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12/08/2006: Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tree is for sale!

A Charlie Brown Christmas is and will forever be my favorite of the so-called “Christmas specials.” I could list a hundred personally-speaking psychoanalytical reasons why that is, but I wouldn’t want them to take away from the real reason: It’s just a great cartoon, based on strips from some of Schultz’s best years.

Peanuts was at its best when it made us both understand why everyone always shat on Charlie Brown, but hate them for it all the same. Perhaps the shining example of this was Chuck’s Christmas tree. After buying a woeful, tiny, sad sack of a tree for his friends’ Christmas play in the spirit of genuineness and in spite of commercialization, Charlie Brown catches so much flack from the gang that we were forced to ask, “Why?” We didn’t really need Linus to tell us that it wasn’t a bad tree. We knew that already. It was cute. It was the sick puppy at the pound that probably wasn’t the safest adoption candidate, but obviously the most heartfelt. I can tell I feel strongly about this because I’ve never used the word “heartfelt” in my entire life until just now. I’m still not totally sure it’s even a real word.

When Charlie Brown’s friends finally came around, they dolled up his tree to a barely recognizable degree. It looked nice — great, actually — but I still preferred the original look, simply because it was easy to replicate just by snapping a few loose branches off the trees in my family’s backyard and stealing a red ball ornament from our “real” Christmas tree. While I don’t feel that a person has truly lived until they’ve recreated Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree using household and backyard items, a semi-new item from Urban Outfitters gives you the next best thing: Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree…artificial style.

Sorry for the grainy pic, but the not-grainy pics weren’t as sincere. The kit includes about what you’d expect — the main “tree” component with flexy branches, a couple of wood planks and a single red glass ball ornament. These paltry ingredients conspire to make your coffee table a remarkable point of conversational interest, but even if you don’t have any friends, it’s pretty goshshit awesome to have Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree in your living room.

I’m ashamed to admit that I didn’t spend the extra three minutes necessary to pose the branches exactly how they should be posed; just know that if you buy this kit, you can. Further proof of my rushing-to-write-this is evidenced with the still-visible “MADE IN CHINA” sticker on the bottom plank. Considering why Charlie Brown bought the tree in the first place, there’s something terribly ironic about all this.

You can grab this baby for $24 at Urban Outfitters, which is kind of a lot of money considering the simplicity, but not so much when we remember that it’s all packaged in a very nice box with a picture of Charlie Brown frowning on it.

That’s pretty cool, but I have to call you out on something. Is that a doily tablecloth? I didn’t think they sold those things to people under 70.

I went to the Charles Schultz museum a couple years ago during December, and they had a similar tree set up in the entry lobby. It was pretty snazzy. The whole museum was cool, too.

By the way, I got my very own Advent Calendar in the mail today! My dad put it together for me so it wouldn’t ruin the surprise and all he could say was, “This is so much fun! They’re made in Germany! Did you know they’re made in Germany?” and then my mom threw in, “Did your cult leader tell you they were made in Germany?”

“The tree is an exact replica of the tree from the famous cartoon, made of wire branches and plastic needles with a criss cross wooden base.”
Good Lord! No, no, no and no.

Call me crazy, but an exact replica should be available completely free- and also an actual tree. When Christmas commercialism reaches this degree, it’s hard to believe anyone involved has actually seen “A Charlie Brown Christmas” after 41 years.

Also, did I ever tell you kids about the time I recreated this scene entirely out of LEGOS? Just click the name and I’ll sell it to you for $23.99.

GloriousKyle: I kept thinking you were quoting me, and was really upset that I used the word “tree” twice so close together.

I’ve never had a problem with commercialized Christmassing; that’s all I ever knew of Christmas.

As it is, I read this study in our stupid little Duluth newspaper about how commercials are ruining children, and they’re trying to put limits on what is advertised during kids shows — like, no more OREO commercials, M&Ms, or McDonald’s unless it’s like, about salads. And they hate toy commercials too.

That tree is a great idea, but I’d rather try to make one myself. Buying the tree, an artificial one at that, kind of contradicts the message of what it symbolizes.

Speaking of Oreos, am I just missing them, or did Nabisco not put out a Christmas Oreo this year? :/

They’re out there, Mystie. Same red filling, which psychosomatically tastes different.

