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Mr. C has decided to grace us with 30 festive frames per second of animated (and puppetized) Christmas cheer.

"The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
...
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;"

– Clement Clark Moore… or not?

Lays his finger to his nose… smokes a pipe… often seen drinking Coke… rumors of a “magic” dust that helps him fit down chimneys… gets more work done in one night than Bowie ever did in Berlin… and we have to leave food out for him after every stop. What’s this guy Santa on?

Silliness aside, there have been some, well, cheerful consumption in Christmas specials.

Of course, there’s the Cookie Monster, who doesn’t let Christmas get in the way of his habit.

My family’s nickname for me during the holidays.

Pac-Man, whose entire life depends on constant use of “Power Pellets” to save himself from “ghosts” that want to “chomp” him, gets Santa’s reindeer powered up to save the day in Christmas Comes to Pac-Land”.

“I’ve never seen Rudolph’s nose so bright!”

Kid Notorious (Robert Evans, producer of Chinatown and Popeye), for example, hates Christmas. He wants nothing more than to escape Los Angeles and go fishing off the coast of Mexico. He leaves his friends-in-need behind: Slash, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon want to sing carols; Midget needs consolation after his WNBA girlfriend dumps him; his housekeeper Tollie Mae needs help raising money to save her church.

Never trust Midget with the ether. “DON’T LOOK AT ME!”

A Mexican jail, desert hallucination-dream, and return to LA later, the Kid holds a telethon to save Tollie’s church, and a miracle! It snows in LA! But… is it snow?

“There is something about the Christmas season that makes a man want to return another man’s cocaine.”

Even good ol’ Billy Burroughs got in on some Christmas scoring, with “The Junky’s Christmas”, a short animated by Nick Donkin (whose work you may remember in the music video for Alice In Chains’ video for “I Stay Away”) from the Interzone short story.

“I got a legitimate condition!”

Danny can’t score on Christmas – he’s got no money, the docs won’t give him a script, there’s nothing to steal, no dealers in sight. What’s a guy to do to get a fix? Maybe… a Christmas miracle?

“Legs… legs.”

Me, I’ll go back to scarfing cookies.

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