I've talked about these commercials time and time again on this blog, but dammit, I've watched a lot of holiday commercials in the last month - A LOT - and none of them are as good as McDonald's or KFC.
It would stand to reason, then, that if McDonald's can make really, really good Christmas commercials, then they should be able to make a really, really good Christmas special. Well, it seems that's not really the case.
Until about fifteen minutes ago, I was not aware that McDonald's had ever done anything like this. This special aired on CBS in 1991 or 1992, and is probably as bad as you're imagining.
Here is the IMDB plot summary:
Ivy, an orphan wants a grandmother and a doll for Christmas. She mistakes a sign greeting her into a town, she jumps off a bus and shouts, "It's me, Ivy!". In the cold she looks for a grandma unsuccessfully. She finally finds a woman who always wanted children and a doll, Holly. Based on the book The Story of Holly and Ivy.
Seriously, that sounds terrible.
I wish that I had the stomach to watch this stupid special. I really do. As a grown man with a baby daughter, I have to sit through a lot of stuff for her sake. I love all of you, my dear readers, but not as much as I love her. You can probably find the special on YouTube, but I'm not going to search for it.
If you don't want to search for it, but you want to learn more, I found this helpful review.
That's it for me today. I'll see you again real soon!
Edit from later that night: My wife and I ended up finding this special on YouTube. We got through two minutes of it, then delared it unwatchable.
1 comments:
That's so funny! I grew up reading this book called Four Dolls. It had four stories in it and each was about a doll. One of them was that story you are describing. It was a lovely story about a little girl who just decided she had a grandmother and that she lived in this one town so she goes there. She finds the doll and loves the doll so much and wishes that her grandmother would get it for her. Then there is this women who usually doesn't do much for Christmas but this year she decides she needs a tree and dinner and everything. I can't remember if she or the husband decide to get the doll and wrap but one of them does. Anyway you see the story from the little girl, the lady, the doll, and eventually the lady's husbands eyes. The little girl ends up almost freezing to death and is trying to get warm and sneaks into a bakery. A cop sees the open door from the bakery and goes to investigate and finds the little girl. It turns out he's the husband of the lady and they adopt the little girl and give her the doll. I'm sure the special is atrocious but the story is amazing and lovely.
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