While I do admit that the tree is very appealing, its just too much of a cash grab, and it undermines the special. Its *supposed* to be a real tree. That was sortof the point. gloriouskyle, I couldn’t agree with you more. And seriously nice work on the model. And Matt, you even acknowledged that its “terribly ironic”. I can’t say that I usually have a problem with commercializing christmas, but this almost seems wrong.

You know, I really have to agree with gloriouskyle. I don’t have a problem with the commercialization of Christmas per se - hell, it makes it that much more insane - but A Charlie Brown Christmas is one of those things that is supposed to remind us that at a very basic level there’s more to all of this than what Walmart would have us believe. To market something so central to that just doesn’t feel right…

I still like the little fake tree. I’m highly allergic to pine and douglas fir trees, so (although I’m sure that had nothing to do with the designing of this product) this is something I could have in my house that would double as a decoration I could use year after year and would triple as something my friends and family would probably always remark as “bringing back memories.” (Wow, I hate run-on sentences!)

Either way, I’m a fan. Now if only there was a freakin’ Urban Outfitters in my state!

Glorious Kyle-
That’s such an awesome doghouse. I’ve been admiring that since I first saw it on Brickshelf.

Special K - Your cult says you have to buy one, anyway. You’re going on a road trip, you can’t gain entry into the spaceship without this tree.

I recently got an LCD TV and wanted to try it out — the first thing I put in was It’s Christmas Time Again, Charlie Brown, the infamous sequel. It inspired me to name my firstborn Harold Angel.

It would probaly be mean to buy one of those trees and tell your children, “This is our tree this year, kids”… right? Using the Charlie Brown tree for evil isn’t good, right?

God I hate Urban Outfitters. Ooo, so edgy, this pre-packaged edgy rebelliousness, no?

You can’t just package up the pathos and ethos behind Charlie Brown’s sad little tree and sell it.

And it won’t be that endearingly human sort of “Oh, well, at least you tried.” sort of patheticness and failure - the sort of failure embodied by Charlie Brown, the sort of true failure in each of us - but it will be that crippling, soul-destroying, watching Koyanisquaatsi the Monday morning after dropping E with your fiance and then breaking up, “Dear God! What a senseless, pointless waste!” sort of failure.

Trust me, that kind of failure sucks. I don’t need to hie myself to some crappy mall to some crappy, wannabe-edgy chain store selling $50 T-shirts to buy a box of that kind of failure.

Thats really cool. i wish I would of though of that, not only for the money you’ll be making

but becuase of how cute and neat it is. Its finally about time someone made one.

I’m with locquacious more or less. Charles Schultz used to not be so big a fan of commercialism, now look. Honestly, the tree makes me depressed as does the special. The last bloody symbol of it I would ever expect to be packaged and sold. At an urban outfitters no less. Next thing you know Snoopy shirts’ll be at hot topic. Poor Charlie Brown the tree he bought to not be a commercializin’ fool is not rendered in plastic and fed to the masses. Sorry Charlie, looks like christmas this year is even worse.

Leave it to Urban Outfitters to sell us something we can make ourselves for bazillion percent markup. For people who like to buy their d.i.y. aesthetic.

I posted this on the wrong blog. SPEAKING of soulless commercialism, NBC is going to be airing a live action version of The Year Without a Santa Claus this week, with Harvey Feirstien as Mr. Heatmiser and Michal McKean as Mr. Snowmiser. There’s a clip of it on YouTube right here.

Funny you should say that. I was at Hot Topic last night where there were a few Snoopy shirts for girls. No kidding. But seriously, Schulz made a lot of money from marketing the characters and didn’t see anything wrong with it. I think the tree’s a neat idea â€“ provided you don’t let giant corporations provide you with your definition of Christmas.

I was going to get on of those trees a few weeks ago, but since I am a fiance with a fiancee, all the finances have to go through her and she shot me down. I do need it though.

Everyone I know that has worked at Urban Outfitters has told me they personally witnessed people stealing and never cared to do anything about it, and in some cases just shrugged at the thief. Even for basic retail jobs, that’s pretty apathetic.

I was going to purchase this, but then I saw the other selection of fake, small-bedroom friendly trees at urban. They also have Linus’ blanket, so if you’re interested, pick that up too to wrap around the base of the tree to provide it with some extra love.

