I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don’t know when to come down.

Rocca’s line is a comic, affectionate inversion of the usual complaint that Christmas has become too commercial, too early, and too tacky. By declaring love for “the excess,” he frames the season’s overreach—premature shopping, cheesy celebrity carols, and lingering decorations—not as cultural decline but as part of the holiday’s peculiar charm. The humor depends on specificity: each example is a familiar irritant, yet presented as a source of delight. The quote suggests a tolerant, even celebratory attitude toward collective kitsch and ritualized overindulgence, implying that the messiness and exaggeration are what make Christmas feel culturally ubiquitous and emotionally vivid.