🇬🇧BRITISH REACT TO AMERICAN CHRISTMAS TV COMMERCIALS! 🇺🇸 | VLOGMAS DAY 21
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You didn’t watch the Hershey’s kisses commercial?! An all time classic. It is nearly a 30 year old commercial!
I just had a moment of "No, it came out in the 90s...Holy shit." WELP I FEEL OLD NOW
Mark Tapia the one with the Hershey kisses and jingle bells!!! That ones the best!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah it’s not Christmas until you’ve seen it lol
@@jellybeansbud3610 No it's definitely not Christmas until you've seen it!! And they've even started putting it on RUclips ads so those of us who don't actually watch tv anymore can still get to see it every once in a while! It's a classic and Joel and Lia need to react to it!
Mark Tapia yep, I thought they would play that one.
I always thought the phrase “Happy Holidays” was just a way to include all of the holidays in one saying...Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanakuh, Happy Kwanza, Happy New Years....all in one! 😅
Yes absolutely
Yes it is. Although I never understood using the phrase “Happy Holidays” when it’s obviously a Christmas commercial or a Christmas card. It’s kinda weird to say happy holidays on that M&M commercial when it was obviously made to appeal to ppl who celebrate Christmas
Part of the linguistic difference is that a holiday in the US is a specific day thatschhols, government offices and many businesses have off - basically a bank holiday. The reference to "the holidays" as encompassing Christmas, Chaunakha and New Years far predates the phrase "Happy Holidays", basically a half-month span. The addition in the cultural mind of things like Kwanza have expanded the reference to The Holidays such that much of the iconography of traditional Christmas has bled into other celebrations around the same time, and hence Happy Holidays has become the safest salutation of the holiday season now.
Yeah
@@princesskkay221 i get you but i assume it's a way to still be inclusive to those who don't celebrate christmas, like saying "you don't celebrate the holiday in this ad but the good tidings and well wishes still apply to you, too"
Joel asks "Are the bells in their boxers?" Sweetie, they all have bells in their boxers :p
😂😂😂😂😂
I always thought that's where they were going, anyway!
Haha
It was such a naive, sweet comment...I love them so much! This was one of my all time favorite commercials because it was a bit risqué.
It made me wonder if commercials in the UK aren’t edgy
Here in the US we have several great commercials as we call them. The Campbell soup one when the snowman melts & it is a young boy, the Hershey kisses bells, the Coca Cola one with Polar bears. I say Merry Christmas to you both. 🎁🎄
PurpleHaze929 Yes! I always think of the Campbell’s commercial. That and the Hersey Bells brings back childhood memories.
@@jewels1296 the state farm well always say my fav
I dunno...the Etsy Christmas commercial became my absolute favorite this year. ❤
I loved the Garmin commercials too.
"Happy Holidays" covers a myriad of holidays; so saying "Happy Holidays" gets it all out the way in one go. Specifically for Americans, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day all follow each other one behind the other in just over 30 days. So "Holidays" is plural for a reason.
AWW DONT LIKE AMERICA DONT COME WE HATE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU
colin macdonald Are you OK?
It’s also because America is full of so many religions, you never know who celebrates what at that time of the year, so saying “happy holidays” is also a way to not offend someone by assuming what they celebrate.
Yea there is baptism Jewish Christianity catholic etc
No the real reason people say happy holidays instead of merry Christmas is because people who don't celebrate Christmas get offended
I don't know why everyone says that Happy Holidays is about being politically correct. The song by Bing Crosby was written over 75 years ago, and no one was worried about being PC in 1942.
haha very true!!
And please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the UK the word holiday is synonymous with what we in the US call vacation.
@@graefe827 maybe we're wishing everyone happy travels lol
@@graefe827
My understanding is that in the UK they use the word "holiday" for two things. One is for vacation and the other is for specific days of significance. So in the US we have two different words, but the UK uses the same word for both.
I agree, I get irritated (not triggered!) by all the whining over terminology. I prefer Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings because for me the happy starts with Halloween and runs through New Years. If there were one more biggie between New Years and Valentine's Day I would stretch it right on through and I don't even do all that much! I just enjoy having so much celebration so close together!
“HOLIDAYS” = “RELIGIOUSLY INCLUSIVE”
Includes Hannukah, Kwanzaa, New Years
ahhh! Ok!
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 we can't very well wish you a happy fourth of July!
I’ll stick to Christmas for my lord and savior.
Jacqueline Saldarriaga - or religiously EXclusive.
Kwanzaa isnt even a holiday.
The only people who celebrate it do it for attention.
Even people in the black community dont celebrate it and some are from the neighborhood in LA that it started in....
Yes, its a holiday that started in Los Angeles in the 1960s...
Thats a fad. Not a holiday.
Please do a reaction to super bowl commercials. They are the tearjerkers
Dee Sherwood
There are hilarious ones too! I agree... I would like to see them react to the best Super Bowl commercials. A Top 10.
I think Joel & Lias heads will explode if they don’t use the word triggered in a video 😂😂
I have to laugh at all these people saying "Happy Holidays" is about being PC. We've been using that saying for over 100 years in the US, at least since the late 1800's. It just a way to wish you happiness for the holiday season which encompasses Christmas and New Year's.
