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  • Опубликовано: 27 дек 2018
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    The Rankin/Bass Christmas films, with titles such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, are some of the most beloved and iconic of all time. But did you know that they're all connected? Today, we discuss how.
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  • @madison5645
    @madison5645 5 лет назад +1921

    I fear the day these are remade, possibly by Illumination because Universal has distribution rights, and they make young Kris Kringle a sexy guitar playing hipster and the elves are Minions.

    • @babypurplebat2610
      @babypurplebat2610 5 лет назад +222

      this is a cursed comment

    • @Ryeven
      @Ryeven 5 лет назад +90

      NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE
      h e c k
      I can visually see that in my head.

    • @LimeyLassen
      @LimeyLassen 5 лет назад +103

      That would be like remaking the Notre Dame cathedral out of particle board and milk crates.

    • @TheShyNarwhal
      @TheShyNarwhal 5 лет назад +11

      Oh, no thanks....

    • @tenacioustravicious7871
      @tenacioustravicious7871 5 лет назад +11

      How dare they even think of it...

  • @memethyst
    @memethyst 5 лет назад +786

    what pisses me off the most about the later rankin bass movies is that the rudolph sequels completely forgot about hermey and yukon and clarice, and the frosty sequels completely forgot about karen...

    • @nyanpirethecat2257
      @nyanpirethecat2257 5 лет назад +24

      At least she returned in the unofficial sequel.

    • @marioguy5443
      @marioguy5443 5 лет назад +1

      @@nyanpirethecat2257 what is the name of that movie

    • @nyanpirethecat2257
      @nyanpirethecat2257 5 лет назад +47

      @@marioguy5443 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Island of Misfit Toys" that was straight to video by GoodTimes Entertainment.
      In the unofficial sequel, Clarice wants to learn how to fly like the other reindeer but has trouble throughout the film.

    • @runedoom
      @runedoom 4 года назад +15

      I wish I could forget about Karens

    • @QTCutes
      @QTCutes 4 года назад +6

      memethyst Karen died of hypothermia

  • @tremisanthrope
    @tremisanthrope 5 лет назад +1449

    Vixen didn’t age backwards
    Vixen died and named his child Vixen, and so on so forth.

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 5 лет назад +91

      tremisanthrope it’s like when there’s people named John or Michael or whatever. Names are passed down from generation to generation and such. I figure that it applies to the reindeer as well since they’re sentient.

    • @jeim376
      @jeim376 5 лет назад +59

      Nah. His niece was named Veronica, and she named her son Vixen Giovanni Thomson.
      Who, in turn, had a grandson with no arms and he was an orange juice salesman named Jon Thomson and he married Blitzen’s great great granddaughter, Joanna, who, surprisingly, was actually a reptile. Nobody really knows how a reptile got into their family, because a reindeer can’t give birth to a crocodile, and they’re not native to the North Pole of course, but we’ll just skip over this as it doesn’t matter to the plot. Anyway, they adopted a reindeer named Bruno, who named his first son after his grandfather, Patrick Stewart I, king of the penguins, and his second after his great great great great great grandfather, Geoffrey Stewart, the husband of Patrick’s grandfather, and he named his third after Dasher. Dasher’s cousin had a step-uncle named Jorge McDavis and his son (adopted during his first marriage), Brad Nelson, a transgender pigeon and lawyer involved in the infamous Santa’s Bag Case, named his son Vixen after his step-second-cousin’s great great great great great great grandfather. This is the one you see in the movie.

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 5 лет назад +23

      Eli M *slow clap turns to standing ovation*

    • @Superboi7777
      @Superboi7777 4 года назад +9

      @@jeim376 YES!!!!!

    • @haakenbailey7381
      @haakenbailey7381 4 года назад +6

      How can he name his child Vixen if he's dead?

  • @Dr.Barber
    @Dr.Barber 3 года назад +276

    The delivery on "Well giving toys is my way of saying hello" is so unbearably unbelievably sweet it makes me tear up a little.

    • @RemnantCult
      @RemnantCult 3 года назад +14

      Oh my lord, I was just about to say the same thing. What an adorable couple too.

    • @thebrideofghostface
      @thebrideofghostface 2 года назад +14

      It's his love language. : )

    • @HinataChick38
      @HinataChick38 Год назад +11

      That whole scene makes me wanna cry, it's so sweet.

  • @slavpepe6581
    @slavpepe6581 5 лет назад +856

    Weird story but the Rankins were my old neighbours back in Bermuda before I immigrated, my dad used to talk with him and would go over with fish cakes at Christmas, one time he let us in to their house and showed us around his workshop with a collection of models and materials, weird guy, nice guy. Good video 👌

    • @Ryeven
      @Ryeven 5 лет назад +48

      That's actually really wholesome heh ;w;

    • @AlexMint
      @AlexMint 5 лет назад +47

      I don't know many animators who aren't a bit weird.

    • @femmefuntime
      @femmefuntime 4 года назад +39

      Alex Mint a lot of artists may come off as weird because of being so passionate about their art. Many artists are on the spectrum or have adhd/add (and there’s absolutely nothing bad about that, i have adhd) so they tend to be super fascinated, passionate about, and focused on one particular thing. This might come off as weird to neurotypicals who don’t do that.

