My dad and I watched a rerun of it while painting the living room.  We both found it enjoyably bizarre, but I'm guessing the circumstances (and fumes) helped.

Oh my God, that implies it was meant to be a promotion for "The Good Son", which makes everything worse.

Oh my God, that implies it was meant to be a promotion for "The Good Son", which makes everything worse.

Well, Hell, who doesn't love "Snow White"?  It's one of those movies that cuts through all cynicism.  That and the gremlins and dwarves have a lot in common (short mythical creatures with an affinity for dark environs and who sing).

Well, Hell, who doesn't love "Snow White"?  It's one of those movies that cuts through all cynicism.  That and the gremlins and dwarves have a lot in common (short mythical creatures with an affinity for dark environs and who sing).

"it is the only movie that gave me nightmares as a child that I don't now hate."

"it is the only movie that gave me nightmares as a child that I don't now hate."

In the bar scene, the gremlins get splattered with beer and nothing happens, so I suppose anything other than straight-up water is okay.

In the bar scene, the gremlins get splattered with beer and nothing happens, so I suppose anything other than straight-up water is okay.

Turkeys get a bum rap because of their domestic cousins, which are stupid and mostly harmless (though not so stupid that they will, as rumored, supposedly drown while looking up at a rain storm - how would that even work, anyway?)  A wild turkey is intelligent enough to send a grown man into a hospital at least, so I…

Turkeys get a bum rap because of their domestic cousins, which are stupid and mostly harmless (though not so stupid that they will, as rumored, supposedly drown while looking up at a rain storm - how would that even work, anyway?)  A wild turkey is intelligent enough to send a grown man into a hospital at least, so I…

Newts.  California Newts win the no-prize for Most Boring Pet.  I built a gorgeous forest floor terrarium for them to enter into the school science fair and what do they do?  They sat at the bottom of their water dish all day and night.  And they stank.  Hell, I don't know if they were even alive when we finally got…

Newts.  California Newts win the no-prize for Most Boring Pet.  I built a gorgeous forest floor terrarium for them to enter into the school science fair and what do they do?  They sat at the bottom of their water dish all day and night.  And they stank.  Hell, I don't know if they were even alive when we finally got…

"Flight of Dragons" is worth hunting down too.  Very very odd movie but it's great stuff.

"Flight of Dragons" is worth hunting down too.  Very very odd movie but it's great stuff.

I kind of like "Christmas in July".  It epitomizes something crucial to the Rankin-Bass films that this article did not mention: they are at once as comfortable and familiar as your favorite sweater *and* bizarre and trippy as f*ck.

I kind of like "Christmas in July".  It epitomizes something crucial to the Rankin-Bass films that this article did not mention: they are at once as comfortable and familiar as your favorite sweater *and* bizarre and trippy as f*ck.

Our aunt rented that for us at Thanksgiving to keep us damn kids out of the kitchen, with the promise that "It's like Fievel!"  (Meaning, "An American Tail.)

Our aunt rented that for us at Thanksgiving to keep us damn kids out of the kitchen, with the promise that "It's like Fievel!"  (Meaning, "An American Tail.)

By coincidence, I finally watched "Batman Returns" for the first time last night.  Man, what a strange viewing experience twenty years after the fact.