Well, the Burl Ives maybe not: I have no idea how popular the Christmas special currently is.
The song reference is:
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It’s not often that I think a pun should be illegal.
It’s a pretty good likeness of Burl Ives. I find it a little odd to have a real-looking character in a strip where the other characters are cartoony.
Apropos of nothing, I recently found out that the “Happy Happy Joy Joy” song from Ren and Stimpy is full of references to Burl Ives movies and songs. I thought it was just the usual R&S weirdness, but all of the oddball non-sequiturs (“I’ll teach your granmother to suck eggs!” “The little critters of nature, they don’t know that they’re ugly”) are all accounted for.
ignatzz, I agree.
Oddly when I think of Burl Ives I think of two songs – “Tam Pierce” and “Angus McTavish Dundee” – records I had (have) when I was little.
Well, here’s what the Nerdist blog has to say about Rankin Bass holiday specials:
Well, the Burl Ives maybe not: I have no idea how popular the Christmas special currently is.
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It’s not often that I think a pun should be illegal.
It’s a pretty good likeness of Burl Ives. I find it a little odd to have a real-looking character in a strip where the other characters are cartoony.
Apropos of nothing, I recently found out that the “Happy Happy Joy Joy” song from Ren and Stimpy is full of references to Burl Ives movies and songs. I thought it was just the usual R&S weirdness, but all of the oddball non-sequiturs (“I’ll teach your granmother to suck eggs!” “The little critters of nature, they don’t know that they’re ugly”) are all accounted for.
ignatzz, I agree.
Oddly when I think of Burl Ives I think of two songs – “Tam Pierce” and “Angus McTavish Dundee” – records I had (have) when I was little.
Well, here’s what the Nerdist blog has to say about Rankin Bass holiday specials:
https://nerdist.com/christmas-specials-rankin-bass-rudolph-frosty/
And regarding the comic itself:
If they’re filming the special while he’s there, he’s going to be waiting for a month or two while they do the stopmotion animation.
“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” is an animated classic, still popular. Some might say it’s yuge, very very yuge.