The title track has a permanent spot in my Christmas party mix and *everyone* does a double-take as soon as they recognize Anthony Daniels' voice.

A-heh-hem: http://www.xkcd.com/890/

It is the kind of thing that's worth watching once mostly because (as with "Plan 9" and "The Room") just when you think it can't get any weirder, it does.  It REALLY does.

Fun article, but at this point "The Star Wars Holiday Special" is old news.  I give you the equally insane "Kraft Salutes the Tenth Anniversary of Walt Disney World" as your new snark bait: http://babbletrish.blogspot…

"The Wacky Wall-Walkers Save Christmas"…

Aw, I was betting on either the "TMNT", "MMPR", or "Pokemon" direct-to-video holiday episodes.

It's always new to somebody.

"When I started to get interested in The Beatles in junior high, my mom,
not really approving, told me the story of how she and my father called
their friends in horror after the show, shocked that anything like that
could be shown on television."

I don't particularly want to remember that.

Oh, God, yes "the Point".  The tender animated special whose ending really only makes sense if you are high and likely to screw up the message somehow.  (Spoiler: Oblio may be accepted, but he's still the One Different Kid.)

I knew this was coming, yet I posted it anyway. (Takes sip from hip flask.)

Also, "Zach Galligan, playing somewhere between age 11 and 28".

I don't know.  The one where Homer gets molested by a panda is technically a Christmas episode.

I was hoping somebody would show the Venture Bros. Christmas singles some love.  You can hear them here: http://www.asitecalledfred….

(Throws up hands and looks this album up on Amazon.

Yeah, I love "2,000 Miles" as well.

"Little Drummer Bowie" is on my list of Christmas songs I have to shut off, and it is largely because I have unpleasant associations with it:

I keep going back to "Santa Claus" because that movie must have felt like a gift from the bad movie gods to the MST3K cast.  Just when you think it can't get any stranger, it REALLY does.

These things used to genuinely freak me out.  But then it hit me that if anyone had died in the middle of using MySpace, the media would have been AAAAAALL over it.  Cause the Internet is bad and evil, you see.

"The Mouse and his Child" stands with "The Last Unicorn" and "The Snowman" as pieces of animation that will completely alter your entire outlook on the universe if you see them at a young enough age.  Someday I need to do a double-feature of it and "AI".