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Christmas Crunch, from the DVD set to me.


Though I own pretty much everything on it already, I couldn't resist picking up this nifty "Christmas Classics" DVD set, including everything you can read on the box if you squint hard enough. Nah, I'll name them: You get Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty The Snowman, Frosty Returns, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town and The Little Drummer Boy. Lots of reasons for italicizing and drinking cocoa. Special bonuses include a CD full of songs from the aforementioned shows and a bonus DVD movie, Cricket on the Hearth. The set runs for around 25 bucks, and all told, provides an excellent marathon for those unwilling to hedge their bets on network television running the specials this year.

Course, the real reason I bought this thing had very little to do with the included movies. X-E reader Jason Hurst tipped me off on a special rebate pamphlet that came with the set, including one very special rebate page, more than suitable for framing:


Yes, by buying a box of Christmas Crunch, you'll get five bucks off the DVD set. Five bucks is nice, but proof that there will be a new Cap'n Crunch Christmas Crunch for the 2006 season is worth much, much more. The Cap'n refuses to give up his double scategory point value -- he will NOT bow down to the secularizing satans with some watered down "Holiday Crunch" brand, no sir. Cap'n Crunch is not afraid to say "Christmas." Thank you for being you, Cap'n Crunch.

Every year, people write in to tell me that they've found Christmas Crunch. I haven't had such luck in a loooong time, but with this newfound, ironclad proof that it's either out now or will be out soon, I will not rest until I'm eating throat-slicing, red-dyed, tree-shaped pieces of whatever the fuck Cap'n Crunch is made of. Alleluia. Holy shit.

Posted by Matt on 11/15/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 89 comments

HALLELUJAH!!

Chestnuts roasted by lizzy @ 11/15/2006 12:29 AM

Hooray for Christmas Crunch! Hmm, I consider myself something of a collector of Christmas specials (I just ordered the Eureeka’s Castle Christmas special on VHS on Amazon), yet I’ve never seen The Little Drummer Boy or Frosty Returns. I feel strangely ashamed of this :(

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/15/2006 12:46 AM

I’ve already seen this year’s Christmas Crunch at the local Winn-Dixie.

Chestnuts roasted by Luap @ 11/15/2006 12:50 AM

I was just saying to my husband, I NEED get all the Christmas movies on DVD! I have always resorted to watching them on TV, but I can’t rely on that anymore! I can’t even wait to buy this movie set!

Alleluia. Holy shit. Where’s the eggnog? (This is actually the only X-mas movie I have on DVD!)

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 11/15/2006 12:51 AM

Didjoo guys know that the audio book cd version of Stephen King’s “Lisey’s Story” is read by none other than Mare Winningham?

Chestnuts roasted by X @ 11/15/2006 1:19 AM

The search for Christmas Crunch has begun. I’m sad to report that I don’t remember ever having it before. I am now compelled to obtain a box of the perennial goodness.

The Cap’N's expression is priceless. “YOU HAFTA EAT THIS! LOOKS, IT’S SO AWESOME!” I shall oblige Cap’N, I shall oblige.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 11/15/2006 1:24 AM

Click my name to own a piece of history. A Christmas Crunch animation cel!

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 11/15/2006 1:27 AM

Oh mannn that box art is awesome. The cereal looks tasty, too. I hope it’s all berries and there arent normal pieces mixed in.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 11/15/2006 1:37 AM

You know. I never understood the big fuss over happy holidays anyways. I figured it is an easier way to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I like convienience, plus I am lazy. And a lil off topic but I saw that ebaums totally ripped off the slim jeans commercial. I was never a big ebaums hater…untill now. :(

Chestnuts roasted by 9Line @ 11/15/2006 1:38 AM

Hey Eddie, there actually is regular pieces of Cap’n Crunch mixed in. But much like chewing tobbacco and strands of fiberglass , the regular pieces cut up your gums thus allowing the Christmas Goodness ™ to go directly into your bloodstream.

Chestnuts roasted by 9Line @ 11/15/2006 1:41 AM

That last paragraph there is why I love X-E so much…

Chestnuts roasted by Katherine @ 11/15/2006 2:02 AM

Im really glad that the cap’n is not giving in to this holiday edition stuff im getting sick of it all ….what happened to just saying christmas!!! you go cap’n show them how you roll

Chestnuts roasted by JaM @ 11/15/2006 2:26 AM

My sister got me that box set a couple years ago, and mine came with a little Rudolph figure, which my nieces instantly claimed. Nice set though. Beware of the cd though Matt, I’m pretty sure its just crappy “Top 40 Singers” type performances and not the real recordings.

