User blog:Gojirob/A fictional special I wish existed...

I thought about this one recently. It doesn't exist, but I wish it did.

Basically, it would be called "The Really Real Santa" and feature the music of The Beach Boys. It would use idealized early 60's images of the band/family members, with animation reminiscent of Twas The Night Before Christmas. The unifying story would have the younger brother (maybe a fictionalized one in case of the band members once had been that younger brother) of the Wilsons wanting to see the "The Really Real Santa" and having a heartbreaking mishap at a department store as told in "Santa's Beard". The band tries to cheer him up by singing about Frosty, Rudolph (They had versions of each) finally culminating in their unique rendition of "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". Unable to be cheered up, the boy has a dream-or-is-it set to "The Man With All The Toys", wherein Santa's workshop is a shack somewhere along the California beach coast. The boy and the band members are given the chance to soup up Santa's sleigh, "The Little Saint Nick" and ride it with him as the special ends.

My bias is, the best specials, especially from Rankin-Bass, were based on songs, and the Beach Boys had a whole library of them for Xmas. That it didn't match up with their reality would only take away a little from it.