There are words I would use to describe this, but, they would get me banned

[Big Don]

 

[Bill Mattocks]

Wow. Very poor taste. I agree with one person's comments on the video. It's confusing. What is the message? I mean, I get the 'We are UNICEF, we go where Santa doesn't." Fair enough. And to get that message across, you had to show a Santa with a bad attitude and a faux Bronx accent using strange non-native American English phrasing (who wrote this, a Swede?) dissing Santa/Christianity and oh, by the way, something about people sending drugs through the mail as gifts and postcards of those drugs to kids in Africa. What? Do not understand.

As a child, I remember going door-to-door with a cardboard donation can, saying 'Trick or Treat for UNICEF." Well, if UNICEF has morphed into a Santa/Christianity-hating uglybox, they can kiss my pucker as well. I give to the Red Cross and Salvation Army. Bye-bye, UNICEF.

 

[Makalakumu]

Well, I get the message. The West is busy buying toys for its children while children across the Third World need real gifts. Santa is a figment of the West's imagination and reflective of its values. Therefore Santa isn't about it slum it with some brown people. I could see this message as a Jon Stewart spoof that edges close to the truth in some respects, but as a serious message intended to get people to donate? Give me a break. Stick with poor starving children and sad music. Have Santa make a delivery of medicine and then thank those that donated to Unicef because of their unique partnership with his Elves.

 

[granfire]

That was odd, even for somebody as cynical and with an off the wall humor like me.....

 

[billc]

I watch commercials and think about wether or not I would approve them if I was the guy being pitched the commercial. I usually say no about any commercial that puts another companies product in a prominent place, while comparing it to the actual product in the commercial, and I would say no to any commercial that puts the people using the product in a bad light. If I was in charge, I would have said no to this commercial. It is dumb.

By the way, I like the mayhem commercials a lot.I really like the lawnmower commercial and the blind spot mayhem commercials.

 

[MA-Caver]

Well, I get the message. The West is busy buying toys for its children while children across the Third World need real gifts. Santa is a figment of the West's imagination and reflective of its values. Therefore Santa isn't about it slum it with some brown people. I could see this message as a Jon Stewart spoof that edges close to the truth in some respects, but as a serious message intended to get people to donate? Give me a break. Stick with poor starving children and sad music. Have Santa make a delivery of medicine and then thank those that donated to Unicef because of their unique partnership with his Elves.

Agreed. I think that you should write the commercials for Unicef. :asian: