Originally Posted By ToonKirby In celebration of the holidays, the latest MD Poll journeys back in time to what could be called the "Golden Age" of animated television specials to ask, "What is your all-time favorite classic cartoon Christmas special?" Click here to vote: <a href="http://moviedearest.blogspot.com/2009/11/md-poll-toonful-christmas.html" target="_blank">http://moviedearest.blogspot.c...mas.html</a> - kch
Originally Posted By mapleservo Thanks for including Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol - I really think it deserves a little more attention. My least favourite is probably Rudolph. Santa comes off as a real twit in that one.
Originally Posted By DAR I went with Charlie Brown mainly because the music is so good in in it. But I truly love Grinch so this was a tough one. And most children's traumatic moment is when Bambi's mother gets shot. Frosty melting, turned be into a blubbering mess as a child.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo It's funny, having watched these for years, I thought I could never see them in a fresh way. But now my kids are 13 and 11, they see them in a new cynical snarky way - and they're really funny all over again. The whole family laughs and loves them.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie Gonna have to be A Year Without a Santa Claus. Love Heat Miser and Snow Miser.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I was torn between The Grinch and Charlie Brown. Chuck won.> Chuck Brown or Chuck Jones?
Originally Posted By Lisann22 So hard! Charlie Brown or The Grinch, but then there's Mr. Magoo and I loved Mr. Magoo. I voted The Grinch.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I will have to vote the Jetsons Xmas Special because it is being used as a Halls Department Store Window Display for the Holidays ( that is the Hallmark Department Store Xmas window display in Kansas City) For some reason it gives me pleasure to walk past this with all the Xmas lights and Salvation Army Bellringers handing out candycanes. Every year the Halls display includes a Nutcracker Banquet table full of very fancy candies and this year cakestands piled high with the traditional Hostess Snowball cupcakes. Now I am compelled to find a box of Hostess snowballs at the grocery store and the Jetsons xmas dvd to purchase.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Frosty melting, turned be into a blubbering mess as a child.> Me too! I was 7 years old when 'Frosty the Snowman' was released, and it did choke me up when Frosty melted. The other one that really got me as a kid was 'The Little Drummer Boy' -- when the kid's pet lamb gets run over by a chariot, and then comes back to life through the grace of The Lord, it's quite moving and emotional.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I thought I was the only one who ever watched "The Little Drummer Boy."
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Awww...the He-Man/She-Ra Christmas special isn't up there And why haven't the Disney and Looney Tunes specials been re-aired on network TV for the holidays?? I'd love to see A Disney Halloween or Disney's Halloween Treat again...or Bugs Bunny's Thanks-For-Giving Special... I remember the 1980s Disney Christmas special; it included vignettes from Bambi (his first winter), Cinderella (Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, with the Fairy Godmother even "saying" Merry Christmas at the end), Donald Duck working in a toy warehouse and the Silly Symphony of "Night Before Christmas".
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Does anyone remember The Chipmunks' Christmas special? I recall the plot had something to do with Alvin's harmonica.
Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNGjKnTzaQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...GjKnTzaQ</a> Oh yeah I went here.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs You fiend. This is the Looney Tunes special I was referring to. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny%27s_Looney_Christmas_Tales" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...as_Tales</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I thought I was the only one who ever watched "The Little Drummer Boy."> Nope, I did too. There was an obscure animated one from the same period called something like "The Night the Animals Talked" or something like that. It was only on a few years, I think, but I watched it whatever years it was on. It seemed like when I was a kid, they put the so-so specials (like that one, or the animated "Twas the Night Before Christmas") on first. Then the somewhat better ones like Drummer Boy. Then they'd save the Grinch and Charlie Brown for close to the holiday itself. It was like they were building up towards the good ones, just like you as a kid were building up anticipation of Christmas. Nowadays it seems backwards. Charlie Brown and the Grinch come early, and the mediocre ones come later. One pretty good fairly recent one was the claymation "Robbie the Reindeer" with Ben Stiller and Hugh Grant as voices.
Originally Posted By mawnck What? No The Small One? No Jack Frost? No Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey? Kidding. I think you got the highlights. (Plus A Very Merry Cricket?) Besides, Charlie Brown and the Grinch are there, and that's all that really matters. (Grinch by a nose. Boris Karloff puts it over the top.)
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka << Chuck Brown or Chuck Jones? >> Doh! Chuck Brown won but today I'm not so sure. ;-)
