Holiday, Oh Holiday!

Happy Honda Days Ad

It's no secret that the holiday season has gotten even more commercialized as the pressure to have a big fourth quarter in sales gets greater and greater.  Sometimes one or two ads stand out to the point of total distraction.  Have you heard the commercial for Honda?  "Holiday, oh holiday, and the best one of the year," proclaims the jingle.   Now, Honda is a quality car.   If you can afford to give one as a gift, then more power to you.   But please, make that jingle stop!   It's driving me insane!   Here's the original song, if you can't get enough of it.   It's etched in my mind worse this year than that song about Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey.   I trust both will go away after Christmas or the New Year.   There's also one for Michael's Jewelers where a woman sings about being in a state of something, but that may not be wearing as thin since I can't complete the lyric.   Christmas is often about nostalgia, so I miss some of the ads I grew up with in the sixties.   Before I was old enough to shave, I remember the Norelco shaver "Floating Heads" commercials when Santa would ride on the floating heads through the snowy hills set to a Jingle Bells melody.   The shavers are still around, so why did they get rid of it?   At least they still have the Hershey's Kisses commercials where the chocolate kisses ring out a holiday tune.   If they can bring back Charlie Brown's Christmas every year, why not the Norelco Santa.   Hey, you get your Christmas memories where you can.   Happy Holidays!