Anyone Else Get Excited?
Posted by Infamous-Yak2864@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 76 comments
This usually signaled that some sort of holiday cartoons were about to start!
Posted by Infamous-Yak2864@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 76 comments
This usually signaled that some sort of holiday cartoons were about to start!
Anxious_Dracula@reddit
Garfield Halloween special!
Bitter_Argument2574@reddit
Oh no. Salem’s Lot is coming on!
FantasticStooge@reddit
I got more excited by KTTV channel 11 in Los Angeles’s mature content warning that began with a doorbell. Nothing brings me back to my weekends of childhood TV watching like that doorbell
CompanySerious626@reddit
I can hear that picture!
Ok_Industry3016@reddit
Made me have to pee.
handsomeape95@reddit
Let's not forget the ABC Sunday night movie that was the gateway to such classics, like Ewoks: the Battle for Endor.
Careless_Ocelot_4485@reddit
Oh, boy! JAWS! (heavily edited)
calmlikeasexbobomb@reddit
I still miss this and think of it often
Korashime@reddit
This pre-roll has never been equaled. My favorite one was the night they played Alien for the first time on TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOGP4kpRyic
DrinkSpecialistSpot@reddit
I can hear this picture. It matches my shirt.
treelovingaytheist@reddit
I love this!
housevil@reddit
Fun fact: the music you are hearing in your head right now was edited from a track from Hawaii Five-O.
TheJokersChild@reddit
And the title of that track is Call To Danger (you'll hear it at :48).
sgtedrock@reddit
Wow, TIL after all these years! 🤩
uselink126@reddit
I GET TO STAY UP!!!!!! Mom & Dad said so it's a SPECIAL!!!!!
NairBearMI@reddit
Isn’t that gonna start spinning around the “C” in special any minute?
Nervous-Till4096@reddit
The bongos…
sinisterdesign@reddit
I’ve watched it for 3 minutes… nothing yet
R86Reddit@reddit
I was just going to say that the word "special" should be rotating.
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
Friday nights. Didn't matter if it was Dr. Seuss or Peanuts or whatever. We watched.
Glum_Season7904@reddit
WOW.
Historical_Drink_350@reddit
Charlie Brown Christmas
jvlpdillon@reddit
Brought to you by Dolly Madison
Historical_Drink_350@reddit
In NY metro area it was brought to you by Peter Paul Candies. Makers of Almond Joy and Mounds.
TheJokersChild@reddit
Another Channel 2 kid here who remembers Peter Paul Cadbury. Dolly Madison was ice cream here, wasn't it?
kjnetz@reddit
I’ve still never seen Dolly Madison in the wild. It must be a regional thing that my state didn’t get. But I definitely knew what it was because of the Peanuts specials lol.
mylocker15@reddit
Those specials were the only time I ever heard about Dolly Madison cakes. I never saw them either but they were not something my mom would ever buy so maybe I didn’t really notice them.
kjnetz@reddit
Everything was Hostess here, but my parents didn’t buy those for us, either. My dad would occasionally buy the Snowballs and keep them in his truck to have with coffee while working. I knew exactly where he kept his stash and sometimes I’d get lucky lol.
Quick-Dream-1541@reddit
I lived in LA, CA we had Dolly Madison stores there. I remember the first time I bought Zingers, they were basically a slightly smaller Twinkie with icing on top. I expected the yellow icing to taste like lemon (it didn’t).
To be honest, I can’t tell you what it tasted like, it was just sweet.
Infamous-Yak2864@reddit (OP)
Watch out for the Zinger Zapper!
Lil_Erick81@reddit
Me - Charlie Brown Christmas Show
zornmagron@reddit
or the day after was showing ---- there is some 12 year nightmare fuel that never went away
CTurtleLvr@reddit
Soooo true!!
Artistic-Raspberry-9@reddit
It's Arbor Day Charlie Brown!
Robb_Dinero@reddit
I found out recently, (probably somewhere on Reddit) that the bongos are a reworked version of the Hawaii Five-0.
MonsieurRuffles@reddit
YT video explainer.
Ohshitz-@reddit
No i always thought it was going to be about some plane crash or elvis dying.
MonsieurRuffles@reddit
This wasn’t used for breaking news or special reports but solely entertainment specials, e.g. it preceded many showings of the OG Charlie Brown holiday specials.
CawlinAlcarz@reddit
Peanuts!
OutsidePattern6491@reddit
I can hear the drums now!
DroidRGH@reddit
That percussion buildup followed by the horn blasts… EXCITEMENT!
BidPale3239@reddit
Anything Charlie Brown
dannyvegas@reddit
They always ran the Cadbury chocolate ads during Charlie Brown specials.
Fluffy_Respond_7405@reddit
And Dolly Madison donuts
cerealandcorgies@reddit
thank you Easter Bunny! bok bok
Own_Celebration5462@reddit
Or Dolly Madison commercials.
Balrog71@reddit
When like twice a month they showed something for us young’uns on primetime? I remember calling my cousin if Wizard of Oz came on. I was like 5 😁
Extra-Breakfast-7574@reddit
It was such a disappointment when it was something like the Kennedy Center Honors, instead of a holiday cartoon
ChiefinLasVegas@reddit
only if it were a holiday cartoon
No-Ambition7750@reddit
Snoopy!
Quick-Dream-1541@reddit
I sure used to.
Flababulous@reddit
Already feeling the holiday break and off from school vibes.
NacreousFink@reddit
Eventually I figured out it meant 35 minutes of ads for 25 minutes of programming.
i-am-jjm@reddit
And disappointed when it was some special 60 minutes BS
LoanDebtCollector@reddit
"Jeepers, another stupid newsreel! I hate the news!"
https://clip.cafe/who-framed-roger-rabbit-1988/fanfare-jeepers-stupid-newsreel/
mylocker15@reddit
I can hear this picture.
drewyz@reddit
https://youtu.be/pD4LQAKB-YA?si=icQ95QU2OGjaPpsh
Dry_Ad687@reddit
SANTA IS COMING!!!
DeadManAle@reddit
No
notanyimbecile@reddit
You're not genx then. /s
DeadManAle@reddit
I sure am 1974 I’m 52 years old. I never cared for CBS Special Presentation.
TheVioletEmpire@reddit
Annual Wizard of Oz viewing.
vin4thewin@reddit
kjnetz@reddit
I can hear this image! It always meant something good was coming when we were kids.
johntwoods@reddit
mfk_1974@reddit
Nothing, and I mean nothing, beat the HBO Feature Presentation intro.
Confirmationbias10@reddit
Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit
With the spinning special thingie and conga drums
OUBoyWonder@reddit
The nostalgia blast just LOOKING at that image is legendary in my soul right now!
Dagobahbodega@reddit
Yes, and then the Star Wars Holiday Special commenced
InvestigatorJaded261@reddit
I can hear that drum bit in my head right now.
CountHonorius@reddit
Can hear the music already!
geraldine_ferrari@reddit
On a school night?? watch out!!
Iron_Chic@reddit
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
Parallel_Dogs@reddit
Rudolph!
-CgiBinLaden-@reddit
I can hear the bongos....