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 11/15/2006 3:15 AM

I’m very tempted to buy that DVD set — I got the Charlie Brown holidays box-set several years ago and love watching them all every year. I’ve always considered that verison of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer the definitive one.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 11/15/2006 3:16 AM

there should be ornament shaped pieces in that box…because the captain has BALLS!

Chestnuts roasted by brian @ 11/15/2006 4:09 AM

Wait a minute. I bought that a year ago and I don’t think mine has Cricket on the Hearth on it! I’ll have to take a closer look…

Chestnuts roasted by M.Fireball @ 11/15/2006 4:28 AM

9Line: Happy holidays doesn’t really bother me, like you said it’s an easy way of including New Years/Thanksgiving/Chanukah/whatever. But when you start hearing crap like “holiday tree” it gets to be a bit much. I don’t care what religion you are, if you bother to put up a tree, you’re putting it up for Christmas. Also, it’s sad to see all this white and blue “winter” crap instead of nice, satisfying red and green.

War on Christmas, bla bla bla [I promised myself I'd steal that phrase when this came up. Hooray!]

Chestnuts roasted by jazzy @ 11/15/2006 8:12 AM

Wow! I actually held that DVD box set in my hands yesterday, and almost bought it…so much Xmas goodness in one box!

I might have to go back for it now…

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 11/15/2006 8:26 AM

While at Target, registering (for our wedding) the other day, I came across said christmas dvd. My fiancee saw me eyeing it up and told me not to even think about it. She said we had bills to pay, or something like that. Stupid bills.

Chestnuts roasted by Geoffinsanity @ 11/15/2006 8:50 AM

Hey Eddie, there actually is regular pieces of Cap’n Crunch mixed in. But much like chewing tobbacco and strands of fiberglass , the regular pieces cut up your gums thus allowing the Christmas Goodness ™ to go directly into your bloodstream.

This is the greatest comment ever. How can I top that?

For one thing, Little Drummer Boy is the only R-B classic that has NOT been restored, probably because of the role of Muslims in the cartoon (How the hell do you have that happen?! Jerusalem is in the f’ing Middle East! *insert insanely long rant that Jesus had more of a Middle-Eastern skintone instead of being white here*)

Frosty Returns…I don’t think I’ve seen that one, but I hear it’s not as good as the original. And Cricket on The Hearth is a Thanksgiving cartoon and ABC Family runs that late at night at the end of the marathon of Xmas toons. It sucks, but that’s just me.

I think Jon Stewart said this but “The war on Christmas seems to come earlier every year.”

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/15/2006 8:58 AM

9Line

Personally, I like saying Happy Christmas. It’s “Old world” sounding (Ok, English…) and the best of both worlds..

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 11/15/2006 9:47 AM

I also think “Happy holidays” is useful and always understood it to mean Christmas and New Year. Don’t “Holiday Tree” me, I’m Jewish and that ain’t no tree for Chanukah. I don’t see any reason to de-Christmas stuff. And if I ever see Chanukah-themed Cap’n Crunch, I’m going to have to bash my head against the trunk of a Holiday Tree.

Chestnuts roasted by Jemfy @ 11/15/2006 10:00 AM

Mmmm, someone got fired from a mall in the US for wishing someone “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays”. i would sue the company for religious intolerance, myself.

That old “Jesus of Nazareth” movie by Franco Zefferelli with this lily-white actor with bright blue eyes always gets me laughing… He was Jewish, for heaven’s sake! In those days, all Jews had a ruddy skin tone and brown eyes and curly dark hair (unlike, say, Michael Rosenbaum). And Jesus has *never* been snooty…

Kingklash sent me something thought provoking last week on this very same topic – click on my name ;)

PS, I fall behind for one week and look at all the catching up to do! Have you slept at all lately, Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by arete @ 11/15/2006 10:01 AM

Man christmas crunch is the tits…iv been getting this cereal since I was a kid….now I’m 28 and I’m going to buy it for my kids! Wow I’m a dork

Chestnuts roasted by mj @ 11/15/2006 10:13 AM

Is it Cricket on the HERth or the HARth? I’m confused as to how to pronounce it…

Chestnuts roasted by Soj @ 11/15/2006 10:26 AM

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