    • @idunnobutyay2520
      @idunnobutyay2520 3 года назад +7

      I would have loved to hang out with them

    • @IcyDiamond
      @IcyDiamond 3 года назад

      Cool

  • @KombatGod
    @KombatGod 5 лет назад +910

    14:20 oh so the Rankin/Bass universe is also where the Charlie Chaplin's Tramp movies take place... and since the Tramp also appears in the 1939 short Mickey's Polo Team, this means it's also the mainstream Disney universe... which of course is part of the Kingdom Hearts universe... where also Cloud from Final Fantasy VII appears. And Cloud is in Super Smash Bros. alongside Ryu, who in turn appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom. So yeah, this is actually all connected to the MCU.

    • @KombatGod
      @KombatGod 5 лет назад +18

      @@qwertybear.7120 thank God it isn't that stinker.

    • @mattiesavannahpahl9934
      @mattiesavannahpahl9934 5 лет назад +26

      Kingdom Hearts Universe is obviously a secondary Disney verse though. Hercules and Aladdin crossover is canon, but KH has them on different worlds.

    • @HistoricaHungarica
      @HistoricaHungarica 5 лет назад +8

      But we gotta find Pepe Silvia!!!!

    • @hunterjulian98
      @hunterjulian98 5 лет назад +15

      So Frosty the Snowman and Spider-Man could be in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as DLC?

    • @Chad_McRad
      @Chad_McRad 5 лет назад

      You cant use smash bros its a party game

  • @SkellaBella1396
    @SkellaBella1396 5 лет назад +481

    When I was really little, I LOVED Santa Clause is Coming to Town. Took it as true historical fact lol so I wrote a letter to Santa asking questions in regards to the movie and bless my father, I got a reply telling me not to believe everything I see in films lmao

    • @idunnobutyay2520
      @idunnobutyay2520 3 года назад +62

      Put One Foot In Front of the Other is a banger, tho.

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 Год назад +3

      Claus not Clause.... you are mixing up the show with the movie 🎥

    • @crimsonstudios680
      @crimsonstudios680 6 месяцев назад

      My dad did the exact same thing when I wrote a similar letter!!!!

    • @nilessebek4255
      @nilessebek4255 6 месяцев назад

      Plot twist: Their dad was Burgermeister Meisterburger

    • @MWSfan18
      @MWSfan18 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@nilessebek4255More like S.D. Kluger.

  • @SpyroTheGerudo
    @SpyroTheGerudo 4 года назад +97

    20:05 - "I couldn't afford a present this year, so I got you this box"
    "That's what I got you!"

  • @zaragozrex
    @zaragozrex 5 лет назад +1055

    WHY WEREN'T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE!?

    • @grfrjiglstan
      @grfrjiglstan 5 лет назад +53

      Just fixing these dolls' teeth.

    • @casual_ice_consumer4148
      @casual_ice_consumer4148 5 лет назад +10

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @cherrylemon2940
      @cherrylemon2940 5 лет назад +7

      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @trinitech2live13
      @trinitech2live13 5 лет назад +14

      WHY WEREN'T YOU AT ELF PRACTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @michael120.
      @michael120. 5 лет назад +9

      I can do a perfect impression of him and I do it every year near or during Christmas to my younger cousins, friends, etc. at random times

  • @Karbonic
    @Karbonic 5 лет назад +346

    That scene when they talk about the china doll is seriously heartwarming, real emotion there

  • @Dalton_Boardman2000
    @Dalton_Boardman2000 Год назад +23

    The retcon of Rudolph getting his powers from a sky goddess in preparation for the return of an ancient evil is straight out of something like LOTR or Marvel.

  • @inazumanfrash
    @inazumanfrash 5 лет назад +88

    You forget the postman is frickin everywhere in a bulk of these specials.

    • @memethyst
      @memethyst 3 года назад +4

      what else is he in besides santa claus is coming to town? i thought that was his only movie...

    • @Antifearn
      @Antifearn 2 года назад +4

      @@memethyst He was in The Easter Bunny is Comin’ to Town, which is a copy-paste version of SCICTT, but with the Easter Bunny.

    • @memethyst
      @memethyst 2 года назад

      @@Antifearn ah right, i've heard of it but i haven't seen it

    • @Antifearn
      @Antifearn 2 года назад +1

      @@memethyst I don’t recommend it, but it’s their best Easter special and best Easter Bunny backstory.

  • @just2good
    @just2good 5 лет назад +1722

    Next year you should do a look into the more obscure ones you skipped over, I think it'd be interesting!

    • @figglebottom3171
      @figglebottom3171 5 лет назад +11

      thank u just2good very cool

    • @blakespeers2456
      @blakespeers2456 5 лет назад +74

      Yes, I'm a big fan of the incredibly "pagan" version of "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" which A) Doesn't fit well in this narrative and B) Is the only Christmas movie I"m aware of in which a dragon is incinerated by a magic leaf.

    • @rileymcilvaine2393
      @rileymcilvaine2393 5 лет назад +25

      Mad Monster Party!

    • @jtszabo1691
      @jtszabo1691 5 лет назад +29

      Nester the Long Eared Donkey shows Rudolph existing in the same world as Jesus. I’m 32 and I never saw that one until I was about 29

    • @jtszabo1691
      @jtszabo1691 5 лет назад +9

      Blake Speers that one was amazing. It’s also based on a novel by L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz

  • @Hippiethecat124
    @Hippiethecat124 5 лет назад +398

    Rudolph's Shiny New Year sounds like a D&D campaign I would write while tripping absolute balls on DMT

    • @b.parker1740
      @b.parker1740 5 лет назад +42

      Speaking of, if you want a real trip, there was an '80's special that they made entitled "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus." It was based on a story by Frank L. Baum and was about a council of pagan-esque forest gods of faeire and elf variety debating on whether or not Santa should be granted immortality. Among them is even a horned god and an Odin-like all-father god who raised Santa as a warrior via a lion and taught him about how the world is a suffering place and features Santa learning how to fight with demons, monsters, and even Chinese myth dragons whilst also learning wisdom through nymphs. It's insane and actually real.

