Pennsylvania Lottery Christmas Commercial

<p>We spend 17 times the length of a 30-second lottery commercial that had a whole commonwealth singing “FIVE CASH FIVES,” for a quarter-century talking about it.</p> <h4>On This Episode</h4> <ol> <li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike" title="Follow Mike on Twitter.">@fallwestmike</a>), local TV news theme song enthusiast.</li> <li><strong>Joey O.</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/ImGonnaDJ24" title="Follow Joey on Twitter">@ImGonnaDJ24</a>) from <a href="http://ynotradio.net/">Y-Not Radio</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <h4>Topics and Tangents</h4> <ol> <li>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oM19m1hj8" title="YouTube video">original Pennsylvania Lottery Christmas Commercial</a> from 1992.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6JlnhtwxBM" title="YouTube video">The updated commercial</a> from 2012, remade shot-for-shot like 1998’s “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_%281998_film%29">Psycho</a>.”</li> <li><a href="https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/12/09/pa-lotterys-20-year-old-holiday-ad-gets-makeover/">PA Lottery’s Holiday Ad Gets Makeover</a> (CBS Philly, 2012).</li> <li>“<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fl4nIopWQ_s" title="YouTube video">Move Closer to Your World</a>,” the greatest broadcast news theme song ever composed.</li> <li>Philadelphia Eagles fans’ longing for <a href="https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2017/7/20/16003682/modern-eagles-kelly-green-uniforms-jerseys-mock-up-midnight-green-philadelphia-change-new-logos-nfl" title="Bleeding Green Nation">kelly green football uniforms</a>.</li> <li>Major League Baseball’s endless array of <a href="http://news.sportslogos.net/2017/04/11/mlb-unveils-2017-holiday-uniforms-will-now-cover-entire-weekends/" title="SportsLogos.net">ugly hats for every holiday</a>.</li> </ol> <hr /> <p>You can visit the Advent Calendar House on the web at <a href="https://adventcalendar.house">adventcalendar.house</a> and on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/adventcalhouse">@adventcalhou