Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer - Phelous 

Thanks I hate it

Now that's a real nostalgia-rific observation, guy! Good meme!

"Grandma Used to Own a Sex Shop" actually fits pretty well within the original song's rhythm, must mean it's canon.

It's a family store that used to be a brothel before it became illegal.

I like it, but not as much as I love the idea of a family actually named Spankenheimer, and what the generations-ago story for that one would be.

Guy may be the biggest CEO in the whole whatever, but he didn't get there by being a backstabbing sleaze.

There's no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism But damn he's close to the dream. And I respect that.

Though maybe he should break up that monopoly he's got going on? Pretty sure those are unethical, if not illegal, no matter how legitimately you managed to achieve it. Assuming, of course, saying he owns everything in Cityville isn't an exaggeration.

@@ChargeJN You’re funny, commie. Have fun with those Sonic games you love so much. P.S: Coming from a person from a former Soviet republic.

AUSTIN BUCKS WORST CEO SUPERVILLIAN EVER

also wanting to give his city a mecha santa

@@marley7868 ...that would eventually go rogue, declaring everybody to be naughty, and start annually murdering people until the holiday is renamed X-Mas. XD

there is no "right way" to become a monopoly it is illeagle in most countries.

@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 hence the quotation marks

@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 true but at least he’s doing it legally speaking and for the most part he’s a decent human being. He doesn’t belittle Jake for not wanting the deal to come through, he does encourage him to seek out Santa to find his grandmother. While he does tell Mel only her grandfather can sign over the store he doesn’t force Mel to force grandpa to sign it over.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a lot of these "I thought this was a fever dream as a kid" films.

@@ThatDudeWithBoobs The weirdest part for me was that the very first time I saw this was on TV while channel surfing and it was the scene where Mel and the lawyer did that out of nowhere hula song. I recognized the grandmother and thought "oh it's that Grandma got run over by a reindeer movie" and then the music number showed up and I was beyond confused.

That suing santa song is so engraved onto my memory that it couldn't not be real XD

You know if it wasn't for the lack of imagination and charm it actually would be a slightly enjoyable film

This movie haunts my dreams.

Still secondary to “Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake” tho.

“I’d rather sing..” That line makes me giggle

Lol

I wouldn’t try, cause I agree.

@@trevingrayek1671 “Grandma’s spending Christmas with the Superstars!”

It seems like that could be the joke, this guy is supposed to be the villain that we root against, but he's not villainous at all. A good ending would have been for Grandma to come back and sell the store anyway, but for much more money, so the family almost got pennies on the dollar for the store just because Mel was too dumb to understand Grandma's bargaining methods.

I thought cousin Mel was basically the villain. I never thought Austin was.

tbf, he could've pulled a Ray Kroc and just outright steal the franchise and lie about royalties, but he doesn't seem like that kind of venture capitalist.

Oh my god, that is so sinister of him; FAIR business? That's too evil for even an adult movie!

He is honestly the most likeable character in the movie (along with maybe cousin mel)

He actually went OUT of his way in order to not do anything bad... even pausing his deal a week on the protest of a child.

Especially since he’s voice by Liquid Snake lol

I love the idea that there's an alternate plot running along simultaneously to the main plot where Austin Bucks is taught the true meaning of Christmas, but that the creators thought the Grandma story was more interesting for some reason.

Sometimes Santa needs to make the tough calls and grandma had to be stopped.

"The ho-ho-hardest choices require the strongest wills!"

Well, those were her stolen goods

So the naughty list thinks that people who don't agree with its morality are just as guilty as people who don't follow it, possibly even more guilty? Interesting.

Well I never thought of it like that before.😅

Or swap her name with Jake's sister.

That’s all I could see during this, I was like, _Damn,_ it sure was rough for Daphne since her and Velma broke up”

They knew where the bread should be buttered there.

And even that wasn't enough

If that’s the most expensive part, that sure says something about the rest of it.

@@dancepiglover No bloody doubt

They knew what needed the most attention.

