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Except for the music in the Peanuts specials this is the way all holiday animated specials look to me. Bah Humbug…?
I think I will start referring to Santa Claus as the Christmas Cracker from now on
A hideous clown in whiteface along with a humorously antiquated slur for white people, all wrapped-up in the spirit of Christmas?
Sign me up!
To Clarify –
At the risk of mansplaining a “Christmas Cracker” is a paper wrapped tube usually containing a popping device, a sweet treat, and a small gift. It’s a holiday tradition in the UK and many members of the Commonwealth. What this has to do with a clown in whiteface who is even more disturbing than Bill’s Brain Guy is something you will have to ask our good neighbors to the north.
Maybe like a Christmas Cracker, if two of us pull on strings of his clown costume, he will pop? (Wishful thinking, I know.)
I know that they didn’t mean “cracker” in the racist sense. I was being facetious.
I saw the cover, and thought “…Norman MacLaren”.
I read “Film Board of Canada” in the description, and knew I was on the right trail.
Literally two seconds into the preview clip, I heard the beep-boop and saw the scratch-animated asterisks, and that CONFIRMED it.
(If you have never sat through the Canadian-animation-torture of vintage FBOC Norman MacLaren, consider that he may have been Mel Brooks’ satirical inspiration for “The Critic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PramR5oxn50 )
i watch a ton of british shows and clean forgot about crackers. now, I live in Georgia and… well, that’s probably all THIS “cracker” has to say. :p
I don’t think of it as “mansplaining” at all–
I’m quite open-minded, and consider explaining extremely obvious things to stupid people universal and gender-free. We need to release ourselves from these socially conditioned tropes.