History Main / CommercializedChristmas

* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' is one big TakeThat at this trope and a satirical look of the tendency for corporations to appropriate and secularize Christmas to hock products. Charlie Brown finds himself increasingly disillusioned with the shallow, materialistic idea of the TrueMeaningOfChristmas that most of the kids have, and the special ultimately climaxes with Linus giving a speech directly quoting the Bible, driving home that Christmas ''is'' a religious holiday, not a glorified commercial, and that treating it as the latter is disingenuous at best, offensive at worst. In a truly staggering case of ComicallyMissingThePoint, the original 1965 broadcast included a moment in the opening ice-skating scene which ends with Linus crashing into a sign advertising Coca-Cola; no fans mourned that this was cut from all subsequent airings.

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Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up plenty of TV commercials, radio spots, print ads, billboards, online pop-ups, etc.

* Coca-Cola. They didn't ''invent'' the image of fat, red-and-white-suited, white-bearded SantaClaus, but their advertising starting [[OlderThanRadio in pre-broadcast times]] helped to make the version that matched their company colors ''the'' memetic Santa (also the polar bears).

** And its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMwFWDIFVCU 2009 update]], which led to a PlatonicWritingRomanticReading (and, thus, an implied IncestSubtext) from some viewers.

* Along similar lines, Budweiser's Clydesdale horses. Seems everyone likes getting drunk at Christmas time, especially while watching televised UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball.

* Along similar lines, Budweiser's Clydesdale horses. Everyone wants to get drunk on Christmas!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktw4J8kg3SE "This Christmas card was sent to you by the people at Miller High Life."]]

* Budweiser's Clydesdale horses. Everyone wants to get drunk on Christmas!

* Do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Probably, yeah. But you may not already know that, rather than starting out as the piece of treasured holiday folklore that he is now, Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer was originally commissioned by Montgomery Ward department stores to sell coloring books, when they decided that in-house publishing would be cheaper than sourcing them from wholesalers.

Press-ganged into selling Playstations and beer

* Spoofed on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' during the [[YouMeanXmas Refrigerator Day]] episode: "We wish you a happy Fridge Day / We wish you a happy Fridge Day / We wish you a happy Fridge Day / So come in and buy paint!"

* ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' is one big TakeThat at this trope and a satirical look of the tendency for corporations to appropriate and secularize Christmas to hock products. Charlie Brown finds himself increasingly disillusioned with the shallow, materialistic idea of the TrueMeaningOfChristmas that most of the kids have, and the special ultimately climaxes with Linus giving a speech directly quoting the Bible, driving home that Christmas ''is'' a religious holiday, not a glorified commercial, and that treating it as the latter is disingenuous at best, offensive at worst.
-->The original 1965 broadcast included an opening ice-skating scene which ends with Linus crashing into a sign advertising Coca-Cola. So much for the true meaning of Christmas.

* Referenced by Creator/TimMinchin in his ChristmasSong "White Wine in the Sun"

* The main reason why ''Film/SavingChristmas'' didn't do well even among its Christian target audience was because, rather than reinforcing the spiritual and religious significance of Christmas (the name being a truncated form of "Christ's Mass", by the way) as one might expect, Creator/KirkCameron instead spends much of the runtime using some rather specious logic in ''support'' of the holiday's commercialization, such as how spending money on lots of material things actually honors the birth of Christ rather than diminishes it, since He came to world in a material body (yes, [[InsaneTrollLogic that's the whole argument]]).

* The main reason why ''Film/SavingChristmas'' didn't do well even among its Christian target audience was because, rather than reinforcing the spiritual and religious significance of Christmas (the name being a truncated form of "Christ's Mass", by the way) as one might expect, Creator/KirkCameron instead spends much of runtime using some rather specious logic in ''support'' of the holiday's commercialization, such as how spending money on lots of material things actually honors the birth of Christ rather than diminishes it, since He came to world in a material body (yes, [[InsaneTrollLogic that's the whole argument]]).

Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up plenty of TV commercials radio spots, print ads, billboards, online pop-ups, etc.

Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up plenty of TV and radio commercials, print ads, billboards, online pop-ups, etc.

Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up plenty of TV and radio commercials, print ads, etc.

Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up some TV and radio commercials and print or online ads.

Some people ask themselves what they can do to show the Christmas spirit in their community, and answer by doing things like volunteering and donating food. Others ask themselves what they can do to help Christmas showcase (and sell) lots and lots of their products, and answer by enlisting ad agencies to whip up some TV commercials.