While it is bad enough that for $14.99 (plus shipping and handling), some pathetic Baby Boomer can recreate a childhood memory of A Charlie Brown Christmas, the ABC network decided to take a hatchet to scenes decrying the commercialism of Christmas so as to . . . air more commercials.How many minutes did you cut out of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" so you could run more commercials?
Gone was Sally's materialistic letter to Santa, which finally sends Charlie screaming from the room when she says she will settle for 10s and 20s.
Gone was Schroeder's miraculous multiple renditions of "Jingle Bells" from a toy piano, including the one that sounds distinctly like a church organ.
Gone was Linus using his blanket as an improvised slingshot to knock a can off the fence no one else can hit, complete with ricochet sound effect.
Gone were the kids catching snowflakes on their tongues and commenting on their flavor.
Gone even was poor Shermy's only line. He thought he had it bad because he was always tasked to play a shepherd. He had no idea.
Bah, humbug!
2 comments:
Geez, are you freakin' kidding me.
The ONE Christmas special that is wholesome in its message, and the ONLY one which "Gets" the message of what Christmas is really all about, gets trashed by ABC and the 'bamster shot himself in the head last week by preempting it. mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack Insane Obama. Now worth ZERO to the little urchins who were singing his praises not long ago.
Yannow, from its debut back in 1965, my Mom, Rest Her Soul, was so taken with it's story that we Always had a Charlie Brown Christmas tree in our house to remind us Cubs not to be a "Lucy".
It sat right next to the Creche....
We still keep it up at the Lair with my young'uns.....
*sigh*
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