Where were all the Christmas Cartoons?

Self ^ | 12/25/01 | Self

[Moleman]

Is it me or were the Christmas cartoons missing this year?
We have cable and have 100+ stations and never saw any of the followling Christmas cartoons:
Frosty the snowman
Santa Claus is coming to town
Rudolph the red nose raindeer
Does anyone know why?
Did they get sent to the land of the misfit christmas movies
Is it politicaly correctness?

[Moleman]

Nobody wants a charlie in the box...

[TLI]

We must all respect kurtural diversty to the point of being bord 2 ters, as told 2 us in skool. It would be kurturaly ofensave to have a wite snoman, a (asumed) wite SanaClase, and a alcolic raindeer (its a desese you kno, and protekted undr ADA ruls) with such a divers popualshon. You should be ahamed to think that way. . . Charly? Do you meen Barney?

[Tennessee_Bob]

We watched them here...can't remember which cable channel they were on..something like ABC Family or something like that. Heck, all I watch with my daughter is Cartoon Network or some of the shows on Nick. That, and Fox News

[The Chief]

It ticks me off also (and I'm Jewish!) that they play most of the Christmas cartoons just after Thanksgiving. They don't even wait for the month of December to play most of them.

You might get LOTS of channels, but chances are they were already played on them... :-(

[Paul Atreides]

Last night UPN replayed the old Fat Albert Christmas special. I grew up watching Fat Albert, and it is just as good today as it was then.

[Paul Atreides]

One that you will be hard pressed to find is Nestor, The Long-Eared Donkey. It shows the Nativity. I have only seen it twice; the first time it was ever shown in the 70s, and a couple of years ago on CBN.

[SamAdams76]

I think the FAMILY CHANNEL had those cartoons on this year. But you have to have cable to get it.

I had some quiet time yesterday afternoon and I thought I'd watch a Christmas movie. I figured, Christmas Eve, every station has got to be showing them, right? "Miracle on 34th Street," "A Christmas Carol," something. Eighty+ channels I subscribe to and not a single Christmas show anywhere except some lame western remake of "A Christmas Carol." It was a little disappointing. Good thing I have DVDs.

[SkyPilot]

In response to why they don't show them anymore:

1. "A Charley Brown Christmas" - this is blasphamy to network executives. Linus actually quotes the gospel of Luke during the episodes most solemn moment to explain the birth of Christ.

2. "The Little Drummer Boy" - to view this, you must Rump ah Pum Pum to an old VHS home copy. The Christian overtones of the boy drummer worshipping the Christ child must have made some networks cringe.

3. "The Homecoming" - this prelude to the Walton's long-running TV series shows a Depression family struggling with the grief of their missing father. I could not quite figure out why this was banned, since they do show African Americans. The problem there must be the black actors are also celebrating the birth of Christ in a church Christmas play and sing Christian carols--again--blasphamy to networks.

I am sure "Wiccans on Ice" would be acceptable though.

[YourAdHere]

CBS ran both of the Frosty specials a few Fridays back. They had the original 1960s version, plus a newer one called "Frosty Returns," in which his voice was done by John Goodman.

[JoeSchem]

Don't worry, millions of families have bought the videos. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that's created a financial incentive for the copyright owners to keep them off the air.

[Red Jones]

maybe all these shows were on somebody's cable channel, but you are not imagining things in that all things christmas are pushed aside compared to the way it was decades ago.

All over America it used to be people would routinely greet eachother with 'merry christmas' decades ago. It was a joyous expression that people willingly shared. Even jewish people and other non-christians were happy about it and shared in this greeting. It was not disrespectful towards non-christians at all to say merry christmas. Today there is a very strong effort to get these habits out of the American people.

Merry Christmas anyway.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Whew...glad someone else saw them as well. Was beginning to wonder if I had imagined it all in some Christmas cookie induced fever.

Cartoon Network is showing quite a few of them today (as they did yesterday). Johnny Bravo's Christmas Special is coming on now, they just finished showing The Grinch.

[Some hope remaining.]

I had some quiet time yesterday afternoon and I thought I'd watch a Christmas movie. I figured, Christmas Eve, every station has got to be showing them, right? "Miracle on 34th Street," "A Christmas Carol," something. Eighty+ channels I subscribe to and not a single Christmas show anywhere except some lame western remake of "A Christmas Carol."

We saw several yesterday. Of course there was "A Christmas Story" which they play all too often but is still fun (you'll shoot your eye out!). A couple versions of "A Christmas Carol" were also on. And throughout the whole day they had Christmas cartoons (Rudolph, Jack Frost, Drummer Boy, etc.) on ABC Family Channel. Then last night my favorite of all -- "It's a Wonderful Life" -- was on network televesion (NBC?).

[Fiddlstix]

I've noticed it too
Very few Christmas programs this season

[Cacique]

Bump for another Christmas Thread

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And a Very Happy New Year!!

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Cacique's 8th Annual Christmas page

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[exmoor]

Where were all the Christmas Cartoons?..still being edited in the North Pole..We had to add more scum for our children.

[Cacique]

It's the nauseating control of the media by the left. Their attempt to wipe out religion and tradition is begining to culminate. Their salami tactics seem to be bearing fruition. Time to counterattack, buy out all the media companies and fire every commie working for them.

[justlurking]

I celebrated political incorrectness and watched Blazing Saddles last night.

It's as funny as any cartoon I've ever seen. Does that count for anything?

[lowbridge]

We have cable and have 100+ stations and never saw any of the followling Christmas cartoons:

Get a DVD player and/or a VCR, and you can watch all the snowmen, reindeer, Scrooges, and Santa Claus whenever you want to your hearts content. :-)

Teach your cable company a lesson by letting them know how much they are pushing you away.