We know the hoary 1964 stop-motion special from Rankin/Bass, but the reindeer has had other outings in animation, starting with Max Fleischer’s short Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which came out in 1948 - before the song. Whether sincere or satirical, kid-friendly or decidedly not, these titles deserve some of your time over the holidayw. Respondents picked everything from anime features to vintage Hollywood shorts we’ve spotlighted a few popular choices below. With this in mind, we launched a Facebook poll asking readers for their favorite overlooked Christmas-themed animation - basically, anything the networks don’t air multiple times each year. And hogging isn’t in the Christmas spirit. A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! are fine films - they wouldn’t have become seasonal network staples otherwise - but they tend to hog the limelight, obscuring other Yuletide animation that’s been produced over the decades. Dexter's Laboratory: " Dexter Vs.There’s such thing as too much familiarity, even at Christmas.Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper.Tiny Toon Adventures: " It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special".Space Ghost Coast to Coast: " A Space Ghost Christmas".The Powerpuff Girls: Twas the Fight Before Christmas.The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries: " The Nutcracker Scoob".The Jetsons: " A Jetson Christmas Carol".The Flintstones: " Christmas Flintstone".The following specials that have aired as part of Cartoon Network's Christmas blocks are ones that either originally aired on another network or premiered on Cartoon Network outside of the programming block. The Powerpuff Girls (2016): " You're a Good Man, Mojo Jojo".Teen Titans Go!: " Teen Titans Save Christmas".Teen Titans Go!: " The True Meaning of Christmas".Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: " Scary Christmas".Regular Show: " Merry Christmas Mordecai".The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) " The Plight Before Christmas".MAD: " Fantastic Four Christmases / Red and White Collar".The Looney Tunes Show: " A Christmas Carol".The Amazing World of Gumball: " Christmas".Johnny Test: " A Holly Johnny Christmas".The Garfield Show: " Home for the Holidays".Batman: The Brave and the Bold: " Invasion of the Secret Santas!".Class of 3000: " The Class of 3000 Christmas Special".Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: " A Lost Claus".Codename: Kids Next Door: " Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.".Johnny Bravo: " A Johnny Bravo Christmas".The Hanna-Barbera Christmas specials would instead now be exclusive to sister channel Boomerang, which continued to use the Christmas Party name for its annual Christmas block until its 2015 rebrand. This was dropped in 2003, when the Adult Swim programming block began broadcasting every weeknight.Īfter 2004, Cartoon Network dropped almost all of the non-original specials (with the exception of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!) from their annual Christmas block, resulting in the block now being devoted entirely to Christmas episodes of the network's original shows. In the network's earlier years, the block always culminated with a special 24-hour marathon that would start on Christmas Eve and run through Christmas Day itself. Animation, would also make their televised premieres as part of Cartoon Network's Christmas block. Many direct-to-video Christmas specials, such as those produced by Warner Bros.
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At the turn of the century, however, after Cartoon Network Studios had made its mark in original programming created entirely for the network, newly-made Christmas episodes of Cartoon Network original series would often debut as part of the block. Cartoon Network's Christmas blocks initially consisted entirely of Christmas specials, primarily those produced by Hanna-Barbera, that had debuted on other networks.
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