So the guy whose Etsy shop I featured in this video sent a take-down. This video was down for 37 days, and I briefly had a strike. So I'd like to formally retract any endorsment of his stuff. He is a poopy head.
only a single question lingers: WHY!? was he some narcissist who didn't like other people talk about obscure Rankin-Bass productions because he thought he was the only one who was allowed to talk about it? EDIT: also Worthi's reaction to Peter Nook was the same one I had when i saw Fuecoco
Rick Goldschmidt is a not a great dude. On his blog, he posted a bunch of anti-mask rants claiming it was a communist agenda (which got him banned from Facebook). Also, he had a very rare recording of Clarice's VA Janis Orenstein performing opera. (Janis had a long opera career, but none of it is available on the internet, and the only non-Rudolph footage of her online is an episode of The Forest Rangers she was in.) He could've uploaded it to TH-cam to share it with his fellow Rankin-Bass fans who loved Janis's performance of There's Always Tomorrow, but instead he put it on a CD on his Etsy which is now sold out. Imagine having one of the few remnants of a gifted child prodigy who fell into obscurity despite her beautiful voice, and spitefully choosing to withhold it for money
Oh, heck yes, love learning all this obscure stop motion lore. Fun fact, the original Godzilla was intended to be stop motion, inspired by King Kong, but the art form was so new that no one in Japan was good enough at it, so they just went ahead and invented an entire film genre instead.
Yeah, and it was also very cost-heavy. In King Kong vs. Godzilla,, there's only one scene in stop motion, of the Godzilla hand puppet dropkicking the King Kong one... And it looks like shit compared to almost everything else. Makes me wonder why they thought it would have looked better when Tokusatsu surpassed in every way what Toho could have done with Stop-Motion.
I don’t have a source but as a kid I was obsessed with Godzilla. The books I read all said they rejected stop motion because it looked fake in comparison.
@@Lyladagger02 Eh, I’d say that was the Ethel Merman character’s kill. Unless you’re referring to a different kill in that movie, I just remember the wizard’s death. I’ve only ever seen that one once or twice and it’s been awhile.
It's so funny that it's called "Smokey the Bear" because my friend who's a fireman always scolds us saying "His name is Smokey Bear he has no middle name"
@@Popcultureguy3000 broooo if you read the comics you'd know that was scratched from the canon when they rebooted here's the video that explains it 😁 th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
Fun Fact: One of the studios from which Rankin Bass outsourced its Japanese animators, called Topcraft, is the same building that would later be used as Studio Ghibli!
@@thehermit8618 Topcraft worked on Rankin/Bass’s adaptations of The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn with a lot of the background artists on those films later worked as founding members of Studio Ghibli.
"...With a Thanksgiving Day special, dedicated to telling the backstory of another household icon..." Oh God, it's gonna be racist, isn't it? "...Smokey the Bear." I don't think I've breathed a bigger sigh of relief honestly
@@Antifearn fucked up American colonialist propaganda in children’s media is a special interest I have (for some fucking reason) so now I have to watch it at some point I won’t have fun but it’s gonna happen 💀
@@Lucifersfursona The best part about the special is that is was sponsored by McDonalds. I'd rather eat there for Thanksgiving than watch that special again.
If you ever dip your toes back into the metaphorical Rankin Bass pool, I cannot suggest watching one of their only forays into Halloween, a NEARLY TWO HOUR stop motion train wreck known as Mad Monster Party. It's got the highest body count out of any RB movie, a twist ending, and Phyllis Diller is there
I personally like it in part cause they featured all of the major Universal Studio monsters. Also, the femme fatale sounds like Kathleen Turner, which makes her even hotter than she would be otherwise.
Man, when they were showing someone messing up the forest, I thought the Smokey movie would have some poignant message about humans being destructive, but nope! Gorilla time!
I like that the gorilla is not only putting trash in a can but then throwing it into the river where afterwards has a smoke. It's so specifically human yet...it's a gorilla.
Thank you both for highlighting the work of the Japanese stop-motion animators behind Rankin/Bass, especially Tadahito Mochinaga. It’s a shame that their work is not nearly as known or respected, especially since their animation work is so important to the charm of Rankin/Bass (as Worthikids pointed out).
I just had a revelation about the magic of Rankin Bass animagic while watching this video for like the 5th time this week. Traditional Japanese Noh theater uses highly exaggerated body language to make up for the severe limitations of acting with a mask on, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a big part of why old Rankin Bass animation looks so good and why imitations look so shoddy. Most stop motion animation productions after Rankin Bass were made in America by American animators, rather than in Japan by Japanese animators, and I think that's what Worthikids is getting at when he says that the Japanese animators themselves are the true reason these animations are so beloved to this day. There's a dedication to the artform that's extremely rare in the U.S. (Studio Laika being a notable exception)
Rankin-Bass CEO: “Okay, we gotta make a St. Patrick’s Day special! What do we have to work with?” Rankin-Bass Employee: “Well sir, it’s to honor the death of Irish catholic Saint Patrick-“ Rankin-Bass CEO: *LEPRECHAUNS FIGHTING SHAPESHIFTERS*
I like when 60s-80s media tries so hard to make their shows blatantly anti-communist but also accidentally include pro-communist themes by having plots about wealth disparities and abusive upper classes
@@SorowFame yeah in that movie he literally gets his catchphrase from his abusive brother who would shout that before his brother would beat him. It’s fuckin horrible.
