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Commercialized Christmas
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Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up plenty of TV commercials, radio spots, print ads, billboards, online pop-ups, tie-in products, etc. The veneer of wholesomeness on the facade of Christmas-themed advertisements is as thin as the fake snow on the Hollywood soundstages these commercials were filmed on. See also Christmas Rushed and Christmas Creep. |
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Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Probably, yeah. But you may not already know that, rather than starting out as the piece of treasured holiday folklore that he is now, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally commissioned by Montgomery Ward department stores to sell coloring books, when they decided that in-house publishing would be cheaper than sourcing them from wholesalers. Yep, Rudolph and his shiny red honker are the direct result of both Christmastime targeted marketing and corporate cost-cutting measures. | |
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In Brazil, the Christians for Consumerism are marching across a department store on Christmas Eve while a little girl asks to a mall Santa for her own credit card. | |
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The Flintstones Cereal Christmas commercials. | |
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In Neo Yokio's Christmas Episode, "Pink Christmas", Kaz's friendliest nemesis, Arcangelo Corelli, exploits the True Meaning of Christmas to convince the citizens of Neo Yokio that capitalism and the mindless exchange of presents are perverting the reason for the season, and that Christmas should be celebrated by coming together with their fellow man... to attend his (pricey) Christmas spectacular! While sales of more traditional Christmas goods drop precipitously, Arcangelo's event quickly becomes the hottest ticket in town. | |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000): Cindy Lou Who is feeling disillusioned because everyone in Whoville seems to be obsessed with Christmas decorations, contests, and the buying of gifts. She sings about her Yuletide doubts in the song "Where Are You, Christmas?" | |
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Spoofed on Dinosaurs during the Refrigerator Day episode: "We wish you a happy Fridge Day / We wish you a happy Fridge Day / We wish you a happy Fridge Day / So come in and buy paint!" | |
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In the VeggieTales episode The Toy that Saved Christmas this is the whole marketing strategy for Buzzsaw Louie. The following lines are from a commercial for the toy: | |
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The main reason why Saving Christmas didn't do well even among its Christian target audience was because, rather than reaffirming the spiritual and religious significance of Christmas (the name being a truncated form of "Christ's Mass", by the way) as one might expect, Kirk Cameron instead spends much of the runtime using some rather specious logic in support of the holiday's commercialization, such as how spending money on lots of material things actually honors the birth of Christ rather than diminishes it, since He came to world in a material body (yes, that's the whole argument). | |
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Once Super Sentai and Kamen Rider adopted little collectible items as the foci of their toylines, it was a short hop to add a Christmas-themed collectible in the set as a holiday promotion. These may or may not receive gratuitous Product Placement in the shows themselves. | |
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In The Darkside Detective, a TV in the electronics store window at the mall where McQueen goes Christmas shopping is showing an ad in which Santa exhorts children to make their parents prove how much they care by buying expensive presents. | |
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Plumbing the Death Star did a Christmas special on which fictional character could sub for Santa the best, which went downhill when one of them suggested Ronald McDonald. The main objection to letting Ronald McDonald become Santa Claus is that he'd ruin Christmas by turning it into McDonald's Day and only giving children Happy Meals instead of actual presents, removing all magic and joy from the holiday and turning it into a hollow day of greed. | |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas is one big Take That! at this trope and a satirical look of the tendency for corporations to appropriate and secularize Christmas to hock products. Charlie Brown finds himself increasingly disillusioned with the shallow, materialistic idea of the True Meaning of Christmas that most of the kids have, and the special ultimately climaxes with Linus giving a speech directly quoting the Bible, driving home that Christmas is a religious holiday, not a glorified commercial, and that treating it as the latter is disingenuous at best, offensive at worst. In a truly staggering case of Comically Missing the Point, the original 1965 broadcast included a moment in the opening ice-skating scene which ends with Linus crashing into a sign advertising Coca-Cola; no fans mourn that this was cut from all subsequent airings. | |
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