There is nothing dumber, tasteless and pathetic than a deflated Santa Claus! Really! The best word to use regarding them is 'dumb'! I thought of some others adjectives that have merit: ludicrous, ridiculous, pathetic, lamentably inadequate, woefully useless, grotesquely farcical, preposterously silly, .......but dumb, tasteless, and pathetic are my first, second, and third choices. If we are going to play the game - the childish but fun game of pretending than lets do it right. We all love pretending: we did it as kids and we do it in spades as adults.... but then it's called going to the movies! One of the first and most basic rules of a movie is that the characters not look at the camera. If they do- and you make eye contact- bam! you lose the fantasy.
Deflated Santa Clauses are worse than that. I mean an inflated Santa Clause looks tacky enough but when they deflate and it looks like some garbage on the lawn...how ugly is that?! And what does it do to the fantasy of Santa Clause? What to do...what to do? My suggestion is just don't buy 'em. Don't line the pockets of Wall Mart or anyone else and have some respect for the intelligence and sensibilities of kids... that is, all of us. Just don't buy 'em. 
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