You may have noticed a lot of love at the lair recently for Rankin\/Bass. Well, kind of love. As much love as you can possibly find in something like my Donner Party<\/em> movie poster.<\/a> Then, of course, there was my recent door decoration post for a proposed new Rankin\/Bass special, Walken in a Winter Wonderland.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s true, denizens, while I might have a strange way of showing it, I adore Rankin\/Bass holiday specials. In fact, Christmas simply didn’t exist in my mind when I was little without four things: A Charlie Brown Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,<\/em> and Frosty the Snowman.<\/em> Two of those four were brought to my childhood by Rankin\/Bass. <\/p>\n

Frosty<\/em>, unlike Rudolph<\/em>, wasn’t a stop-motion animation. Instead, it’s a traditional animated cartoon. However, as was par for the course for a lot of Rankin\/Bass specials, it did have a “very special” narrator. Rudolph had Burl Ives. Frosty had Jimmy Durante. I had actually forgotten this fact until tonight; it’s been years since I saw this cartoon. Too many years. Guess that’s why I just felt the need to order it on DVD, along with Rudolph and the Grinch. I need a little Christmas, denizens. And so do you. So enjoy Jimmy Durante and his animated nose, singing the eponymous song to Frosty the Snowman.<\/em> Thumpety-thump-thump, thumpety-thump-thump, look at that Frosty go…<\/p>\n

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