Video: How I Met Your Mother tries to hone in on Seinfeld's imaginary holiday racket by staging "Slapsgiving." Do you know anyone in need of a good slap this holiday season?
The Macy's Thanksgiving balloons have been both a source of wonderment and abject terror growing up. I always had this nightmare where I'd see a semi-deflated Kermit knock against my 6th floor bedroom window with his floppy hand.
Here are several links with cool photos of the balloons:
Macy's Balloon Inflation (there is one shot with Pokemon & Ronald McDonald that looks sort of dirty...can you find it?)
This is a helpful timeline of great moments in Macy's Thanksgiving balloon history. Get a load of the mug on that Superman balloon...far more Walter Matthau than the Man of Steel.
And here is a gallery featuring photos of the Macy's balloon over the years. Are you as annoyed as I am about characters who don't really deserve it having balloons? I mean, really: does Jimmy Neutron really deserve a balloon? Is his show even on anymore? I smell crass commercialism.
Speaking of Macy's, here are two videos of the Marvel Comics presentation during the 1987 and 1989 parades. You can't underestimate how awesome watching this on TV was as a kid. On par with those "Challenge of the Superfriends" TV specials, but with better acting. And Robocop, Melba Moore, and Emma Frost.
I'm sure you've watched the classic 1973 Charlie Brown Thanksgiving at some point, haven't you? I always wanted to do a rant on that cartoon. Peppermint Patty is such a bitch! It's like Lucy went on vacation and Patty took over in the bitch department. It's not like she was invited to Charlie's house for Thanksgiving...she basically invited herself. And he did the best he could to host dinner, despite limited resources. Why did she need to chew poor Chuck out? These Peanuts specials always had these unsettling, really adult bits of dysfunction in them, whether it was Charlie depressed over "killing" the Christmas tree, Patty's bipolar episode over the Thanksgiving dinner, or delusional Linus's pumpkin obsession. That's why I prefer The Jerry Lucas Super Kids Day Jamboree.
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ReplyDeletedaredevil and captain america taking on magneto totally made my day.
ps. have a good holiday everybodys.
ReplyDeleteBAHAHAHAHA! I watched the Turkey Drop clip last night! XD
ReplyDeleteHIMYM may be the greatest show currently on television.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly the best sitcom.
I LOVE the alternate Kong ending. That was some pretty cool editing.
ReplyDeleteAnd I watched King Kong every Thanksgiving too. But we always left for my Grandmother's right after and I never got to watch the rest of Giant Monkey Marathon because my uncles were all watching football.
And now that I have some semblance of control over the TV (because my uncles have become too old and feeble to exert their traditional dominance and have thus been usurped by the younger males of the pack), Channel 11 doesn't show it anymore.
I've decided to blame Dan DiDio for this. Because I have recently discovered how much fun it is to blame him for everything.
Except the stuff that's Joe Quesada's fault, of course. :)
Happy Slapsgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving
ReplyDeleteI think I remember seeing the first one of those Marvel battles. what the hell was Robocop doing in there??? Yes, that was an awesome, awesome moment for me as a kid. Man. I am pretty sure I ran downstairs to tell my mom who was very good at pretending to care. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
ReplyDeleteI would've been thankful if Oasis just stopped after "Morning Glory." And even half of that album was crap.
ReplyDelete/recovering britpopaholic.
I'm a latecomer to the HIMYM scene, as I started only when my fiancee decided she needed a sitcom in her life, but you know? It sure is funny.
ReplyDeleteThe Marvel Comics Parade Float Extravaganza is one awesome result of retro vid diving. I always thought that Marvel was crazy enough to have the White Queen, a villain in a comic kids read, in a bondage outfit with a teeny weeny bikini to boot, but the fact that they put her in the parade is just too much to be believed!
ReplyDeleteI love how, though they're supposed to be fighting, Daredevil and Magneto look more like they're doing a cross between frisking each other and dirty dancing!
Also -- is Melba Moore supposed to be a comics character? She looks like the Wicked Witch of the West. Ah, a look at the world before the first Batman movie, when seeing comics characters in the mass media often necessitated hiding your head in shame...