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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

Christmas Crunch! That’s the sign that the Christmas season is on, especially since WPIX is now the CW and no longer in the habit of showing ridiculously awesome Christmas junk for two months. (Anyone else miss the Yule Log?) So I think tonight is going to be the night I load all my Christmas music into the iPod and go nuts. Thanks as always, X-E, for reminding me of the little things that make me love this season.

Chestnuts roasted by Declan Dempsey @ 11/15/2006 4:27 PM

I tried to find that CD a couple years ago and eventually found it on Usenet. The group that did it was called The Royal Guardsmen. They have their CD’s @ Amazon but not the one totally devoted to Christmas, however. Snoopy’s Christmas is available but there is indeed an entire album devoted to Christmas music. Your best bet, try newsgroups or torrent sites as I don’t believe the Christmas Album is in print anymore.

Chestnuts roasted by freudguy @ 11/15/2006 4:38 PM

Freudguy,

I have tried resoaking the bowl in the past, only to stain the white bowl the same color as the pebble in that spot. These things are really amazing. I kind of have wierd eating habits with all my cereal though. With Lucky charms I save all the marshmallows for last, avoiding getting even one on any previous spoonful. With cheerios I swear one of these days I will be able to dunk one of them and not have it rise back to floating immediately. With any chocolate cereal I tend to tip the spoon so that the milk goes back into the bowl… making it a chocolatey as possible. I enjoy the time I spend eating cereal. I could eat cereal all day really. Except for Wheaties, which exemplify what I think eating a bowl full of wet paper bag scraps would be like.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 11/15/2006 5:01 PM

Declan Dempsey, yes WPIX did stop showing the Yule Log for a few years, but about 3 years ago, they brought it back!

I is missing my second favorite Rankin/Bass production which is The Year With Santa Claus. A favorite because it features the Miser brother who control the weather in the northern and southern U.S. There is a live action version being released this year with Michael McKean playing the Snowmiser and Harvey Firestein playing the Heatmiser. How perfect

What?! Makes sense with those 2, though. To be fair, the Miser Brothers were the only reason that anyone remembers “A Year Without A Santa Claus” they only appear for about a max of 12 minutes out of the hour, and if you cut them out, the special is incredibly boring and had one of the worst plots in any R-B special I’ve seen. (Santa decides to actually cancel christmas, his elves get arrested, and he changes his mind only when a single little girl writes him a letter).

Without them, the special would be on the same forgotten level as “The First Christmas,” “Nestor The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey” (which is on the Year without A Santa Claus dvd), “The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus” and even “Cricket of The Hearth” Do any of these besides the last one ring a bell? I didn’t think so.

And I say “Merry Christmas,” no matter who you are.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 11/15/2006 5:02 PM

kingklash

See, that’s what I’m talking about!!

In the immortal words of Samuel Jackson (if he were ever to make a Christmas movie)

“Merry Christmas Muthafu***s!!!!”

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Galvatron @ 11/15/2006 5:19 PM

This reminds me of Mr. Garrison’s song Merry F***ing Christmas. If you haven’t seen the OG South Park Christmas special, by all means, seek it out on YouTube and buy the album. It’s the ONLY all-Christmas album I can remotely stand.

My favorite holiday special (and I say holiday not because I don’t want to say Christmas, but because it spans 2 holidays) is Rudolph’s Shiny New Year.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 11/15/2006 5:37 PM

“Look at the bells, look at the bells, holy crap here comes Jesus, and he doesn’t look too happy…”

Planning the annual gingerbread house construction with the girlfriend this weekend. I suggested we branch out to other things than just houses. Had a volitile reaction from the girlfriend when I wanted to stray from tradition but who could resist a Christmas cruise ship or a ginger Death Star? Am alone on this one?

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 11/15/2006 6:26 PM

i work at a military px in texas-san antonio- and i put them on the selves just this morning, so i’m think stores will be putting them out about now, just before thanksgiving.

Chestnuts roasted by neo @ 11/15/2006 7:12 PM

oh…its a very beautiful, colorful looking box.

Chestnuts roasted by neo @ 11/15/2006 7:13 PM

So regrettable. I the former times of crunch and taste what of Internet in order to do use my declaration because of me. I improve, but the fact that is tried that is long distance. The operation I the Captain, desiring the fact that AM long it shatters, to that and becoming skillful is liked. La of the pulverization of Viva.

Chestnuts roasted by Jin Yan @ 11/15/2006 7:22 PM

Someone is using a really shoddy translating tool… and I love it.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 11/15/2006 7:35 PM

Man, what great movies.
It’s nice to see these articles. I can’t help but feel good thinking the Christmas season.

