The Christmas Spot

Do you like The Nostalgia Spot? Do you like Christmas? Do you like advent calendars? And most importantly, do you like old Christmas specials, movies, and other miscellaneous media? Well then, welcome to The Christmas Spot! Each holiday season, beginning December 1st, look here for some holiday cheer. During the month of December, the main Nostalgia Spot blog will likely be on hiatus, but that’s nothing new as in years past before the existence of this page The Nostalgia Spot was essentially transformed into something resembling The Christmas Spot. The current format for The Christmas Spot is for one post per day from December 1st to December 25th that will cover something Christmas related. Most often, this will be a Christmas cartoon special because those are my personal favorite holiday occurrences each year, but I’m not adverse to covering live-action specials or other things. Most of all, this should be fun and I hope you have as much fun revisiting these things as I do. Welcome, Christmas! Bring your cheer!

This is partly inspired by the folks over at A Cartoon Christmas, a website that no longer exists. That blog ran for a few years and counted down the days until Christmas with cartoon Christmas specials from television and film. Since you can no longer check out that blog, then maybe you should check out what those people are up to today via the podcast channel Laser Time or Thirty Twenty Ten.

As for the years past, here’s a bunch of handy links to the Christmas coverage going all the way back to this blog’s inaugural first year.

2011

• Essential Christmas Viewing Part 1 and Part 2

2012

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (I went really light in 2012)

2013

• Batman Returns
• TMNT – The Christmas Aliens
• A Mickey Mouse Christmas
• Christmas Time in South Park
• Scrooged

2014

• A Flintstones Christmas Carol + Christmas Flintstone
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas
• Christmas Commercialism

2015

• The 25 Greatest Christmas TV Specials (Index)

2016

• The 12 Films of Christmas (Index)

2017

• Dec. 1 – George & Junior’s Christmas Spectacular
• Dec. 2 – The Tick Loves Santa
• Dec. 3 – Duck the Halls
• Dec. 4 – ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
• Dec. 5 – Teddy Ruxpin’s Winter Adventure
• Dec. 6 – Gift Wrapped starring Tweety Bird 
• Dec. 7 – Woodland Critter Christmas
• Dec. 8 – It’s A Very Merry Eek’s Mas
• Dec. 9 – Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
• Dec. 10 – Rocko’s Modern Christmas
• Dec. 11 – Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
• Dec. 12 – The Futurama Holiday Spectacular
• Dec. 13 – Christmas Commercialism Part II
• Dec. 14 – Bonkers: Miracle at the 34th Precinct
• Dec. 15 – Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales
• Dec. 16 – ‘Tis the Season to be Smurfy
• Dec. 17 – It’s A Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special
• Dec. 18 – Bob’s Burgers: Christmas in the Car
• Dec. 19 – The Ren & Stimpy Show: A Scooter for Yaksmas
• Dec. 20 – The Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud
• Dec. 21 – A Pinky and the Brain Christmas
• Dec. 22 – Johnny Bravo in ‘Twas the Night
• Dec. 23 – Teen Titans Go!:  Second Christmas
• Dec. 24 – Chucklewood Critters:  T’was the Day Before Christmas
• Dec. 25 – Daze Before Christmas
• Bonus Christmas – Batman: The Animated Series – Christmas with the Joker

2018

• Dec. 1 – Aqua Teen Hunger Force – “Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future”
• Dec. 2 – The Simpsons – “Grift of the Magi”
• Dec. 3 – X-Men: Evolution – “On Angel’s Wings”
• Dec. 4 – Taz-Mania – “No Time for Christmas”
• Dec. 5 – “Don Coyote and the Christmas Bell”
• Dec. 6 – “Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas”
• Dec. 7 – Dexter’s Laboratory – “Dexter vs Santa’s Claws”
• Dec. 8 – The Adventures of Pete & Pete – “O’ Christmas Pete”
• Dec. 9 – Spectacular Spider-Man – “Reinforcement”
• Dec. 10 – The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries – “Feather Christmas”
• Dec. 11 – “Santa’s Surprise”
• Dec. 12 – Life with Louie – “A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman”
• Dec. 13 – Donald Duck in Christmas on Bear Mountain
• Dec. 14 – Olaf’s Frozen Adventure
• Dec. 15 – The Night Before Christmas with Tom and Jerry
• Dec. 16 – Mickey’s Christmas Chaos
• Dec. 17 – Metalocalypse – “Dethmas”
• Dec. 18 – I Am Weasel – “Happy Baboon Holidays”
• Dec. 19 – Stitch and Santa!
• Dec. 20 – The Garfield Show – “Caroling Capers”
• Dec. 21 – Rick and Morty – “Anatomy Park”
• Dec. 22 – Eek! The Cat – It’s a Wonderful Nine Lives
• Dec. 23 – A Very Woody Christmas
• Dec. 24 – Ren & Stimpy’s Crock O’ Christmas
• Dec. 25 – A Jetson Christmas Carol

