Seriously. I don't know exactly how old I was when I watched that part and thought that kid was kinda selfish for guilt-tripping a sick Santa who wanted one Christmas off. Just one.
Fun fact: as long as it's not snowing and a freezing wind is blowing, the clothes will dry because cold wind has no moisture so will leech water from the fabric. It's basically how you get 'freeze dried' coffee.
my mom used to hang laundry on the balcony, any month of the year. Yeah, after an hour the clothes are frozen stiff, but a day or two later they are dry and soft
Delores Claiborne mentions it in that novel *Delores Claiborne* . She asks the investigator if he ever hung laundry on a line in freezing cold wind and how it freezes your fingers. The stenogropher nods her head. I could relate till I got smart and wore rubber gloves.
You missed Mother Nature’s mixup when she tells Snow Miser to let it snow in South Town and Heat Miser to let it be warm at the North Pole. The animators got it backwards.
The part that really bothers me isn't Mother Nature speaking to the wrong brother, but the brothers actually acting in a way counter to how they'd feel about what's being said (like Heat Miser being happy about the snow in the south and vice versa).
Bonus sins: 1. At 9:03 the socks that Vixen was wearing are gone, and the dog catcher still thought it was a dog 2. The Miser brothers were only in the special for 6 minutes and still became the most popular part 3. The whole plan was to have Santa christmasing again, but then it was to give him a holiday. 4. The whole reason Santa was gonna work again was because one girl was feeling sad.
At least half the sins should be taken away for the Miser brothers' songs and banter. To this day they are still probably one of my favorite few aspects of Christmas culture / cartoons that I hold from my childhood. Iconic.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this wonderful old movie. Now that I got that out of the way, I can't wait to see what your view of my favorite Christmas movie is. Thank you! Hope it gets less than 140 sins.
I love this movie but I think part of the reason or at least the original main reason Santa wanted to stay home was because he was sick he didn't think of people not believing in him until the doctor said something so it went from him not going because he was sick to still being sick and not going because he thought kids didn't believe in him with no explanation about how he started feeling better
After "The Year Without a Santa Claus", the following year was "The Year Without a Vixen" when Vixen was wrongfully and illegally ridden ass-to-ass by that elf and then proceeded to get even further pounded when Vixen was ultimately locked in the pound.
Did anyone else notice how pissed Mrs. Claus sounds at the end "And your aches?!" Like, dude she went through all this crazy sh*t cause you wanted a break and all it took was a letter to change your mind and work one night out of the year 😭
"It's not nice to fool mother nature" was from an advertising campaign for margarine at the time this show was made. it was an edgy reference to the national zeitgeist.
3:33 The sad thing is that statement applies more to modern journalism. Also, Heat Mister isn't saying "degrees", it "100's a breeze!" I know, I've made the same mistake before too.
@@paul16451 it makes sense. A breeze in summer.months is wanted. Unless it's too hot. If it's too hot, a wind in summer is actually hotter. So...heat wave anyone?
7:15 That's not just a hand warmer, that's a muff. The woman had her hands in her muff which turns out to be a pussy cat. I'm getting a better idea why euphemisms happen.
The biggest sin about this special is that Mother Nature only had two minutes of screen time. She is an absolute _queen_ for being a single mother of two weather gods.
11:57 Actually that Heat miser guy was singing "I never want to see a day That's under 60 degrees! I'd rather have it 80, 90, ONE HUNDRED'S A BREEZE!!!"
I love this movie so much but even as a little kid watching it, i never understood why the kids and town didn't believe in Santa when it was literally front page news on national and local papers 💀
Well, considering how brutal the natural world actually is (animals engaging in cannibalism, lions killing cubs of rival males after taking over a pride, sharks that eat their siblings while still in the womb, natural disasters & weather that can kill people & animals), as well as the fact that both her sons are frightened of her, I can totally believe the fear everyone has for Mother Nature, or as I like to call her the most brutal mother of all (seriously Dethklok could write DEATH METAL songs about Mother Nature's brutality)!