It's also a way of being inclusive, if you don't know if the person celebrates Hanukkah, for example. That's what gets some snowflakes triggered. The idea there are other people celebrating different holidays horrifies them. Totally triggered!
+Monica T. Rodriguez hi
People have also forgotten that Diwali is also celebrated around this time. We are a multicultural society, so to assume everyone celebrates the same thing is kind of silly. I am Jewish and don’t mind at all if someone wishes me a Merry Christmas. To me, it is an entirely secular holiday that we celebrate at my sister’s house. We do Hanukkah. Since Hanukkah’s dates always change, non Jews rarely know when exactly it is. I tend to say both things. If I am not sure, I say “Happy Holidays,” and if I know the person celebrates Christmas, I say, “Merry Christmas.” The whole “war on Christmas” is absolutely bullshit. I just try to include everyone and be polite.
Thank you Lisa! Somebody who knows something about the history of "Happy Holidays".
@Lisa You'd have a better point if the people pushing Happy Holidays, telling us *not* to say Merry Christmas and so on (please don't insult my intelligence and claim those people don't exist), weren't also the PC brigade. I do mean the people *pushing* it, not just people who will sometimes use it -- *as I, myself, may do* depending on the circumstances. Sure, there are exceptions, but the overlap among the people with a strong/vocal opinion on it is practically 100%.
@Kari Lehrer - Are there some people who get "triggered" by "happy holidays"? Sure, but that's a fringe group. There are far more vocal people who get triggered by "Merry Christmas" or are otherwise attacking the Christmas culture. To claim otherwise is to be in denial.
Leftists: lol There's no War on Christmas!
Also leftists: We'll sue you if you keep up with those Christmas traditions, you bigots!
www.theblaze.com/news/city-moves-nativity-scene-ten-commandments-monument-after-atheist-group-threatens-lawsuit
There are many, many more examples. A number of these are related to Christmas and it's not remotely a complete list:
downloads.frc.org/EF/EF17F51.pdf
(Now go ahead and attack the source since you can't deal with the documented, supported, undeniable, legally/court-recorded facts. If this preemptive counter sounds aggressive, sorry, but long experience teaches that ad hominem is exactly what's likely to come in response to such links; leftists even regularly dismiss links from left-wing sources as "biased" when they don't like what is said. You don't get to use that fallacy to just dismiss things which debunk the narrative.)
You do a serious disservice to Joel and Lia, giving them a very false impression. They ask you for information on why something is how it is and you instead feed them the stories the left tells itself so it can feel slightly better about the damage it does to the culture. Even if you disagree and we pretend it's just a matter of opinion, rather than this being one side metaphorically gouging out their eyes in order to claim something obvious isn't happening and calling people bigots should they dare point it out, you don't present it as opinion. It's a hot button issue and yet you act like there's a foregone conclusion in your favor. Maybe that'd be fair if you actually had undeniable facts, like I cited, but of course you don't. You're basically trying to corrupt these two people, robbing them of their previously-more-correct view in favor of a very one-sided one.
@Monica T. Rodriguez - Projection and accidentally you've given evidence of what I'm saying above. But, again, this is to be expected. I'm only surprised you didn't just come right out and call them bigots instead of just implying it and abusing the label of "snowflake."
Holidays = thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, New Years. Media generally says happy holidays to cover all the bases, not knowing who celebrates what. But most people say merry Christmas in their real life.
It also includes agnostics and atheists. Not everyone includes Thanksgiving in it, since it's a Fall/Autumn holiday.
What's the fucken kwanza
2 dimitropolis ikr? I only just learned what Kwanzaa is this weekend. It’s an African American centered culture celebration.
2 dimitropolis I am half black, and I didn’t know
@@MargauxNeedler It's not very popular, I think it was invented during the civil Rights era as a way to give African Americans (specifically) a winter holiday of their own, and give them a greater sense of having their own cultural identity. Kind of like ebonics, I guess. But with most African Americans being Christians already, and it not actually being a genuine African tradition it never really caught on. In fact, it seems like the one thing most people know about Kwanzaa is that no one knows what Kwanzaa is - Futurama actually made a joke about it in the episode where Bender replaces Santa. Other than that...I once learned what it was supposed to be about but I can't remember now. I just remembered that it sounded like a generic "good will" holiday, which I'm sure is why I don't remember the specifics. Honestly, I think it was also supposed to be a passive way.to stick it to white people in general, and I'm guessing black people in general saw through that and decided to rise above it. Personally, I think that was wise. Despite what the shit stirring media tries to focus on (and the generally young and naive gobble up like food in a famine), when you look around I think you'll find we're more racially integrated than ever. Sooner or later skin color will be as superficial and cosmetic as hair color, and society can't get there when groups of people constantly try to separate themselves from the rest (or when they're trying to exclude other groups). I mean, it's fine to love and celebrate your cultural heritage; that's a healthy characteristic to use in defining your individuality, especially if it's done in an inclusive way (inviting others to learn about or even share in some aspect).
