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Well, Halloween's over, and now begins the losing battle to resist falling into the Christmas trap too early. Sure, I can listen to Wham's "Last Christmas" on my iPod during the bus ride into work, and sure, I can switch to the Jimmy Eat World version because it's less shameful should the speakers blast loud enough for anyone else to hear what I'm listening to, and sure, I'm sitting here in a Santa suit, but NO! We must wait! We must enjoy our holiday break and soak up the small bit of holi-sustenance brought by Thanksgiving, and then we can hit the attic and bring down the lights, reading crumpled comic strips from last year's newspapers as we do. I will say this, though: Playmobil did us a solid and continued on with a 2006 Advent Calendar...and I've got it.

Meantime, I'm looking forward to doing some articles this month that don't necessarily conjunct with any upcoming holidays. I've got a few I was sitting on in September, but then I went and decided that I should start writing about Halloween a month early, and here were are. I'm feeling pretty good. Work's good, I've survived Halloween, and I've got serious vacation time coming up in December. The only thing missing is a little tiara with my name engraved in cursive.


Click here to watch a 90's promo for the Ninja Turtles cartoon. This one was from and for WPIX, the same station that delighted me with Shocktober movie marathons. It's also from an era when Turtledom was dying off, evidenced by its airtime: 7:30 AM. I always hated when WPIX gave my favorite cartoons the 7:30 airtime. It was the death knell. It's when I knew it was time to admit that my obsession was no longer shared by millions.

Anyway, this was a pretty basic promo, albeit one that halfheartedly tried to start a "Do The Turtle" dance craze, and one that tried to rhyme "blue" with "dudes."

Posted by Matt on 11/01/2006. E-mail me!



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It’s the kind of 7:30am slot that is more of an insult than actually trying to get ratings. 1st ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by Dre @ 11/02/2006 12:05 AM

god i miss the ORIGINAL ninja turtles. the new ones are scary and have BLACK SLITS where eyes should be.

Chestnuts roasted by amandaenchanted @ 11/02/2006 12:06 AM

The new show is really, really good when you give it a chance, especially if you’re a fan of toons with continuity. Plus there’s tons of stuff in there meant to WINK WINK at people who watched the original series.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 11/02/2006 12:09 AM

alrite. for you matt, i’ll give it a chance.
As long as i don’t have to wake up for 7:30 am ;)

Chestnuts roasted by amandaenchanted @ 11/02/2006 12:13 AM

I cant wait for the TMNT movie!!

Chestnuts roasted by Agent M @ 11/02/2006 12:22 AM

Matt,

Finally, another TMNT article! Bring in the Kool-Aid.

Chestnuts roasted by Cotter @ 11/02/2006 12:23 AM

He really drew out that ruuuuuuuude duuuude bit. Kind of insulting. Ah well.
Time to decorate for Thanksgiving and watch The Berenstein Bears Meet Big Paw, rude dude.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/02/2006 12:35 AM

You know Halloween is officially over when the first Christmas commercial is aired – Big Lots aired theirs today. As far as I’m concerned, the Christmas season doesn’t start until Matt’s Advent calendar debuts – can’t wait!

Chestnuts roasted by Trish @ 11/02/2006 12:38 AM

I usually start watching Christmas specials and listening to Christmas music early – not as much as in December, but I have so much of both, I can’t fit it all into 25 days anymore! The actual decorating will wait until after Thanksgiving and I’ve cleaned my apartment, however. Thanksgiving is my second favorite holiday after Christmas, so I’ve actually managed to scrounge up some decorations for the meantime.

I’ll bet I remember that commercial. I watched WPIX a lot as a kid. They ran great stuff before and after school (I must have watched every episode of “Charles In Charge” on this channel, both from the original and later casts) and had memorable all-month events like “Shocktober.”

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/02/2006 12:51 AM

I have a rule in my household–Absolutely NO Christmas ANYTHING until after Thanksgiving. The day of or after Thanksgiving, it can all go up…but NOTHING until then…

So it’s pretty hard in today’s world to avoid all the Christmas rubbish before The holy “after Thanksgiving” time stamp, but by God I’m going to try!

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/02/2006 12:55 AM

Jimmy Eat World is no less shameful than Wham! It may be more shameful.

We’ll get to work on the tiara.

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 11/02/2006 12:55 AM

i work at a book store and theyve already started playing christmas music. i wouldnt mind if they played “a charlie brown christams”, but instead its sarah maclachlins christmas 24/7.

looking forward to actuall articles again.

Chestnuts roasted by kevin. @ 11/02/2006 12:56 AM

Matt — I saw the latest LEGO Advent Calendar at my favorite toy store and instantly thought of X-E. You should check it out!

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 11/02/2006 1:53 AM

I like both versions! Wham and Jimmy Eat World…i guess I’m just shameful like that.

