I hate parades. They are boring. It's like watching my neighbor put up holiday decorations (at least his light up).
Parades celebrate peoples ability to walk in a straight line while giving a mediocre, at best, performance.
Then you have crappy host announcers that are usually drunk, and editing that focuses 5 minutes on one float and 2 seconds on the next. Also, floats adorned with advertisments, and bad singing & acting you wouldn't even find off off Broadway.
Parades need excitement! Take a queue from China. Put in a couple of hot air balloon torches for some big fire bursts. Have a giant chicken & cow walking with 10,000 firecrackers going off on a stick. Throw in some smoke grenades or fog machines.
Jazz it up parade coordinators, this is the 21st century!!!