Ok, getting way off track... Obviously, most of that is just my two cents. And I might be wrong about Kwanzaa. I'll probably look it up in a little while and if I find out that I'm wrong I'll make it a point to correct myself here.
England has a state sponsored religion, the US does not. Seasons greetings is because it covers Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Hanukkah and other celebrations.
Seasons greetings covers Thanksgiving?
@rando No, it isn't. we never, ever had a set religion. That was the entire point of the forming of our country.
That said, yes. There are a bunch of other holidays to consider. Other faiths as well.
rando God doesn’t necessarily mean Christian. The founding fathers had no intention of setting up Christianity as the religion of our country. A quick google of “founding fathers religion” will give you a lot of info.
burtmatheny - christmas is a federal holiday. 95 percent of Americans celebrate christmas. If I lived in Iran, I wouldn’t be offended if someone said happy Ramadan to me.
@@Heather_Alyssa however many ideals from christianity are used in the constitution, declaration of independence, etc. For example all men are created equal under god, the mention of under god in the pledge. Out of all religions christianity has influenced America the most by far.
I think America saves the sad commercials for the Super Bowl....those Budweiser Clydesdale horses get me every time...especially the ones with the dogs. I don't even watch the Super Bowl but I will Google them after just to cry over a dang horse and puppy. I'm crying right now thinking of them. 😂😂
Joel and Lia need to do a show about Super Bowl adverts!
@@kendracoker462 Oh yeah!! There will be tears for sure!!
There can be some tear-jerker Christmas ads, but they're almost always done in an inspirational way. A few years ago there was a coffee commercial that showed a soldier returning home just in time to sip coffee before his family celebrated Christmas.
I've seen the clydesdales in person-they are HUGE!
Right? I don't like the beer, don't watch the football, but the Super Bowl Budweiser commercials need a box of Kleenex every year!
The Target actress is Maria Bamford. Shes an amazing stand up comic
I thought that was Maria
And she’s had her own Netflix show!
Americans say "Happy Holidays" because many don't celebrate Christmas here; but celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or others.
Um what part of America are you from the us or what because the us is very big on Christmas there a lot of sores filled with giant inflatable snow men and stuff
Galaxy Gaming HD Yes but there’s many Americans that don’t. You forget America is much more multicultural than Britain. It’s easier to use an umbrella term and say Happy Holidays if you aren’t sure what holiday they celebrate
I feel like saying "many" dont celebrate Christmas is a little bit of an exaggeration, a fairly recent poll showed that about 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas. "Happy Holidays" just just gets the other 10% percent in on the holiday season
Even if we assume your percentages are correct that 10% is still 10s of millions of people. So many is really an understatement.
@@BonusRoundTube yeah, it is a lot of people, but it is still only 10%. "Many" works relatively.
The Target commercial featured an American comedian named Maria Bamford. She's hilarious!
oh wow - I thought that was Amy Sederis!
Some actors/actresses are so prevalent in adverts that they become pidgeon holed and don't make it to television or cinema. 💋
Maria Bamford is so funny. Also known as the crazy Target lady!
She’s such a greasy comedian! I love watching her stand ups and just her work in general like commercials!
I miss those Target ads! I had forgotten her until now
I believe we say happy holidays in the US is to be politically correct. And not to offend anyone. Christmas is technically a religious holiday. This country is so diverse in different religions and cultures we wouldn’t want to “trigger” anyone. Me personally I say merry Christmas casually. But at my job or in a more Formal setting I would go with happy holidays. Especially in densely populated metropolitan areas such as New Jersey you can easily find yourself in a room with a catholic,Jewish,Muslim, and or an atheist person at any given time. Or all at the same time. 😂. So it’s just the safe way to go to try not to offend a person who doesn’t necessarily share your own beliefs
Right on point. Americans can be sensitive to others, we don't always get credit for it, but we do try to please when its appropriate.
Exactly! I live in a very diverse city with all of those and more. It would be very insensitive to assume that only the christian holiday is celebrated by people here. We call our school break over the next 2 weeks "winter break" as well.
Very well said. It's a sentiment. On one's birthday, one does not go around wishing others a "happy birthday" on their own birthday. So, if you don't know which holiday the person you're wishing the sentiment to celebrates, then "happy holidays" is the safest and most inclusive. If you really don't care wish holiday they celebrate, or whether their holidays are happy or not, and only want to force your own beliefs on them, well, you're just not a good person and should just keep quiet.
Though it was a thing before people were actually 'triggered'. It's just a nice all inclusive thing to say. But back in the day you didn't think 'oh I have to say this to include everyone and not hurt their feelings'. It's just a way to express warm wishes for the season. Not much more to it!
Happy Holidays offends me because it's Christmas or Hanukkah season for religious reasons.
