Emmett Otter Appreciation Thread

[DarkHippie]

The greatest Christmas Special ever!!!!

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If you were lucky enough to see this as a child, you know exactly what i mean. Easily one of Henson's best, with some of the greatest music ever in a children's movie (done by the great songwriter Paul Williams)

One semester in college, i got high every day and watched Emmet Otter sing about a "mess a Mama's Barbeque" and rock out as the river bottom nightmare band tore it up (and ripped off Hendrix)

Rent this fuckin' movie!!! Its a heapin helpin of childhood memories.

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[furie]

it's out on DVD. I need to get this.


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[jocefus]

greatest christmas movie ever

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hey my man, what it look like

[furie]

greatest christmas movie ever

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but, what about Santa Conquers the Martians? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058548/)


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[keithy_19]

Emmit Otter is great. But I really like "The life and adventures of santa claus." Its such a weird take on santa claus but its good.

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[high fly]

My fave Xmas movie ever is called something like "A Christmas Story", but is not the more well known one of that name.
The one I'm talking about was written by Truman Capote and is about him growing up with his crazy aunt or grandmother, I forget which.
It's kinda wierd and different from the other flix....

" and they ask me why I drink"

[DarkHippie]

Emmit Otter is great. But I really like "The life and adventures of santa claus." Its such a weird take on santa claus but its good.
Is this the one that's all claymation style (like rudolph) and has him living in a village or something?

I barely remember it, but i think you just triggered some old, old memories

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[Arienette]

emmett otter's the best thing ever. i must, must get the dvd. woo!

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[DarkHippie]

If you meet somebody who don't like soulfood
they still got a soul
and it don't mean that you got no rhthym
if you don't like rock n roll
so if you're taste're like mine, like cider not wine
well there's only one thing to do
get a purty girl dancin to jug band music
AND A MESS-A MAMMA'S BARBECUE!

barbecue! Bless my spirits, i swear it never fails
and the sauce mamma makes'll stay there forever
if it ever gets under your nailllllllllllls

well you may be poor with the wolf at your door
but money isn't everything
if you've still got the sun and a river full of fun
then you'll always have a song to sing
so get that frown off your face we're gonna replace it
with a grin and a dream come true
and a purty girl dancin to jug band music
and a MESS-A MAMMA'S BARBECUE!

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[Justice4all]

Well there is also "Ain't no hole in the washtub"
But I liked the Riverbottom Nightmare Band. Complete with the fish that spit water onto the audience!

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[keithy_19]

DH, its claymation. Santa Clause is abandoned as a baby and gets taken in by this nympth(?) He hangs out with them and he makes toys for kids in russia and stuff and he has to get by these monster things(can't remember the name). At the end he's about to die, but he becomes immortal and its all happy.

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[Riley]

I'll be buying this too. I remember Emmet only being aired on HBO. Am I remembering correctly? No one I know ever remembers this special.

[jax]

Is the santa claus claymation the one with the Burgermeister Meisterburger?

[keithy_19]

No. Its just another mean russian guy. I get confused with all of them.

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[DarkHippie]

I was just in Suncoast, and they have it on DVD now. It doesn't have the deleted scenes which is a shame, but its got some trailers.

i actually wrote a paper analyzing Emmett Otter as an Allegory for socio-economic life of poor blacks in the deep south (ie: the southern gothic setting of faulkner, o'conner, cather, etc.) I'm so brilliant I scare myself.

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