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Posted by gardenergirl on December 1, 2004, at 19:12:07
Yeah! Rudolph, my favorite Christmas show, is on RIGHT NOW! 8:00 pm ET on CBS!
Yea yea yea!
I love the misfit toys!
gg
Posted by gardenergirl on December 1, 2004, at 19:29:10
In reply to Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!!, posted by gardenergirl on December 1, 2004, at 19:12:07
See! Any 'ol reindeer can fly. Somebody stop me...
gg
Posted by Atticus on December 1, 2004, at 20:08:03
In reply to Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!!, posted by gardenergirl on December 1, 2004, at 19:12:07
OK, my friends and I were just discussing Herbie and how very different he looks from the other elves. Herbie really looks half elf/half human. Eyes with pupils instead of a single black dot for each. A wavy head of hair. And a disdain for traditional elf ways. We came to the conclusion that Herbie is the illegitimate son of Santa and one of those little blond elfettes. Holy Monica Lewinsky! No wonder the jolly old elf is always going, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" Gotta love Yukon Cornelius, though. ;) Atticus
Posted by gardenergirl on December 1, 2004, at 21:59:37
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » gardenergirl, posted by Atticus on December 1, 2004, at 20:08:03
Posted by verne on December 1, 2004, at 23:32:01
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » gardenergirl, posted by Atticus on December 1, 2004, at 20:08:03
I wonder whether the choice of the name "Cornelius" was an accident? And isn't Herbie, really Herbert, the guy in the Lolita movie?
I never could stomach that dental/yeti/misfit christmas movie. The first time I saw it (i think i was still a kid) it flew in the face of what I knew about Christmas. I thought the same thing when I saw the first Peanut's Christmas TV show. At first you're charmed but you will feel awful later.
Give me Alistar Sim in the "Christmas Carol" - loosely based on Dicken's book. But this 1951 classic is full of spirit not found in the book. It really outdoes the book.
verne
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 21:36:27
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!!, posted by verne on December 1, 2004, at 23:32:01
You know I didn't like cartoon christmas specials even as a child, or Disney movies. My parents would ask me if I liked it afterward and I'd say "no" of course they would say "oh yes you did" Even when I was really little I thought the characters were all wrong.
I'd always imagined them in old European style not loud bright and mouthy. Then there's my family-famous line from when I got taken to 101 dalmations at age 6, My parents asked why I didn't like it and I said "Why would I like dalmations any more than I like anything else?.." No wonder I was considered a difficult child.Anyway, back on Topic, I love Alistair Sim in "A Christmas Carol" it's the only version I'll watch, and I make sure I watch it every year. There was an animated special called "A cosmic Christmas" that I used to really like too, but it's not on anymore, and "The little Match Girl" that had Pete Townsend in it, it was my other favorite but I don't see that on anymore either.
Posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:10:16
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » verne, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 21:36:27
I have to admit I liked "A Charlie Brown Christmas" even as a little kid in the '70s, but I didn't really get it. It wasn't until I was older, in the '80s, that I came to understand and appreciate its satirical swipe at the commercialization and mindless consumerism that has consumed the holiday season. I always think of the section where Linus raps on a hollow metallic hot pink X-mas tree in a tree lot, listens to the cold, discordant echo, and comments, "This one really rings in the Christmas spirit." I've read that both the sponsors and CBS were apoplectic when they saw the final product, tried to block its broadcast, but were finally cajoled into doing it by Schulz and his producer. It went on to win the first Peabody Award for a TV animated special (a Peabody is the true Oscar of television -- much more prestigious than an Emmy). They actually had to create a new category to accommodate it. I imagine the special was much more piquant and striking when it came out in 1965, but that was five years before I was born, so I'll never know. But really -- how could you not like Boris Karloff's marvelous narration of the original animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"? Again, a special that's a rip at toys as being the focal point of the holiday. The Jim Carrey version? Ecch! Atticus
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:16:03
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Gabbix2, posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:10:16
Oh I love the Grinch, I do! You're absolutely right, how could I not? (psst) I even get misty eyed when the hoos or is it whoos sing "Wa hoo for ay" I don't think I've seen the Charlie Brown Christmas, believe it or not, but I had a similar adult revelation with Winnie the Pooh, who I didn't care about at all until I was in my 20's.
Posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:23:21
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Atticus, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:16:03
OK, since we're in confessional mode here, I have to admit that my eyes still get moist when "the Grinch's heart grew THREE sizes that day" on top of that mountain. It's virtually a Pavlovian response at this point in my life. Ta. ;) Atticus
Posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:29:24
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Atticus, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:16:03
Oh, almost forgot. I too had a delayed appreciation of A.A. Milne's Pooh books, whose wonderfully phrased prose flew right over my head as a kid. I've seen the real original Winnie the Pooh stuffed bear once owned by young Christopher Milne (along with the other stuffed residents of the Hundred Acre Woods). They're on permanent display in a glass case in the children's section of the New York Public Library's main branch in Manhattan. They look exactly like Ernest Shepherd's illustrations. Atticus
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:40:27
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Gabbix2, posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:29:24
I think my favorite was Eeyore's birthday.
Piglet and the balloon when the balloon burst he thought the whole world had blown up, and then he thought no, maybe just a part of it had, and then maybe, perhaps he had blown up and landed in the moon or something, and well, he thought "even if I am in the moon I needn't be laying face down in it all the time"Well of course I could actually look through the book and probably find one hundred favorite parts.
I'm glad the original illustrations look like the book. I was dissapointed in some of the new ones when disney got a hold of them I think Disney is demon spawn. There was a Winnie the Pooh book by them called "Paw and Order" ugh
Well I suppose I shouldn't get on a soap box about Winnie-the Pooh of all things.
It was very nice talking to you, thank you.
Gx2
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:42:54
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Atticus, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:40:27
You have to respect a man who can spell tuesday, even if he can't spell it right :)
WTP
Posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:50:08
In reply to P.S Atticus Words to live by, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 22:42:54
One of my favorites: "I am a bear of very little brain, and thinking too much makes my head hurt." - WTP. I actually wrote that on the bottom of a test I bombed in college. ;) Atticus
Posted by gardenergirl on December 2, 2004, at 23:35:46
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Gabbix2, posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:23:21
I love that part of the Grinch, too! It's another one of my favorites. I love all the insults in the song..."you're a sauerkraut sandwish...(I forget the rest). And of course the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I love when Linus talks about the meaning of Christmas. These all just bring back so many happy memories. I never miss Rudolph. If I miss the broadcast then I borrow my next door neighbor's tape of it.
My husband got me hooked on "The Christmas Story" with Peter Billingsley. I never knew that movie til our first Christmas together. Now when TNT does that 24 hour marathon of that movie on Christmas Eve/day, we just leave that on the TV so we can pick it up at any point.
You can actually buy that leg lamp ("It's a major award!") from the Signals catalog. What a hoot!
gg
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 23:57:05
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Atticus, posted by gardenergirl on December 2, 2004, at 23:35:46
> I love that part of the Grinch, too! It's another one of my favorites. I love all the insults in the song..."you're a sauerkraut sandwish You're an overripe bananna with a greasy black peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel!
> My husband got me hooked on "The Christmas Story" with Peter Billingsley. I never knew that movie til our first Christmas together. Now when TNT does that 24 hour marathon of that movie on Christmas Eve/day, we just leave that on the TV so we can pick it up at any point.
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> You can actually buy that leg lamp ("It's a major award!") from the Signals catalog. What a hoot!I really like that a lot. I loved it when I first saw it, but it became a family tradition about 13 years ago, and I have to say I'm getting a little tired of it. It's so good though. I love the lamp and the schoolyard bully scene, oh and the way the dad swears, can't forget that!
Posted by just plain jane on December 3, 2004, at 8:03:18
In reply to P.P.S: Words to live by » Gabbix2, posted by Atticus on December 2, 2004, at 22:50:08
For decades my best buddy and I have raised the name of ol' Winnie when reflecting on certain persons in our world.
just plain .....(PBC material)..... jane
Posted by Atticus on December 3, 2004, at 8:04:56
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!!, posted by Gabbix2 on December 2, 2004, at 23:57:05
Don't forget the part in "A Christmas Story" where Flick gets his tongue stuck on the flagpole in the schoolyard. I think that's the funniest scene. ;) Atticus
Posted by Gabbix2 on December 3, 2004, at 19:12:48
In reply to Re: Herbie doesn't like to make toys???!!!! » Gabbix2, posted by Atticus on December 3, 2004, at 8:04:56
> Don't forget the part in "A Christmas Story" where Flick gets his tongue stuck on the flagpole in the schoolyard. I think that's the funniest scene. ;) Atticus
oh gosh, I'm not twinning you on purpose here, that's right I think that *is* the funniest scene, especially when you get the view from inside the school room and you see him flapping his arms.
After I saw the movie the first time, every time I thought about it (That particular scene) I'd start laughing almost uncontrollably, which is fine, unless you know, you're by yourself on a bus, or taking a walk, in the middle of class...
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