    • @TheJohno95
      @TheJohno95 5 лет назад +6

      I miss that one! You never see it anymore! Back in the 90's, it was a staple. You could at least catch it on some channel early in the morning before the adults were up to see how weird it was.

    • @b.parker1740
      @b.parker1740 5 лет назад +8

      @@TheJohno95 If you're referring to the high fantasy one, it was recently on AMC (oddly enough). It hadn't been on in ages and seeing it kind of reminded me that it was a thing. To me, the weirdest part about it, not so much that it even was such a clash with the already convoluted religious identity of Christmas, was that it really doesn't mesh with anything previously by R/B. They reused the same model for the present Santa, but it gave such a different backstory to the Santa usually in the specials. Then again, continuity was always odd between the old specials (if they really were meant to link up, after all).

    • @TheJohno95
      @TheJohno95 5 лет назад +4

      I don't mess with cable anymore, but it is strange that AMC is showing Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. But, at least someone is. It is very strange compared to some of the other specials, but I've got a soft spot for it. Of the "newer" ones, it's probably my favorite. Very weird, but cool show.

    • @PixelOverload
      @PixelOverload 5 лет назад +1

      @@b.parker1740 Fuck I remember that, I need to find myself a copy and give it a watch sometime, i recall that being pretty awesome.

  • @lauren-ko7mr
    @lauren-ko7mr 5 лет назад +121

    this is.... an incredibly dense and rich mythology. damn

  • @imperialsunstrider7873
    @imperialsunstrider7873 5 лет назад +28

    The noise that machine made in the beginning sounds like the screams of the damned that you would hear while being rowed across the River Styx.

  • @christinemurphy730
    @christinemurphy730 5 лет назад +189

    "Jack's Lament" OH MY GOD. I'm amazed that I just never realized how Nightmare was inspired by Rankin/Bass. I've seen both Nightmare and most Rankin/Bass movies at least 30 times each and just never made the connection.

    • @idunnobutyay2520
      @idunnobutyay2520 3 года назад +6

      I can kinda see it at points.

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 Год назад

      Nightmare is a frightmare...... to me it's not a Christmas movie 🎥 but for Halloween 🎃👻🦇🐈‍⬛🧹🤡☠️💀

    • @TV---kn2rl
      @TV---kn2rl 5 месяцев назад

      I'm not totally convinced Nightmare was directly inspired by Here Comes Peter Cottontail but it's possible. There should be concrete evidence before Quinton just states stuff like that

  • @Quadrenaro
    @Quadrenaro 5 лет назад +255

    Deer, including reindeer, shed their antlers every year and regrow them back. So Rudolf having small antlers is really nothing wrong, just implies its spring or summer.

    • @Ms.gnomer
      @Ms.gnomer 5 лет назад +1

      Quadrenaro in December?

    • @Quadrenaro
      @Quadrenaro 5 лет назад +21

      @@Ms.gnomer Not impossible either. Low testosterone. Given the right imbalance in an ecosystem, a doe could have a larger rack than the bucks.

    • @suddenllybah
      @suddenllybah 5 лет назад +5

      Eh, think of it as someone be rassled for having a weak beard.

    • @PixelOverload
      @PixelOverload 5 лет назад +12

      @@Quadrenaro The shrinkage in body mass and muscle tone is far more concerning

    • @kirkbupkis
      @kirkbupkis 4 года назад +18

      @@PixelOverload Rudolph the Atrophied Reindeer.

  • @eduardo_corrochio
    @eduardo_corrochio 4 года назад +58

    Speaking from experience, as a kid in the 1970's and 1980's, there was nothing like watching the Rankin Bass Christmas specials , because we only had one night to see each show, once a year. If you missed it, you were screwed royally and had to wallow in shame and woe for months, LOL. Oh, and most of these shows are not "movies", as a lot of people seem to call them; for me, a movie is longer than an hour and debuted in a theater/cinema. But I digress.
    As I matured and became a grownup, I grew to appreciate all the great voice talent in these programs as well as the fun songs. They've never lost their charm and appeal, and they win over new fans every generation. I need to make a RUclips playlist of the best songs from the specials. Of course the most supreme tune of all is the Heat Miser/Snow Miser song. I especially liked the version by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
    Merry Christmas!

  • @Bururaian
    @Bururaian 5 лет назад +46

    I noticed the swimming bird thing when I got older. Blew the whole family's minds when we put two and two together. That bird is dead. That elf killed it.
    Also, Winterbolt turning into a tree gave me nightmares when I was little.

    • @oliverbrownlow5615
      @oliverbrownlow5615 3 года назад +5

      Maybe the elf dropped the swimming bird into a body of water as a gift to the kids in a family of Sea Monkeys, and that's why he judged that the bird didn't need an umbrella.

  • @totallynotjeff7748
    @totallynotjeff7748 5 лет назад +428

    So, the new year's movie. Does this mean that there's an island that's always 2016? That would be it's own form of hell.
    Edit: it has now become clear that there is a far worse island out there.

    • @espurious
      @espurious 5 лет назад +33

      David Bowie dying again, and again, and...

