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Post by solgroupie on Nov 26, 2009 11:15:11 GMT -5
is it just me, or is it not as cool as it used to be?
maybe i was easier to entertain as a kid. but i don't like the thanksgiving parades anymore. i want to watch the parade - the floats, high school bands and the inflatable characters - not pretty boy and girl celebrities singing their number one hit. and they aren't even really singing - it's all lip synced! i swear that's all i've seen since i turned it on half an hour ago. when i first turned it on, some chick i didn't recognize was belting out "i will survive." the hell? where's santa!?
who else watches the parade on thanksgiving? is it the same for you, or did i just get up too early?
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Post by Diet Kolos on Nov 26, 2009 11:24:10 GMT -5
You mean you don't love watching blatant commercialism (here's Buzz Lightyear, who's in a new movie this summer!) and D-list celebrities sing pre-recorded songs on mis-matched floats? And what about seeing Jimmy Fallon singing a Christmas medley, EVERYONE loves him!
....yeah, it sucks.
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Post by solgroupie on Nov 26, 2009 12:23:04 GMT -5
i actually ended up watching chicago's thanksgiving day parade. much more thanksgivingy.
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Post by Chuck on Nov 26, 2009 13:14:03 GMT -5
I've been watching the Fred Astaire marathon on Turner Classics.
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Nov 26, 2009 13:35:03 GMT -5
It was never as cool as you thought it was. It just used to have celebrities/toys/commercials that you were actually interested in. And check this guy out. He does reviews of all the old parades from the late 70s and 80s: www.x-entertainment.com/thanksgiving/macyparade/1991/
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Post by angilasman on Nov 27, 2009 15:11:57 GMT -5
Yeah, next year I may skip the parade and go straight into MST3K watchin'
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Post by Gripweed on Nov 27, 2009 16:44:03 GMT -5
The parade sucks. I mean, it's just not even a parade anymore, just some footage of the hosts talking about stupid stuff, and lip synced "performances" by people who have about as much musical talent as a rock. Actually, that's unfair to rocks. Rocks have more talent than Hannah Montana, the Jonas Brothers, NSYNC, and the Backstreet Boys combined. And don't even get me started on the commercials! As Servo said, "Thirty-second materialistic sound bites that insult our intelligence? Ooooooh, give me more of those!" The one time I watched it was last year, and I ended up switching channels to the St. Louis parade. They should rename the Macy's one "The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Over-Commercial Crapfest!" That's what I call truth in advertising.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Nov 30, 2009 14:34:44 GMT -5
I never did like televised parades, even as a kid. Marching in them in my small home town seemed like more of what a parade was about and I never could make that switch. Even as a kid, I could hear the hosts were reading cliches from scripts and thought it pretty stupid.
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Post by doctorz on Dec 1, 2009 11:00:04 GMT -5
I watched Detroit's "America's Thanksgiving Day Parade." They spent the majority of their air time covering the parade. I've long since given up on Macy's coverage of their parade. I've stopped for all the reasons stated above. If I am going to sit there with a Bloody Mary and watch a parade I want to watch a parade and not a lot of promotional hooey.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Dec 1, 2009 22:49:30 GMT -5
I saw the Macy's Parade live, in person, around '73 or '74. From the roof of one of the high-rise apartments along the route. The best part? Evel Kineval was riding his red, white & blue Harley up and down the street doing loooong wheelies!
In L.A., during the Rose Bowl Parade, one of the local radio stations would do a "simulcast" during the parade, generally mocking it mercilessly, a la MST3K! So you could tune out the jabbering, boring regular hosts anyway...
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Dec 4, 2009 1:04:12 GMT -5
I saw it live once. 1999? 98? Can't recall exactly. But it was cold and raining hard. Everyone had their umbrellas up, so we could barely see a thing. And, to top it all off, the wind/rain combination made some kind of danger for the balloons, so they were all just 10-15 feet off the ground. Combine that with the umbrellas, and my entire memory is see vague shapes float in front of me while I tried to keep warm.
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Post by Nuveena on Dec 5, 2009 18:28:52 GMT -5
It's barely a parade. I tried watching and gave up about halfway through; it was too frustrating. Usually the hosts were talking to some random movie star while a balloon or something was passing right behind them! And I don't understand why they have random "singers" on random floats singing even more random songs. The coverage of the marching bands was okay, I guess, but they would almost always go straight to commercial. It's just become a big sell for Black Friday/Christmas, as if people really needed reminding.
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