Bore bears killing a sow's cubs to bring her back into heat, a number of species die as a byproduct of procreation...... I can totally see Mother Nature walking though a forest when a fox chases a rodent past and the rodent runs up her leg. Mother Nature grabs it coos and fawns over it then tosses it at the fox with a "Mommy loves you too!" Nature is not kind, it is not forgiving, and doesn't care if you are just not feeling it that day. You are on top of your game, you are lucky, or you are dead. So, yeah, not wanting to haphazardly disturb the lady that can end you with a thought is just smart.
bonus sin: Mrs. Claus never even thought of completing her Santa disguise with a fake beard, even though it's a common practice for 99.9% of shopping mall Santas.
12:01 He actually doesn't. The line is "I never want to know a day that's under 60 degrees/ I'd rather have it 80, 90, 100's a breeze" - if you listen for the line you can clearly hear that's what he says.
Alright TVSins, you get 2 sins. One, for using an actual dictionary for the word "Hoosegow" when clearly a trip to google would have saved you some time and effort, and two, Heat miser says "100's a breeze". In this special he does not rhyme degrees with degrees. If you play it at half speed you can clearly hear him say "a breeze". Therefore, I award you 2 sins.
When watching this, you think of how Mother Nature really is the most ruthless character just by reputation and all of those horrifying disasters. Heat and Snow miser might be less Team Magma/Aqua lite by comparison.
Mother Nature doesn't like to be disturbed... Around this time, there were popular commercials featuring Mother Nature and a margarine called "Chiffon". Mother Nature would get upset when she realized that it was not real butter... "Oh. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
Me: “Yes yes yes! Go to town, ye fellows! Flog this special that people say is so wonderful, but only because all they do is love the Heat and Cold Miser bits, and claim that is why they love the entire film (it’s like people that claim they love Pixar’s Up, but just the first 10 minutes!).
Very disappointed they didn't do "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year. Now if they want to sin some real Rankin-Bass schlock, start with "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" and descend all the way down to "The Easter Bunny's Coming to Town."
I played Mother Nature in 4th grade, on,y because she had the shortest amount of lines in the play, and it was fun-ish I never noticed the bs of this movie “I’m mr.white Christmas, I’m high on crack”
2:28 - Nice research on past years prior to 1974 that began on Thursday. The following months, though not labeled, were in order for Feb - Dec of the same years. :) 9:44 - I knew the meaning but not the etymology of "hoosegow", so that's a nice educational moment you provided. :)
The live action one had its moments, but the whole "We don't need a new source of income and jobs because our town is already great" ending annoyed me. I recall Plymouth, MA was planning to allow a filming studio to be built, and only three people were against it. THREE. That's why I find it unrealistic.
In addition to the freeze drying effect, you can "break" the frozen clothes and shake a bunch of the ice out of them leaving them far less wet than before 3:14......Several here I could have commented on, but....... You _do_ know that "blue" can mean sad, right? 6:18 Well, that's just it isn't it? 1 Reindeer for a fully grown (well, over grown) person or a couple elves, but a team for Santa and sleigh, _and_ all the presents
What are you talking about?? That's like saying a DJ only works 4 hours a day, or a retail person only works when the store is open. Santa only does the work of TOY DISTRIBUTION once a year! The rest of the time he is hard at work at the North Pole supervising a major assembly factory in toy manufacturing and doing inventory maintenance, keeping his reindeer healthy, and compiling the list of children around the world!
There is nothing wrong with Rankin & Bass and I will die on that hill. I’m 31 and watch them every single year. 😍 however, I would love Bender to be Santa from now on. This was funny AF though 😂
3:29 How did you miss the headline: "Santa Says" Too Tired? You guys were too focused on the second newspaper... which mispunctuates its quote by placing the exclamation point outside of the quote.
When the mayor says "We'll give Santa an official national holiday this year," he conveniently forgets that Santa ONLY exists because of a WORLDWIDE holiday!
8:27 this show was from a different time. One where one could talk to and befriend strangers without dying. Back in the day it was normal for children to have adult friends.
