I have discovered that there is something worse than hearing that horrible "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" song on the radio. They have actually made an animated holiday feature based on the song. And they managed to make the show worse than the song.

In the song, grandma wanders out into the snow suffering the effects of drinking too much egg nog - in other words too much rum. In the cartoon grandma has some sort of egg allergy and after a couple of nogs, heads out into the snow to go get her allergy medicine. Which is when she gets run over by an overweight guy in sled.

But that's not the worst of it. The whole focus of the plot is that grandma runs a bakery famous for its fruit cake and some evil businessman who is trying to completely take over and corporatize Christmas needs only the piece of property occupied by grandma's little shop to succeed. Grandma is saved and the corporate takeover of Christmas is thwarted by the eight-year-old grandson.

It's enough to make guy say Bah Humbug. And mean it.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 03:13 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment