I’ve done a proper entry on almost everything on this tape, and the few I have only addressed in short order should probably be rectified this year. To get the festivities started around here this year, I decided to walk my readers through this relic of Christmas past. Unfortunately, my mom did get a bit savvy and towards the end of the tape she started stopping the tape for commercials, though the final special has them. YouTube has somewhat lessened the charm, but watching a bunch of advertisements from 35 years ago is far more interesting than the actual programs. And since my mother was probably new to using a VCR, she made it easy on herself and left the commercials in. 1987 might have been the first Christmas my family actually had a VCR which explains why it was that year this tape was created. It was watched so much over the years that the audio has started to fail, the tracking at the start of the tape is well-worn, and the tape itself is being held together by a different kind of tape – Scotch tape. That recording would come to be known in my house as The Christmas Tape. Or rather, we could watch them as much as we wanted starting on the day after Thanksgiving through New Year’s. It was back in 1987 that my mother made the decision to record as many Christmas specials that aired on television that year as possible so that my sister and I would have them to watch whenever we wanted. Well, there is no special that I’m aware of, but if you’re old enough to have grown up with a VHS in your household then you may have a frame of reference for such a thing. It sounds both generic and specific and I suspect a few people will read the title of this entry and try to recall a special with that title. When I utter the title “The Christmas Tape,” I’m curious what comes to the minds of readers. Welcome back to another year of The Christmas Spot! This year we’re kicking things off with a post I’ve been sitting on for a few years now. Oh have I got something special to kick things off this year!
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