December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve With The Power Rangers> Race To Rescue Christmas

Well, this will be a little easier than I thought. The episodes from Power Rangers Samurai (“Christmas Together, Friends Forever”, and Super Samurai‘s “Stuck On Christmas”) and Power Rangers Megaforce (“The Robo Knight Before Christmas”) are glorified clip shows where Christmas is just a framing device. There are nice moments like Master Ji allowing Bulk and Spike to hang out on Christmas Ever or Robo Knight visiting Africa and using the adventures of the Rangers to explain Christmas (poorly, given his frame of reference, or lack thereof), but for the most part Christmas is hardly even important to the story. Plus none of them come from the official YouTube channels (yes, there’s more than one for some reason) so I don’t feel right using them anyway.

Admittedly Power Rangers Dino Charge has the same problem with “Race To Rescue Christmas” but rather than simple reminiscing the Rangers are actually part of a Christmas adventure. Upset that she’s on Santa Claus’s naughty list, Poisandra takes his computer that keeps track of all the good and bad kids in the world…which for some reason Santa brought outdoors with him during a visit with kids…and the Rangers have to track it down before she can use it to find their base. It’s still a clip show but one that at least tries to wrap a Christmas Rangers tale around it, as Chase tries to get home for Christmas and everyone tries to save Christmas by rescuing Santa’s database. Plus it’s on an official channel, just one of the alternate channels. I’ll take it.

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December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve With The Power Rangers: A Season To Remember

Taking place during King Mondo’s attack on Earth, the Zeo Rangers must deal with the Machine Empire as they attempt to pit the various holidays around December 25, and the different ways we celebrate them, to divide the people of Angel Grove. And this was before social media. Meanwhile, Bulk and Skull are in their “private investigator” period while an amnesiac Goldar and Rito acted as their secret houseboys. It’s…a long story.

It would be the last Power Rangers Christmas episode until the “Neo Saban” and current Hasbro eras, which means we don’t get to see any other Ranger teams celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah for the rest of the original Saban or Disney runs.

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December 24, 2022

Christmas Eve With The Power Rangers: I’m Dreaming Of A White Ranger

Adding a whole lot of Power Rangers Christmas episodes to the playlist. Don’t worry, I’ll scatter them around the list somehow but that gives me a theme for this Christmas Eve. That will lead into other Christmas episodes and specials on Christmas Day.

I’m bypassing “Alpha’s Magical Christmas”, the home video Christmas episode from season two because there isn’t a whole lot to it even if it was on the official Power Rangers YouTube channels (and none of them have it). Instead we jump to season three’s “I’m Dreaming Of A White Ranger”. The second combination of the original Mighty Morphers have to stop Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd from blocking Santa Claus’s Christmas Eve run, and not the last time St. Nick will get Ranger help. However, you can’t break out weapons in Santa’s workshop, or even morph, so the Rangers will have to get clever.

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December 23, 2022

BW’s Christmas Special REVIEW Playlists

For Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I have some extra fun. Christmas Eve, thanks to official channels, will feature a cacophony of Power Ranger Christmas episodes. Not all of them (even if “Alpha’s Magical Christmas” was available I’d still rather post The Star Wars Holiday Special because at least you can have fun riffing on it) but the ones I want to add to my regular Christmas special playlist on YouTube, which I put in the sticky post every Christmas on the homepage along with the “Yule Log” playlist of Christmas songs, short trivia, and comedy.

Christmas day however will be the last batch of new Christmas specials and special Christmas episodes that will join them and already joined the ones posted this year I didn’t have an opening to post during this December. Hopefully you’ll find something you like, and even something you’re nostalgic for.

Next year however I’ll have two more, one of which I actually should have had this year.

The BW Christmas special reviews are all the video reviews I’ve done on Christmas specials. There’s a surprisingly high number of blind people in the first few reviews, which made for a nice running gag for awhile but I’m glad my selections moved on. Hopefully I’ll get to do more of these in the future.

However, there are more Christmas specials, Christmas comics, and other Christmas media that I can possibly review while God still has me on this planet. So this year I made a new playlist: Christmas Special Reviews By Others. It’s filled with other reviews of holiday entertainment. I hope to build that one up as well but this is a good starter if you’re coming in when I originally posted this. Like my own offerings these are fun or at least informative reviews and also positive towards the story being reviewed. So here are the Christmas episodes worth looking for if I haven’t found them first.

Enjoy the Christmas special post-a-thon over the next two days.

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December 23, 2022

BW’s Daily Christmas Parody Song> The Year Of The Santa Shortage

Catch more from Jordan Keyes on YouTube

Yes, I know it’s a parody, and yet it somehow still works for the Yule Log.

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December 22, 2022

Christmas Special Video> Tis The Season To Be Smurfy

This must be a Smurf Christmas special that I missed when I aged out of The Smurfs. Yes, there was a time I did that. By this point a bunch of new characters had shown up. The Smurflings (kid Smurfs, which raises a ton of new questions about where Smurfs come from), Grandpa Smurf, Wild Smurf (basically if a Smurf grew up in the wild), and we’ve seen Baby Smurf in previous Smurf Christmas specials I’ve posted over the years. (Need to make sure those are on the playlist.) Sadly, Johan and Peewit never get to be in these specials despite Hanna-Barbera having added them to the show by now and the characters’ own comic being where the Smurfs were introduced, originally as a one-time appearance but being popular enough that Peyo was encouraged to give them their own series.

Tis The Season To Be Smurfy was just uploaded this year so now I get to share it with you guys…and see it for the first time myself. Grandpa, Sassette, and Wild decide to bring Christmas to an old couple struggling during the season. Can they and the other Smurfs give them a Merry Christmas? Maybe if they can convince the Smurfs first. And maybe they can deal with a nasty pickpocket and a grumpy rich man along the way. Covering all our bases, are we, Smurfs?

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December 22, 2022

BW’s Daily Video> That Time Santa Visited Luxembourg In WWII

 Catch more episodes of Nyberg on WTNH’s YouTube channel, News 8 out of CT

A bit long for any of my Christmas playlists but still something I wanted to share.

Posted by on December 22, 2022 in Christmas Spotlight and tagged , , .

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