A Cartoon Christmas

Looks like somebody’s back and at their parents’ home for Christmas and doing a little rummagin’ in the old toy box!

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.

Had the good fortune to stop by the Walt Disney Family Museum and just looky at what the gift shop had for sale.

One of the stupidest Christmas specials ever made is finally arriving on DVD… just as the format is dying and more than two months after you’ve taken down the tree.

BUGS BUNNY’S LOONEY CHRISTMAS TALES Original Air Date: November 27, 1979 SYNOPSIS: Bugs and the partially assembled Looney Tunes gang go through the Holiday motions!

FRAGGLE ROCK: THE BELLS OF FRAGGLE ROCK Original Air Date: December 24, 1984 SYNOPSIS: Gobo is having trouble believing in the Fraggles’ Holiday traditions. Is he willing to risk their lives for his curiosity?

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!

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: SANTA CLAUS Original Air Date: December 24, 1993 SYNOPSIS: Just in time for the holidays, Mike and the Bots are forced to endure the most twisted version of Santa Claus the world has ever seen!

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 [...]