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 5 лет назад +17

      That there is an island that deserves an atomic bomb testing

    • @bruhvengers7050
      @bruhvengers7050 4 года назад +2

      Actually in one of the people in the background of the New Years movie was a character in a year without a Santa Claus

    • @pyroshell5652
      @pyroshell5652 4 года назад +12

      @@espurious And Suicide Squad is the only movie in theaters. And everyone is in a constant state of outrage over the election.

    • @TheProWrestlingPodcast
      @TheProWrestlingPodcast 4 года назад +53

      Just wait for the 2020 island lol

  • @toocartoony
    @toocartoony 5 лет назад +219

    26:40 So Jack Frost's involvement is basically the equivalent of Thor in Wakanda?

  • @Ryeven
    @Ryeven 5 лет назад +137

    cONAN O'BRIEN SHOWS UP
    IM CRYINg

    • @QTCutes
      @QTCutes 4 года назад +3

      Ryeven I can never see this character other than Conan

    • @JPdraws_
      @JPdraws_ 4 года назад +1

      😂

    • @markuswolf7884
      @markuswolf7884 4 года назад +1

      Best part of the commentary

  • @deadturret4049
    @deadturret4049 5 лет назад +31

    "People who do that go to hell before they die"
    Captain Lou Albano, is that you?

  • @ThePacMiner
    @ThePacMiner 5 лет назад +97

    Theres actually another copyright typo thing that had an even bigger impact on media. The only reason why Romero-style Zombies are in the public domain is that they just forgot to add a copyright indication in the title sequence of "Night of the Living Dead".

    • @oliverbrownlow5615
      @oliverbrownlow5615 3 года назад +12

      The zombies ate it.

    • @ColeHrusovsky
      @ColeHrusovsky 2 года назад +7

      Originally it was gonna have a different title, and that title card had the copyright date. But at the last minute they changed the title, and forgot to add the date to that one

    • @sonicfanboy3375
      @sonicfanboy3375 Год назад +1

      Or the 3 Stooges cartoon

  • @DanielGreen52
    @DanielGreen52 5 лет назад +140

    The birds not flying, it’s falling with style.

  • @RainbowblitzFTW
    @RainbowblitzFTW 2 года назад +12

    Convinced that the names of the reindeer on the sleigh aren't actually names, but more like specific rank names. So the baby Vixen we see is just the next Vixen training for when the current one retires. Kinda like how in Kingsmen the different agents code names are the Arthurian knights

  • @MasterMemo
    @MasterMemo 3 года назад +15

    Jack Frost showing up to save Frosty like Sonic showing up at the end of Smash Bros Brawl to save everyone lol

  • @Ronin11111111
    @Ronin11111111 5 лет назад +231

    You put the Aurora Borealis bit at the perfect place.

    • @aseheavyindustries798
      @aseheavyindustries798 5 лет назад +19

      may I see it?

    • @JPdraws_
      @JPdraws_ 4 года назад +6

      ASE Heavy Industries 23:06

    • @TheSteamLord
      @TheSteamLord 4 года назад +25

      At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your cave?

    • @thehunterator520
      @thehunterator520 4 года назад +9

      @@TheSteamLord yes

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 3 года назад +3

      @@TheSteamLord I was gonna say "localized entirely within your Rudolph Movie".

  • @JakeTakesTheCakes
    @JakeTakesTheCakes 5 лет назад +226

    I mean...they could've just named another reindeer Vixen.

  • @bezoticallyyours83
    @bezoticallyyours83 5 лет назад +47

    Its a pity most people only remember Rankin/Bass for its iconic holiday movies.
    They've also done animated adaptations of
    Flight of Dragons
    The Last Unicorn
    Black Beauty
    The Hobbit
    Lord of the Rings Trilogy
    Wind in the Willow

    • @slinkraidsagain
      @slinkraidsagain Год назад +3

      The Last Unicorn still kicks ass

    • @bezoticallyyours83
      @bezoticallyyours83 Год назад +4

      @@slinkraidsagain It's a beautiful, melancholy film that's pretty faithful to its beautiful, melancholy book.

  • @jenaconard2524
    @jenaconard2524 4 года назад +27

    26:07 I can honestly say this part utterly terrified me as a kid. Just the look on his face when he is dying stuck with me after the first time I watched this movie. Still is a little unsettling to this day

  • @tomatoanus
    @tomatoanus 5 лет назад +386

    quinton in a 4:3 ratio, crossover with always sunny confirmed

    • @ThomasTheBullet
      @ThomasTheBullet 5 лет назад +4

      Nice to see you here tomato!

    • @tremisanthrope
      @tremisanthrope 5 лет назад +5

      Comment on a Quinton Reviews video speed run any%

    • @Dravis0101
      @Dravis0101 5 лет назад

      this

    • @Dravis0101
      @Dravis0101 5 лет назад

      4:3 in 2018 lol

    • @The420033
      @The420033 5 лет назад

      I just started to watch it and now i see references all over the internet

  • @BeccaBlasphemous
    @BeccaBlasphemous 5 лет назад +120

    Jack Frost has always been my favourite Rankin Bass film and was the reason I go so into Rankin Bass (aside from growing up with the films). I’ve always loved stop motion like I was the person who loved the nightmare before Christmas because of the way it was made and learning everything I could about it instead of being an edgy emo kid (which I absolutely was). I remember being so excited when the mister brothers Christmas came out because Mickey Rooney reprised his role as Santa Claus. Everything about this movies warms my heart from the stop motion to just the over all nostalgia of watching them every year for as long as I can remember. Oof this got long but I’m really passionate about my love of Rankin Bass.