Everyone is saying that “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings” is used to be PC and to include everyone and not offend people...BUT...It’s not the total picture. Those greetings have been used for a very long time in the US. For example, many Christmas songs say “Happy Holidays” from back in the 1950s. Originally, it was used to cover the period between Halloween through New Years, including Thanksgiving and Christmas as well. Several different holidays equal a “Holiday Season”. We celebrate more than just Christmas, so just saying Merry Christmas doesn’t cover Thanksgiving or New Years. This is a way to cover them all. I don’t get why people are triggered by hearing Happy Holidays. Or Merry Christmas. Or whatever anyone wants to say. They are all well wishes during a loving season. I’m happy to hear any of them because it means someone is being friendly and kind.
I say Happy Holidays to cover Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years...and also Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, etc. But at Christmas...I say Merry Christmas! 😀🎄🎅🏻☃️
Thank you!!!! Very well said.
Yes exactly. I was coming here to say this. Happy Holidays includes the whole season from Halloween to New Years.
Same. I was always led to believe that "Happy Holidays" covered everything from Thanksgiving on to New Year's Day, and that was why we say it. I know I read somewhere about "Season's Greetings" coming from old Christmas cards in the 19th century. Now, I guess it's just a handy catch-all PC term so people don't get offended. I celebrate Yule and Kwanzaa, but I'm not getting all twisted over someone wishing me "Merry" or "Happy Christmas" just because I don't believe everything they do. I know they meant well, and that's what matters.
Exactly! Well said 🥰
I have to share this with you. I am retired 911 operator. After working a grueling 12 hour shift two days before Christmas , at 3 o’clock in the morning , I was exhausted. On my way home I saw the Coca-Cola semi all decorated for Christmas ! This very mature lady turned into a gleeful 5 yr old. I smiled all the way home. Wishing you both a very Merry Christmas
Most of the people I know say Merry Christmas for Christmas specifically. If it’s a greeting for Christmas and New Year’s together, it’s Happy Holidays.
The actress in the Target ads is Maria Bamford, she's a stand up comic, not really a famous house hold name as of yet but a lot of the ads are really old - Kmart isn't even around any more, but one Christmas commercial that's been around for years and is shown at Christmas every year is the one for Corona beer where this guy lives on the beach and he put Christmas lights on one of his coconut trees all the while he's whistling "tannenbaum"
Kmart is still around. Hanging on by a thread.
@@mslpfanatik Kmart is dead in Indiana and our Sears is dying. Local Sears has already closed and even before Christmas I might add.
KMart is still circling the drain. Not completely dead yet, but every one that I see tends to have a close X date signs up.
The best heart warming ads come from Budweiser.
Roberta Watkins ...they are the best
Wait, why is that so true?
@@Seapatico The Budweiser Clydesdales often with puppies.
Okay... the end, the voice over during the end cards 😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀 that is always my favorite part but I was laughing so hard. 😂 I don’t want to go to work
The holiday season is just that, a season. It’s starts with thanksgiving and goes strait through to New Years. Happy Holidays covers them all. It’s the ultimate generic greeting. You can say it anytime during the season and it fits. Wishing someone happy holidays is just saying “I hope your holiday season is great”.
The actress in the Target commercial (the singing Christmas card one) is American stand-up comic and actress Maria Bamford. She's fairly well-known in the states for her stand-up, especially because she focuses on dysfunctional families, anxiety, and depression, usually being self-deprecating and self-referential. She's fantastic.
I thought that was AMY SEDARIS.
Best coke one is the polar bears! That is how everyone knows it’s Christmas in the US......oh and when Starbucks starts using the red cups! People say happy holidays to be inclusive of kwanza and Hanukkah that happen around the same time.
too bad the polar bears are dying :(
I don't think I know a single person that celebrates Kwanzaa. Hanukkah yes, but not Kwanzaa
Coke's polar bear commercial is the best.
"A Christmas semi" Oh my sweet baby Jesus I'm dying 😂😂😂
We say Holidays because some and/or most of us celebrate more than Christmas.
The Hersey’s Kisses commercial ringing ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ has been forever played every year.
Some of us dont care and say MERRY CHRISTMAS anyway!
Annette Johnson yaaasssss!!
When people tell me Merry Christmas, I love replying with Happy Hannukah because it makes them feel so awkward.
@@amyeichel7486 that is so funny! 😂
Doesn’t make me feel awkward! Awesome miracle! Celebrate!
Amy Eichel : That’s the perfect response! It’s like saying “Thank you for YOUR good wishes, and here is MINE....!”
Woot! The one I suggested was the first video they reacted to!
You guys should be in a British christmas advert!
OMG THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
I don't care whether somebody says "Merry Christmas:, "Happy Holidays", "Seasons Greetings", "Happy Hanukah", or any other GREETING because I appreciate that somebody went out of their way to give me any GREETING at all. "Happy Holidays" has been used since the mid-1800's and suddenly now there are people who have nothing better to do than whine about it and ruin the season for other people.
Say holiday because it includes all the holidays thanksgiving, Christmas, new year and any other holiday during that time. They start commercials early so it weird to say merry Christmas in November. So it save money to just use that one commercial all season.