Did you know they have a Linus blanket too? Nothing really special about it, except its the softest blanket I have ever felt. Bought one of the trees for my sister this year. Shes the biggest Charlie Brown freak out there. Hope she likes it.

My sister’s ex-husband is a landscaper and owns a Christmas Tree farm, so he used to get me a real one of those every year until he divorced his sorry ass. It was the only nice thing he ever did for me.

Anyway, I do find the irony delicious — but not worth my $24. Yeah, I’m that cheap.

Well, I’ve finally beat you. Snagged that baby about a week ago when I was forced to go Christmas shopping in there. Managed to pick up a grow your own tree and some South Park decorations, too. Looks like you’ve been Bitnered.

I’ve had this for weeks, Cotter, weeks! Cotter we gonna take this outside, Cotter.

You always have to be better than me, don’t you? I try, and I try, but I just can’t keep up. And what do you give me? Bull shit!

Well I’ll tell you a good something! Next time I read your articles/ humorous comics, I will read them with less enthusiasm and fudge brownie ice cream!

Of all the odd stores to start selling the Chuck B. xmas tree…Whats next? I hear Lacoste is selling flying belts from the He-man She-ra christmas special this year.

Mystie mentioned Christmas Oreos up there somewhere. Man, I loves me some Christmas Oreos. Though I’m partial to the White Fudge Covered kind. They’ve really skimped this year though. There’s a marked decrease of Oreo goodness in this year’s box. I’d say down at least 1/3 from last year. But still soooo good.

Awesome that UO misses the whole point of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. It’s what happens when people take something just to make money off of it without caring about the history behind it.

Take a look at what they’re doing with the Transformers live action movie. Yeah, I’m going to say it, Michael Bay and Don “Douchebag” Murphy are raping alot of childhhoods.

In terms of the Christmas Tree, I’m torn. On one hand, people need to make money. We all need to eat and everyone wants a nicd house and nice stuff. On the other, the means seem so wrong sometimes.

Is Urban Outfitters the store with all the GIANT male model posters in the windows that are prettier than some women I’ve seen?

I don’t know. It’s tougher to swallow when you picture them sitting in a store in a sarcastic box than it is when you picture them on someone’s table who only bought it because they liked the show, y’know? I’m not usually bothered by this kind of thing; it’s nice to see the stuff I liked as a kid (and still do) somehow manage to retain its mileage now. Course, that’s speaking in general terms.

On the other hand, indeed companies can fuck up a memory by…well, fucking up a memory. Example: I don’t passionately hate the SW prequels, but the flaws and ties to the original story force me to watch the originals with a less enthusiastic eye, and that sucks.

I tried to make my own Chuck Tree a few years ago but I had trouble with the wood base. I was about to drill the base to anchor the branch but I admitted defeat when I was breaking out power tools.

oh, and our christmas tree got stolen out of our garage this year. Yeah, seriously. WHO STEALS A CHRISTMAS TREE?!?!?

I know what you mean. It’s great to see stuff that we grew up with still around, allowing the newer generations to see what made our childhoods so great. But sometimes companies take it too far and just dilute the magic. I guess I’m more against something like UO selling the tree than I am understanding the need to do it. Somethings should just be left alone. At least, IMO.

Yeah, the Star Wars prequels kind of ruin what the originals setup. You want to like them because, it is Star Wars, but it’s hard.

Speaking of how the hell do 3PO and R2 know about Jesus anyway? Does Jesus even exist in the Star Wars universe? I guess he does since they celebrate Christmas. Isn’t that like a conflict of interest, you know, witht the Force and mitochlorians and stuff?

Actually, if Quia Gon would have said the Force was just a guy named Jesus having fun, I would have felt better. At least it would have made “Christmas in the Stars” song make sense.

Awesome Jukebox BTW. MY favorite has to be “So This is Christmas”. I know, I’m a day behind.. =P to you….

Holy Crap!! Matt has Silver Bells on the Jukebox. The Bing Crosby one. I haven’t heard that in years. We use to have the original record when I was a kid. The sleave was white with just a picture of Bings disembodied head with a Santa hat.

I know he had Melikelikihama or whatever, but I haven’t heard this one in years. I don’t even know the ladies name who sings it with him, but I love her and want her to bear my children, Mare style…!!!

