The Little Drummer Boy: An Unholy Racket

Recaps

By J-Mo | Thursday, December 27, 2012 | 10:00 am | 15 Comments
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Posted in: Christmas Specials, Featured, Recaps

Oh no! Snoot-Lady just said that Aaron’s happiness was to end all too soon… because one night a bunch of assholes desert bandits attacked the farm and began to steal all of the sheep. When his father woke up (because it’s hard to steal a bunch of stupid sheep without them making a bunch of bleating, baaing and farting noises) and came to the front door of their hovel to call out “What’s going on out there?!” he succeeded in doing only one thing to the bandits…

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helping them with their knife-throwing target practice

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weird how this is the one time he really should look surprised, and yet he doesn’t

Well, I guess different people react to being shanked in different ways. Anyhow, before Dad’s body could even hit the floor, Aaron’s Mom had hustled him up out of bed and told him to run away real fast. Perhaps she should have thought of an escape plan for herself as well…

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“Oh crap, I am so fucked.”

Yeah, so the bandidos burned the house down, presumably with Aaron’s mother inside, and Jesus this is a dark little story to be feeding to little kids! Snoot-Lady says “Aaahron’s happeh life hahd changed… forEVAH!” Snoot-Lady is not only a master of unnecessarily rolling R’s, she’s also a whiz with understatement. Anyhow, this is how Aaron became a lonely little orphan boy wandering the desert with Samson, Bin Baba and Joshua, they were three of the farm animals who had escaped with him. This is also where he vowed to hate all human beings forEVAH!…

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have at it, kiddo, that bandits-killing-your-parents shit really sucks camel balls

Also falling under the category of Things That Suck Camel Balls (for $400)? The answer is “What Is Being Enslaved By Dildo-Nose And His Flamey Little Bottom Sidekick Ali?” I mean, the kid was just wandering the desert, banging the drum, making his friends dance, hating all human beings, not bothering a soul, and this fat bastard has to put him to work. Boo.

In any case, they show up in Jerusalem, where Dildo-Nose catches up with the rest of his show-caravan

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showing all the industrious energy of a pair of Kim Zolciaks

It’s amazing he isn’t rich already. Anyhow, after Dildo-Nose gets these two laze-buckets to set up the “performing carpets”, he blows a few sour notes on a trumpet and starts huckstering the crowd to watch these two perform a tumbling routine. Except they suck, and the crowd is not impressed…

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“Ugh, this is worse than watching Armenian Idol…”

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15 Comments

  1. 1
    ash310
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 12:38 pm

    Oh we weren’t even allowed to open our gifts til after Mass. We would make our parents take us to the 6 AM Christmas Mass. Once we were old enough we would go to midnight Mass so that it would be over with before morning. Of course that required getting to church at about 10:30 PM in order to get a seat.

  2. 2
    WTH
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Lol nice recap. Strangely enough I used to love this when I was a kid. Btw, the narrator (Greer Garson) really was British but I agree the accent was pretty snooty.

  3. 3
    Angela Parisi LaRoe
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    I am glad someone else hated it as much as I did. I am a pastor kid and we always had to sit through the Christmas story before we opened presents. I don’t really mind it so much now but back then, I kept saying to myself, “I want my Gameboy and my PS2!”

  4. 4
    arizonatom arizonatom
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Cute recap of a crappy story! I don’t remember seeing it as a kid. I don’t remember going to church on Christmas morning, but my folks says that we did. Maybe their just telling that story now that they’re approaching the Pearly Gates?? Hmmmmmm, I wonder…..

  5. 5
    thiajok
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 6:58 pm

    Wow, I never realized before how lucky I was that my parents had drunken parties on Christmas eve night. I was always bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed for Christmas morning even if they weren’t. But, to their credit, they made it work.

    I never liked this holiday show, either. I liked Frosty, Peanuts, and Rudolph. But my favorite was the Grinch.

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    ohralphie
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 8:14 pm

    I remember watching this — but I liked it. Does anyone else remember the stop motion show about the long eared donkey whose mother was killed in front of it but then it gave Mary a ride into Jerusalem and used its massive ears to keep her warm? Guilt, tears and a slight chance at redemption — the perfect Catholic Christmas Story.
    I couldn’t stand Frosty. I find nothing entertaining about a ‘special’ snowman. Who knew snow could have chromosonal disorders?

  7. 7
    Bioscotto
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    @ohralphie: HAPPY BIRTHDAY! *shiver*

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    John Bender
    Posted December 24, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    I sure used to love all the Claymation and stop-motion animation Christmas specials when I was growing up…

    EXCEPT THIS ONE. What a steaming turd this special was every year. The animation was half-assed, the story was completely cobbled together, and I always found myself wanting to kick the crap out of Aaron before the special was halfway over. The songs – oh, the songs – were especially awful and lazily written, as I’m glad you pointed out, J-Mo. Gee, and Wikipedia tells me that I’m exactly the same age as this barrel of crap. We were both born on 19 December 1968. GAH.

    J-Mo, congratulations on making this recap the best thing to ever be associated with this flaming turd of a Christmas special.

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    thatswhatshesaid
    Posted December 25, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    I don’t think I have ever seen this special. If I have, I blocked it out. I know I’ve seen Frosty and Rudolph before, but I don’t remember them either. The only cartoon I faithfully still watch and love is a Charlie Brown Christmas. I don’t really like Claymation or Stop Motion shows.

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    Zbird
    Posted December 28, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    “They are lucky they weren’t stoned, and I don’t mean the flying goose kind.” Comic genius, ladies and gents.

    I, too, watched this a gazillion times as a kid, but I guess I was suckered in because I actually looked forward to it. Your recap is a hilarious take on it. Awesome.

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    SusanB
    Posted December 27, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    Are you sure the only thing that happened to Mama was getting burned up? Why didn’t she run out of the house? Bandits and Theives are not likely to let a doll like her get away. I can’t believe they showed Daddy getting knifed in the chest! What kind of kids show is this?

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    labowner
    Posted December 27, 2012 at 2:41 pm

    Why does Al enjoy the extra letter in front of Mo? Why not A-Mo?

    Loved the drummer boy or was it just the song that gave me chills?

    Loved the Grinch, but the best Christmas cartoon/stop motion was The Year Without A Santa Claus featuring Heat and Freeze Mizer and their mom, Mother Nature.

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    J-Mo J-Mo
    Posted December 27, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    @SusanB, never fear, I photoshopped that knife going into daddy’s chest, the real film just showed him collapsing after the bandit threw the knife (I do a lot of image manipulation in my recaps)… :)

    @labowner, the reason for Al-Mo instead of A-Mo is because that was my little brother’s real nickname in high-school… :)

    love, J-Mo :)

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    whatwhat
    Posted December 28, 2012 at 2:00 am

    @ohralphie You’re talking about Nestor the donkey, right? This one – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1GnBM53-0

    Which oh lord is it ever depressing as all get out

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    Jaime Sommers
    Posted December 28, 2012 at 11:10 am

    I loved this Christmas special growing up and bawled like a toddler the last time I saw it… um in 2011 on DVD. The little lamb being crushed by the carriage destroyed me every time. I have such affection for this special I’m guessing because as with Aaron, I like animals more than people. Does anyone remember The Night the Animals Talked?

    I DESPISE Frosty, who to me is nothing but a fat snowy pedophile.

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