Today I'm going to bring Thanksgiving up again because there's few things stranger than advertising. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade's title tells you most everything you need to know about what it is. Macy's employees started it. Now it's a parade of advertisements they open with a Broadway sampler. It's on TV every year. I usually watch because nothing else is on before the dog show and I want to see how the announcers butcher the names of cartoon characters. I'm going to talk about some of the more bizarre balloons and floats the parade has had over the years.
Ask Jeeves, like the search engine that's just called "Ask" now, had a balloon once. One time in 2008 they got Rick Ashely on the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends float to Rick-Roll everyone, I wasn't allowed to use YouTube regularly until I was 12 so I had no idea who he was. They had a Lord of the Rings float in 78' to promote the animated Lord of the Rings film that very few people liked. In the 30's before they got theming down they had a balloon of actor Eddie Cantor. Any of the other notable oddities are notable for reasons more depressing than I want to talk about today so I'll just end on Cantor, who I mostly recognize from Looney Tunes.
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