The advent calander is the only thing that stops me from killing everyone I work with, but the idea of having TWO advent calander articles tomorrow, makes my urge to kill slowly dwindle

I completely agree with your discontent for the prequels to the Star Wars saga. I guess that is what happens when you stop making films from the heart and start making films for the 8-12 year old kid toy bracket. Prime examples: Jarr Jarr, the two headed Howard Cosell, that fuck stain kid who played Anakin, every ship looked like a corvett, the horrible sarcasm from those imperial androids, and everything else. I know alot of people disagree with me but it diminished my enthusiasm for the originals and that sucks something fierce. Oh well, Merry Christmas everyone.

Man, Matt. You really spoiled us the last seven days with the early updated to the Calendar, rather than the 1-minute-until midnight updates of years gone by.

Ya, it called “Rocky 6: the Fight with Brain Cancer” After finding out that he has brain cancer (thats why he talks funny) he travels around the country knocking out brain surgeons until one of them agrees to opperate on him. Here’s the kicker - the only time Rocky can get brain surgery is during a rematch with Mr.T. So the only way the doctor can operate is while being strapped to Rocky’s back throughout 90 rounds of boxing. Spoiler: The doctor gets punched in the temple and Rocky loses the match, then he dies. Which opens up Rocky 7: Punch God in the Balls

Holy Jesus. I was eating when I read that and I swear I almost choked on my food!!! Especially the Punch God in the Balls part. That was funny as f**k.

Review the World: I actually absolute love It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown. See ever since childhood I’ve had a tape with the original Charlie Brown Christmas, AND that one, and I never knew one was more “important” than the other until I grew up. The original is definitely more classic and inspires more gooey Christmas feelings, but the sequel is funnier. Especially the Harold Angel part.

IMO, The last scene in Revenge of the Sith, with Obi Wan saying that Anakin was supposed to save the force, not destroy it (or something like that) and the look of pure evil on Anakin’s face as he screams and claws his way to Obi Wan, relentlessly pursuing until the end, and then catches on FIRE, made up for all the corny writing of the prequels. That was one POWERFUL, emotional scene.

But I have to say…Watching the original cuts on DVD, complete with ugly Matte Boxes, grainy picture, etc, blown up by my projector…damn that made me feel like a 10 year old again. :) Being able to watch the original cut again saved Star Wars for me….

I got this tree last week since I couldn’t manage (afford) the bigger ones with all the trappings. In our case, it seemed appropriate.

I think this is a good product. You just cannot analize it to death and enjoy it. Which is also the way I feel about the new Rocky movie. I am very excited to see it, munch on a bucketfull of popcorn and leave the theater, not having to think about it later on.
Hapy friday everybody!

I will give you that one Cameron. He did look pretty pissed but then there was the scene when Vader is on the operating table and has that pathetic “Nooooooooooooo!” line. It was equivalent to Jack Black’s last line in Kong. It was so cheesey I blocked it out and can’t think of what he said.

Oh heartfelt is a word, Matt…and you used it…LOL You’re getting soft in your old age…but thats why we love you

Being as I’m from Philadelphia, I’m obligated to see the new Rocky movie. My sister is dragging me to it by my hair. All I have to say is that Mason Dixon is no Clubber Lange.

Oh, and if anyone starts with their Christ is the reason for the seaon crap, I’m going off on you. Christ is not the reason for the season. It’s a pagan holiday to celebrate the lengthening of days. So enjoy it like a freakin’ pagan and live it up.

I love Rocky (especially Rocky IV), but I am unsure if I want to see Rocky Balboa. I’ll probably Netflix it, unless there is a special guest appearance by Ivan Drago.

I KNEW it! I thought I imagined that the Charlie Brown tree was actually made! And now Linus’s blanket? Infintely awesome.

That review of “Rocky Balboa” is right up there with my Little Brother’s review of “S.O.A.P.” where the crew gets killed, and the Snakes have to land the plane by themselves. Speaking of whom, we like to do the “Loo-loo” version of “Hark! The herald angels sing” complete with the gasping for air between verses.
Loo-loo-loo loo-loo loo-loo-loo,
*wheez*
Loo-loo-loo loo-loo loo loo….

The “I HATE YOU!!!” scene in ROTS almost made up for the corniness of the the other prequels….until the “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO……111!!!!” line. Then it reminded my of how far Lucas has fallen off his rocker.

