![]() She further reveals that she has often fantasized about being Santa. Claus, who is trying on the famous Red Suit, wondering (in song) if anyone would be able to tell the difference if she were to dress up as Santa. ![]() She apparently has summoned these elves to her house. Claus, referring to her that way throughout, only to have Jangle Bells inquire as to the identity of the other party after he hangs up. This comedy duo are introduced with an old, but still effective, gag in which Jingle Bells takes a telephone call from Mrs. Next, we are introduced to Jingle Bells, number one elf, and Jangle Bells, his less intelligent sidekick. Also, these “Santa had died” kids apparently can’t read, because it looks like there’s extensive press coverage. Apparently nobody had clued the kids in on the whole “vacation” theme that Santa was going for. This includes the somewhat guoulish line “the children they cried, they thought Santa had died”. This brings us to our title sequence and first musical number, “The Year Without a Santa Claus”. I imagine those scenes probably ended up on the cutting room floor, to keep the pace of the story moving. Whether or not Santa has the authority to do this, or whether any of the many denominations of Christianity might object, is not really addressed in the film. Given cover by the doctor’s medical advice, Santa decides to cancel Christmas. Santa, proving either highly suggestible or more of a stick-in-the-mud than one would expect, claims to have had the same feelings himself, although he wouldn’t admit it openly before now. Furthermore, the doctor suggests that nobody even believes in Santa Claus anymore. Claus calls on the services of a foul tempered doctor to tend to her ailing spouse but the doctor grumpily suggests that nobody cares about Christmas anymore, and that Santa would be better off staying home to rest. Santa’s feeling a bit under the weather, and thoughts of his impending Christmas Eve activities are stressing him out. She tells us that our story takes place before we were born, sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We are introduced to the story by the lead character and narrator, Mrs. Like many others, this was my favorite Christmas special growing up, due almost entirely to the Miser Brothers. ![]() Our subject today is The Year Without a Santa Claus, the Rankin/Bass holiday classic. #The year without a santa claus movieI enjoy the type of review that Ken Begg does over at Jabootu’s Bad Movie Dimension, so I thought I’d give it a shot myself. ![]()
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