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Merry Media

We didn’t watch as much holiday-related stuff this year as in previous ones, but here are a few things that were new to us, three movies and an album. The Holdovers – This movie focuses on people left behind during … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Ben Folds, Christmas, Families, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged abe vigoda, artificial intelligence, bing crosby, blackface, burt bacharach, dogs, e.t. the extra-terrestrial, fred astaire, herb alpert, holiday inn, irving berlin, lindsey kraft, prancer, racism, reindeer, sam elliott, santa claus, sleigher, the holdovers |

Of Bunnies and Bonnets

Picture by Helena Nelson-Reed Happy Easter! Some years ago, I wrote a little about the origins of the Easter Bunny and the name of the holiday. I don’t have a whole lot to add, but there’s some, so I might … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, British, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Easter, Food, German, Greek Mythology, Holidays, Judaism, Lewis Carroll, Music, Mythology, Passover, Religion, Roman, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies, XTC | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, aphrodite, bill cosby, charity, coney island, coneys, easter bunny, easter eggs, easter parade, easter seals, eggs, eostre, fat albert, fat albert easter special, fred astaire, hares, irving berlin, jack benny, jesus, judy garland, lent, liberace, march hare, ostara, pikas, rabbits, shirley maclaine, the easter seal teleparade of stars, titian, van johnson, venus, virgin mary, white rabbit |

Baskets Full of Easter Joy

Now that Easter is over, I suppose I should write about the relevant cartoons Beth and I watched this year. A Claymation Easter – This was on the same DVD as A Claymation Christmas, and I thought it would be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Easter, Fairy Tales, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Stan Freberg, Technology, Television | Tagged a claymation christmas, a claymation easter, bears, berenstain bears, burl ives, casey kasem, chickens, claymation, danny kaye, daws butler, dr. spike rabbit, ducks, easter bunny, fairies, frosty the snowman, hallelujah jones, here comes peter cottontail, irving berlin, january q. irontail, mike berenstain, paas egg dye, paul frees, peter and the magic egg, peter paas, pigs, rabbits, rankin/bass, ray bolger, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus is comin' to town, sheep, stan and jan berenstain, the berenstain bears' easter surprise, the easter bunny is comin' to town, the first easter rabbit, the little engine that could, the velveteen rabbit, tobias tinwhiskers, trains, turtles, vincent price, will vinton |

I Know Those Words, But That Sign Makes No Sense

White Christmas – I guess this was the last of our Christmas viewing for the year, although it’s mostly not even about Christmas. It’s a sort of a spiritual follow-up to Holiday Inn, which I haven’t seen, but apparently has blackface … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Christmas, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Science, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged albert einstein, bing crosby, danny devito, danny kaye, death to smoochy, edward norton, ernest rutherford, holiday inn, irving berlin, jon stewart, marie curie, puppini sisters, robin williams, tasmanian devil, white christmas, world war ii, yahoo serious, young einstein |

Ho Ho Home Invasion

I usually don’t like to make two of the same kind of post in a row, but ’tis the season, so here are some more reviews of Christmas-related audiovisual media. Santa Claus – I’d heard of this 1959 Mexican movie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda | Tagged angela lansbury, angels, cherubim, devils, dogs, donkeys, frank conniff, gene autry, irving berlin, jesus, joseph, lucifer, merlin, mystery science theater 3000, nativity, nestor the long-eared christmas donkey, rankin/bass, reindeer, roger miller, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus vs. the devil, sheep, the first christmas, the story of the first christmas snow, three wise men, trace beaulieu, virgin mary, white christmas |

Goldeneh Moments from Broadway

There Is Nothing Like a Lox: The Lost Song Parodies of Allan Sherman – While Sherman used many different sorts of humor in his songs, he is particularly known for Jewish-themed parodies. While some of the stereotypes are still current, … Continue reading →

Santa Claus Is a Black Man

When Megyn Kelly of Fox News says she wants a white Christmas, she doesn’t mean it in quite the same way Irving Berlin did. By now there have been many responses to Kelly’s rant about how Santa Claus has to … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Christmas, Coptic, Fox News, History, Holidays, Middle East, Mythology, Prejudice, Religion, Television | Tagged ethiopia, gospel of matthew, irving berlin, jesus, megyn kelly, racism, santa claus, sinterklaas, st. nicholas |

Coming Down the Chimney

So, you know that Andy Williams song where he starts out singing “Happy Holiday,” but then goes into some lyrics about hanging up your sock? I’m sure you do, because it gets played constantly at this time of year, but … Continue reading →