CHRISTMAS SPECIALS 2K19 - YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY CHRISTMAS SHIT

[XYZpdq]

Muppets Family Christmas 12-16-1987 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Muppets Family Christmas 12-16-1987

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Muppet Family Christmas
like all things good and holy in our dark cyberfuture it's a bootleg copy so it doesn't have edits because of copyrights

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I'll call that and raise you Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas (the uncut version with the Kermit opener and the Laundry Scene where Ma gets to tell that rich fox bitch to fall off the dock. )

And, of course, the greatest "not having anything to do with Christmas" scene in any Christmas special:

Speaking of Muppets, the Muppet Christmas Carol is good, but I've got a soft spot for the first Sesame Street Christmas Special. If only because the characters haven't been fucked by the censors and we get to see this version of Oscar the Grouch:

I remember my favorite Christmas special I watched as a kid was Yogi's First Christmas. I have no idea why, other than it was an actual movie-length movie when most Christmas specials lasted an hour at most. Made it seem like more of a big deal, I guess...

 

[XYZpdq]

narration by Vincent Price props up an otherwise unremarkable production

 

[DudeWithTheFood]

Absolute masterpiece

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Charlie Brown Christmas is the king of all Christmas specials.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Always been a favorite

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Absolute masterpiece

Always remember: You gotta get a gift for Splinter.

 

[XYZpdq]

Speaking of Muppets, the Muppet Christmas Carol is good, but I've got a soft spot for the first Sesame Street Christmas Special. If only because the characters haven't been fucked by the censors and we get to see this version of Oscar the Grouch:

Probably some of Oscar's greatest trolling.

Peace on Earth (1939) - video dailymotion

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a copy that doesn't blow the surprise of the short in the description
Peace On Earth! Grampa Squirrel is coming back home to Critter Town for a merry Christmas, happy varmints are singing carols in the streets, and all is well. Then the grandkids ask grandpa why we say "peace on Earth, goodwill to men" at Christmas time. Real spoiler and not a joke: it's because mankind is extinct because they died horribly in war including the on-screen death of the last human on earth drowning in mud after getting shot lol merry christmas

 

[Quijibo69]

Too bad they don't show this anymore:

Too 80's for people.

 

[XYZpdq]

Too bad they don't show this anymore:

Too 80's for people.

still my totes fave arrangement of We Three Kings

and what would Christmas specials be if we ignored that time that the no good jerk everybody hated showed how how his heart could grow to an amount previously unknown and still unbelieved, so long as it meant some whos had a happy Christmas

Spoiler: literally three sizes

 

[LordofTendons]

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, for the true Rankin-Bass conoisseurr.

 

[BrunoMattei]

PUNISH!

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Christmas Vacation is a movie I watch every year.

Plus that theme song is a genuinely good Christmas song.

 

[XYZpdq]

some German people sing carols in German while it's winter in Germany

The Lawrence Welk Show - Christmas, 1959 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Lawrence Welk Show - Christmas, 1959

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something even whiter, Lawrence Welk

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Out of all the Rankin-Bass specials I think I like this one the best:

But you can’t go wrong with the standards:

And even the batshit insane ones people never talk about:

When it comes to movies, however, one of my favorites is this Japanese take on the Nutcracker - perhaps the best film version ever. It has Christopher Lee, after all:

But when it comes to holiday episodes this is my favorite:

 

[Emperor Pilaf]

I love me some Christmas specials and movies so here are a few. let's start with a rather obscure nutcracker anime.

The Nutcracker (animated Comedy)

Low budget. Yet, very creative with an off-beat comedy.

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Then there is this gem from Nelvana, I miss there traditionally animated films

A Cosmic Christmas - Nelvana - 1977

Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. A Cosmic Christma...

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I forgot MGM made a third all dogs go to heaven movie, it was pretty bad.

Cartoon An All Dogs Christmas Carol Movie

Charlie and Itchy are back with Sasha and the gang having a Dicken's of a time as they try to save Christmas from Carface and a demon named Belladonna wishes...

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[Duncan Hills Coffee]

In terms of TV Christmas specials, the Billy and Mandy Christmas special has a place in my heart.

Billy and Mandy was always batshit insane and this special doesn't disappoint. You got Gilbert Gottfried voicing Santa who has been turned into a vampire, you got Malcolm McDowell showing up as the Head Vampire (singing Singin' in the Rain as a subtle reference to his role in A Clockwork Orange no less), and you got the over-the-top gross-out humor the series is known for (Billy getting his face ripped off by the Wampa is a personal highlight).

It's fucking great.

 

[BrunoMattei]

 

[Quijibo69]

Best movie ending of all time.

 

[MysticMisty]

I'm a grown-ass woman, yet Mickey's Christmas Carol still has a soft spot in my heart, and is the definitive short version of the classic tale. Weirdly enough the 80's/early 90's TV broadcasts are infinitely better than the current ones 1) because there are no time edits, 2) the third short is redundant since it stars Donald and Chip and Dale, 3) the way the shorts are introduced in the same style of the opening credits, and 4) because it frames the presentation as all the characters having got together to create their own adaptation of A Christmas Carol instead of just dropping the characters in the roles. I know other animated adaptations did that (Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol and A Flintstones Christmas Carol are the first to come to my mind), but this way just does it better somehow.