Here are all the audio outtake clips at the end: 1 (16:06): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (DreamWorks Pictures, 2004) 2 (16:19): House of the Dragon, "The Heirs of the Dragon" (season 1, episode 1; HBO, 21st August 2022) 3 (16:22): Reservoir Dogs (Miramax, 1992) 4 (16:31): the Blues Brothers (Universal Pictures, 1980) 5 (16:33): Yes Man (Warner Bros., 2008) 6 (16:42): Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (20th Century Studios, 2004)
You missed a Sin for the girl who selfishly guilt-tripped Santa into working while he was sick on the day off he was given.
That is my thoughts exactly; the whole world literally stated that Santa was under the weather and she just had to pull the "Blue Christmas" card.
Seriously. I don't know exactly how old I was when I watched that part and thought that kid was kinda selfish for guilt-tripping a sick Santa who wanted one Christmas off. Just one.
Fun fact: as long as it's not snowing and a freezing wind is blowing, the clothes will dry because cold wind has no moisture so will leech water from the fabric. It's basically how you get 'freeze dried' coffee.
It is called sublimation
*ding* Freeze dried coffee 🤣
my mom used to hang laundry on the balcony, any month of the year. Yeah, after an hour the clothes are frozen stiff, but a day or two later they are dry and soft
Delores Claiborne mentions it in that novel *Delores Claiborne* . She asks the investigator if he ever hung laundry on a line in freezing cold wind and how it freezes your fingers. The stenogropher nods her head.
I could relate till I got smart and wore rubber gloves.
As a kid growing up in Brooklyn my mother hung clothes out to dry during the winter.
You missed Mother Nature’s mixup when she tells Snow Miser to let it snow in South Town and Heat Miser to let it be warm at the North Pole. The animators got it backwards.
I've always noticed that too.
Wait... I thought it was supposed to be warm in the North Pole to give Santa a vacation on Christmas Day
The part that really bothers me isn't Mother Nature speaking to the wrong brother, but the brothers actually acting in a way counter to how they'd feel about what's being said (like Heat Miser being happy about the snow in the south and vice versa).
Add 1 more sin
That's always bothered me
11:30 you sinned Snow Miser's song, which deserves a sin
Exactly
In fact
Sinning this movie deserves 10 sins at least
Well.... if you're going to sin it, at least sin the fact that -10 is the benchmark for cold.
Bonus sins:
1. At 9:03 the socks that Vixen was wearing are gone, and the dog catcher still thought it was a dog
2. The Miser brothers were only in the special for 6 minutes and still became the most popular part
3. The whole plan was to have Santa christmasing again, but then it was to give him a holiday.
4. The whole reason Santa was gonna work again was because one girl was feeling sad.
I always wondered why they went from Mrs. Claus and company trying to get Santa Christmasing again to letting him take a vacation.
@Thomas O'Brien and the counter to all that??? *it's Rankin and bass!!!!* :P
At least half the sins should be taken away for the Miser brothers' songs and banter. To this day they are still probably one of my favorite few aspects of Christmas culture / cartoons that I hold from my childhood. Iconic.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this wonderful old movie. Now that I got that out of the way, I can't wait to see what your view of my favorite Christmas movie is. Thank you! Hope it gets less than 140 sins.
Even though Snow Miser is my favorite of the Miser Brothers
I do believe Heat Miser deserves more love…
I love this movie but I think part of the reason or at least the original main reason Santa wanted to stay home was because he was sick he didn't think of people not believing in him until the doctor said something so it went from him not going because he was sick to still being sick and not going because he thought kids didn't believe in him with no explanation about how he started feeling better
After "The Year Without a Santa Claus", the following year was "The Year Without a Vixen" when Vixen was wrongfully and illegally ridden ass-to-ass by that elf and then proceeded to get even further pounded when Vixen was ultimately locked in the pound.
I shouldn't have laughed at that.
Omg I spit out my beer
Well got DANG!
"I'm Mr. White Christmas."
I'm high on crack!
12:01 that is why Freeze Miser is the coolest. Also how dare you not take a sin off for one of the Freeze miser song.