Imagine being horribly seared in a fire- also loosing your mother- and I walk up like “huh- your skin is morbidly burned - guess I’m gonna have to call you Crispy”
I am so glad you guys addressed what makes Rankin Bass imitations look not close to them. I always loved how Worthi used the style in his work, and hearing him explain just how much he knows about it makes sense now, since he's one of the only people i've seen to actually make it work.
Highly reccomend the work of fredthebluraydog. Super over priced but VERY high quality versions of most of the media they sell. I'd give the codename KND box set a 10/10
@@deadlockoriginalfilms2.096 apparently fred has fallen ill recently and took down the etsy shop. there’s a website running in his stead but i’m not sure they’re affiliated with him
It's not from a bootleg seller, it's from the official historian of Rankin/Bass. He worked along side them in the early 200s before they passed. He has access to a lot of images and recordings that a lot of people have never seen.
30:40 I think rather than saying, "Because it's Japan," What made Rankin and Bass Animations so charming, is that prior to this, nobody on earth had ever seen Stop-Motion Animation at this level before. At the time, it was Innovative and captivating, and to this day, it triggers nostalgia in a lot of people. I remember watching and enjoying Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer when I was 8 years old, while playing with my LEGOS I got from Santa Clause. And following Worthikids work, It's pushing those same buttons for me too. It's Charming, and it looks authentic!
First part of "The new adventures of Pinochio": Pinochio has some crazy adventures i guess Second part of "The new adventures of Pinochio": two stand users time travel to prove their land-lady they're not commies
14:35 "water is impossible in stop motion" this is so true!! one of the most difficult and frustrating things to pull off as long as you arent doing claymation or smth imo
@@gracekim1998 Uhmm, could you explain yourself in any way, instead of just smugly stating that I'm wrong? You clearly don't understand how social interactions work.
Just curious, why did you guys not mention the Jackson 5 TV show by Rankin Bass? There's an episode where Michael Jackson basically gets drafted into Vietnam, I feel like that's unmined gold for this video.
As an Australian, I have absolutely no attachment to these films but I have such a technical fascination with them. Worthi being able to recreate it so faithfully using digital methods is absolutely mind blowing. I was blown away with his work in your VidCon video
I'm so glad someone mentioned Leprechaun's Christmas Gold!! It's honestly one of my favorites of the Rankin-Bass specials. I saw it on a DvD as a kid, and it hasn't left my mind since.
Quinton: this video will go mostly unnoticed until 5 or so years when it’ll start to rebound This video: *is literally the very first thing suggested on my home page*
Does anyone remember that weird A Year Without a Santa Clause spin off movie about the Miser Brothers that aired like once in the 2000s and then never again? I think it was called A Miser Brother’s Christmas and I think it was about them having to do Santa’s job of delivering presents? Idk I just remember the Miser brothers looking vaguely like they did in the original Rankin/Bass film but all the other characters didn’t even try to replicate the style.
I have it on DVD! I haven't watched it in a while but I thought the niser brothers were cool as a kid and glad they eventually got their own movie. There is also this really bad year without a santa claus that is live action too lol
I was rewatching this while doing dishes and turns out my dad (Who was born in the early 60s) knew a lot of these! Though he admitted he had forgotten about them, and upon watching some of this while I put stuff away, he remarked "and I can see why, these are weird"
My grandfather worked for Rankin and Bass on most of the Christmas movies as a storyboard artist. Apparently he hated Heatmeiser and Coldmeiser with a passion, thought they were horrendously stupid.
The last Santa Claus production sticks in my mind for just how Tolkien-esque it is. Actually, come to think about it, there was an animated version of that released sometime in the late 90's/early 2000's on Toonami that was also really good. Does anyone else remember that one?
My husband and I watched Life & Adventures this year (the 1st time he's ever seen it, I've watched it since I was a kid) and he pointed out the Tolkien connections to me. Now I can't unsee them, lol.
Me, here, 3 years later at Christmas; I appreciate you taking the time with this video, even knowing it doesn’t perform well right away! This was an interesting watch, and I’m on my way to find the other Rankin Bass video you mentioned making!
I'm 30 years old and I'm not afraid to ask. Wtf is pogging and why is everyone saying pog? Is it like the weird cardboard circles from the 90s? I'm officially too old lol
The fact that Rankin Bass did a version of the life of Santa Claus makes me oddly happy. But the 2D musical version from the early 2000s is still my favorite
I fckn love Worthikids! Palpatine's journey got recommended for me and even though I don't like or care about star wars I clicked it and then I watched it over and over again, sent it to all my friends and got very offended when they didn't like it as much as I did! Also Big Top Burger is so good
you are so correct, "maybe over the next few years, it will rebound" A year or two ago I binged your nickelodeon stuff, then today saw this video pop up and I thought "Oh wonderful Christmas episode." then WORTHIKIDS? You guys are pals?? I was so in. I had no idea The Last Unicorn was made from that studio. Santa's adoptive mom is a cuuuutie. A powerful cutie. I liked this
Smoky the Bear has the same origin as Spider-Man. He didn't put out one fire and it killed his family so now he's devoted his life to stopping all fires
Surprised that "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" was on here. It was on "25 Days of Christmas" a lot on Fox Family/ABC Family/Freeform. I've seen it nearly as many times as Rudolf, Frosty, etc. Absolutely more times than The Little Drummer Boy.
I used to watch “25 Days” every year as a little kid but somehow I never saw that movie. I have no clue how I didn’t because I always hear people talking about it airing on there, but I didn’t even know it existed until I was a teenager and ABC Family had already lost the rights to air the Rankin-Bass specials.
