Frosty the Snowman
Part 2:
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Twas the Night Before Christmas, the 1974 Rankin-Bass animated Christmas television special, has very little to do with the famous 1823 poem that opens with this line. In this television special, set in the town of Junctionville in… Read More
Disney’s Holloween Treat: Donald and the Gorilla
This was always what I thought of when I heard the term Gorilla Mask for years until I found out that it was an abusive but hilarious sex degradation act.
Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas
Herb and Rex, the Jurassic odd couple, introduce segments featuring the Three Wise Men, singing camels, ice-skating penguins, and the hilarious Paris Bellharmonic Orchestra. There’s even a Motown rendition of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” The entire cast joins… Read More
Snow Miser and Heat Miser Songs
I always thought the Heat Misers song was kind of a cop out. The lyrics seem a little lazy. Snowie has a rhyme on the verse about what temperature he prefers it to be (“degrees” with “freeze”). Heat… Read More
Father Time’s Song
So I loved Rudolph’s Shiny New Year as a kid, and watching it now I realize… well, it’s actually terrible. But this one scene is still pretty cool. Unfortunately this is also the one scene that they cut… Read More
End Song and Credits of the Claymation Christmas
here we learn that its wassailing, not waffling, though they don’t explain further. The practice has its roots in the middle ages as a reciprocal exchange between the feudal lords and their peasants as a form of recipient… Read More