FEEL THE HEAT
CONVERSATION STARTERS FOR CHRISTMAS
I started a custom a few years ago at our family Christmas gatherings. Once the presents are all opened and everybody is sitting down for a breakfast omelet, I deliberately get people talking by baiting them with a big word or provocative topic or challenge.
Southtown. This places the reindeer’s fate in the hands of the Heat Miser, who is responsible for keeping Southtown warm and snow-free. Heat Miser refuses to let his more popular brother, Snow Miser, start a snowstorm. The plot comes to a satisfying ending as Vixen is released from the pound, Santa cheers up, and the Miser brothers are forced by their mom, Mother Nature, to make up.
This year, I have already chosen a Christmas morning question: If you
What’s so special about this loopy 50-year-old movie? And why choose the Heat Miser as my alter ego? It’s special because I loved it so much as a kid. I pored through the TV Guide every year to see when it would air. The networks back then ran your favorite holiday shows once, and if you missed it — well, you were SOL. And why the Heat Miser? He was just a cool character — so to speak — with a knack for stirring things up!
could step into the story of any Christmas movie or book, which one would you choose? What character would you be? And why?
I can tell you right now what I’m going to choose. I want to step into the great 1974 stop-motion animated Christmas TV special, “The Year Without a Santa Claus.” And I would be one of the few bad guys in the show — the Heat Miser! The plot goes like this: Santa gets a cold and becomes depressed over a global lack of Christmas spirit, so he decides to sit it out this year. In hopes of cheering him up, Mrs. Santa sends two of his elves and Vixen the reindeer to Southtown, USA, to find evidence of some Christmas spirit. Sadly, Vixen is captured by a dogcatcher and sent to the pound instead.
If this conversation starter doesn’t kick off some lively reminiscing at your house, I will be surprised. You may even find yourselves having some discussions like those we had in Christmases past — when life was normal and people actually engaged in conversation, rather than staring nonstop into their screens.
After several plot twists and turns, Vixen’s release seems to hinge upon the elves’ ability to produce a Christmas snowfall in
Happy reminiscing to you all!
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