Twelve Days of Christmas: Day Three

There are few Christmas specials that are as iconic as A Charlie Brown Christmas.  You can buy your own Charlie Brown tree and the Vince Guaraldi soundtrack has found its way into permanent rotation in Christmas playlists.  For me, perhaps the most iconic part of the special is when the Peanuts gang breaks into spontaneous dance.  If you think about it, it's a pretty simple scene.  Every character on screen must have no more than a dozen cells devoted to their individual dance motion, and those movements are repeated over and over again, yet somehow it's magic. It makes me wish that everyone would break into their own spontaneous Charlie Brown dance.  Here's the original and a pretty convincing imitator...

Eight Day Halloween Advent Calendar - Seven More Days...

Today's surprise in our Halloween advent calendar is this little gem of an ad, from way back in 1955.

I chose it because I'm a sucker for food related puns.  I had no idea that anthropomorphic corn stalks fed off the blood of Milky Way Bars.  And what about that slightly menacing clown child looming behind ol' Corny?

  Perhaps this was the prototype for It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, but in this version instead of waiting all night in a pumpkin patch, kids have to make a caramel filled sacrifice to the Great Corn Stalk (who incidentally only has one tooth left, the rest casualties of too many Halloween nights eating himself into a diabetic coma).

I already like my version better.