Oddly enough, I didn’t mind the updates to the originals as much as some people. Watching the original cuts, even un-letterboxed, still made me feel warm and gooey inside….like raw chicken.

Oh, and not to start a religious war here since we normally shy away from such religious/poltiical discussions on ths blog, but for SOME of us were raised, or have to come believe Jesus is the reason, regardless whether it’s a Pagan holiday or not. We just choose not to ram it down people’s throats like some people out there (not people here) do, so perhaps a little more respect is in order.

Even Episode I had its moments (Darth Maul for instance. How badass was he?) but the trouble is, the bad far outweighed the good. The problem with the prequels was that it was crap with intermittent periods of awesomeness, except for ROTS which was awesomeness with intermittent periods of crap.

For all you guys who buy this tree in honor of the Charlie Brown Christmas show….

If you have watched that TV Christmas show then you know that this is a SHAM!! As explained in the Christmas show, Charlie Brown thinks Christmas has been too commercialized and lost it’s true meaning!!

I saw this product last year and it shouted “SELL OUT!!” to me. I am thinking this only came out because Charles Schulz is DEAD! R.I.P. He’ll be turning in his grave if he ever saw his creation selling out like this.

Oh, I remember it now. Jack Black said “No, it was beauty who killed the beast” I hated that! I almost hated Jack Black but then he did the whole shout out to Led Zepplin thing in School of Rock and he was cool again.

AWWWWW!!!!
shall there not be an advent update today??>
know you’re most likely busy as hell matt, but pleeeease put one up!!
its become more of a part of my morning than ever before, coffee cigarettes my medication and the advent callender.
hope to see one master matt.

You do know that that line was the ending of the original movie, right? It was originally going to be said by Fay Wray in the Peter Jackson remake, but she died before they could film it.

JoshC Give him time, man…Like I said…last year, most of the updates that I recall were late at night…

No morning update of Advent Calendar makes the baby Terror Claws cry.

Hope it comes soon…can’t wait to see Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Hat Guy’s Boss!

Does everyone here remember the Jesus doing the Peanuts dance SNL cartoon? That’s my favorite one.

I rather have Christmas commercialized than put up with those “War on Christmas” segments Fox News does. Those are hilarious to me. If there’s one holiday that will NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER go away, it’s Christmas.

Yea, Jack Black saying that line in King Kong was cheesy to me. I’d rather they just have left it out.

Dude. It’s 4pm on a Friday afternoon. If that update goes up before 8 pm I’m grateful. It’s Friday — as in “You’re lucky I showed up for work in something other than flannel pajama bottoms and a hockey jersey” day.

after discovering this blog at 8 this morning i was immediately on the phone with every urban outfitters in the chicagoland area trying to find linus’s blanket ( sold out online and most stores) and the tree. i bought it for my mom for christmas because she’s been collecting charlie brown stuff since before i was born. and to respond to Schwhat’s comment- have you ever heard of camp snoopy? charles schultz obviously didnt worry about selling out when he let a whole theme park( in the biggest mall in the country, no less) use the names and images of all his characters.also proceeds from the blanket go to “project linus”, a non profit organization that makes quilts and blankets for children in hopsital and shelters. charles schultz may be turning in his grave, but at least money is going to a great cause.

sorry if this came off as mean. it’s been a long week and finals are really taking a toll on me!

Christmas has become a congomeration between the pagan celebration and the Christian celebration, so neither side is entirely in the right trying to claim the whole thing for themselves anymore. And the extremists on *both* sides get pretty darned annoying.

I think its kinda sad, the selling of the Charlie Brown Tree…tho I suppose some just don’t have the time to go make their own.

DG - You’re thinking of Bing’s White Christmas album. Its still in print, and you can find it in the many many bins of Christmas CDs that appear this time of year.

All this fighting over the importance of the Charlie Brown tree?!?! What kind of world are we making for Kuse and Mare to bring their child into? Can’t we all hold hands and sing Hark the Herald Angel or some shit?

Ok, who else saw King Kong and expected Jack Black to whip out an acoustic guitar and start rocking out with Kyle by his side at any given moment? “No, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast. Hit it, Kage!”

I always thought the greatest thing about Christmas was that Christmas is the only holiday capable of being draped in gaudy, capitalist insanity and STILL make you feel all warm and cozy and want to go sit by the fire at grandma’s house.

