Glo Friends Save Christmas

The Glo Friends Save Christmas

(1985)

You know, everyone in these cartoons is always "saving" Christmas, but when has anybody ever actually had to do that? Sure, sometimes you don't get anything but socks, or your dad comes home drunk and throws the tree through the picture window because he found out where mommy was really spending her Saturday afternoons, but Christmas still happens. And how come nobody ever has to save like Pearl Harbor Day or National Library Week or something? This time the Wicked Witch of the North Pole* traps Santa and his reindeer in an ice cage, so it's up to the "Glo Friends" to save the day. For those of you who don't remember the 1980s, "Glo Friends" were these ~~popular~~ toy bugs that glowed in the dark. You'd think the witch would just step on them and that would be the end of their little rescue attempt, but for some reason she never thinks of that and the Glo Friends manage to melt the ice cage and Christmas is saved. Santa gives the Glo Friends their gift in a big bag (we never see what it is but I'm guessing dog shit- bugs like dog shit) and then he's off to bring joy to all the children of the world except of course the Jews. The witch, I assume, just goes back to whatever it is she does the other 364 days a years she's not trying to destroy Christmas, which probably involves a lot of daytime TV. That Taco Bell gig probably looks pretty good around mid-July or so.

At first I couldn't figure out why anybody would even make this special when there were a lot more popular toys back then that could've saved Christmas (G.I. Joe would've handed that witch her ass, for example), but I looked it up and it turns out there was actually a regular Glo Friends show back then that I was apparently too not gay to ever watch. If you were into it though, the Internet Movie Database also recommends The Amazing Race.

*I can't believe this broad couldn't find a better place to be Wicked Witch of- I mean, there's nothing up there. Hell, even the Wicked Witch of Taco Bell probably gets free drink refills.

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