And Mel didn’t really do anything worth being arrested for. The whole reindeer nip thing could have been done by Grandpa as Mel as she didn’t believe in Santa before the accident and he revealed himself. In fact there were only *two* people in the family that believed in Santa before Ashe was hit and basically kidnapped for an entire year and that would be Jake and Grandpa. Grandpa is obviously faking his senility and made Mel take the fall. She didn’t obstruct justice when she hid the note because the note said that Santa did hit Grandma and that he was taking her with him which is equivalent to a note left by a kidnapper without a ransom and he was guilty of holding her for an entire year after she regained her health and for leaving the scene of an accident. And Mel never said that any money she would have gotten wouldn’t be shared with the rest of the family. They obviously were having financial problems if customers could take whatever they wanted without paying. There’s no way to make sure you get paid if you run a business like that. Grandpa is obviously the guilty one for putting reindeer nip into the fruitcake.

WE DONT MENTION THAT SHIT

SHUT THE DOOR!

Still convinced those characters are robots trying to act human. I mean, just listen to how the main character's grandma talks.

That visual snuff looks like a shitty ps2 game for kids

@@michaelstrong5383 "Yeeyeijydiyiyditdbiututditxitct christmus"

PLOT CONVENIENCE 😒😒😒

@@topcatninjahousepetsdigian9336 oh hi👋

so that means she might've actually died in the trailer

@@neetifice She died in the song this special was based on.

@@Silverstar_ Satan Claus has another victim

Oh yeah, I remember that. Everytime I watch The iron giant, I would watch the trailer and listen to that sound effect. I was naive when I was little.

If I remember correctly, they actually repeated that "SPLAT" sound effect three times at the end of the preview.

Fun Fact: Reindeer are actually considered livestock, not exotics.

What If they hired Santa to hit her

@Chandler Burse yeah

Grandpa sent a picture of Grandma to Santa with a red X over it with the note "Get it done".

I noticed that too rewatching it just now with my wife. I pointed that out and even she thought about that

@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets Grandpa being "senile" is just a coverup so that no one - by which I mean Jake - will catch on to his scheme.

It is. AMC plays this right along with Christmas Vacation and The Santa Clause.

Well, lots of people remember this movie so it worked

Same here again 6:39

"I did the nasty in the past-y!" "Indeed, and that nasty shields your mind from the brains!"

Their voiced by the guy who wrote and sang the original song Elmo Shropshire XD

I’m having Futurama flashbacks

@@MetaGiga *Cue Fry's Screaming*

🤣

THANK YOU!!!

It's only a short drive from Wellsville (Adventures of Pete and Pete).

At least Cityville doesn't get destroyed by an evil monkey or trashed up by a group of green miscreants.

@@josephrowe849 Naaaww! That's New York!

Yeah, and she made sure to drink her daily glass of milk, if you get what I mean, hehee I thought I were the only one who noticed the likeliness.

Does that mean her lawyer is mirror universe Velma ?

I thought she was the voice of leila from futurerama

Mel: Daphne's evil gold digging sister

I thought she was drawn in a similar art style.

Lol, I would love to watch this version of the movie.

Damn it... now I wanna see that movie...

Too bad though

That would've been a better story than Santa kinda kidnapping Grandma away from her family for ALMOST a year!

I don't know, the big corporate guy being the villain is pretty overused cliché. and well all know this movies doesn't use those.

He not god

It makes Santa a better character if he isn't some all knowing being besides it's never suggested that Santa knows everything. Just if people are naughty or nice. He could have simply just remembered what Austin wanted.

@@hotsauce7084 mate have you even HEARD the song?!😅 he’s meant to know at least your name and if you’ve been bad or good🤷‍♀️

@@slycooperrocks5826 ah right good point

he even put her picture on milk cartons, one of the two things hes known for eating

He's the CEO of the OWN ALL CORPORATION! I don't buy his goody goody act for a second.

Fair point. The fact that he's not shady is proof that this is a Christmas fairytale

The problem is that I don't know if he is SUPPOSED to not be a villain... or if the makers of this movie sort of didn't communicate it successfully. . Yes... I am debating whether he is a villain in spite never doing anything seedy and going out of his way to do the right thing... on the basis that he is a monopolistic CEO and the movie might have "Expected" that was all you needed to make someone a villain.

