A Kinder, Gentler Lexus Christmas Commercial

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Maybe there’s hope for mankind after all.

Much has been written (and satirized) about the disconnect between the world where most of us live and the one portrayed in the Lexus “December to Remember” car ads. In Lexus World, some lucky person of wealthy extraction is given a new car with a fancy red bow. The cutesy tricks employed to surprise the wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend only makes it more painful for those who know the best they can hope for is the Bad 25th anniversary box set.