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!
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