@@Nionivek I mean, Austin did already out himself as not quite monopolistic yet. How much of an exaggeration (considering it was told to us from a child who learned it from Grandma Spankenheimer) is up for debate.

@@phelous He's an honest man, his ambition is to own everything, and he does not hide it for a second.

Yep

*BONESTEEL WILL GET THE JOB DONE!!!* *BONESTEEL ASSURES YA, SON!!!!*

Bonesteel?

I need context, who or what is Bonesteel?

@@cintronproductions9430 A big game hunter from tmnt: the next mutation! Kinda like Kraven the hunter from Spiderman but more crazy!!

Very true. She looks more like she's going through a style change rather than dressing for mourning like everyone else.

4 fingers is cheaper to animate

@@A-Microwave not with this style, no. It's too detailed as it is, a 5th finger wouldn't make that big a difference

I first saw it during the Christmas of 2005/or 2006.

Yes everyday on Cartoon Network

I hate this dumb movie! LoL

I’m surprised it took anyone took long to talk about it

Same with Scary Godmother

"To make a long story short, Santa ran over Grandma."

Bill Goldberg is nothing!

And everyone pretends to like the fruitcake

*wrestling bell rings* Santa's winning streak continues!! 20 and 0!

First time he’s reviewed one that was so bad and the job, though.

Actually I wouldn't mind playing as Santa in that game. Sounds hilarious!

I go buy eggs for Bart

@@misteryA555 *ONLY EGGS CAN SUSTAIN ME!!!*

@@thatonea-hole *I AM YOUR CHARACTER ARC!*

@@crimsondynamo615 *I AM YOUR WIFE!!* *I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!!*

This movie sounds soooooo stuuupid...

Bold of you to assume Wabuu would allow himself to be harnessed

Wabuu wouldn’t pull the sleigh. Tio, Cree, Peek, Oro and the other dinosaurs from dingo pictures would make the sleigh fly... with SCIENCE!!!

Wait... What ? Golly gosh, my word !

Or the dalmatians. After a beating and another one and a third beating they will do everything.

After they escaped Elmyra they went to live at this dumb kids house.

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "I think so, Brain, but if Santa really ran Grandma over with his reindeer, would his name be in his own naughty list?"

It’s gotten old really fast

@@TheRealGaucelm nah you're randomly stating it as fact. it's not fact. also why are you here? ruining the fun

Me too, Nightwolf, me too XD it's so fun

Why make Grandma say that replay so many times? 6:44

Yep

That's basically what the original music video implies.

@@lizzychrome7630 hmmmmmm....................

@@lizzychrome7630 OH SHIT!

That would make the story make more sense.

I'm on stone cold Austin bucks side.

Eh, her motivations kinda ruin that. Everything she did was so that SHE could be rich. It would be like Mel: Grandma STOP!! You can't beat Jake half to death! Grandma: Oh, why not? Mel: His blood'll soak into the carpet, and dry-cleaning's expensive!

I think Grandpa was faking his senility and was the one that poisoned the fruitcake together rid of Grandma. He is literally the only other person to believe in Santa before the accident and he returns Grandma home a year later. And if reindeer nip works like catnip, it must be put into the fruitcake fresh as the effects will fade over time and Grandma did get hit a second time at the end of the special. And you know who was not there to see it happen? Cousin Mel. That proves that someone else had laced the fruitcake *twice* and actually got away with it without anyone seeing the obvious clues that they did it.

Mel is apparently a supervillain considering that the entire family isn't surprised that she's behind Grandma's second disappearance. That being said, I do take her side because ulterior motives aside Santa Claus really did commit a hit and run and then kidnapped the victim. Like the movie tries really hard to make that seem like it wasn't a big deal.

@@codafett 😆Technically, Cousin Mel was the cause of the hit-and-run. If she left the fruitcake batter alone, the reindeer wouldn't have plowed Grandma into the snow. So, she just ruined her life after trying to ruin a pastry. Oh well...😁🦌 Edit: Then again, Cousin Mel actually helped the family by making Austin Bucks franchise Grandma's store.

It plays on Cartoon Network every year, so I've seen it a lot, and I agree it's really dumb but I kinda enjoy it. 😆

😂 same

Why do people keep calling this a movie? It's a TV special.

