Comments on: The best weird and wonderful Christmas videos you ever did see!

By: Snig

Snig — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:36:00 +0000

Stag beetles didn’t go to the party stag.

By: daintycowboy

daintycowboy — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:54:00 +0000

This might be slightly nightmare inducing but If you really want a weird christmas video check this one out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIEAfQHsEp0

By: robcat2075

robcat2075 — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:55:00 +0000

Perhaps it’s the stereotype that everyone who is black shouts “Mammy!” That’s got to be one of the most tiresome cartoon gags of the 30′s. EVERYONE was doing it.

Or maybe it’s the “Sambo Jazz Band” or the black Pickaninny dolls. Incidentally I’ve read that a “sambo” is someone who is 3/4 black, as opposed to a “mulatto” (1/2) or a “quadroon” (1/4). Everyone had to be labeled back then.

By: Bram Stolk

Bram Stolk — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:47:00 +0000

Forgive my ignorance, but can you point out where ‘The Shanty where Santy Clause lives’ is racist?
Does it have to do with a white baby falling in a bucket of coal soot becoming black?
Why is this racist?

By: Mark Leaman

Mark Leaman — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:13:00 +0000

I wasn’t sure what the music (it sounded like a Burton film soundtrack) was for the Insect’s Christmas video was. So I tried tagging it using Shazam. After several samples (at different points in time) Shazam insisted the music was the score for the 1961 film Goodbye Again. Eventually I saw the description on YouTube crediting Danny Elfman’s score from Edward Scissor hand. I listend to the score from the 1961 film Goodbye Again and realized they are very similar. Is there a link between these two scores?

By: nixiebunny

nixiebunny — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:08:00 +0000

For those who don’t know, the guy wielding the foam hammer in the computer video is Gary Kildall. Gary wrote CP/M, the most famous DOS of the eight-bit world, a precursor to the IBM PC’s DOS.