When I was young, one of the best things about Christmas was catching the Christmas specials. Charlie Brown's Christmas... you know, the one with the sad, sorry looking tree that ended up as the star of the show. Frosty The Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer... that was hi-tec back then. What does my kid have to look forward to? A hell of a lot of specials, but among so many of them, nothing worth waiting for. Rugrat's Christmas. Barbie's Christmas. Barney Christmas. Blue's Clues Christmas. Trademarked Christmas is more like it. Yeah, I know. Charlie Brown was trademarked, too. But that show was almost unique back then in that not every single cartoon character had it's own holiday special. Not every product aimed at kids commanded their own tv show. When I try to interest her in my faves, she looks at me and just shakes her head. It's outdated. It's old news. It's boring to her. To her, I'm so not cool, and neither are my memories of what a good Christmas special is.