Posts Tagged ‘Claymation’

Robot Chicken: Misery, My Sweet Babboo

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Charlie Brown’ sister, Sally, nurses a sick Linus back to health. Snoopy to the rescue. Sort of. It’s a very violent Chistmas, Charlie Brown. From the Robot Chicken Half Assed Christmas special.

Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007



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 a rousing chorus finale of “Here We Come A-Wassailing,” which is certain to put everyone in the Christmas mood. (1987, 24 minutes.

Snow Miser and Heat Miser Songs

Monday, December 17th, 2007

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 Misers version just repeats the word degrees. Wtf is up with that?

End Song and Credits of the Claymation Christmas

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

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 initiated charitable giving, to be distinguished from begging. This point is made in the song “Here We Come A-Wassailing”, when the wassailers inform the lord of the house that

“we are not daily beggars that beg from door to door but we are friendly neighbors whom you have seen before.”

Claymantion Christmas. California Raisins sing Rudolf the Red nosed reindeer

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007


(intro)

I tried this when I missed the last bus once.
It didn’t work.
And I got arrested.

Claymation Christmas. Joy to the World

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Claymation Christmas. Oh Christmas Tree

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Claymation Christmas Intro

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Claymation Christmas. We Three Kings

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Three wise men sing the traditional song with their camels breaking in with some more hip and upbeat verses.

Claymation Christmas. Carol of the bells

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

This cracked me up when it first aired and many times afterward on tape. A hunchback conductor deals will a goofy bow tied bell that is steadily ruining the grand performance.
From A Claymation Christmas Celebration is a 1987 CBS Christmas television special


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