Did anyone else notice how pissed Mrs. Claus sounds at the end "And your aches?!" Like, dude she went through all this crazy sh*t cause you wanted a break and all it took was a letter to change your mind and work one night out of the year 😭
Delighted by how sarky and snarky Dicer's narrator has grown and all the euphemism sins show someone read his Christmas wish list
11:59
People thought he said “100 degrees!” But he actually said “100’s a breeze!
"It's not nice to fool mother nature" was from an advertising campaign for margarine at the time this show was made. it was an edgy reference to the national zeitgeist.
3:33 The sad thing is that statement applies more to modern journalism.
Also, Heat Mister isn't saying "degrees", it "100's a breeze!" I know, I've made the same mistake before too.
Even if that second line is true, it still deserves a sin for making absolutely zero sense.
@@paul16451 How? He lives in a volcano, of course hot temperatures wouldn't bother him.
@@paul16451 it makes sense. A breeze in summer.months is wanted. Unless it's too hot. If it's too hot, a wind in summer is actually hotter. So...heat wave anyone?
One of my very favorite Christmas specials. Part of its charm is that it does not make logical sense. Really enjoyed the sin count, too.
Why in the world isn't Santa need a national holiday anyway. Not only does he volunteer for this job but he only works one night a year
There’s still time to sin The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
can we agree the music slaps
7:15 That's not just a hand warmer, that's a muff. The woman had her hands in her muff which turns out to be a pussy cat.
I'm getting a better idea why euphemisms happen.
Gnomes are actually a big part of Christmas tradition in some parts of the world, specifically in the Scandinavian regions of the world.
I never got the "Overworked Santa" troupe
The Elves are the ones who make all the toys whlie he just supervises
The biggest sin about this special is that Mother Nature only had two minutes of screen time. She is an absolute _queen_ for being a single mother of two weather gods.
I always wanted to see a live action version of this featuring Jim Carrey and Nathan Lane as the brothers...
I think there was a live action version on tv a few years ago.
There was a live-action movie made with Michael McKean as Snow Miser and Harvey Fierstein as Heat Miser, but it wasn't very good.
Good for pointing out the common Christmas show sin where people don't believe in Santa where the setting I'd such that Santa is a provable entity.
11:43
Actually, I think Snow Miser was just using a play on words: We'll have a *"blizzard"* rather than a *"blast."*
This short film is a classic.
This was always my favorite Christmas movie as a kid.
11:57 Actually that Heat miser guy was singing
"I never want to see a day
That's under 60 degrees!
I'd rather have it 80, 90,
ONE HUNDRED'S A BREEZE!!!"
You missed the biggest sin, which is Santa waking up at the end and the whole story was basically a fever dream
This was always one of my favorite Christmas specials.
This and Olive the other Reindeer
I love this movie so much but even as a little kid watching it, i never understood why the kids and town didn't believe in Santa when it was literally front page news on national and local papers 💀
One of my favorite Rankin Bass films. Pleasure to see this being sinned though X)
Well, considering how brutal the natural world actually is (animals engaging in cannibalism, lions killing cubs of rival males after taking over a pride, sharks that eat their siblings while still in the womb, natural disasters & weather that can kill people & animals), as well as the fact that both her sons are frightened of her, I can totally believe the fear everyone has for Mother Nature, or as I like to call her the most brutal mother of all (seriously Dethklok could write DEATH METAL songs about Mother Nature's brutality)!
Bore bears killing a sow's cubs to bring her back into heat, a number of species die as a byproduct of procreation......
I can totally see Mother Nature walking though a forest when a fox chases a rodent past and the rodent runs up her leg. Mother Nature grabs it coos and fawns over it then tosses it at the fox with a "Mommy loves you too!"
Nature is not kind, it is not forgiving, and doesn't care if you are just not feeling it that day. You are on top of your game, you are lucky, or you are dead.
So, yeah, not wanting to haphazardly disturb the lady that can end you with a thought is just smart.
Ah, this brings back memories. I watched this show so much lol. I still love how Mr. Freeze is grooving to Snow Miser in Batman & Robin. :D
I've never laughed so hard at someone dissing one of my favorite Christmas specials. 🤣
So she's worried that people will know she's not Santa unless she stuffs a pillow under her coat, but doesn't bother with a fake beard?? Ding!
