Jingle All the Way was inspired by real-life Christmas toy sell-outs in New York.
  Many jingles are also created using snippets of popular songs, in which lyrics are modified to appropriately advertise the product or service
 On Christmas Eve, Howard sets out to buy the toy, but finds that every store has sold out, and in the process develops a rivalry with Myron Larabee, a postal worker father with the same goal

