Bad, terrible and downright lousy Christmas Specials...

[Drtooth]

Let's face it, for every Rudolph and Charlie Brown Christmas, there are about a hundred unmemorable or even unwatchable specials. I wanna hear some BAD ones.

Now, we ALL know the Star Wars one, so mentioning that one would be redundant. This is strictly a fact finding mission.

Lemme start the ball rolling...

We Wish you a Turtle Christmas

Trust me, I spared you from posting the entire thing... if you're hearty enough, I think it's linked on the sides of that one in related... but trust me... if you don't get enjoyment of seeing childhood favorites debase themselves in a weak attempt to get money, don't ever watch it... not even on a bet. I tried, but I couldn't even get through the whole thing.

Here are some lowlights...

After singing a bunch of terrible public domain Christmas music with annoying generic 1980's Turtle references forced in (obviously Pizzas and Cowabungas), Raph figures out NONE of the Turtles got Splinter a gift, causing them to go shopping last minute.

Mikey turns into "That Opera Guy" after looking at a decorated tree and sings a terrible song about it to the tune of "Little Town of Bethlehem"

So the Turtles get to their destination, a purple bed sheet hanging on a wall with Christmas tree lights stapled to it, presumably representing a store... and these are the gift options..

THEIR Archie published comics

Sneakers

A Skateboard

6 Yellow Yo-Yos (though Raph is CLEARLY only holding 5)

and finally, their pick a plastic pizza in a wood frame that OH so just happens to be there.

They sing MORE stupid songs they think 10 year olds will like

Uh


And then Splinter starts singing a version of 12 Days of Christmas they thing 10 year olds will like (everything's either pizzas or skateboards)...

and I stopped watching after that.

 

[Boober_Gorg]

Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree.

 

[beau]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.


Yet, Cartoon Network just HAS TO AIR IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR...

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Let's see. Bad Christmas specials...bad Christmas specials...

How about that Miser Brothers' Christmas that ABC Family came out with last year. It was a rather pitiful attempt to recapture the magic of Rankin/Bass. It was just loaded with schmaltz.

 

[lotusoftheleaf]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.


Yet, Cartoon Network just HAS TO AIR IT EVERY SINGLE YEAR...

That just happens to be on TV right now. My brother quickly changed the channel.

I don't experience bad specials often since every year I watch the same old VHS tape with all the specials I watched during the 90's. The tape's not long for this world, I'm afraid, and half of these specials I don't think get aired anymore.

And funny that the TMNT Christmas nightmare got mentioned. I didn't even know of its existence until the other night when I watched an Angry Video Game Nerd review of it.

 

[Frogpuppeteer]

come on we wish you a turtle christmas is a classic..i own it on vhs...hey i even went to Coming out of our shells tour as a kid

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Ha-ha, I discovered We Wish You a Turtle Christmas this year. I give it credit for actually being filmed in NYC but other than that I find it amazing this actually got a commercial VHS release and was furthermore made with the creator's consent. I hope someone uploads the other live-action TMNT sing-along video one of these days, I'd love to see that one, too.

In terms of other bad Christmas specials, I'll bend the rules a little bit and bring up Rover Dangerfield. In fact, I'll just let the Nostalgia Critic tell you about it: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi...sses/nostalgia-critic/29004-rover-dangerfield

And then take a gander at the Island of Misfit Christmas Specials. Not all these specials are bad, but this does have some stinky ones in there, some that have been mentioned already: http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/misfitsindex.html

 

[a_Mickey_Muppet]

bad!....Mmmmm...Shrek The Halls, but then again i hate shrek and dreamworks animation pritty much ran it into the ground anyways!

 

[beatnikchick300]

I know I may get a lot of boos for this, but I hate Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and have since I was young. Just because it's so darn mean-spirited (every other person in it, who isn't annoyingly bland [:cough:Clarice:cough], is a jerk, including, but not limited to Rudolph's father, the Head Elf [who I swear had no indoor voice], the coach, even Santa Claus!). And speaking as a person who has never quite fit in with my peers (not by having a glimmering red nose, of course, but in other ways), the resolution always felt like a slap in my face. So what, you can pick on the weirdo until they benefit you? That's like a teacher telling his/her students to be nice to the nerd just because s/he can help them with their homework! Thanks, but I'll stick with A Christmas Story!

 

[Blue Weirdo]

Thanks, but I'll stick with A Christmas Story!

I may get flak for this but that one's on my bad list. I hate it. No sugercoating I downright hate it. I don't think it's funny at all.

Also, while they're not downright terrible, I just have a bit of a problem with not one but two Flintstones Christmas specials.

The first one has Fred filling in for Santa Claus. Think about that for a second. It's bad enough they're celebrating Christmas some 10 million years before Christ was born, but Santa is around and already the old man we know.

The other one is A Flintstones Christmas Carol. This one may have been forgivable if it had been a non-cannon special. Just a telling of A Christmas Carol using Flintstones characters. (like Micky's Christmas Carol) But no the plot is that they are putting on a theater production of A Christmas Carol. Again millions of years before the birth of Christ.

And for the record I'm not even a religious person!