Thanks to the magic of expanded cable, this year is the fifth consecutive holiday commemorated by the epic Monkees Christmas episode, where the boys teach Eddie Munster the true meaning of the holiday. Along with Rudolph, Frosty and Snoopy, it’s one of my daughter’s favorite seasonal delights, even though she’s never actually seen The Munsters, making my werewolf boy jokes fall a bit flat. The capper comes with the closing number, a four-part harmony a capella rendition of ‘Riu Chiu’, a traditional villancico of yore, only after which is it really Chrimmus, leading to today’s pre-holiday query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is sad that, thanks to the demise of my VCR, the ‘Space Ghost Christmas Special’ is one of our lost traditions, asking: What are your favorite holiday/end-of-year traditions?
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Dinner at my mom’s place. Well, its pretty much my ONLY holiday tradition.
Don’t really have any real lasting traditions anymore aside from listening to Chipmunks Christmas songs and watching Doctor Who and Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.