Actually "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" and the other Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials currently air on AMC. FreeForm is still able to air the original Rudolph, Frosty, and Little Drummer Boy special but not it's followups.
@@moonbunny24 Actually FreeForm currently airs the original Rudolph special but ain't like the CBS airing (same with Frosty and The Little Drummer Boy). They restored the Peppermint ending and original version of "We Are A Couple Of Misfits" and the instrumental of "We Are Santa Elves". AMC currently airs the other Rankin/Bass Specials.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 Oh, okay! Sadly my favorite is Jack Frost and I don’t have AMC. Still, it’s cool that they at least have the rights to SOME of the specials
Ahhhh god do I miss those days. Love the ABC Jingle would always get me hyped for the Rankin and Bass classics and some obscure Christmas titles like The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold."😂
I go back and watch Quinton's older videos from time to time as a comfort thing, this is one of my favorites. I love how both Quinton and Worthikids have so much genuine enjoyment for this weird bit of animation history, and I like how they just seem like two friends watching movies together. Also... in hindsight it is wild that the iCarly project started as one planned video... Quinton, good luck on catching up with all those goals you set "for 2021".
Quinton totally seems like the kind of dude to get disproportionately mad when people use the interjections in “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” (Monopoly!, Like a Lightbulb!, Cha Cha Cha!, etc..)
Wow. I had forgotten a lot of these but in my defense I am old. Still love the original Snow Miser vs Heat Miser. Thanks for bringing this to TH-cam and I'm surprised how high quality the video is. I should see if any of the oddball ones are of decent quality on disk.
Worthi making weird noises masterpost 5:52 LEEEEETSSSSS BEEEEEEEE 7:05 that’s so anime! :3 8:11 WOAAAAHHH 8:21 what is this noise sir 13:05 Oooooh JAMES CAGNEY 13:07 Wohooo tells the! 16:03 OH! A song for the turtle!! 16:04 weird noises continue 23:02 evil crow noises 25:04 HAHAHAHA Fuck! That’s funny, it’s so LOUD!! 25:33 #1 Peter Nook fanboy 27:12 AHHA! EMPTY, EMPTY 28:48 AAAGGGGHAAA (I think the man was holding back with the laugh in Friends in Low Places lmao) 32:35 The ouo saga 32:47 this man is secretly a bird 36:37 *honks*
Here in Canada, they played The New Adventures of Pinocchio every morning at 5:30 am. To me they seem like a fever dream. They were creepy and weird and now I need to go find them and watch them to see if they were really real.
You know what's crazy, I actually vaguely remember leprechaun and the Christmas gold, I just didn't realize it was ever called that, I also remembered the life and adventures of Santa Claus too, but I never heard of the new adventures of Pinocchio or the smokey the bear special, so I still found this video informative, and also a bit nostalgic too, thanks Quinton
30:56 YOU DID IT! YOU ABSOLUTELY NAILED MY BIG GRIEVANCE ON RANKIN/BASS PARODIES SHOWS AND ADS DO, BUT COULD NEVER PUT INTO WORDS! Like I always hated when shows would try to imitate that style, because it never looked right. Like they dont get it. It looks like Davie and Goliath or Moral Oral, which is NOT the same as Rankin Bass. But Worthikids gets it. HE FUCKING GETS IT. HE GETS THE LIMITATIONS, THE MECHANICS OF THE PUPPETS, THE WAY THEY EMOTE, LIKE HE NAILS THE STYLE PERFECTLY, AND HE DOESNT EVEN DO IT IN STOP MOTION, BUT IT LOOKS 1000% MORE ACCURATE THAN ANYONE ELSE TRYING TO DO THE SAME. Fuck everyone else, I respect YOU! (Both Quinton and Worthi). Your treatment of R/B is noble and appreciated Edit: put in a time code for the part I'm referring to, cuz that's when they actually bring it up
Quinton, THANK YOU for directing me to Worthikids! And thank you for all the work you put into this video. It was great learning about the more obscure works from Rankin/Bass
Worthi mentioning the teardrop “ooh” mouth being something he uses too makes so much sense to me as someone who loves his style and grew up watching and still watches Year Without a Santa Clause every Christmas
So the guy whose Etsy shop I featured in this video sent a take-down. This video was down for 37 days, and I briefly had a strike. So I'd like to formally retract any endorsment of his stuff. He is a poopy head.
only a single question lingers: WHY!?
was he some narcissist who didn't like other people talk about obscure Rankin-Bass productions because he thought he was the only one who was allowed to talk about it?
EDIT: also Worthi's reaction to Peter Nook was the same one I had when i saw Fuecoco
What? This is literally free advertisement. Some people are so bizarre.
Rick Goldschmidt is a not a great dude. On his blog, he posted a bunch of anti-mask rants claiming it was a communist agenda (which got him banned from Facebook).
Also, he had a very rare recording of Clarice's VA Janis Orenstein performing opera. (Janis had a long opera career, but none of it is available on the internet, and the only non-Rudolph footage of her online is an episode of The Forest Rangers she was in.) He could've uploaded it to TH-cam to share it with his fellow Rankin-Bass fans who loved Janis's performance of There's Always Tomorrow, but instead he put it on a CD on his Etsy which is now sold out.
Imagine having one of the few remnants of a gifted child prodigy who fell into obscurity despite her beautiful voice, and spitefully choosing to withhold it for money
Darn. I really want a copy of the communist monkey episode of New Adventures of Pinocchio, is there anywhere else I could get a copy?