On a completely unrelated (well..not totally unrelated more like…second cousin kind of related) anecdote, they have begun the playing of christmas music at my work (I’m a cook). They have the usual draggy elevator type stuff, but they also play the whole soundtrack to a Charlie Brown Christmas! I’m loving it!

Now..the customers who come by and see my doing my patented Snoopy Dance while preparing their food may not love it so much…

that first MY was supposed to be a ME…damn you eggnog and your noggy goodness!

No I didn’t Cameron but the execution was what killed it.

I should see the original.

;.; I was just out buying Christmas snackies for myself. I wanted to get Winter Oreos and pair them up with mint Oreos to make red and green Oreos. And I also needed Cadbury Christmas eggs and more Christmas Crunch. I managed to get the Oreos and the Cadburys and then made a pit-stop at the gas station and MY FUCKING CAR DIED CUZ OF THE COLD!! Luckily, it was just the battery. ;.; I want my red and green Oreos. And a new Advent calendar update. ;.; And to make sad little emoticons. ;.;

Star Wars: I was disappointed with Phantom Menace, but I did like Attack Of The Clones and loved Revenge Of The Sith. In my opinion, Sith was better than Jedi even. I know it’s sacrilege, but I really hated the Ewoks. Talk about a blantant toy commercial. And I kind of dug the Vader “Nooooooooo!” at the end of Sith. It was kind of cheesy, but I liked that it was like Anakin realized that he’d fucked up and caused the death of Padme and it just ripped his soul apart and really was the final piece that created the Vader we know and love.

Religion vs. Paganism - I was raised going to church, but as soon as I could, I stopped going. But I’m not going to insult anyone’s beliefs. If you want to believe Christmas is all about Jesus, go for it. If you want to believe it’s about worshipping nature or whatever, do it. But, really, isn’t it truly about worshipping the consumer culture and capitalism? I don’t know if Jesus would look too kindly on the whole holiday at this point. But it’s fun.

I’ll go with the Mustafar duel making the prequels. I love Ep. II, but I’m more emo than Knacks, so of course I do. I can’t have anyone challenge me without saying “You will try”

I’ve been warped.

I have to say, that blog post almost made me WEEP!Does the CB special mean alot to me, it was pretty cool and a yuletide favourite, but does it mean a hella lot to me now? You have to believe it.
In other news, I can’t buy that shit because they don’t plan to release it in the UK, I know this because the lass at Urban Outfitters told me so.

Way, way back (before any of you were born, I’ll wager) I couldn’t afford a tree, so I decorated a 3′ high rubber tree plant. Strung it with popcorn and cranberries and stuck anything on it that was small enough to look like an ornament - one thing actually was one of those wind-up walking Woodstock toys…wish I still had him.

The point is….it doesn’t really matter where you get the tree or what you use, does it? And at this point, I’d rather have the UO tree than my gorgeous$300 pre-lit fake one….and that I still can’t decorate because I can’t keep the eff’ing cats out of it.

As a kid, I wasn’t really allowed to watch Christmas specials. My parents were very strict about that. I was nine years old before I ever saw A Charlie Brown Christmas, and even then it was because of my uncle. He wasn’t Jewish, and one year he let me pick out his tree. I went to the lot and picked a small, bare little tree and he laughed about the Charlie Brown tree. When it became obvious that I had no clue what he meant, he made me watch the show. And the show was good.

My tree already looks like a six-foot version of that, with spaces between branches wide enough to hang ornaments the size of Canada, but like Charlie Brown, I love it anyway.

I can’t believe it took THIS long for one of those to come out. I can’t help but love it but I think the price is all wrong.
I watched the RUDOLPH and FROSTY extravaganza tonight on CBS. Is it just me or did they really miss the mark by showing both of 3 of these specials back to back to back?? I mean, I doubt many kids are watching FROSTY RETURNS right now.

Also, I noticed that the commercials weren’t as Christmassy or kid-centered. Another missed opportunity.
On a more positive note, I see that SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN is back on network T.V. this year. I know ABC FAMILY has done more than there share but does anyone know the last time it was on one of the networks?? Early 80’s I’d say.

That makes me feel sad for you. I’m glad you got to see it. You’re right, the show was good and all was perfect with the world.:)

Yeah, my cat would eat that CB tree for breakfast. Followed by any plastic bags containing tree accessories.

