kattitudes

As this is coming from a site that takes a brutally long time to load, I find it is best to open the page and let it sit for a few minutes to give the movie a chance to load up. Then, after a few minutes, I hit play and by that time, I do not have to deal with the lag time while the site tries to keep up with the load time (if all that makes sense).

If not, no worries. All that will happen is that the movie pauses whilst it loads up. It is annoying but self correcting.

And it is cute. And wicked. Wicked in the way that only South Park can achieve. And goodness me. What is it about South Park that makes you sing along with the little miscreants? It is just terrible. Terrible that I actually know the words to their twisted little songs!

If YouTube tells you that the movie is not available, I have found that if you reload the page, they suddenly become available. Amazing how that works.

It is rather a pain to watch it this way, but you can thank YouTube, as they have created a situation where you can only upload a maximum ten (10) minutes worth of video at a time now. Ridiculous. At least there are no 1980s television commercials buried in the middle of this version.

The first ten minutes, so start here:

then the second ten minutes:

then the final ten minutes:

First of all, I love me some Dawn French. You might know her better as half of French and Saunders (Saunders being the half of AbFab. Now if the AbFab reference lost you, well, I’m just going to go back to bed and cry at this point because I am obviously way too old).

In the Vicar of Dibley, Dawn French is an English vicar in a very small village in the middle of England. She deals with all the usual issues at Christmas that we all do along with that pesky little sole responsibility of the Christmas sermon, but with a grace and flair that only Dawn French can bring to a character. Gosh I love her.

In this episode, the Vicar makes plans for Christmas day. Goodness, does she make plans.

But the lesson of which I speak in this particular video.is what happens when we overextend ourselves during the holidays. It is utterly hilarious but also a very valuable lesson hopefully shown long enough before the season begins to really take the lesson to heart.

Do you try too hard to make everyone happy, saying yes to everyone and everything at the expense of your own health and happiness? Are you sacrificing the peace and joy of your own Christmas because you are trying hard to create a picture perfect Christmas? Believe me when I say that it would be OK to say no occasionally.

Just ask the Vicar.

I. DID. IT.

I cannot believe I made it, but I waited until October to post this.

Sure, October first at midnight, but the devil is in the details because it is October! I have been sitting on this since AUGUST. Oh, it has been taunting me from my drafts area, just waving and grinning. Telling me to go ahead. Everyone wants to watch Charlie Brown.

Oh, I wanted to wait until October to post it. I tried and tried for the whole delayed gratification thing.

I have to tell you - delayed gratification? Yeah. It isn’t all it is blown up to be.

Now, there are some situations where delayed gratification is everything is should be. Christmas morning. Adult situations. But Charlie Brown movies?

I have been playing this so often that I have the text memorized now. Good grief, it is barely close to Halloween and I am already ready to stop watching this. There must be something wrong with me.

Remember back in the day when you would watch this, with commercial breaks brought to you by Dolly Madison snack cakes? Do they even make Dolly Madison snack cakes anymore? Oh, who cares. And you know why? Because….

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Have I mentioned lately how much I love these things? Schoolhouse Rock just makes my day. I have been singing them so much since finding them online that my Mister has actually asked me (begged, more accurately) to please, please just please use the headphones and listen instead.

Humph. He obviously isn’t a connoisseur.

Fact from the Magic Fountain of Useless Trivia Information: did you know that this was the first Schoolhouse Rock episode? This is the episode that started the whole magical mystery tour.

Do you want to hear an even scarier trivial piece of information? I remember sitting on the floor of our house in Arkansas, watching cartoons on Saturday morning, seeing this for the first time. That would be about the same time dinosaurs were still wandering the earth too, so I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m the only one that remembers when this first started to play on television.

I do not know if this is the real original film school clip by the boys responsible for the South Park menace, or if the other pretenders to the throne that I have seen out there are the real film school clip made by the boys responsible for the South Park menace.

Either way, this is just naughty. Just evil and naughty.

I do know that it is wrong. And it pleases me in the depths of my twisted evil little soul.

Enjoy!