The holidays = Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day
Correct
THAT TARGET COMMERCIALS IS SO LIT. 😂😂😂😂😂
On the 21st day of Vlogmas Joel and Lia gave to me:
21 Christmas adverts;
20 Festive Drinks;
19 "After Week" Differences;
18 Festive McDonalds;
17 Dates;
16 Differences;
15 Ice Skaters!!!;
14 Christmas Foods;
13 iced cookies;
12 luxury gifts;
11 F&M teas;
10 bad Christmas presents;
9 London Buses;
8 things we do better;
7 things in ASDA;
6 mean comments;
5 winter Wonderlands;
4 things we do;
3 traditions;
2 Harrods Truffles;
And black Friday sales and shopping!!!
The best shortest answer to why we say "happy holidays!" Christmas is a HOLIDAY! So happy holidays to you both.
We have the M&Ms one on British telly this year. I remember seeing it last year too. Also the Happy Holidays thing is that it also covers hannukah, kwanza, and other celebrations at the same time.
Americans tends to lump everything from Thanksgiving to New Years as the holiday season. This also covers Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
As for "Happy holidays," as a kid I understood it to mean both Christmas and New Year's, though now its use easily can be read to include all of the other midwinter holidays (Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Winter Solstice, etc.) It confuses and amuses me that the right wing in the US is so easily triggered by that phrase. I especially laugh at the people who respond to the poor shop workers - who are no doubt beholden to some company policy - by tersely and forcefully replying, "Merry Christmas," because of the juxtaposition of a phrase that should be about peace, love, and all that, and a tone of voice usually reserved for phrases like, "Fuck you!"
burke615 ...miss thing....sounds like your a little.. triggered :-) happy Chanukah from this Jew✡️💙
@@olivialarosa8079 I'm curious what in my comment could possibly be read as my being triggered. That I was confused and amused? That I described what I saw people do as an illustration of being triggered by "Happy Holidays"? Something else? Would you care to explain? I hope you had a happy Hanukkah yourself, and best wishes for 2019!
@@burke615 yoooooo I apologize!! I read your comment wrong!! I thought you were saying YOU like to tersely respond with "merry christmas!" to people who say happy holidays. Im such a dunce lol
@@olivialarosa8079 Oh, that makes a LOT more sense! 😂 No worries. We all make mistakes. Hope you have a happy and healthy 2019.
Right wing triggered? Say wha... Google Liberals and Christmas - just that and see what you get. Than try the same but substitute Conservative and nothing. Case and point.
You know that my American Grandmother asks me all the time when Joel & Lia are getting married. "Oh, they'd have such beautiful children," she says.
They are not a couple, they do videos.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that has to prove it wasn't a fart. Haha. That made me laugh so hard. Great job guys.
I find it so funny that you think that Happy Holidays is the preferred saying here bc like yeah you can say it but there are a lot of Christians who will get SUPER offended. Like I once had a lady hold up a checkout line to rant at me about the “war on christmas” (straight up not a thing)
My dad always pronounces it as “Tarjé” 🤣🤣🤣
We all do, let’s be real. 🤣
The red dot boutique
We say Happy Holidays because not everyone in the US celebrates Christmas. Most celebrate Christmas, but some celebrate Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. So we say Happy Holidays because all the celebrations are around the same time.
Or Festivus !!!!
Charlie Cross who’s “they”?
Why do people keep acting like "Happy Holidays" is some new thing that people have recently started saying to be PC? People have been saying it forever and it has nothing to do with being PC or trying to include everyone's religious beliefs. There's even a song from the 1940s called Happy Holidays. It's only been in the last few years or so that the right wing in this country has decided that saying Happy Holidays is some sort of attack on Christianity. It pisses them off that not everyone believes what they believe and that some people actually don't celebrate Christmas.
With you
You live under a rock if you believe that it hasn't become a left wing pc prick thing.
One of my favorite commercials for the Christmas season is the one w the mom bent over at the Christmas tree wearing a red robe w white trim & her daughter comes down stairs & says "Santa"! So funny!!😳😀😂
What I'm getting from these commercials (M&Ms Meet Santa is a classic) and y'all's commentary is that British companies' ads are more image-conscious and somber while American companies' ads are upbeat and focused on the sale. This is true to our sales culture: following through and asking for the sale is essential.
JOEL AND LIA: CHRISTMAS CD IS COMING GUYS.
hahahah get ready!
The " Holidays " refers to the period, starting with Thanksgiving, Christmas & the Newyear, HAPPY HOLIDAYS !
“It’s the holiday season...”
I don't think anyone really includes Thanksgiving in "Happy Holidays." Nobody -- except maybe Indians and the far left -- gets triggered by "Have a great Thanksgiving."
@@VernCrisler you were doing fine, untill you had to disparage Indians & the left. Have a great Thanksgiving, doesn't triggered me, but stupid does
@@lonniekramlich6241 How did I disparage Indians? Do you know of any Indian tribes who celebrate Thanksgiving? I once applied to a tribe for a job on their reservation, and one thing that struck me is they don't have some of the traditional American holidays. The left is hostile to traditional America, or haven't you been paying attention? They are the first ones to denigrate Thanksgiving as cultural imperialism against native Americans. The only ones who are stupid are the one's who are willfully blind.
