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A Family Circus Easter

(1981)

There aren't a whole lot of Easter TV specials, because when you stop and think about it Easter is kind of creepy.* That's not gonna stop the Family Circus though. The horror begins when the kids decide to sneak outside and hide a bunch of Easter eggs in easy places so the baby can find them. The next morning it turns out the kids wasted their time, because that selfish little prick Jeffy grabs all the eggs and the baby can't find any anyway. Jeffy even has the nerve to talk trash: "Maybe he needs glasses," he says. What a cocksucker. After Jeffy's beating (they don't actually show this part, but I'm sure it happened) they chase a real rabbit around the yard for a while, have a shared hallucination where they sing a song with the Easter Bunny, and finally go to church where the Easter Bunny's ghost appears, prompting the baby to show his contempt for Christianity by tossing a rotten egg into the offering basket. How the Family Circus manages to turn every single holiday into a surreal nightmare full of ghosts and blasphemy is beyond me, but you gotta admit it's a lot more interesting than Charlie Brown and his stupid "Easter Beagle" shtick.

*Plus television is run by the Jews and they don't celebrate Easter.