90's Commercials Vol. 556 Part 1 of 2

Here are some highlights from the 1996 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with all of the original commercials included of course. These aired on NBC on November 28th, 1996. Happy Thanksgiving!

1. Promo for "Beethoven's 2nd" (PUPPPY!)
2. Fowler's After Thanksgiving Sale
3. WBIR Jobline
4. WBIR Happy Thanksgiving Bumper
5. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Intro/Commercial Bumper (Hosted by Katie Couric, Willard Scott and Al Roker. Also announced by Don Pardo of SNL! [RIP] Brought to you by Wrangler, Ocean Spray, Fujifilm and Cotton)
6. Cotton
7. Fuijifilm
8. Ocean Spray
9. Wrangler Jeans
10. Promo for "Home Alone"
11. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Sarah Jessica Parker and Bebe Neuwirth and the cast of "Chicago" singing "All That Jazz")
12. TV Spot for "One Fine Day"
13. Braun Flex Integral Shaver
14. IBM Aptiva
15. McDonald's (With 101 Dalmatians Happy Meal toys. And yes, they really had 101 unique happy meal toys)
16. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Lea Thompson and the cast of "Bring In Da Noise Bring In Da Funk")
17. Welch's JuiceMakers
18. FujiColor QuickSnap Cameras
19. Tickle Me Elmo (The #1 toy of Christmas, 1996. The toy was widely available in stores until the day after Thanksgiving and was soon sold out, causing a nationwide frenzy among parents. Coincidentally, the movie "Jingle All The Way" was released to theaters around this time and had a similar plot about a must-have Christmas toy causing havoc in the streets that was inspired by the earlier Cabbage Patch Doll craze during the Christmas season of 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbage...)
20. Master Card
21. Cotton
22. Promo for "ER"
23. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Phil Hartman [RIP], Lou Diamond Phillips and the cast of "The King And I" singing "Getting To Know You")
24. Promo for "D2: The Mighty Ducks" (Watched this about a gazillion times growing up and I actually prefer it over the first movie)
25. Target 2-Day Sale (With free Looney Tunes gift bag)
26. Fort Sanders Health System
27. Goody's After Thanksgiving Sale
28. WBIR Happy Thanksgiving Bumper
29. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With the Pink Panther balloon and the cast of "Rent" singing "Seasons Of Love")
30. Wrangler Jeans
31. Wrangler Jeans
32. Braun ThermoScan Instant Thermometer
33. Brita Water Filtration Pitcher
34. "Independence Day" on VHS
35. Toyota Camry
36. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With 101 Dalmatians float, behind the scenes of the Bullwinkle balloon and Harold the Fireman balloon)
37. Cotton
38. FujiColor Super G Plus Film
39. American Express Charge Against Hunger
40. TV Spot for "101 Dalmatians"
41. Barbie's Horse Nibbles
42. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With the Radio City Rockettes)
43. Ocean Spray
44. "Toy Story" on VHS
45. AT&T (With Paul Reiser)
46. Payless ShoeSource
47. Promo for "Chiefs Vs. Lions" (The Chiefs won this game)
48. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Turkey float featuring Bo Diddley [RIP]...being crazy and the Rocky and Bullwinkle balloon)
49. Promo for "Beethoven's 2nd"
50. Proffitt's Holiday Sale
51. Merry Christmas Super Show (I remember going to a similar Christmas craft fair in my area with my mom and sister that same weekend that was very similar to this! Incidentally, we also saw "Star Trek: First Contact" that day!)
52. West Town Mall (This is the largest enclosed shopping mall in Tennessee and is still around)
53. WBIR Happy Thanksgiving Bumper
54. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Pilgrim floats, Deidre Hall in the Indian Canoe float, candy clowns, M&M balloon, the Lawrence Brothers [WOAH!] and Garfield balloon)
55. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Commercial Bumper (Brought to you by Braun Oral-B)
56. Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover
57. "The Nutty Professor" on VHS
58. Cotton
59. Promo for "Home Alone" and "ER"
60. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Clowns, Ruth Buzzi [RIP] and the Sesame Street float, Big Bird balloon, Humpty Dumpty balloon and Olympic figure skater Oksana Baiul)
61. Wrangler Jeans
62. Wrangler Jeans
63. Whirlpool Range
64. Pizza Hut (With Rick Gomez)
65. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With the Nestle Quik Bunny balloon)
66. Cotton
67. Sun-Maid Raisins
68. Hallmark
69. TV Spot for "Zeus and Roxanne" (I thought for a second this was directed by George Miller, the director of the "Mad Max" movies...but it's actually George T. Miller! I was really hoping for a climactic shootout between the dog and the dolphin in a post-apocalyptic wasteland!)
70. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (With Toby the Parade Dog and Clifford the Big Red Dog balloon)
71. Fujifilm "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" VHS rebate offer
72. "Mission: Impossible" on VHS
73. Fruit of the Loom
74. Promo for "ER" (This was a repeat of the Season 2 episode "Hell and High Water", which had aired a year prior to this and was the highest rated episode of the show at this point)

Continued in Part 2:    • 90's Commercials Vol. 556 Part 2 of 2