@@VernCrisler l don't have time for your ignorant bullshit, I could try and explain, but it wouldn't sink into that bowling ball of a brain you have, let it go, Donny bonespurs supporter!
Target lady is Maria Bamford - Lady Dynamite on Netflix.
"Holidays" refers to Christmas and New Years.
ooooh thank you!
Lisa being so straight faced watching the sexy man commercial doing bells is ridonkulous in itself. got me ROFL!
isnt there a lot of nationalist pride in the country of England now due to the influx of muslims and exerting their influence around?
i think it is different artificial sugar, zero vs diet. and ur right Joel it is advertising.
We say happy holidays cause we celebrate LOTS of holidays during that time not just Christmas so we just say happy holidays
We are a melting pot of cultures so we say happy holidays to include the whole community
KMart was sort of the business model predecessor to Walmart. Somewhat recently, Kmart was purchased by Sears and both are nearly, if it now completely, closed.
Happy Holidays is used to convey seasons greetings to the general american population to be inclusive of everyone as we are technically not a christian nation, but a multi-theist one. If you know the person celebrates Christmas, you use the traditional greeting. Otherwise, you say happy holidays to be inclusive of those who celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, or other celebrations. It is pc, but I do it just to be thoughtful.
The holiday season here typically runs from Thanksgiving through the New Year. So, traditionally, it includes Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the new year and has evolved to include Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, and any other holidays which fall during that seasonal timeframe.
Thanks for sharing all year long and for bringing loads of cheer to the season, Joel and Lia! You both really bring so much joy to us all. I love your channel so much and the spirit it conveys. Merry Christmas!
Kmart bought Sears. Sears was within a few months of closing for good
People tend to think happy holidays is PC, but people were saying it as a way to wish people a happy holiday season for a really long time. Now some get upset and make a huge deal of saying Merry Christmas as a way to defend their supposedly oppressed Christian self. Similar to "under God" being in the Pledge of Allegiance. It was added in the cold war to separate us from the Russians, but now people think it was always there and to hear it without under God is perceived as oppressive to religious people, specifically Christians, and something people get crazy defensive about.
AND THAT'S THE TEA!
Cassi Robison, You are mostly correct. The term "Holiday" was derived from mid-English times meaning Holy-days. Also, many people get upset over the use of X-Mas. X is a Greek letter/term that has the Chi sound that literally means Christ.
Saying this with all love guys... but shopping the M&M store is like Brits coming to Texas and going out for afternoon tea!
Hahaha, I know, Americans are weird aren't we, hahaha. Oh and the reason we say happy holidays is because Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's are all so close to each other that instead of saying Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, we just combine all of our greetings into one big greeting. Also, people will say Happy Holidays if they know that they aren't going to see you for the rest of the holidays or something. But yeah, that's why we say Happy Holidays. Great video by the way. And that first commercial, oh my goodness gracious, I have never seen that one but then again, K-Mart has been gone for a while now so I guess that's why I've never seen that one. But it was shockingly funny. I can't believe that they allowed an ad like that to play on television. Hahaha like I said, it was pretty funny though.
Beside for it being politically correct, Happy Holidays encompasses the holidays and celebrations be it religious or secular during December; like, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
You should put the slogan thrice-weekly on a T-shirt and when you wear it nobody's going to know what it means it could mean something bad or something good.
The Coca Cola commercial with the polar bear and penguins meeting up to share a coke has always been my favorite. They played that one years ago when I was a kid so I don't know if they still play it. I always felt the same. When I saw that one and the M&M's one it just started to feel like Christmas. So yeah, it's just our pc culture now. When I was teaching we had to make sure to say Happy Holidays instead of Christmas because it could offend someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas and celebrates another holiday instead and so we had to be inclusive and so it's just all about the holidays now. So when you go to a store or a restaurant it's much more common, depending on where you are to hear Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. But I say Merry Christmas anyway because I don't care and it's what it is! Love y'all!
this showed up in my recommended videos in 2021 and i just gotta say: the folger commercial, THAT folgers commercial, with the accidentally but heavily implied incest, is a classic. is it good? hard no. is it iconic? YES lmfao
The Folgers Coffee Commercial where Peter comes Home for Christmas is the best ever!!
I was hoping to see your reaction to the Campbell’s Soup commercial!
The holidays in the USA start with Thanksgiving Day i November, include, Christmas, , Hannukah, Quanza, and go through New Years Day or 3 Kings Day. It is a larger expanse of time than just Christmas itself. Holiday comes from the liturgical term holy day., therefore it is fitting. We go on vacation not holiday.
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If anyone says happy holidays to me at Christmas, I will ignore them. “Happy holidays” is a liberals way of homogenizing everything.
I say happy holidays because not everyone celebrates Christmas
@@nylaarmstrong4897 I wouldn’t mind anyone saying Happy Hanukkah to me and I don’t celebrate it. People need to quit being so offended by everything.
everything's there - you look good together, there's chemistry, you finish each others sentences.. and no chance of a relationship..oh well
They aren't usually linked with a holiday, but you should watch one of the Budweiser commercials with the Clydesdale horses and the puppy. Talk about bringing a tear to your eye. As always, great show. Shot from Joel ' s bedroom from the looks of it. This explains so much.
