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Misfit holiday specials

The Gumby Christmas Special

Just kidding. This was an 80s era SNL skit featuring Eddie Murphy as Gumby and Joe Piscopo as guest Frank Sinatra. Just hysterical.

I believe it's on the Best of Eddie Murphy SNL collection, which used to be available on VHS. Not sure whether or not it's on DVD.
 
I have to speak up for the two Rankin/Bass animated specials those of course being Rudolph and Frosty....it was their subsequent spin-off or follow-up specials that sucked dirt.

Needless to say they are both still aired today and are classics. Also on DVD.
 
Lkeller said:
The Gumby Christmas Special
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That was a classic. I don't remember the chronology of Gumby on SNL, but who knew then that the innocent Gumby from the cartoons had grown up to be angry and Jewish. "Merry Christmas, Dammit!"
 
Not a special per se, but I didn't care much for the "Animaniacs"
Christmas episode where they went back to Bethlehem and, while
there, played a jazzed-up version of "The Little Drummer Boy," with
the baby Jesus keeping time with the music.

I did, however, like the "Pinky And The Brain" Christmas episode
(spoiler coming), where Pinky gives the Brain a toy globe so he'll
have at least one world he's conquered.

And if anyone wonders how "The Flintstones" could do a Christmas
episode when it takes place hundreds of years before the birth of
Christ, suffice it to say that Joe Barbera decided that, since all the
sitcoms were doing Christmas episodes he should do one too.
 
I haven't seen the Flintsone's Christmas episode since I was a kid. Did they use any rock or stone references? Like you know Gina Load O'Bricks, or Stoney Curtis or Ann Margrock?
 
blackgold said:
And here's a real misfit special: The Flintstones doing "A Christmas Carol!" What a joke that was!
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Yes. How do you do "The Ghost of Christams Past?" Make it pre-dinosaur? If you accept that Jesus is the son of God, then I guess you could argue that he was on earth in some form before he inhabited the body known as Jesus. Sorry - didn't mean to make religious speculation.

I read once years ago that many baby-boomers in the 60s and 70s grew up thinking that human beings lived on earth at the same time as dinosaurs - because of The Flintstones.
 
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