Chestnuts roasted by Rabi @ 11/15/2006 7:56 PM

Hello everyone,

I apologize for not having posted in a while. Christmas Crunch brings back memories for me: I remember eating it as a kid, roughly a decade ago. I remember distinctly that it came with a plastic tube full of frosting that you would put on the cereal. The frosting might well have been specific to that year. I can’t quite seem to remember what the frosting tasted like, although I’m fairly sure I enjoyed it, because I finished off the tube one way or another. If any of my fellow bloggers remembers the frosting, please feel free to share your memories.

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 11/15/2006 7:58 PM

“La of the pulverization of Viva.”

Now this is something that has to worked into a convo!

Chestnuts roasted by IHAQ @ 11/15/2006 8:01 PM

Aww man, doesn’t anyone see there’s no War on Christmas? Companies make holiday products so they’ll appeal to more consumers. It’s all about the money. I sell cards, and this year I made a nice red Christmassy design and a blue wintery one because I want to catch all potential customers, because I LIKE MONEY.

I think OJ had to write the book because he literally got away with murder and it’s eating him up that he can’t brag about it. I hope someone murders him and writes a book about *that*.

Dammit, I come to X-E to squash down my pent-up rage. Quick, someone mention something nostalgic from my childhood that I almost forgot about. Go!

Chestnuts roasted by Welsh Rabbit @ 11/15/2006 8:11 PM

What about Popples? Those are nostalgic, awesome, and almost completely forgotten.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 11/15/2006 8:48 PM

I feel cheated because I bought that set last year and it did not have that bonus DVD. :(

I got my box of CHRISTMAS CRUNCH right here. Come on over. However, the Cap’n INSISTS on charging you for the milk.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 11/15/2006 9:31 PM

So, not to get off topic…anyone camping for a ps3? The thing aint that great I played it. Im getting a Wii sunday though…pre orders rule!

Chestnuts roasted by mandy_Reeves @ 11/15/2006 9:58 PM

Emmitt just beat Slater. Back to Animal Planet I guess. hehe.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 11/15/2006 10:02 PM

I don’t have to camp. Brother #1 is getting the PS3 and brother #2 is getting the Wii. I was just fired from my job today, so I’ll be getting to play both systems all day without having to pay a dime. :)

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 11/15/2006 10:02 PM

How DARE you. You know good and well that cognitive dissonance will kick in and tell us that PS3 is great even if it sucks.

I already saw Wiicessories in Target. Blasphemy.

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 11/15/2006 10:04 PM

Even though it was purchsed by a now-ex-girlfriends Mom for me for Christmas (best sentence ever) I have the California Rasins Christmas Claymation special on DVD. Sure I like Frosty, Rudolph, and Mickey’s Christmas Carol, but nothing tops having a fad of the 80′s singing Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. I’d totally make some cocoa and watch it now, if I weren’t trying to restrain myself.
And speaking of Rudolph, I used to get mad whenever other carols\stories did not mention him. Obviously I did not understand liscensing then, but it really did upset me to see that he was yet again not included. Sheesh, I mean all the guy did was save Christmas.

Chestnuts roasted by 9Line @ 11/15/2006 10:10 PM

Matt,

I wonder if any of your wise readers knows where the song, “Little Green Eyes” came from? The song was in a movie made by the same creators of the stop-motion movies listed in Matt’s post. I have been looking all over for that movie! If anyone knows, it will be much appreciated! Thanks.

Chestnuts roasted by Misty 23yrs @ 11/15/2006 10:15 PM

I saw Christmas Crunch at the supermarket on Sunday and didn’t buy it (I have absolutely no recollection why I’d pass it up)…Anyway, Monday morning I wake up and am overcome with the overwhelming feeling that if I don’t have Christmas Crunch right then, I wouldn’t be able to function. So, I run back to the store (at about 6:30 AM), pick up the Crunch, and proceed to eat about 3/4 of the box for breakfast. That night, my wife (who had made fun of my morning run) eats the rest of the box as a “snack” – then apologizes for finishing it. She then withdrew her apology when she realized that we had another box of Christmas Crunch in the pantry. Then I informed her that it was a box I bought 2 years ago and kept unopened, in case it was the last year they ever made it. I can probably get rid of that box now.

BTW, Christmas Eve on Sesame Street is the greatest Christmas special ever (among children’s specials) and I already have my 1-year-old son watching it daily until Christmas.

Chestnuts roasted by Dom from Philly @ 11/15/2006 10:35 PM

They’ve been selling Christmas Crunch at the grocery store where I work since before Halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 11/15/2006 10:40 PM

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