It's that time of year when you shouldn't fast-forward through the ad breaks, else you'll miss some marketing masterpieces. Each year, companies spend big bucks on lavish holiday commercials, and this year's offerings -- which, as usual, are Christmas-centric -- have even ad creatives impressed.

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