Over the past decade, A Christmas Story has earned it's spot as the holiday film you just can’t help but watch; the film airs hundreds of times during the holiday season. With classic lines like “You’ll shoot your eye out kid” and “Frag-i-le, must be Italian” seeping into the mainstream, the movie is referenced year round.

A spin on Ralphie’s constant nagging and the film’s classic quote “You’ll shot you eye out kid,” this cell phone commercial adds a modern twist by combining footage from the movie with newly recorded voiceover. This Christmas, Ralphie wants a Motorola phone “with texting, games, and graphics.” The adult response to his Christmas wishes is “You’ll run the bill up.” It’s a good thing Cingular cell phone came to Ralphie’s rescue -- otherwise, he may start asking for a hard-to-find gifts like a PSP or Nintendo Wii.

A welcome accessory to any outfit, the new shuffle is small enough to clip to any shirt of pocket; you'll forget it's even there. Just in time for the holiday season, this gigabyte-sized mp3 player can play up to 12 hours of continuous music and weighs about a half an ounce.

For this new spot, Apple abandoned their rockstar attitude and went with an anyone/anywhere vibe. A fresh change from previous iPod campaigns, this ad features a composite of torsos putting on different layers of clothes and attaching an iPod shuffle to them.

Another obvious change from iPod’s previous ad campaign, the song Who's Gonna Sing? by the Prototypes is in French. Roughly translated, the lyrics mean: "I really like what you're doing, I like your style, I like your game."

For all you young folks who might be finding yourselves at a hippie Thanksgiving, here’s a post-dated note from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Drugs are bad, and if you do them you are a Turkey. Not that this zinger makes any more sense than being called a goose or a pheasant, but I do remember the tragic year -- somewhere around '92 -- when the mention of the holiday bird somehow became a horrific slur. The only respectable come-back to which was “I know you are but what am I,” or “No you’re a turkey!”

So while you are cooking your bird of choice this holiday season, enjoy this Turtle-tastic PSA. And remember…Don’t be a Turkey.

Comedy is not typically international. What's funny to America may not play in Europe and vice/versa. Barring the occasional Jerry Lewis and Sacha Baron Cohen, most comedy is lost in translation.

This is one such example of the humor barrier featuring a Ham Sandwich telling a young boy an inconvenient truth. It is the English version of a Belgian advertisment, that one hopes had them rolling in the aisles in its homeland. Or at least buying a lot of ham.

But nothing could convince me that puppet isn't universally creepy...