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My travel essays to pop culture destinations with a Christmas film or TV tie-in have been some of my most popular essays on this website for the past couple years. And, New York City 's Christmas pop culture destinations which included a visit at the final resting places of actor Jerry Orbach, and Clement C. Moore--the author of the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas. " I also made a stop at the favorite watering hole of writer Dylan Thomas, who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales" which has been wonderfully adapted for film and TV several times. As a part of the Classic TV Blog Association's blogathon on TV villains last year, I created a list of my top five favorite Rankin/Bass animated Christmas evildoers.
Strupp's new podcast about classic entertainment provides this summary of our conversation: "Holiday specials on television are as traditional as Santa Claus and re-gifting. Listen HERE to the conversation onOnce again this year I joined Johnny Holmes in a delightful conversation about our favorite Christmas TV programs and movies. This year we discussed my Netflix DVD dress project, 1954's, 2004's, and the TV movie 1973's. We also discuss the 1968 Rankin/Bass animated special Listen to our conversation HERE on Johnny's websiteAnother annual tradition I enjoy is joining the team onin a conversation about Christmas on TV.
Since next week begins the Jewish celebration of the season, I thought this would be the ideal time to return to the 1996 episode "A Rugrats Chanukah."The episode begins with Tommy's Grandma Minka reading the story of the first Chanukah to the babies. Grandma Minka is interrupted by her daughter Didi making potato latkes in the kitchen, and the babies overhear Tommy's Grandpa Boris jealously talking about his rivalry with Sholomo, the man playing the smaller role of king in the upcoming synagogue play but whose photo appears in the local newspaper about the event. The babies continue to hear Grandpa Boris complaining about Sholomo, and they mishear Boris saying "the meaning of Chanukah" as "the Meany of Chanukah." If you haven't seen many Chanukah TV specials, I can tell you that most of them are aimed for young viewers, and nearly all of them share the religious story of the first Chanukah with a historical explanation for Judah Maccabee, and the miracle of the burning oil lamp that lasted eight days.