Until this year. The YouTube search finally came through. Some wonderful crazy person (screennamed Ram Jam) finally uploaded it. Cue the jingle bells and popcorn drum machine and sparkly synths, and journey back to 1990 with me, cause it's time for "Merry Merry Christmas". It's time for the New Kids on the Block cartoon Christmas Episode!
So. It's not just that this is as bad and weird as I remember from the one ever time I saw this during the one ever time it aired. It's worse and weirder. It's like they purposefully went out of there way to make a "Star Wars Holiday Special" for boy bands. My favorite WTF moment is that moving "Biscuit in a Santa Claus suit stares out the car window contemplating the magic of a Christmas night in New York City as Jordan Knight falsettos the sh*t out of a sad/inanely cheesy Christmas song" scene. All the songs are from the "Merry Merry Christmas" album which... is a Christmas album that exists.
I also think we can all agree that this is a (very very distant) second-best ever production involving Donnie Wahlberg where there is a sad weird kid and mystery everywhere and a character who turns out to be a ghost in the end.
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Since I know maybe three of you here are as thrilled about this crappy decades-old cartoon as I am, here is another present. Over the summer my aunt, cousins, and friends all got puppies. One day the three little sweeties all came over for a puppy party, and how could I resist? So here are cute drawings of cute dogs! Happy, merry, holly, jolly season's greetings here!
