Children today cannot truly comprehend the meaning of the term “Christmas special.”  Netflix, Hulu and Youtube (not to mention pirated movie sites) now make “specials” available at leisure.  There was a time, kids, when the program you see below was an event unto itself.  It aired once a year.  If you missed it, then you missed it.  (I never did.)

I remember loving most of this, and being allowed a bowl of either chocolate or coffee ice cream from the box in the freezer.  (Did anybody else grow up with coffee ice cream?)

You know what would be a very marketable idea?  Making a toy line that reproduces the “Misfit Toys.”  People would buy those.