Welcome back for another year of The Christmas Spot here at The Nostalgia Spot! 2024 has been another long year in some respects and I think we could all use a little Christmas right this very minute. Just like in years past, December 1st will mark the start of the advent calendar countdown to Christmas here with a different Christmas-related post each day. And for most (all?) of those days, that is going to take the form of taking a look at a Christmas special. Some will be true classics, some will be total duds, and there may even be a few oddities as well.
There has been Christmas content on this blog every year since its inception. Christmas and nostalgia just go so well together. The advent calendar style countdown is entering its tenth year, and if you haven’t noticed, that’s a lot of content! It does mean that it may be time to wind this thing down. It’s quite the time sink to come up with 25 posts every December and I’ve really felt the grind the past couple of years. I don’t do anything on this blog for exposure or money, it’s all just for fun and my own personal amusement so if I’m losing that enthusiasm then maybe it’s time to put a bow on it. There will never be a day where Christmas completely disappears from this blog so it’s not like I’m going to just stop. And my enthusiasm for the season hasn’t diminished either.
All that said, maybe once the calendar turns over I’ll feel differently about it. Maybe I’ll feel like it needs to continue now more than ever – I don’t know. Let’s not dwell on it because we have 25 Christmas posts still to come in December 2024 and it’s going to be a lot fun. I’ve looked at some good ones this year, and some bad ones that are still fun to talk about so grab some milk and cookies and come back on the first as we kick this thing off!
Can’t wait until the first of December for Christmas stuff? Well, worry not, for these a whole bunch of stuff on this blog to tide you over. Here is just a sample, but if you want more just click on that The Christmas Spot link in the header of this blog to find all of our Christmas Spot coverage.
Dec. 15 – The Night Before Christmas with Tom and Jerry
As someone who loves the cartoon shorts produced by Warner and Disney, I sometimes am guilty of overlooking the contributions of MGM from that same era. MGM was a big player back then, and their flagship creation was Tom and Jerry. The cat and mouse pair first debuted in 1940 and were the creation of…
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Dec. 2 – The Tick Loves Santa!
The Tick arrived on the Fox Network’s Saturday morning programming block in 1994 after a wave of successful super hero cartoons. With the success of Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man it meant the timing was right for a parody hero like The Tick to get a shot at finding an audience. Often the last cartoon aired…
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Dec. 25 – Samurai Pizza Cats – “The Cheese Who Stole Christmas”
Welcome, Christmas Day! Hopefully you’re not hungover from too much Christmas partying last night, and if you are, hopefully it was worth it. By now, Santa should have deposited presents under the tree, if you were good this year, and hopefully he remembered the batteries. It’s been fun, but this post means we are done…
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