Today is Christmas, so if you celebrate, Merry/Happy Chrimmus! December is a month with many charms for me, containing as it does multiple holidays, my birthday and the birthdays of like 20% of the people I know. (For some reason, I know like five people born on Christmas Eve. It’s a little bit weird, to be honest.) One of the greatest of those is the chance to watch the seasonal television programs of my youth again with my kid. We had a traditional annual viewing of ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’, ‘Frosty The Snowman’ and the stop-motion wonder of ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.’ Where some people love Christmas music, my December is defined by Mister Snow-Miser, The Grinch stealing, and that one episode where The Monkees teach Eddie Munster all about the power of the season, leading to today’s one-horse open query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) was quite happy to find ‘Rudolph’s Shiny New Year’ returning to TV occasionally, because for some years I thought it was a fever dream of mine, asking: What’s your favorite holiday special of them all?
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Raymond Brigg´s “The Snowman”.
Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas. Classic muppet work before muppets were in a self-referential spiral.
(To see it in all its glory, make sure your version has Kermit giving narrative framing. The version on Amazon streaming right now has it, but there are versions out there that don’t because of weird rights issues between Henson, Disney, CTW, etc.)
Speaking of muppets… Muppet Christmas Carol. One of my favorites.
“Light the lamp, not the rat”.