I like how u guys say father Christmas because over here it's just Santa or Santa Claus haha
Saying Happy Holidays is a way of respecting someone who does not celebrate Christmas but does celebrate the Solstice or Festvus or just the New Year. We don't have a National religion like the UK, and yes I know the UK is just as diverse as the USA. But it's just a way of being sensitive to differences and not making personal assumptions.
8:13 Target runs a lot of Christmas commercials with this woman. They have for several years.
Her name is Maria Bamford. She's standup comic who does some acting.
Hey, did you get my pressie? I saw that somebody called Helen i think, at the address in Soho signed for it.
-do you wait until the 25th to open up fans pressies??
Lorraine in Eastbourne, UK. X
Lorraine!!! Yes we did!!! You'll see us opening it on the last day of Vlogmas! Thank you so so much!
Joel & Lia oh I'm SOOOO happy and excited now!! 😊💜💜💜
We in general start our sales before Thanksgiving so Holiday will cover Thanksgiving Christmas and New Years. so basically its to cover all 3 holidays...
We say holidays because in our Christmas season we also include Happy New Years sí when we say “happy holidays” it can be referring to both of those holidays in the Christmas season. By definition it’s the equivalent of someone telling you to enjoy the festivities.
Happy holidays is not PC it's simply polite. Many people don't celebrate Christmas. Its said for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa Christmas, and New year's. And any other holiday in that time. I'm more than happy to respond Merry Christmas to someone who says it first but I usually say happy holidays when speaking first. U just never know what they celebrate. Holidays comes from Holy Days.
That's a lie. Lol A majority of Americans celebrate Christmas. Also, the "Happy Holidays" is a bit PC. PC culture works hard at making things nondescriptive. Especially Christmas.
@@Gutslinger It's a lie to say that the word holidays somes from "Holy days" or it's a lie that people might not be Christian?
You weren't very clear on claim was triggering you. I celebrate Christmas/Xmas as a cultural, federally mandated N.American , holiday where family and friends get together, eat too much and exchange presents. I have no problems saying merry christmas but for me it's just a way of specifying the holiday that takes place in the winter on Dec. 25 vs that of Hallowe'en, Labour Day, Easter (which for me is bunnies and chocolates).
I'm just as happy saying Happy Holidays though since I have a couple neighbours who celebrate Hanukkah and some who celebrate Ukrainian Christmas (Orthodox Christmas Day) on Jan. 07 and their holidays are just as valid and important to them as the Dec. 25th is to you.
Happy holidays doesn't negate Christmas - it just includes the other, equally valid, holidays that take place in the same general time period.
@Mike Jones It's religious if you make it so. To me Xmas mean decorating a tree, lots of good food, getting together with friends and family and, of course, presents. The name has no religious connotations to me...it's just the name of the holiday that falls on the 25th of Dec. just as Boxing day falls on Dec. 26, Valentines on Feb 14 and Hallowe'en on Oct 31. Different foods, clothing and modes of celebration for different holidays falling on different dates.
1. We say "Happy Holidays" because we have multiple holidays back to back and the end of the year.
2. Some people who are not of Christian faith are offended when you say "Merry Christmas."
Honestly, I don't mind if someone is offended if they don't celebrate Christmas because I tell them this: "Yiu can say 'Meery Kwanza' or Happy Chtulu day' to me and I won't be offended by it." However, I do tend to use the two interchangeably.
Holidays is inclusive of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc
There is Christmas,winter solstice, Chanukah and Kwanzaa celebrated and we count new yes in when we say holiday season it starts at thanksgiving till January 1st. When we say happy holidays it's to avoid upsetting someone who doesn't do Christmas.
Happy Holidays, 1 Thanksgiving, 2 Christmas, 3 New Years. Lol
Wish you wouldn't have cut off Lia losing it at 10:27 lol.. 😂🤣..
We say “Happy Holidays” to include Christmas, New Year’s Day, Hanukkah, and Kwanza. We do say “Merry Christmas” if we don’t mean to include any other holiday.
What in the world is Kwanzaa?
Heidi Marchant it’s a celebration honoring African heritage in African American culture.
Happy Holidays used to just refer to Christmas and New Years.
That was before Christmas attacked Thanksgiving on the first Black Friday. Christmas started the war on itself.
And Christmas is winning! There are Christmas items in the stores before Halloween now. The "War on Christmas" is going worse than the "War on Drugs."
I'm American and you will never catch me saying Happy Holidays, it's Merry Christmas!!
Holiday season is Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year!
Wow ! Superb vlogmas ! I watched till the end. 👌🏻
Thanks so much!
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 Your most welcome 😁
In the US Christmas adverts are important but the most expensive and important ones are produced to air during the Super Bowl Game (American football finals). Americans say Happy Holidays in order to be politically correct, so we don’t offend believers of all the other religions. But Christians still say Merry Christmas.
We dont call lorreys semi's. We call lorreys "trucks" and only long tractor trailers are called semi's.
Artics in GB.