Whelp. Time to go do a Scrooge on this man. Who wants to go non-corporial with me to make him socialist?
We started with "I'm a full blooded American" and ended with "Santa getting indoctrinated into Communism."
incidentally “santa getting indoctrinated into communism” is also the plot of the musical “flahooley”
A specter is haunting Europe. A fat, bearded specter wearing red who brings good cheer and toys to everyone rich and poor alike
based and beardpilled
santa is accidentally based
There was a time when a Socialist party used Santa Claus in their campaign.
I love how Smokey's name is just from his brother making a cruel joke out of Smokey's traumatic experience, what a great origin story
Same as the standard modern version of Cinderella I guess
That was the 50s for you.
That actually tracks for rankin bass
Even better he was caught in a forest fire started by a cigarette smoking, trash dumping gorilla.
Well Lion King did it and that was the highest grossing animated film. Scar probably has an actual name
Oh, heck yes, love learning all this obscure stop motion lore.
Fun fact, the original Godzilla was intended to be stop motion, inspired by King Kong, but the art form was so new that no one in Japan was good enough at it, so they just went ahead and invented an entire film genre instead.
Now I just want to see a fully serious Rankin-Bass stop motion kaiju movie
God bless Toku
@@MrSkerpentine uhhh... The Last Dinosaur is technically Rankin/Bass
Yeah, and it was also very cost-heavy.
In King Kong vs. Godzilla,, there's only one scene in stop motion, of the Godzilla hand puppet dropkicking the King Kong one... And it looks like shit compared to almost everything else. Makes me wonder why they thought it would have looked better when Tokusatsu surpassed in every way what Toho could have done with Stop-Motion.
I don’t have a source but as a kid I was obsessed with Godzilla. The books I read all said they rejected stop motion because it looked fake in comparison.
Really didn't expect "they all vote no and he dies in his sleep"
I know, I was just like, uh what?!
That was a joke. They unanimously vote him into the club.
@@Keenath nah I prefer the version where he dies
@@Keenath oh. I feel like an idiot
Honestly I scrolled for waaaay too long to see whether or not he actually died or if that was a joke. That messed with me
"Little brother. Were you in a head-on collision? Guess I'mma call you Head-on Collision now."
This made me laugh WAY harder than it should have
Car Crash from Epithet Erased be like
@@theblandcharlie822 I Understand that Reference!
@@Lunar_Atronach
You crash one car FOUR times and suddenly it's your name!
thats what happened to 2-D
Today I learned that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Last Unicorn, and ThunderCats were made by the same company... small world
And The Hobbit!
Some of the folks who worked on Last Unicorn would later help form Studio Ghibli!
My favorite part about Rankin/Bass films is almost every character has a kill count
I thought I was the only one
ngl, now i just want one of those horror movie kill count videos, but instead of horror movies, its just the entire rankin bass library
I'd say Rudolph and Frosty, but there was one kill they made together of all things.
@@Lyladagger02 Eh, I’d say that was the Ethel Merman character’s kill. Unless you’re referring to a different kill in that movie, I just remember the wizard’s death. I’ve only ever seen that one once or twice and it’s been awhile.
@@tearoses9940 I guess that's fair enough lol.
The New Adventures of Pinocchio really said “save a horse ride a cowboy”
This quote brings me back
It's so funny that it's called "Smokey the Bear" because my friend who's a fireman always scolds us saying "His name is Smokey Bear he has no middle name"
But... but the film clearly shows that his middle name is Sonny.
@@Popcultureguy3000 broooo if you read the comics you'd know that was scratched from the canon when they rebooted here's the video that explains it 😁
th-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/w-d-xo.html
yeah but he's still a bear, so if you wanna specify which Smokey its "the bear"
@@bernebelmont1857 no bear is his last name
@@fugyfruit yeah its both tho
Fun Fact: One of the studios from which Rankin Bass outsourced its Japanese animators, called Topcraft, is the same building that would later be used as Studio Ghibli!
So that means Rankin Bass animation is technically ghibli films and we're all weebs
@@thehermit8618 Yep👍😄
@@thehermit8618 Topcraft worked on Rankin/Bass’s adaptations of The Hobbit and The Last Unicorn with a lot of the background artists on those films later worked as founding members of Studio Ghibli.
this building has a curse to bankrupt everyone who stays there lol
Worthi's "a musical number is starting" croon speaks to me on a deep level.
"...With a Thanksgiving Day special, dedicated to telling the backstory of another household icon..."
Oh God, it's gonna be racist, isn't it?
"...Smokey the Bear."
I don't think I've breathed a bigger sigh of relief honestly
Thats how I felt the whole way through, but thankfully there were never any really horrible stereotypes
They have another Thanksgiving special that came out in 1967 called Mouse on the Mayflower, which is a racist and sexist abomination
@@Antifearn fucked up American colonialist propaganda in children’s media is a special interest I have (for some fucking reason) so now I have to watch it at some point
I won’t have fun but it’s gonna happen 💀
@@Lucifersfursona The best part about the special is that is was sponsored by McDonalds. I'd rather eat there for Thanksgiving than watch that special again.
Y’know what rhymes with bigger, right?
If you ever dip your toes back into the metaphorical Rankin Bass pool, I cannot suggest watching one of their only forays into Halloween, a NEARLY TWO HOUR stop motion train wreck known as Mad Monster Party. It's got the highest body count out of any RB movie, a twist ending, and Phyllis Diller is there
Accurate description xD
“You’re hysterical!”