Speaking of cats, on “Stuffonmycat.com” some dude proposed to his girlfriend on the site. And she said yes.

I propose to Special K! Baby, will you be my cult life-partner? We can have a Cookiepuss wedding cake and ride off for out honeymoon on the X-E 79.

That tree looks more like a seasonal decoration that pays tribute to the special if anything else. It looks like something clever.

Did I miss it, or was today the first entry to not link Knacks’ Myspace page?

I think the Year W/O A Santa Claus re-make looks cool as hell. There, I admitted it. There is some perverse joy garnered from Harvey, I have to say.

i like the tree, its cute. I’d probably buy it. altho my comments don’t really matter at this late hour when i come home from work. boo holiday mall hours. next thing you know they’ll be selling “christmas shoes” from that song that makes me cry for the low price of $65.99 complete with tear stains or some shit. rock on Matt.

Mystie *weeps with joy* Of course I’ll marry you! I’m sooooo haaaaaappppppyyyyyy!!

On a more positive note, I see that SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN is back on network T.V. this year. I know ABC FAMILY has done more than there share but does anyone know the last time it was on one of the networks?? Early 80’s I’d say.

In scarier news: ABC also has the Grinch special now. It was previously shown by the WB, but I guess the CW doesn’t want it. WB showed it nearly uncut, and from the way ABC keeps butchering A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, I got a bad feeling about this.

Charles Shultz is probably rolling over in his grave. While he was alive he understood commercialism but didn’t revel in it like The Peanuts is today. (Hey, an artist doesn’t always have to starve.) Don’t get me wrong… just angry that someone else is capitalizing on a legacy they didn’t build and grossly distorting the original intent.

The tree is “cute” but to even think about buying one strikes me as wrong, wrong, WRONG.

Just like Sam Walton: I’m sure he is also rolling over in his grave to find out his stores originally built on the philosophy of providing commerce to small town Americans with products made in the USA now has nearly everything made in China.

Before anybody says anything, I just noticed my incorrect use of “their” in my last post. I was sleepy and it won’t happen again.

I just watched a Christmas movie with Kathy Ireland from like a decade or two ago. Man, she used to be SOOOOO hot. I had every swimsuit mag that she graced the pages of. Something about those green eyes. I have had a thing for green eyes ever since Big Trouble in Little China (one of my favs)

I KNEW Matt would get this tree! A few weeks ago, someone provided a link to the Urban Outfitters website about this tree, and the blanket and I KNEW it would be a future blog entry. Man, I am tempted to get one myself- I look at it as a ‘collector’s item’ from a classic Xmas special- although an overpriced one. Maybe it is a little bit overboard on the commercialism because its the actual TREE, but really if ornaments, plates, statuettes, etc already exist of this special, then the tree WAS the next logical step…

Star Wars: Hated Episode I, WANTED to like ep II but couldn’t respect it due to the schmaltz, LOVED Ep III and felt ‘he finally got one right’. Well- almost. That “NOOOO” part made most people in the theater laugh, and made me hang my head and groan.

By the power vested in me by the Cult of X-E, the Power of GreySkull, the Children’s Television Workshop, that thing under the fridge that keeps telling me to do things, the Lair of the White Worm, the Chubb Group, Dolly Madison, and in the presence of Primus and Unicron, I now pronounce all of us married to each other. In the words of the great philosopher Al Czervik, “Let’s all go take a shower!”

I can’t wait for Monday now!! I don’t think I ever saw the entirety of Year W/O A Santa Claus as a kid, but I will say this, I am so getting the DVD this weekend. Now I’m actually glad it’s on the same one as my fav, Rudolph’s Shiny New Year.

And before you ask, yes I have been watching Heatmiser’s and Snowmiser’s songs all night long on Youtube. There’s just such a Neo/Smith, Cloud/Sephiroth, Sora/Riku vibe to ‘em. And you know I love that more than anything in this world.

“go to the head of the class” is free on demand in nashville. just a HEADS up!

Yesss! Today’s advent calendar: Awesome! Love the sneak preview of the boss.

To quote Target’s Christmas commercial: The crazy little things that you do are magical. Man I love the Calendar.

ah, crap.
The Boss has a wand.
I smell a Magic War around the corner.
So scary, the V of Doom is trying to escape!

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