Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for November 28, 2024

You don’t know the half of it

i became less interested when they dumped Bullwinkle!

Well, two out three ain’t bad. (The first one looks familiar, but I can’t put a name to it.)

Bluey blew up today when they were inflating it. Hopefully they got it repaired.

Me neither, Arlo, me neither.

Bluey is the second one

Third one may be Luffy, from One Piece.

Bluey and Luffy from “One Piece” I recognized right away, but I had to rely on the comments for #1 (Gabby’s Dollhouse.)

Right there with you.

I don’t know any of them either…

Grandkids come to the house a couple times a month; I could identify Sponge Bob and who is that pirate that reminds me of the "Clutch Cargo toons? Ohhhhoooooh

The 2 nd one is Bluey The rest ??

The third one is not for kids, I read that it is full of sexualized women and nudity.

I’m older than you, Arlo, (I think). I usually know 1/3 of the balloons and almost none of the songs and musical performers. I never thought I would be so “uncool”.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I remember watching it on TV with my mother so many years ago on Thanksgiving Day.

Have to keep current with kids’ favorites to keep their interests.

This’ll be us when the parade comes on.

It’s supposed to rain for most of the day in New York today. Won’t be much fun for the spectators.

I thought that I clicked on the wrong comic at first.

Mallard Fillmore has some advice on that.

The more things change, the older I feel.

And a quarter of the musical acts.

I recognize Bluey but that’s it. The last few parades I’ve watched, I haven’t known most of the performers.

Join the club, Arlo!

Too much “show biz.” Singers and dancers doing routines for the cameras. “Celebrities” are the highlights of the floats.

I told my kids 30 years ago, that Santa Claus made a special trip to be in the parade and this was their one chance to see the real Santa before he went back to the North Pole. They were actually excited to watch the parade waiting for that one quick look at the real Santa.

Sign here for the “too old to recognize Thanksgiving day floats” list.

We don’t know any of these characters because, as far as culture goes, this isn’t our world anymore. The shows and characters we knew as the thing to watch and follow aren’t popular with kids today. Our grandparents went through the same thing…

The kids I watched cartoons with, now have kids of their own.

Ah well, Happy Thanksgiving all.

I’m with you Arlo. Although I quit watching the parade when it became a procession of singers and not a parade. That said, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

uh… the middle one is Bluey, right?

hey, it’s Straw hat Luffy. :D

That’s more than I do.

Time travels on………

Classic comics fans may need to organize a specialized parade featuring balloons of Little Nemo in Slumberland, Krazy Kat, Mutt and Jeff, Alley Oop, Crusader Rabbit, Gerald McBoing-boing, Mr Magoo, and so on.

Odd man out here. I haven’t watched any Thanksgiving parades since I was twelve or so.

Heck, Arlo, I didn’t recognize any of them!

And yet here you are, still watching. I haven’t tuned in for almost 50 years.

Well to be fair, the commentators usually mention who the balloon is, if Arlo is listening. But yeah—he’s no longer part of the intended audience, alas!

Preach It, Brother Arlo.

fusilier

James 2:24

All things change but nothing is really lost

Yeah, neither do I. Welcome to old age.

Through Arlo, JJ speaks for a lot of us.

Or broadway plays and singers that constantly, annoyingly stop the parade

I knew Bluey. The first one just went by. They said the name, but I’ve forgotten already.

I know Bluey. A show that is good for everyone. I’m on my second viewing of all the seasons. Happy Thanksgiving! :-)

The parade has become a concert and Broadway show. I miss the old version.

right?

Better than me, I couldn’t name one.

I was thinking the same thing as watched the parade! Didn’t recognize many of the performers either. Getting old (sigh).

I used to look forward to Underdog,

I don’’t know any!

They had the Pillsbury Dough Boy in the Macy’s parade. Only part of the parade I saw.

I’m surprised that One Piece has enough recognition in the US to have a character as a parade float. Who’s next? Lupin III? A Totoro? Lina Inverse from Slayers?

He’s not watching the TV. There’s just a bunch of character-shaped balloons outside his windows.

Right????

I recognize Bluey and Luffy from One Piece. I drew a blank on the first panel.

I don’t recognize any of them. That’s why I don’t watch the parade anymore.

I got 100% wrong!

is it just me …or is the macy’s parade become one big commercial for different companies … seems like every float and performer was selling something….

I don’t know half of these balloons half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

The Parade has devolved into crass commercialism. What ever happened to Underdog?

You and me both, Arlo.

Je suis Arlo… ; )

where was Underdog?

One year when I was maybe 10 or so my parents and a married couple who were friends of theirs decided both families should go into Manhattan to see the parade. Their two children (around my middle sister’s age), me (a preteen), middle sister, and my baby sister were loaded into the back of the other family’s station wagon and our parents were in the front and we set off west to Manhattan. (We live on Long Island.)

Neither my sister nor I are morning people so we were sort of dressed by my parents and tossed into the back of the station wagon (not illegal back then to not use a seat belt – they may not even have existed yet).

We got there mid parade and had to park blocks and blocks away. As I recall it we ended up standing in a parking lot (not where we parked) with tall people in front of us, to watch the parade. We children (and maybe our parents) could only see the balloons as everything else was blocked by those in front of us. I was not impressed and thought it a waste to have bothered – better view on TV at home.

Decade plus later one of my brother-in-laws worked for a company along the parade route and he, my sister and their children would join the other employees to watch the parade out the windows of the building at a brunch. My other brother-in-law did business with Macys (sponsor of the parade) – he and my (other) sister, and at least once, my mom sat in the viewing stand at Macys to watch the shows and such (not all of which are shown on TV) in person at near the reviewing stand.

Husband and I sleep in – and whenever we wake up we may or may not watch the parade on TV.

I watched part of the parade on a whim. I turned it off after the announcer introduced the “Rock-etties”. She quickly corrected herself but that was enough for me.