New travel tech site TNooz.com has a roundup of seasonally appropriate, mostly cute holiday travel commercials that they've collected. There's a broad selection, from a bright sunny California commercial to a "moody evocative film" about Scotland. We were going to comment on each one individually—ex: generally, "moody and evocative" doth not good holiday cheer make—but there's one in particular that caught our eye. It's a 1992 commericial for British Airways and it's clever in its own way, though the punchline at the end is bitterly ironic this week.
Here's the thing though. We were a little hesitant to suggest this, but now we're convinced: the video is super creepy. We're not certain why we feel like this. We can't put our finger on what exactly is going wrong. But we're 100% sure something is fundamentally amiss with this family, from "clever daddy's" staccato speech to the little girl's pique. If this was the opening scene in a horror movie, by minute 20 someone would be killing kittens. Check out the doll in the upper corner and tell us we're wrong...
Unrelatedly, it turns out that "Lapland" is a real place. It could be a pun because little kids sit on Santa's lap, etc etc, but nope. It's part of a bigger place called Fennoscandia that unbelievably is also a real place. Lapland stretches across Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula in Russia, and it's apparently where Santa lives. So now you know.
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