kellinator: (smug)
kellinator ([personal profile] kellinator) wrote2004-12-10 12:59 pm

Oh, the humanity!

This morning my boss informed me that there is a Christmas special based on the song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." Apparently it aired last night on the WB, immediately followed by some sort of family-oriented-TV-awards-show. We snorted at the irony.

Me: What's next, a cartoon version of the Cheech and Chong "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" bit?
Will: Actually, I think I'd rather watch that.
Me: Me too.

And furthermore, it's not just a half-hour cartoon, like I initially assumed. No. It's a full hour.

Sometimes the snark just writes itself.

[identity profile] phinnia.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
Or a christmas special based on Bob and Doug MacKenzie's 12 Gifts of Christmas. I'd be interested how they explained the 'beer in a tree' bit.

[identity profile] reprobayt.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
a Christmas special based on the song "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."

I missed it!?!?! Damn.

Actually saw it last year and it was funny as hell to me.

...and I'm not kidding. :)

[identity profile] reprobayt.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Just doing my part for the holidays...

:)

[identity profile] weaktwos.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Man. TV can be so rancid!

[identity profile] penguinicity.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
I caught the intro credits to this. It literally said in the credits "Based on the song 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer', written by [mumble]." At that point I had to switch channels - just didn't think I could handle the awfulness.

[identity profile] maida-mac.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
We actually own this film, having had it bought by my mother for the boys a few years ago. It's not horrid, but definitely not something that I would have chosen.

[identity profile] breakableheart.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I smell an Emmy!

[identity profile] flewellyn.livejournal.com 2004-12-10 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow...yet another thing for me to hate about Christmas.

[identity profile] nyxalinth.livejournal.com 2004-12-11 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
They showed it on Cartoon Network last night. I pointedly ignored it.