    • @GabyGeorge1996
      @GabyGeorge1996 5 лет назад +1

      The Salandria Jack Frost is a genderbent Little Mermaid

    • @TheMadisonMachine
      @TheMadisonMachine 5 лет назад +8

      @@GabyGeorge1996 dont disrespect Jack Frost like that, at least he's got agency and common sense.

  • @andrewrovere8977
    @andrewrovere8977 4 года назад +33

    My theory about the misfit toys is that they came to life by staying in the magical realm of the North Pole for longer than normal. They were sent to their island, not by the kind Santa Claus, but by the secretly cruel Head Elf who acts nice and changes his voice around Santa. The Head Elf was too unforgiving towards the Elves that made the slightest mistake in making the toys, and wouldn't let them fix then. So he tossed them on a nearby island.

    • @dracocrusher
      @dracocrusher Год назад +3

      Alternate explanation: Santa just has high standards and is worried that things that don't look 'normal' will go unloved, so the island is meant to be a better alternative. Honestly, I feel like that fits with the whole "Rudolph is an outcast because of his nose until he proves that being different can win people over" thing.
      They just didn't think some of this stuff would be accepted by picky kids, so they didn't take the chance.

    • @LynetteTheMadScientist
      @LynetteTheMadScientist 5 месяцев назад +2

      In the movie the toys themselves tell Rudolph and Hermie that Moonraiser travels the earth finding toys that no little girl or boy loves and brings them to the island until someone wants them

  • @robertdaniel6508
    @robertdaniel6508 5 лет назад +24

    "Rudolph will return in 'Rudolph and Frosty: Christmas in July' "

  • @unknownuser3926
    @unknownuser3926 5 лет назад +73

    1:17 Where can I get a shrieking Christmas gremlin that plays music? That rubber face is the stuff of nightmares

    • @faith4disney
      @faith4disney 4 года назад +3

      Reminds me of Jack Stauber.

  • @broskydoodle6697
    @broskydoodle6697 5 лет назад +516

    Rankin Bass > MCU

    • @leow3696
      @leow3696 5 лет назад +18

      *RBCU

    • @nitrosherbert888
      @nitrosherbert888 5 лет назад

      Only if you include Disney if you include dead pool that alone makes it better

    • @mippa
      @mippa 3 года назад +1

      You are right and you should say it.

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 3 года назад +2

      I agree that the Rankin Bass Cinematic Universe is better than Marvel’s; because the simplicity of Rankin Bass’ universe makes it easy to understand. Each story is like a chapter, and each story shows off how far in said universe that these characters went on in their lives; and you didn’t need to cram in the same characters so many times to the point where there might be misstep in continuity, you just need some simple happenstances where they feel like there’s a weird connection at some point, with the major players being Santa, Rudolph, Frosty and Jack Frost.

  • @Sara3346
    @Sara3346 4 года назад +62

    I'm actually convinced Mother Nature from Year Without A Santa Clause is their highest god or should be since father winter seems to be differential to Nature which could be interperted as being her.

    • @Stinkoman87
      @Stinkoman87 3 года назад +16

      Father Winter is her husband, or one of her husbands. He is the father of the Snow Miser.

    • @BigAmericanGirlFan
      @BigAmericanGirlFan 3 года назад +13

      @@Stinkoman87 I've always liked the idea that Jack Frost and Snow Miser are brothers by way of Mother Nature and Father Winter

    • @JonathanAuburn
      @JonathanAuburn Год назад +5

      I may disagree with this on the basis of The Little Drummer Boy explicitly expresses the existence of Jesus Christ. Jingle saying that they're going "straight to the top" means that they're going to the highest power they can actually get to in the physical world - which is in fact Mother Nature.

  • @acopella431
    @acopella431 5 лет назад +24

    "Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover in the history of movies"
    Rankin and Bass: Pffft OK

  • @nyanpirethecat2257
    @nyanpirethecat2257 5 лет назад +76

    I'm so glad I'm not the only person who believes Rankin/Bass had a Cinematic Universe since each special felt like a connection.

    • @GabyGeorge1996
      @GabyGeorge1996 5 лет назад +4

      Nyanpire The Cat can I just point out that their adaptation of Jack Frost is a gender-flipped version of The Little Mermaid?

    • @godzilla154
      @godzilla154 5 лет назад +4

      Gaby George more like Little mermaid is a gender flipped Jack Frost

  • @xvalkyx3170
    @xvalkyx3170 5 лет назад +13

    The Snow Miser/Heat Miser song is that one song I cant's stop listening to every time December shows up.

  • @1980rlquinn
    @1980rlquinn 5 лет назад +41

    My favorite adaptation of The Wind in the Willows was the Rankin/Bass version. Their work is seriously underappreciated.

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 года назад +3

      For a long time I always thought that was the Disney version of the story until year's later I find out the Disney one was a package film series that also had the Headless horseman story in it.

  • @bkwright7773
    @bkwright7773 4 года назад +29

    My girlfriend and I watched Jack Frost this past Christmas. We absolutely loved everything to do with Kubla Kraus!
    Also, we noticed Jack Frost bared a striking resemblance to David Bowie. This lead us to calling Jack Frost, “David Snowie”, for the rest of the film

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 Год назад

      I didn't realize that Jack looked like David Bowie

    • @SenkouNoMahimeEne
      @SenkouNoMahimeEne Год назад +1

      @@garycarpenter2980 you should look up "David Bowie Pierrot". The costume and makeup that Bowie used totally reminds me of Jack Frost. Never made the connection until reading this comment haha

  • @majinally3527
    @majinally3527 5 лет назад +48

    “i’ll have a bluuuueeee christmaaaaaasssss withouuttt yooouuu” 💔

  • @_mango_
    @_mango_ 5 лет назад +71

    I love the Miser Brothers’ songs.

