The Little Drummer Boy: An Unholy Racket

Recaps

By J-Mo | Thursday, December 27, 2012 | 10:00 am | 15 Comments
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I’m not even kidding, one of the guys in the crowd actually starts making jacking-off gestures. Dildo-Nose goes around passing the hat, looking for cash, but all he gets is an apple core. Should have been a camel turd. In any case, next up is “Ali Of Arabia – The Greatest Juggler Under The Stars”…

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and he’s just as talented as the Countess DeLesseps!

Dildo-Nose is totally freaking out because his performers are all so shitty, so he decides to put Aaron’s little high-stepping animals routine on next… except Aaron won’t smile because of his whole vow-to-hate-all-humans-forEVAH thing. Dildo-Nose doesn’t have time to play child psychologist, so he takes matters into his own hands…

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oh much better

Time for Raggedy Aaron to start the show, which means another song… and oddly, even though he’s clearly drumming in the cartoon, there are no drum sounds being made, just a lot of unseen musicians playing completely different instruments… wow, I guess that drum really is magical! This song is even stupider than the last one about the goose being high… this one is called “Why Can’t The Animals Smile?”

“You never heard a lion laugh, you never saw a gator grin
A goose in a gaggle never gives a giggle
Why can’t the animals smile?
You never heard a mouse guffaw, a crow that did much more than caw
is an eagle too regal OR IS IT ALL ILLEGAL
Why can’t the animals smile?”

It gets worse from there. Believe me…

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especially when they break out into the “Thriller” dance

After they finish this sad little performance, the crowd goes crazy…

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no, I mean seriously, they are insane

Truthfully, the kid who sang this thing for real (Teddy Eccles) had a pretty awful voice, and the key of the song is way too low for him, plus he was pitchy and didn’t make it his own. But these Jerusalem yahoos are easy to please and they think he was awesome and want an encore. However, their adulation only serves to piss Aaron off and make him enraged…

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scary Liza face

Ruh-roh, guess who’s having a farm-fire-flashback? Snoot-Lady tells us Aaron cahn’t believe these people would dare be hoppey and smiling after what “their kind” did to his family. Ooooh, sounds like someone is engaging in a little stereotyping, maybe? He throws his drum down and starts calling the crowd terrible names, such as “thieves” and “bandits” and “knaves” and “NaOnkas” and then runs away after having cried off his makeup. The insane crowd is pissed now and chases Dildo-Nose and his Bieber-wannabee out of Jerusalem. They are lucky they weren’t stoned, and I don’t mean the flying goose kind.

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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*

  8. 8
    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 :)

  14. 14
    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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