12 Days of Christmas Runners-Up

Christmas is less than two weeks away!

You know for all the Christmas classics, there are way too many holiday specials that don’t get the attention they deserve. So this year for the twelve days leading up to Christmas, I’m going to highlight an overlooked Christmas special each day. The only thing is I’m omitting mere Christmas episodes of TV shows unless they were made apart from the main series, because there are too many of them. As for today, here are my honourable mentions:

“A Garfield Christmas” -The musical numbers aren’t very good but it’s got a decent humble story, a fun cast including Pat Carroll as the most awesome grandma, and everyone’s favourite sarcastic cat.

Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas Carol -Yeah in a lot of places it’s stupid but it captures the Looney Tunes’ personalities right and in a fun take on a classic story.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol -A really wonderful, beautiful telling of the Dickens’ classic that’s a great introduction to the famous story. Alan Young is of course superb as Scrooge McDuck and the song “Oh What a Merry Christmas Day” is perfectly joyous.

“A Chipmunk Christmas” -Like “Mickey’s Christmas Carol”, this one may be a bit too popular to belong on my list proper. Suffice to say a corny morality story is made better by stunning animation and a really endearing heart.

“The Star Wars Holiday Special” -See it! Just see it! It’s batshit insane! Bea Arthur, Art Carney, and a surprisingly unfunny Harvey Korman join Luke, Han, Leia, and way too many Wookies in celebrating “Life Day”. it’s so ridiculous even George Lucas pretends it never happened!

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