Rather than contain this edition of GIFs of the Week to the last seven days, we’ve instead compiled a mega-post of our favorite Christmas-related GIFs from throughout TV’s often wondrous, occasionally baffling history for your click-through pleasure. There’s even some Hanukkah and Life Day love in there, too.
So, merry Christmas to some, happy holidays to others, and to all a good GIF.
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I may be alone in this, but I f*cking hate the Peanuts. Every last one of them.
@ LastTexansFan – You are a completely insane person.
I was hoping for a .gif of Kevin Spacey repeatedly smashing his Christmas tree with the fireplace poker yelling “EXCUSE ME!! EXCUSE ME!! EXCUSE ME!! EXCUSE ME!!” from the scene in “The ref”.
@LTF, you are not alone.
@LastTexansFan – I’ll agree that I hate Charles Schultz for whoring out the Peanuts to Met Life, various Holiday Specials, and Holiday Special Sequels (argument #4,594 why Calvin and Hobbes is vastly superior). But hating the Peanuts is just wrong.
Then again, I hate A Christmas Story, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
GIF #3 is the king of dancing gifs.
GIF #3 is the king of dancing gifs.
Incorrect, that would be #18. Peanuts eats hog.
#27 is the king/queen of dancing gifs.
There’s probably a lot about the Gilmore Girls to make me queasy but the Santa Burger… I just can’t make it work.
If you’ve ever been kicked in the ass by life and you still hate Peanuts (go dig up the strips from the late 50′s/early 60′s) there’s no reasoning with you. Peanuts seemed all commercial and cheery after the TV specials started cranking out but Schultz could be downright depressing at times…without Charlie Brown, there is no Calvin.
I just have never found Peanuts the slightest bit funny or entertaining. The comics blow, the holiday specials are tired and Charlie Brown would have attempted suicide a dozen times by now. They’re depressing. I’ll stick with Scrooged and The Grinch.
Didn’t Drew or someone write a big screed against the Peanuts Christmas special?
Yes he did. [deadspin.com]
The Vince Guaraldi soundtrack is still fucking spectacular though.
@porky, true without Charlie Brown there is no Calvin. But without Buddy Holly there is no Beatles. Just because it’s a source of inspiration doesn’t make it better. Still, your point is noted.
I’m sure if I tried to sit back and watch the Peanuts as an objective adult, I wouldn’t like them very much. But instead, when I watch them now, I remember how happy the Christmas special made me as a kid who loved the shit out of Christmas. Especially the soundtrack. So hate them all you want you soulless bastards. Ain’t nobody breakin’ my stride.
Also, without the Peanuts, we wouldn’t have this: [archive.ohword.com] I think that’s pretty important.
I’m with Porky. Peanuts ran out of steam after a half century, but those early strips are dark, sarcastic stuff.
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#25 needs Ron’s reaction.
To clarify, I never disparaged the quality of the Peanuts strip, more planted myself firmly on the Calvin and Hobbes side of the fence. A case can be made that Peanuts has more wit, but Watterson got more out of the medium than any regularly syndicated strip, and it’s not close. He regularly fought with editors who wanted to constrain him to standard block formats, hand watercolored his Sunday strip, and achieved the multi-level child:adult humor that exceeds the best of Pixar movies.
This is all very Timothy Olyphant Family Circus. Which I appreciate.