PM

We haven’t started dinner and I only earlier realized how much of it I’m supposed to be cooking.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/22/2007 12:51 PM

Am I the only one a little disappointed that Kermit isnt sagging over the crowd for old time sake

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 11/22/2007 12:51 PM

I bet santa still looks over his shoulder every year for joey lawrence to pop up and steal his thunder.
Wow this is a lively Santa.

Chestnuts roasted by thejyavq @ 11/22/2007 12:58 PM

He’s also a pretty skinny Santa. Maybe that explains the extra pep.

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/22/2007 12:59 PM

well we need to get going so happy thanksgiving to all and to all, go colts

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 11/22/2007 1:02 PM

Highlights: the Rockettes, of course…and I woke up just in time for them! And Dolly Parton, so sue me I love her :-)

Yes, it was surreal to see Virginia Tech with the “missing man” space and all.

Manimal, “Last Christmas” has been no great shakes for me since it’s been overplayed the last few years, so whatever. There were worse covers the HSM starlet could do IMO.

Was that the “Gong Show” Milton Delugg in the end credits there?

Were there any Broadway performances? I didn’t see any on NBC, and thought there would be none because of the strike and all.

Matt, trivia question: has Mario ever been in a float/balloon? (I ask after seeing the SMGalaxy commercial) Also, did I say my cousin’s wife was actually in one of the parades you reviewed? I need to check which.

Finally, did I see CHUCK NORRIS on the Celebrity Apprentice commercial????????!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 11/22/2007 1:08 PM

mmm sarah brightman looked soo yummy

Chestnuts roasted by Xenophobe @ 11/22/2007 1:10 PM

“Inside the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” is on the History Channel right now!

Chestnuts roasted by DarkSideofBrightness @ 11/22/2007 1:11 PM

Hi-ho, bloggers! Happy Thanksgiving from an unusually warm Southern New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia (and to the Canucks, who had their turkey last month).

There are some advantages to staying in the area for the holiday. My mom and stepdad are moving next month, so I opted for dinner with my biological father and his girlfriend instead. I spent the morning making gingerbread cookies and watching the parade. Yes, for the first time in at least three or four years, I got to see the full Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade with no stepdad-induced interruptions or fights for dominance of the remote control.

Also, that strike may have ground much of Broadway to a halt, but ironically the one number they CAN show is the one that would most interest almost everyone here, “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life” from “Spamalot.” Come on, you know you wanted to see grimy Monty Python knights doing a kick line with women in skimpy yellow raincoats first thing Thanksgiving morning.

I side with what everyone said about this year’s parade. The Care Bears rocked the house, the Hello Kitty balloon was the coolest thing I’ve seen in years, and I’m not a big Cartoon Network fan and I even was impressed with the Foster’s Home float.

(Speaking of Care Bears, I finally got a Santa Oopsy Bear last week – found him, Rudolph Cheer, and two others Matt didn’t have at the Rite Aid in Westmont. Unlike Matt, I wasn’t lucky enough to find them cheap, but sweet little Oopsy was such a charmer in his red suit, I couldn’t resist him.)

I may have seen the 1991 Parade in passing. I have vague memories of the Barbie float and the Adams Family float. It’s more likely I watched the Philadelphia parade, which I was devoted to throughout most of the 80s.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/22/2007 1:11 PM

Okay now that it’s over, some one please tell me they also saw a tickle me elmo commercial talking about elmo’s “consealed secret” and showed a blocky censor graphic over his crotch.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/22/2007 1:12 PM

OK one more comment or two: is it just me, or did anyone else like the descriptions of the balloon characters by the commentators? Just seemed old school to me, like how they’d explain to us as kids who these guys were. Guess it made me feel like a kid, actually, which is what this is all about.

Mimitchi: I sense some sarcasm about Abby Kadabra there. (wow, a clumsy magician? Orko should sue. And what, did the Amazing Mumford get fired for the holidays?!!?) Well at least they didn’t do what we all know they would want to do and replace Big Bird with the Red Nightmare :-)

Shrek balloon needed more Puss in Boots. Or Fairy Godmother…Jennifer Saunders rocks :-)

Chestnuts roasted by James @ 11/22/2007 1:12 PM

First of all, watching the Foster’s Home cast performing that song was disturbing; Brian May should use his Doctorite power to do something about that (seriously, he does have a degree and a professionally published report in the UK).

Also, that Abby Kadaver character is pretty darned ugly. Of course, my main impression of Sesame Street is that it’s a cash grab. People do watch PBS for free you know!

Thanks for the new parade report. There is a problem I have though; at the end of the Pink Panther routine they talk about the Best Band in the Land. I assume they’re talking about the marching band from The Ohio State University. What, you can’t refer to them as the Best Damn Band in the Land like you should?

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 11/22/2007 1:30 PM

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

Chestnuts roasted by Double G @ 11/22/2007 1:36 PM

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I liked the parade review this year, because the few things you covered were pretty good. I went to see Rock-a-Doodle at the dollar show, and it was pretty terrible. Haven’t seen it since, though, so who knows. I was also the only person I knew who ever liked Captain Planet, so that was a fun inclusion.

Reading the comments on this year’s parade makes me wish I got up to see it.
I’ll be working tomorrow. :( First time I ever leave my house on the day after Thanksgiving and I’ve got to work it. Wish me luck so I don’t die.

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 11/22/2007 1:54 PM

mjf: I’m a huge Queen fan and I loved the Foster’s Home float. I guess it helps if you’re a fan of the show and familiar with the character Cheese. As for Brian May, he has a history of being pretty liberal with supporting various uses of Queen songs, so I doubt he’d have much to say in protest :)

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/22/2007 2:04 PM

I loved the Care Bears float!
I am going to my cousins’ house for Thanksgiving dinner.
Love,
Jillian Tyrie from Long Island

Chestnuts roasted by mimitchi33 @ 11/22/2007 3:00 PM

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