3:19 - Santa used an investor relations firm, of course, and they handled the press releases and other media communications.
Mrs. Claus is HAZEL! That tv sitcom from the 50’s. Shirley Booth💕💕💕
I agreed they could have just let Mrs Claus be Santa Claus for a year
THATS WHAT THIS MOVIE'S CALLED!!!!!!!! SUCH A DEEPCUT MEMORY AND I COULD NEVER REMEMBER IT!!!!!!!!!
I loved these movies as a kid!
bonus sin: Mrs. Claus never even thought of completing her Santa disguise with a fake beard, even though it's a common practice for 99.9% of shopping mall Santas.
The Mizer Brothers' songs make this my favorite Rankin & Bass though
This is simply brilliant and I'm slightly concerned I'm going to end up on the Naughty List for how much I laughed...
If it makes you feel any better, you still have a whole year to make up for it.
THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED
12:01 He actually doesn't. The line is "I never want to know a day that's under 60 degrees/ I'd rather have it 80, 90, 100's a breeze" - if you listen for the line you can clearly hear that's what he says.
mrs.claus not being able to give us a date on when they got together, sin for forgetting your anniversary date
Please do Everything Wrong With The Office "The Ultimatum"
Santa just wanted to be the hero 😂
Love cold miser & heat miser 🌬️🔥✌️
3:58 That gag was taken out of a Laurel and Hardy film Unaccustomed As We Are!
Alright TVSins, you get 2 sins. One, for using an actual dictionary for the word "Hoosegow" when clearly a trip to google would have saved you some time and effort, and two, Heat miser says "100's a breeze". In this special he does not rhyme degrees with degrees. If you play it at half speed you can clearly hear him say "a breeze". Therefore, I award you 2 sins.
Man, quit picking this apart! Just enjoy it and look forward to it each year. I am 57 and watch ALL the Classic Christmas shows every year❤️
When watching this, you think of how Mother Nature really is the most ruthless character just by reputation and all of those horrifying disasters. Heat and Snow miser might be less Team Magma/Aqua lite by comparison.
This special is one of my Favs
Mother Nature doesn't like to be disturbed... Around this time, there were popular commercials featuring Mother Nature and a margarine called "Chiffon". Mother Nature would get upset when she realized that it was not real butter...
"Oh. It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!"
“Elf” mentions gnomes, I believe.
They mention that they don’t work at the North Pole because they drink to much
Me: “Yes yes yes! Go to town, ye fellows! Flog this special that people say is so wonderful, but only because all they do is love the Heat and Cold Miser bits, and claim that is why they love the entire film (it’s like people that claim they love Pixar’s Up, but just the first 10 minutes!).
Very disappointed they didn't do "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year.
Now if they want to sin some real Rankin-Bass schlock, start with "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" and descend all the way down to "The Easter Bunny's Coming to Town."
Agreed, also add Frosty Returns and any Peanuts special after the original three Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas
“Death. We’re talking about dead reindeer. Please stop dashing, dancing and prancing around the issue” I am f***ing rolling
I played Mother Nature in 4th grade, on,y because she had the shortest amount of lines in the play, and it was fun-ish
I never noticed the bs of this movie
“I’m mr.white Christmas, I’m high on crack”
I’d like to see one about The Little Drummer Boy (1968) this year 😂
16:39 “You are a sad strange little man.”
2:28 - Nice research on past years prior to 1974 that began on Thursday. The following months, though not labeled, were in order for Feb - Dec of the same years. :)
9:44 - I knew the meaning but not the etymology of "hoosegow", so that's a nice educational moment you provided. :)
The live action one had its moments, but the whole "We don't need a new source of income and jobs because our town is already great" ending annoyed me. I recall Plymouth, MA was planning to allow a filming studio to be built, and only three people were against it. THREE. That's why I find it unrealistic.
I think this special came into being because they sobered up halfway through writing Ymir and Surtr vs. Santa Clause, but already had half a script.
Well, some people claim the origin of the Santa Claus myth began with Odin, so Santa vs Ymir and Surtr could technically work.😄
Don't bash this movie. It was the inspiration for "A Song of Ice and Fire".