2019

• Dec. 1 – DuckTales – “Last Christmas!”
• Dec. 2 – Robot Chicken’s ATM Christmas Special
• Dec. 3 – Mega Babies – “A Mega Christmas”
• Dec. 4 – The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police – “Christmas Bloody Christmas”
• Dec. 5 – The Weekenders – “Worst Holiday Ever”
• Dec. 6 – Pokémon – “Holiday Hi-Jynx”
• Dec. 7 – Bob’s Burgers – “Father of the Bob”
• Dec. 8 – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – “I’m Dreaming of a White Ranger”
• Dec. 9 – The Real Ghostbusters – “Xmas Marks the Spot”
• Dec. 10 – Merry Christmas, Super Dave!
• Dec. 11 – A Flintstone Family Christmas
• Dec. 12 – Teen Titans Go! – “Halloween vs. Christmas”
• Dec. 13 – How to Grinch
• Dec. 14 – Heathcliff – “North Pole Cat”
• Dec. 15 – Animaniacs – “A Christmas Plotz”
• Dec. 16 – George of the Jungle – “Jungle Bells”
• Dec. 17 – Family Guy – “Don’t Be a Dickens at Christmas”
• Dec. 18 – Little Dracula – “The Bite Before Christmas”
• Dec. 19 – The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
• Dec. 20 – Lilo & Stitch: The Series – Topper: Experiment 025
• Dec. 21 – Nerds and Monsters – “Zanti-Clops”
• Dec. 22 – BoJack Horseman Christmas Special – “Sabrina’s Christmas Wish”
• Dec. 23 – Missing in Action Christmas Specials
• Dec. 24 – Silly Symphony – “The Night Before Christmas”
• Dec. 25 – Samurai Pizza Cats – “The Cheese Who Stole Christmas”
• Bonus Christmas – The New Batman Adventures – “Holiday Knights”

2020

• Dec. 1 – American Dad! – “The Best Christmas Story Never Told”
• Dec. 2 – Toy Story That Time Forgot
• Dec. 3 – The Simpsons – “The Way of the Dog”
• Dec. 4 – A Christmas Story (1972)
• Dec. 5 – The Captain’s Christmas
• Dec. 6 – Christmas Flintstone
• Dec. 7 – SuperTed Meets Father Christmas
• Dec. 8 – TV Funhouse – “Christmas Day”
• Dec. 9 – Space Goofs – “Holiday Heave Ho”
• Dec. 10 – The Town Santa Forgot
• Dec. 11 – We Wish You a Turtle Christmas
• Dec. 12 – King of the Hill – “The Unbearable Blindness of Laying”
• Dec. 13 – The 25 Greatest Christmas TV Specials
• Dec. 14 – Aqua Teen Hunger Force – “A PE Christmas”
• Dec. 15 – Bobby’s World – “Miracle on 34th Street and Rural Route 1”
• Dec. 16 – Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – “The Reindeer Hunter”
• Dec. 17 – The Mask – “Santa Mask”
• Dec. 18 – Dumb and Dumber – “Santa Klutz”
• Dec. 19 – Christopher the Christmas Tree
• Dec. 20 – Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas
• Dec. 21 – Buzz Lightyear of Star Command – “Holiday Time”
• Dec. 22 – Extreme Dinosaurs – “Holiday on Ice”
• Dec. 23 – The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! – “Koopa Klaus”
• Dec. 24 – The SpongeBob Christmas Special
• Dec. 25 – Sonic Christmas Blast

