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    The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials

    Relax In Front Of A Flaming Cuthbert Yule Arm This Holiday Season

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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    No love for Davey and Goliath?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Charlie Brown Kwanzaa?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Also, what about my favorite holiday video, "Christmas on Acid?"

    [www.youtube.com]
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    12/01/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    My family invented the Who Drinking Game: every time they say "Who" you take a shot. They say it 18 times in the theme song, which they sing three times during the show. Nobody ever remembers how it ends.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/01/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Does Sarah Palin have to have an opinion on everything? WILL SHE NOT GO AWAY ALREADY!?!?!?
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    Image of dontread dontread
    12/01/09

    @DeadliestSin: Thanks for this random outburst -- I wholly concur!
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    Image of eatsshootsleaves eatsshootsleaves
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    How we forget the most politically pointed Christmas special of all: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Its tale of how one Wookie family's Life Day was almost ruined by a government encroaching on its civil liberties is more relevant now than ever before.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    I think "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" deserves a mention as well, since it and its freaky Archipelago of Last Year may very well be the foundation and inspiration for "Lost." Charles Widmore and Ben Linus are just human stand-ins for Rudolph and Eon the Buzzard and the island's inhabitants are their Baby New Year...or something.
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    Image of Clarence Rosario Clarence Rosario
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Does that make the Bumble a furry?
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    In an ironic epilogue to the Charlie Brown Christmas special, they now sell that tree: [www.sears.com]
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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    I always thought the Cold Miser was a gay character. Am I wrong?
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    Image of kathotdog006 kathotdog006
    11/30/09

    @TriedandTrue:
    Heat Miser and Cold Miser are totally gay.
    And I'm pretty sure that Mother Nature procreated through invitro, unless she was doing it with Father Time.
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    11/30/09

    @kathotdog006: Mother Nature? Total slut. She has no idea who the fathers are.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/01/09

    @TriedandTrue: You are correct. And Heat Miser competed on this season's Top Chef.
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    Image of SexcessToxins SexcessToxins
    12/01/09

    @Miss Anita Manbadly: Oh he played the Heat Miser? I must have gotten him mixed up with the guy who played Yukon Cornelious.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/01/09

    @SexcessToxins: On second thought, maybe it's Eli who is the Heat Miser. I must have been confused by Yukon Cornelius's great big hair.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    12/01/09

    @SexcessToxins: On second thought, maybe it's Eli who is the Heat Miser. I must have been confused by Yukon Cornelius's great big hair.
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    Image of Airvault Airvault
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Yeah, I've seen Hermey signing up anti-Prop 8 petitioners at the Castro Muni station.

    Flame on, Hermey.
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    Image of Excusado Excusado
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    I have fond memories of the Heat Miser (best song in a musical Christmas special ever), but had no memory of the plot that it sprung out of. That is one convoluted plot.
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    Image of Leucadia Leucadia
    11/30/09

    @Excusado: He's too much.
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Does anyone remember "'Twas the Night Before Christmas?" Joel Grey is in it, and the gist of it is Santa is a DICK who skips giving presents to a whole town because one little boy doesn't believe in him. Clocks are involved in ways I can't recall. The moral is basically to not use evidence to prove things right or wrong, but to believe in shit in spite of yourself. Then all of your dreams will come true. It's a horrible lesson.But "Muppet Family Christmas" is the best. Watch out for the icy patch!
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    Image of Leucadia Leucadia
    11/30/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: YES! The intellectual little boy is mocked for using "long words! long words!" That special goes a long way toward explaining my miserable skeptical childhood.
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    Image of FrankieButtons FrankieButtons
    11/30/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: "Even A Miracle Needs A Hand" is an awesome and insanely catchy song.
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    Image of formergr formergr
    11/30/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: This sounds like an indoctrination vehicle for Creationists!
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/30/09

    @FrankieButtons: "Let up a little on the wonder why and give your heart a try." Catchy, but so misguided!
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    Image of LatestBy LatestBy
    11/30/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: The turkey's the turkey you turkey!
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    Image of FrankieButtons FrankieButtons
    11/30/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: Aw, see, I look at it the other way around. The song is saying that yes, you need to believe, but you also have to work for it.

    Plus, there's this: [www.southparkstudios.com]
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    Image of Dictator for Life Dictator for Life
    11/30/09

    @Leucadia: He's not just an intellectual little boy, he's an intellectual little MOUSE boy. Who wears teeny-tiny mouse glasses.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    Obviously this was a societal statement about the national fiber crisis that hit in the mid 1980's, and so, of course, Motowning raisins could cure all that ailed the American colon.
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    Image of Zira Zira
    11/30/09

    @Spirit Fingers: I had nightmares about those California raisins as a child. And thanks to you I will have a nightmare about them tonight!
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/30/09

    @Zira: Claymation....always inherently evil.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    11/30/09

    In reply to The Hidden Subtext of Christmas Specials
    I'm proud to say that I know who Yukon Cornelius is...because of the Top Chef liveblog.
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    Image of dippitydoo dippitydoo
    12/01/09

    @DahlELama: that's my boy!
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