To cry at the new John Lewis Christmas ad, again?

[Lambzig]

Last years bear and hare left me cold, but this years penguin one had me sobbing. I may be hormonal.

[KatoPotato]

I'm 3 months pg and quite entitled to blub my stupid face puce at this. DH casually wandered in and thought something serious had happened.

[WorraLiberty]

Pregnancy is no excuse I'm afraid, unless you're going to lay an egg and hatch a penguin.

[OneStepCloser]

I was fine until it changed to a toy penguin, why did that get me?

I was eating a little bit of chocolate that escape from my mouth and dribbled down my chin at the end as I tried to surpass a catchy in my throaty Worra have I upped the anti?

[KatoPotato]

It was the TOY! the toy was so loved it was SCRUFFY!

[NotAnotherPackedLunchBox]

I didn't really get it until near the end as I kept being distracted by concerns that the penguin probably isn't house trained.
All those carpets combined with the smell of the penguins at the zoo...

[ChippingInAutumnLover]

No, not crying here, not even a smidge. It's cute, but not worth the wait.

On a par to last years.

They are going to have to do something very very special to beat the snowman & snowmrs.

[ChippingInAutumnLover]

... and it's not very Christmassy.

[TheKitchenWitch]

Love it, totally made me sob.

[WorraLiberty]

OneStep, any chance of some guttural wailing and gnashing to go with that?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

I'm a semtimental aul toot.

It got me. But I've been known to weep at Gillette adverts. There's no hope for me.

[squoosh]

Nah, didn't do much for me and the song is absolute pants.

[Mumtums]

Still nowhere near 2011 for me but I may have had something in my eye at the end.

[Mumtums]

Agree song isn't great.

[Twuntosaur]

Oh god. Just watched, cried like a baby! Mind you, I was welling up just reading this thread so there's no hope for me

[duckbilled]

Love it, reminds me of calvin and hobbs comic strips

[squoosh]

Better than The Smiths ad though, that kid did my absolute nut in.

[KatoPotato]

I think it's a 'boy with stuffed toy' thing. My DS is inseparable with his toy killer whale so I may be particularly raw.

[PiggyPlumPie]

I didn't like last years at all and was smiling through this one thinking that it was nice but nothing special. I did well up when I saw the toy penguins so maybe I'm not such a hard-hearted bitch after all!

[GotToBeInItToWinIt]

Tears here today. I'm not normally so bloody sentimental but the John a Lewis ads get me every time. I love Christmas.

[ArcheryAnnie]

I enjoyed it because no plinky-plonky "quirky" indie singer music this year.

I was anxious through most of it hoping that the penguin is a CGI penguin, otherwise it might be quite stressed. Penguins don't really like close human contact. Then I got to the "child acts as penguin pimp" bit and was a bit baffled. I'm pretty sure a kid that age wouldn't recognise sexual/romantic desire in a penguin, they'd just be sad the penguin seemed to want other people and not him.

I may be over-analysing this.

[glenthebattleostrich]

Those penguins are so cute. I absolutely NEED at penguin.

Little boy and I have watched it 3 times now, read the Oliver Jeffers penguin and boy stories and watched it again! I now have my very own boy and happyland penguin

[glenthebattleostrich]

The penguin wanted a penguin friend so the lovely boy got him what he really wanted for christmas. Like when I had to buy dd another unicorn so when she was at nursery rainbow didn't get lonely. It's adorable

[ArcheryAnnie]

And when anyone mentions the snowman ad, all I can picture is that Doctor Who episode with the snowmen with terrifying teeth.

[squoosh]

I can't believe people thought it might have been a real penguin!

[SassySugarCane]

Ach I'm no crying

NO!