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I vividly remember watching A Charlie Brown Christmas for the first time, which was coincidentally the same year this album reissue dropped. The funny thing is, the main thing I recall is the commercials. This is probably because my parents recorded it for my brother and me on a Beta tape. We watched it every year over and over, commercial jingles and all, until our Betamax bit the bullet roughly the same time as Kurt Cobain.

I really, really REALLY wish I still had my Sony Vidimagic Betmax Projector.

It goes without saying that A Charlie Brown Christmas is a classic. The story, the style, the characters…all classic. But I might be so bold as to say those commercials recorded on that midget VHS were just as classic. You just can’t top the 7-up dot dude crashing his fire truck into a Christmas tree. Nor will weathermen ever again look so cool giving forecasts of heavy Utah snow. And their torsos won’t ever look as square…we should really bring back shoulder pads.

Elegant, confident edges.

Will five-year-olds today think that this season’s commercials are classics 20 years from now? I can’t possibly see anyone looking back fondly at the Verizon dude.  Seriously, that guy can go straight to hell.

Merry Christmas, you filthy animals.

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