7:30 It's Grace, with that dead straightforward stare. Lol
A bit late for Christmas, but this is still appreciated.
This is the first time I've seen you guys sin a Ranklin-Bass movie. It was quite amusing.
In addition to the freeze drying effect, you can "break" the frozen clothes and shake a bunch of the ice out of them leaving them far less wet than before
3:14......Several here I could have commented on, but....... You _do_ know that "blue" can mean sad, right?
6:18 Well, that's just it isn't it? 1 Reindeer for a fully grown (well, over grown) person or a couple elves, but a team for Santa and sleigh, _and_ all the presents
3:50-3:52
I would like to see tiefling artificers in Santa's workshop, and firbolg rangers tending to the reindeer.
2:18 Santa taking a holiday? He Works ONE DAY A Year!
What are you talking about?? That's like saying a DJ only works 4 hours a day, or a retail person only works when the store is open. Santa only does the work of TOY DISTRIBUTION once a year! The rest of the time he is hard at work at the North Pole supervising a major assembly factory in toy manufacturing and doing inventory maintenance, keeping his reindeer healthy, and compiling the list of children around the world!
Fun fact: today is the 6th anniversary of George S Irving (the voice of heat miser)’s death. So I guess you could consider this a tribute to him
First time watching your channel and whew-boy what a stunner. This was brilliant, and the last line about Mrs. Claus knocked me over. Thanks.
Oh Dark Lords of the Thermostat
Me and my Sisters waited for this one more than RTRNR and SCICTT put together! 😃 The Miser Brothers were an instant hit with us.
They were that much for y'all?
I know RTRNR is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, but what is SCICTT?
@@madmunk1257 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
well someone is getting coral this year at 8:00
Not gonna talk about the blue Christmas girl writing two letters at a time
But she learned that from training in the Himalayas
Merry Christmas!
There is nothing wrong with Rankin & Bass and I will die on that hill. I’m 31 and watch them every single year. 😍 however, I would love Bender to be Santa from now on. This was funny AF though 😂
I had these exact thoughts when I watched this movie for the first time I can remember, just a few days ago. Maybe not all of them, but a lot of them.
Fun Fact: The second degrees in Heat Miser’s song is actually "a breeze." it is only interpreted as such by majority.
*Grabs pitchfork*
You dare touch this masterpiece with your grubby hands?
O.K. ONE MORE TIME... Heat Miser rhymes "Degrees" with "One Hundred's a BREEZE!"
11:58 ACTUALLY the lyric is "100's a breeze"
3:29 How did you miss the headline: "Santa Says" Too Tired?
You guys were too focused on the second newspaper... which mispunctuates its quote by placing the exclamation point outside of the quote.
2:56 “or your wife!!”
Just what my 4 year old asked when she watched this for the first time this year, “why doesn’t mrs claus just go?”
When the mayor says "We'll give Santa an official national holiday this year," he conveniently forgets that Santa ONLY exists because of a WORLDWIDE holiday!
All those kids reminded me of the movie “Santa Claus”
the setting of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS was in the 1920's, but the special was televised in 1974.
That's weird The cat's head wasn't there but its tail just magically edited its head anyways 7:10
8:27 this show was from a different time. One where one could talk to and befriend strangers without dying. Back in the day it was normal for children to have adult friends.
11:57 I thought so too, but he actually rhymed degrees with breeze.
This feels like an SNL skit for some reason
I cannot be the only one bothered by "Santa Says"- Too Tired when it should be Santa Says, "Too Tired"
That special was "TOO MUCH!"
🤣
Here are all the audio outtake clips at the end:
1 (16:06): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (DreamWorks Pictures, 2004)
2 (16:19): House of the Dragon, "The Heirs of the Dragon" (season 1, episode 1; HBO, 21st August 2022)
3 (16:22): Reservoir Dogs (Miramax, 1992)
4 (16:31): the Blues Brothers (Universal Pictures, 1980)
5 (16:33): Yes Man (Warner Bros., 2008)
6 (16:42): Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (20th Century Studios, 2004)