Afternoons with Grandpa: Bad Santa

Gramps tells his grandson about the other Santa... Bad Santa. Not some Billy Bob Thornton ripoff, but the REAL Bad Santa.
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Side note:
I had a jacked up childhood to one degree or another (Can you say Jehovah's Witness from 12 to 20?). My son, now 22 was nearly three before he celebrated Christmas. I never told my children there was a REAL Santa Claus. In fact I told them that he was as real as Bugs Bunny. By the time my oldest was about five I started telling them about "Bad Santa" his story was much more fun. This had to be at least 10 years before Billy Bob Thornton's movie. Bad Santa got my son a B-B gun when he was 8 years old...

Still, with my telling them that Santa wasn't real, they believed in him just the same. Something about peer pressure and the power of TV. I have another video I'm going to upload shortly, taken in 1997, of me sitting my 10, 8 and 4 year old down trying to debunk Santa.
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Check out the brief video of me debunking Santa Claus to my kids in 1997
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHN3b6nz8a8
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Animation notes: Done with toonboom4.5 and edited in adobe premiere.

I started this in June for a contest, then decided not to enter the contest when I found out there couldn't be references to "other characters". The project was shelved for nearly four months before I picked it back up. I really counsel against letting a project lay fallow for so long. In the meantime I had improved my techniques and the Gramps character, but was locked into an older format.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• christmas
• peanuts
• Charlie
• Brown
• Linus
• clement
• c.
• moore
• gramps
• grandson
• eggnog

[TheJokxification]

The old guy is amazing. Shouldn't there be more videos with him in them?

[bowlingballout]

@TheJokxification

He's my favorite too.

He's in about ten animations so far.

[peedub86]

dude i love this old guy!

[bowlingballout]

@peedub86

Thanks. He's my favorite character too.

Take a look at the most recent vid with him. It's for a contest and is pretty short, but his sourness comes across like always.

watch?v=nUIZI0WoreU

[DeadsoulXtreme]

for christmas, i am gonna get some garlic bread and red wine

[bowlingballout]

@DeadsoulXtreme

A very sensible choice.

XD

thanks for watching

[paultinsel]

hmmmm...maybe if i leave red wine garlic bread AND some canolis i'll get what i want!!!!!

[Largo64]

Does Bad Santa care about vintage? Or is a jug of Red Mountain Burgundy made a week ago last Tuesday OK? Is it bad if the wine is younger than the bread, or is it worse if the bread is older than the wine?

Thanks for posting this.

[kristly88]

.....lol he's scared..

[Aaron1046]

lol XD

[WyomingVisions]

Cool!

[xAfroMacx]

lol wow sweet santa sucks