It’s a day too early to say “Merry Christmas,” and saying “Merry Christmas Eve” always felt weird to me. But I wanted to write something since I’m not going to be posting anything tomorrow. Instead, I’m going to spend Christmas day with my family, eating a big meal and doing as little as possible. Of course I’ll be listening to Christmas music, too. But wanna hear about my new favorite holiday tradition? Watching all those old cartoons from my childhood.
You know the ones I’m talking about: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the Boris Karloff-narrated cartoon version, not that terrifyingly creepy Jim Carrey movie), Frosty the Snowman, A Charlie Brown Christmas and about a dozen more. Seriously, I lived for these things as a kid. My mom recorded them all on our VCR for my siblings and I to watch over and over. We spent Christmas morning glued to the T.V. Those cartoons were my favorite thing in the world. They were better than It’s a Wonderful Life, better than Home Alone, better than A Christmas Story and (slightly) better than A Nightmare Before Christmas. They were better than almost anything except presents.
(Sidenote: I actually come from a house where one parent is Catholic and the other is Jewish, but the only Jewish holiday cartoon we watched with the same manic zeal was the still incredible Rugrats Passover episode.)
But we somehow lost the Christmas cartoon tapes. (I think what happened is we threw them out around the time DVDs came out and clunky VHS tapes were suddenly out-of-date.) Not to worry, because now all those classic cartoons are available online. Do some searching on YouTube and you’ll find all your old favorites. They’re even better than you remember. So this holiday season do yourself a favor and pretend you’re still seven years old. Go watch some awesome cartoons.
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