    • @idunnobutyay2520
      @idunnobutyay2520 3 года назад +3

      Those songs are so catchy! I honestly am surprised that people haven’t been clamoring for a The Year Without a Santa Claus soundtrack to be released.

    • @kademcarthur5362
      @kademcarthur5362 3 года назад +3

      I always imagined the Snow Miser as a Democrat and the Heat Miser as a Republican.

    • @Perid0tStar
      @Perid0tStar 3 года назад +2

      @@kademcarthur5362 I did notice that good Chuck Schumer has a nose just like Snow Miser :) Now we just gotta get him to dance around to sweet ragtime piano music to compare.

  • @pkthunder416
    @pkthunder416 5 лет назад +7

    The song "I Believe in Santa Claus" from Year without a Santa Claus is the most insane shit. The whole second verse is about how Santa threatened Iggy's Dad and made him question his whole reality. It literally has the line "Now, look into my eyes and tell me, what is real to you?" That sounds like a damned threat to me!

  • @boxylemons7961
    @boxylemons7961 5 лет назад +31

    I think part of the reason they made it a “cinematic universe” was more or less to give kids a sense that Santa was real and give detail into the whole “mythology” of christmas.

  • @mechajay3358
    @mechajay3358 5 лет назад +23

    Woah, I never thought of the Rakin-Bass Christmas special to be a Cinematic Universe. I always felt each of the films were somewhat connected, but never to this extent.

  • @kirkbupkis
    @kirkbupkis 5 лет назад +21

    It's June why did I just watch a 30 minute recap of Christmas movies.

  • @HoldThatThot
    @HoldThatThot 5 месяцев назад +3

    I know I've already expressed this on one of the other Rankin Bass videos, but I hope you know that this series of videos is an integral part of my yearly non-traditional Christmas media binge (which also includes all of Jacksfilms's royalty-free Christmas songs, among other things).
    What I haven't mentioned is that my mother is suffering from early-onset dementia, and while she's been fairly stable for the past two years, she's started declining really fast. Rankin Bass movies were my mom's childhood, and she passed that love onto my sister and I when we were growing up. Revisiting these movies (and your series) is a way to keep her here with me, even if her mind is gone. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Quinton. ❤

  • @LordHoth_09
    @LordHoth_09 3 года назад +8

    The Rankin/Bass stop motion movies are absolutely perfect. Every Christmas Eve my family still binge watch the whole series before bed.

  • @arbyw.1889
    @arbyw.1889 5 лет назад +43

    How many personifications of winter or characters that use the power of the winter are in these movies.

    • @skittycecil9786
      @skittycecil9786 5 лет назад

      Arby W. At least four if I remember correctly.

    • @Antifearn
      @Antifearn 4 года назад +13

      There are multiple characters in the RBCU with winter-related powers:
      -The Winter Warlock from Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
      -Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus
      -Jack Frost and all of the other “Snow Gypsies” in Jack Frost
      -Zero from The First Easter Rabbit (which he never brought up)
      -King Winterbolt from F&R Christmas in July

    • @BigAmericanGirlFan
      @BigAmericanGirlFan 3 года назад

      @Arby W. Honestly, it's this number of winter spirits or winter mages that makes me roll my eyes at the "Summer Wheeze" guy from Frosty Returns when he says "Let Mother Nature try and win" and even as a child, I went "Alright buddy, your funeral" and assumed that either Mother Nature heard and called upon Father Winter, Snow Miser and/or Jack Frost to teach him a lesson or Snow Miser and Jack Frost are such sweet Momma's Boys that they decided to head down there just to screw with him for insulting their mother.
      And while Heat Miser would love to see a green Christmas/winter, given that he's also a Momma's boy, he might let his step/half brothers take this one to teach this human a lesson on offending powerful natural forces and/or his mother.
      It also doesn't help him that he was trying to hurt Frosty because Jack Frost personally helped him and would want to help him again.

  • @GreatFlamingEyebrows_
    @GreatFlamingEyebrows_ 5 лет назад +61

    Winterbolt = holiday Thanos

    • @DW3010
      @DW3010 3 года назад +9

      I am inevitable....
      and I...am...Rudolph

    • @IcyDiamond
      @IcyDiamond 3 года назад +3

      Winterbolt can easily beat Thanos

  • @SomerLoser0
    @SomerLoser0 4 года назад +23

    "People who do that go to hell before they die."
    It's true, did that, now in hell

  • @Vulspyr
    @Vulspyr 5 лет назад +12

    "Father Winter... Who might just be God."
    I absolutely lost it here. Good show Quinton.

  • @just-a-silly-goofy-guy
    @just-a-silly-goofy-guy 5 лет назад +170

    Yeah the MCU got nothing on this

  • @unlaidenswallow
    @unlaidenswallow Год назад +6

    2018 Quinton: I can’t talk about every special or this video would be an hour long
    2022 Quinton: here’s an 8 hour video about the second half of Victorious
    We love character development

  • @mrh8142
    @mrh8142 Год назад +4

    Watched Santa Claus is Comin' to Town for the first time in years, it made me so happy. Genuinely a wonderful film filled with joy

  • @gplgs4640
    @gplgs4640 5 лет назад +44

    I really don’t like how you brushed off Vixen’s changing age as “It’s a movie”, but I bet you this.
    The Vixen we see in “Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town” is a Vixen Sr, and the Vixen we see in “A Year Without a Santa Claus” is his child, Vixen Jr, which ends up being the main Vixen in the universe.