**slaps lady**
Arguably the most memorable part of the movie for so out of nowhere it is.
Oh man I went out of my way to buy that movie for Halloween a few years ago and you can imagine my disappointment -_-
I personally like it in part cause they featured all of the major Universal Studio monsters. Also, the femme fatale sounds like Kathleen Turner, which makes her even hotter than she would be otherwise.
Me, just listening along in the background at work when suddenly: ... Wait... Rankin-Bass did Thundercats??
Lol and me, listening along in the background while playing video games (with volume on high), when all of a sudden...
Fox: "LAAATS!!!$ BEEEEEE!!!!!!"
And Silverhawks, AND Tigersharks. They found a theme and stuck to it.
That is amazing
Man, when they were showing someone messing up the forest, I thought the Smokey movie would have some poignant message about humans being destructive, but nope! Gorilla time!
I totally expected the monster to be MAN. So yeah, consider me surprised.
I like that the gorilla is not only putting trash in a can but then throwing it into the river where afterwards has a smoke. It's so specifically human yet...it's a gorilla.
It was probably originally meant to be a human in the script.
I’m almost glad we didn’t get invisible man as the villain, a smoking gorilla is just hilarious.
Am I the only one that didn’t know that the Worthkids Wasn’t actual stop motion?
What a legend, one of the best Animators on the site
i read the credits ;)
I felt that it was but couldn’t accept it
I learned it a couple days ago, when I read the description of the Bones Video.
I knew because of credits but yah seriously it’s had to believe
It's so flawless I didn't catch it until the comments and credits, he's crazy good.
Thank you both for highlighting the work of the Japanese stop-motion animators behind Rankin/Bass, especially Tadahito Mochinaga. It’s a shame that their work is not nearly as known or respected, especially since their animation work is so important to the charm of Rankin/Bass (as Worthikids pointed out).
are we not going to talk about how santa is literally just the Buddha according to that movie
Considering the Japanese artists you might be totally right
OMG I was thinking that too!
time is a flat circle
@@bernebelmont1857 a circle is already flat
@@nautilus5922 time is a flat sphere
I just had a revelation about the magic of Rankin Bass animagic while watching this video for like the 5th time this week. Traditional Japanese Noh theater uses highly exaggerated body language to make up for the severe limitations of acting with a mask on, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a big part of why old Rankin Bass animation looks so good and why imitations look so shoddy. Most stop motion animation productions after Rankin Bass were made in America by American animators, rather than in Japan by Japanese animators, and I think that's what Worthikids is getting at when he says that the Japanese animators themselves are the true reason these animations are so beloved to this day. There's a dedication to the artform that's extremely rare in the U.S. (Studio Laika being a notable exception)
Holy shit that was informative, thank you for this.
Jesus Christ, Quinton. You've been absolutely spoiling us lately.
Hope he doesn’t stop
The fact that Worthi goes "OOH!" at any song makes perfect sense to me tbh
That "dinosaur baby" reference was like getting sideswiped by a truck. I was not expecting that at all.
Holy Shit, He's In The Rabbit Hole!
I know. I was caught so off guard
That was very surreal
I keep seeing creators I watch make Korone references and I love it.
Was that Quinton or Worthi? I couldnt tell at all
Rankin-Bass CEO: “Okay, we gotta make a St. Patrick’s Day special! What do we have to work with?”
Rankin-Bass Employee: “Well sir, it’s to honor the death of Irish catholic Saint Patrick-“
Rankin-Bass CEO: *LEPRECHAUNS FIGHTING SHAPESHIFTERS*
I like when 60s-80s media tries so hard to make their shows blatantly anti-communist but also accidentally include pro-communist themes by having plots about wealth disparities and abusive upper classes
Having plots about wealth disparities and abusive upper classes isn't inherently communist.
@@pepperedash4424 Inherently leftist
@@Peasham Not at all; you can still believe in something and acknowledge its faults without a aligning with the other side.
@@pepperedash4424 It's not a "side", it's a spectrum.
@@Peasham I chose "side" as a more simple and generic term to apply more to politics. My point still stands.
Just gotta say, the animators working on the stop motion portions of Elf did a fantastic job
The best next to Worthikids, for sure.
@@aldenmartin623 agreed!!
*Aniki:* Hey...you smell all smokey. (from this traumatic forest fire) Guess we'll have to call you "Smokey" after this.
*Sonny:* 👁 👄 👁
This is basically the equivalent of the thing in Fan4stic getting his catchphrase"Its clobbering time" from his abusive brother .
@@ratchetxtreme6591 that’s where he got it from?
@@SorowFame yeah in that movie he literally gets his catchphrase from his abusive brother who would shout that before his brother would beat him. It’s fuckin horrible.
@@crimsondynamo615 thankfully it's not were he got it from in the comics
Imagine being horribly seared in a fire- also loosing your mother- and I walk up like “huh- your skin is morbidly burned - guess I’m gonna have to call you Crispy”
I am so glad you guys addressed what makes Rankin Bass imitations look not close to them. I always loved how Worthi used the style in his work, and hearing him explain just how much he knows about it makes sense now, since he's one of the only people i've seen to actually make it work.
God bless the bootleg people on Etsy selling stuff that was never released on home media I have a Billy and Mandy box-set now because of them
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me!
