Comments on: Our Rankin/Bass childhoods

By: robin

robin — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:07:05 +0000

I figured that, but thought maybe you were being mean to some girl from your past. Glad to know you were just quoting some movie people being mean.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:44:36 +0000

No, but it is pop culture. It’s from ‘Not another teen movie.’

It was in reference to your and Diana’s comments.

By: robin

robin — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:22:09 +0000

Patrick, am I supposed to know what you’re talking about?

By: Lady T

Lady T — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:35:15 +0000

Glad you caught the Great Pumpkin,Robin-I had a real G-rated night on Friday;after my sis and I watched the CB Halloween special,we popped in a DVD of A Boy Named Charlie Brown(thank you,Netflix!). Seeing it again after all these years,you really appreciate the sincerity of Charles Schultz,plus the artistic sequences(such as a visual tribute to Beethoven during Schoeder’s piano playing)are more stimulating than any Baby Einstein video!

Rankin/Bass,…that so takes me back. I even love Rudolph’s Shiny New Year,with the Baby New Year running away and Rudolph searching for him in the Archipelago of Last Years. They sure don’t make them like they use to.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:11:41 +0000

No, not Janey Briggs. She’s got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she’s got paint on her overalls. What is that?

By: bj

bj — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:12:44 +0000

Gene Shepherd’s “Christmas Story”.

Could be my favorite since my family went to a Chinese Restaurant for Christmas Dinner every year. Bizarre, huh? “You’ll shoot your eye out! You’ll shoot your eye out!”

Oh, and Laurel and Hardy’s “March of the Wooden Soldiers.”

And how could we forget “The Wizard of OZ” ???

By: robin

robin — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:48:54 +0000

I think it plays into men’s librarian fantasies–the prim, stern woman with her hair in a bun, but underneath she’s really–va, va, voom.

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:09:57 +0000

Ever notice how the sole technique of making a homely girl pretty in Hollywood land involves taking her hair down?

By: robin

robin — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:41:14 +0000

I love that idea, Deborah. Maybe I’ve been too cheap with myself, thinking I had to wait until the actual holidays to try to catch those shows on TV.

You mean I could . . . OWN them?

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:15:55 +0000

A Charlie Brown Christmas is my hands-down, all-time favorite Christmas show ever! As a child, it just wasn’t Christmas until I saw it on TV. I bought it on DVD last year because every now and then throughout the year, I need to feel the magic.