One of my favorite things about the Christmas season is all the Christmas specials they have on TV. I'm not talking about the lame movies where Tori Spelling and Jenny McCarthy save Christmas and find true love, I'm referring to all the vintage cartoons specials that they play every year since I was born. I hope they never stop showing them because they bring back a little of that magic feeling you can only truly feel when you are a little kid at Christmas. Thanks to a little magic invention called tivo, I have been obsessively searching and recording all the Christmas specials this year. Here are 5 of my absolute favorites...
1) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (I always cry in the end when dirty-faced Imogene Herdman cradles Baby Jesus and they sing Silent Night. And how could you not love the movie that inspires my whole family to yell "Its almost Christmas Charlie!" as many times as possible on Christmas Eve?)
2) The Charlie Brown Christmas Special (I'm actually watching this right now and I can't believe how clever it is. I really missed the whole point when I was little-I remember them saying the word commercialism a bunch and not understanding what they meant. It also has the best soundtrack ever!)
3)How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I LOVE this show! The Grinch's dog is hilarious!)
4)Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Claymation, I don't know how to spell this, at its best. Herbie the Dentist is a stroke of genius and I love the Silver and Gold song)
5)Mickey's Christmas Carol (An absolute classic and another tear-jerker for me)
P.S. The neighbors upstairs are currently putting up their Christmas tree while wearing their moon boots again! I am going to turn Charlie Brown up as loud as possible and sing along as loud as I can to pay them back! I wonder if they are going to hang their moon boots over the fireplace with care...If so I'm asking Santa to steal them as my Christmas present this year...
2 years ago
3 comments:
Love them all! I haven't seen Charlie Brown Christmas in a long time! And I always cry when Imogene is cradling baby Jesus too. Every time. Why am I not utilizing my Tivo to partake of these wonderful Christmas specials?! This post has been an inspiration to me... I have some recording to do!
Ang-
Your blog makes me laugh so stinking hard! I love it.
I miss you. Anyhow I love your newest family member. You and Lizzie would love to sit and watch "The Grinch" ...we watch it once a day. Also we listen to so much Christmas music today she sang, "Last Christmas I gave you my heart...but you gave it away...next year I'll give it special."
What would Michael think of that! hAve a great Christmas!
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Cousin Ande
I love those shows, too, and all I could find this year were the Tori Spelling kind. Oh, and the Jim Carrey "Grinch", which terrified my toddler and annoyed me. Tim managed to find the old school Grinch and Jacob lost his terror and now calls me the Grinch whenever we have roast beast for dinner. So, by the way, for some reason, every time I got on your blog it had the Halloween post up, and I thought you'd disappeared from the face of the earth or something, and that's why I'm just barely commenting on your more recent posts. Weird.
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