    • @elizabethlee2136
      @elizabethlee2136 3 года назад +6

      Blitzen wanted to name Rudolph Blitzen until he ended up deformed

  • @TallManVanitas
    @TallManVanitas 4 года назад +10

    I was raised on these movies and I'm truly amazed in retrospect that they're just so heartwarming and timeless. 26 years later and I still watch the original Frosty The Snowman every year. They're just as much a part of Christmas as trees, presents, and snow and I hope they either continue as long as possible or possibly be remade with the same audio and voices, but updated visuals.

  • @1977TA
    @1977TA 3 года назад +7

    These specials are known lovingly by me and my friends as "The Good Shit" No matter how old you are when you find one of these timeless classics on tv you become a kid again inside.

  • @jamesfranco1997
    @jamesfranco1997 4 года назад +11

    Someone needs to make a supercut of all these movies in chronological order

  • @thehypist2587
    @thehypist2587 5 лет назад +8

    I love the Rankin-Bass films. The Year Without a Santa Claus was my favorite mostly due to the Miser Brothers, my favorite part od the film and both have the best songs. I'm glad you gave the films a better look, best part of Christmas for me!

  • @JesusMartinez-rr2ry
    @JesusMartinez-rr2ry 3 года назад +5

    I really appreciate the mind-blowing ways the Rankin-Bass specials are so interconnected with each other.

  • @itsweebtime3461
    @itsweebtime3461 5 лет назад +123

    Growing up as a American Muslim I never observed or understood how Christmas worked. (I still don't) But I always enjoyed a Nightmare Before Christmas because it was about an outsider's fascination with a holiday he knew nothing about. That being said I don't think ive ever seen any of these films. But ill give them a shot

    • @lauratatum509
      @lauratatum509 5 лет назад +5

      It's Weeb Time tell me what you think of them after you watch some! I’m curious to hear your reaction.

    • @JT5555
      @JT5555 5 лет назад +5

      *THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS IS AWESOME* As For Christmas As A Whole: It's Really More HOW You Celebrate It Then The Holiday,Itself. It's The Kind Of Holiday That May Be "Religious Based",But You Don't Have To Be Christian To Enjoy Giving/Getting Gifts With Family And Friends While Sitting Around Pretty Lights And Music. That Kind Of Stuff Is Universal So,Again Christmas Has Whatever Meaning You Give It And HOW You Celebrate Is More Important Then WHAT You Celebrate.^^

    • @badreality2
      @badreality2 5 лет назад +1

      "aaand they caaall hiiim Saaandy Claaaaaaws!"

    • @nyanpirethecat2257
      @nyanpirethecat2257 5 лет назад +2

      You never seen any of the specials?!?

    • @coreythepeanut
      @coreythepeanut 5 лет назад +1

      Isn't christ still incredibly holy in Islam? Thought they'd celebrate christmas..... oh well.

  • @kia7061
    @kia7061 5 лет назад +11

    I honestly thought no one remembered Jack Frost. It's one of my favorites, and I feel like it barely comes on T.V anymore. Nice on ya.

  • @anonymousyoutuber1405
    @anonymousyoutuber1405 5 лет назад +59

    Jack Frost is the first husbando

    • @babypurplebat2610
      @babypurplebat2610 5 лет назад +6

      you just ruined my day

    • @memethyst
      @memethyst 5 лет назад +23

      fun fact all of these movies were animated in japan so they are all in fact animes.

    • @Account_Not_Applicable
      @Account_Not_Applicable 5 лет назад +10

      It's true, but you shouldn't say it

    • @IdeaBox-dk5vj
      @IdeaBox-dk5vj 4 года назад +5

      And, according to Dreamworks, regardless of actual profit, he is one of the more recent examples of such as well.

  • @blacksheep1924
    @blacksheep1924 3 года назад +5

    The movie "Jack Frost" is my favorite Christmas movie of all time, it is gorgeous and wonderful, and no one will every convince me otherwise.

  • @driveasandwich6734
    @driveasandwich6734 5 лет назад +18

    Maybe baby Vixon is actually the original's child. Vixon Jr., if you will.

  • @angelbeast1841
    @angelbeast1841 4 года назад +3

    I have repeated "nothing is forever" throughout my whole life and it always holds true: my family is broken up but that wont last forever, we all come together around Christmas and I know this wont last forever but I'm comforted it's absence wont either.

  • @KrystineBrown
    @KrystineBrown 5 лет назад +16

    I've been waiting for someone to discuss this. As a kid I thought it was cool that these were all connected.

  • @MrVoltySquirrel
    @MrVoltySquirrel 5 лет назад +17

    Thank you for rendering this video out at 4:3. I primarily watch RUclips shit on my iPad and so it’s always refreshing to have a video, especially a new one, fill the whole screen. Usually people render out to 16:9, even when it’s a video essay about a 4:3 film. Never fun to get pillarboxed AND letterboxed at the same time.

  • @StunsyGND
    @StunsyGND 3 года назад +6

    I can’t believe someone figured this out before me. There goes all my college essays

  • @jestersmith9349
    @jestersmith9349 3 года назад +6

    It makes me happy to hear about these films. When I was little, my dad would always sing the One Foot In of the Other song. I always thought the style was really unique and pretty growing up. Great vid

    • @idunnobutyay2520
      @idunnobutyay2520 3 года назад +1

      Put One Foot In Front of the Other is my winter finals motivational anthem.

