Monday, 24 December 2007

"Don't get stuck with the rutabaga. Not real festive."

One of the downsides to moving is not being able to locate all one's stuff easily. Boxes boxes everywhere!

Every year on Christmas Eve I watch a couple of Christmas specials I remember from my childhood. Unfortunately I have misplaced the video they're on.

Behold the wonder of the Internet. I found the Adventures in Wonderland Christmas special on YouTube! Here's part one, part two and part three. It's campy, kooky fun. (That's what the quote is from if you're wondering. It's a Wonderland tradition to hang vegetables...sounds like a very Natalie tradition to me!)

Alas I couldn't find the Under the Umbrella Tree special, but I did find a fan community on the internet... I can't decide if that's awesome or just sad. Oh well. I can recite it all from memory anyway.

And, by far, the most important thing was to find Claymation Christmas, which is now waiting on top of the one VCR we have left. Whee! Egg nog, cookies, and ice skating hippos...doesn't get much better than that.

Happy Christmas all!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Under the Umbrella Tree!

I will be eternally grateful to you for legitimizing my memories of this wonderful programs as actual memories rather than merely fragments of my overactive childhood imagination.