Highly reccomend the work of fredthebluraydog. Super over priced but VERY high quality versions of most of the media they sell. I'd give the codename KND box set a 10/10
@@deadlockoriginalfilms2.096 apparently fred has fallen ill recently and took down the etsy shop. there’s a website running in his stead but i’m not sure they’re affiliated with him
@@xannytanner jesus christ i spent 2 minutes on the site and before i knew it i dropped 34 bucks on the squirrel boy box set XD
It's not from a bootleg seller, it's from the official historian of Rankin/Bass. He worked along side them in the early 200s before they passed. He has access to a lot of images and recordings that a lot of people have never seen.
"we're the oldest living things; don't let us die." is a very powerful and compelling statement
“Why would you call him smokey after this?! Its horrible!”
Teddy roosevelt: 0.0’
Hearing Worthikids' voice for the first time feels like luigi saying "hello mario" in a normal voice
"Hey, I'm Quinton, and here's a topic about a relatively obscure part of a popular form of media."
Lol you know it!
“Hi, I’m Quinton, and I’m gonna make you emotionally invested in some random shit you’ve never seen or heard of before”
"I like it cause it didn't go on forever, it was just a neat little bubble," he said, after going over three whole decades of animation history.
Wait does this mean that Rankin-Bass movies are technically anime?
The Hobbit, Return of the King, and The Last Unicorn are animated by people who would eventually form Studio Ghibli, so yes
@@NTA_Luciana woke take
Here we go
Rudolph kun
*rests nose on folded hands* get in the sleigh, kringle
30:40 I think rather than saying, "Because it's Japan," What made Rankin and Bass Animations so charming, is that prior to this, nobody on earth had ever seen Stop-Motion Animation at this level before. At the time, it was Innovative and captivating, and to this day, it triggers nostalgia in a lot of people. I remember watching and enjoying Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer when I was 8 years old, while playing with my LEGOS I got from Santa Clause.
And following Worthikids work, It's pushing those same buttons for me too. It's Charming, and it looks authentic!
First part of "The new adventures of Pinochio": Pinochio has some crazy adventures i guess
Second part of "The new adventures of Pinochio": two stand users time travel to prove their land-lady they're not commies
“Don’t let us die Smoky” was that really part of the movie or did you add that in post? That is too crazy for me to believe.
14:35 "water is impossible in stop motion"
this is so true!! one of the most difficult and frustrating things to pull off as long as you arent doing claymation or smth imo
i love the rankin bass plastic wrap water
Even Laika had to give up and just cgi it in kubo
I could listen to like a whole 2 hour podcast about them talking about the water and the Ooo face. it was so fun to hear their enthusiasm about this.
Fun fact, actual Saint Nicholas is the ancestor of a prominent anarchist theorist, Peter Kropotkin
But the guy was a bishop, so he shouldn't be a direct ancestor, right?
Based
@@yltraviole I believe that the vows of celibacy for the priesthood weren’t laid down until the Middle Ages.
@@yltraviole ok you clearly don’t understand how bishops work
@@gracekim1998 Uhmm, could you explain yourself in any way, instead of just smugly stating that I'm wrong? You clearly don't understand how social interactions work.
Just curious, why did you guys not mention the Jackson 5 TV show by Rankin Bass? There's an episode where Michael Jackson basically gets drafted into Vietnam, I feel like that's unmined gold for this video.
So Smokey the Bear had PTSD.
I know! Giving him the nickname Smokey would be like calling Jesus "Ol' Crossy".
We watched the Smokey the Bear one in school
I miss when ABC family would spam these stop motion movies during December.
They still do the 25 days of Christmas
I remember getting my socks rocked off by The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus as a kid. Most badass Christmas movie EVER
Now all Freeform does during the holidays is show nothing but overrated Pixar movies…
Those were good old day now there on AMC.
As an Australian, I have absolutely no attachment to these films but I have such a technical fascination with them. Worthi being able to recreate it so faithfully using digital methods is absolutely mind blowing. I was blown away with his work in your VidCon video
I'm so glad someone mentioned Leprechaun's Christmas Gold!! It's honestly one of my favorites of the Rankin-Bass specials. I saw it on a DvD as a kid, and it hasn't left my mind since.
Quinton: this video will go mostly unnoticed until 5 or so years when it’ll start to rebound
This video: *is literally the very first thing suggested on my home page*
It just showed up in my feed. It is currently summer.
Does anyone remember that weird A Year Without a Santa Clause spin off movie about the Miser Brothers that aired like once in the 2000s and then never again? I think it was called A Miser Brother’s Christmas and I think it was about them having to do Santa’s job of delivering presents? Idk I just remember the Miser brothers looking vaguely like they did in the original Rankin/Bass film but all the other characters didn’t even try to replicate the style.
This comment just brought up a memory I didn’t even know I had.
It might have been in 2008, I have a vague memory of the Miser bros sitting at a table with Mother Earth. It might have been on ABC
Omg I remember that one too-
I have it on DVD! I haven't watched it in a while but I thought the niser brothers were cool as a kid and glad they eventually got their own movie. There is also this really bad year without a santa claus that is live action too lol
I swear I’ve seen it reaired a few times… total crap, I hated it
(Also could have sweared it was made later than that- cannot be sure, though)
Caught myself trying to do the Rankin/Bass "oo face" while they were talking about it.
I was rewatching this while doing dishes and turns out my dad (Who was born in the early 60s) knew a lot of these! Though he admitted he had forgotten about them, and upon watching some of this while I put stuff away, he remarked "and I can see why, these are weird"
I did not expect that Korone reference. It's nice to find out that not even Quinton is safe from the vtuber rabbit hole.