2021

• Dec. 1 – Frosty the Snowman
• Dec. 2 – Tennessee Tuxedo and his Tales – “The Tree Trimmers”
• Dec. 3 – Super Mario World – “The Night Before Cave Christmas”
• Dec. 4 – Family Guy – “Christmas Guy”
• Dec. 5 – Pluto’s Christmas Tree
• Dec. 6 – Christmas in Tattertown
• Dec. 7 – Bedtime for Sniffles
• Dec. 8 – American Dad! – “For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls”
• Dec. 9 – “Robot Chicken’s Santa’s Dead (Spoiler Alert) Holiday Murder Thing Special”
• Dec. 10 – It’s a SpongeBob Christmas!
• Dec. 11 – One Ham’s Family (1943)
• Dec. 12 – Bob’s Burgers – “The Bleakening”
• Dec. 13 – Bob’s Burgers – “The Bleakening: Part 2”
• Dec. 14 – Gifts from the Air
• Dec. 15 – Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
• Dec. 16 – The Pink Panther in: A Pink Christmas
• Dec. 17 – Popeye the Sailor – “Spinach Greetings”
• Dec. 18 – The Legend of Prince Valiant – “Peace on Earth”
• Dec. 19 – Krazy Kat – “Krazy’s Krismas”
• Dec. 20 – Toy Tinkers
• Dec. 21 – Count Duckula – “A Christmas Quacker”
• Dec. 22 – Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks – “A Very Merry Chipmunk”
• Dec. 23 – DuckTales – “How Santa Stole Christmas”
• Dec. 24 – Shrek the Halls
• Dec. 25 – Mickey’s Christmas Carol

2022

• Dec. 1 – 35 Years of The Christmas Tape
• Dec. 2 – Donkey Kong Country – “The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights”
• Dec. 3 – Popeye the Sailor – “Mister and Mistletoe”
• Dec. 4 – The Pups’ Christmas
• Dec. 5 – A Garfield Christmas
• Dec. 6 – Silly Symphony – “Santa’s Workshop” (1932)
• Dec. 7 – Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (1970)
• Dec. 8 – The Soulmates in The Gift of Light
• Dec. 9 – The Smurfs Christmas Special
• Dec. 10 – A Chipmunk Christmas
• Dec. 11 – The Berenstain Bears’ Christmas Tree
• Dec. 12 – A Very Venture Christmas
• Dec. 13 – The Ren & Stimpy Show – “Son of Stimpy/Stimpy’s First Fart”
• Dec. 14 – Rugrats – “The Santa Experience”
• Dec. 15 – South Park – “Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo”
• Dec. 16 – A Very Solar Holiday Opposites Special
• Dec. 17 – Peace on Earth (1939)
• Dec. 18 – X-Men – “Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas”
• Dec. 19 – American Dad! – “Minstrel Krampus”
• Dec. 20 – A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Dec. 21 – A Muppet Family Christmas
• Dec. 22 – Santabear’s High Flying Adventure
• Dec. 23 – Bluey – “Verandah Santa”
• Dec. 24 – Ultimate Spider-Man – “The Moon Knight Before Christmas”
• Dec. 25 – Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

2023

• Dec. 1 – Christmas Comes But Once A Year (1936)
• Dec. 2 – Justice League – “Comfort and Joy”
• Dec. 3 – Animaniacs – ‘Twas the Day Before Christmas
• Dec. 4 – Doug – “Doug’s Christmas Story”
• Dec. 5 – A Flintstone Christmas
• Dec. 6 – The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries – “It Happened One Night Before Christmas”
• Dec. 7 – Fox’s Peter Pan & the Pirates – “Hook’s Christmas”
• Dec. 8 – The Looney Tunes Show – “A Christmas Carol”
• Dec. 9 – Hey Arnold! – “Arnold’s Christmas”
• Dec. 10 – Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
• Dec. 11 – Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! – “Scary Christmas”
• Dec. 12 – Regular Show – “The Christmas Special”
• Dec. 13 – Smiling Friends – “Charlie Dies and Doesn’t Come Back”
• Dec. 14 – All Grown Up! – The Finster Who Stole Christmas
• Dec. 15 – Beavis and Butt-Head Do Christmas
• Dec. 16 – New Looney Tunes – “Tis the Seasoning/Winter Blunderland”
• Dec. 17 – We Bare Bears – “Christmas Parties”
• Dec. 18 – Batman: The Brave and the Bold – “Invasion of the Secret Santas!”
• Dec. 19 – Aaahh!!! Real Monster – “Gone Shopp’n”
• Dec. 20 – Futurama – “Xmas Story”
• Dec. 21 – RoboCop: Alpha Commando – “Oh Tannenbaum Whoa Tannenbaum!”
• Dec. 22 – Future-Worm! – “Lost in the Mall”
• Dec. 23 – Bugs Bunny’s 24-Carrot Holiday Special
• Dec. 24 – Animaniacs (2020) – “How the Brain Thieved Christmas,” “Santamaniacs”
• Dec. 25 – Prep & Landing

