We have done it. We have made it through another year and another holiday season is upon us. That means it’s time for another installment of The Christmas Spot! This will be the ninth year that this blog has undergone a re-theming as December rolls around to celebrate, or demonize, a Christmas special from the past. The past is often several years, even decades, prior to, but some are far more recent because when it comes to a daily Christmas special you can’t be too choosey.
For the past couple of years, I have taken it upon myself to expand on a Christmas special I had briefly covered in the past as one of the greatest of all time in more depth. That continues this year as The Christmas Spot Redo posts will start on December 5th and follow every fifth day thereafter. If you wanted to figure out which specials will go live on those dates it wouldn’t be too hard as only five remain to be covered in depth from that list of The Top 25. After this year is done, all of the specials on that list will have full posts up which means I won’t have anymore to take a second look at next year, but maybe I’ll go all the way back to my very first The Christmas Spot to look at the specials I booted off the list some years later.
This year I also had a few other goals in mind. I wanted to really dig deep into any and all things Looney Tunes in a quest to find a good Christmas special. In particular, I want to see the great Bugs Bunny have a good Christmas special because Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales ain’t that. I also decided to comb the depths of the Nicktoons. I was around for the early days of the Nicktoon, but kind of trailed off over the years. Really, anything past Rocko is a show I haven’t watched that much. There’s a lot there, and as I mentioned before, I can’t be choosey or else I won’t have anything to talk about!
The Christmas Spot may run only from December 1 through December 25, but for me it’s basically a full year commitment. I start work on the next year pretty much right after it finishes. Spreading it out during the year also helps to prevent burnout and if I tried to fit all 25 into a short window of time I’d go nuts. This year was the first where I started to think about my exit plan. It’s a lot, and it’s something I really do for myself since this isn’t a monetized blog or anything. How many more years do I want to keep doing this? I’m not sure, but after nine years, I’m definitely closer to my last version of The Christmas Spot than I am the first. I feel like 2023 probably isn’t the last installment, but who knows? We’ll see.
I don’t want to end this on a downer though as we have 25 Christmas posts to look forward to this year alone! On December 1st, the first will go live and one each day will follow. These are all scheduled to go live just after midnight EST, so wherever you are in the world, check back then. We’ll dive into a special, decide if it’s good or not, and I’ll even tell you where to go if you want to experience it for yourself. This season only comes once a year, so lets enjoy it as much as we can before it’s gone!
Are you not excited? Maybe some of these hype posts from yesteryear will get your Christmas spirit flowing:
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