ok. there was supposed to be a day 6 but because of car accidents due to stupid high school kids who are late for foorball games...
here's day 7: one of the best memories i have of holiday cartoon goodness from my childhood
i think it really speaks for itself. (and, awesomely, this links to the whole special! thanks aol!)
a few things though: pac man's kind of a jerk. i never really thought of him as being from brooklyn either.... and why are the ghosts singing jingle bells? i mean, why not but... why?
this pops up on cartoon network every once and a while, but when i was a kid it was really a staple of the USA cartoon express. being a little nerd like i was, i loved the pac man cartoon for a lot of reasons (honestly, i'm not sure i played a lot of pac man as a kid. we had it on our Atari, but i think i was more of a "burger time" fan, and "pitfall." that, and our atari burned out when i was 6 so... looking back, i think they took a lot of liberties with the game and such to make the cartoon - all video game cartoons/movie adaptations do this though so i can't blame em, and pac man doesn't really give a ready made backstory - unlike mario or even zelda. in some ways, it feels like more hanna barbera taking classic concepts from old tv and movies (the flintstones as a prehistoric honeymooners, for example) and applying beloved video game characters over it. i'm sure - though nothing rings a bell - that like a lot of animated holiday specials, this is a redone tale with some pac man lingo thrown in.
truthfully, though, i just love that christmas came to pacland. it's up there with santa and superman. and it's just absolutely fucking brilliant.
anyway. tomorrow resumes normal schedule. i'll make up for missing one by making a super post or something, possibly related to the show we didn't see due to the accident, a christmas carol.
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