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Target Thanksgiving Ad

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The setup

A Target holiday commercial pitches its Thanksgiving deals as survival gear for the relatives who arrive with the turkey.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

What starts as a warm Target ad for turkeys and side dishes soon admits that hosting Thanksgiving also means hosting the whole family. Each discount is then matched to a particular guest: a meat-free loaf for the niece's preachy new boyfriend, a football for the uncle who treats the backyard game like the playoffs, motion-sensor lights for the cousin who sneaks smokes in the driveway, noise-cancelling earbuds for when Grandpa starts on politics, dog food for the relative who brought a pet anyway, toys for the children to wreck in the basement and plenty of wine to sit through Grandma's news of who has died and a crypto lecture. The worn-out hosts end the night facing a sink of dishes, a cousin demanding his car keys and guests on an air mattress, while the ad cheerfully proposes doing it all again at Christmas.

The funny people

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Say it with us

Highly quotable.

But hosting Thanksgiving also means hosting your family. And that can be a whole damn thing.

I don't eat anything with feathers anymore.

Target, let's do it all again at Christmas.

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

SNL Archives catalogs this commercial parody as Target (II); the show's earlier Target (I) parody aired on the November 19, 2016 episode.

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