Along with Christmas comes the inevitable deluge of Rankin-Bass cartoons on ABC Family. My wife Micky was watching one such cartoon in another room, and the following conversation occurred...
From the TV: "Take this magic amulet that will keep you from melting Frosty!"
David (D): Who's giving Frosty an amulet?
Micky(M): The evil ice wizard.
D: Why would an evil ice wizard give an anti-melt amulet to Frosty? Wouldn't he want Frosty to melt?
M: It's part of his evil plan - it's so Frosty can go to the Fourth of July Circus.
D: What? Why would he want Frosty to go to the circus?
M: Frosty needs to go to encourage Rudolph to perform.
D: Huh?
M: Yeah, the Evil Ice Wizard wants to take over the North Pole. He can't do that unless he can usurp the Claus. He's going to do that by eliminating Rudolph so that Santa can't penetrate his magic fog.
D: By sending him to a circus?
M: The Wizard has found out that if Rudolph ever uses his glowing nose for evil, it will cease to glow.
D: So performing in a circus is evil, huh? Is this a "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Circus?
M: Evidently - it must have something to do with that "carny" thing.
How much weed were these guys smoking? This was followed up by my favorite one which I refer to as "A Very Tolkien Christmas." In this particular show there is a council of immortals that Santa is a part of that ends up battling an evil council with dragons and wizards. The Rankin-Bass pantheon is bizarre indeed....
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