Wait. What happened to springtime up north...?
My boss, or one of them, practically forced me to watch this tonight - either 3½ months too late for Christmas or 8½ months too early - since I mentioned I had never seen it. In my defense, it aired 8 months after I was born, sooo *maybe* I did see it?
It was cute enough. Had some decent songs and animation for the time. I especially loved the Two "Too-Much" Brothers and their songs. My only issues were from the length which led to a convoluted story and plot holes.
Perhaps they tried to add more and more to make this a full hour special when it really needed to be a short, sweet and tight half-hour classic. Instead, too many directions were added, somethings didn't add up and entire ideas abandoned, such as Heat Miser's commitment for the North Pole.
Santa wants a holiday, and either pretends to be sick or got it in his mind he really is. When others try and "save" Christmas from a newly apathetic Claus, things go south from the North Pole and Santa's gotta clean up the mess. Yada Yada, it snows where it shouldn't, a few calls were made, a reverse Christmas and all is well, again.
Despite being (almost) 44 years old, it still entertained me and made me laugh at some of the jokes. Probably best seen through the eyes of kids in the mid-70s, but it worked for me today.
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Final thoughts: At least she didn't recommend The Star Wars Holiday Special from few years after this. I might have put my two weeks in right then and there. Just kidding. I would've just walked out.
My boss, or one of them, practically forced me to watch this tonight - either 3½ months too late for Christmas or 8½ months too early - since I mentioned I had never seen it. In my defense, it aired 8 months after I was born, sooo *maybe* I did see it?
It was cute enough. Had some decent songs and animation for the time. I especially loved the Two "Too-Much" Brothers and their songs. My only issues were from the length which led to a convoluted story and plot holes.
Perhaps they tried to add more and more to make this a full hour special when it really needed to be a short, sweet and tight half-hour classic. Instead, too many directions were added, somethings didn't add up and entire ideas abandoned, such as Heat Miser's commitment for the North Pole.
Santa wants a holiday, and either pretends to be sick or got it in his mind he really is. When others try and "save" Christmas from a newly apathetic Claus, things go south from the North Pole and Santa's gotta clean up the mess. Yada Yada, it snows where it shouldn't, a few calls were made, a reverse Christmas and all is well, again.
Despite being (almost) 44 years old, it still entertained me and made me laugh at some of the jokes. Probably best seen through the eyes of kids in the mid-70s, but it worked for me today.
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Final thoughts: At least she didn't recommend The Star Wars Holiday Special from few years after this. I might have put my two weeks in right then and there. Just kidding. I would've just walked out.