Favorite Animated Christmas Special

[Crankie Avalon]

[Crankie Avalon]

1. I gotta go with Mr. Magoo...

...HE EVEN MORE DA MAN THAN HEAT MISER!!!

[July]

3. Mr. Magoo it is!

Good music for a cartoon, too.

It's available on DVD, by the way.

[mark11727]

4. REALLY? Well, that's one for the Sister's stocking this year...

[non sociopath skin]

12. I loved the Magoo Christmas Carol ...

.. but it rarely gets a showing on UK TV. Yes, remember the songs being particularly good. Anybody know who wrote them?

The Skin

[mac56]

15. Jules Styne and Bob Merrill

I saw it again last December for the first time in probably 35 years. Though not on a par with The Grinch or Charlie Brown, I thought it held up remarkably well.

Since I know more about animation now, however, I was distracted by things that I barely noticed as a kid.

[non sociopath skin]

26. Thanks, Mac.

Jules Styne, huh? Thought the score was classy!

The Skin

[sniffa]

2. other - yogi's first christmas

awesome movie!

[achtung_circus]

5. I voted for Rudolph

but my ex lived for "The Grinch That Stole Christmas".

[Crankie Avalon]

6. HOLY MOLEY!!!

How could I have forgotten that one. Talk about not dotting one's i's and crossing one's t's.

I took out the one of the bear (which I'm sure hardly anyone has seen, anyway) and gave the spot to the Grinch.

Thanks for the wake-up!

[obreaslan]

7. Heat Miser!!!!!

He was and is awesome!

[Deja Q]

8. There's not a Charlie Brown holiday/tv special I didn't like.

Made before 1980, of course...

I also fondly remember the Thanksgiving and Halloween eps. Great stuff.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. The one with the little dentist elf

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[Magrittes Pipe]

10. I'm mister green Christmas, I'm mister sun.

I'm mister heat blister, I'm mister hundred-and-one.
They call me Heat Miser, whatever I touch
Starts to melt in my clutch.
I'm too much!



I'm mister white Christmas, I'm mister snow.
I'm mister icicle, I'm mister ten-below.
Friends call me Snow Miser, whatever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch.
I'm too much!

[alphafemale]

11. A Wish for Wings that Work - starring Opus and Bill the Cat

Hilarious. Watch for the kiwi.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103272/

[tjdee]

13. Mickey's Christmas Carol, helllooooo......

Mickey is the cutest as Bob Cratchit.

But, I also like Rudolph and the Grinch.

What I don't like are all the new animated "insta-classic" ones.
They're just kind of thrown together and they stink.

[jmowreader]

14. The first "Mr. Hankey" episode of South Park

It clearly illustrated the dangers of attempting to de-Christianize Christmas.

It also had the heaviest scene I've ever seen in a Christmas special--one that shows what has happened with Christmas in the real world. At the very end, after Kyle gets let out of the mental hospital and everyone in town sings the Mr. Hankey song, they cut to the South Park Public Access studio...where Jesus is in there all alone, depressed as hell, singing "happy birthday to me."

It had everything a good Christmas special should have. Talking turds. A fistfight. A simulated live birth. Someone's mom getting called a bitch by a two-minute song. The hazards of cheap wiring, rickety ladders and uncovered aquariums. Everything, man.

[Wright Patman]

16. Charlie Brown's

voice was done by some other kid later on. I still remembered the original voice and never could get used to the new one. I suppose this is inevitable given the ravages of puberty that had no doubt affected the original voice by then.

The same thing happened in "The Flintstones" with Barney Rubble (not because of puberty, though). They changed the guy doing the voice at some point. The new Barney had a very high-pitched voice compared to the original Barney. It seems like whichever voice I hear first in an animated show is the one I prefer.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. The Nightmare Before Christmas

An unparralleled masterpiece

[Crankie Avalon]

18. What, no love on DU for "The Little Drummer Boy?"...

...no one at all???

All right, then--F*CK 'IM!

You hear that, you little drumming freak? Go pa rum pa pum pum your little ass back wherever it came from.

HAH!!!

(So susceptible to peer pressure) :evilfrown:

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. You just reminded me of "Amahl and the Night Visitors"

I know it's not animated, but I miss it anyway.

This is my box,
This is my box,
I NEVER travel without my box...

[fluffernutter]

19. Grinch - i love Dr. Suess.

[Phentex]

20. A Muppet Christmas Carol

Love the frog!

[MsAnthropy]

22. Boris Karloff's voice in the Grinch!

His narration just makes that story!

[annonymous]

23. I've always liked the Mr Grinch song.

The animated Dr. Suess is better than the full length movie that came out a few years ago.

[dr.strangelove]

24. THE RACCOONS CHRISTMAS and THE RACCOONS ON ICE

Old, but great. BErt the hockey playing raccoon saves the forest.

[shawmut]

25. Nester the Long-Eared Donkey