Comments on: "O Pruney Night, the stars are slightly wrinkled"

"O Pruney Night, the stars are slightly wrinkled"

IvoShandor — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:45:56 -0800

Presenting Will Vinton's Emmy-award winning A Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987)

Featuring the worldest most musical dried fruits - The California Raisins (Warning: Silly autoplaying Heard It Trough the Grapevine)

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:48:51 -0800

that should be world's, not worldest.

By: Bulgaroktonos

Bulgaroktonos — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:56:19 -0800

This is a cherished childhood memory of mine. The stodgy academic dinosaur, the "Here We Come Awaffling," the California Raisins, everything.

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:00:32 -0800

We had this on tape when I was a kid, and watched it every year. I love it so hard. I still can't hear "We Three Kings" without singing along groovy camel-style in my head.

By: specialagentwebb

specialagentwebb — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:00:45 -0800

I had this on a ripped-from-the-TV VHS, along with Muppet Family Christmas and the Garfield Christmas special (warning: unexpected garfield feelings). I hadn't been able to find it again until literally this week, because it's surprisingly ineffective to ask your husband if he remembers "that christmas thing with the dinosaurs, you know, they eat candy canes and the camels dance".

By: mkb

mkb — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:08:52 -0800

I am so happy to have a good quality copy of this! I only ever saw it on tape because it came on after my bedtime when I was 7.

By: alynnk

alynnk — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:09:25 -0800

Oh for goodness' sake, thank you. I've gone years thinking I was the only person in the world that remembered this; anyone I've mentioned it to would just look at me like I was crazy.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:10:26 -0800

wassail!

By: Iridic

Iridic — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:18:54 -0800

I had this on a ripped-from-the-TV VHS, along with Muppet Family Christmas and the Garfield Christmas special... They must have all have been aired on the same night, because damned if our household didn't have a very similar tape.

By: fishmasta

fishmasta — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:24:53 -0800

I've always loved the psychedelic glowing baby in the sun.

By: Chrysostom

Chrysostom — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:39:32 -0800

Yes, yes, Here We Come A-Waffling!

By: AmandaA

AmandaA — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:50:40 -0800

Hah! I just finished making plans for my annual viewing of this. I will never hear the Carol of the Bells without picturing this guy.

By: matt_arnold

matt_arnold — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 12:33:39 -0800

When I was a kid, I used to watch this special one frame at a time to fully appreciate the work of the sculptors.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:30:12 -0800

"O Pruney Night, the stars are slightly wrinkled" Just vaguely on-topic but I actually own the California Prune (self-link) that doubled as baby Jesus in that Simpsons parody. (Yes, I am that obsessed with the California Raisins.)

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 15:44:03 -0800

Oh good god. I think I finally got the camels out of my head... a week ago. Aaaaand now they're back.

By: gmh

gmh — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:26:20 -0800

Just in case anyone missed it, Herb & Rex, the two bickering dinosaurs, were meant to be parodies of Siskel & Ebert.

By: PlantGoddess

PlantGoddess — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:20:38 -0800

Some friends of mine were two of the sculptors who worked on this! Thanks for posting and reminding me :)

By: lollymccatburglar

lollymccatburglar — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:00:17 -0800

My family sits down to watch a VHS copy of this (and Muppet's Christmas Carol) every Christmas Eve... and I'm almost thirty. In fact, I think it is the sole reaon why my parent bought a new VCR in, like, 2011. Everyone is talking about the camels and the california raisins, but my favorite part is the carol of the bells. Gets me every time.

By: bowtiesarecool

bowtiesarecool — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:06:32 -0800

In fact, I think it is the sole reaon why my parent bought a new VCR in, like, 2011. Oh man, my family taped this and all the other Christmas specials (Garfield, Pooh, etc.) from TV in...1991? 92? And the DVD rip my mother made for me of a low-fi twenty-year-old VHS tape a couple of years ago is easily my most cherished Christmas possession. It's not Christmas without the California Raisins, punctuated by ancient Blockbuster commercials.

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 22:27:57 -0800

This is a cherished childhood memory of mine. The stodgy academic dinosaur, the "Here We Come Awaffling," the California Raisins, everything. This is absolutely why I posted it. My Christmases suck. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes it better.