Damon Pollitt Well it’s movie legally when sold as such.

@@shwahgamer yeah I did before too but now idk..taste change I guess.😌😅

My personal favorite Santa slashers being Christmas-Evil and Silent Night, Deadly Night!

Because it's a nice reference.

Reminds me of Peppa Pig. Peppa Pig-Narrator: "that reminds him of Peppa Pig"

It's a special, not a movie.

This was a trip. The second I started, I thought: "Oh, Cartoon Network, why did you inflict that upon us?" (Selective memory, but humor me.)

Especially when it involves Cousin Mel...;)

Yes. I knew exactly how bad it was when announced and had to wait until family left to watch it and and it was hilariously goofy and corny and bad at times. That was expected based on the song and the movie/special knew it. Everyone knew what they were in for.

IKR? These aren't plot holes, they're plot canyons!

This reminds me. Years back in the comment sections, I remember trying to come up with a Christmas story, where it could make sense for Santa Claus to be both real and not widely believed in by the a vast amount of people. The best idea I could come up with was to have a version of Santa, who mostly spends his time subtly delivering presents to adults and children, whose families are too poor to buy the presents for them. That way, the majority of middle-class and rich families do not usually have a reason to literally believe in Santa Claus, while those who do receive gifts and advice from Santa would experience him more as a mysterious helper, making him come off as more of a legend.

Wouldn’t really call it a plot hole or whatever especially since that’s just a thing in a lot of Christmas specials, movies, and etc it might be set an a world where Santa is totally real but people don’t believe in him. Doesn’t make much sense but that’s how it is.

I always wondered the same!

My best guess was thinking that its some kind of magic brainwashing to nonbelievers that has them think that they bought the presents themselves or something.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Nice.

That awkward moment when you realize these songs were more or less forming a goofy yuletide rock opera.

Wow I didn't know

WOW XD

At least when compared to stuff like The Christmas Bigrade and Rapsittie Street Kids...

It probably doubles as the main hospital for the elves too since there likely isn't a large population at the North Pole.

@@Banchoking Elliot The Littlest Reindeer also had a medical department.... that's very weird how both movies have that.

frostbite never happens in the north pole and people never do stupid stuff that gets them cold

When the sleigh hitted Grandma, Rudolph thought it was just cargo

*TRUER WORDS HAVE NEVER BEEN SAID!!*

I thought you meant that the _song_ had come out "long after the joke was old," and was utterly confused as to how this particular paradox had come about

coming next year “ All i want for Christmas is..... my two front teeth, the Holiday Special “.

And the song's joke was expunged from the plot of the movie. The song's whole schtick is that they're singing about something morbid with an insufferably upbeat, cornball hook in a holiday setting. I could see a really stupid wannabe National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation raucous family comedy with a side of thin satire, not a cheap cash grab of a special that's only memorable for being a cheap cash grab.

​@@mightyfilm I remember the special being slightly offbeat and using a little bit of dark humor to temper its occasional sappiness, very similar to Futurama.

I think that the Grandpa is faking being senile and is really the mastermind behind the accident and is a drug lord using the store as a front. It doesn’t make sense if Mel put reindeer nip into the fruitcake hoping a reindeer would hit Grandma considering that they all lived in a big city with no woods and reindeer not being native to Citysville since it isn’t in the Arctic Circle and Mel didn’t even believe in Santa until he brought Grandma back home an entire year later. But you know who *did* believe in Santa other than Jake? Grandpa. It would also explain why customers were allowed to literally walk out the store without paying for anything other than a promise to pay later but it is never shown that they ever did pay for anything and the store must be losing thousands of dollars per month because no one pays what they owe. No business big or small does that for everyone that comes in. Try telling the mechanic who fixed your car that you’ll pay them later. You most likely won’t get your car back until the bill is paid one way or another.

@@kenthuang436 You'd be surprised, my pizzeria always forgets to make sure you paid, and they've been around 40 years now, lol.

Or just Cam Clarke.

I literally didn't know Susan Blu was in this.

Oh my gosh, I didn't notice that before!😄

I remember that too!

