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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!



Discussion Thread: 128 comments

In my opinion Christmas can start in December. I love things Christmas, but I like them to feel special and when I see full out decorations on November 1st I get pissed off b/c I know I’ll be sick of seeing them by the time the season is really near.

Today I saw an apartmant building with decorations everywhere! I feel like it’s still way to early to even talk about Christmas. Us Canadians dont even have a holiday in between Halloween and Christmas, so people feel the need to start even eariler around here. I for one am excited for American Thanksgiving b/c the family and I are going to Atlanta GA! I can’t wait to experience going from cold winter to nice weather! After I get back I’ll start to do the Christmas thing.

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 11/03/2006 12:46 AM

DST sucks!

Chestnuts roasted by Kyjlm @ 11/03/2006 12:53 AM

My roomates kids have been singing Christmas Carols since September. It was annoying at first, but now it’s getting closer to that time of year, and the holiday movies are being advertised, so we can’t really give them a tough time about it anymore. Personally, I welcome the break in the holidays. The next thing on my plate is helping to prepare Thanksgiving dinner for 20 zillion people. Good thing I like to cook!

Chestnuts roasted by MissJess @ 11/03/2006 1:29 AM

i dont care what anyone says or thinks, my tree goes up in the next two weeks and stays up till atleast valentine’s day. granted its a fake tree and is only 3′ tall, but its a tree none the less…all decked out with spongebob and dinosaur ornaments. hell yes.

Chestnuts roasted by brianfax @ 11/03/2006 2:45 AM

364 days till halloween halloween 364 days till halloween silver shamrock

Chestnuts roasted by neo @ 11/03/2006 9:07 AM

I have to admit, I broke down last night. I was going to Target to pick up the Holiday Homemade Gifts magazine from Martha, and I ended up with a cartfull of garland, stars, a miniature tree, and lights. Now, my dining room is decked out. They have a frickin amazing selection so far. There’s these GIANT bell things that I will for sure pick up later for work and home. One of the best things about being the boss at work is that I can write off the obscene amount of money I will spend on decorations.
I, personally have never been one to get sick of the Holidays before they pass. I think it’s because they hold so many good memories. When I can turn off all the lights and stare at the tree at night, it really does make me happy. I guess I’m simple, oh well.
I’ve always been alarmed by people who don’t put up a tree until a week before Christmas, or who shop on Christmas Eve. That just seems like the absolute best time of the year being completely wasted. jazzy, well put

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/03/2006 10:12 AM

I should have been a frickin’ Elf. I would love for it to be Christmas year round. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten sick of listening to Christmas music. Shoot, I was listening to the Jukebox back in August here and there.

And like I earlier, coming here for the past few years has become a tradition for me. I even got a few friends into it. They couldn’t get enough of Mare’s wacky antics…..

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 11/03/2006 11:26 AM

For me, Nov 1 we watch NBC and then the lovely Christmas tornado is allowed to break loose. Already have my tree assembled (stupid cats eat stupid live ones) and going to Target on Saturday to stock up on decorations for it. I LOVE this time of year.

Chestnuts roasted by Chyrie @ 11/03/2006 12:17 PM

k-
FFX?

Chestnuts roasted by kimahri ronso @ 11/03/2006 1:55 PM

Can anyone recommend a good website(s) that has a jukebox with a good variety of Christmas/holiday music?

Chestnuts roasted by Jim @ 11/03/2006 2:06 PM

Yeah i remember cartoon express. It was basically a mash-up of all the hanna barbara cartoons, if you get the channel boomerang its basically what was on there, smurfs, grape ape, wacky races, yogi bear, thundarr, snorks, shirt tales, etc. It was awesome, like 4 hours straight of cartoons sunday morning. Then you could sit around and watch bowling and ski jumping on ABCs Wide World of Sports… “the thrill of victory…and the agony of defeat” where they would show the ski jumper totally bite it at the end…. haha i miss those days … I actually downloaded a bunch of clips of mid-80s bowling on abc saturday afternoons, something very calming about the announcers voice…

Chestnuts roasted by cartoon xpress @ 11/03/2006 2:24 PM

Jim I’m gonna assume your not kidding around. Scroll up this page till you see a jukebox with a Santa hat.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 11/03/2006 2:46 PM

I propose a all-inclusive end of year holiday called HallowThankMas, that starts on October 30 and ends on December 26. The countdown can begin on Easter.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 11/03/2006 3:19 PM

^^^^

3 months of Mare??!

Just thinking about that made me pop 10,000 boners.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 11/03/2006 3:24 PM

GUESS WHAT I GOT! GUESS WHAT I GOT! GUESS WHAT I GOT!

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k239/brianfax/holidaypack.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by brianfax @ 11/03/2006 3:34 PM

Drink the pea!

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/03/2006 3:47 PM

Here’s IGN’s negative review of It’s A Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown DVD.

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/743/743283p1.html

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 11/03/2006 4:05 PM

Shite! I was just at Target and totally forgot to pick up a holday pack. Guess I’ll have to haul last year’s out of the closet for ambiance.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/03/2006 5:11 PM

Wow…just read the ING review of The Great Pumkin. I think that dude should be shot, resesitated and then shot again. How can anyone actually review this classic and then shit all over it? What is this guy….a commi?

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/03/2006 5:20 PM

Last year I put up my tree Nov.11th, which is the day after my birthday- no Xmas until after my b-day is the rule. However, this year I have extra roomates, so I think that this will be a no-go, unless I decorate my bedroom first, and expand into the rest of the apartment in December…

I have always been jealous that the American Thanksgiving is in November. October is already festive with fall and Hallowe’en…I wish we had another holiday before Xmas. Thank God my birthday happens in between! This year is the big one too- 25. So, it is ALMOST a holiday- albeit a sad, depressing one.

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/03/2006 5:59 PM

kb: I was just at Target last night as well and I cannot believe all of the Christmas stuff they have out. I came across the giant bells that you were talking about, those things are huge!

I also love how they have sets of wrapping paper with the matching bows and everything already set up. I always hate when I’m wrapping something and trying to find bows that match. Now I don’t have to.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt(#2?) @ 11/03/2006 6:03 PM

Is there anything more right than sitting in front of x-e on a twilit autumn night?

Bill – I too just read the IGN review. ‘It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is too slow and disjointed to retain its “classic” designation.’ Whatever sir.
Shall we all kill him? Or it? This person is soulless.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/03/2006 6:04 PM

Hey Jessica, I am with you. But I feel that the punishment should fit the crime. I cast a spell that his TV be stuck on CSPAN for eternity. Can’t wait to hear his review.

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/03/2006 6:43 PM

Target was NUTS. I went today before I had to go to work. Mine is usually slow at switching their seasonal section over but 1-2-3 bam its up and its only november 3rd. Luckily they still had craptons of halloween candy leftover at 50% off!!!

I want transformers ornaments for my tree. Both target and wal-mart have prematurely shelved their 20th anniversary edition transformers re-releases. The $70 optimus prime at wal mart made me weep because he was so pretty and his voice was so dead on.

Chestnuts roasted by brianfax @ 11/03/2006 6:44 PM

Bill – genius. Even the local announcement channel is too good for this trespass.

Chestnuts roasted by Jessica Marie @ 11/03/2006 6:55 PM

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