A Coca-Cola Christmas

Coca-Cola - "Holidays are Coming"

The Fox Kids promo in my last post got me to "thinkin' thinkin'" about other great Holiday commercials from that time in my life. I remember the December of 2nd grade, being picked up after school and having 55 cents in my pocket to use in the school pop* machine and getting a can of Coke with a big billowy picture of Santa on it. Now I've always been a big supporter of both Santa and bright lights, so this time of year is always good to me. The geniuses at Coca-Cola (and I say that with all sincerity, even as a loyal Pepsi drinker) decided to FINALLY bring these two together with this epic commercial:



I should point out that the urban legend about Coca-Cola creating the modern image of Santa is FALSE and if you believe it, you're an idiot. SOURCE: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

Coca-Cola Polar Bears #1

This time also marked the launch of the popular seasonal Coca-Cola Polar Bear campaign. A marvel of computer animation and sheer adorableness, you had to think some CEO was salivating and rubbing his hands together knowing the goldmine he was sitting on. From the year that put Bill Clinton in the white house, here's the one that started it all:



BONUS BEAT: COKE DOMINATES

When I found the "Holidays are coming" commercial, I thought I had just misremembered the lyrics until I found THIS, the 1995 "Santa Packs are Coming" re-edit, where Coke FINALLY dethroned hot chocolate and kicked hot apple cider's holly jolly applebottom out of the top spot to crown itself "The ONLY REAL Holiday Refreshment." Christmas is about dominance!




*I attended Immaculate Conception School in Minnesota. It's pop.

Fox and Frost.

Season's Greetings again!

Due to the passing of UGK's Pimp C, one of my biggest influences as an artist, I took a day off of posting in observance and memorial.

But now we're back with some Christmas cheer!

FOX KIDS 1993 CHRISTMAS PROMO

Once "X-Men" debuted in 1992, I became loyal to the Fox Kids lineup. My afternoons and Saturday mornings were filled with mediocre-to-fucking awesome programming that had plenty of toy commercials, contests, and bumpers inbetween to keep me entertained even in lesser moments. Every Holiday season had some theme weekend that would include Holiday episodes of all the Fox Kids shows, and a otherwise unaired pilot of an undeveloped series that would play as a "Special." In this case, for the 1993 Season, it's some disturbing Troll singalong. Still, the commercial makes me really want to watch this block.



FOX NFL SUNDAY CHOIR

Not to be outdone by other Holiday programming on the network, here's the FOX NFL Sunday gang ruining Christmas. Terry Bradshaw does his best to look how he thinks conductors look while Howie Long plays the sleigh bells with the type of rhythm that could get him signed to anticon. This is a disturbing trainwreck. Enjoy!



JACK FROST - TRAILER

One of my favorite Holiday classics. Mutant killer snowman. You just have to watch it.

The 25 Days of Christmas (Days 1 & 2) - The Internet is for Christmas!

Greetings!

After an extended hiatus, I have returned for a special Holiday promotion. I think we all can agree that Christmas is the greatest and best time in the whole world (amirite?) and we all want to overload and celebrate it as much as possible. Therefore, each day (twice today since I had a holly-jolly headache last night) I will be posting a new Christmas themed video from YouTube. These videos will all be awesome and remind you why this is the best time of year that's not in the summer.

Let's begin:

Big Mouth - "X-Mas Rap"

I found this randomly on YouTube. The very "hot" and "of the moment" band Big Mouth appeared on the guy who raped Sarah Silverman's show, bringing with them the rare video that tries to be funny, fails, but somehow becomes funny in how horrible it is. "Real American" Rick "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" Derringer has an inexplicable cameo performing "Jingle Bells" in the middle of it, and the now dead Morton Downey Jr. appears as Santa.



Run-DMC "Christmas in Hollis" (complete version)

A song that each and every one of us knows, presented here in its uncut video form. Usually when this airs, the acting bits at the beginning and the middle are cut, leaving certain holes in the narrative. Thanks to youtube, here it is in all of its now 20-year-old glory. This Christmas I'm going to watch this on a loop while pretended "Run's House" doesn't exist.