So, a few years ago, I decided I needed to make some Christmas IDs for my podcast, U62: The Targ. Ah, yes, I remember the genesis now. The Shrek Christmas special, Shrek the Halls, was premiering with a lot of hype, and I thought, "Hey! Christmas IDs! And I'll be sure to tape the Shrek Christmas special and get in something from Shrek!" And I thought the Shrek Christmas special was incredibly lame and didn't find any clips from it that I liked. But I soldiered on anyway, and still grabbed clips from some of my favourite, classic Christmas specials!
So, to run down the clips I used in this IDs:
The Weird Al Show: The Obligatory Holiday Episode - As Weird Al says in the intro to this episode of his short-lived kids show, he thought it was best to celebrate every holiday and get them all out of the way. Which is why I go with "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" in these IDs...just to tie into this joke.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Still better in 22 minutes of animation than the Jim Carrey film.
A Charlie Brown Christmas - As I blog every year, there's no better...acknowledgment of season holiday depression. My mother really likes this one.
A Garfield Christmas - As my sister was nuts for Garfield when we were kids, this was a must to view every year.
The He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special - Recently re-discovered a few years ago, and has since become a kitsch favourite with kids of the 1980s. The one power more powerful than the power of Greyskull at defeating Skeletor: the Christmas spirit.
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (aka the Simpsons Christmas Special) - The very first televised full half-hour of The Simpsons. Chosen for this mainly because I had the DVD kicking around.
Some day, I will make the one I originally wanted to make alongside these ones, but I couldn't find it online. Maybe this year. I also wanted to do one acknowledging that favourite with college kids in the 1990s, A Pinky and the Brain Christmas. For those who don't remember it, Brain's latest scheme for world domination is he's created a doll with mind-controlling capabilities. And he wants to infiltrate Santa's workshop by disguising himself and Pinky as elves, trick the elves into mass-producing it and Santa into distributing it to the world. And as t hey parachute into the North Pole, Pinky and the Brain have this exchange:
Pinky>> I've changed my mind, Brain! I don't want to be an elf anymore!
Brain>> Really, Pinky? What do you want to be?
Pinky>> A dentist!
Brain>> (pause) You've watched far too many Christmas specials, Pinky.
Some day, I will make that.
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