My grandfather worked for Rankin and Bass on most of the Christmas movies as a storyboard artist. Apparently he hated Heatmeiser and Coldmeiser with a passion, thought they were horrendously stupid.
They’re like the best part!
Imagine working on Rankin Bass and complaining about characters being horrendiously stupid
B- Big Top Burger isn’t 2D animation????? Well i’m going to have a crisis
this just inspired me to learn blender even more now
The last Santa Claus production sticks in my mind for just how Tolkien-esque it is.
Actually, come to think about it, there was an animated version of that released sometime in the late 90's/early 2000's on Toonami that was also really good. Does anyone else remember that one?
I do
My husband and I watched Life & Adventures this year (the 1st time he's ever seen it, I've watched it since I was a kid) and he pointed out the Tolkien connections to me. Now I can't unsee them, lol.
8:08
Was not expecting a Korone reference! Color me pleasently surprised!
Me, here, 3 years later at Christmas; I appreciate you taking the time with this video, even knowing it doesn’t perform well right away! This was an interesting watch, and I’m on my way to find the other Rankin Bass video you mentioned making!
you call it the “Rankin/Bass Ooh Face” but they are clearly pogging.
This must be the fabled Boomer Pog
This is the Skarsgard pennywise lip
I'm 30 years old and I'm not afraid to ask. Wtf is pogging and why is everyone saying pog? Is it like the weird cardboard circles from the 90s? I'm officially too old lol
@@strayiggytv twitch emote.
@@Alex-je8gc that explains it. I have no desire to watch twitch streams so I fell out of the loop on that one
Watching this has confirmed what I always had suspected: Worthi is a precious human that must be protected.
The mute cowboy looks like the misfit toy who rides an ostrich in “Rudolph”.
The fact that Rankin Bass did a version of the life of Santa Claus makes me oddly happy. But the 2D musical version from the early 2000s is still my favorite
Reject Capitalism, return to Monke.
Destroy the hedge fund
Do you mean communist monke or chain smoking, forest fire starting, putting garbage into the river monke?🤔
@@stopske9332 that’s america so no
I heard recently "You'll go down in history . . LIKE COLUMBUS!" Yeah, maybe that wasn't the best option for that line.
I fckn love Worthikids! Palpatine's journey got recommended for me and even though I don't like or care about star wars I clicked it and then I watched it over and over again, sent it to all my friends and got very offended when they didn't like it as much as I did! Also Big Top Burger is so good
I absolutely adore all of Worthi's works, he's seriously an incredible animator, bigtop burger is one of my favorite things to EXIST
From Monkey Commies to Santa Marx: The Rankin/Bass Story
He 's making a list he's checkin' it twice he's gonna find out who's n naughty or nice santa clause is coming to supply the peoples army
25:30 Worthi's joy over Peter Nook is so wholesome 😄
Ikr and it makes sense cuz that’s such a worthikids character
18:41 me and my gay ass are over here thinking those two were about to kiss in a friggin Rankin/Bass Film
SO DID I, I got so shocked lol
What if we kissed in the Rankin/Bass Film 😳😳
Jk unless...
I was disappointed when they didnt
Which movie/tv thing is it from?
@@oneinathousand2156 The Daydreamer (1966) it's my favorite Rankin Bass film about the life of Hans Christian Andersen, it has the best songs too IMO
you are so correct, "maybe over the next few years, it will rebound"
A year or two ago I binged your nickelodeon stuff, then today saw this video pop up and I thought "Oh wonderful Christmas episode." then WORTHIKIDS? You guys are pals?? I was so in.
I had no idea The Last Unicorn was made from that studio.
Santa's adoptive mom is a cuuuutie. A powerful cutie.
I liked this
Smoky the Bear has the same origin as Spider-Man. He didn't put out one fire and it killed his family so now he's devoted his life to stopping all fires
I never knew that Worthi took the "o" mouth style he uses so often from Rankin Bass, that's really cool.
The analysis at the end was very on point.
Surprised that "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" was on here. It was on "25 Days of Christmas" a lot on Fox Family/ABC Family/Freeform. I've seen it nearly as many times as Rudolf, Frosty, etc. Absolutely more times than The Little Drummer Boy.
I used to watch “25 Days” every year as a little kid but somehow I never saw that movie. I have no clue how I didn’t because I always hear people talking about it airing on there, but I didn’t even know it existed until I was a teenager and ABC Family had already lost the rights to air the Rankin-Bass specials.
Actually "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" and the other Rankin/Bass Christmas Specials currently air on AMC. FreeForm is still able to air the original Rudolph, Frosty, and Little Drummer Boy special but not it's followups.
@@moonbunny24 Actually FreeForm currently airs the original Rudolph special but ain't like the CBS airing (same with Frosty and The Little Drummer Boy). They restored the Peppermint ending and original version of "We Are A Couple Of Misfits" and the instrumental of "We Are Santa Elves". AMC currently airs the other Rankin/Bass Specials.
@@nyanpirethecat2257 Oh, okay! Sadly my favorite is Jack Frost and I don’t have AMC. Still, it’s cool that they at least have the rights to SOME of the specials
Ahhhh god do I miss those days. Love the ABC Jingle would always get me hyped for the Rankin and Bass classics and some obscure Christmas titles like The Leprechaun's Christmas Gold."😂
Worthikids: Idk, I mean water is impossible with stop motion
*Laika has entered the chat*
Yeah but Laika does everything impossible with stop motion because it's made up entirely of fucking wizards or somethinig i dunno
Holy hell Worthi is so talented how the hell did Quinton Reviews collab with such a God!??
