‘Tis the season… for awesome television. Old favorites (”You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch!”) and new specials alike draw us to the shiny talking box for a few hours of mindless entertainment.
Cartoon Network is ready to dazzle its viewers with a veritable cornucopia of holiday viewing. Via AnimatedBliss, behold the Cartoon Network December schedule and all the glories within. The fun starts this Thursday night and continues through Christmas.
The jolly old man with the white beard brings new toys to boys and girls just one day a year, but Cartoon Network brings new and favorite holiday specials every Sunday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. (ET, PT) all month long, beginning Thursday, Dec. 1.
(I only have one question: What am I supposed to watch on Saturday nights??)
Check out the whole schedule, of course, but we’ve already marked the calendar and set the not-TiVo for some of the highlights. We’re looking forward to the holiday episodes of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (”A Lose Clause”) and Ed, Edd n Eddy (”Jingle Jingle Jangle”), as well as some of our favorite movies. Because it’s just not Christmas until we’ve watched How the Grinch Stole Christmas or Olive the Other Reindeer.
Heck, if they could throw in Rudolph and A Charlie Brown Christmas, I wouldn’t even have to change channels the entire month.
(And before you ask, I only left out A Christmas Story because we own it. I force the children to watch it every year—though in truth it doesn’t take much to convince them—and then spend those last frantic weeks before Christmas answering every query with “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.” They never get tired of it! Er, they never get tired of rolling their eyes at me when I do it!)
Do you have a favorite classic holiday movie I didn’t mention, that’s not on the Cartoon Network schedule? Tell me about it!