Over-the-Top Christmas Light Shows

Tacky Light Tour
"Now Featuring 21,761,422 Christmas Lights!
and 1,614 inflatable Christmas displays and 239,499 animated Christmas scenes."

"...What is a Tacky Light Tour?

"A Tacky Light Tour is a trip made with family and friends from one home or business insanely decorated for Christmas to another usually made in a passenger car, but sometimes taken in limousines, vans and tour buses. Traditionally, displays with more than 10,000 Christmas lights qualify to be included among the very best Christmas displays found on the Tacky Light Tour...."

"Tacky" is their word. I might prefer exuberant, lavish, enthusiastic, or maybe alternatively-tasteful. "Tacky" is a pretty good way of describing some of the season's over-the-top displays, though.

On the other hand, I rather like "tacky" displays. I see them as a sort of American folk art: one that's evolving as new technologies arrive.

Now, a video featured on Tacky Light Tour's home page:

"These Xmas Lights Dance - literally"

YouTube (December 08, 2006)
video (2:08)