Does the mere idea of stepping into another mall, watching It’s a Wonderful Life for the zillionth
time, or talking to your loved ones make you throw up? Then settle your bowlful
of jelly into the La-Z-Boy® and deck your hall with today’s installment of Psychobabble’s 12 Days of X-Mas Episodes instead!
Merry vegetating!
Series: Amazing Stories
Episode: “Santa
85”, in which the essential premise of this anthology series gets flipped as
reality encroaches on fantasy instead of vice versa. In the mid-eighties, Santa
Claus is arrested for breaking and entering, dumped in a police wagon with a bunch
of other schmoes in red suits, and locked up. Fortunately, things brighten up
before this episode becomes a full-on Miracle
on 34th Street/Oz
cross over. Amazing Stories could get a bit saccharine, so it’s nice to see that their episode devoted
to the most syrupy of holidays is fairly tough on St. Nick. Take that, Kringle! And
Hingle. Pat Hingle’s in this one too.
