A Cartoon Christmas

A DISNEY CHRISTMAS GIFT Original Air Date: December 4, 1982 The festive folks at Disney hastily assemble an archival Holiday present that was 20 years shy of “new” the day it hit TV.

Against all odds, A Cartoon Christmas is back for another year, bitches! We dare you to care just one more time. All we ask is that you help us out with some Animated Holiday suggestions…

ROBBIE THE REINDEER in HOOVES OF FIRE Original air date: December 25, 1999 SYNOPSIS: Rudolph’s well-intentioned but ill-applied offspring heads to the North Pole to fulfill his destiny as Santa’s chief navigator, only to find that he’s up against both a territorial Blitzen and the march of technology.  Will he step up his party-boy game [...]

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER Original Air Date: December 6, 1964 SYNOPSIS: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose, and if you ever saw it… you’d know how fucking awesome it is!

IT’S CHRISTMASTIME AGAIN, CHARLIE BROWN Original Air Date: November 27, 1992 SYNOPSIS: For the their 36th primetime animated special, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang revisit Christmas for the first time in almost 30 years!

CHRISTMAS COMES TO PACLAND Original Air Date: December 16, 1982 Through some undisclosed dimensional gateway, Santa Claus crash lands in Pac-Land. It’s up to the entire Pac-gang to find his toy sack, fix his sleigh, and drug his reindeer before the Ghost Gang can ruin Christmas!

THE GREAT SANTA CAPER Original Air Date: November 30, 1978 SYNOPSIS: A highly derivative villain named Alexander Graham Wolf careens into the North Pole with a nefarious, capitalistic plan to monetize Christmas. Luckily, Comet the Reindeer catches wind of the plot and must employ the world’s only two heroes capable of putting a stop to [...]

THE SNOWMAN Original Airdate: December 24, 1982 SYNOPSIS: James is a young boy left largely alone in his countryside home during a a winter of epic snowfall. One day he builds a snowman for companionship, and as luck would have it, the thing comes to life! The two engage in lighthearted mischief until the sentient [...]

MISTER MAGOO’S CHRISTMAS CAROL Original Air Date: December 18, 1962 SHORT SYNOPSIS: Everybody’s favorite sightless moron finds Christ-like redemption after a visitation from three ghosts in TV’s inaugural animated Holiday special that could be best described as downright Dickensian!

Dude… Christmas rules amirite?! But as we “The Children of the 80’s,” grow older, crap like work deadlines, the price of airfare, and gift-giving budgetary restraints do their damndest to damper our Holiday Spirit year in and year out. Let ‘em try! I’ve got a backlog of DVDs with enough Xmas Mojo to keep even [...]