# Worst Christmas specials

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 2, 1999, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691 "1999-12-02T23:05:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691/21 "1999-12-04T06:02:00Z")

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If I had thought about it, I would’ve remembered that it predated Jedi. I recalled there were lame furry creatures and assumed they were Ewoks.

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**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691/22 "1999-12-04T02:17:00Z")

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Slightly off-topic. Does anyone remember the SW single that came out: “What Do You Get a Wookie for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)”?

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Mr. K’s Link of the Month:

[The Enchanted World of Rankin-Bass](http://www.rankinbass.com/)

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**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 1999, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691/23 "1999-12-04T17:45:00Z")

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There’s a Raggedy Ann cartoon wherein someone who looks like Wile E Coyote builds a gloopstick machine. The gloopstick is a plastic-like coering for toys so they last forever. My sister stills get mopey about seeing teddy bears and dollies covered in a block of gloopstick and she’s 32.

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John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. That’s my name too.  
Wait, no it isn’t.

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**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 1999, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-christmas-specials/11691/24 "1999-12-05T06:31:00Z")

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Yes, the remake of “Miracle on 34th Street” was pathetic.

But sometime in the early '70s, there was an animated _musical_ version of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Walter Matthau as Scrooge. The animated Scrooge bore a resemblance to Matthau, and I seem to recall other mid-level celebs of the time doing voices for their characters. What made this special so excrementally awful was that they would sing virtually _anything_! SEARED into my memory (and that of my brother, so I know I’m not hallucinating. Not this time) is the scene where Ebeneezer’s nephew comes to the office to invite Scrooge to dinner, and Scrooge responds in song:

“I said no! I said no!  
I said no no no!  
I said it and I mean it  
I said no!”

Putrid! And perhaps the first time I ever enjoyed a TV show purely for its badness.

P.S. I may be the only person on the planet who doesn’t care for “It’s A Wonderful Life,” but I have real problems with stories told in flashback. For the same reason, I can’t follow “Casablanca” or “Citizen Kane.” It’s my issue, and I own it.

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