  • @BtDunce
    @BtDunce 5 лет назад +10

    You're probably already aware of this Quinton, but on the off chance you aren't - go google Paul Coker Jr. right now. He did the vast majority of the character designs for these specials from 1967 on, becoming the background and production designer as well as the character artist pretty soon afterward. His stuff is iconic, and you'll almost certainly recognize his work if you've read Mad magazine with any kind of regularity. Seriously, one of my cartooning idols. Absolutely brilliant man, and still alive at 89 years old.

  • @spindalis79
    @spindalis79 4 года назад +3

    What do these Holiday specials and a fishing tournament have in common?
    They're both "Rankin' bass!"

  • @oliviapolychronopolis4150
    @oliviapolychronopolis4150 4 года назад +13

    These are all good movies, but Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey is inexplicably my jam and I'm pretty disappointed he didn't get mentioned.

    • @rosykindbunny1313
      @rosykindbunny1313 5 месяцев назад +2

      Same. I hate how people just call him a Dumbo/Rudolph ripoff.

  • @ash7324
    @ash7324 5 лет назад +7

    It doesn't matter if the Christmas special is late if it's this beautifully written, structured and paced. These videos get better each year. ❤️

  • @kevildead
    @kevildead 5 лет назад +6

    im fully gonna cry wheres NESTOR THE LONG-EARED CHRISTMAS DONKEY 🥺

  • @pavloverboy
    @pavloverboy 4 года назад +25

    Theory: There is no Rankin-Bass cinematic universe, Quinton just wanted to talk about some good Christmas movies.

  • @SawGoodMan
    @SawGoodMan 5 лет назад +7

    It really is Christmas, when someone appreciates Jack Frost for the gem that it is.

  • @LadyHawke78
    @LadyHawke78 3 года назад +5

    Deformed Baby New Year = 2020.
    (Rudolph. WHY DID YOU SAVE HIM?!? Lol.)

    • @Perid0tStar
      @Perid0tStar 3 года назад +1

      I think that the baby new year for 2020 may have had horns, hooves and a little pitchfork.

  • @Crispman_777
    @Crispman_777 5 лет назад +56

    A new episode of Quinton Reviews? At this time of year? Localised entirely on RUclips?

  • @SheriffDuncanFlynn
    @SheriffDuncanFlynn 5 лет назад +7

    Let us not forget that Special Delivery Kluger from Santa Claus Is Comin To Town reappears in The Easter Bunny Is Coming To Town, and that the two specials are very similar in terms of story.

  • @reannamckee43
    @reannamckee43 3 года назад +5

    I'd watch 2 hours of you talking about these movies. And watch it every year

  • @spooderman6312
    @spooderman6312 3 года назад +6

    this all leads up to a great battle in which thanos is overcome by the power of christmas cheer and he snaps along to music leading to a finale where santa goes back in time with rudolph who swallows the stones

  • @CinnamonGrrlErin1
    @CinnamonGrrlErin1 4 года назад +5

    I am so glad to see that other people love Rankin-Bass films; they're so charming, which is not a word I would use for a lot of modern animation.

  • @3guzica
    @3guzica 5 лет назад +22

    "People who do that go to hell before they die"
    -QR

    • @runedoom
      @runedoom 4 года назад

      As such, my mom is in hell. (Which she deserves, as she tryed to choke me to death before I could talk.)

    • @CatholicPiccolo
      @CatholicPiccolo 4 года назад +1

      @@runedoom what the

    • @somebakedgood
      @somebakedgood 4 года назад

      Relevent video: ruclips.net/video/udz8Pk0oRng/видео.html

  • @captianbacon
    @captianbacon 2 года назад +2

    As someone who's 25. Every Christmas these movies I didn't seek them out as a kid but they were just always around. And they just have always been a consistent thing about Christmas that I love. I really hope future generations can enjoy there purely timeless magic for many generations to come.

  • @xcar0982
    @xcar0982 3 года назад +9

    So Jack stopped Napoleon and Hitler from invading Russia?

    • @thekornwulf
      @thekornwulf 3 года назад +2

      Jack is the true General Winter

  • @Wolfette-gl8vl
    @Wolfette-gl8vl 5 лет назад +5

    I like Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas In July and I will keep loving it, especially being in a cinematic universe!

  • @MerBaby-xoxo
    @MerBaby-xoxo 5 лет назад +3

    I teared up. My childhood. These movies were so amazing.

  • @Inkyink
    @Inkyink 5 лет назад +6

    I'm so glad my parents showed me some of these movies as a kid.

  • @Benny685685
    @Benny685685 4 года назад +3

    Don't forget that Lord of the Rings is also canon in the RBCU. My working theory is that the hobbits and the elves interbred to form the modern elves seen in the bulk of the RBCU.

  • @animefreak8535
    @animefreak8535 5 лет назад +8

    I am crying so hard at Santa saying I love you to Mrs Santa 😣😣😣

  • @KotaJMomo
    @KotaJMomo 5 лет назад +7

    all the characters and the filming were done in Japan. Something I didn't know until recently..

  • @DoctorNumber10
    @DoctorNumber10 5 лет назад +4

    I grew up with the Year without a Santa Claus, we watch it every year with my mom. Absolute best part is when Santa materializes from behind a tree that's half his width. 10/10

  • @bluef00t86
    @bluef00t86 3 года назад +4

    Woah! The pose, the animation, of Winterbolt turning into a tree, has GOT to be the inspiration for what happens to Dipper and the other partygoers in Northwest Mansion Mystery episode of Gravity Falls. Guessing someone on the team got nightmares from that and decided to pay it forwards.