A Garfield Christmas!

Before you settle in for tonight’s video, make sure you’ve checked out the super enormous new article on the main page, which uses an old home movie to examine my family’s 1986 Christmas party. I don’t get to cover such meaty topics very often.

(Or maybe you should save it until you’re more awake, since it’s like ten bazillion words long? Your call.)

It’s the final minutes of December 1st as I sit here. Writing that giant post reminded me of how the literal entirety of my Decembers used to be all about Christmas. I’d think about it constantly and do Christmassy things constantly. I routinely messed up in school during December, because I just couldn’t be bothered with anything that had no tangential tie to Santa.

Doing these Christmassy countdowns on X-E and Dino Drac for so many years has been my way to keep the season meaningful for me. If it makes yours a little more meaningful in the process, that’s a great bonus.

Make time for the season, if you can. It can be pretty therapeutic once you get past the bullshit parts.

Maybe start by setting aside 22 minutes for A Garfield Christmas, which is by far my favorite of Garfield’s holiday specials. It’s so good, guys.

The Thanksgiving special is just kind of there, and as much as I love Garfield’s Halloween Adventure, watching it now is mostly for nostalgia’s sake. This one, though… this one still holds up.

The touching moments still touch me, and the sorta funny moments still seem sorta funny. Like I could totally see this still being an annual network television thing irrespective of Garfield’s current pop status. This stupid cat cartoon transcends, man.

When you’re done watching it, you might also enjoy this old post, in which I tried to name every single gift Garfield wished for at the start of the special. It was hard to do.