Today we're looking at the final Rankin/Bass animagic special produced, 1985's Life & Adventures of Santa Claus. Like the specials that came before, children of the era remember it fondly while others do not.What most don't realize is that it's based on the first biography ever

Do yourself a favor and watch the OSS 117 movies. They’re hysterical, way funnier than Austin Powers (and absolutely fantastic scores from Ludovic Bource)

Said the literal third worlder

I didn’t realize Graviton was a real Marvel character. I thought he was just a stand-in for the Sentry on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

It’s also almost impossible to explain how much post-9/11 Americans loved anti-terrorist movies. The first Iron Man was a success because they updated him from anti-communist to anti-terrorist hero. The second and third failed because they abandoned it.

Eliyahu #DonBacon2028 🎗️🇺🇸🇺🇦 I swear conspiracy theorists have gotten lazier. You used to have to be creative with your theories, base them on some slight version of reality. Chem trails, JFK was iced by the Deep State and the Cosa Nostra, that kind of stuff. Now everything is just "da jooz".

This was based on panel from a Legion of Super-Heroes comic

I don’t know. I’ve never found Hermes on Futurama funny. He’s mostly just annoying.

This guy gets it (and I mean Ralph Bakshi )

To me the kicker is the mid-Atlantic accent dropping the second they mess up

My Italian ancestors couldn’t wait to shoot up their “family” for Uncle Sam. The leader of the war against Germany was, in fact, German himself. Achtung baby!

Google is the worst fucking company in the planet and it should be completely and totally destroyed and the whole Bay Area salted

Everything Bob Kanigher ever wrote suddenly makes perfect sense

It’s nice to see everyone turn on Quentin Tarantino. I just wish they’d done it 25 years ago, like I did

X-Files did an episode about a monster catfishing online in 1994 (turns out he also needed to eat their fat stores to live)

Dude had a sweet jacket

Honestly, a vodka martini with a sardine or anchovy in it sounds pretty good