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That's right everyone, it's that time of year again! Where we gather 'round the television and watch the surreal stop-motion garbage our boomer parents watched back when they were baked teenagers in the 60s! Such classics as: -Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, the origin story of Santa Claus, back when he was voiced by Mickey Rooney and infiltrated Communist East Germany to bring children the joy of cheap plastic junk made by slaves!  -Jack Frost, where the spirit of frostbite assumes human form to find love and learn the joy of fiat currency!  -Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July, the one where Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer battles an evil snow wizard bent on stealing Frosty the Snowman's hat to create a snow-army, aided by Reindeer Andy Dick!  -The one that has Leprechauns in it for some reason?  Discuss your vague fever-dream memories of a simpler, more jerkily animated time in the Christmases of yore
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Dec 19, 2021 22:14
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Yaldabaoth posted:Heat Meister caused global warming because he wants to melt the north poll. Yeah Heat Miser kinda won that round. ...sometimes I wonder how the Miser Brothers fit into the larger shared cosmology. Like how does Snow Miser relate to Jack Frost? Is he a sub-contractor to Father Winter? 
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Dec 19, 2021 23:25
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Mycroft Holmes posted:I like their version of the Hobbit. Great soundtrack. I get the feeling "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" got played a lot on the floor of the animation sweatshop
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Dec 19, 2021 23:40
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Wow, those Rankin-Bass characters made a banner for the OP! I admit, I reflexively read this in my head in Yukon Cornelius' voice
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Dec 19, 2021 23:50
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Testikles posted:These specials were early examples of America outsourcing animation to Asia. They were made in Japan which I guess makes them anime You can trace a direct line of descent from the Twas the Night Before Christmas adaptation (with the smug reddit atheist mouse who ruins Christmas) all the way to the founding of Studio Ghibli. Osamu Tezuka's company did the animation for Frosty the Snowman!
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Dec 20, 2021 04:46
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Testikles posted:Rudolph: and now Santa, for my final technique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9S7w7sq5d4
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Dec 20, 2021 05:23
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For anyone with cable, Fox Family or ABC Family or FreeForm or whatever the gently caress it's called these days is currently playing Frosty the Snowman a Christmas special that moreso even than The Little Drummer Boy, summarizes the life and times of Jesus Christ
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Dec 20, 2021 22:47
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