2024

• Dec. 1 – Mickey’s Orphans
• Dec. 2 – Dinosaurs – “Refrigerator Day”
• Dec. 3 – American Dad! – “Season’s Beatings”
• Dec. 4 – Doug – “Doug’s Secret Christmas”
• Dec. 5 – Back to the Future – “Dickens of a Christmas”
• Dec. 6 – The Cuphead Show! – “Holiday Tree-dition”
• Dec. 7 – The Cuphead Show! – “A Very Devil Christmas”
• Dec. 8 – Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa
• Dec. 9 – South Park – “Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson”
• Dec. 10 – Family Guy – “The First No L”
• Dec. 11 – Mickey’s Good Deed (1932)
• Dec. 12 – King of the Hill – “Pretty, Pretty Dresses”
• Dec. 13 – Bob’s Burgers – “Bob Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins
• Dec. 14 – SpongeBob Squarepants – SpongeBob’s Road to Christmas
• Dec. 15 – Popeye the Sailor – “Seasin’s Greetinks!”
• Dec. 16 – The Cleveland Show – “A Cleveland Brown Christmas”
• Dec. 17 – A Cosmic Christmas
• Dec. 18 – Pillow People Save Christmas
• Dec. 19 – Life with Louie – “Family Portrait”
• Dec. 20 – Futurama – “A Tale of Two Santas”
• Dec. 21 – TaleSpin – “Jolly Molly Christmas”
• Dec. 22 – Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
• Dec. 23 – CatDog – “A Very CatDog Christmas”
• Dec. 24 – Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
• Dec. 25 – The Simpsons – “‘Tis the Fifteenth Season”

2025 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown!

• Dec. 1 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #209 – 200
• Dec. 2 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #199 – 190
• Dec. 3 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #189 – 180
• Dec. 4 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #179 – 170
• Dec. 5 – The Year Without a Santa Claus (#169)
• Dec. 6 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #168 – 158
• Dec. 7 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #157 – 148
• Dec. 8 – Darkwing Duck – “It’s a Wonderful Leaf” (#147)
• Dec. 9 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #146 – 137
• Dec. 10 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #136 – 127
• Dec. 11 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #126 – 116
• Dec. 12 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #115 – 105
• Dec. 13 – The Little Drummer Boy (#104)
• Dec. 14 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #103 – 94
• Dec. 15 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #93 – 84
• Dec. 16 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #83 – 74
• Dec. 17 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #73 – 64
• Dec. 18 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #63 – 54
• Dec. 19 – The Nostalgia Spot Christmas Special Countdown #53 – 44

Christmas Toy Reviews

What goes better with Christmas than TV specials? Toys! I love toys and I love talking about them so naturally I enjoy talking about Christmas toys. Over the years, I’ve stumbled onto quite a few so if you’ve had your fill reading about television specials then maybe check out the toys reviews below for a little added holiday cheer:

• Figura Obscura Krampus
• Figura Obscura Father Christmas
• Figura Obscura Ghost of Jacob Marley
• Figura Obscura Ghost of Christmas Past
• NECA The Misfits Fiend Holiday Edition
• NECA Gremlins Santa Stripe and Gizmo
• NECA Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dimension X-Mas Vacation
• Naughty or Nice Santa Claus and Cyborg Santa
• Naughty or Nice Father Frost and Mall Santa
• McFarlane Toys Batman Santa
• McFarlane Toys/DC Direct Christmas with the Joker
• Transformers Generations Holiday Optimus Prime
• Star Wars The Black Series Mandalorian Warrior Holiday Edition
• Super7 Disney Super Size Ebenezer Scrooge
• Lego Home Alone House
• NECA Ultimate Jack Skellington
• NECA Ultimate Sally
• NECA Ultimate Santa Jack
• Jada Toys Frosty the Snowman