Macy’s, in an Effort to Make 2017 Just That Much More Fucked Up, Unveils Their Long-Awaited List of This Year’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons

Gary M. Almeter
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2 min readNov 20, 2017
Did not make the cut.

Red Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger

Pikachu

Pennywise

Keith Richards

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Crying Michael Jordan

Keith Morrison of Dateline NBC

A Scary Nun

Cheryl Tiegs from her 1978 Virginia Slims Advertisement

John Malkovich

Jeff Bezos

Dr. Phil

Jeff Sessions (for this, Macy’s has just repurposed the existing Elf on the Shelf balloon, which made its debut in the 2012 Thanksgiving Day Parade, but made it racist and forgetful)

Angela Lansbury

Kenneth, that guy who used to ride the school bus with you when you were little and who now works at the Exxon station at the corner of Charles Ave. and Stevenson Road

Ricardo Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize

The Maytag Repairman

Mike Pence (repurposed existing Buzz Lightyear balloon, but painted navy blue and made gay)

Chance the Rapper

Melanie Griffith in Milk Money

Pope Francis

Flo from the Progressive Commercials

Samuel L. Jackson in Get Out

Keith Urban

A Russian Prostitute

Donald J. Trump (repurposed existing Pillsbury Doughboy, but painted orange with added mountains of hair the color of a Creamsicle plastered onto the top of the balloon and combed in ways that defy the laws of physics)

Mr. Monopoly

The Twitter Bird

Ronald McDonald

Snoopy

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Gary M. Almeter
How Pants Work

Gary is an attorney who lives in Baltimore, MD with his wife, three kids and beagle. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, 1966, Good Men Project & Splitsider