Santa Claus is Comin' To Town - Rankin/Bass

hey everyone pushing up roses here now I may be a dark clouded person I may love death and bats and skulls and depressing games and McCobb literature but I also love Christmas I love Christmas music and I love Christmas movies and if you don't like it you can kiss my holly jolly Christmas ass see I'm already in the holiday mood you may be familiar with rankin/bass the company responsible for so many of those stop-motion and 2d animated movies and known mostly for their seasonal television specials today I'll be looking at Santa Claus is coming to town because it's my favorite from their catalog headed on VHS tape when I was young and now I watch it every year too long didn't read some kid was left on someone's doorstep was adopted and raised by elves had become Santa Claus through a series of radical actions that make him an outlaw in the city of sombertown which is ruled by an oppressive dictator who wants to burn toys and incarcerate anyone who doesn't comply with his laws intrigued the special starts out with a little homage to news bits that were shown in theaters before the movie would start stating that kids around the world are preparing for Santa's arrival we then cut to a mailman whose delivery vehicle gets stalled he gets out looks up at the audience presumably us and introduces himself well hello there my name's Special Delivery Kluge SD for short obviously this is Fred Astaire why the long face Fred Astaire was a dancer and actor most popular through the 1930s and does a fantastic job narrating this special turns out his audience is made up of a bunch of children who have questions about how Santa Claus came to be and thus starts the story I don't know why this delivery man knows santa's entire biography but he seems trustworthy enough the tale begins with an itty-bitty Kris Kringle being left on someone's doorstep it turns out to be the home of the burgermeister meisterburger whose name was a point of laughter for young me for many many years it is such a silly name and whenever we heard it play on the tape my dad would look over at me and be like oh does he eat burgers and I would crack up I burgermeister meisterburger take care of a baby outrageous the Burgermeister rejects the child telling his Lawkeeper Grimsley to take him to an orphanage but on the way a violent wind whips the baby out of his hands he lands on the mountain of the winter warlock who he just looks like evil Santa to me luckily the animals of the forest protect the baby by disguising him as twigs once the area is clear they take him to a quaint little house owned by the kringles elven toy makers who want to adopt him better call my friend Wingull bingo bingo bingo at this point this show really could be called my five fathers they bring him inside to show the elf queen tanta Kringle who named him Chris we should call him Kris Kringle why not name him like Lingle krinkle these poor elif's got stuffed with all these stupid names seriously though now we have Wingull Dingle Dingle Dingle Ringel and Chris time passes and Chris starts to grow up beginning his journey of becoming Ron Howard tanta Kringle laments that they can't get their beautiful toys across the mountain and via song explains how toys are made in layman's terms because you know what kids love responsibility [Music] Tata goes on to say that they are the official toy makers to the king or maybe that's all of us Costello who likes his soldiers erect and his balls bouncing soldiers must stand erect order Kingdom they protect the girls much higher to please his royal Chris promises that when he gets older he'll take all the toys across the mountain geez look at all these wasted toys why even make them Chris who is now voiced by Mickey Rooney grows up around the forest animals and learns all kinds of useful things like how to laugh like a yep that's why Santa says ho ho ho Aseel taught him Oh Oh eventually he gets old enough to traverse the mountains I'm a man now dad and a lumberjack he says goodbye to his family and suits up in his classic red ensemble made for him by tanta on his way to the village he runs into a little lost penguin which you think is going to be the cutest thing in the world cuz there's nothing more adorable than penguins then this comes out of his mouth well what is a penguin doing here [Music] I always thought that was so annoying honking and gulping and being way overly affectionate Chris decides to take him on his journey and named him topper come on Eddington topper would I'll call you Tom I have no idea why he named him topper it doesn't seem like a very natural thing to leave someone's mouth when trying to compose words meanwhile the Burgermeister trips on a toy Duncan breaks his funny bone har-har you've broken your funny bone hey wait a second isn't that the king why is the king the doctor now it's pretty obvious that the Burgermeister and his soldiers are a quote light-hearted metaphor for Hitler and the Nazis you can't even really scooter round it it's pretty obvious now as a child I wasn't cognizant enough to understand the political undertones but as an adult its unabashed I kept waiting for the Von Trapps to bounce in and start singing emplacement of things like burning books the Burgermeister burns toys an emplacement of executing people he incarcerate seni one who goes against him the children represent the Jewish people and Kris kringles seemingly represents the Allies there's even a fourth right Gestapo moment where soldiers break into someone's house at night to burn the kids toys I also find that Kris Kringle also has this Jesus Christ complex going on he's a radical and a nonconformist and