{"id":1236,"date":"2011-12-24T00:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2011-12-24T00:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T06:15:05","slug":"episode-54-christmas-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"Episode 54: Christmas Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5926\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1236-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/xmas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/xmas.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/xmas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/xmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1236-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/xmas.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"xmas.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1240\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1240\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/grinch.jpg\" alt=\"The Grinch\" title=\"Grinch\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karloff.  Not Carrey.<\/p><\/div>We are once again joined by Kittyhawk and Tom Revor to talk about Christmas cartoons!  What else?  We bring up as many Christmas cartoons as we could think of.  Some revered.  Some reviled.  Some barely even remembered.  And of course, we talk about the king of the holiday special: RANKIN BASS.<\/p>\n<p>So stoke up the fire, roast some chestnuts, and put some marshmallows in your hot cocoa.  It&#8217;s time to talk about some animated holiday classics!  BOW DOWN!  BOWN DOWN!  BEFORE THE POWER OF SANTA!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\nKittyhawk is dreaming of a white Saturn<br \/>\nCommercialism in Christmas<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s REALLY in Underdog&#8217;s energy pill?!<br \/>\nThe true meaning of this pagan holiday we call Christmas<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oops!  We forgot to talk about:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Johnny Bravo Christmas Special<br \/>\nThe Bear Who Slept Through Christmas<br \/>\nThe Legend Of Frosty The Snowman<br \/>\nThe He-Man\/She-Ra Christmas Special (although, we mentioned it!)<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1241\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1241\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/frosty.jpg\" alt=\"Frosty The Snowman\" title=\"FROSTY THE SNOWMAN\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/frosty.jpg 450w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/frosty-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are no good Frosty cartoons past 1969.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1242\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1242\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zim-x-mas.jpg\" alt=\"Invader Zim\" title=\"Invader Zim - the More Horrible X-Mas Ever\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zim-x-mas.jpg 450w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/zim-x-mas-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN-TA!  SAN-TA!  SAN-TA!  SAN-TA!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1244\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1244\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kiss_saves_santa.jpg\" alt=\"Kiss Saves Santa\" title=\"Kiss Saves Santa\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kiss_saves_santa.jpg 450w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kiss_saves_santa-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If only this was real<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are once again joined by Kittyhawk and Tom Revor to talk about Christmas cartoons! What else? We bring up as many Christmas cartoons as we could think of. Some revered. Some reviled. Some barely even remembered. And of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=1236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}