Thursday, December 13, 2012

On the First Day of Christmas...


Seeing as how Christmas is my favorite time of year, I decided to review 12 holiday themed episodes of various cartoons… one for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas. 

 

On the 1st Day of Christmas, my TiVo saved for me… the Spongebob Squarepants episode “Christmas Who?”

I know that a newer Christmas episode of Spongebob aired this year, but I honestly thought it paled in comparison to the original. “Christmas Who?” was great not only because of the funny episode, but that it introduced the Patchy the Pirate, President of the Spongebob Squarepants Fan Club, and his bizarre and crappy homage to children’s shows. To be honest, this was the best of the Patchy the Pirate hosted episodes. The jokes were sharper (to read a fan letter, Patchy removes his eye-patch and puts on his reading glasses… with one lens blacked out) and I found the segments absolutely hilarious (such as Patchy’s love/hate relationship with his puppet parrot Potty).

As for the animated part of the show, Spongebob is introduced the concept of Santa Claus and Christmas from his squirrel friend Sandy Cheeks. Ever the wide-eyed dreamer, Spongebob decides to bring Christmas to Bikini Bottom and convince everyone that Santa will bring them gifts on December 25th… everyone except Squidward.

I have a confession. Part of my love for this Christmas episode is due to the fact that it has a lot of Squidward. I love Spongebob’s stuck-up curmudgeonly neighbor and co-worker. Squidward episodes tend to be my favorite. He just wants to live his dignified artsy upper crust lifestyle, but is surrounded by annoying idiots who constantly wreck his life through misguided acts of kindness. 

So much of this episode is devoted to inadvertently irritating Squidward. One of the ways is with an extremely catchy and funny song called “The Very First Christmas.” It takes a very special Christmas song to have a line like “Go away before I harm you bodily.” I won’t give away the whole episode, but Squidward pays a hefty price learning the true meaning of Christmas… and Santa Claus is insane. 




On the 0 to 10 scale on the Merry Meter, “Christmas Who?” gets perfect 10 out of 10!

Tune in tomorrow for another Christmas themed cartoon episode review!

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