kind of looked at as a savior although this gets a little creepy you should on my left a a kiss toy is the price to pay Oh what the I hate this song it's so bizarre a kiss for a toy sounds like a creepy way of bribing children for affection when you tell what you wish for in a whisper be prepared to pay you better pay the price and kiss my face kid this song is just a bit heavy-handed on the concept of give-and-take if someone gives something to you you always have to give something back if he goes down on you you've got to give him a that's what we're talking about here altruism either that or this is trying to make your weird uncle from the 70s not seem as creepy as he is come on over here and sit on your uncle's lap look during his journey Chris makes friends and allies with the winter warlock voiced by Keenan Wynn and Jessica who becomes mrs. Claus played by Robbie luster Chris uses his charm to win winter over by giving him a toy train please please don't kiss the choo-choo it's weird I've always wanted for me he is overwhelmed by the fact that someone would want to give him a gift and his cold icy appearance melts he also learns how to walk and you are walking okay I know this song is symbolic for moving forward in your life but it really does seem like this as winters first time walking jessica is the children's school teacher who is won over by Chris with the gift of a china doll eventually they marry and damn I can't look at this character without seeing Dolly Levi from Hello Dolly their marriage ceremony serves as the first Christmas and then Christmas trees well no they're not but I'm gonna let that slide because you're for God dam there is a lot of kissing in this show Jesus the special was released in 1970 so maybe they took a note from the free love movement here's a beautiful scene with Jessica singing a song about Chris and their budding romance interspersed with some cartoony animation I thought this part was so boring when I was young and the cartoon parts are rather jarring but it's actually a beautiful song and scene and it shows how much depth D character models can have [Music] despite the Burgermeister efforts to ban toys Chris keeps finding ways to deliver them specifically going down chimneys at night to avoid locked doors he eventually gets found out and thrown in jail with topper and winter now I have a pretty good imagination and capacity for suspending my disbelief but the way they get out of jail is BS okay winter gives Jessica magic corn feed which causes reindeer to fly alright fine now we got some flying reindeer awesome the very next scene immediately cuts to them out of jail huh how did they get out just because you have magical reindeer doesn't mean you aren't still locked in look remember this magic feed corn well it's of no use to us it can't dissolve prison walls all you do is make reindeer fly and I know what you're thinking here so I'm just gonna say it before anyone else can maybe they were at a prison that didn't have a ceiling they do show that here but they were locked in a dungeon and like a basement below ground so you know what I don't buy it TV special I don't buy it and Prancer and vixen and comment and Cupid blitzer okay I'm gonna let that one slide as well the ending is rather abrupt since Chris is now considered a public enemy him jessica topper winter and the elves all set up shop in the north pole he also changes his name to Santa Claus as dependent he was wearing as a baby said Claus on it and grows out his beard to disguise himself as the years go by letters from children wanting toys start piling up and every year Santa gets the sleigh ready and delivers them so whatever happened to the Burgermeister by and by the good people realized how silly the meisterburger laws were well everybody had a wonderful laugh and then forgot all about it well that's certainly not apt we had a dumb down the ending damn Oh Fitz is totally not a big deal and we all forgot about Hitler everything is fine something I've always found interesting about this is it's one of the only rankin/bass specials in which the villain does not have a change of heart nor does he get any comeuppance he just kind of dies off rather inconspicuously as the credits roll the title song is sung by Fred Astaire and he drives off [Music] the moral of the story is to not be a Scrooge you want to be this guy no can they talk about Santa Claus when there's so much unhappiness in the world oh my god that is the most accurate thing I've ever heard so apropos especially for the present day this special has been a staple in my life since childhood it has some questionable quality some really good quality but I just love it and I like it even more knowing that it really does have a lot of complexity and aside from that damn kissing song I like the music I like all the songs I think they're extremely catchy I listen to put one foot in front of the other so much that I wore out that part of my tape this isn't edited this is actually my tape that I watched two pieces and in conclusion happy holidays everyone may be filled with your favorite Christmas specials and heavy heavy drinking cheers everyone hey everyone thanks for watching my video on Santa Clauses come into town tell me about your favorite Christmas or holiday specials in the comments or on my social networks and check the description for links links everywhere not like Zelda links like Ling link's thanks again and I'll see you guys in the next one

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Rating: 4.9454036 out of 5

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Id: loj1WsZ6hv4

Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 21 2016