Chestnuts roasted by Katella @ 11/02/2006 3:03 AM

hahahah i love how the “ruuude duudddes” lasted 86 years. the voice reminded me of the guy who used to do Mighty Max promos for upn back in the day. such a badass show! :D DDD

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 11/02/2006 4:10 AM

I share your beliefs on when to start celebrating Christmas. Anytime before Thanksgiving is too early, but the day after is officially the beginning of the Holiday season to me, when my family traditionally puts up the Christmas tree/decorations and listening to Christmas music doesn’t give me strange looks. As an aside, to those who don’t want to wait for after Thanksgiving to listen to Christmas music, the digital cable channel “Sounds of the Seasons” is now airing completely uninterrupted Xmas music from now until December 31st. Granted, there are a million and one streaming radio stations online that play Christmas music, but it’s still cool to have.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian @ 11/02/2006 4:10 AM

I was listening to Christmas music before Halloween…
I’ve got an excuse though because I have to memorize like three freaking hours of it on guitar for some gigs coming up. My theory is, enjoy Halloween while it lasts, and then when its over, count down to Turkey Day and Christmas at the same time. Hell, there’s no Thanksgiving music!

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 11/02/2006 4:22 AM

Where is Krang nowadays? Is he going to be in the new film? Has he shown up in the new cartoon yet? Does anyone even care about the best evil brain Dimension X ever produced?!

Chestnuts roasted by Steve @ 11/02/2006 4:45 AM

What’s with the pause symbol? I like non-holiday X-E because it gives me time to ask the important stuff like this.

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 11/02/2006 5:12 AM

When I watched Saturday morning cartoons religiously and a show I liked moved to the 7:00/7:30 timeslot, it might as well have been cancelled. That was way too early for me to enjoy anything.

I don’t see the problem with listening to Christmas music at this time since some of the houses I saw on Tuesday night tried (and mostly failed) to pass off Christmas lights as Halloween decorations. I thought that was the opposite of awesome due to a giant, illuminated, inflatable pumpkin I also came across.

Chestnuts roasted by Dr. Acula @ 11/02/2006 5:43 AM

If I can find a collapsible tiara that’s flatter than 10mm, i can afford to post it all the way to Amelica, which is quite far, even by plane. If not by plane, it’s even farther by bad tempered whale… “Matteo“, right? Heeheeheehee!

To go back to the old thread – it’s bad when you remember cartoons in huge detail that kids today don’t even know existed. Aarghaarghaargh! Gummi Bears? Re-broadcast here five years ago under some Disney overseas promo deal that insisted on more advertising in an hour than the actual programmes. (“That cartoon is really 20 years old!” “No way!”) Ninja turtles? I watched it at my Mom’s friend’s house down the road. Her daughter had just spilt a whole bottle of the sweetest, fruitiest, stinkiest perfume you can imagine, and every time I smell it I think “Ninja Turtles!” The second ever movie, secret of the Ooze, was arguably the best – Vanilla Ice aside.

In sum, I’m twenty-seven and I look seventeen. I’m not complaining, obviously, but I’m getting old, dammit. As are we all. When old Thundercats toys cost more than, say, a DVD writer with complete software package and bells on, you know that life is crazy. Of course, I still *feel* seventeen. I know a lot more about after-sales service, demand and supply functions and The Canterbury Tales, but that’s not really important… And my way of romancing a guy I like is still trying to pull his shoe laces loose when he isn’t looking ::sidles up to kingklash with an innocent expression:: :P

Chestnuts roasted by arete @ 11/02/2006 5:43 AM

I just got reminded of two webcomics that seem approrpriate for today’s post.

A Shortpacked! from September lampooning the “you’re raping my childhood” crowd:
http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20060920.html

And, more prevalent, a recent Count Your Sheep about the scariest place to go on Halloween:
http://www.countyoursheep.com/d/20061031.html

Chestnuts roasted by TB Tabby @ 11/02/2006 6:14 AM

I miss WPIX man… I remember before the movies would start there was like a sweeping kinda view (similar to HBO’s) but it ended at what could be construed as the 11 for the channel or maybe the Twin Towers as thats what they looked like and it was a NY station… great channels… never understood why young sherlock holmes made the shocktober countdown while the awesome “shocker” never did

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. T @ 11/02/2006 10:17 AM

Between TMNT and Transformers, we’re having an 80s cartoon cinema feast next year. I’m sure X-Entertainments hits will go through the roof. Especially that tear jerking, pulitzer quality, article on the death of Optimus Prime.

Chestnuts roasted by mowntandew @ 11/02/2006 10:19 AM

TB Tabby- Loved those comics! :)

Man, I remember when I got the 1st ever episode of TMNT on VHS- the one where the turtles meet April, and Shredder creates Rocksteady and Bebop…anyways, to me the greatest part of that show was the THEME SONG. I remember I put the tape in the VCR and cranked the volume ridiculously high and played the theme song for my friend who was on the phone, screaming “Isn’t it great? This show is so cool!” And it was.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/02/2006 10:23 AM

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