American television is so inundated with commercials during the Christmas season (Christmas commercials start in October!!!) I don't mind commercials, as long as their witty and funny. Look a commercial for Geico Car Insurance featuring a camel who is spouting a rather well known American phrase---HUMP-DAY! It's my personal favorite.
Joel & Lia: You two have got to do this again with Superbowl commercials. Millions of dollars are spent by advertisers to outdo the other commercials so they're memorable.
We don’t call them semis???
Trucks, tractor trailers, 18 wheelers....
I think it's a regional thing. We call them semis in Minnesota.
We call them Semi Trucks in Oregon. I thought everyone did
Semis in Texas.
We call them semis, 18 wheelers, big rigs, tractor trailers and quick way to turn your car into a convertible if you follow to close. Guillotine is also used in my local area due to the stretch of I 70 between exit 11 and 7 where so many semi crashes occurred every year.
In Oklahoma, for me anyhow, it is semi or 18 wheelers more than trucks or tractor trailers tho I know what people are talking about. I still refer to pick ups as trucks a lot of the time and I've decided not to go into the totally boring story of finally figuring out what a tractor trailer could be.
Merry Christmas!!! You guys are awesome!!!
Merry Christmas Russell!
There’s so many holidays even for Christians “Happy Holidays” cover New Years and Christmas 🎄 and covers Hanukkah 🕎 and Eid al-Fitre and Anything else
Yoo ya are hilarious! 🤣 and here in America traditionally thanksgiving kicks off the holiday season. 🎅🏽🕎
I love this video. You should do a series.. there are hundreds of awesome commercials at Christmas in the US. You would get a kick out of soooo many more.
We are such a large and diverse country that "Happy Holidays" is inclusive. It includes people who celebrate Kwanzaa, Hanukah, etc. People often say "Merry Christmas" here and no one gets bent out of shape about it. We generally see it for what it is: a positive, well-intended sentiment. It's those few uptight, uber-Trump-Christians who will tell you that they are being marginalized when people say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." Shit, I'm atheist and I say, "Merry Christmas" back when someone says it to me; same for "Happy Holidays." P.S. You probably already know this, but we say "vacation," whereas you say you are going on "holiday." There's no confusion for us because when we take a break from work and go somewhere, we say we are going on "vacation." Great video.
I say Merry Christmas!!! Don't care who gets offended lol
I was in London for 2&1/2 days and still went to the M&M store, lmao
I had personalized M&Ms at my wedding in my wedding colors. They were a gift from a guest. Very American of me I guess 🤷♀️
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah and New Years Eve all within 8 weeks is called the "Holiday season." We start celebrating Fall and Halloween at the beginning of October though and of course on the 31st there is tricker treating and costume parties. Thanksgiving dinner is an all day event consisting of Parades on tv, Football for the guys, and the biggest, greasiest act of gluttony you've ever seen when dinner is finally done. Oh yeah we go around the table and say what were thankful for before eating... Then on Thanksgiving night after dinner you put up the Christmas Decorations and go Christmas shopping on Black Friday ( All the Radio stations switched to Xmas music the day after Halloween and will stay that way through January.) All of December is filled with Christmas activity's like ice skating, looking at all the light displays in town and of course eating and shopping. Even wrapping the presents becomes an event. Christmas Eve morning the kids get to open one present, in the evening is Christmas dinner (Second Thanksgiving with all the fixens) followed by "Its a Wonderful Life" on NBC. After that some go to midnight mas or watch it on tv. Christmas morning the presents are opened, then Christmas movies either at home or in the theater. Some people just stay home in their P.J.s all day watching the kids play with their toys. Oh and I forgot, we don't just watch holiday inspired movies during this time (Hocus Pocus, Addams Family, Home Alone, A Christmas Story etc.) We watch all our favorites movies, Harry Potter and Die Hard are a must and some people have made a new tradition of watching Star Wars Thanksgiving through Christmas and now the movies are released during this time. Everybody's bummed at this point because the best of the holidays are over (Also relieved), so the adults get plastered and we shoot off fire works on New Years. Hanukkah's dates change from year to year but usually end near Xmas and New Years. 7 Nights of presents, latkes and dreidel which is played with chocolate coins. They have the candle light ceremonies and prayers. Unfortunately I don't know more than that, but all the family's I've known that celebrate Hanukkah also celebrate Christmas. Christmas really isn't a religious holiday anymore in the United States, in fact most Christian Churches do not want you to celebrate Christmas because it's a pagan holiday. In reality it's about celebrating and spending time together, making memories and getting through another depressing winter. There you have the Holiday Season, a tradition in America. Don't worry though Valentines is right around the corner, followed by Easter, St. Patrick's Day/ April Fools day, Memorial day, JULY 4TH and Labor day. That's not even all of them. 9/11 has become a bit of a holiday as well. People put out candles and flags and they replay it all on tv.
Season’s Greetings is the most inclusive because it in some minds can cover any Holiday between American Thanksgiving in November through Little Christmas in January. Similarly Happy Holidays.
Some cards are more focused with Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I think the deemphasis on Christmas is more of a business thing rather than an actual cultural shift.