Where Can I Find the Christmas Otter?

Alright dogs, Christmas is taken care of. Snap! Actually, it's not entirely taken care of, because a few of the things I ordered online haven't come in yet. Negative 1/4 snap! However, these items are coming from a long way away and are also great, so you may multiply that negative 1/4 snap by -1. I believe that puts me at 1.25 snaps, which is an acceptable amount for Christmas. Snap!

The good news here is that I only have to work tomorrow, and then I'm off until January 3rd. What am I going to do with all of that time off? For part of it, I'm going to Illinois to see Laura's relatives. I'm not exactly sure what her relatives would have to be like in order to take my own family look good in comparison, but the following elements would apply: polygamy + moonshine + sells counterfeit Elmo dolls on Ebay. (Note: this does not apply to any family members reading this entry... I'm talking about the other ones, of course.)

I am going into this Christmas season with a slightly heavy heart, because I never got a chance to watch a forgotten seasonal classic. For the past month or so, whenever someone would ask me about Christmas movies, I'd say that the one I really wanted to watch again was Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. The other people would typically retort, "What the hell are you talking about?" And then I'd tell them how it was the story of a young otter who learns the spirit of Christmas when his jug band enters a battle of the bands. Come on people, that's fairly obvious from the title.

When I was growing up, I loved that show. I haven't seen it in many years, though; this year, I decided I would break my Emmet Otter drought. I resolved to do this, and I said so many times, probably stirring up a little Otter mania along the way. However, I had a hard time finding it. It wasn't on Netflix, I couldn't find anyone with a copy, and it wasn't on tv. (Of course, looking now, I see I could've purchased it from Amazon for $10; keep in mind that I'm not very intelligent.) Anyway, the end result is that I haven't watched one damn minute of Jug Band Christmas, after talking it up so much to so many people and convincing these people that this movie actually exists. I'm a strange guy and all, but it's not like I could hallucinate a whole Jug Band Christmas movie.

Anyway, there's my Christmas dilemma: I have the gifts, but I don't have the Otter.

Posted by Cody at December 20, 2006 9:42 PM