Along with Olive the Other Reindeer. :3 💞

That was thee old CN 😭

@@dayzsaclark7543 I loved that olive movie as a kid!

I bet they still do

Yah but he was too happy still

This family must be wanted for war crimes.

There were also designs submitted by Strokenweiner, Hardwang, Longpuller, and Wackenwood, but these were all rejected.

@Simple Weirdo Oh Germany! *Sad trombone.*

Sounds like a German adult film title.

@@otakunthevegan4206 It was a joke by the way.

XD YES we must steal ALL the apple justice !!! MWHAHAHA!

Pure unfiltered evil….I approve

Cityville really went down hill, after the Powerpuff Girls was there

@@thatonea-hole It was already a hole and vehemently anti-superhero before they showed up.

@@RoninCatholic Well the Mayor did have a right to be mad at the girls, they literally damaged a multi-million dollar bridge just to catch jewelry store robbers.

@@thatonea-hole wasnt excused to help the city, damaged the bridges because of their actions.....at least the girls suffered the consequences. Until the shitty 2016 reboot

​@@Dim4323 And as Phelous pointed out, they _still_ haven't fixed the bridge completely!

OMG SAME! I was like 11 at the time and I cringed so hard. I still like the songs from Dr Elmo’s album.

As a kid, I knew this movie was dumb, but it’s like a train wreck; you can’t stop watching

@@darthgamer9861 Exactly

I got 10 minutes into it as a kid and turned it off... XD apparently I could watch Golden film's snow white as a kid and enjoy it... but not this movie...

A very snackable karen.

@@jbiehlable Damn boi, she's thicc!

@@thatonea-hole Indeed. ;)

She was a Karen before Karens were "cool".

She’s actually a Leela. Or a Peggy. Or a Smart House.

"All hail the Watcher!"

I don’t believe Mel did anything wrong and was made the fall guy by the true evil mastermind of this special. There are some pretty big hints that says Grandpa is the *true* bad guy that are hard to ignore whenever you notice them. First off why would Mel lace fruitcake with reindeer nip if she doesn’t believe in Santa and there are no reindeer living nearby since they live in an urban area with no signs of a forest or woods? Second if reindeer nip acts like catnip then it should have become ineffective in that fruitcake after an entire year yet it still affected the reindeer exactly the same. So why would Mel put in fresh reindeer nip in the fruitcake? And finally Mel wasn’t even present when Grandma got hit by the reindeer the second time. But there Grandpa was there both times and he is obviously faking being senile as there are clues that he is more aware of what is going on around him than he lets on. He isn’t signing the deed over because the store is a front for a drug ring that he is in charge of. He’s literally the only other person other than Jake to believe in Santa. He had full access to the fruitcake on both occasions and he could have easily laced them with reindeer nip and no one would ever suspect the senile old man of any wrongdoing. Cousin Mel also never once said that she wasn’t going to share any of the money with the rest of the family.

Yeah! I remember, I once went to a Christmas party Where fruit cake was served I enjoyed a slice And put it in the fridge It lasted for 10 months I intermittently took a bite for dessert at times

Now you are working together as a family, hohoooo!

Maybe santa is a different species

Possibly a beast war transformer

Lol there's no way Santa is a human the guy doesn't die.

He's a maia.

She got run over by a flying reindeer. Who drives those?

@@jostockton. what evidence is there that it was a flying reindeer?

its actually "Grandpa's" gonna sue the pants off of Santa. Since one of the lines is "Cause that's what Grandma would've wanted him to"

@@BlazeHeartPanther oops lol I didn't even realize I mistyped.

@@SchlubbyTomHanks Eh, I think a lot of people interpreted it as such since its a bit hard to tell if they are saying Grandma or grandpa until you hear the other part of the lyrics

God, I loved the Billy & Mandy Christmas Special! What with vampire clauses and the vampire elves!!

Holy shit I remember them too.

I should have known that Jake was a child clone of a Nazi scientist

I like the idea, haha.

And it all came from a cup of tea too lol

That's such good shit

In my humble opinion, "Chilly McFreeze" sounds like the prototype to a McDonald's ice-cream dessert that was tested at certain Mickey D's locations but was ultimately deemed unprofitable to make into a full-on dessert item.