Memo
From: Hallmark Corp. Headquarters
To: Hallmark Gold Crown Retailers
Re: Purge 2041 AD
We had an excellent Christmas 2040 and sales were very strong for Valentine’s Day, making it a solid first quarter for 2041, praise be to the New Founding Fathers. Naturally, we are expecting to do very well for our next Hallmark Holiday, The Purge! As our retailers all know, the day was created by “The New Founding Fathers of America,” in their great wisdom, to help stabilize American society after that really bad economic collapse and to quash all that rising social unrest caused by radicals and leftist and traitors.
It was a rough couple of quarters for us here at Hallmark, we don’t have to remind you. But now every March 21 all crime, including murder, becomes legal for 12 straight hours, all part of the blessed New Founding Fathers’ plans to keep our nation great. And Hallmark has the perfect greeting cards to mark the day! We are going to push this hard with the slogan: “Hallmark: cards that care! Blessed be the New Founding Fathers!”
Note below some samples of our latest line of greeting cards covering the various aspects of the day:
Cover: “Happy Purge Day!”
Inside: “Hope you survive! Kinda!”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.
Cover: “Purge Day is your Birthday?”
Inside: “Well, then maybe I’ll wait before I buy you a present.”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.”
Cover: “I wanted to get you a nice present for this year’s Purge…”
Inside: “…But all the good stores were already looted!”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.”
Cover: “Thank you”
Inside: “For hiding us during the Purge. Anonymously yours, some stranger.”
“Blessed be yadda, yadda, yadda.”
Cover: “Thank you”
Inside: “For turning over that criminal we wanted to hatchet to death. It saved us the trouble of burning your house down. See you next year!”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.”
Cover: “Deepest Sympathy…”
Inside: “…On your family’s decimation. Although they probably had it coming.”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.”
Cover: “We heard you complaining about The Purge.”
Inside: “So we reported you to the state police. I guess that makes this a ‘Goodbye & Good luck’ card.”
“Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.”
And, of course, our new tag to every single card we print is our national oath “Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all” printed in a much larger font than the rest of the card.
As usual, we will coordinate the release of the cards with the Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Purge” movie slate, with one movie airing every weekend in March. Viewers will see delightful tales of love and mayhem when we show fan favorites like One Lonely Purge, and The Guy Hiding in My Attic as well as the premiere of this year’s new movies Peer Pressured, Another Lonely Purge, and ‘Til Purge Do Us Part.” Based on the ratings of past years, we’re expecting these movies to raise awareness of the new card lines significantly.
Additionally, we’ll be releasing the new Purge Tree ornaments just prior to the Hallmark Channel presentation with a “Buy one, get one half off” sale. Although, I suppose, people will just wait for The Purge and loot the stores like they do every year.
Be that as it may, we here at corporate are looking to make this the Purgiest Purge ever, with Hallmark! Blessed be our New Founding Fathers and America, a nation reborn and may God be with you all.
This communication and any attached files may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If this communication has been received in error, please delete or destroy it immediately. Unless it’s during the Purge — then you can do whatever you want with it. Sigh.