They're friends.
@@Aster_Risk It's literally in the video that they are not friends and that made the collab awkward at first
Oh my god, Worthi's reaction when a song starts is adorable holy shit XD
26:54 "He looks like a member of Nickelback." SAINT Nick-elback perhaps?
To me he looks more like Ed Sheeran
petition to make a reboot called "The Newest Adventures of Pinocchio" that just keeps following Bosco and Pinocchio is never even mentioned
Didn’t expect to see you here, but yes, make that happen
I go back and watch Quinton's older videos from time to time as a comfort thing, this is one of my favorites. I love how both Quinton and Worthikids have so much genuine enjoyment for this weird bit of animation history, and I like how they just seem like two friends watching movies together. Also... in hindsight it is wild that the iCarly project started as one planned video... Quinton, good luck on catching up with all those goals you set "for 2021".
Quinton totally seems like the kind of dude to get disproportionately mad when people use the interjections in “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”
(Monopoly!, Like a Lightbulb!, Cha Cha Cha!, etc..)
2021 Christmas special: *Ranking* Bass (tier list)
Wow. I had forgotten a lot of these but in my defense I am old. Still love the original Snow Miser vs Heat Miser. Thanks for bringing this to TH-cam and I'm surprised how high quality the video is. I should see if any of the oddball ones are of decent quality on disk.
I am but a simple gal. I see Rankin/Bass, I click. I see Worthikids, I click doubly fast.
"all my goddamn crystals are on the floor" and "stop her Rosco" are now part of my regular phrase rotation because of this video
A Quinton and Worthkids collaboration on bizarre Rankin/Bass projects , now that's definitely a pleasant surprise. 😁👌
Worthi making weird noises masterpost
5:52 LEEEEETSSSSS BEEEEEEEE
7:05 that’s so anime! :3
8:11 WOAAAAHHH
8:21 what is this noise sir
13:05 Oooooh JAMES CAGNEY
13:07 Wohooo tells the!
16:03 OH! A song for the turtle!!
16:04 weird noises continue
23:02 evil crow noises
25:04 HAHAHAHA Fuck! That’s funny, it’s so LOUD!!
25:33 #1 Peter Nook fanboy
27:12 AHHA! EMPTY, EMPTY
28:48 AAAGGGGHAAA (I think the man was holding back with the laugh in Friends in Low Places lmao)
32:35 The ouo saga
32:47 this man is secretly a bird
36:37 *honks*
Worthikids: pinocchio over the nose, he can't hear me
Worthikids: *oh no, anyway*
I dedicate the 2022 Holiday Season to the memory of Jules Bass, who passed away on October 25 at the age of 87
"dinosaur baby... woaahh" someones been watching korone
Worthikids being inspired by the Rankin Bass and their mouths is one of the most revealing things ever, god bless
For a long time I thought that Peter Cottontail one was a dream I had. What a trip. Great review of their work
Here in Canada, they played The New Adventures of Pinocchio every morning at 5:30 am. To me they seem like a fever dream. They were creepy and weird and now I need to go find them and watch them to see if they were really real.
You know what's crazy, I actually vaguely remember leprechaun and the Christmas gold, I just didn't realize it was ever called that, I also remembered the life and adventures of Santa Claus too, but I never heard of the new adventures of Pinocchio or the smokey the bear special, so I still found this video informative, and also a bit nostalgic too, thanks Quinton
30:56 YOU DID IT! YOU ABSOLUTELY NAILED MY BIG GRIEVANCE ON RANKIN/BASS PARODIES SHOWS AND ADS DO, BUT COULD NEVER PUT INTO WORDS!
Like I always hated when shows would try to imitate that style, because it never looked right. Like they dont get it. It looks like Davie and Goliath or Moral Oral, which is NOT the same as Rankin Bass. But Worthikids gets it. HE FUCKING GETS IT. HE GETS THE LIMITATIONS, THE MECHANICS OF THE PUPPETS, THE WAY THEY EMOTE, LIKE HE NAILS THE STYLE PERFECTLY, AND HE DOESNT EVEN DO IT IN STOP MOTION, BUT IT LOOKS 1000% MORE ACCURATE THAN ANYONE ELSE TRYING TO DO THE SAME. Fuck everyone else, I respect YOU! (Both Quinton and Worthi). Your treatment of R/B is noble and appreciated
Edit: put in a time code for the part I'm referring to, cuz that's when they actually bring it up
My god, you mentioned it on Twitter but I didn't know it would be out so soon. GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE!
Once again, I am here for my seasonal rewatch. Merry Holidaymas.
Thank you for your solidarity in the stance against Rudolph callouts. The visibility you're providing is much appreciated.
Quinton, THANK YOU for directing me to Worthikids! And thank you for all the work you put into this video. It was great learning about the more obscure works from Rankin/Bass
didn't think i'd see a Rankin/Bass animated bear foreplay today. thank you, quinton. i love you
Worthi mentioning the teardrop “ooh” mouth being something he uses too makes so much sense to me as someone who loves his style and grew up watching and still watches Year Without a Santa Clause every Christmas
My mom always liked the stop motion cartoon Little Drummer Boy.
I believe that every Quinton Reviews video takes place in the same universe.